Who’s watching “A Very Brady Christmas” again this year?

Susan Olson giver her finest performance in this installment of the franchise.

They get me every time with Mike in the caved-in building.

I know he’s in there getting rammed by the construction manager, but the crowd and viewers are distracted by the ungodly rendition of O Come All Ye Faithful.

New Cindy was so much prettier than original Cindy.

New Cindy I'm sure sucked Scott Baio's dick on the first season of "Charles in Charge,"

Willie Aames too, and the guy from Animal House.

R3 New Cindy was gorgeous.

I remember watching this as a kid and loving seeing the house redone in late 80s decor — particularly the addition of the garden window in the kitchen.

The best dialogue in the history of media:

Marcia Brady: Don’t be sorry. Just be Wally.

I always love Peter in his nightshirt where you can see his black bikini briefs underneath...

That was a beautiful gift that year, r9

This was such a smash hit that two years later, The Bradys premiered. But nobody wanted to see their favorite cheesy sitcom family in a one hour drama that critics dismissively referred to as "bradysomething." Bobby in a wheelchair? Marcia an alcoholic? No, thanks.

Where's it streaming?

I'd love to start my Corny-Christmas-Copia™ earlier than the day after Thanksgiving.

I love the sing off when the fellas bring in the tree and the women are making eggnog.

This is a staple. I loved seeing everyone all grown up. And Chris Knight in his night shirt was HOT.

A breakdown of Mike Brady’s flamey mannerisms.

I like when Sam walks-in on Alice and Nancy Kulp using a double dildo in the laundry room and says, "I got enough meat for both o' yiz".

r12, it's on PlutoTV...just lots of commercials.

The very brief scene of Peter's briefs showing through his nightshirt is about 58 minutes into it.

My favorite part is the cunty travel agent saying, "Mrs. Brady... If that's your REAL name."

It's funny watching A Very Brady Christmas because on the regular series I always thought that Mike and Carol had good chemistry and could easily buy them having a healthy sex life. However, on A Very Brady Christmas they seemed like an older woman haning out with her old Queen friend and I could not buy that these two had ever had sex or any sort of physical contact with one another.

I guess back during the original run of the series, Robert Reed was better at hiding it, but by 1988 he really didn’t care one way or the other.

I need to see this show. That highlight reel of Mike at R15 is everything.

[quote] on A Very Brady Christmas they seemed like an older woman haning out with her old Queen friend and I could not buy that these two had ever had sex or any sort of physical contact with one another.

I mean, in his first scene Mike is swishing around in a lavender track suit and continually walking away from Carol every time she tries to talk to or come near him. I think Robert Reed was tired of butching it up and just let out his inner queen.

Was this the one where Wally was sleeping in the raw?

That's The Brady Girls Get Married, R23.

[quote]This was such a smash hit that two years later, The Bradys premiered. But nobody wanted to see their favorite cheesy sitcom family in a one hour drama that critics dismissively referred to as "bradysomething." Bobby in a wheelchair? Marcia an alcoholic? No, thanks.

The Brady's premiered in February 1990, just 14 months after A Very Brady Christmas had first aired.

The original plan was to do several 2-hour movies themed around various holidays each year. One was to be centered around Memorial Day and the Indy 500. Another to be themed around Election Day. Another would have been Valentine's Day, etc. These would have been a mix of comedy and drama, like A Very Brady Christmas.

CBS vetoed the periodic movies idea and the concept morphed into The Bradys. Since it was only an hour long, much of the humor got jettisoned and the drama played up. The ideas from the holiday movies still came through in the scripts. The Memorial Day and the Indy 500 movie became Bobby's racing accident. The Election Day episode became Mike running for office.

My favorite Mike queening out moment:

“Where is my checkbook!?!” *with the teapot hand on his hip*

I just remember that when the Brady Brides aired as repeats after school, we didn't get to watch it.. not sure why, but feel relieved now.

Would Marcia really have married such a loser?

