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The Goldbergs

Adam Goldberg

Adam Frederick Goldberg

The narrator of the show and youngest child of the family unit who chronicles his and his family's life in the 80s.

Affectionate Nickname:
- Barry sometimes calls him "Adrock".
- Beverly calls him "Schmoopie".
Annoying Younger Sibling: He'll usually be this to Barry and/or Erica. Subverted with Barry as the series goes on: While the two occasionally squabble, the two share a close bond and are both usually willing to participate in the other's shenanigans.
Author Avatar: Given that he's a younger version of creator and producer Adam F. Goldberg.
Catchphrase:
- "Oh, balls!"
- As narrator, "It was (exact day-and-month date), xix-eighty-something..."
- Likewise every bit narrator, he'll list a number of things relevant to the scene or sequence. The last thing he gets to is unremarkably somewhat questionable which he describes every bit "any this was."
Hollywood Nerd: A massive one. Especially come up the 8th season when he's considered skilful looking plenty to be accepted among the popular kids fifty-fifty though it turns out he's even so as unathletic equally ever.
Hopeless Suitor: Post-Dana he's pretty pathetic when it comes to romance, with both attempts failing horribly, not helped by him calling the girls "New Dana" and "Pancake Daughter" respectively. Subverted when he starts dating a girl named Jackie in Flavor four.
Idiot Ball: Sometimes Adam is fully enlightened that any scheme Barry comes up with is going to backfire. Other times, he goes right along with the fullest certainty of success.
Kiddie Kid: He has shades of this. Despite beingness a teenager, he has a beloved for his action figures and gleefully plays with them like a young child would: One episode revolved effectually Adam having difficulty over altruistic his action figures; he gets them back in the end.
Lovable Nerd: He'due south a nerdy boy who in general has an awkward, withal sweet demeanor.
Momma'southward Boy: While he's frequently exasperated with Beverly, he has the best relationships with all the adults, and several episodes revolve effectually him trying to break abroad from her influence, and so realizing he really does demand her.
- Highlighted in the Mother's Day episode, every bit he'southward the only one who remembers to become her a gift, and goes the extra mile when he does out of appreciation.
The Movie Vitrify: Frequents the local video shop and makes movies frequently, to the indicate that his films are the center of quite a few plots.
Nerd: He has an immense passion and knowledge in math, wears glasses, doesn't have a very expert reputation, and is bullied on an occasional ground.
Nerd Glasses: He'southward quite the nerd and wears glasses.
Nice Guy: Most of the time. Well, out of the five chief family members, he'due south not every bit cantankerous equally Murray; aloof as Erica; tempermental every bit Barry; or high and mighty equally Beverly.
- Nice Jewish Boy: Being Jewish and ticking at least a few boxes, he falls under here as well.
Nice, Mean, and In-Between: The dainty to Barry'south mean and Erica'south in-between.
Official Couple: With Dana from Season ii to late Season 3, then Jackie from Season four through 6, and Brea Bee since flavour seven.
Older Than They Expect: He's a teenage boy, but could easily pass for a kid in his pre-teens.
Old Shame: In-Universe, occasionally admitted to via narration by his adult self looking back.
Smart People Wearable Glasses: He'due south nerd smart and wears spectacles.
Unreliable Narrator: He openly admits in the pilot that he doesn't always think things exactly as they happened, which is used to Handwave the evidence'southward Anachronism Stew.

Barry Goldberg

Barry Norman Goldberg (Big Tasty)

The centre child of the family. Older blood brother to Adam and younger brother to Erica.

