The city is covered with posters promoting "The Goldbergs," a new ABC sitcom about a faimly in the '80s. I haven't watched a network sitcom in ages (Michael swears "That '70s Show" was quite good, but I've never seen an episode), but given the subject matter and leads -- Wendi McClendon-Covey ("Reno 911") and Jeff Garlin ("Curb Your Enthusiasm" -- I may just give this one a chance. The trailer is promising-ish, but more than anything I'm blown away by the fact that this "period" piece is a solid decade longer ago than "Happy Days" was for my Class of '59 mom when we started watching it 1974!
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The Goldbergs looks highly mediocre. It's like they have a script for The Wonder Years, but they are filming it as Modern Family. Here, watch That '80s Show instead (from the creators of That '70s Show) - it has a much better soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ooEWHO5dS0
Unless The Goldbergs is a reboot of the sitcom from 1949-56 (which had previously been on the radio since 1929) they should really have come up with another title. It's like naming some random show Ozzie and Harriet or I Love Lucy. They couldn't have called it The Goldmans? The Silverbergs?
"That 70s Show" WAS quite good for most of its run. But they made the puzzling choice to start it in 1976 and run it for 8 years--all in the 70s. It caused some anomalies in time, to say the least. But there was some really good stuff in there. If you ever get around to watching it, you can bail about the time Topher Grace starts wearing a wig instead of using his natural hair.
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