Brady Bunch

How's Kitty Karry-All holding up?

Eve was her typical cunty self like she was doing them a favor for being there, and maybe she was. None of them looked great. Even Michael Knight looked pretty old.

Eve Plumb is still as sour as ever, couldn't even join in and provide some little tidbit about how she's recognized like the others. Immediately shaking her head no when Savannah jokingly asked if she could call them by their characters names, no sense of humor whatsoever that Eve.

Eve Plumb really needs to get the sand out of her vagina.

I used to love the show, but all this Brady Bunch resurgence in the past year has become so tiresome. Do any of them ever work?

Susan Olsen is the one who's a cunt. Just read...

Peter and Marcia still look good...

Greg doesn't look terrible considering he's 65.

And why does Eve Plumb keep doing these if she hates being Brady so much? She had a career post-Brady playing runaway prostitutes.

Good Morning Hoda?! Lolol.

A few years ago, Maureen McCormick appeared on one of those celebrity roasts. She was fat. Jeff Ross I don't even remember making a joke about it, he just said "Maureen McCormick- what the FUCK happened? Jesus Christ!" The look on her face. I don't think she really had any idea how she looked to people. She was shocked, and seemed very upset.

Was Eve as enthusiastic and pleasant as she was here? She's getting paid to do these shows, so why act like she's getting teeth pulled?

But yeah, Susan is worse.

What the heck is there left to say about the show?

Damn Eve really does have a canker in her cooter.

I really don't get Eve at all. Do you really want to come off as a humorless person? It's so foreign to me.

It would kinda suck to get approached practically every day about it.

Of course a Brady reunion wouldn't be the same without a bitter sourpuss with shards of glass in her cunt; don't ever change miserable old bitch Eve Plump.

Seriously why the fuck does she do these Brady related events when she knows that's all anybody ever asks or cares about is her Brady Bunch character. No one gives a shit about Eve, all we want is the kooky attention seeking Jan Brady.

[quote]It would kinda suck to get approached practically every day about it.

Then don't to Brady Bunch related events and then everyone can forget Eve Plump ever existed. She wants the attention, just not Brady Bunch attention. Well bitch, you should have done more with your career then just playing Jan Brady.

They should tell Eve to go fuck herself and have Jennifer Elise Cox show up instead.

Eve needs some Summer's Eve.

Be nice to Eve. She played the mannish auto mechanic teacher on Grease Live! She almost fell out of her golf cart!

Californian dried plumb, shockingly they look better than the other Californian plumb, Miss Eve, and 90 per cent less bitter too.

I don't just look like a cunt, I am one too

Bobby lookth great!

Maureen has had a little something done to her face since DWTS, fillers or maybe a mid face lift. The sagging, huge creases on her face during dwts are gone, she seems to have left her neck in tact though.

Susan still gets first prize for awful person. Eve gets Miss Non-Congeniality title, she did stump for HIllary as opposed to Trump so she's not a deplorable like her tv baby sis.

I think the fact that Eve was there at ALL was amazing. Doesn't she usually avoid any and all Brady reunion stuff? Maureen said they had not all been together in 15 years.

Fun Fact: Lisa Kudrow was the one who advised Eve to color her hair red to distance herself from Jan Brady character.

I read the comments before I watched the clip and Eve was totally fine and really plugged the series.

R18 Yes, either her or Melanie Hutsell. Both were better as "Jan" than sour Plumb.

All About Eve

I suspect that the money was *just* right enough for Eve to the project and tolerate Maureen.

[quote]Maureen has had a little something done to her face

I thought so too. I watch watching on a Hi Def tv and it looked like a bit of tightness around the mouth.

Did George Glass do a fake call in?

I didn’t watch, but Jan looks pretty good in OP’s picture. Bobby looks ok - if slightly chunky and unkempt - but still handsome and recognizable. Honestly, I think Marcia looks phenomenal in that pic, like she’s hardly aged.

Who is that middle school earth science teacher in the vomit-green shirt?

Maureen was on Celebrity Fit Club 100 years ago and came across really well on the show: smart and sweet with a sly side. She seemed like she'd be a fun time.

The rest of them can fall off a cliff.

[quote]Who is that middle school earth science teacher in the vomit-green shirt?

I'ts Me, Bobbee

[quote]Who is that middle school earth science teacher in the vomit-green shirt?

Bobby, the one who you just said looked ok. Did you mean Peter looked ok?

