Funny / The Goldbergs

General

• Barry's over-the-top facial expressions.
• Whenever Beverly hears something that she doesn't like, regarding her or her family, and she gets that look on her face, you know it's not going to be pretty.
• Barry running.

Season One

The Circle Of Driving

• The captions showing the audience how to speak "Murray." (which only happens in this episode, by the way)
• Murray demands Barry to get out of his car, but when Beverly arrives, he makes a 180 and demands to be let into the car. And the icing on the cake:
  Murray: Who called her?!
  Adult!Adam: (while Young!Adam is filming) I'll give you a hint... it was me.

Who Are You Going to Telephone?

• Pops' butchering of this iconic line:
  Pops: Who you gonna telephone? The ghost fellas!

Call Me When You Get There

• Murray's half-assed reassurance when Beverly declares that "[she] has failed as a mother":
  Murray: You're good at other things.
• Murray's increasing fury at missing the World Series to look for Barry, while trying to avoid game spoilers.
• Barry's downright pitiful attempts to find a phone. Special mention goes to the moment he finally finds one... only to find that the line’s been cut. Cue Big "NO!".
• Adam accidentally seeing under Pop's robe when helping him get off the floor.
  Adam: What did I just see? It was like a Robin's nest!

You're Under Foot

• Pop's commercial he made for the Ottoman Empire furniture store way back in the day, which is extremely outdated by the 1980s.
  Pops: Can you buy on credit? You bet! (beat) With your husband's signature, of course.

You Opened the Door

• The voice Murray makes when using the Fraggle puppet.

For Your Own Good

• Barry's freak-out at the mailbox when his football phone doesn't arrive, along with Adam telling J.C. Spink he is clinically insane. Given that the scene ends with Barry smacking the mailbox with a hockey stick, he might not be entirely wrong...
• Beverly and Murray's escalating fight, which the two either getting rid or replacing objects around the house they use everyday.
• After Barry is kicked of the bus, his hypercolor shirt is full of hand prints.
• The rest of the bus mockingly waving Barry goodbye, along with Tyler flipping him the bird.

The Presidents Fitness Test

• Erica has her French pen pal, Fanny, over to visit which prompts Barry to flirt with her with no success. Contributing to this is Erica "translating" what Barry, who has no understanding of the French language, wants to say into completely embarrassing things. To top it off, he even raps about how he wets the bed

Season Two

I Rode a Hoverboard

• The Goldbergs discuss going to a new Chinese restaurant in town.
  Adam: Dave Kim's family owns that place. Ooh, maybe they can score us some free French fries.
  Barry: Stupid, they're Chinese fries.

Happy Mom, Happy Life

• After she looses Adam and Dana's "baby" in the park, Beverly's panicking that without prior context, makes her seem like a nut.
  Beverly: My baby.(beat) Somebody stole my baby! Well, not real baby Fake baby. It's a toy. Somebody stole my toy! I'm gonna get attitude from my son's pretend wife! Can someone call the police? (beat) Or Toys "R" Us? I don't [Bleep] know anymore!

Just Say No

• Real Life Barry's Anti-Drug PSA, shown at the end of the episode.
  Real Life Barry: Here we have drugs.
  Caption: (pointing to the "drug") This is a tampon.

Season Three

Boy Barry

• From the stinger, Adam forges a letter from Chuck Norris to Barry. As Barry reads it, he realizes it's a fake when he sees Chuck signing off with "Godspeed, Douche-nozzle". The fact that this is Chuck Norris himself narrating the letter makes it even funnier.
  Adam: So what's it say, Douche-nozzle?
  Barry: (furious) It says I should kick your ass.

Lainey Loves Lionel

• Barry's attempts at making a clay bust of Lainey, inspired by the video for Lionel Richie's "Hello". Each one is more horrifyingly awful than the last. Having a clip of "Hello" playing for each reveal is the icing on the cake.
• Geoff's repeated attempts to woo Erica, especially this awkward phrasing of "Valentine's Day":
  Geoff: Guess who's all about V.D. today. (beat) Wait. That sounded really bad.
• At the end of the episode, it is revealed Barry brought his clay sculptures home as they were scaring the younger students. Beverly, thinking they are sculptures of her, tells Barry she loves them. When Erica tells her that they were supposed to be Lainey, Beverly immediately tells Barry to throw them away.

