Goldberg Variations

You may have seen ads for this new show, The Goldbergs, which is set during the 1980's.  I can just see the meeting where they came up with that premise:

"Nice idea, but I'm not sure the entire decade of the 1980's offers us enough clichés to sustain an entire sitcom."
"We could make them Jewish?"
"That should do it."

But the reason I'm sceptical is that the show violates the Two Decade Rule of Televised Nostalgia:

Show	Set in	Started in
That 70's Show	90's	70's
The Wonder Years	60's	80's
Happy Days	50's	70's
Hogan's Heroes	40's	60's

Okay, Hogan's Heroes is pushing it, but my point is that we should have moved on to 90's nostalgia by now.  There was also a That 80's Show, which debuted in the 2000's, thus maintaining the pattern.  But it was here and gone faster than KITT solving a Rubik's Cube so you may not remember it.  I guess that's why the networks figure they can take a pastel-emblazoned mulligan.

The 80's were a funny decade, so you should be able to make a show about it.  Say, thirty-something boomer former hippies running a BMW dealership.  And their kid interns for Atari.  And a new wave band lives next door.

On second thought, just show Family Ties reruns.