At least for Maureen every important male of a certain generation in Hollywood wanted to nail her, with Eve everyone just remembers her as tv's first teen neurotic

Chris Knight's furniture collection is on overstock.com in case anyone is frantically trying to find it.

Poor Greg, he could never match him back then either

It's funny - most celebrities from a hit series or movie that is fondly remembered eventually come to terms with it and realize it's better to be known for an iconic role than be forever forgotten. Patty Duke eventually embraced both Valley of the Dolls and the Patty Duke Show before she died. Cindy and Penny are both proud of what they did on Laverne and Shirley.

The only ones I can think of who refuse to play along are Tina Louise (Gilligan, never amounted to anything else), Meg Ryan (makes fun of As The World Turns, no longer has a career), Faye Dunaway (talented and played other memorable roles, but never works any more), and Eve.

As someone said, HGTV must have made her an offer she couldn't refuse to participate this time, because she seemed to be done with BB. So I don't understand why you would agree to do the show and promote it (probably in her contract) but then come off as such a horrible sourpuss. And she's didn't need the money - she sold her beach house and could probably live off that for the rest of her years.

She doesn't come off at all like any of you are saying. You can knock it off.

What more does she have to do? She plugged the series very well and also explained what was going on, who else is going to be on it, how great HGTV is and how much she wanted to be a part of it.

I get it, you want her to say Marcia, Marcia, Marcia again.

R41 see R11

The work on Maureen's face looks awful. She now has a permanent "smelling shit" expression and the tightened face really makes her aged neck stand out. Cindy looks like a toothless meth user and that hideous Sigmund and the Sea Monsters wig needs to go. Eve seems to look the best out of the women.

It's a big "FUCK YOU" to the fans when you're shitty about a role that made you famous. Because you're basically saying that the role is worthy of contempt and that everything associated with the role--including the fans who ultimately pay the bills--is worthy of contempt.

Cash the checks, smile, and keep it moving. How hard is that??

Marine was mean to cousin Oliver when they were on the weakest link.

Oh fuck they are all so FUCKING OLD.

The women look better than the men, in general, although Susan Olsen looks like the hateful MAGA cunt that she is.

LOL R38

Greg is fucking 65? Then how old does that make me?!

Marine?

oh dear.

We’ve decided not to tell you, r49. It’s better for everyone that way.

Susan Olsen has a dirty oven. I saw it on her IG. I hate her.

I thought Maureen looked good. Out of them all, she's the one I'd love to hear stories from.

[quote] Chris Knight's furniture collection is on overstock.com in case anyone is frantically trying to find it.

Lol R38. Is this real? I'm going to look and will be sorta pissed if it's not.

I saw this! I was thinking "Boy, why does Eve Plumb even show up if she's just going to look pissy?" She was rolling her eyes when they did the acapella "Sunshine Day."

Barry, Maureen and Susan came off as the most well adjusted ones who had accepted their place in history and were making the best of it.

I actually thought Barry and Chris looked ok, but Mike Lookinland, what the hell happened? He looked older then all of the other ones.

Yes, Chris's "Home Collection" really is on overstock.com, not joking.

Eve's PR team should have told her to wear her dark curly wig. Oh and her glasses.

R44=Eve

When Mike Lookinland was ten years younger he was the one that really looked the most like Robert Reed.

Now he looks like David Crosby.

Thindy MAGAt Olson IS "a toothless meth user," R44.

Nothing good ever comes out of “let’s go down the line and say what you’re all doing these days!’

If your of a certain age the episode where Bobby got dirty and decided to wash his clothes the special feeling you got confirmed all the thoughts you where having. For that along Bobby will always have a special place in my heart.

Eve Plumb is the most talented of the Brady child actors. Her role of Jan was the most memorable, and she gave solid performances in other shows and TV movies. She’s an accomplished artist, and she’s financially stable.

Why is she so miserable? She just sold her Malibu home for $3.5 million dollars. She bought the place for $55,000 many years ago. If “The Brady Bunch” reunion shows are such a burden, why does she participate? She cannot condemn what she allows.

Christopher Knight still makes me horny

I don’t Eve is miserable. She’s just more serious than the others. Let’s just face it. Some things the interviewers want her to do being a Brady are cringe inducing, and she’s not fake about it. She’s done just about everything Brady related for the last 40 years and wisely stayed away from the variety hour. What more do people want?

