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I grew up watching this show religiously. My opinion is that it has NEVER jumped. I like the episodes when they were in middle and high school better than the first season. But by far Brady Bunch will always be a classic that can't be beat. Remember the one where Peter goes through puberty and they have a recording deal and his voice starts to change and Greg fits it into the song. Hilarious !
The Brady Bunch was what it was, I used to watch when I was in Junior High and would race home from school to watch it. We didnt have alot else to watch back then. TV has gotten alot more exciting through the years, but back then there was no swearing and programs as such were really corny. But when you were that age we all loved them.
as unrealistic as it was i happen to love the brady bunch. it is truly my favorite show in the world. however there were a few (minor) things that did bother me.
like for instance these kids were always drinking milk. it's one thing when you have a bunch of toddlers or kindergarteners running around, but not a group of teenagers and preteens.
and jan was really beautiful, almost beautiful as marcia, so why make her out to be the "ugly duckling" of the family. no one needs to be an "ugly duckling" of any family. this was another big beef i had with the brady movies that came out in 1996, the girl who played jan made the character out to be a complete nerd. i mean they they didn't do that sort of thing with the boys. though greg was the ladies man, they didn't make peter out to be the "ugly duckling". why do that to jan? just because she's a girl? double-standard, people!
and why were 12-to-15-year-old girls wearing such short skirts for? especially since you could see right up to their underwear at times. example #1: in the marcia gets braces episode at one point she's lying face down crying on her bed and she's got on this dark green dress and when she sits up to talk to her father, you get a breef shot of her panties. example #2: near the beginning of the episode where peter tapes the private conversations of the other kids, and jan and marcia are talking about boys, jan goes to sit next to marcia on the bed and her skirt is like freakishly short so when she goes to sit down you can see her panties!
in the davy jones episode, everyone keeps talking about the parents letting marcia dress as a bellboy in order to sneak into his hotel room....but how about davy just showing up out of the blue the same night she sneaks into the recording studio while he's recording? then he very coyly hints at wanting to take her to the prom...uh...okay...would you let your 14-year-old daughter go to her prom (or anywhere for that matter) alone with a man in his 20's? even if he is davy jones? especially if he is davy jones? and wasn't he married at the time? and how come in the tag, you don't see marcia, or davy, for the rest of the episode? hmmmmm?
and finally...the brady girls all did at least sort of resemble each other. yet, the brady boys looked nothing alike...especially peter, who had a dark complexion while greg had blue eyes and dark hair, but was sort of fare-skinned, and bobby had blue eyes as well as red hair.
despite these little blunders, i still love me some brady bunch.
like for instance these kids were always drinking milk. it's one thing when you have a bunch of toddlers or kindergarteners running around, but not a group of teenagers and preteens.
and jan was really beautiful, almost beautiful as marcia, so why make her out to be the "ugly duckling" of the family. no one needs to be an "ugly duckling" of any family. this was another big beef i had with the brady movies that came out in 1996, the girl who played jan made the character out to be a complete nerd. i mean they they didn't do that sort of thing with the boys. though greg was the ladies man, they didn't make peter out to be the "ugly duckling". why do that to jan? just because she's a girl? double-standard, people!
and why were 12-to-15-year-old girls wearing such short skirts for? especially since you could see right up to their underwear at times. example #1: in the marcia gets braces episode at one point she's lying face down crying on her bed and she's got on this dark green dress and when she sits up to talk to her father, you get a breef shot of her panties. example #2: near the beginning of the episode where peter tapes the private conversations of the other kids, and jan and marcia are talking about boys, jan goes to sit next to marcia on the bed and her skirt is like freakishly short so when she goes to sit down you can see her panties!
in the davy jones episode, everyone keeps talking about the parents letting marcia dress as a bellboy in order to sneak into his hotel room....but how about davy just showing up out of the blue the same night she sneaks into the recording studio while he's recording? then he very coyly hints at wanting to take her to the prom...uh...okay...would you let your 14-year-old daughter go to her prom (or anywhere for that matter) alone with a man in his 20's? even if he is davy jones? especially if he is davy jones? and wasn't he married at the time? and how come in the tag, you don't see marcia, or davy, for the rest of the episode? hmmmmm?
and finally...the brady girls all did at least sort of resemble each other. yet, the brady boys looked nothing alike...especially peter, who had a dark complexion while greg had blue eyes and dark hair, but was sort of fare-skinned, and bobby had blue eyes as well as red hair.
despite these little blunders, i still love me some brady bunch.
The first time the Brady Kids ever opened their mouth to sing is when the show jumped. The Partridge Family was much more popular than the Brady Bunch at the time and ABC thought the show needed to be more like the Partridge Family. The Brady Bunch was only a modest hit during its network run, but of course was huge in syndication. I always thought the kids drinking milk for every meal was kind of fake. Did the kids ever drink soda or tea? I thought the clothes and pajamas were pretty accurate for the time period. I wore the same style shirts as the Brady boys and me and all my friends wore pajamas although in real life I don't think kids always wear shoes and socks in the house especially in California and I don't think the Brady kids ever went without shoes.
