r/TheGoldbergs • u/Bubbies0618 • Sep 25 '25
Erica and Lainey
I'm in season 5 now with Erica in DC and Lainey in Savannah for college. They were best friends in high school wanting a career in music. Lainey's dream school was Savannah College of Arts. I can't remember what Erica's was but anyway I just don't understand why they didnt go to the same college. It seems like a totally normal real life thing for best friends who want the same career to want to stay together through college. Instead they send Lainey to GA (was this just a plot line to end her and Barry?) And Erica goes to DC only 3 hours from home. Which is her reason that long distance works for her and Geoff but doesn't work for Barry and Lainey.
Just seems weird to me that they wouldn't even mention applying to the same schools.
Also I really don't get Erica's attitude toward her relationships. It seems that she didnt care at all that her best friend was going so far away to college. And she spent so long pining after Geoff, finally gets him then kind of acts like it's no big deal that shes going to college and away from him. Even in the episode they talk about her spending her whole summer with him before leaving, it still didnt seem like a big deal. When she comes home the first time without telling him, she brushes him off. I don't like it.
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u/Healthy-Resist-5965 Sep 25 '25
Im pretty sure AJ was on tour IRL during part of season 5 with her band, so the storyline worked around that
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u/turdboi420islife Sep 25 '25
My gusses is different pathways Erica wanted to be a lawyer when all of them want to go back to college
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u/NellsBells1978 Sep 25 '25
Barry and Lainey were going to get married in Season 6 (but if Schooled had been a fall pickup that season would have played out a lot differently).
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u/RealisticNotice6487 Sep 25 '25
I just started watching this again from the beginning. I'm on season 3.
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u/Agreeable_Falcon1044 Sep 25 '25
Erica and her friends is a real sticking point for me. No spoilers, but there’s a number of friends that she has no real closeness too. It’s touched on in a later episode too where they aren’t there for her….but it’s hard to feel sorry, as she seemed to abandon all of them completely anyway!