Annoying Younger Sibling: He'll usually be this to Erica.
Big Brother Corking: He flips back and forth betwixt this and Big Brother Instinct with Adam.
Large Blood brother Instinct: Depending on the Writer, he tin zig-zag between this and Big Blood brother Bully very frequently. Though despite his bearish treatment of Adam, he really cares for him and tries his all-time to help him out whenever he's in a quandary.
Large Brother Mentor: Adam usually goes to him for advice on dating.
Big Ego, Hidden Depths: During his most vulnerable moments, he reveals himself to exist far less sure of himself than he normally seems, and admits that he considers himself to be a loser deep down.
Boisterous Weakling: Barry's conviction in his fighting ability is inversely proportional to his actual fighting power. The but person who he can successfully overpower is Adam, who is fifty-fifty more wimpy and uncoordinated than he is.
Volume Dumb: He thinks farts are an inert gas, confuses historical figures for others, and there is too much else to list.
Breakout Character: An overwhelming number of episodes tend to focus on or feature him prominently.
Brilliant, merely Lazy: Several episodes imply and "Oh Captain, My Captain" outright states that he has an incredible amount of innate potential simply chooses to utilize near all of it to stupid and frivolous pursuits such equally his doomed rap career.
Butt-Monkey: Though in fairness, it's unremarkably brought almost by his own stupidity.
Brutal Honesty: He has goose egg filter and truthfully expresses how he feels near everything and anybody, often without acknowledging that the other person may discover it offensive.
Cloudcuckoolander: He can become to exist this at times.
Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: Played with in his friendship with Matt Bradley. Barry is the clear loser and Matt is cool, simply Matt is so arctic he doesn't challenge Barry'southward delusions of grandeur and excessive put downs, and is perfectly content and even happy to follow under him in the JTP.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Of all the Goldberg children, Barry is probably the well-nigh deserving of being chosen a moron by his dad, and is nowhere most close to being the peerless badass that he believes himself to exist. At the same time, though, his unbending to devotion to his dreams regardless of how stupid they may be, lack of interest or intendance in what others retrieve of him, and absurd level of confidence in himself bequeath him with an unconventional sort of charisma that naturally draws others toward him. He's besides regularly suggested to have genuinely fantabulous potential in a variety of fields, which he can occasionally make utilize of to peachy results.
The Cuckoolander Was Right: Barry's advice, while consummate nonsense, tin be spot on once in a blue moon. For one, putting yourself out there without fear of looking silly really did help Erica get more than pop at college.
Determinator: His most consistent positively-portrayed trait is his refusal to ever requite upwardly when he puts his mind to something. Several characters who initially await downward on him somewhen grow to respect him subsequently seeing merely how far he's willing to get to reach his goals. Coach Mellor in particular is constantly moved to the verge of Manly Tears past his spirit, despite otherwise finding him to exist annoying.
The Ditz: Like shooting fish in a barrel to fool, makes a Missing Steps Plan on a regular ground, and by his own access, he tin't follow instructions with too many steps.
Dumbass Teenage Son: The non-so-bright teenage son of the Goldberg family.
Dumb Musculus: Barry places far more than value on physical prowess and sports than on learning and intellect.
Early Installment Weirdness: Very early on his testify his driver's license gives his name every bit Barry Stuart Goldberg. Simply a bit later on he says his name is Barry Norman Goldberg.
Extraverted Nerd: He's a stupid, uncoordinated loser with terrible social skills, and yet carries himself every bit though he were both The Ace and the Big Human being on Campus of his school. This confidence has ironically fabricated it and then that, by the later seasons, his delusions aren't all that far from the truth.
The Fool: A archetype example. A directionless, delusional idiot who nonetheless manages to find both great success and the respect of many around him through a combination of boundless drive, cached potential and unshakable confidence.
Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Usually the foolish one to Adam and Erica.
Genius Ditz: This bumbling idiot goes on to graduate from Harvard Med.
Girly Run: A literal Running Gag.
Murray: Who runs like that?
Pilus-Trigger Atmosphere: Depending on the episode, he has a bad temper and can become angry over the pettiest of things.
Subconscious Depths: "Oh Captain, My Captain" reveals he loves science and is quite good at studying information technology when properly motivated. It is also fairly obvious that most of Barry's ego is simply him trying to convince himself that he isn't a loser.
Hollywood Autism: Never mentioned by proper noun, given the fourth dimension period, but Barry displays a fair number of behaviors that make it likely he has a mild form.
I Decline Your Reality: Oftentimes Barry will choose to believe obvious lies and reject the truth if it fuels his ego. The all-time example of this is when his Uncle Marvin admits that instead of actually instruction him Karate by having him do chores (like in Karate Kid) Barry convinces himself that his confession is just a exam and that he is still a blackbelt since the only other alternative would be that he isnt and would, co-ordinate to Barry, transport him spirling down a deep dark path he would never fully recover from.
Iconic Outfit: His Philadelphia Flyers shirt, Big Orange. He replaces it in Season iii after the original is destroyed with another Philadelphia Flyers shirt.
Detestable Imbecile: Downplayed. He's not stupid per se but acts rather knuckleheaded and hateful-spirited in his ill-thought out attempts to be pop. He'south really pretty together when he gets his priorities in club.
It's All Nearly Me: He doesn't always consider other people's feelings or needs and expects everyone to exercise what HE wants. This almost costs him the JTP in one episode.
Jerkass: Tends to exist this time to time, especially to his brother.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sure, he'due south a brusk-tempered, stupid bastard who occasionally harasses his lilliputian blood brother Adam, but at the end of the 24-hour interval he really cares about him and his family in general.
Kavorka Man: While he's not ugly, he'southward incredibly obnoxious and childish, withal has a number of girlfriends throughout the series, most of whom are explicitly stated to be way more attractive than he is.
Big Ham: He's decumbent to overreacting and behaving dramatically when the situation doesn't telephone call for it, and is generally very loud and annoying.
The Leader: Of the JTP, generally because they're as dumb as he is, simply he'due south got the biggest mouth.
Similar Father, Like Son: He is prone to overreacting, makes grandiose gestures for the approval of his peers, and has an unrealistically inflated sense of his skills, just like his mother.
Magnetic Hero: Albeit an anarchistic one. Barry's bizarre antics and ridiculous self-confidence often draw others toward him out of morbid curiosity. This curiosity eventually morphs into something in-between acceptance and adoration downward the line, and has caused him to form many Odd Friendships across the series. This is perhaps virtually notable during his appearance in Schooled, where he ends up charming C.B. into becoming his friend, despite C.B. having initially approached him with the intention of sabotaging his relationship with Lainey.
Manchild: Has the short temper, cool sense of entitlement, lack of tact and undeniable innocence of a toddler despite spending much of the series as a high schooler.
Nice, Mean, and In-Betwixt: The hateful to Adam's nice and Erica's in-between.
No Indoor Voice: Due to his Hair-Trigger Atmosphere.
No Social Skills: He'southward a loud, abrasive idiot who instinctively treats near everyone equally though they should bow down and submit themselves to his overwhelming awesomeness.
Official Couple: With Lainey from flavor 2 through season 6, then Ren in the last few episodes of flavor 7 to the outset four episode of season 8, and as of mid-season eight with Joanne Schwartz.
Pretty Fly for a White Guy: When he'due south in rapper fashion, he goes by the proper noun Big Tasty. His singing isn't that bad, but his lyrics need piece of work.
Small Proper name, Big Ego: Thinks he'southward a skilled martial creative person, dancer, rapper, athlete and ladies human being. Non a unmarried ane of these is true.
With Friends Similar These...: Generally treats the JTP closer to lackeys than he does friends, though one time in a while he'll show that he cares nigh them deep downwards.