Weird Al

• Adam's song poking fun at Barry, along with Barry's reaction:
  Adam: Everybody have fun tonight my brother Barry is a Wang tonight
  Barry: Barry's gonna kick your ass tonight (Barry chases Adam upstairs)
  • Adam ends up sending Weird Al a demo of his song. Weird Al reacts:
  Weird Al: Who is this "Barry?" This song offers no context! Amateurs!

12 Tapes for a Penny

• The incredibly awkward conversation between Barry and Bill Lewis:
  Barry: I respect your foxy daughter. No, not foxy She's an uggo to me. Not everyone else. They all think she has an awesome, plump butt.
  Bill: What the [Bleep] man?
• Dave Kim's growing paranoia that Columbia House is out to get him after he scammed the company, with him even accusing a customer at his job of being a Columbia House agent.

"Dungeons and Dragons, Anyone?

• The mere idea of playing Dungeons & Dragons in a gym class.
• When Adam is teaching the jocks how to play D&D, they want their character to "make out" with a Dryad. Adam reluctantly allows them to do so.

Smothers' Day

• Adam's video he made to convince Murray to take him to Space Camp, with Pops dressed as an alien in one scene. Afterwards we see Pops still in the alien costume, sipping a martini.
• Barry and Erica destroying the kitchen trying to make Beverly breakfast, all set to "Greatest Love Of All" by Whitney Houston.
• The scene with the ALF puppet.
  "AND IT'S Star Wars and STAR TREK!"

Season Four

Deadheads

• After Adam drops an F-bomb and he tells Beverly he learned his filthy language from her, she denies that she ever swears. Cue a compilation of nearly every F-bomb that she had dropped in the show up to that point.

Season Five

Dinner With The Goldbergs

• Beverly analyzing every table until she finds one up to her standards.
• Beverly filling her purse full of dinner rolls, then asking the waiter for more.
• Murray repeatedly reaching for the rolls, only for Beverly to smack his hand away.
• In order to save money, Murray doing things such as having a "communal soda" and telling the waiter that it's his "twins" Geoff and Erica's birthday in order to get free cake. Murray later scolds Geoff and Erica for acting romantic to each other as he'd already told the waiter that they're twins.

Hail Barry

• Beverly's terrible bedazzled jackets, or "Bev Wear" as she calls them, that she makes and hopes to sell on the QVC.

The Scrunchie Rule

• Beverly copes with the fact she has an empty house free of her kids by smothering and babying the Mellor brothers. Throughout the episode, Coaches Rick and Nick start to dress and act like Barry and Erica, respectively.
  • The funniest part of this? The huge and muscular Coach Nick wearing Erica's pink house-coat.

Spaceballs

• Beverly's face when Erica tells her she is dropping out of college.

Season Six

Mister Knifey-Hands

• Beverly's entire Nightmare Sequence dealing with Freddy Krueger, played by none other than Robert Englund himself.
  • After she gets caught, Beverly admits she's already living her worst nightmare which causes Freddy to stop and comment he thought he was doing a good job scaring the shit out of her. Beverly admits he's doing great, but she's upset about how she treated Adam and how he wished she wasn't his mother.
    Freddy Krueger: Aw geez, that's an awful thing to say. ...IMA KILL 'IM!
    Beverly (annoyed): No. The more I think about it, I deserved what Adam said I was terrible to Jackie's parents.
    Freddy Krueger: Parents, who needs 'em? I never knew any of my fathers, and I turned out just fine!
    Beverly: I don't see how that applies to me.

8-Bit Goldbergs

• Overall, the meta-humor of Adam's game paralleling the development and reception of the TV series itself
  • Adam gender-flipping Erica to Eric in the game; which parallels how, in real life, Adam changed Eric into Erica for the series.
  • Barry requesting Adam to make his character less cooler, similar to this.

Mom Trumps Willow

• Adam's apology photo. Beverly is possibly traumatized, and denounces him as a freak.
  Beverly: *screams* WHAT THE F(bleep) IS THAT, MAN? […] Sweet Lord in Heaven, you look like a cursed doll! […] Adam. If you ever go to prison for something terrible, this is the picture they'll show!

The Mobile Game: Back to the 80s

• One of the weekend events features the arcade stage only with the theme of the cast being turned into The Legend of Zelda Lawyer Friendly expies, with a pixelized green tunic clad Adam named... Connect.
  Connect!Adam: Why does everyone keep calling me Connect?