While The Goldbergs season 10 finale won’t have time to answer all the family sitcom’s lingering mysteries, the series does have a chance to wrap up one unfinished plot. Erica’s character arc in The Goldbergs hasn’t been overly consistent. When the nostalgic ‘80s-set sitcom began she was a popular high school student, but after graduation, Erica cycled through a series of potential jobs without settling on any specific vocation. At different points, Erica has been enrolled in college, a singer in a band, a prospective law student, and a full-time parent.

While The Goldbergs season 10 clarified Erica's choice about not pursuing law school, the sitcom still hasn’t explained what the character ended up doing after the ‘80s ended. Fortunately, The Goldbergs season 10 finale can fix this. This episode will also act as The Goldbergs series finale as the show was canceled in 2023. The Goldbergs season 10 opened with the offscreen death of Jeff Garlin’s Murray and will likely wrap up by looking ahead to Adam’s New York future, but the show shouldn’t forget one unsolved Erica mystery in the process.

The Goldbergs Should Address Erica and Lainey’s Band

Erica, Barry and Adam in The Goldbergs

It is not yet clear whether Erica and Lainey’s band The Dropouts ever got back together. The band briefly reunited in The Goldbergs spinoff Schooled, but Lainey was a full-time teacher at that point and the fate of their third member Erica C. was not clarified in the outing. Since The Goldbergs brought back Barry’s exes for the penultimate episode, it would make sense for the show’s series finale to bring back Erica’s most promising potential career too. Erica was passionate about her band and their music and, while she is happy as a stay-at-home mother in the late ‘80s, there is no reason she couldn’t revisit The Dropouts.

Unlike a lot of sitcom finales, The Goldbergs season 10’s cancelation was not a last-minute surprise. As such, the creators of The Goldbergs have an opportunity to give the sitcom a fitting ending. The Goldbergs season 10 finale should capitalize on this chance by confirming whether Erica and the Dropouts ever got back together later in life. While The Goldbergs is loosely based on the real-life family of creator Adam Goldberg, the fact that Erica’s character was created for the series gives the showrunners creative freedom when it comes to her fate.

The Dropouts Could Also Clarify The Goldbergs Barry/Lainey Future

The Goldbergs Lainey season 10 finale

While The Goldbergs season 10’s Murray backstory arrived too late to make much of an impact, the series still has time to answer not one, but two burning mysteries in the series finale. By answering whether Erica’s band The Dropouts got back together for good when Erica and Lainey were older, The Goldbergs season 10 finale could also tell viewers if Barry ended up with Lainey. While Barry is currently dating Joanne Schwartz, Schooled depicted him as a single man in the ‘90s. This means that this relationship will eventually end, and The Goldbergs season 10 finale could confirm his romantic fate by bringing up Lainey's future via Erica’s band.