Answer: Philadelphia
The show clearly shows off its Philadelphia, mostly with Barry and Murray and their love for the Phillies, Eagles, 76ers, and Flyers.
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Answer: Lainey
Lainey is played by AJ Michalka, a singer and entertainment personality. On the show, she's been seen singing with Erica, accompanying her to the mall, and generally being her confidant when Erica needs to talk.
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Answer: Troy Gentile
Before landing the role of Barry Goldberg, Troy had thoughts of giving up acting and was attending community college. He has been in such movies as "Bad News Bears", "Nacho Libre", "Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny", and the television show "Entourage".
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Answer: 1980s
Though the exact year is never mentioned, the premise of the show is that it is a retelling of the childhood memories of the main character, who grew up in the 1980s.
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Answer: morons
He always generally refers to any one of them or all of them as morons, whether they've done something wrong or not.
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Answer: Stanford University
Erica desperately wants to go to Stanford, though her mom (Bev) wants her to go to the University of Pennsylvania. Originally, Bev was trying to sabotage Erica's SAT prep time, but eventually Bev decides to help and Erica achieves her desired score of 1300.
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Answer: Big Tasty
Big Tasty is Barry's rap persona. He becomes Big Tasty when he's trying to spit some dope rhymes or trying to melt the heart of that special girl. In his mind, Big Tasty is the epitome of cool.
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Answer: Erica
Erica is played by Hayley Orrantia. She plays the oldest sibling, who often butts heads with her mother. In reality, the three siblings were all boys. Network executives demanded that one of the boys be changed to a girl because they thought that the show would be funnier if written that way.
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Answer: Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt does all of the narration for every episode as the adult Adam F. Goldberg looking back on everything.
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Answer: Fanny
Barry wants Erica to help him get Fanny to love him. Erica makes him French pick-up line flashcards, per his request. Instead of legitimate lines, Erica has written not-so-flattering phrases such as "Cat farts" and "I am sexually attracted to Gary Coleman".
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Answer: Big Tasty
Barry fancies himself an aspiring rapper, but he's not that good. When he brings out the Big Tasty persona, hilarity ensues.
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Answer: JTP
Barry and his friends, 'Naked' Rob Smith, 'Ladies Man' Andy Cogan, 'Mad Man' Geoff Schwartz, and later punk-rocker-turned-Deadhead Matt Bradley, call themselves the Jenkintown Posse, or JTP. "JTP!"
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Answer: Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Erica sang "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and played her guitar while Barry performed his "kara te" routine in the background and Adam ran around with pantyhose on his head while wielding a toy light saber. Murray, Bev, and Pops were in the audience and looked so proud and even Erica's ex was in the audience and gave an approving smile.
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Answer: Twisted Sister
The two boys were jamming out to "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister and even got hired to play a gig at their parents' marriage vow renewal ceremony. Sadly, after Lainey and Erica were allowed to join, the boys were ousted and the girls turned it into a Bangles tribute band and sang "Eternal Flame".
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Answer: Adam's Millennium Falcon
The video game "Punch Out" had just arrived at the arcade and Barry quickly became addicted to playing it. He cashed in his $100 savings bond and received "six bucks of cold, hard change" in order to play "Punch Out". When he ran out of money, he stole Adam's Millennium Falcon and pawned it so that he could go back to the arcade and play "Punch Out" some more.
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Answer: Dana
Dana Caldwell was Adam's first girlfriend until she and her family moved to Seattle between the second and third season. They tried the long distance thing but eventually they called it quits over that and other things.
Emmy "Muscles" Mirsky is simply a friend of Adam's and has always been that way.
Jackie Geary became Adam's new girlfriend when he entered high school in the fourth season, as they share a love for science fiction and other geeky stuff.
Lainey Lewis was Barry's girlfriend for a little while.
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Answer: throws a garbage can through the windshield of his Mustang
Erica was heartbroken when Drew dumped her for "stupid Tracy Sullivan". Poor Erica downs six pans of brownies before she's set-up with a college guy as her date to Lainey's birthday. Unfortunately, Erica's date buys alcohol for underage kids and gets arrested and gets made fun of by Drew; then Erica calls her dad to come pick her up. When Erica arrives home she then takes revenge upon Drew and his Mustang.
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Answer: hockey
Although they have great seats right on the ice, Murray likes to leave before the final horn so that he can avoid the traffic jam of people all leaving at the same time. Eventually, to show how much Barry means to him, the two stayed to see the conclusion of the Flyers/Rangers game, and sat in traffic for two hours afterward.
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Answer: Jeff Garlin
Jeff Garlin is an accomplished, and well respected, actor having also been in "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Mad About You", and "Wizards of Waverly Place" among other things.
