mhubbard-54657 I am old enough to remember The Brady Bunch when it came out, and I can assure you it is not a very accurate reflection of society at the time. Although the wardrobes sure do bring back that groovy vibe. The plots are dumb, contrived, predictable and there is never any real drama. Even so, these episodes are 22 minutes of pure escapism, and some are not bad for that purpose.There is a lot of visual appeal in every episode. For one thing, the kids are all growing up and changing very quickly before our eyes, with Greg and Marcia becoming young men and women who drive by the final season. Obviously attracted to each other. The house is so cool too, is that a typical California house? I always loved Mr Brady's den and the kitchen, but the layout will always be an enigma.It was always nice to see how relaxed and cheerful Mrs Brady could be, when she had a full-time housekeeper. Never mind how they paid for it, including Social Security taxes for Alice.Above all, the weather. For people living in other parts of the country,this was voyeurism. Is California weather always that perfect? Does it ever rain, or get muggy, or uncomfortable in any way?The actors were typecast and for the most part, never did much afterwards.It was ironic, as the years went by, to learn that they had their issues with drugs and such.Then Mike Reed later came out as gay.So although the show generally was not very good, it has a certain nostalgia.

preppy-3 Architect Mike Brady (Robert Reed) is a widower with three boys. Carol (Florence Henderson) is also a widower with three girls. They meet, fall in love, get married and all eight live together with increasingly predictable (and stupid) complications ensuring.OK--I loved this when I was 10 years old but I eventually grew up and realized what utter garbage this was. The stories are terrible, trite and annoying predictable, the acting sucks and you want all these kids dead (especaiily the incredibly annoying Cindy). Its sanitized view of what a family supposedly should be like has traumatized generations of kids who feel that the Bradys are normal and they're not because their family is NOTHING like the one on TV. (Of course no family that ever existed is like the Bradys but you don't know that when you're a kid) Henderson and Reed are good actors but no one could make those scripts work. The only good thing about this show is Ann B. Davis as Alice who managed to be very funny and likable but, all in all, this is a terrible show.

WakenPayne Architect Mike Brady marries beautiful young Carol, who has three girls to care for. Likewise, Mike's previous wife's death has left him to raise his three boys all alone. In no time this amalgam becomes the ideal average American middle class family. Of course, raising such a large family isn't easy, so live-in housekeeper Alice Nelson is always there to lend a hand.I Cannnot Think Of A Show Worse. This Is Me Being As Honest As I Can Be (Because I Can't Swear) For This Review. My Mother Loves This Show And I Was Subjected To It Then. Say What Anyone Else Can Say But This Show Is Cheezy & Pointless As It Is Famous. Some Jokes Can Go Like This: One Of The Girls Is Juliet In The School Play & The Role Has Gone To Her Head & After The Parents Find Out & She Leaves The Mother Says "If An Actress Can Be Judged By Her Temper Then She's Ready For An Oscar". *I Split My Sides Guys In The Writing Chair, No Keep Making These Scripts As Long As You Want, No Seriously You Are The Greatest Comedy Writers Ever*.If you thought I was being sarcastic then you are absolutely right and I think that those laughs you hear would be the studio showing them something that is worthwhile and recording the laugh there while The Brady Bunch was playing (I think the same thing about the show Full Frontal). The rating 6.9 overrates it by far, it should be in the 4 point something section (I am so generous).Overall I Think I've Said It: Weak Jokes, Terrible Acting & At The End Of Every Episode Everything Is Back To Normal, I Don't Mind Shows Like That But It Gives The Audience No Character Development For Anyone.

bkoganbing I think it's ironic as all get out that just when the anti-war movement was at its height and kids all over the nation were doing all kinds of experimentation with drugs that on television we managed to find solace in the gentle G-rated adventures of a blended family that was called The Brady Bunch.In true paternal style the man with the three boys named Brady wed the woman whose name I can't recall, but Florence Henderson and her girls became Bradys just like Robert Reed's boys. In fact it was hard to remember that they weren't biological Bradys.The anti-war movement, Civil Rights, gay rights (Stonewall happened the year of The Brady Bunch Debut) was something that was never mentioned on the show. Sports got into things occasionally, Joe Namath from football and Don Drysdale from baseball got some guest starring roles as themselves.The Bradys did dress in the latest fashion though. I do remember those bell bottoms that I wish I could get into now. Barry Williams as Greg Brady wore them with style. He was quite the teen heartthrob during the run of the show.The shows hearkened back to Leave It To Beaver with Robert Reed as the all knowing dad. You did get the feeling unlike Hugh Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley, Reed and Henderson did have a sex life. Some concession to the times.The shows were positively antiseptic. Barry Williams chasing after this that or the other girl, Cindy not being a tattle tale, Peter's voice changing, and the tag line that the show got known for, middle girl Jan's jealousy of older sister Marcia, with that cry of 'Marcia Marcia Marcia'.Later on it came out that all American dad Robert Reed was gay after of course he died of AIDS. In the community that was pretty well known, a friend of mine recalls meeting Reed at a gay bar in New York City during the Seventies. The cast and crew of The Brady Bunch knew it too, but as Barry Williams points out in his memoirs, they didn't care, he was accepted as an artist and a human being. That was a concession to Stonewall that we didn't know about until later.Blended families are still fodder for situation comedies like Step By Step and Life With Derek. Those have a bit more bite to them than the ever loving Bradys. Still those kids still looked real good and I did so like Barry Williams back in the day.