Erica Goldberg

Erica Dorothy Goldberg

The oldest child in the family. A old nerd who reinvented herself in high schoolhouse.

Big Brother Dandy: Well, Big Sister. Not as much of a jerkass as Barry, merely Erica occasionally berates Adam for his nerdy/geeky demeanor.

Erica: I told you, nerd, go out of my room!
Bratty Teenage Girl: Downplayed. She's often the virtually levelheaded of the Goldberg children, but is also the most openly rebellious confronting Beverly.
Barrel-Monkey: Non to Barry'south extent, but i prime example is in "The Circumvolve of Driving Over again", where she'south the black sheep in college and constantly hit past a frisbee.
Closet Geek: She still likes some of the things in her youth that don't seem cool to her at present, such every bit Star Wars and "New Kids on the Block".
Cool Big Sister: Back when they were younger, Erica played with Adam constantly; later, while she often finds him annoying, she volition notwithstanding help him out time and once again.
Deadpan Snarker: Second only to her male parent.
Gender Flip: Of Real Life Adam Goldberg'southward brother, Eric Goldberg.
Generation Xerox: She shares her mother's matchmaking talent and her father's dry wit and low tolerance for stupidity.
Squeamish, Mean, and In-Betwixt: The in-between to Adam's nice and Barry's mean.
Not And then Above It All: The typical pattern is that she scoffs at any ridiculous things Adam and Barry are involved in, just to get involved herself, or do something even more ridiculous. At times she can exist simply as boneheaded as Barry.
Official Couple: with Geoff.
Merely Sane Adult female: Tends to come off as this compared to the residue of her family.
She Cleans Upward Nicely: Until the ninth class, Erica had to wear Nerd Glasses and braces, and had stringy pilus. Now she's among the hottest girls in school.
She's Got Legs: Erica's wardrobe favors flattering skirts and shorts.
Yank the Dog'southward Chain: In "La Biblioteca Es Libros", when Murray starts bonding with Barry by sharing his beers to rewad his work efforts as a pizza deliverer, Erica expresses jealousy since she herself has been working longer and yet gets no time with her father in return. When Barry gets fired from his task for continually getting lost on the manner to his deliveries, he pretends to nonetheless exist in employment to keep his bond with his father. Somewhen, Erica exposes Barry's firing and Murray realizes he really should accept given equal attention to his daughter. In reconciliation, Murray hands Erica a beer, but merely as he is virtually to cherish a bond with his daughter, Beverly walks in on them and disapproves of her girl drinking, resulting in Murray breaking the moment of affection and taking his married woman'southward side, proclaiming "Yous are grounded!" to Erica.

Murray Goldberg

Murray Christian Goldberg

The patriarch of the family who tends to be a fleck of a grump.

