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* RealityEnsues: Mr. Mellor's "Big Baby Ball" stint, coupled with Beverly's further complaining, leads to him being fired. At least, until he makes amends to the Goldbergs.
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* ThrowingTheFight: The credits gag has Beverly intentionally losing to Barry at "Barry-opoly", copying Erica's earlier statement that "he needed a win".

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* ThrowingTheFight: The credits gag TheTag has Beverly intentionally losing to Barry at "Barry-opoly", copying Erica's earlier statement that "he needed a win".

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'''A Plot:''' Beverly intervenes after Mr. Meller singles Adam out during a game.\\
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'''A Plot:''' Beverly intervenes after Mr. Meller Mellor singles Adam out during a game.\\
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* AlwaysSecondBest: Barry has an outburst along these lines after losing at "Barry-opoly", saying that he knows Erica is better at him when it comes to things like intelligence, and game night helped him feel like he's still better at something.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Erica does this literally, beating Barry in the "Barry-opoly" game he made and heavily rigged in his own favor after repeated losses at Trivial Pursuit.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Because his mother made a fuss about dodgeball (which Adam didn't even want her to), gym teacher Rick Meller gets the entire class to throw balls at him in the next class. He later apologizes for singling Adam out, saying that he was misguided in his attempt to help prepare Adam for the harshness of life.
* ExactWords: First, when Beverly first protests about Adam getting bruised in a dodgeball game, it leads to the game being banned...and then instantly replaced with [[TitleDrop the titular]] "Big Baby Ball", which is like dodgeball, but it's Adam versus literally the entire rest of the class. Later, after Beverly promises not to intrude on school grounds for a year in exchange for getting the apologetic Mr. Meller's job back, she bothers the principal at his house.

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* AlwaysSecondBest: Barry has an outburst along these lines after losing at "Barry-opoly", saying that he knows Erica is better at him when it comes to things like intelligence, and game night helped him feel like he's still better good at something.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Erica does this literally, beating Barry in the "Barry-opoly" game he made and heavily rigged in his own favor after his repeated losses at Trivial Pursuit.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Because his mother made a fuss about dodgeball (which dodge ball (when Adam didn't even want her to), gym teacher Rick Meller Mellor gets the entire class to throw balls at him in the next class. He later apologizes for singling Adam out, saying that he was misguided in his attempt to help prepare Adam for the harshness of life.
* ExactWords: First, when Beverly first protests about Adam getting bruised in a dodgeball dodge ball game, it leads to the game being banned...and then instantly replaced with [[TitleDrop the titular]] "Big Baby Ball", which is like dodgeball, dodge ball, but it's Adam versus literally the entire rest of the class. Later, after Beverly promises not to intrude on school grounds for a year in exchange for getting the apologetic Mr. Meller's Mellor's job back, she bothers the principal at his house.



* RealityEnsues: Mr. Meller's "Big Baby Ball" stint, coupled with Beverly's further complaining, leads to him being fired. At least, until he makes amends to the Goldbergs.
* ThrowingTheFight: The credits gag has Beverly intentionally losing to Barry at "Barry-opoly", copying Erica's earlier statement that "he needed a win".

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* RealityEnsues: Mr. Meller's Mellor's "Big Baby Ball" stint, coupled with Beverly's further complaining, leads to him being fired. At least, until he makes amends to the Goldbergs.
* ThrowingTheFight: The credits gag has Beverly intentionally losing to Barry at "Barry-opoly", copying Erica's earlier statement that "he needed a win".win".
* ToughLove: Mr. Mellor claims this as his motivation for how he had been treating Adam in gym class.
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* ExactWords: First, when Beverly first protests about Adam getting bruised in a dodgeball game, it leads to the game being banned...and then instantly replaced with [[TitleDrop the titular]] "Big Baby Ball", which is like dodgeball, but it's Adam versus literally the entire rest of the class. Later, after Beverly promises not to intrude on school grounds for a year in exchange for getting the apologetic Mr. Meller's job back, she bothers the principle at his house.
* FixingTheGame: Barry attempts this after losing his first Trivial Pursuit game, having read all of the answers in advance and trying to stack the trivia cards to his advantage. Later, after Barry's outburst of feeling like he's AlwaysSecondBest, Erica decides "he needs a win" and fixes a Trivial Pursuit game in his favor, by secretly asking him questions from the Junior edition.

