The Goldbergs: Season 5

Erica is off to college at D.C. School of Arts, but she has one problem: having to say goodbye to her mom a thousand times before she leaves. In order to delay the parting, Beverly, along with Murray, helps move Erica into her dorm, and meets Erica's roommate, a valley girl also named Erica (Alison Rich). Bev decorates Erica's room and stays the night, leading to her daughter's humiliation around campus. After Beverly finally leaves, Valley Erica helps Erica realize she is lucky to have a mom th

Adam's hard-ass history teacher, "Doc" (Kevin Heffernan), agrees to let him make a movie about World War II instead of writing a term paper. Because Pops is a veteran, Adam decides to interview him, but he finds all of his grandfather's war stories boring. Pops spices it up by telling fictional far-fetched tales that actually came from Hogan's Heroes episodes. Doc discovers Pops' stories are plagiarized from the show and gives Adam an 'F'. Adam throws a piece of chalk at him in disgust, earning

After Barry breaks Adam's glasses during gym class, Beverly complains to Coach Mellor about pitting big brother against little brother. Rick Mellor reveals a troubled childhood in which his big brother Nick always picked on him. Beverly visits Nick (Bill Goldberg), now the defensive coordinator for the Villanova University football team, and tries to get him to reconcile the issues with Rick for the sake of her own two sons. Elsewhere, Erica worries about the huge phone bill she's racked up by c

Erica is failing her film appreciation class, and her only hope for a passing grade is to write a term paper on a movie in one night. Erica has booked a musical performance that evening, so she calls Adam and invites him to D.C. for a visit. Adam brings Dave Kim, Chad Kremp and Sergei along, hoping for a Revenge of the Nerds college experience, but he soon learns that Erica was just using him to get the paper written. After Erica explains to Adam that college is nothing like the movie depictions

As they decide on Halloween costumes, Adam and Jackie have a major argument when Adam wants her to go as Princess Leia to his Han Solo. It turns out that Jackie does not like Star Wars, but is a big fan of Star Trek instead, and would like Adam to dress as Mr. Spock to her Lt. Uhura. With Adam worried about losing his girlfriend, Murray tries to teach him his technique of quietly acquiescing whenever Beverly wants to be in charge. Adam tries but Jackie sees right through it, and suggests that sh

Trying to move on from Lainey, Barry sets his sights on Jamie Weisman (Lily Donoghue), but gets shot down. He and the JTP invade Erica's bedroom to try to find clues about how to understand girls, despite Erica explicitly telling them over the phone to stay out. Beverly offers to help, which is met with resistance from Barry, but after Bev helps Naked Rob meet a girl, Barry starts to see Bev as more than just a mom. Acting on mom's advice to just converse and be himself, Barry lands a study date

The "Bevolution" continues, as Beverly decides that she will not go overboard on Thanksgiving this year and instead invites neighbors and friends for a pot luck meal. Bev also refuses to swoop in and help Erica when the latter reveals she got a high-interest credit card at college and has run up $3,000 in debt. Erica then goes to a shady credit card booth, gets a card in Beverly's name, and immediately withdraws a cash advance. Marvin arrives in a decked-out gold Cadillac, announcing he has made

Murray decides it's time for Adam to learn to drive, but there is one problem: Adam is too afraid and doesn't want to learn yet. Meanwhile, Erica is despondent over having no friends and no fun at college, which is only made worse when Barry visits and seems to fit right in on campus. Featured Song: "Pour Some Sugar On Me" by Def Leppard, covered by Hayley Orrantia Absent: Sam Lerner as Geoff Schwartz Notes: * The episode is dedicated to "rock n' roll toga parties". * Continuing the tradition of

Trying to make a music video in the vein of "Parents Just Don't Understand" by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Adam and Barry create a video called "Dads Just Don't Care" in an attempt to make fun of Murray. However, Murray later finds out about the video and is upset that the boys think he is a bad father. After Murray scolds Adam and Barry, the boys make an unsuccessful attempt to reconcile with Murray by making another rap video, but they later win Murray's forgiveness with a heartfelt apol

As Adam rehearses his holiday talent show song, Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire", in front of Jackie, Barry ponders why Adam has a girlfriend and he doesn't, and that Adam's popularity is growing while his isn't. Barry steals Adam's song, posting hundreds of flyers around the school promoting an appearance by "Barry Joel" at the show, but it soon becomes clear that Barry doesn't know the song's lyrics like Adam does. Barry goes to Adam's mentor, Pops, who tries to get Barry to do the Abbo

Beverly becomes concerned about who she will spend time with after her kids flee the nest. Inspired by The Golden Girls and Barry's JTP, she tries to form a friend group with Virginia Kremp, Linda Schwartz and Essie Karp. Her efforts fall flat as the other three are planning the school's ski trip and say they are all still too busy with their children. But when a snowstorm cancels the ski trip, Beverly swoops in with a plan to save the day. Meanwhile, Erica has grown tired of Geoff's daily roman

