Same here. Show reminds me of my childhood. I missed the Star Wars episode last season and it has not replayed yet. I think Barry loves that rugby shirt. He has worn it in the beginning of every episode this season.
They're on season 4 now. The whole episode was how the special was so bad that Adam lost his childlike wonder and started looking at everything he loved with adult eyes. The ending got me. Like tears got me, and I never cry at anything.
Cool, thanks. I'll try to find it online somewhere.
The show does compress the timeline of pop culture stuff--like the Holiday Special, in this instance--to fit the TV character Adam's childhood. I did notice that in a few episodes, that pop culture stuff was happening in the show's timeline, askew from when that stuff happened in the real-world timeline. But that's okay. It's a TV show. And the examples, at least the ones I saw, were not too far out of whack with reality's timeline.
The Wook
Cool, thanks. I'll try to find it online somewhere.
The show does compress the timeline of pop culture stuff--like the Holiday Special, in this instance--to fit the TV character Adam's childhood. I did notice that in a few episodes, that pop culture stuff was happening in the show's timeline, askew from when that stuff happened in the real-world timeline. But that's okay. It's a TV show. And the examples, at least the ones I saw, were not too far out of whack with reality's timeline.
The Wook
Adam buys a "black market" vhs of the Holiday special (drug deal style), the guy selling (Johnny Atkins) mentions how it had never been aired since 1978. This particular episode takes place sometime after 1986 since his pop-pop takes him to see Howard the Duck to help get his "childhood wonder" back. How could it be bad, it's "George Lucas, written by the writer of Temple of Doom and has the girl from Back to the Future" :lol
I love hearing the local references as well. Like watching the Flyers on Prism, or hearing the Willow Grove mall mentioned
One of my coworkers is a relative of Adam's and Beverly Goldberg is very much like that. He mentioned at a recent funeral all he could hear was Beverly yapping away about my some Adam this and my son Adam that in the back the whole time
Also the Erica character is really an older brother Eric. Before they decided the series would be based more directly on Adam's family they had already cast and {shot a pilot?) with a female sibling and just went with it
Also, if you notice in hos room he has the "Revenge of the Jedi" poster. I thought that was a pretty cool nod to geekdom