[quote]Even Michael Knight looked pretty old.

Why was he there? Isn't he from "All My Children?"

[quote]I thought Maureen looked good. Out of them all, she's the one I'd love to hear stories from.

She spilled a LOT on Howard Stern many years ago, from dishing about her coke years where she’d show up to auditions blitzed out of her mind, to whether or not she’s ever done anal and black guys. If I can find it, I’ll post it.

The bit about anal

Chris Knight, sex machine

Fuck yeah

Chris has a phat ass

Christopher Knight needs to lose the soul patch.

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I thought Eve didn't show up to these things if Maureen was there?

Eve was perfectly fine on Wendy Williams. She looks much better with her hair a bit longer too.

Eve was pretty hot back in the day. She definitely had the best hair of the girls.

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R40 Richard Thomas is another one who seems to be, like Eve Plumb, conflicted about his most famous role. He took part in The Walton's reunion movies, but he isn't always around when they do shows like this. Also, it took many years for The Walton's Mountain Museum in Virginia to get him to visit. Like Eve, he seems to think he is better than his co-stars.

The producers of the 1980 slasher flick Prom Night originally wanted Eve for the female lead, but when Jamie Lee Curtis showed interest in the role, it went to her instead.

Eve’s role as the white/black lady in I’M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA will never not be funny.

One of Eve's more provocative paintings.

I know someone who did an movie with Eve. He likes her a lot. I think the kind of chink in her armor is The Brady Bunch, and since that's all anyone wants to speak to hear about, we get a skewed vision of how she actually is.

Why wasn't Ann B. Davis included? Rude!

Eve had saggy tits

Remember when Maureen tried to make it as a country singer? Does anyone here own her CD?

Here's the CD

R84 I'm pretty sure she's dead.

I liked the episode of Wonder Woman that Eve appeared on. Hypnotized by the flute playing of Martin Mull (supposed platinum artist no less).

Eve had the best opportunities coming out of Brady Bunch - Dawn Portrait of a Runaway, Little Women, Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn.

But then she did drek like Fantasy Island, The Brady Brides, and Love Boat.

But Maureen got to play country icon Barbara Mandrell in a made-for-tv biopic

Will the real Jan Brady please stand up.

How nostalgic of Eve to have morphed into a "Partridge Family"-era Shirley Jones!

When Chris was on the original show in its last season and on their subsequent variety series, in retrospect he reminded me of the Pat character on "SNL" in the '80s.

I thought that Maureen had some fun acting moments on the original show, too. I always liked the episode where she got all crazy for losing the part of Juliet in the original show's Season 4.

Barry looks like he finally got some much-welcomed work done under his eyes or something.

These guys all made my sort of lonely childhood a tad brighter each Friday night for 5 years during their original show's primetime run--I always enjoy seeing them together, and in some ways it makes them seem ageless to me. This was a nice get-together of them; just is also a reminder sadly of the passing of Ann, Flo and Robert.

Why are they pushing this now when the show’s not on until September?

R83, stop with the racial slurs.

did bobby ever get out of that wheelchair?

Eve had gorgeous hair.

[quote]I didn’t watch, but Jan looks pretty good in OP’s picture. Bobby looks ok - if slightly chunky and unkempt - but still handsome and recognizable. Honestly, I think Marcia looks phenomenal in that pic, like she’s hardly aged.

Can you please call them by their real names, for God’s sakes? They already stated they don’t like being referred to by their character names. Why dead name them?

The 50th Anniversary of the show is this Fall.

R98 Please they are lucky to be called anything, anymore. They should just smile and be thankful they can still trot out the old Brady nostalgia for money.

Bruce Vilanch labeled Eve "The Bitterest Brady".

Wow the Shirley Partridge comparison for Jan is accurate. Also, if she like being called Jan she should stay home and decline the paycheck.

I thought Barry looks good, Still handsome for a guy his age. Chris looks good too, maybe could lose a few pounds but still looks fine. Mike has not aged well, it's true. Maureen looks good especially for her age, I thought Eve looked fine and was reasonably well behaved. I did not detect bitterness or resentment in her. She seems to be more serious than the others but she didn't say anything mean or unkind. I don't get all the Eve hate here. But it's Susan who, if you must, deserves all the ridicule and contempt. She honestly looked like she was half drunk or on some kind of downers. Clearly she has lived a hard, sleazy life. I'm just glad she didn't try to inject her political beliefs into this interview, Deplorable that she is.

