The Brady Brides

There was violence in the streets.

Cats and dogs colluded together.

It rained frogs in Philadelphia.

We were sure it was the end times until Alf came from another planet to save us.

Like getting hit in the nose with a football.

I retreated to my bedroom and remained in a fetal position for days. Then mummy and fa sent me to Silver Hill in CT and, after what seemed like a months in Hell, I was able to return to complete my senior year in high school.

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I do declare that I needed smelling salts when those ruffians cancelled my favorite show!

I didn't give a shit. My show got renewed.

I was so overcome with grief that I took liberties with my Kitty Karryall doll.

I'm ashamed to admit I never was able to watch the show. Something suddenly came up.

I threw my locket at the wall and vowed never to listen to another Johnny Bravo album EVER...at least for that day.

It was a frightening moment that the history books continue to lie about.

This could have been a good series. Two sisters, who grew up hating each other, are now living together (with their respective husbands) as adults -- and Crazy Jan is constantly worried that Marcia is going to steal her husband. But it wasn't like that. Marcia was now suddenly the neurotic and insecure one, and Jan was the easy-going, level-headed one, which wasn't fun at all. Plus, the husbands were not hot.

Marcia's husband Wally had a hot body!

I love cheesy camp as much as the next guy, but I have never understood the obsessions various networks have had with continuously trying to revive this series. It was never a ratings hit, it was a critical failure, and the original is only fun for the nostalgia and camp factor. When analyzed through the eyes of an adult, it really was a terrible show. NONE of those kids could act.

So please explain why they kept resurrecting it. There was this, the variety series, several TV movies, and that god-awful 90s drama series called "The Bradys." The only thing good that came out of it was the hilarious movie in 1995 that parodied it (but even the sequels to that sucked).

Why the obsession? I just don't get it at all. There are a million great series that did well in syndication, and were never revived over and over like this was. Can someone explain?

I liked Wally.

The Brady Brides was MAJOR - and had a Breaking Bad/Game of Thrones buzz once show started it's promo campaign.

It was disappointing when the episodes finally aired and it was more of a drama than a sitcom, and people tuned out fast.

I stopped watching TV around the time it premiered and just assumed that a juggernaut like the Brady Brides would still be on. I'm shocked it didn't make it. What's new on Simon & Simon, by the way?

It went downhill after that episode where Robert Reed kept modeling the brides' wedding dresses.

We want a modern wedding

We want traditional vows

In one of the many specials, weren't Jan and Philip separated or at least considering it while Marcia's husband Wally was an unemployed loser?

"A Very Brady Christmas" (a Holiday staple on ABC Family or whatever it's called now) first aired in December 1988 and, yes, Jan and Phillip were separated and Wally had just been fired from Tyler Toys.

Luckily, Mike got his next door neighbor fuck-buddy to give Wally a new job at his own toy company.

Jan and Phillip decided to continue their bearding relationship and did not divorce.

"A Very Brady Christmas" had phenomenal ratings when it first aired in 1988 and had its second airing a year later, after which it would continue on as a regular series titled "The Bradys" in Spring 1990.

Leah Ayres took over from MM as Marcia. Marcia also had a one-episode insta-alcoholism storyline. She got drunk in the day to deal with her boredom as a housewife.

Poor Bobby was paralyzed in a dreadful racing accident, just as Carol always feared.

The porn staches were very weird, even then

I forgot that Jan and Phillip adopted an Asian child.

Also, that Original VeeJay Martha Quinn played Crippled Bobby's girlfriend.

The day The Brady Brides was cancelled was a day that many Angelinos still talk about.

TIL there was ANOTHER Brady show called The Brady Brides.

Maybe for another reunion, they could all be superheroes

There was no joy in Mudville that day.

R24 Seems a bit of an overreaction, no?

Wait a minute. Wait wait wait wait a minute. There was a fake Marcia too?

Fake Marcia didn't really have the impact of Fake Jan. One was left wondering how Maureen McCormick, of all of them, ended up not signing on.

What are you gonna do? Arrest me?

