Before there were parenting blogs, trophies for showing up, and peanut allergies, there was a simpler time called the '80s. For geeky 11-year old Adam these were hiswonder years and he faced them armed with a video camera to capture all the crazy. The Goldbergs are a loving family like any other, just with a lot more yelling. Mom Beverly is a classic "smother;" an overbearing, overprotective matriarch who rules this brood with 100% authority and zero sense of boundaries.

Dad Murray is gruff, hot-tempered and trying to parent without screaming. Sister Erica is 17, hot, terrifying and not one to mess with. Barry is 16, an overly emotional teen with severe middle child syndrome. Adam is the youngest, a camera-wielding future director who’s crushing on an older woman. Rounding out the family is beloved grandfather Al "Pops" Solomon, the wild man of the clan, a shameless Don Juan who’s schooling Adam in the ways of love. When Pops buys a new sports car and offers his Caddy to middle child Barry, it’s enough to drive this already high-strung family to the brink of chaos... 

Adam F. Goldberg (Breaking In, Fanboys), Doug Robinson

I can relate a little too much to a family that yells in order to communicate. There've been a handful of so-called "eighties" shows and none of them have made it anywhere. The Goldbergs uses the '80s as a backdrop, but the show is about the family...who happen to live in the time of cassettes and Trans Ams. The concept isn't original by any means, but this one seems promising.