I like when Carol makes excuses on Xmas morning so Jan and her geeky husband can fuck.

I just watched A Very Brady Sequel last night! Of course I thought of DL during the infamous "Sure, Jan!" part. It never gets old!

Wally with the mustache and naked was HOT in 1981.

[quote]I could not buy that these two had ever had sex or any sort of physical contact with one another.

Well, they never did have their own biological child together. Didn't the writers ever see "Yours, Mine, and Ours"?

If this show was made today by Marc Cherry, Carol would have been pregnant...by Greg.

Mike would have been very into the gym and had many steam room encounters.

Did anybody hear that Florence was an absolute cunt do Shelley Long when she cameoed in the movie? Like, what was that about? Did she always have that nasty side? In the show and this movie you don’t get any indication that she was privately a bitch.

I'm going to guess that long before the early '90s, Florence accepted that for the most part, her legacy was tied to being "America's Mom," and wasn't feeling any obligation to be friendly to anyone imitating or jeopardizing that.

R15 is hilarious!

Love how Reed keeps placing his hands on his hips.

R34, so she was just letting out what she was repressing for decades?

Now that I know that Shelley Long is the inspiration for Valerie Cherish I feel very protective of her. Flo should've backed off! Shelley is a thousand times the actress she was.

I remember seeing this in 1989 it was on channel 2 and then that same night on the 10:00 news they announced that their long time weather man was leaving. I was very vested in channel 2's 10:00 news team at the time so it made me sad that he was leaving. That sadness later turned to betrayal when he showed up on channel 5 several months later after his non-compete Claus ran out.

I would repeatedly have my heart broken because every couple of years the male anchor on the 10:00 news would get fired it happens so often that they started to referring to the female anchor as a black widow.

One of my favorite things to do would be to transcribe the news and then reenact the music and interest in my bedroom and read the headlines to my stuffed animals from behind the s little felt covered table I had.

Anyway I feel like this movie was maybe the first time I felt a crush for a male actor in this case it was Peter. In fact one of the images that always comes to my head when I think about this movie is where his girlfriend is straddling him in the chair telling him that while she's boss 9 to 5:00 he's the boss from 5:00 to 9:00. Just thinking of being in his lap still makes me hot.

r33, I remember Florence talking about the movie before it came out. She mentioned that she was offered a very unfunny cameo as a truck driver and the money they offered was terrible. I'm sure this went to Ann B. Davis, without any rewrites as she talks about having three boys and three girls.

She also said Shelley Long was too old for the role. Florence was 35 during the first year of the show. Shelley was 46 when the Brady Bunch movie came out. I'm willing to call Florence a cunt for bitching about 11 years.

I listened to a podcast of the movie cast and they all indicated Shelley was a bitch as well. Henriette Mantel, movie Alice, couldn’t stand her. However, Shelley was truly great in the role, so Florence was wrong on that front.

Susan Olsen is a Trump-loving homophobe so I can deal with this reunion.

R40 I thought the kids felt more like she was just odd and cold rather than mean and that the worst Harriet had to say about it was that she cheated her like she was her actual maid.

This was the first stab at the seious side of The Bradys. They started the new dramatic series "The Bradys" shortly after hoping to attract the "Thirtysomething" crowd. All of it was so bad and the acting was terrible.

r38 wins the coveted "MARY! of the Month" award.

It's a miracle the Brady house didn't burn down with Mike's flaming mannerisms.

[quote]Did anybody hear that Florence was an absolute cunt do Shelley Long when she cameoed in the movie? Like, what was that about?

That was Christine Taylor's podcast with some of the rest of the cast. Apparently they went to a lot of effort to get Flo for a cameo and she was incredibly rude to Shelley on the set.

Christine wax well cast.

Okay I just listened to that podcast episode and didn't hear them mention a single thing about Florence Henderson. What am I missing?

I do not have an affinity for dog shit

R49, the Shelly Long/Florence Henderson might actually come from this Vice article rather than the podcast. There’s a lot of overlap between the two.

