![]() What does Adam's real-life brother think of this gender change? "He was disappointed at first, but he has complete deniability of his character now." "I really took all of Eric's characteristics" and sculpted them onto a teenage girl's personality. "I saw more stories coming out of having a daughter in the mix," Goldberg reasons. The Goldbergs true story reveals that he did not have any sisters. Yes, but in real life, Erica is actually Eric, Adam Goldberg's oldest brother. ![]() ![]() Near the end of the premiere episode, "The Circle of Driving," non-1980s cars can be seen in the background as Murray (Jeff Garlin) sings REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling." In another instance, they used the term "re-gift," which wasn't said until after the 1980s ( ). "I know I've slipped up a couple times," admits the real Goldberg. Although the show overlooks certain 1980s time frame issues, it has included some post-eighties elements in its story lines. Has the show slipped up with regard to historical accuracy? It's kind of a melting pot of the eighties. So we decided to set it in '1980-something.'" This idea of having an undependable narrator was "so liberating creatively. I only remember that it was somewhere in the mid to late eighties. "When I think, When did I win Legend of Zelda? I don't remember what year it was. He added that for most of us, when we recall our memories of the 1980s, we usually don't remember the exact year anyway. "And for now I only have twelve episodes. "I should be so lucky to be five years in on a show," says the real Adam Goldberg. The main reason for the mildly confusing (though often easy to overlook) issue with the show's time frame is that if the show was set in a specific year, like 1985 for example, the creators would have to wait up to five years (five seasons) to include references to certain '80s staples like Say Anything (1989), the Reebok Pump and the Nintendo Power Glove. At the beginning of nearly every episode of The Goldbergs, the TV show's narrator (Patton Oswalt) reminds us that the current episode takes place in "1980-something." As points out in their interview with the real Adam Goldberg, this ambiguity with regard to time finds the characters discussing Poltergeist, released in 1982, at the same time the brother, Barry (Troy Gentile), is super-excited about the Reebok Pump, which was invented in the late-eighties.
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