‘Livin' on a Prayer’
Season 1, Episode 23 - Aired May 13, 2014
When Murray's high school free throw record is broken, his old school invites him to attend a game as a guest of honor. After Beverly eventually talks a reluctant Murray into attending the banquet, he actually starts to enjoy reliving his glory days, until the crowd turns on him after an embarrassing basketball shot. Back at the Goldberg house, Barry tries to throw a house party to finally make a name for himself in high school. When the party looks to be a bust, Erica calls her friends to turn it around, but Barry soon realizes nobody at his epic party even knows who he is.
Quote from Barry
Murray: All right, all fixed.
Barry: Wow! Where did you learn how to do that?
Murray: Army.
Barry: What? Did you say army?
Quote from Murray
Erica: Dad, is this you and Lou Reed?
Murray: Yeah, we, uh, waited tables together.
Erica: What? Tell me more.
Murray: Eh, it was a whole thing.
Erica: Wait, come back. I want to know you!
Quote from Adam
Beverly: Oh, my God, Murray, you're not gonna believe it. I just got off the phone with your old high school. Your record has been broken.
Erica: Whoa, wait. Dad had a record in high school? What kind of record?
Adam: Chili! He loves chili. It's something to do with chili.
Beverly: True, but that's not it.
Quote from Murray
Beverly: Your dad set the record for most free throws in a row at Central High.
Barry: Like, in basketball? What are you talking about?
Murray: What can I say? We won state. I hit 79 free throws in a row. Uh, what do you want from me?
Quote from Adam
Beverly: Murray, the high school wants you to go back so they can honor you at the game Saturday night.
We get to stay downtown, and there's gonna be a banquet.
Adam: A banquet? That's the fanciest of all food parties!
Quote from Murray
Barry: What you gonna do? What you gonna do? Huh? Huh? What you gonna do? What you gonna do?
Murray: Not much more than what I'm doing right now.
Barry: I want you to show me what you got, free-throw king!
Murray: Are we, uh, done here yet?
Barry: No. You were clearly some type of popular high school god. Tell me what it was like.
Murray: I don't know. I, uh, dated a lot of girls. I went to parties. I got elected class president a few times. Lunch lady gave me free jell-o. Eh, the usual.
Quote from Barry
Barry: That's the opposite of my life. The lunch lady said I look like the warlord who burnt down her village.
Quote from Barry
Barry: 'Sup, Lexy Bloom? Ready to break the seal on this new yearbook, or what?
Lexy: Uh, sure.
Barry: "Have a bitchin' summer, Gustav"? I'm not the Swedish exchange student! I'm speaking English to you!
Quote from Erica
Barry: I've spent all year trying to make a name for myself, and Lexy Bloom still doesn't know who I am.
Erica: She's so lucky.
Quote from Lainey
Barry: If only there was a way to, like, have a casual get-together with the coolest kids from school, like, at our house, but without the formal, sit-down dinner.
Lainey: I think you're describing a party.