Bumbling Dad: It's more than because of a lack of interest in trying than bodily ineptitude. When he gets his rear in gear, Murray tin be more constructive as a parent than Beverly.
Catchphrase:
- "(Something the kids have done), moron!"
- "I'1000 habitation. Nobody bother me."
Comedic Underwear Exposure: Before long as he comes home from work, he kicks his pants off and lays back in his chair.
Deadpan Snarker: Very fluent in the fine art of sarcasm.
Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The older responsible to his young foolish Marvin.
Grumpy Acquit: By default, his attitude and tone of voice requite off this vibe.
Happily Married: To Beverly.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Bill.
Subconscious Depths: "Smother's Twenty-four hour period" shows that he's really a talented ventriloquist.
Homage: Or even a Shout-Out. The resemblance in looks and mannerisms to a alive action Fred Flint cannot exist adventitious.
Hypocritical Heartwarming: Don't call his kids morons. Only he can call his kids morons.
Wiggle with a Heart of Gold: He'due south constantly exasperated and speaks wither with sarcasm or yelling well-nigh of the time, but he truly does love his wife and kids.
Lazy Bum: Whenever he'due south not working, he's laying on the couch in his underwear.
Parental Fail: Downplayed. He usually leaves the more hands-on parenting to Beverly and Pops.
Rap is Crap: His hatred of rap, and him having to put upwards with whatever rap music hijinks his son Barry throws at him, is a Running Gag.
Straight Man: Towards Beverly, beingness the more level-headed to Bev's aggressive demeanor.
Surrounded past Idiots: He calls his kids morons more often than by their names. To be fair, it's not always inaccurate.
"Well Washed, Son!" Guy: His relationship with his father, Big Murray. He subverts this with his own kids: While he berates them regularly, and rarely outright says he loves them, he does take effort to exist a good dad to his child and set up any screw ups he makes with them.

Beverly Goldberg

Beverly Solomon Goldberg

The dame of the family who absolutely babies her kids.

Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Due to her Doting Parent methods, her children occasionally view her as this.
Berserk Button: Anything inside the venue of "not getting her way" ticks Beverly off, only the mere mention of drugs will transport her into a specific rage.
Breakout Character: An overwhelming number of episodes tend to focus on or feature her prominently.
Catchphrase: "If (something she doesn't want her children to do) so I have failed as a female parent!"
- "My shmoo!"
Character Development: By the time Erica goes to college in flavor five, Bev understands her life cannot circumduct around being a female parent forever, and embarks on a journey of self-discovery.
Adoring Parent: Deconstructed; Beverley's parenting manner is essentially babying her kids whether they want it or not, but later seasons prove that tending to their every need and swooping in to get them out of trouble have left them, Erica peculiarly, completely unprepared to survive in the adult world.
Expository Hairstyle Change: Downplayed, only it'southward there. Perhaps signifying a time alter, Beverly goes from more than of a 70s style flip curl in the outset two seasons to more of a Princess Diana-meets Dorothy Hamill layered look in the third season.
Good Parents: She's a loving and caring mother and knows what's right for her children.
Happily Married: To Murray, albeit not an overly romantic one.
Hot Teacher: As of Season 4, when she begins a task as a substitute, much to her children's embarrassment.
Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Though the entire bandage wears apparel straight from The '80s, Beverly tends to dress up more, resulting in some truly spectacular outfits, including Shoulders of Doom and that hairdo that looks shellacked.
It's All About Me: Beverly is ridiculously self-centered and a limelight squealer. Usually, her crazed over-mothering is rooted in wanting to exist loved by her kids rather than out of care for them.
Jerkass: She'due south normally neglecting the personal space her kids need, ridiculing the authority figures in their classes, and tends to exist pushy to her friends. Non to mention, she sometimes ignores someone'southward advice and pleas when information technology comes to her selfish demeanor.
Jerk with a Heart of Gilded: She can be selfish, smothering and wholly blind to reality, just information technology's mostly out of love and she will make things correct if she goes also far.
Jewish Mother: Fits this to a tee.
The Matchmaker: Loves fixing people up, to the betoken of having a Rolodex of just nigh anybody in town called her "Yentadex."
Mama Deport: Do not mess with her kids or get on their bad side. Most of the teachers at the kids school have learned to fear her.
My Beloved Smother: The prove calls her this by proper name, shortening it to Smother.
Never My Fault: To I Turn down Your Reality proportions, but her one greater mirage is that it's "Never my Kids' Error." It takes a significant amount of Interruption the Haughty to get Beverly to acknowledge that neither she nor her children are perfect.
Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: She ticks a lot of the boxes; she is a wolverine where her kids are concerned, and is forever looking for the get-rich-or-at-least-noteworthy scheme, such as trying to get her recipe book published on her own account, and tries to live vicariously via her children, who are of course vivid, talented and gifted in her eyes.
Stacy'south Mom: Adam's friends openly admire Beverly's looks and refer to her, to Adam, equally "your hot mom".
Supreme Chef: She takes pride in her cooking even to the point she dumps out entirely cooked turkeys when they don't meet her exacting standards to Barry'southward chagrin. And all to please Pop-Popular who still remembers her only by the first Thanksgiving she cooked for him.
- Then there's her signature shrimp parm...
Took a Level in Jerkass: While her heart'due south still in the correct place, her "smotherly" traits had really taken over her unabridged personality the following five seasons. Her petty intentions are far more ambitious and she doesn't bother listening to reason as she used to.
Yandere: She is a very loving mother...too loving. Every bit described by Adam, his own mom goes beyond the boundaries of a good female parent. And so much then that upsetting her is a risky move, by both relative and stranger alike.

