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Brady Bunch Marathon!!!
Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:49 pm
by Yankeegirl
Ok... I have been suckered into watching the Brady Bunch marathon... Looking back, I cant believe how goofy that show really was!!!
Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:55 pm
by Miss Mary
Yeah, we watched a few and it was really corny at times. I watched it back then, drooling over Greg Brady. I used to just hate Marcia! Liking Jan best (of the girls).
We watched the one where they couldn't decide what to do with all their S & H green stamps. A row boat or a sewing machine. The plot was so simple. Boys vs girls! And in the end do you know what they got? A second TV. My daughter Laura cracked up and I said well that was a big deal back then - a second TV was like getting a new pool today or something. You didn't have to share just one TV, for 9 people!!!!
Here's what I think of when I watch it - they rarely mentioned the boys real mother and the girls real dad. They were just one big blended family and it looked way too easy. Definitely not real life. And you can't help but remember that Robert Reed died young and was gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that. You just assumed since he played the role of dad so well, he was probably married with kids of his own. Please know I mean that comment with utmost respect. RIP Mr. Reed.
Mary
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:57 am
by Yankeegirl
Totally agree with ya.. I wish I could have a house lile that and a maid and all their problems!! i remember those green stamps from when I was a kid!! Still though I wonder... a house that big, only 4 bedrooms? and one bath?
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:34 am
by coriolis
Marsha Marsha Marsha!
or is it Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!!!
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:38 am
by j
Not to mention, the Maid wasn't Mexican -- no disrespect intended.
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:02 pm
by Miss Mary
It was Marcia, Marcia, Marcia Ed......I can just hear Jan saying it too! Meanwhile little Cindy (I always want to add loohoo) wasn't jealous a bit, b/c she was the youngest. Only Jan was. You just felt for Jan (or I did!).
Alice was the best live in maid, of all of them. If you'll recall, several shows had them back then. You had Aunt Bea on Andy Griffith (but she was family, although Alice became like family), Uncle Charlie on My Three Sons and before him, Bub, Mr. French on Family Affair, Mrs. Livingston on the Courtship of Eddie's Father, etc. Usually one parent was deceased. How did the story go on the Brady Bunch? Mike and the boys were so used to Alice, and Carol needed all the help she could get, they ended up keeping her?
Ah, if life were this simple and easy!
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:40 pm
by george_r_1961
The Brady Bunch...The Brady Bunch..and thats the way they all became the Brady Bunch!!!!!
Sorry..this thread brought make memories..hadda do that
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:54 pm
by Josephine96
Marcia Marcia Marcia
I remember Nick at Nite or TV Land doing the reruns.. It just so happens Marcia Brady was my favorite lol..
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:52 pm
by CajunMama
Josephine96 wrote:Marcia Marcia Marcia
I remember Nick at Nite or TV Land doing the reruns.. It just so happens Marcia Brady was my favorite lol..
HA! I remember watching the original! No nick at nite or tv land for me!
Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:28 am
by Audrey2Katrina
Is this coming from WPIV in Vermont? Michael Harris producer??
A2K
Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:58 am
by Kim_in_MN
CajunMama wrote:Josephine96 wrote:Marcia Marcia Marcia
I remember Nick at Nite or TV Land doing the reruns.. It just so happens Marcia Brady was my favorite lol..
HA! I remember watching the original! No nick at nite or tv land for me!
I remember watching it every day after school - my kids can't believe that that was the only thing on for a kid to watch in those days at 3:30 (and either right before or after the BB was Gilligan
). Unless I wanted to watch Mr. Roger's Neighborhood; and depending on which BB episode it was, that was sometimes the choice.
Kim