It's amazing this show is still on the air. Many, many years ago it was funny, but it's been out of ideas forever. It just drags on incessantly, scraping the bottom of the barrel for jokes.
Considering they milked beloved George Segal's actual death for several episodes, going back to the same well with a fake death of Murray (who obviously is gone from the show for very different reasons) is truly desperate. It's a pathetic attempt to get people to care about leaden dialogue and dated storylines. I won't get into the show caving to pressure, but it is funny they had to fire Garlin yet some episodes are all Bev incest jokes. That's apparently okay for a "family" show though.
I saw one review blaming Adam Goldberg (show creator, not the character) for the current quality of the show---well, he's been gone for years. So it's not his fault that the writing and acting are so awful.
One thing is clear from the past two seasons----giving more dialogue to Pop Pop (once-great Judd Hirsch, now barely able to deliver lines), Bill Lewis (Koechner is awful), or Geoff is not the way to save the show.
Another comment said it was good the characters stay the same and don't grow. Well, having aged Barry seemingly in college forever and back living at home, Adam going to NYU but no, back at home, Erica and Geoff married and having a baby and gee, back at home...just zero-effort writing or creativity. The same situations for the 50th time.
At least we have another season of bad acting and mom-son incest jokes to look forward to. The money grab of all money grabs.