The Goldbergs - Season 2 (1 Viewer)

This continues to be a great show, and Barry is still the business. The Barry-centric The Facts of Bleeping Life episode was much appreciated. The episode's title alludes to the one head-scratching complaint I have about this show, which is the requisite bleeped swear word. This could be a warm, family show to enjoy with your kids. I don't get what they're thinking with this one element. It's particularly annoying when we are supposed to believe that Beverly says the f-word regularly to her children. But, still the best show (of its type) in years.

Fred Savage directed the latest, which seems appropriate.

"Stupid Barry why?!" Hayley Orrantia has really developed her comic timing. Everybody's great on this show, especially George Segal. My mom doesn't like him for some reason, but I think he's a national treasure. "Mikey gave his life so this would never happen again!"

I saw a Sixteen Candles reference.

Terrific show. I'm just glad a tv show based in Philly is finally successful. #wawa

The cast on this show elevates The Goldbergs well ahead of most sitcom fare and gets the most out of, let's face it, shopworn plotlines you've seen a 100 times before. In the beginning, Beverly was doing a lot of heavy lifting in the laughs department. But afer a few episodes, Barry became the standout for me -- Troy Gentile is just killing every single line reading. What started out as a stock mean big brother character has morphed into one of the funniest characters on TV right now. That said, the rest of the family delivers as well. No matter how they team up the subplots, everyone has great chemistry with everyone else. Even Patton Oswalt does a great job as the narrator. All the little bits of 80's nostalgia are just the icing on the cake.

It's best to take off your Time Cop badge before watching the show. It seems like it's trying to be anachronistic.

Hanson said:

It's best to take off your Time Cop badge before watching the show. It seems like it's trying to be anachronistic.

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I said it last season (in a pre-airing marketing focus-survey, no less), and I say it now:
Will someone just PLEASE show these generationally carpetbagging fraud show-off poseurs any given episode of how VH-1 did it better?


(Or maybe wait, that's probably the extent of research that the writers are basing the "gimmick" concept on.)

Ejanss said:

I said it last season (in a pre-airing marketing focus-survey, no less), and I say it now:Will someone just PLEASE show these generationally carpetbagging fraud show-off poseurs any given episode of how VH-1 did it better?(Or maybe wait, that's probably the extent of research that the writers are basing the "gimmick" concept on.)

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What are you talking about?

TonyD said:

What are you talking about?

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80's jokes (reminiscences of Sixteen Candles included) are funnier when they're from someone who was THERE...As noted by example. Comedy is specific.

Like Hanson says, you should try to like the characters, because if you're tuning into Goldbergs for nostalgic decade references, you're going to be spending most of your time staring at fraudulent baldfaced heresy.

Your still not making sense. From someone who was there? The guy who created the show grew up in the specific setting and time frame of the show. jenkintown pa, 1980's unless your just trolling or trying to be funny.

I was there, too. Yeah, it bugged me at first to have them excited by the Goonies at the same time they're talking about Die Hard, but I've stopped caring. The characters are funny and it's a real feel-good show.

Just thinking about the stupid way Barry runs when he is upset makes me laugh.

I think they deliberately pair something from 1980 with something from 1989 in the same breath to establish that the show is only set in an era and not a fixed point in time. Not just the series, not just the episode, but even a single line of the script is time non-specific.

I don't even think the episodes are made in any sort of chronological order, even within their own continuity. One of the middle episodes of this season started out "December, 1980 something", and that was an episode that aired before the Halloween episode.


But I'm not bothered by it, because they've made it pretty clear that they're not beholden to any sort of timeline.

Still one of our fav shows...regardless of the timeline "errors".

Anyone catch the proposed spinoff this week?

Moves to the 1990s, starting with Mr. Glasberg [Meadows] promoted to Principal and keeping most of the teachers and shifting focus to the school after the all the Goldbergs graduated and Glasberg's nieces are attending.

It was just OK, but I was wondering if anyone knew if they were going to keep the 'real life experiences' and fads of the time conceit. The Original did so because it was deeply rooted in the creator's childhood, but he could transfer that mandate to a new writers' room.

Plus the episode ended with footage of his real teachers that inspired his casting, much like the original show did with the home movies that showed the reality of the episode they just performed.

Really like this show, especially the daughter, the one piece of snarky reality in a land of loons

I suppose I could add Adam and the father, but I love her attitude.

So how much of Adam's 'bootleg VHS wrangler's' locker collection has everyone seen. Plenty of classics in one locker.