Peter, Jan and Bobby always seemed like the most real kids to me. I agree Greg didn't seem like a real 1970s teen and Marcia was a little over the top. I thought Mike was very real in the first few seasons, but once he got the perm, he lost it.
Carol would have seem more real if they portrayed her as having more of a socialite type life. Alice's personality was real enough but I agree that except for her relationship with Sam, the rest of her lifestyle was probably the most unreal on the show.
As far as the boy's sleepwear, I just saw a kids sleepwear study at work from 1976 and it said 53% of boys between 12 and 17 slept in only their briefs while 4% wore pajamas with the rest being some other combination. 77% slept bare chested. So, I guess the pajamas were pretty fake for the 1970s.
Carol would have seem more real if they portrayed her as having more of a socialite type life. Alice's personality was real enough but I agree that except for her relationship with Sam, the rest of her lifestyle was probably the most unreal on the show.
As far as the boy's sleepwear, I just saw a kids sleepwear study at work from 1976 and it said 53% of boys between 12 and 17 slept in only their briefs while 4% wore pajamas with the rest being some other combination. 77% slept bare chested. So, I guess the pajamas were pretty fake for the 1970s.
Ryan, granted what you say may be correct, but the fakest of all had to be Alice! First off, why in the world do the Bradys even need a live-in housekeeper? Carol doesn't work. What does she do all day? Sit around and watch Alice clean? Who needs Alice??
Secondly, Alice is treated more like a family member than an employee of the family. I realize that some households may become more attached to a housekeeper than others, but jeez! Alice comes along on every family vacation and is always involved in everything the Bradys do. Does she have no family of her own? In one episode, we are introduced to her twin sister, but other than that, what gives with Alice?
She is an enigma. To me, she is the most transparently unrealistic of the Brady household.
Secondly, Alice is treated more like a family member than an employee of the family. I realize that some households may become more attached to a housekeeper than others, but jeez! Alice comes along on every family vacation and is always involved in everything the Bradys do. Does she have no family of her own? In one episode, we are introduced to her twin sister, but other than that, what gives with Alice?
She is an enigma. To me, she is the most transparently unrealistic of the Brady household.
I always found Peter and Bobby to be realistic, but Greg fake. Marcia and Jan to be real, but not Cindy and Carol to be more real than Mike.
Fakest show ever, jumped on day 1 but harmless not evil. I'd never thought about the pajama angle on tv before but you guys are right, I was born in 1964 and sleeping bare chested in just tighty whiteys was the standard sleep attire for boys in the 1970s.
I loved the Brady Bunch so much as a kid. I came from a family with 3 brothers and 1 older sister. I wanted so bad to have a little sister like
Cindy then I could have played like my family was a real life Brady Bunch although all the kids were real brothers and sisters in my family and we never had an Alice. The show never jumped and I would have loved it to have gone on for many more seasons.
We lived in Texas and while my sister and I wore pjs like the Brady girls, my 3 brothers wore just their underwear and never wore shirts to bed.
Cindy then I could have played like my family was a real life Brady Bunch although all the kids were real brothers and sisters in my family and we never had an Alice. The show never jumped and I would have loved it to have gone on for many more seasons.
We lived in Texas and while my sister and I wore pjs like the Brady girls, my 3 brothers wore just their underwear and never wore shirts to bed.
Must be a regional thing brandon, I was born in 1961 and everyone boy I knew slept in just tightie whities. I didn't know any boy slept in a shirt past the age of 5 or 6.
I think the Brady Bunch jumped from day 1 because of poor writing even for a kid's show. I'm amazed this show has stayed popular over the years. My own kids born in the 90s still loved it.
I think the Brady Bunch jumped from day 1 because of poor writing even for a kid's show. I'm amazed this show has stayed popular over the years. My own kids born in the 90s still loved it.
I grew up during the Brady era and we all wore pajamas, so I don't think the boys sleeping in shirts looked fake at all.
Like some others have said I think the show jumped at the start of season 5. I think the show was really good in the 1970, 1971 and 1972 seasons. The first season is a little too sweet for me and the last season is just too stupid.
Like some others have said I think the show jumped at the start of season 5. I think the show was really good in the 1970, 1971 and 1972 seasons. The first season is a little too sweet for me and the last season is just too stupid.
I also used to wonder why nobody wore shorts on the show since they were in California. But I also thought the boys pajamas looked fake. They even wore them in the Hawaii episodes. Boys during that era slept in just tighty whiteys. I wouldn't expected them to be sleeping in undies on tv but they could have slept bare chested.
Clearly The Brady Bunch ran out of steam by the fourth season and they had nothing to replace it so unwisely kept it on one more. It was constantly being killed by Sanford & Son.
The show never really jumped, because it was fake and corny from beginning to end. But it was what it was and has entertained millions since 1969. Earlier someone mentioning how unrealistic that the boys wore shirts to bed. While I don't think that was unrealistic, I did always wonder why no one ever wore shorts on the show. The Bradys lived in Southern California. You'd think they would have worn shorts in the summer.
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