A Very Brady Christmas

I was in college studying for finals when this came out. We were the generation that grew up not with watching the show in prime time, but in endless repeats in syndication in the late 70's and early 80's (along with Gilligan's Island and the Flintstone's). Not that you need much of an excuse at that age to procrastinate, but I remember a ton of people taking a study break to watch this.

This is a great frau centric thread. I mean that with all due respect.

Although it also appeals to homosexuals with Pete freeballin' in his Christmas nightgown.

Alice in her uniform when she wasn't even working for The Brady's was just embarrassing.

Maureen McCormick was pregnant while filming this.

Susan Olsen was off on her honeymoon and they had a very serviceable Fake Thindy in Jennifer Runyeon.

Marcia's husband Wally was just adorkable losing his job at Tyler Toys. IRL, he helped Mo get off drugs and find Jesus Christ. (per, Moe's bio)

Whatever appeal Eve Plumb had on the original series left her as an adult. She and her husband on the show were real drips.

Barry Williams should NOT have been a doctor, he should have been a singer and have them incorporate that into the movie.

Bobby Brady as a business major drop out turned race car driver. As if! He should have been a pool player or a champion ice cream eater!

Robert Reed turned up the flame and Carol FINALLY got a job in real estate after passing out lunches for a living.

Sam cheated on Alice but she forgave him because what else she gonna do?

Have I missed anything? Oh yeah, the cunt at the travel agency...

Why would you want to watch a movie with a fake Cindy? A fake Jan, OK, a fake Marica, tolerable, but a fake Cindy? Never, not to mention they refused to hire Allen Melville for Sam

Jennifer Runyon is waaay more easier on the eyes so I don't mind. Plus Cindy is my least favorite Brady so it's not that big a deal.

R2, you forgot that Barry Williams stuck his foot in his mouth when he told a producer the actress playing the woman in labor was an overacting dildo. It turned out to be the producer's wife.

[quote]Have I missed anything?

Only Carol leading a crowd singing Oh Come All-Ye Faithful while Mike miraculously survives a construction collapse -- walking out covered with crumbling dry wall.

I also forgot about Pete finally having luck with women and having his girlfriend propose to him. "If the idiot won't ask you, then ask the idiot!"

And Tonya Lee Williams as Thindy's over eager roommate/secret lover. And Thindy being offended at not being asked to come to the festivities, just told. And her being seated at the kiddie table like Lindsay Graham.

Did anybody notice there were ABSOLUTELY NO SCENES WITH EVE AND MO? THOSE 2 HATE EACH OTHER!!!

I thought it was Bob Reed who made the dildo comment.

[quote]Allen Melville

It's ALLAN MELVIN, dumbass!

Am I the only one who thought Jan's husband was kinda gay?

Was this the one that led to the drama series "The Bradys?" Decades showed a bunch of those episodes stitched together into a faux-TV movie called "The Brady 500" a week or two ago. It was all about Bobby's racing accident that left him a paraplegic.

Well R10 the original idea after the Brady Christmas was to do two more movies, but they turned it into a weekly drama and only later stitched back up the episodes.

Eve Plumb always seems to me like the least "damaged" of the kids.

Yes the Tv movie had monster ratings led to the series. They were trying to do Bradysomething but there were just too many characters, too low ratings and Bob Reed was back to his old tricks.

Peter isn't free balling under his night shirt, he is however wearing a pair of bikini briefs. BELIEVE ME I made sure of rewinding enough as a 14 year old when it came out on video to see exactly what was going on down there.

Jennifer Runyon should've stayed on for the "The Brady's" tv show, Susan Olson was not an attractive adult (to be fair, only Peter and Marcia were), but she and Bobby were exceptionally unappealing.

I couldn't figure out why Cindy would be going to college in Arizona. Isn't Southern California (where they were from) sunny enough?

[quote] I couldn't figure out why Cindy would be going to college in Arizona. Isn't Southern California (where they were from) sunny enough?

Not to mention that she was in college as well in 1981 when they did the Brady Brides.

I love that I am not the only one who remembers this movie in such agonizing detail.

So Pete wasn't free balling? Pity.

[quote]Jennifer Runyon is waaay more easier on the eyes so I don't mind.

Which is why she isn't Cindy and never will be. Cindy isn't an attractive character.

[quote]I couldn't figure out why Cindy would be going to college in Arizona. Isn't Southern California (where they were from) sunny enough?

Conservative Southern Californian students with shitty grades always apply to the Arizona state party schools.

The most horrifying moment is when Carol, with a creepy smile, tells Jan and Phillip they can be late for breakfast so they can fuck.

[quote] I love that I am not the only one who remembers this movie in such agonizing detail.

They played this movie endlessly during the Christmas holidays. I must have seen it 100 times.

Marcia's barely in it. She doesn't even have a problem, her simian husband does. When last we saw her in The Brady Brides, she was working in fashion. Couldn't SHE have been laid off and made it more about her? Then they could've avoided that awful "Don't be sorry, just be Wally" line.

[quote]Cindy isn't an attractive character.

R18=Buddy Hinton

Marcia was played by a different actress in the series ("The Bradys.") But they had all of the other originals back.