[quote]Hack: They wrote a cameo [in the first film] for Florence [Henderson, who played Carol on TV], and she was the biggest bitch in the world to Shelley Long. She said something that was so cutting and dismissive in front of all of us to hear. She just showed up and was out for blood.

[quote] Sutera: We completely reshot the ending just so we could have Florence in it when she finally agreed to do a cameo. And Florence was just a nightmare. Sweet-ish to us kids, but just not a nice person. You know, that backhanded comment to Shelley. It was something derogatory along the lines of, “Well, I know how to be a real mother.” It was just uncalled for and jarring.

It’s dog shit

It's streaming RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE on the Class TV Families channel on PLUTO!!!!!!

Where did that comment and general attitude towards the cameo and Shelley come from? I genuinely believe these actors (why would they lie?) so I can’t figure out what angered her about this. That it was a parody of her show? Then why even cameo in it? Nobody’s taking her place as Carol in TV history and forget her because there’s a movie.

Because 99.44 percent of all actors are self-centered, entitled cunts.

I always get a kick out of how horrendous Maureen is in this, she honestly reads her lines like she has brain damage while reading a teleprompter.

“It’s okay honey, you’ll find another job!”

Forget the “just be Wally” line, she actually pulls it off despite how hilarious it is. I can see why they gave Jerry Houser the Marcia storyline, they weren’t going to risk her fucking things up.

[quote]They used to be on the same level as prostitutes

Now they're several steps below.

It's on Pluto's Family Classics channel right now.

Carol's Xmas gift to Mike is a "cruise to Greece."

She knew what he needed for the holidays. A stiff Greek cock up his ass....while his hand is on his hip.

Was Reed poz during filming?

Can't tell if it is just his age showing or facial wasting.

From some angles his face looks skeletal.

The Peter nightshirt scene is on now.

Leah Ahyers, or whatever her name was, said playing an alcoholic Marcia was a nightmare. She was on some talk show and indicated had the show continued, Marcia was going to end up on skid row with the whinos and end up in jail for drunk driving where she killed someone. Jan was supposed to have an affair with a co-worker, and Cindy wanted an abortion when her radio producer boyfriend said he wouldn't marry her. Bobby's impotence was going to send his wife away, and Peter's sleeping around resulted in having to go to a free clinic after getting vd.

I would loved seeing all of that!

R60 What???? Admittedly, I would love seeing all that too.

Robert Reed seems to almost be playing a different character than Mike.

I love how you can see Chris Knight's black bikini underwear through the slight sheerness of his nightshirt.

r40 here. I heard on Barry and Chris's podcast that Barry was paid more for "A Very Brady Christmas" than he made for the full five years of "The Brady Bunch." I think I mentioned this fact on another thread...hell, maybe even this one. I'm too tired and old to look.

In the late 90s, TVLand aired The Bradys episodes on a Saturday. I cracked up at the paraplegic Bobby storyline and him quickly marrying that old girlfriend played by Martha Quinn.

[quote] Was Reed poz during filming?

Articles about Reed's death state that he was diagnosed in 1991. Maybe, he was infected for years, but refused to test for a long time.

R15, that edit is hilarious!

“Cozy piece of crap” is really cracking me up for some reason.

Robert Reed kills me. He bitched through out the run of the show about scripts and writing and refused to be in the final Brady Bunch episode because it was so inane. But then he whole heartedly runs with the Brady Bunch Variety Hour, one of the most horrifying spin offs ever

R38 makes me want to tear my hair out and run naked into burning man.

r69 hOW COULD ANY SELF RESPECTING GAY MEN WOULD TURN down MUSICAL NUMBERS, where you worked with Rip Taylor and Ann B, Davis???

Apparently in post-prod of A Very Brady Christmas they had to edit out multiple shots where Reed would finish a sentence with an elongated GIRRRRRRRRLLLLL complete with trilled R...

I was a fool R71

So, they knew original Thindy would never be sober which explains why. . .