Cousin Oliver Ruined Brady Bunch

Egthactly.

Why does he look like a miniature John Denver? Was JD making music at that time?

I was one of the very few that didn't find him. Maybe because I had lots of cousins growing up this he just seemed like a natural family member.

I mean I didn't mind him, not find him.

It was ruined already. And he was only in like 6 episodes anyway.

It was already ruined before that with the Hawaii episode in which Mike Brady decided he’d look better with a perm. From stud to dud.

[quote]There, I said it.

You said what, exactly.

Cousin Oliver's introduction is literally the basis for the entire tv trope for a particular type of a show jumping the shark.

He didn't ruin it. He was a last, desperate gasp by the producers.

He was supposed to distract from Bobby's and Cindy's awkward ugly phase.

He he the same kid Ted and Georgette adopted on MTM?

today

r2 Paul Williams was. There's not much difference.

Amusingly enough, Williams was a guest on the last episode of the variety hour. He had feelings for Carol, a few episodes after she feared Charo was going to ruin her marriage.

Jumping th Shark" is a trope that comes from Happy Days when Fonzie literally jumped over a shark. Way after Brady Bunch.

But yeah Oliver did ruin the Brady Bunch

Oliver uttered the last line of the series too.

“It was only a suggestion.”

He's in the first Sharknado all grown up and just as insufferable in that.

It wasn't a phase R9.

r9 has the right idea. Pubery killed "The Brady Bunch" NOT cousin Oliver.

He's no Mason Reese.

Season 5 killed the show.

R6, Robert Reed didn't get a perm, his hair curled up when they were filming the Hawaii episode because of the humidity and stayed that way. Also, did you know that DL icon Deirdre Hall is actually ten years younger than her given age? Turns out when she came to Hollywood at a young teen she looked too old to play age appropriate parts so her agent told her to tack on ten years so that she could be cast as a woman in her twenties.

They were all itching to get on with their breakout solo careers!

What is Deidre Hall’s connection to The Brady Bunch?

The Soap Opera Fag thinks he’s being funny.

Could this have saved the show?

R7 The Donna Reed show brought in Paul Peterson's sister Patti who the Stone's adopted. It was the first show to bring in a younger actor to try to rejuvenate the show. It was a miserable failure in this case, since Patti couldn't act her way out of a paper sack.

What's DL face Scott Baio's connection to The Brady Bunch?

^ fave

What was the storyline for Oliver joining the show in the first place? Who’s nephew was he? And where did he sleep?

7 kids and they all shared one bathroom?! Dear Lord in Heaven!

He was Carol's nephew. Her brother and his wife were traveling to South America on an archeological dig.

And show with kids is going to have a limited lifespan unless some of the kids are a year old or a newborn. Same thing happened to The Waltons and Leave It To Beaver

I sure wish I could take a shit tonight.

Looking for the painful Christmas shits thread, R32?

Cousin Oliver changed his name to Jeremy and infested a family in Sacramento several years later.

[quote]Amusingly enough, Williams was a guest on the last episode of the variety hour. He had feelings for Carol, a few episodes after she feared Charo was going to ruin her marriage.

[quote]Cousin Oliver changed his name to Jeremy and infested a family in Sacramento several years later.

I don't understand what either of these comments are talking about.

Mike Brady had an affair with Charo?

Who is Jeremy?

r35, the last season of "Eight is Enough" Abby's nephew Jeremy, a pre-Karate Kid Ralph Macchio, came to live with the family, that already had 8 kids.

The girls on EON were considered boring except Dianne Kay.

Thanks, R36. I've never seen Eight is Enough.

Ralph Macchio? I had to Google this, at least he didn't have a perm.

He was on a rad episode of CHiPS where he dropped acid and windsurfed or something.

[quote]The Donna Reed show brought in Paul Peterson's sister Patti who the Stone's adopted. It was the first show to bring in a younger actor to try to rejuvenate the show.

No, The Danny Thomas show, aka Make Room for Daddy, had done it successfully earlier and My Three Sons did it around the same time. I'm sure there are others.

Wasn’t DL fave Leo DiCaprio brought in to try to rejuvenate “Growing Pains”?

The Partridge Family did this with Ricky.

Married with Children brought in Seven, Peg's cousin's son.

OP is not scared of stating highly controversial opinions.

The modern day Cousin Oliver.

No, the ratings skyrocketed in the last six episodes he was in. Schwartz was even ready to kill Mr Brady off to give him his own square. But it appears Robbie Rist wouldn't submit to the casting couch and got stuck starring in a show with YoYo.

"the ratings skyrocketed in the last six episodes he was in."

Not true.

r46 is being facetious.

I do remember reading that Sherwood and Lloyd Schwartz were really tired of Robert Reed's "I'm a Shakespearian Actor" shit and was looking to drop him from the show.

Can you imagine Princess Reed in these days?

r50 He'd probably be doing Dancing With the Stars or Celebrity Big Brother.

What's funny about the actual "jump the shark" episode of Happy Days was that it happened in season five of a ten year series. There were still over 100 episodes left in the run for Happy Days. So it really didn't jump the shark at that time.

Happy Days jumped the shark the moment Fonzie became the star. What was a quirky nostalgia show that focused on Richie was now a show on a soundstage with actors screaming over each other to get lame laughs from the studio audience. All the charm of the 1st 2 seasons was gone.

This is perhaps the least original post ever made here, OP. I believe everyone in the 30+ years of BB conversation before you post already knows this and agreed.

So "there, I said it" is the least brave statement ever.