The Goldbergs Tackle The Death Of Optimus Prime On This Week's Episode

Posted by Autobot032 Jan 16, 2015 at 7:35am CST 67,383 views

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ABC's The Goldbergs is a love letter to show creator Adam F. Goldberg's childhood in the '80s and the decade itself. Because of Mr. Goldberg's love affair with the '80s and everything contained therein, our beloved Transformers have made a few appearances on the show and have even been a major part of the plot lines.

This week's episode just so happens to be one of those episodes and tackles the touchy subject of worrying about life and death, from a child's point of view. What better time to go see Transformers: The Movie?!

After watching the film with his best friend and hero, his grandfather Albert, Adam decides to film his own sequel to Transformers: The Movie and it's in this portion of the show that we really see just how much the thought of death impacts a child, and brings a poignancy to the episode. Also, it totally covers the death of Optimus Prime and speaks for an entire generation of kids (who are now adults) who sat there crying inside and out.

You can see the full episode over at ABC.com (if you have one of the cable systems they support) and here at Hulu.com

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Comment by TheCrookedMan Jan 16, 2015

Just FYI, the grandfather's name is Albert, better known as Pops. Murray is his father.

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Comment by padfoo Jan 16, 2015

I will have to check out this episode. I remember as a kid saying the equivalent of WTF is this, they can't be dead. This was my first real brush with death and coping with seeing characters I love die.... :-(

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Comment by Autobot032 Jan 16, 2015

TheCrookedMan wrote:Just FYI, the grandfather's name is Albert, better known as Pops. Murray is his father.

Ahh. Thank you! Corrected.

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Comment by TreyTable Jan 16, 2015

So how did the kid get a re-issue in 1985/ Short smoke stacks on Optimus.

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Comment by Autobot032 Jan 16, 2015

TreyTable wrote:So how did the kid get a re-issue in 1985/ Short smoke stacks on Optimus.

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Comment by robotmel Jan 16, 2015

I love The Goldbergs!

Im going to get on the download online streaming mission tonight for Season 2 to check this out!
Thanks for the heads up Cyberpath/Autobot32

This shot made me laugh! :lol:

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Comment by Optimum Supreme Jan 16, 2015

TreyTable wrote:So how did the kid get a re-issue in 1985/ Short smoke stacks on Optimus.

I'm more interested in how the real Adam Goldberg got a short stack Prime for his "vintage" home movie at the end, when he's rolling past Fort Max.

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Comment by Megatron Wolf Jan 16, 2015

i must be the only child of the 80s who wasnt effected by the deaths in the movie, dont know if it was because the reruns were on tv or the toys were still on shelves but i never saw what the big deal was. Now that im an adult i do but back then it just gave me an excuse to get more transformers. But anyway if the kid is so upset why doesnt he just go back in time & stop it? He obviously has a time machine cause hes playing with a reissue prime from the future.

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Comment by AutobotTrainer Jan 16, 2015

I think this is hilarious, and I will certainly be watching. One nitpick though...WRONG AUTOBOT SYMBOLS on the cardboard Optimus! Those are Bay-verse Autobot Shields. UGH.

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Comment by Sabrblade Jan 16, 2015

TreyTable wrote:So how did the kid get a re-issue in 1985/ Short smoke stacks on Optimus.

Same way his older brother played the 2007 rerecorded version of Stan Bush's "The Touch" back in season 1.

FWIW, the official time setting of this show is "the year 1980-something"

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Comment by bwDEPTHcharge Jan 17, 2015

I've seen a lot from this show and this episode was one of my favorites. Optimus prime- I cannot die because I am a bad@$$! Great episode

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Comment by chivesbot20 Jan 18, 2015

I've watched this show since it came out.Its very good and the episode with the transformers finally came.

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Comment by skywarp408 Feb 8, 2015

I'll have to check this out.

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Comment by NiteStar Jun 1, 2015

Haha, they just aired the rerun again tonight. Dude I was this kid yo..LOL :lol:

! minus the brother and sister.

But I used to re-enact every scene from every episode in my room and the living room and the kitchen and outside...LOL! Set up all transformers up and make all the sound effects and voices. Crazy!. #-o

Ive always loved this show ever since it came out because it was all about the 80's and I could always tell the transformers references too.
This episode was great though.
The only one inconsistency they mentioned in the show was that Transformers and G.I. Joe came on Saturday mornings and they did not in-fact. They were at the time called "after school cartoons". Everyday at 3 or 4 in the afternoon we'd have rock-blocks of cartoons and Transformers and G.I. Joe were among them. Remember cartoons were not aired 24/7 on 10 different channels like they are today.
I remember clearly hurrying to get home for new episodes everyday after school. They may have aired reruns on the weekends in various regions back in the day and I know they aired reruns all through the summertime for sure but the new episodes aired weekdays after school. I know...I was 6yrs going on 7rs old during G1 season 1.
And yes the '86 movie left me an emotional wreck in my seat at the movie theater too just like that kid. LOL
Transformers was my first love back then too.

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