GoldBee

GoldBee is the het ship between Adam Goldberg and Brea Bee from the The Goldbergs fandom.

Season Seven
Adam and Brea first meet in the season seven episode "Game Night". Brea is the most popular girl in school, and Adam decides that he has a chance with her after they're paired together as lab partners. However Brea's popular friends, like Johnny Atkins, are quick to crush Adam's dreams. He seeks help from the cool guidance counsellor, Joe Perott. Mr. Perott helps teach Adam how to fit in with the popular crowd, and he's soon hanging out with Brea and her friends. However, he comes to regret this when they get into trouble for smashing a stop sign with a baseball bat late at night. Adam sticks up to the popular kids and Brea shows relief; she agrees that most of their stunts are stupid.

Later, Adam finds out that Brea is planning on going to the Valentine's Skate with popular guy Andrew Gallery. Dana, Adam's ex and now close friend, has a crush on Andrew. Beverly offers to split up Brea and Andrew, which Dana gladly accepts. Adam, however, is less sure. In the end, he ends up getting to attend the skate with Brea. Still trying to impress Brea, Adam organizes a party at Dave Kim's house -- without Dave Kim's knowledge. When things get out of hand, Adam, Brea, and Dave Kim have to try and corral the party, with the help of Pops. By the end of the season, Adam and Brea are officially a couple. Beverly handles this poorly and tries to third wheel all of their dates. Annoyed at his mother's antics, Adam decides to stage a "fake-up". Beverly takes this even worse and storms to Brea's house to confront her. There she finds Adam and Brea, together, and discovers that Adam lied to her. He tells his mother that he needs his space in romantic relationships.

The pair end up agreeing to attend prom together, although Adam faces insecurity over their very different social statuses. He worries that Brea will be named Prom Queen and leave him for the Prom King. When Adam tells Beverly, she convinces the Principal to cancel prom. Adam manages to un-cancel prom, but the damage is already done. Brea is hurt that Adam doesn't trust her, and calls off their date. Adam sulks around the house on the night of prom, but Murray convinces him to go to the school and win Brea back. He arrives at the prom and confesses his feelings to Brea. She takes him back, and the pair share a dance and a kiss.

Fanon
GoldBee, much like many of Adam's other relationships, was moderately popular in the fandom. However, it paled greatly in comparison to the popularity of Gerica or Blainey. Many thought the relationship between Adam and Brea to be unrealistic, or that Adam was a bad boyfriend. It is also noted that Adam has had the most number of girlfriends throughout the years, and knowing that the real life Adam F. Goldberg did not marry the real life Brea Bee put some off from the ship as they saw it as a lost cause.

Most fans, however, liked the natural chemistry between Sadie Stanley and Sean Giambrone, the actors for Brea and Adam respectively. Some new fans were brought into the show because of GoldBee, as Sadie and Sean had previously acted together in the 2019 live action Kim Possible film.

GoldBee does not currently have any works on AO3 or Fanfiction.net.

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Trivia

 * Sadie Stanley and Sean Giambrone, the actors for Brea and Adam, previously appeared together in the DCOM Kim Possible as Kim and Ron Stoppable. Kim and Ron eventually end up dating in the final season of the animated series.