–Erica’s main catchphrase
Erica Coolidge is Erica Goldberg’s former roommate, she was roommates with her for most of Season 5. Erica and Valley Erica both decide to drop out and form a band along with Erica’s best friend, Lainey Lewis, a band called The Dropouts. Their first gig was at Geoff & Barry’s senior prom.
History[]
Valley Erica is introduced as Erica Goldberg’s new roommate, in the first episode of Season 5, “Weird Science”.
In the episode, “The Scrunchie Rule”, Valley Erica begins to crush on Erica Goldberg’s brother, Barry Goldberg, as he is her out of town guest. She then proceeds to invite, Geoff, Lainey, the JTP, as well as Johnny Atkins and Carla from their school, as their out-of-town guests and things end up out of control, as soon as everyone patches things out, they all party, and from then on, Lainey, Barry, Geoff, Erica Goldberg, and Erica Coolidge become close friends, throughout the remainder of Season 5.
In the episode “The Opportunity of a Lifetime”, while Erica Goldberg’s best friend, Lainey Lewis, is visiting, all 3 of them are stressing about the cons of college. They then all have an idea of dropping out of college and forming a band.
In “Let's Val Kilmer This Car”, they earn their first gig, at Barry & Geoff’s senior prom, which Barry is banned from, leaving him on the football field outside of the school, and Lainey rushing out there to get one dance with him, which leads to him bringing up a question about marrying him, which turns into Lainey accepting his sudden marriage proposal, and while they’re playing, Barry runs in with Lainey, and yells, “WE’RE GETTING MARRIED!”
In the Season 7 episode A Fish Story, Valley Erica appears in a montage of people Erica is auditioning for her own college acapela group. Since Erica left the band and rejoined college, other Erica had nowhere to go and came to ask for money not to sing, as she had money trouble.
In the Season 9 episode The Rose-Kissy Thing, Erica Goldberg calls Erica in order to see if she available to help plan her wedding activities. However, she is very busy since moving to Scotsdale and having tripplets (named Michael, Glen and Dustin). Making her unavailable to help before Erica could even ask. She later returns to help Erica choose a wedding dress.