R76, Eve looks great in that Wendy Williams clip. She’s an attractive woman, but the short hair she has now is aging. If she grew it back to that length, she could shave 5 years off.

Florence Henderson described adult Eve as “very intelligent and well-read.” I think she’s just more serious and reserved than the others. Her paintings are very good.

[quote]Can you please call them by their real names, for God’s sakes?

^This right here could be a major part of why Eve turned out the way she has.

It's wonderful to love the characters in a show, and it's wonderful when the actors have loving relationships off- camera, but they're not the people they play on tv.

Also, I think Eve wants her name to be known for her painting. She can't go around signing her works "Jan Brady".

R105 Why not? That's the only reason anyone cares about her paintings.

I met Maureen McCormick a few years ago in West Hollywood, in a bar. She was a little buzzed and truly couldn't have been nicer or more down to earth. She has a beautiful college-age daughter and she proceeded to show me a dozen or so pics of her on her phone. Then a picture of her handsome husband popped up. And she told me he's a republican, but not the asshole kind. Then she asked me to take off my glasses, and I walked away.

What's up with Maureen's lips?

[quote]Marine was mean to cousin Oliver

Good! That bitch ruined everything.

I could swear I saw/read that Eve made a comment on fuck face Susan Olsen's homophobic rants last year - like she was also disgusted by it. So, maybe she's not thrilled to have to be around Susan. I'm trying to find the comment from Eve.

[quote] I don't get all the Eve hate here.

There's not R103. It's one or two internet troll farm minions that choose a target and go with it. Contrived, internet trolling.

Remember, they're the same crew who tried to knock that uppity Amy Irving down a few notches. Yes, Amy Irving.

They're not the brightest crew but they will be brutally attacked by viscious guard dogs if they don't make their thread quota.

Susan Olsen's picture should be in the dictionary next to BLOWSY and BOOZEBAG.

Oh, and Susan is trying to raise money for Milo Y. She's a treasure.

Good grief, she was fine. I'm certainly not saying she hasn't been cunty about BB in the past, but she was just fine on the Today.

Susan looks like shit.

R106 consider for a moment that she's not Jan. Then consider that she doesn't own the rights to the name of that fictional character.

Susan looks like she has substance abuse issues. Her homophobic rant about a guy's post on Facebook was rather puzzling because I thought she would be a friendly voice with her experience working with Robert Reed. I wouldn't be surprised if opiods, meth, or just plain alcohol is turning her into a bigger mess. And that hair makes me think she has few gay friends.

My 2 favorite BB episodes featured Peter. When he double dated with Greg as "Phil Packer" (haha), and when his volcano erupted all over Marsha's snooty girl's club.

Didn't Marsha turn into a crack ho? Or at least the actress who played Marsha on TV?

We sure spread sunshine around

Does anyone have the Jenny Jones clip of Eve showing an art print to the audience? I can't find it anywhere. I remember the picture was sort of humorous and had a dog and doghouse in it, with her name spelled out in boldface type below, as was the fashion at that time for art poster prints.

[quote]Why dead name them?

Stop trying to make deadnaming happen

Keep in mind that none of the Brady kids make residuals from the decades of reruns that of happened. Residuals started a few years after they went off the air. That was make them incredibly better, as each of them would have a lot of money that they do not have

Why the Brady children now want the recognition of something in the past that they didn't have then, but when they now want it, it seems to evade them? Tragic.

[quote]Didn't Marsha turn into a crack ho? Or at least the actress who played Marsha on TV?

No, MarCIa (as in CIA, who had very close ties to ABC) became a drunk in 1990’s [italic]The Bradys[/italic] when she realized she married a fat unemployable manchild while Jan landed herself a well-bred hunk who could hold down a job. The best thing about that show was a scene where Greg performed the Heimlich Maneuver on Peter.

[quote]Tragic.

No, what happened to Dana Plato 20 years ago was tragic. This is helping to pay for their retirements.

[quote] 😢

I'd still go at it with Christopher Knight. Dammmm.

As for stars who don't want to be recognized as the characters they played, Jean Stapleton was very well known for getting ticked off when people called her "Edith". "I'm Not Edith!!" she'd say. *I* say if it wasn't for Edith, nobody except NY theatre folk would know who you are. Be Grateful.

Mary Martin always loved it when people would call out "Peter Pan!" and Roz Russell Always acknowledged people who called out "Auntie Mame!". They knew their famous roles and they loved their fans.