Pops Solomon

Albert "Pops" Solomon

Beverly'due south father, Murray'due south begetter in-law and grandfather to the kids. Especially close to Adam.

Catchphrase: "Past god, woman!"
Cool Quondam Guy: In Adam'southward eyes, he's the coolest fellow member of his family unit.
The Casanova: Later his married woman died, Pops couldn't bring himself to take some other meaningful relationship with a woman, then he casually dates and sleeps around with a laundry listing of hot grandmas.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Pops has his lapses in judgment, but the man is a Globe State of war Two veteran and gives good advice sometimes.
Magical Jew: He is the about unambiguously Jewish grapheme on the prove, and also the least insane family member and quite ofttimes gives good wise advice to daughter Beverley, son-in-law Murray, and to his three grandchildren Erica, Barry and Adam.
The Mentor: Ordinarily to Adam, but does give out sage advice to other members of the family.
Out of Focus: After Flavour 1. He even so gets focus episodes from fourth dimension to time, only mostly serves every bit a supporting graphic symbol, particularly in Season 3.

Popular Popular Goldberg

Ben "Pop Pop" Goldberg

Murray's ill-tempered begetter.

Abusive Parents: Of the emotional variety, never giving Murray the love he wanted or needed.
Grumpy Old Man: He's a definite sourpuss, and seems to only get forth with Adam.
Jerkass: A wholly unpleasant man.
The Scrooge: A holiday-hating penny-pincher.

Marvin Goldberg

Adam's friends and colleagues

Dana Caldwell

Dana Eleanor Caldwell

Adam'due south girl friend turned first girlfriend turned girl friend.

Accommodation Name Modify: Her Existent Life analogue was named Amanda Caldwell, but her name was changed considering the production could not reach the real-life counterpart and the legal team wanted to avert potential lawsuits. The analogue has stated she likes the show, and real-life Adam stated he regrets not using her existent proper noun.
Amend as Friends: What ended up happening when Adam tried to get dorsum together with Dana.
Dating What Daddy Hates: Beverly did not similar Dana every bit the former was jealous of her for spending time with her Shmoopie that she could herself be spending; this fades away when the latter moves to Seattle. Dana herself has mixed feelings towards Beverly.
Girl Side by side Door: Literally (they alive in the same neighborhood) and metaphorically (she's a Nice Daughter).
Long-Altitude Relationship: Adam and her tried this, merely it didn't work, and then they concluded their relationship.
Put on a Coach: She moved to Seattle during flavour 3.
- The Autobus Came Back: She came dorsum during flavor 7 later her grandma died and her family had null else that tied them to Seattle. She doesn't appear in any flavor afterwards, notwithstanding.
Serenade Your Lover: How Adam won her dear first fourth dimension. He tried to practice this a 2d time, but it didn't work.

Jackie Geary

Adam'due south second girlfriend. At get-go a nerd just similar Adam, she later got a big change during summer camp.

Dave Kim

Abhorrent Gentleman: He was i to Erica before he got into a human relationship with Carla.
Aborted Arc: His relationship with Carla during season 7 is non fifty-fifty mentioned, much less connected, by season 8 — at least, at first. Instead it's implied she went dorsum with Johnny and Dave Kim has no girlfriend. Later, that'southward fabricated explicit.
Ascended Actress: In-universe. He started out as a classmate Adam only vaguely knew, and was only invited over because Adam needed an Asian child to be Data for his Goonies take a chance. Later, Dave Kim becomes Adam's best friend.
Asian and Nerdy: He wears glasses and plays Dungeons and Dragons.
The Friend Nobody Likes: There's zilch wrong or annoying about him, just he's not a member of whatsoever of the Goldberg siblings' circles of friends, and they only hang out with him when out of options. This aspect has since been dropped, every bit Adam willingly hangs with Dave Kim on a regular basis.
Full-Name Ground: Anybody calls him "Dave Kim" in total.
Informed Aspect: Ms. Cinnomin evidently sees potential in him, as he has repeatedly been chosen for the pb in the schoolhouse musical despite not having any clear singing or acting ability.
Phrase Catcher: "I know, Dave Kim!"

