Eric Stonestreet reveals the ‘Modern Family’ lines fans ask him to say

Five years after Modern Family came to a close, fans still love to see Cameron Tucker totally lose it.

Eric Stonestreet has revealed which lines from the hit sitcom fans always ask him to repeat — and they all involve his character, Cam, flipping out.

While walking the red carpet at the Dexter: Resurrection world premiere this week, the actor told PEOPLE that “a lot of people” ask him to yell out for Cam’s daughter, Lily (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons) — a frequent occurrence on the show whenever she was in trouble or mild danger.

Others ask Stonestreet to recreate his search for Stella, the family’s French bulldog that briefly went missing.

“They ask me to yell ‘Stella,'” Stonestreet explained, mimicking the request: “‘Can you yell “Stella” or “Lily”?””

Stonestreet added that others often reference a funny moment from Modern Family‘s very first season: “The window scene where I’m breaking the window,” he said. “Locked the baby in the car. Those are popular ones for people to ask me about.”

The memorable season 1 scene depicts Cam in the middle of a full-blown freakout after realizing that he and his partner, Mitch Pritchett (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), have accidentally locked their newly adopted daughter, Lily, in the vehicle. While Mitch chats with the car company — who are in the process of remotely unlocking the it — Cam grabs a metal trash can from the street and sprints towards the car.

“I’m breaking the window! I swear to God, I’m gonna break it!” he screams. “Don’t worry, Lily, Daddy’s coming for you!”

On the phone, an operator tells Mitch, “Sir, please tell your wife to relax.”

As Cam, Stonestreet had no shortage of big, dramatic funny moments. The PE teacher — and trained circus clown — was known for his over-the-top reactions and sharp one-liners.

Modern Family aired on ABC from 2009 to 2020, spanning 11 seasons and starring Stonestreet, Ferguson, Anderson-Emmons, Sofia Vergara, You burrell, Julie Bowen, Ariel WinterNolan Gould, Sarah Hyland, Ed O’Neilland Rico Rodriguez. The celebrated comedy picked up a total of 22 Primetime Emmy Awards during its run.

Following its 2020 conclusion, a sequel series was in the works that would have followed the lives of the Tucker-Pritchett’s, who welcomed baby boy Rexford in the final season before announcing a move to Missouri, where Cam could follow his dream of becoming a college football coach.

Last year, Stonestreet said that show falling through at ABC led to “hurt feelings.”

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“(Series co-creator) Chris Lloyd and a couple of the writers wrote a really great script that spun Jesse and I off in our life in Missouri, and they said, ‘No,'” he claimed. “They just said, ‘We don’t want to do it.'”

Stonestreet continued, “I think it would have been a slam dunk. I don’t think it would have not been successful. Because you had one of the creators — who had really taken such great care of making sure that show was great for so long — willing to do it. We had the right people in place. It would have been great. If ABC would have said, ‘Let’s do it,’ I think we’d be on right now.”