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Plot; Murray Goldberg attempts to bond with his teenage daughter while wife Beverly struggles to let youngest son Adam begin to make decisions for himself.

Like the pilot episode, the setting is mostly window dressing and it rarely shoves "Hey, we're in the 80s!" in your face. The time informs the story in more subtle ways. As we see patriarch Murray dealing with his teenage daughter, we can't help but compare her teenage struggles to those of a contemporary teen, with the added complications brought on by technology and cultural shifts. But whether it's a father struggling to connect with his oldest daughter who is no longer his "peanut", the middle son trying to find his place or the mom accepting that her youngest no longer needs her to do everything for him, The Goldbergs tackles those still universal family struggles with humorous touch.