Emmy Mirsky

Brea Bee

The Ace: Brea is described as "The about pop girl at William Penn University" according to the school's yearbook; she is smart and athletic, and a talented actress, despite her having minimal feel with acting.
- Broken Ace: However, she comes from a divorced family and is raised by her mother, has to habiliment her orthodontic headgear at night, and has to work an afterschool chore, compared to Adam's privileged lifestyle.
Hiding the Handicap: She revealed in "Airplane!" that she has to wear her orthodontic headgear at nighttime, and has to keep that a clandestine to maintain her popularity.
Existent Person Cameo: The real-life Brea Bee played her mother, Vickie Bee (spelled "Vicki"). Bee before played an unrelated character, Mrs. Vanica, in the season 4 episode, "The Spencer'south Gift".

Johnny Atkins

Almighty Janitor: Becomes i in Schooled, where he is at present popular with the students (listening to them and their feelings), operated his Pirate Radio for a while and is at present responsible for the schoolhouse's radio order.
Berserk Button: Exercise not harm his ponytail. "That's where my soul resides."
The Bully: Oft rags on Adam and friends For the Evulz, with his erstwhile girlfriend Carla.
Demoted to Actress: While non a main character, he recurred very frequently until season 8, appearing in only a modest corporeality of episodes in season 8 and 9.
Informed Attribute: In Schooled Lainey states he did "Rush Hour" (which actually lasted half an hour) on the school radio during the fourth dimension of The Goldbergs. During the actual The Goldbergs we never actually hear the school radio, much less "Rush Hr".
Jaded Washout: Becomes the custodian at William Penn in Schooled. Between his popularity at school and being custodian, he worked for a while at the local roller skate rink with Carla.
Rock is Authentic, Pop is Shallow: Is a large fan of Rush, and disdains everything else every bit "mass produced crap".
Human relationship Revolving Door: Implied to take gotten back with Carla later school, during season 8, when both were working at the local roller skate rink — even though they didn't go together to the prom.
Status Quo Is God: Briefly stopped being Adam'south bully during flavor 6, when they all went on The Greatful Expressionless bout, just went back being so with season seven, Johnny proverb there was a make clean slate and so.
Tertiary-Person Person: In his offset appearances.

Carla Isle of man

Carla Isle of mann

Starts out as Johnny Atkins's girlfriend and a bully just like Johnny. Later has a big change at the summer camp, becomes a punk and dumps him for Dave Kim.

Aborted Arc: Her relationship with Dave Kim during season 7 is non even mentioned, much less continued, by flavor 8 — at to the lowest degree at first. Instead information technology's implied she went back with Johnny, while Dave Kim has no girlfriend. Later, that's fabricated explicit.
All Girls Want Bad Boys: Before Dave Kim.
The Bully: Before her big change at the summertime campsite, she was this with her then-boyfriend Johnny.
Don't Explain the Joke: Has a habit of needlessly explaining Johhny'south put-downs.
Early on Installment Weirdness: At starting time she was called Carla Natali.
Eating Lunch Lonely: Not actually, only she does not sit with the absurd kids subsequently splitting up with Johnny; rather, she changes to Dave Kim's and Adam's table.
Five-Finger Discount: Likes it.
Jaded Washout: Afterward finishing high schoolhouse she has a work at the local roller skate hink with Johnny. Unlike him, still, she gets a ameliorate task by the time of Schooled, equally a pharmaceutical sales rep.
Odd Couple: With Dave Kim after her large change.
Odd Friendship: With Jackie later both girls' big change at summer camp.
Punk: Became this afterwards the radical summer military camp change.
Relationship Revolving Door:
- Implied to have gotten back with Johnny later school, during season eight, when both were working at the local roller skate rink — even though they didn't become together to the prom.
- Notwithstanding, it'south made explicit she ended with Dave Kim, and that she misses him, since he was the first beau to take treated her as a human beingness.
Skipping School: As well likes this.

