On TV, teachers are comedically jaded. That's not how I saw them.
I've never made a show that goes right on the air and is perfect. People don't remember, but the original 'Goldbergs' pilot was poorly received, and I had to retool that for ABC, where it eventually became a hit.
Prior to 'The Goldbergs,' I rarely got good reviews on anything I've done.
Some of my movies hold the bottom rankings on Rotten Tomatoes.
My favorite thing to do as a kid was pretend I was in the opening credits of a sitcom. As the theme song would play, I'd look up at the imaginary camera and smile as my name would flash on the screen.
Singing karaoke is my worst nightmare. But in the car, I rock out to anything Bon Jovi or Beastie Boys.
Being from Philadelphia, 'Parents Just Don't Understand' was a big deal - I have audio of my brother and me singing that song.
I'm envious of 'Glee' - artists turned their libraries over for free because they knew it would lead to album sales.
It's very complicated to literally put your family on TV.
If I don't call my mom back, she'll go on Twitter and say, 'Adam hasn't called me. I'm worried about him,' and strangers will say, 'You're horrible. You go call your mom right now!' It's very complicated.
All of my family members have had moments where they're upset with me because I'll cavalierly write a story just to be funny.
'Afterlife With Archie' - they're doing a great job.
If I called my kids a moron, I think it would traumatize them. I don't think they even know what the word is.
There was kind of a no-nonsense parenting style that my parents had that was true of the time. Everything now... there are books, and there are websites, and there are blogs, and you're reading, and there's research. We're such an interconnected world now, and half the stuff they did was pretty terrible, but we somehow turned out fine.
I am a Gobot junkie, and I pitched the Gobots movie as an animated movie a few years ago, and we're trying to work something out now that the rights are cleared. But that's my dream project, besides 'The Goldbergs' - doing a Gobots movie.
One of my favorite things was I got to work with Avi Arad on a movie for Sony, and we don't realize this, but he's the reason toys were sold off of cartoons, more or less. He created the Gobots!
In our house, there was a lot of yelling. It was everyone walking in on each other and very few boundaries.
Negative attention was better than no attention.
Queen is my all-time favorite band in history. I was an obsessive growing up after I discovered them at 10 at summer camp.
My rap name as a kid was Big Tasty.