Geoff surprises Erica by inviting her entire family out to join them for her birthday dinner at Beefsteak Charlie's. Erica is not pleased with this, because her family members are horrible restaurant patrons; Murray takes too long to decide what he wants, Beverly is way too specific about the details of her order and asks for ridiculous substitutions, Barry always orders some unusual dish that he ends up hating, Adam rebels against having to order off the kids' menu but cannot finish an adult-si

Erica rebels against her high school ways and tries to become a more cultured college student, even refusing to see Philadelphia-based band The Hooters with Geoff when he gets tickets. Geoff reluctantly decides to take Barry. Later, Geoff and Beverly show up at the avant-garde music event that Erica is attending with Valley Erica, partly to show support but mainly to convince Erica that she's being a pretentious ass. Erica shuns both of them. However, only a few minutes into the bagpipe-and-gong

Inspired by cable TV channels like QVC, Beverly wants to take the next step in her Bevolution and hawk her "Bev-Wear". With an unusually supportive Murray encouraging her, Bev creates a number of gaudy, bedazzled jean jackets, but is later depressed after QVC rejects them. Murray insists he can sell them at the furniture store and later brings Bev a wad of cash. But Bev soon learns the truth when a rep from the Goodwill store returns the jackets to the house. With Bev tied up starting Bev-Wear,

Adam decides to make his own Indiana Jones film with Jackie and Erica's help, and despite his insistence that she does not interfere, Beverly enlists Johnny, Carla, Dan, Taz Money and the JTP to assist with the production. The filming is plagued with issues, leading Adam to have a nervous breakdown and abandon his dream of directing. Beverly helps him see that the part of the process he most enjoyed was the scriptwriting, and he decides to pursue writing as a career, while the production resumes

Erica and her roommate 'Valley Erica' begin to irritate each other, which escalates to the point where Valley Erica claims their entire room in order to spend time with a boyfriend. Erica invites Barry to stay with her so he can annoy Valley Erica, only for them to form an unexpected romance. Erica and Barry invite further guests in their continued war of attrition: Lainey, Geoff and the rest of the JTP, and Johnny and Carla. Geoff tries to force the Ericas to work out their differences, only fo

After Beverly's friends make her realize Barry emotionally manipulates her so he and the JTP can have the run of the Goldberg house, a turf war breaks out between the JTP and the 'Frentas'. The Frentas are winning until they start fighting among themselves after the other mothers disrespect Barry, offending Beverly. Barry persuades Beverly to make amends with the Frendas, pointing out they only called him out because they care about her. Unable to attend rehearsals as Murray refuses to drive him

Barry, Erica, Johnny and Carla go to Florida for spring break. Barry and Erica stay at Al's condo but soon become disappointed and bored by the lack of spring break fun there, and they begin breaking rules and trying to have fun. Al reports them to the police for causing a disturbance, and they are furious, reminding him that the old Al would have been involved in the anarchy with them. They eventually reconcile and join the beach party. Beverly becomes obsessed with having a fur coat, so Murray

The Frentas begin taking a dance class and Beverly invites her reluctant family to a performance by them, but when she then attempts to convince them to attend with a demonstration, they laugh hysterically at her, leaving her fearing that her Bevolution has been in vain. She later demoralises the other Frentas, all of them becoming convinced that they will never again be anything more than mothers, and Murray notices Beverly's emotional state and forces Erica and Barry to make it up to her. They

Adam wins a radio contest in which a lucky listener gets to throw out the first pitch at a Philadelphia Phillies game. Adam then works out a deal to allow Barry to throw the pitch. Barry sees it as an opportunity to impress the Phillies and get a huge signing bonus to join the team, and he also convinces Murray that this is a chance of a lifetime. For a change, Beverly has to be the one to squelch a child's dream, as she doesn't want Barry to embarrass himself in front of 60,000 fans. When he pr

Adam tries to start a Mel Brooks club after he sees the movie "Spaceballs" and Jackie mistakes his club advertisement for political satire and puts it in the school paper. Meanwhile, when Beverly and Pops come up for parents weekend at school, Erica plans to tell them she's quitting college, but Murray surprises them and tags along. Featured Song: "Goldbergs Theme Song" by Hayley Orrantia Notes: * The episode is dedicated to "President Skroob". * During the end credits, a dream sequence features

Barry is hell-bent on pulling off a legendary prank, with the ulterior motive of getting suspended so he doesn't have to go to senior prom alone. At home, Murray insists that if Erica won't stay in college, she must get a real job and pay rent, but Erica is sure she can make money with her music. Beverly secretly slips Principal Ball a wad of money to hire Erica's band for the prom. With Adam's help, Barry disassembles Principal Ball's Suzuki Samurai (which ends up looking more like vandilism th