Watch it every week. Loved the Flashdance bit on this weeks. Love the story of Spring Break was true and the real Adam's brother got in trouble the same way.
For some unknown reason I haven’t watched any new eps, or binge witched it... but i discovered this show in syndication. This show has made me laugh my ass off. The rerun I saw last night mentioned how Mikey from Life cereal died from eating pop rocks and drinking soda. I remember that myth from when I was a kid!
Balls! Went to Comcast On Demand and- nothing available before S5 episode 11. The prior seasons were only for sale.
Got tired of the show once the obligatory two guilt trip per episode plot line theme became its thing.
This show always amazes me. Pretty much any plot line is true to some sort. One ep Double Dare comes to town for auditions. Adam doesn't make it, but two kids from his school do. They show a clip of the real DD ep. Also the real kids play the adults running the auditions. One recent episode the family goes out to eat. The grandfather goes and sits with other people chatting them up. Barry orders fish at a steakhouse (always orders the wrong thing), mom makes odd demands to change the menu, Adam orders from kids menu, etc. Home video shows the same things. Yeah i will watch an episode and guess what the real old video footage will be at the end. Yeah there are liberties taken. Real Adam had two older brothers, show Adam has older brother and sister. Real dad was a doctor, tv dad runs a furniture store.
I really loved this show before they pulled the hiatus then came back with an episode about the 1990s where it was just the coach and the guidance counselor turned principle. I dig each of those characters when balanced against the rest of the cast, but I'm not a big fan of the nineties due to personal experience of that time period being utter garbage, and it was just way too much bland nonsense after waiting so long for them to come back. It felt like, "Well, crap. Guess they gave up." The episodes since then have been OK, and I keep watching them, but the magic seems have been lost. I'm thinking real Adam started to feel a little too comfortable, and the plot is beginning to suffer for it. I do like that they bring the real people in from his childhood to play people on the show, then chat with them after the episode. Like his best friend playing her own mom, or the JTP coming in to play a group on an episode. But it's beginning to feel like they're getting ready to wrap it up. And based on interviews, I really wonder if Adam wasn't counting on the pilot for the 90s spinoff taking off and ending the Goldbergs. The first few seasons of this were stupendous for an eighties kid. The nostalgia and story were usually well balanced, and the constant background items that they probably had to hunt down far and wide were always a treat. Now it's become Three's Company level misunderstandings that sometimes go all the way into full-blown "these people must hate each other" ridiculousness and then try to pull it back week after week. It's getting a little too over the top and missing the comedy mark too often. But hey, at least we'll always have Poptimus Prime.
The 90s episode was a pilot for a spin-off that wasn't picked up. ‘The Goldbergs’ Ratings Top Night With 1990s-Set Spinoff Pilot, ‘9-1-1’ Down I think they just didn't want show regular episodes against the Olympics at the time.
Yeah, I heard the story about it, it was still a massive system shock to tune in to a "new" episode of the Goldbergs that felt like a completely different show about a time I really don't want to relive or be nostalgic about. My wife and I both thought it was terrible enough we turned it off ten minutes in.
Yeah, it was weird that they just tossed it in there. I don't think that would have happened were it not for the Olympics. Networks always seem to stop airing new episodes when the Olympics are on. They were probably better off airing a repeat than showing that pilot and confusing people. I only found out about the day before it aired myself lol.
Yeah, I didn't like that '90s episode, and was slightly annoyed they thought the best way to show this "pilot" was to to more or less trick people into watching it...
According to a couple articles I read at the time, Adam pushed STRONGLY to have the network air that episode in that time slot rather than a repeat because he felt the pilot hadn't been given a fair chance by the public when it originally aired. I wish I could remember where I found the article, because it gave me a really queasy feeling about Adam himself. He has himself convinced that he can nail the nostalgia for any era and that this pilot was every bit as strong as the Goldberg original pilot, and the only reason it failed was due to people not giving it a fair chance. I'm not sure why he thought trying to shoehorn it into the Goldbergs as a ruse was the right way to get it a fair chance, but I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that felt like it was. . . less than spectacular.
Yup. Two very different kind of shows. One was a drama with hints of comedy, another is a blatant formula sitcom, with family drama holding the core. The Wonder Years is timeless. The Goldbergs? I enjoy it, but it doesn't pluck the same strings at all.
Like Goldbergs at the beginning, but honestly the show began to wear on me after a while, like The Middles. Still some good episodes, but the characters can get really, really obnoxious you can't even pretend to care when their lives don't go well.