The JTP (The Jenkintown Posse)

Geoff Schwartz

Geoffrey "Geoff" ("Mad Homo") Schwartz

Abhorrent Admirer: Originally one to Erica, merely the two have since fallen in love and moved in together at college.
Ascended Extra: He was just one of Barry'southward friends, made more distinct by having a crush on Erica. He has since become 1 of the leads on the bear witness one time the two became an Official Couple.
Extreme Doormat: Is e'er eager to please, ofttimes at the expense of his ain happiness. This is the reason Erica breaks upwards with him in flavour viii, and so he can have time to exist himself.
The United nations Favourite: Earlier Erica intervened in flavor eight, his older sister Jessica was always pampered and complemented despite being a moocher who is always changing careers on a whim, while Geoff was made to experience himself downwardly and having to follow his sister's "example" despite beingness kind, e'er being able to make an effort, and being eager to please.

"Naked" Rob

"Naked" Rob Smith

Informed Attribute: Despite his name and often mentioning that he likes being naked, he is nearly always fully clothed.
- Lampshaded in a flavor 7 episode, where he mentions he finally goes to a nude colony, only gets uncomfortable considering people there are "too nude".

Andy Cogan

Andy ("Ladies Man") Cogan

Matt Bradley

Matthew "Matt" ("Matty Ice") Bradley

Iconic Sequel Grapheme: He didn't join the grouping until flavour 4.
Only Sane Man: Frequently the vocalisation of reason for the grouping, even though Barry disregards almost every thing that comes from his mouth.
Surfer Dude: Has the look and easy-going demeanor of one.

Erica's friends

Lainey Lewis

Played by: AJ Michalka (seasons 1—half dozen and eight; Schooled afterward)

Erica's best friend and Barry's girlfriend. Subsequently becomes a teacher at William Penn University in Schooled.

Adaptation Proper noun Modify: Co-ordinate to the Real Life Beverly, Lainey'south real-life counterpart's name was Tammy Lewis. The name "Lainey" supposedly comes from a bodyguard Real!Adam had during childhood.
Alliterative Name: Lainey Lewis.
Ascended Extra: Lainey herself, starting time as one of Erica'southward friends before eventually becoming a breakout character with aspirations of her own. Later she gets her own spinoff.
Label Marches On: In early episodes, she was a spoiled brat with rich parents and her Dad was a crooked lawyer. Every bit she became a more developed graphic symbol, this was retconned considerably. It is now established that she has had a somewhat difficult life, her mom abandoned her family unit when she was immature, and her dad is a tile salesman on virtually the aforementioned socioeconomic level as the Goldbergs.
Heterosexual Life-Partner: To Erica.
Missing Mom: Lainey likes hanging out at the house because Beverly treats her like one of her own kids.
Parental Abandonment: Lainey'south mother.
Put on a Omnibus: She leaves the serial midway through season half dozen to star in the Spinoff Schooled, set up at the same high school but in the 1990s, with Lainey as the new music teacher.
- Once Schooled was cancelled, Lainey made a couple of return appearances to the parent show in the episodes "The Faux-Upwards" and "Poker Night."
What Does She See in Him?: Dating Barry. He's immature, not overly attractive, and kind of an ass. Somehow, they work. However as the series goes on Lainey becomes similarly immature and irrational as Barry.
- In Schooled she states she tried to pull a She'southward All That on Barry.

"Valley Erica"

"Valley" Erica Coolidge

Erica Goldberg's roommate from her first time in college. Then they both drop out and form a ring, "The Dropouts", with Lainey.

Abhorrent Admirer: Of Barry.
All There in the Manual: Her terminal proper name is Coolidge according to 1 of her food containers in the episode, "The Scrunchie Rule".
"Friends" Rent Command: When living at the Goldberg house.
Roommate Drama: At first, because they have very different personalities and accept to share a common room in the college dorm. Subsequently, they get to know each other better (subsequently Erica M. throws a political party in their room) and this fades away.
One Steve Limit: Averted, since she has the same starting time proper name as Erica Goldberg. Hence why she was nicknamed "Valley Erica".
Put on a Passenger vehicle: During flavor seven. The Charabanc Came Back for a season 8 episode.
Valley Girl: To the betoken Beverly nicknames her "Valley Erica".

Ren

Lauren "Ren"

Played past: Kelli Berglund (season 7), Carrie Wampler (season 8)

Erica's new flavor 7 friend whom she meets on school campus with Barry. Her father owns a eating place chain and her female parent is a defense attorney.

Merely One Proper noun: Lauren, which she shortens every bit Ren.
Parental Neglect: Her parents are so the verbal opposite of Beverly they forget to come up to the dinner where they were supposed to run across Erica. She eventually ends upwardly having dinner with Erica, Beverly (whom Erica was trying to keep from meeting Ren for the episode) and Barry. Ren actually states Erica is lucky to have Beverly.
Official Couple: With Barry for part of seasons seven and 8 before she's Put on a Bus.