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* ExactWords: First, when Beverly first protests about Adam getting bruised in a dodgeball game, it leads to the game being banned...and then instantly replaced with [[TitleDrop the titular]] "Big Baby Ball", which is like dodgeball, but it's Adam versus literally the entire rest of the class. Later, after Beverly promises not to intrude on school grounds for a year in exchange for getting the apologetic Mr. Meller's job back, she bothers the principle principal at his house.
* FixingTheGame: Barry attempts this after losing his first Trivial Pursuit game, having read all of the answers in advance advance; this fails because he doesn't remember the questions themselves, and trying to stack Erica reads the trivia cards to his advantage.out-of-order after catching on. Later, after Barry's outburst of feeling like he's AlwaysSecondBest, Erica decides "he needs a win" and fixes a Trivial Pursuit game in his favor, by secretly asking him questions from the Junior edition.
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'''A Plot:''' Beverly intervenes after Mr. Meller singles Adam out during a game.//
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'''A Plot:''' Beverly intervenes after Mr. Meller singles Adam out during a game.//
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* ExactWords: First, when Beverly first protests about Adam getting bruised in a dodgeball game, it leads to the game being banned...and then instantly replaced with the titular "Big Baby Ball", which is like dodgeball, but it's Adam versus literally the entire rest of the class. Later, after Beverly promises not to intrude on school grounds for a year in exchange for getting the apologetic Mr. Meller's job back, she bothers the principle at his house.

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* ExactWords: First, when Beverly first protests about Adam getting bruised in a dodgeball game, it leads to the game being banned...and then instantly replaced with [[TitleDrop the titular titular]] "Big Baby Ball", which is like dodgeball, but it's Adam versus literally the entire rest of the class. Later, after Beverly promises not to intrude on school grounds for a year in exchange for getting the apologetic Mr. Meller's job back, she bothers the principle at his house.
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'''A Plot:''' Beverly intervenes after Mr. Meller singles Adam out during a game.//
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'''B Plot:''' Barry can't handle it when Erica bests him at a new board game: Trivial Pursuit.
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* AlwaysSecondBest: Barry has an outburst along these lines after losing at "Barry-opoly", saying that he knows Erica is better at him when it comes to things like intelligence, and game night helped him feel like he's still better at something.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Erica does this literally, beating Barry in the "Barry-opoly" game he made and heavily rigged in his own favor after repeated losses at Trivial Pursuit.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Because his mother made a fuss about dodgeball (which Adam didn't even want her to), gym teacher Rick Meller gets the entire class to throw balls at him in the next class. He later apologizes for singling Adam out, saying that he was misguided in his attempt to help prepare Adam for the harshness of life.
* ExactWords: First, when Beverly first protests about Adam getting bruised in a dodgeball game, it leads to the game being banned...and then instantly replaced with the titular "Big Baby Ball", which is like dodgeball, but it's Adam versus literally the entire rest of the class. Later, after Beverly promises not to intrude on school grounds for a year in exchange for getting the apologetic Mr. Meller's job back, she bothers the principle at his house.
* FixingTheGame: Barry attempts this after losing his first Trivial Pursuit game, having read all of the answers in advance and trying to stack the trivia cards to his advantage. Later, after Barry's outburst of feeling like he's AlwaysSecondBest, Erica decides "he needs a win" and fixes a Trivial Pursuit game in his favor, by secretly asking him questions from the Junior edition.
* RealityEnsues: Mr. Meller's "Big Baby Ball" stint, coupled with Beverly's further complaining, leads to him being fired. At least, until he makes amends to the Goldbergs.
* ThrowingTheFight: The credits gag has Beverly intentionally losing to Barry at "Barry-opoly", copying Erica's earlier statement that "he needed a win".

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