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What part of this show is your biggest turn-off?


To be honest, ABC hasn't produced a decent sitcom in years. A lot of what they broadcast now has bad writing, bad acting, unlikeable characters, political propaganda, and cliches we've seen so many times before, but even worse than in the past.

I've seen the Goldbergs advertised many times on this channel while watching gameshows with my parents. We've never watched it, and we're never gonna watch it, due to preserving our sanity. What little I've seen of the show (usually from accidentally tuning in or not turning the channel fast enough) demonstrates just how happy we were about the above decision.

The biggest turn-off for my family is the-2010s-idiots-doing-a-crappy-job-of-recreating-the-1980s setup. "Stranger Things" did a much better job on that front. It's like a bunch of idiots from Generation Z, who know nothing about the 80s, wrote and set up this show! I mean, they actually have kids on that show in the high school, wearing 2010s hairstyles instead of the feathery or plain 80s 'dos that were so popular back then! Or worse, some of the kids are wearing 2010s clothing styles mixed in with pseudo-80s fashions. Did the people that made this show even watch any 80s material?

The other big turn-off is the mother's annoying personality and horrible, fake-looking, so-not-real-1980s hair. In fact, mom says that women in that time period never had hair that "hard-looking" or even that style. Turns out, it's a really bad rendition of Farah Fawcett's hair from the 70s, so not only is it obvious the actress is wearing a really bad wig, they're trying really hard to make it look like she's out-of-step with the "times" on the show. (The sad part is, from what I read about it, she's a "toned-down" version of the show creator's real mother, which makes you cringe if you really think about it).

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Has it improved at all this season??

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I don't believe Adam Goldberg graduated until the mid-90's and isn't this child of the 80's that he likes to pass himself off as and there are episodes where it is noticeable. It was not a thing for everyone to wear a Michael Jackson glove and the movie The Day After was a big T.V. event but kids didn't go back to school terrified that the world could end at anytime.

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From what regular viewers have told me, the show started to get really stupid and should have ended a few seasons ago.

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Adam having Shirts for 80's stuff that they didn't have in the '80s and the Sister not being Dressed like it's the '80's
and slipping in References to early '90's Stuff Highlander 2 Work Print I just Completly Tuned out and stopped watching it I might stop for a few min flipping through Channels

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Troy's "acting" skills.

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Barry yelling all of his lines.

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