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Answer: furniture store
He is the manager of a furniture store called The Ottoman Empire (get it?), which is owned by his father in law, Al, affectionately known as "pops" to the kids.
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Answer: Princess Leia
Originally when Erica and Adam went, Erica ditched Adam so that she could hang out with her friends. Adam left the line also to go to the bathroom and couldn't get his place in line back. Erica felt bad and eventually decided to go again with her brother.
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Answer: JTP (Jenkintown Posse)
Barry, Naked Rob, Madman Geoff Schwartz, and Andy Cogan made up the JTP. They boasted of wild times, wild girls, parties, and more girls. In reality, they usually just stand in front of the Wawa and aren't particularly cool.
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Answer: a Laser-Tag party
Adam had planned a Laser-Tag party, but after taking Barry's advice, he switched it to a make-out party. The results were disastrous, so eventually everyone made their way outside and played Laser-Tag.
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Answer: something
For example, "It was September 29th, nineteen-eighty-something...". This is done intentionally so Adam F. Goldberg can just include anything 80s related in an episode without worry as to when each thing specifically happened.
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Answer: Starlight Express
Erica, Adam, and some drama club rejects make up the cast of Adam's version of "Starlight Express" and things aren't going well. Awful skating and awful acting force Erica and Bev to politely tell Adam that maybe he's not leading-man material. Adam agrees and settles for a back-up role in his school's play.
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Answer: the Germantown falcon
Barry and Adam navigated Germantown High School and made off with their mascot. While proudly walking up to his school with the falcon, earning the adoration of its students, Barry announced that this was the work of his crew, thereby getting his membership back. Barry then removes the "little bird hat" and, sadly, the falcon flies away.
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Answer: "Return of the Jedi"
Erica is dressed as Princess Leia and goes with Adam to see "Return of the Jedi" on opening day. Erica isn't real happy about being there and is even harassed by a guy dressed up as a tauntaun. She eventually lightens up and she and Adam have a great time.
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Answer: saxophone
He was almost never seen without his alto saxophone around his neck or in his locker, often not in a case.
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Answer: Eternal Flame
Erica and Lainey take over the garage band that Adam and Barry formed and eventually have a showdown with the two for garage supremacy. The boys sing "We're Not Gonna Take It" and the girls rock out with "Eternal Flame".
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Answer: Erica
Luckily, Barry prevented Erica from mixing the two, because in his words "when the bubbles in the soda mix with the explosives in the Pop Rocks, it triggers a chain reaction that melts your insides". Barry is then adamant that Erica be his servant due to "Bushido Code". Erica, because she's not an idiot and knows that's just an urban legend, refuses.
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Answer: most consecutive free-throws made
Murray is invited out onto the court to be recognized. After the applause dies down, he attempts one last free-throw and promptly shoots an air ball.
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Answer: Rush
Like his saxophone, Johnny was almost never seen without a Rush tour shirt on.
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Answer: Jazzercise and power walking
First Bev states that if Erica can make it through a whole Jazzercise class, then Erica is exempt from cooking. Erica doesn't even break a sweat, while Bev is drenched. Next, Bev challenges Erica to power walking, with the same wager. Erica pulls ahead of Bev at the end and is victorious as Bev pulls her groin.
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Answer: Barrynopoly
Barry created a game which played to everyone's strengths, included trivia (for Erica), physical challenges (for Barry), and frequent bathroom breaks (for Pops). The game was made from a combination of games such as Candyland, Battleship, Monopoly, Mousetrap, and Trivial Pursuit, among others.
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Answer: roller skating
Barry states that he goes to the roller rink because he loves roller disco. Surprisingly, Barry is good at roller skating and has a lot of friends at the rink. Eventually, the whole family ends up there and everyone has a good time.
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Answer: Christian Slater
She had a big poster of him in her room and always had a crush on him. In fact, she wanted to marry him at one point.
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Answer: Hayley Orrantia
Hayley was a member of the girl group Lakoda Rayne, which made it to the final nine in the inaugural season of "The X Factor USA". She started singing when she was 13 and she started acting at age 14, even appearing in commercials for Febreze and Sprint.
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Answer: Over the Top
While playing the game that he invented, Barry had to arm wrestle Erica. While Barry turned his hat around and went "Over The Top", sadly he couldn't defeat Erica because she went "Over The Top" also and took the victory. However, Barry defeated Bev at arm wrestling as he went "Over The Top" against her and achieved the win. It was later revealed that Bev let him win.
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Answer: "Poltergeist"
Pops and Adam tried to hide this fact from Bev. The movie scares Adam so bad that he wants to snuggle with his mom instead of sleeping in his room alone that night. Bev finds the ticket stub in Adam's jacket and he and Pops are busted.
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