Teachers and other schoolhouse personnel

Motorcoach Mellor

Omnibus Rick Mellor

Played past: Bryan Callen (seasons ane—six; Schooled subsequently)

William Penn University's physical education teacher. In Schooled he accumulates that with - of all things! - "grooming" the Academy's mathletics team.

Accidental Misnaming: Keeps calling Adam "Goldfarb", except that ane fourth dimension he was actually proficient at PE. However he calls both his siblings "Goldberg".
Large Blood brother Nifty: He's got one of these in his older blood brother Nick.
Gym Class Hell: In Adam'due south optics, Mr. Mellor's class is this, but he's played with a little more sympathy.
Hidden Depths:
- Due to being perpetually single, he knows how to keep house very well, and is capable of finer instruction Barry and Erica how to do and so to get them.
- In Schooled information technology's demonstrated he's actually excellent at math. That's because in high schoolhouse he could be kicked out of basketball game team if he failed, so he cribbed one time only got found out and was indeed kicked out for one semester; every bit such, he started studying math so hard he became first-class at it.
- Besides in Schooled we find out his actual instruction method is discovering his students' weak spots and building on them and then every bit to strengthen the students.
Jerk with a Heart of Aureate: He's a total hardass, simply he legitimately cares about his student and is a good guy underneath all his bluster.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Afterwards Adam tries to preclude a Gym Form Hell for him and his friends and and then stabs them in the back by picking all the jocks, Mr. Mellor lets Dave Kim and the others claiming them to Dungeons & Dragons. Unfortunately he didn't realize information technology would take over four hours and regrets information technology.
Worthy Opponent: He is the only school faculty member non terrified of Beverly, as he admires her winning spirit and seems to enjoy arguing with her.

Miss Cinoman

Miss Susan Cinoman

Master Ball

Principal Earl Brawl

Mr. Glascott

Mr. Jonathan "John" "Andre" Glascott

The school counsellor who later becomes principal in Schooled.

Butt-Monkey: Life is not kind to poor Mr. Glascott.
Composite Character: Of the Real Life Mrs. Bett Glascott (equally of 2020, assistant caput of schoolhouse at William Penn Charter School ^annotation the real-life William Penn University) with John Dover (sometime dean of students at the Schoolhouse).

Mr. Crosby

Motorbus Nick Mellor

Bus Nick Mellor

Large Blood brother Bully: Has this relationship with Omnibus Rick. While they exercise care nigh each other and patch their relationship up, whenever they endeavor to teach a class information technology almost always ends with them getting into a brawl.

Dr. Katman

Other

Bill Lewis

Lainey's single dad.

Characterization Marches On: In early on episodes, he was a crooked lawyer and his girl was a spoiled brat with rich parents. Every bit his daughter became a more adult character, this was retconned considerably. It is now established that they accept had a somewhat difficult life, his wife abandoned her family when she was young, and he is a tile salesman on about the aforementioned socioeconomic level as the Goldbergs.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Murray.
Parental Abandonment: Bill's ex-wife.

John Calabasas

Jenkintown's resident Con Homo.

Honest John'southward Dealership: He'south a Con Man version of a Jack-of-All-Trades. One of his businesses is an actual dealership that sells Murray an Austrian Ferrari knock-off branded Biting which breaks later on only two days ^note there is an actual Bitter Cars headquartered in Austria - given that John Calabasas was the seller, it could have been a imitation Bitter - and in Real Life is still parked in the Goldberg business firm passage at Jenkintown. Other businesses he has operated include: a fake model agency and... a false banking company, the co-operative of which was in a stall, exterior a real co-operative of a real banking company, and which name was clearly a ripoff of said real bank. How tin anyone fall for this human being, especially when he has done con afterward con and always uses the same proper noun?
New Task as the Plot Demands: Whenever he appears, he has a widely different job from the last time. A mutual link between all of them is that they're cons.

Jane Bales

Beverly's rival who is and then like her.

Always Someone Better: Beverly'southward main purpose is to always vanquish Jane Bales. Jane Bales'due south master purpose is to always beat Beverly. Sometimes Beverly succeeds, sometimes Jane Bales does.
Enemy Mine: Sometimes, Beverly and Jane Bales have to unite their efforts at yenta-ing. Despite their common enmity starting out to deny them helping each other, in the cease they can always be fruitful.
Full-Proper noun Ground: Beverly always calls her Jane Bales.
The Matchmaker: Succeeded at finding Bill his new girlfriend.
Sitcom Archnemesis: She's Beverly's local rival at yenta-ing.
Spotlight-Stealing Squad: She's e'er trying to outshine Beverly, especially when it comes to her friends, and vice-versa.

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Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/TheGoldbergs