I ate three poke cakes and only recovered my happiness when fake Marcia became a drunk on The Brady's.

That picture of Marcia is hot.

Jan is a cunt.

I still remember it like it was yesterday. I'd just got the latest TV Guide in the mail and wondering what wacky half-written situations they'd get themselves into next week, only to find that [italic]Here's Boomer[/italic] was in its place! They threw them over for a Benji wannabe? The first Friday after it was cancelled, I went to shul to pray for guidance, at the oneg, my rabbi and asked how a just, merciful, loving G-d could do something like this. After he finished his bowl of D-Zerta, all he could say, "The Lord works in mysterious ways, but not as mysterious as NBC." So I sat shiva while my daughter Deborah cried for a week and held a candlelight vigil while watching reruns of the original [italic]Brady Bunch[/italic].

[quote]Why the obsession? I just don't get it at all. There are a million great series that did well in syndication, and were never revived over and over like this was. Can someone explain?

I don't think they really cared whether adults liked it as long as kids did, and it has been a huge hit with kids in reruns over multiple generations. And since the cast haven't gotten royalties since 1979, Paramount gets to keep all the syndication and DVD money for itself. I guess people just like the idea of a happy family where everybody genuinely loves each other.

I wonder why they have never released "A Very Brady Christmas" on DVD.

I don't have a VCR anymore but there are several lines and even scenes chopped out now on the ABC Family airings.

There is a scene where Mike and Carol are trying to get Alice's opinion on using their Special Vacation Money on a particular trip, as they both had different ideas on where to go.

Mike says: "So, Alice, Greece or the Orient?"

Then ABC Family chops out Carol's3-second line: "The Orient or GREECE?"

I need the uncut "A Very Brady Christmas"!!!!

No chance of the Bradys getting one last appearance on television, either scripted or not, given the deaths of Robert Reed and Ann B. Davis. Florence Henderson is 82. Barry Williams, the old Brady kid, is 61. I think once the kids starts dying off, it will be a shock to the Boomers.

Fake Marcia.

R37: It was in the bonus disc in the complete series box set and it's on Hulu.

Thanks R40!!!

The BB kids are the epitome of the 70s. They were good looking, wholesome and distinct in their own way. They also seemed very nice and real. It WILL be a shock when the first one dies. All are over 50 now.

Am I the only one who thinks Susan Olsen is a self-hating closet lesbian? She dresses like a tomboy in real life; in [italic]Growing up Brady[/italic] she says she wished she could have played a character similar to Darlene on [italic]Roseanne[/italic], she had some harsh words for producer Howard Leeds (whom the adults from [italic]Small Wonder[/italic] called one of the nicest men in Hollywood on that show's DVD commentary), and in her own book [italic]Love to Love You Bradys[/italic], she devotes much space to discussing how she prefers rock to disco and her own revulsion at having to perform the latter.

Hulu's got the original up, too, but they are missing any of the episodes with music, so no Davy Jones, no singing contest, no "Time to Change" or "Sunshine Day." This is true of all the Paramount shows on Hulu now; [italic]Webster[/italic] has some of the not-currently-on-DVD episodes but none of the Ben Vereen ones (ore the episode where Mary Woronov plays a hooker), and [italic]Laverne & Shirley, Happy Days, Cheers[/italic], et al are also missing their most music-heavy episodes.

[quote]No chance of the Bradys getting one last appearance on television, either scripted or not, given the deaths of Robert Reed and Ann B. Davis. Florence Henderson is 82. Barry Williams, the old Brady kid, is 61. I think once the kids starts dying off, it will be a shock to the Boomers.

I'm sure not even hardcore Bradyphiles would want to spend two hours of their lives watching [italic]A Very Brady Funeral[/italic]. And don't forget, Maureen McCormick and Eve Plumb are still not on speaking terms, so such a reunion would be just the boys, Mom and Cindy. That's why it was such a blessing in disguise that 1990's [italic]The Bradys[/italic] ended quickly: if it had been a hit, it likely would have ended with Robert Reed's death anyway. We've seen Archie Bunker without Edith and the rest of the Ewings without J.R., but watching them bury Mike Brady, especially knowing how Reed died in real life, is something I just don't think I could take.

