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* OneSteveLimit: Averted as, in possibly a direct reference to this trope, all of Barry's exes are either now married to or dating a guy named Steve (or Stephan).

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* OneSteveLimit: Averted as, in possibly a direct reference to this trope, all of Barry's exes are either now married to or dating a guy named Steve (or Stephan).(nick)named Steve.
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'''A Plot:''' Barry comes face-to-face with his ex-girlfriends and their new boyfriends during Erica and Geoff's joint bachelor/bachelorette party.

'''B Plot:''' Adam intervenes when Lou Schwartz takes over the planning of the wedding video.

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'''A Plot:''' Barry comes face-to-face with his ex-girlfriends and their perfect new boyfriends during Erica and Geoff's joint bachelor/bachelorette party.

'''B Plot:''' Adam intervenes when Lou Schwartz takes over the planning of the wedding video.video and the battle of wills between Lou and Beverly escalates.
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He's not a Steve, so not "other".


* InsecureLoveInterest: Initially, Joanne's worried that Barry gets competitive with the other Steves because he still has feelings for his exes. He later admits he's just worried that, if he doesn't impress Joanne, she'll end up leaving him for a Steve of her own.

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* InsecureLoveInterest: Initially, Joanne's worried that Barry gets competitive with the other Steves because he still has feelings for his exes. He later admits he's just worried that, if he doesn't impress Joanne, she'll end up leaving him for a Steve of her own.
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It was Joanne who called him Stevie Stevenson


* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Feeling intimidated by how successful the various Stevens are, Barry decides to challenge them all to activities he considers himself good at. He loses every single event, not even being a better rapper than Dr. Stevenson.

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* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Feeling intimidated by how successful the various Stevens Steves are, Barry decides to challenge them all to activities he considers himself good at. He loses every single event, not even being a better rapper than Dr. Stevenson.Stephens.



* RepetitiveName: One of Barry's exes is now married to a doctor named Steven Stevenson.

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* RepetitiveName: One of Barry's exes is now married to a doctor named Steven Stevenson.Stephen Stephens.
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* LanguageBarrier: Stefan can only speak two words of English, but Lainey insists that they communicate in "other ways", never actually explaining what they are.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted as, in possibly a direct reference to this trope, all of Barry's exes are either now married to or dating a guy named Steve (or Stefan).

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* LanguageBarrier: Stefan Stephan can only speak two words of English, but Lainey insists that they communicate in "other ways", never actually explaining what they are.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted as, in possibly a direct reference to this trope, all of Barry's exes are either now married to or dating a guy named Steve (or Stefan).Stephan).
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* LanguageBarrier: Stefan can only speak two words of English, but Lainey insists that they communicate in "other ways", never actually explaining what they are.



* RepetitiveName: One of Barry's exes is now married to a doctor named Steven Stevenson.

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* RepetitiveName: One of Barry's exes is now married to a doctor named Steven Stevenson.Stevenson.
* SnipeHunt: Lou tries to distract Adam with these while working on the wedding video, such as having him fetch dry cleaning without a ticket (or the dry cleaner's address), so he won't notice how they're not using any footage of the Goldbergs.
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* InsecureLoveInterest: Initially, Joanne's worried that Barry gets competitive with the other Steves because he still has feelings for his exes. But he later admits he's just worried that, if he doesn't impress Joanne, she'll end up leaving him for a Steve of her own.

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* InsecureLoveInterest: Initially, Joanne's worried that Barry gets competitive with the other Steves because he still has feelings for his exes. But he He later admits he's just worried that, if he doesn't impress Joanne, she'll end up leaving him for a Steve of her own.



* OneSteveLimit: Averted as, in possibly as a direct reference to this trope, all of Barry's exes are either now married to or dating a guy named Steve (or Stefan).

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* OneSteveLimit: Averted as, in possibly as a direct reference to this trope, all of Barry's exes are either now married to or dating a guy named Steve (or Stefan).

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* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Feeling intimidated by how successful the various Stevens are, Barry decides to challenge them all to activities he considers himself good at. He loses every single event, not even being a better rapper than Dr. Stevenson.



* ItsAllAboutMe: Lou is furious that the announcement Beverly sent to the local newspaper about their children's upcoming wedding only lists him and Linda as "L. & L. Schwartz" while also stating Beverly's full name and all of her accomplishments, and includes a photo of her instead of Erica and Geoff. Lou tries to get revenge by making the wedding video focus on his family, intentionally omitting everything about the Goldbergs until Adam (who was trying not to get involved in order to spend time with Brea) learns about this and decides to interfere.

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* EscalatingWar: Lou tries to get revenge for being mostly omitted from the wedding announcement by making the wedding video focus on the Schwartz family, intentionally omitting everything about the Goldbergs. Adam reports this to Beverly, who decides to get revenge by messing with the seating arrangements so all of the Schwartz family has to eat in either the parking lot or a freight elevator. They nearly vow to escalate further and ruin the entire wedding for each other's family until the two Adam Goldbergs convince them to come together for Erica and Geoff.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Initially, Joanne's worried that Barry gets competitive with the other Steves because he still has feelings for his exes. But he later admits he's just worried that, if he doesn't impress Joanne, she'll end up leaving him for a Steve of her own.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Lou is furious that the announcement Beverly sent to the local newspaper about their children's upcoming wedding only lists him and Linda as "L. & L. Schwartz" while also stating Beverly's full name and all of her accomplishments, and includes a photo of her instead of Erica and Geoff. In the end, it turns out that Beverly was just worried that she wouldn't shine as brightly as accomplished doctor Lou tries to get revenge by making Schwartz if she didn't put the wedding video focus spotlight on his family, intentionally omitting everything about the Goldbergs until Adam (who was trying not to get involved in order to spend time with Brea) learns about this and decides to interfere.herself.



* RepetitiveName: One of Barry's exes is now married to a man named Dr. Steven Stevenson.

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* RepetitiveName: One of Barry's exes is now married to a man doctor named Dr. Steven Stevenson.
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* TheBusCameBack: The other Adam Goldberg makes an appearance, having come back to town after a failed career in Hollywood and requested by Lou to help produce the wedding video.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Lou is furious that the announcement Beverly sent to the local newspaper about their children's upcoming wedding only lists him and Linda as "L. & L. Schwartz" while also stating Beverly's full name and all of her accomplishments, and includes a photo of her instead of Erica and Geoff. Lou tries to get revenge by making the wedding video focus on his family, intentionally omitting everything about the Goldbergs until Adam (who was trying not to get involved in order to spend time with Brea) learns about this and decides to interfere.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted as, in possibly as a direct reference to this trope, all of Barry's exes are either now married to or dating a guy named Steve (or Stefan).
* RepetitiveName: One of Barry's exes is now married to a man named Dr. Steven Stevenson.
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'''A Plot:''' Barry comes face-to-face with his ex-girlfriends and their new boyfriends during Erica and Geoff's joint bachelor/bachelorette party.

'''B Plot:''' Adam intervenes when Lou Schwartz takes over the planning of the wedding video.
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