With the exception of the TV movie The Brady Girls Get Married (which led to the short-lived series The Brady Brides) the cast was never fully reunited after the original series went off the air. They had a fake Jan on The Variety Hour, only Jan and Marcia were on The Brady Brides (the series), they had a fake Cindy for VBChristmas and a fake Marcia for The Bradys series.

[quote]Bob Reed was back to his old tricks.

And I hope they wore condoms.

r23

I'm Buddy's bitch

R27 Are you still young and beautiful in Buddy's eyes?

Peter grew up to be the best looking Brady boy.

Tyler Toys was so heartless to can Wally at Christmas.

The actor who played Wally is now a big fundie.

Every year you hear his voiceover for Rudoph,

I just had my annual viewing. So corny yet so fun. Greg's wife was so selfish.

I love it when my old threads get bumped!

I can't believe it -- I always assumed Wally was Jewish IRL.

Speaking of that, remember how Cindy showed off her cultural sensitivity by telling everybody "Mazel Tov" in The Bradys?

She didn't tell everyone, just her Jewish boss/boyfriend. She so desperately wanted to lick his latkes.

Susan Oleson is a nutty Trumper and posts all kinds of craziness on FB

"Mrs. Brady... If that's your REAL name."

Oh, Peter in that nightshirt. In any other household in America, he'd be running around in just those bikini briefs.

That cunty travel agent also appeared as a neighbor in the first Brady Bunch movie. And Mrs. Huntsiger, who wanted to buy the house in the original when the kids made it seem like a haunted house appeared in an episode of The Bradys when the grandkids campaign for Mike.

"Greece? Or The Orient?

The Orient? Or GREECE?!"

I bumped up this great old thread because it seemed like the Brady thing to do.

Cindy's roommate was a whore. She rattled off 15 names when she answered the phone.

I'm having my annual viewing. Kevin Brady grew up to be very nice looking.

Robert Reed is so queeny in this.

Don't be sorry. Just be Wally.

This was Jerry Hauser's tource de farce. 😉

I used to be so obsessed with this movie as a kid lmao. They played it numerous times every year in the 90s.

Now not as much. Sad. It’s great fun.

How was Cindy suddenly years younger than Bobby???

She was left back for excessive tattling and listing.

Lishping.

Peter Piper pecked a pic of Peter pecs

In The Brady Girls Get Married, Mike and Carol come back from dropping Cindy off at college. In this movie, she's still in college. They portrayed her as a retard in the original run but 7 years of college is pushing it.

I liked NuCindy and her roommate Olivia Barber.

Not enough love for Carol singing O Come All Ye Faithful so Mike can miraculously escape the collapsed building. Cheesiest Brady moment EVER and that's saying something.

Philip was clearly gay, which is why he always fell asleep at his desk rather than coming to bed. Poor Jan actually bought that lame "I'm writing my grey leg goose thesis!" excuse. Sad, really.

[quote] Robert Reed releases his inner queen throughout.

Fuck you! Robert respected people's homophobia and buried his feelings for other men down deep inside until they ate him alive, like a good homo boy.

I love how Carol tells Jan and Phillip they can miss breakfast so they can fuck.

The celluloid doesn't lie Flo

Tit shot

Christmas cookies are ready....

Holy crap, this tv movie is 30 years old this year!

It feels like yesterday.

Was the original actor who played Sam dead by this point? I remember the guy didn't sounds like him.

No it was Louis Arquette in disguise.

Why was Cindy still in college? And now even younger and prettier than before.

[quote]there were just too many characters, too low ratings and Bob Reed was back to his old tricks.

Not to mention that, at this point, he was eat up with AIDS.

Very Brady Christmas didn’t have low ratings.

The Bradys (1990) did tho.

The success of this TV movie led to the reprise of another weekly series (THE BRADYS).

A Very Brady Christmas had HUGE ratings, I believe it was the highest rated tv movie of the season.

Pete rocked that 🌃 night shirt?

That wardrobe person should've been fired.

Barry Williams's hairline was creeping WAY back. It would have been funny if one of the characters said, "Shut up, forehead!" to him.

Both Barry and Chris have been open about their treatments for hair loss.

Greg's wife was too damn perky.

Jennifer Runyon Was a beauty.

R52 Did the ever actually say she was still an undergrad? Maybe she was in grad school, haha.

R74 wasn’t she Snow White on The Charmings?

No R77, that was Peter's girlfriend. Greg's wife was aptly cast as the new Gidget.

This aired one time this year. I miss when this would air numerous times every Holiday season.

R79, it released on DVD last year and was also included in the green shag carpet DVD boxset of the series

R79 It is on Hulu!

Thanks R81

Watching it now.

Chris Knight was smoking hot in this. Wow.

And Maureen McCormick looked gorgeous!!! Was she still on drugs here? She looks beautiful.

Eve looks like a troll.

I think Maureen was on the road to recovery when this was filmed. But I think producers were worried she might be problematic and made her an under five after the first third of the movie.

Under five, R83?

Yasssssss!

R84, an under five is an actor/actress with less than five lines.

Maureen was pregnant.

[quote]Maureen was pregnant.

Don't look at ME!

Jennifer Runyon and Chris Knight played love interests on Another World about five years before this.

It's 3 years old, but if you're still around r2, your recap is hilarious.