Why do MM and Eve's Plumb hate each other???

Eve is just a flat out bitch who actually hates anything Brady related.

Didn't Maureen claim that she and Eve made out or hooked up once or something?

Maureen made up a fake lesbian kiss in her biography and was forced to retract when called out on it. Since then they've just kept their distance.

Id like to see what Tommy is up to.

MM and Eve's Plum were both on "The Weakest Link" in 2001.

Cousin Oliver was even there!

I would like to see a porno Brady revival including only Christopher Knight.

They could call it "A Very Brady Peter."

He's doing hair plugs infomercials now.

It must suck to be some of the most well known, recognized, and watched TV stars for three generations now and not to be making a single cent off of it.

I am ashamed to say I watched the link at R50.

Jesus, are they all mildly retarded? They were missing such easy fucking questions.

[quote]It must suck to be some of the most well known, recognized, and watched TV stars for three generations now and not to be making a single cent off of it.

They didn't know how long it was going to last in reruns when they signed their contracts. And IIRC when Robert Reed signed a contract with Paramount, he thought he was going to be doing a TV version of [italic]Barefoot in the Park[/italic] recreating the role he played on Broadway that Robert Redford played in the 1967 movie. But they put him here instead and postponed the [italic]Barefoot[/italic] TV adaptation until 1970 when they cast a black couple in the leads…and it flopped!

Oh no kidding. Who could have predicted what a cultural phenomenon something like The Brady Bunch would turn into?

R29, there was also a fake Cindy - DL fave Jennifer Runyon.

All of the girls had fake replacements (and even a fake Sam in "A Very Brady Christmas") but none of the boys ever got "too big" for every reunion and cash-in.

A fake Tiger too.

Wasn't it in A Very Brady Christmas, where Sam threw Alice out and she came crying to the Bradys and Mrs Brady says Alice can stay with them. Then she makes Alice put on a uniform and go to work.

Sam didn't throw Alice out, she walked out on him after he had an AFFAIR with a female customer at his meat market!

Of course, being Christmas, Alice forgave Sam and reconciled with him after he dressed up as Santa and brought gifts for the Brady grandchildren.

And Mike and Carol repeatedly told Alice that she could live there with them as their FRIEND not their employee but she said she felt more comfortable in her maid outfit.

Fake Sam. They didn't even try.

I was so distraught by the news, I shot a man named Brady. And the President he was guarding.

Don't forget fake dead Aunt Bee!

[italic]The Brady Girls Get Married[/italic] is the one true reunion of all nine original cast members. That's the one that hasn't gotten any DVD attention. It was NBC's idea to break it up into three half-hour specials. Fred Silverman was still at NBC at the time; he had been at ABC when the variety show was on the air, although IIRC that whole thing was Michael Eisner's idea when he was at Paramount. Eisner-era Disney also tried to get the movie rights to [italic]Gilligan's Island[/italic], but Ted Turner kept the rights for himself after he sold MGM/UA back to Kirk Kerkorian, and wouldn't give up his half of the rights (the other half is split three ways between Phil Silvers' daughters).

And Ann B Alice as Davis

Don't forget fake Cindy from A Very Brady Christmas, played by Charles's girlfriend from Charles in Charge.

I'll take Jennifer Runyon any day, though. The real life Cindy is a nasty, right wing cunt.

R62, Fake Sam looks like John Wayne Gacy!

I always thought it was funny how the kids grew up to have such exotic careers like Marcia as a fashion designer and Bobby as a race car driver, when clearly Bobby would have been working at a 7-11.

Also, I hope the Family Channel didn't cut out my favorite scene when I was a teenager from 'A Very Brady Christmas', when Peter comes down in a white nightgown and is clearly wearing black bikini briefs underneath. I watched that scene over and over...

^Ha, yep! You can see them when he throws his legs up onto the couch.