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This is a show that really shouldn't have been more than a miniseries, maybe six to eight eps tops.

It wasn't train wreck bad, it's just a skimpy premise; not nearly enough to warrant an ongoing series. All the actors did fine with what they were given, but the show was pretty much an "Odd Couple" retread with spouses thrown in to boot, and the Brady family as semi-regulars. The evolution of Marcia and Jan didn't seem to follow the original show very well, either. In that show, Marcia seemed quite straight laced while Jan seemed to be a bit more of a...well, a "free spirit" shall we say?

What a freakin' disaster. Jan's professor husband was uptight. Marcia's Jewish toy sales husband liked to walk around the house nude. (only interested if Marcia did that, as well.) Asshole arrogant Greg was a OBGYN (if I got that right or was he general pratice??) Bobby was a race car driver. What the **** did CIndy do?
Most notablly, Susan Olsen (Cindy) was to get a good job, she was a Radio host. Real life Peter (C. Knight) went into computers in the early 1980's, so, I'm sure he did well.
Anywho, the Parents were practically invisible in this series. VERY BAD TV. ALbeit, their "REAL LIFE" variety show (where Eve Plumb turned down) was an absolute car crash. BRADY BRIDES was bad but not that bad.
THE BRADYS was a later 60 minute (!!) drama a spin off of the highly successful Brady Christmas TV movie. BB was on NBC, THE BRADYS was on CBS. Right??

What if Sherwood Schwartz and Garry Marshall had teamed up?
signed,

All one famous magazine or newspaper could say of the Brady franchise by the late 80s [on the first of the movies, the TV XMAS one that oughta be rerunning on this Holiday aseaosn, Thanks Mr.Hein for putitng the dates on this verison of JTS so I don't hafta.

And that quote from the paper?
"Doters donb't cxre. They'll be sitting in their rocking chairs...watching..." [as recalled by historians Andy Edelstein and Frank Lovece, 1990, Warner Books, "The Brady Bunch Book"]
-"Damn Right" [same authors, ibid.(book)]
Jan and Marcia...ah...oiur Bradfy girls grew up. marcia Marcia.
signed,

I caught these on youtube and I thought they were pretty funny. Frankly, Phillip needed to get the acorn out of his bum. Wally and Marcia were funny. He was cute and loved Marcia for herself, not her looks.

As for "The Bradys", not a bad idea, but making Marcia a lush and Wally an idiot who couldn't keep a job really sucked. It made them both look lazy and stupid. Marcia couldn't go out and find a job now that the kids were in school....paleeze!

When the fahk was this on tv?

Remember the episode where Marcia and Jan and their respective husbands were chosen to appear on The New Newlywed Game?

They were nervous, so they decided to rehearse their possible answers at home. One of the pretend questions was, "What's your favorite part of a chicken to eat?"

Philip's (Jan's hubby) answer? Breasts and thighs.

The night of the show, Philip is asked what first attracted him to Jan.

Can you guess the answer he mistakenly blurts out?

Can you?

"The Brady Brides" was a veritable comedy explosion.

I really enjoyed this show 1st few weeks,thinking they were making progress and fresh joke territory;but after a few weeks I realised it had settled into what it was gonna be..there were not enough strong characters to keep it entertaining ;and the husbands were just annoying..I did start accepting and enjoying that Jan would be the strong one because middle=children do tend to develop that way and the prom-queen types tend to become more insecure..
This was still by far my favorite of the Brady spinoffs or movies,at least it attempted to be funny if not as endearing as the original;the other attempts were trying to be dramatic or whatever,something the Bradys were not intended to be.

I'll never forget what TV Guide's resident critic/curmudgeon Robert McKenzie said about The Brady Brides when it debuted in 1981. After noting that the fanbase for The Brady Bunch seemed to have a neverending thirst for more more more of their favorite teevee family, he opined that 50 years from now,

"...there they'll be, snuggling up in their rockers while watching Sis and Cindy in the Old Folks Home."

Prescient!

I often wondered myself why nobody bought a date or why no oliver but something else always bothered me about this show.

Are we supposed to believe that Mike would skip his own son's graduation yey give away both of his stepdaughters on their wedding day?

At least Dave "Killer"Carson was in it

I posted a link to this page at usenet newsgroup "alt.tv.brady.bunch" @ www.google.com@groups

Wow jghione, that is a very well thought out theory about why the boys didn't bring any dates to the wedding. My own personal theory is that Sherwood Shwartz and his hack son, were lousy writers, and they didn't think about it.

But if we must have a reason for the integrity of this story, I would say that, like their father, they were closeted homosexuals.

In response to one comment. Why didn't the boys bring dates to the wedding? Probably since (from the looks of things) none of them were seeing anyone! Is it really necessary to have a date for a wedding, especially if you're not seeing anyone at present? I know this from personal expreinece. And Carol had to move the date of the wedding in order for everyone to make it, so the boys (and Cindy) had to adjust their personal schedules in order to be at the wedding. Even if each of the boys could find someone, she might not have been able to adjust her schedule in order to make it. And Oliver--were we just supposed to assume he was at the wedding? And he was never even mentioned until he began appearing on the original series--no mention of him or his parents at the wedding of Mike and Carol, and you would think all of them would have been at that wedding. And we were also supposed to assume Sam was at the wedding, since he and Alice were now married, and even though she longer worked for the family, she remained friends with them. You'd think he'd be there with her. But I think it's safe to say Oliver's and Sam's presences wouldn't have made much of a difference to the plot, but just to see them briefly would have been a good homage to the original series, however. And with a double wedding, is it necessary to have bridesmaids? Cindy was like the maid of honor, but neither of the grooms had a best man, let alone groomsmen. Remember, though that in the original series, the kids's friends were just some unseen person with whom the kids were talking on the phone. But when we did see their friends, they were never the ones on the phone, nor did the same friends ever appear in more than one episode. The Brady kids always had each other, so there was no need for an Eddie Haskell or a Lumpy Rutherford on "The Brady Bunch." If Jan or Marcia had a friends acting as bridesmaids, they would probably be someone we never saw on the original series! And we would never see them again!

The horror...the horror...

Great reunion with the original cast. Why weren't Mike, the boys, Sam, Oliver, and Cindy guest stars in the show?