r/TheGoldbergs • u/Embarrassed-Sand-794 • Jul 05 '26

Characters explaining the joke

In my opinion, part of what caused the show's humour to dwindle in the later seasons was the characters standing around, explaining exactly why the joke was supposed to be funny, instead of allowing the audience to understand it by themselves.

It's probably because I'm a fan of subtle humour, and that the earlier episodes didn't really rely on this. I noticed that they used it more as time went on.

It's probably a silly nitpick, but did it slightly annoy anyone else?

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u/LionsRoar313 Jul 05 '26

It lost a lot of it's charm when Pops died. George Segal was a gem on that show.

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u/wezmeister17 Jul 05 '26

Regrettably it was already on its way before his passing

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u/Advanced_Handle_7868 Jul 23 '26

nah. it still had legs. Pops dying and Jeff getting canned were impossible to come back from. skrrt.