
‘If You Build It’
Season 10, Episode 1 - Aired September 21, 2022
The Goldbergs are all under one roof again as they mourn the loss of their patriarch, Murray. As Beverly helps Erica and Geoff clear out room for a nursery, Barry and Adam are forced to share a bedroom.
Quote from Erica
Erica: Pop-Pop's right. This house has too many people and things, and we're supposed to just add another human being to this chaos?
Geoff: Oh, Erica, don't spin out.
Erica: It's all too much. Yesterday, I almost tripped over Barry's nunchucks.
Geoff: He leaves several pairs lying around "in case of ninja attack."
Erica: I can't live like this! We need to get rid of everything!
Pop-Pop: Starting with the neighbor lady in the door.
Virginia Kremp: So, Ben, you're... You're living here now? Is that something that's happening?
Geoff: Erica, you're ready to nest. "Nesting during pregnancy is the overwhelming desire to organize your home for the new baby." We've got to prepare our nest.
Erica: If by we, you mean me and my mom, then yes.
Geoff: I'm kind of a part of it.
Quote from Geoff
Erica: So, you'll help us organize the house and build our nest?
Beverly: Of course I will, because guess what? I'm suddenly nesting, too.
Geoff: Is there room for a gentleman bird?
Beverly: Geoff, you gotta stop making everything so weird. All right? Let's go.
Quote from Barry
Adult Adam: [v.o.] As my mom and sister were getting ready for a big clean, Barry was cleaning us out of my favorite breakfast food.
Adam: Did you nab the free toy inside my cereal?
Barry: Indeed. The early worm catches the cheap, plastic promotional coin purse.
Adam: You won't even enjoy it!
Barry: [chuckles] The knowledge that you can't is enjoyment enough.
Quote from Barry
Beverly: Big news, my special boys.
Adam: Barry's gonna move into an apartment near his medical school like a human adult?
Barry: I told you, I'm here to support our mother who lost her life partner.
Beverly: Aw.
Adam: No. You just forgot to fill out your housing forms.
Beverly: Aw.
Barry: Stop listening to my conversations with myself in the mirror.
Quote from Barry
Adult Adam: [v.o.] But I couldn't, because two men sharing a room soon regressed to two boys sharing a butt on a head.
Adam: Oh, no!
Adult Adam: Barry played all the hits like the atomic wedgie.
Adam: No, no!
Barry: Classics never go out of style! Jocks-y-gen mask!
Adam: No! No! No!
Adult Adam: So warm and unwelcome.
Barry: Breathe deeply.
Adam: No!
Quote from Adam
Adult Adam: Yep, everything was pure torture. Nothing was worse than his taste in movies.
Adam: What are you watching?
Barry: Field of Dreams. Finest sports movie ever made.
Adam: So much Costner. I can't live like this! Ugh!
Barry: Shut it.
Quote from Beverly
Adult Adam: [v.o.] While I was preparing to use Geoff's baby gift against Barry, my mom was showing off her gift for organizing.
Beverly: Okay, this is for Goodwill. Be sure to get a receipt for my taxes.
Virginia Kremp: No, Beverly, I came over to play Mahjong, not run errands. What... Is this my mixer? I've asked for this back several times. All my summer pies have been meringue-less!
Beverly: Just so you know, it was broken when you gave it to me.
Quote from Adam
Adult Adam: [v.o.] While my mom was taking steps to heal, I was ready to give Barry a taste of his own medicine.
Pop-Pop: The hell is this? I came down here to watch the Family Feud guy kiss moms and daughters.
Adam: I'm about to teach Barry a lesson. The other end of this monitor is under the couch in the den.
Pop-Pop: So is this gonna take one minute or two?
Adam: I'll walk you through every step.
Pop-Pop: That's not the answer to the question I asked.
Adam: [records] If you build it, he will come. [plays back] If you build it, he will come. [plays in the den] If you build it, he will come.
Barry: What was that?
Adam: Barry thinks he heard something, but he's not quite sure. [plays back] If you build it, he will come.
Barry: Mom?
Adam: It's gonna drive him insane.
Pop-Pop: If who builds what now?
Adam: No idea. I haven't watched the whole thing. It's a movie about corn and baseball.
Quote from Adam
Barry: Adam! Adam!
Adam: [speaks] And right on cue.
Barry: Stop! Stop everything! A mysterious voice is trying to send me a message, just like what happened to my body twin, Kevin Costner, in Field of Dreams!
Adam: That seems incredibly likely.
Barry: What do you think it means?
Adam: It clearly means you should spend all your energy on exploring it, and none at all on torturing me.
Barry: Right. Right.
Adam: And that is how you Field of Dreams someone.
Pop-Pop: I had a dream once, but now in my 80s, I sleep on the couch.
Quote from Barry
Barry: Gentlemen and Matt Bradley! Today we fulfill our destiny, to build a world-class Wiffle ball field in my childhood backyard!
Matt: Fun. Just for the love of the game?
Barry: That and for haunting reasons.
Andy: Good enough for me.
Naked Rob: I'm already here.
Adult Adam: [v.o.] And so the JTP went to work.
Barry: Get on it.
Adult Adam: Rose bushes were ripped out, grass was removed, and then sloppily placed in a different spot, and then mowed unnecessarily.
Barry: Get out the way!
Andy: Whoa! Whoa!
Barry: There was even a chainsaw involved. [chainsaw whirs] Who knows how to work this? Screw it! I'll figure it out as I go!