I agree with other posters that Eve was not bitchy or cunty in the Today video at R3. She seemed fine throughout. The Brady Bunch got a huge revival when the Brady Bunch movies came out. MTV started showing the old shows, Barry wrote a book, and there was a lot of nostalgia for the show from Gen Xers. I'm sure all these years later, they've all been asked the same questions about 10,000 times. That gets old. But they all seem to be good sports about it.

I remember in the 1990s they had most of the cast on some talk show but I can't remember which one. Mike Lookinland seemed very bitter at the time. I remember his then wife or girlfriend talked about what a great singing voice Mike had. Barry has always seemed the most at ease about it. He gets that the Brady Bunch can be a cash cow if you play it right. I do get the sense that Eve is just more of a serious person and doesn't really get why people fawn over a stupid TV show from so long ago. She's probably just not very sentimental.

[quote]decades of reruns that of happened.

Oh, dear!

I do recall the cast mentioning at various times over the years they didn't get residuals, that must be a bitter pill to swallow. Melissa Gilbert on the other hand has mentioned she stills makes a decent living off of Little House.

It's funny - most residuals for people who were in 70's TV shows seem to stop after the sixth syndication run or something like that. I know Penny and Cindy were not making bank on Laverne and Shirley reruns - same with Erin Moran on Happy Days. So if Melissa Gilbert was still making money of Little House, it may have been from the multiple DVD and Blu-Ray releases for a show that remains popular around the world. None of these people are making Friends or Seinfeld money.

Eve also seems quite embarrassed about her performance in TBB - which seems strange because she arguably was the strongest actor of all the children and got some of the best storylines to play out. She constantly says things like "how would you like to have an awkward photo of you in junior high shown to the world." She should be proud of her work and that it truly has stood the test of time.

Face it. Molly was prettier.

I wonder how many of them have a #MeToo story.

Chris Knight is still very do-able and I would take Barry for a tumble, too, even at his "advanced" age.

Melissa Gilbert's comments were fairly recent (while she's been married to the Busfield guy), IIRC her grandfather was Hollywood connected, maybe he negotiated a really good deal for her.

I've also read that Dawn Welles was the only Gilligan's Island cast member to get good residuals as her husband at the time she signed contract was a big Hollywood agent or manager or something along those lines.

Get rid of them...still living off the fumes of fame from a show that was cancelled over forty years ago. The only one I felt bad for was Robert Reed. Florence was a thirsty old bag who bragged about getting crabs from Mayor Lindsay of NYC. Stay classy Flo, you dead bitch. Don’t these people have anything else that they can do other than show up for Brady Bunch crap? So tired of them all!!!

Jennifer Elise Cox was the BOMB as Jan in the Brady Bunch Movie! She was the whole friggin' movie!

I lost my love for Florence Henderson when she made it a point to include “he died of AIDS” about Robert Reed. I know he’d be mortified if he were among us.

I don’t know which one was worse, Florence for blabbering about Robert Reed, or Shirley Jones for bragging about the dick sizes of her sons. Cringe!

[quote] Mike has not aged well, it's true.

Redheads tend not to age well. His hair was dyed brown for the show,

[quote] But it's Susan who, if you must, deserves all the ridicule and contempt.

Exactly. This alone is reason enough to despise her...

Florence wasn't the one who blabbed that Reed "died of AIDS." Within a week of Reed's death, the press got a copy of Reed's death certificate, which listed he was HIV+ and that was a contributing factor to his death, and that was printed just about everywhere. She may have said it after his death, but it was also after it was printed everywhere. Back then, people didn't really understand what was meant by "contributing factor" so many just thought he died of AIDS.

Florence always talked fondly about Robert Reed. They were friends and got along pretty well. Reed even told Florence to tell the Brady Bunch kids he was terminal with cancer. I think Florence said he hid that he was HIV+ from her, and he never told any of the Brady kids about it. He was a sad closet case.

I blocked Susan on Facebook.

Cunt.

[quote] And that hair makes me think she has few gay friends.

It's a wig.

wow r140. Here i thought people were just being mean because of her hair. She really is loathsome.

Has she apologized for that? Was the Milo support to compensate for her apparent hatred of gays? Also why does someone like Roseanne get disappeared after saying something much less offensive? And even though she's a nutcase I believe her when she says she thought VJ was white/ethnic, not black, her show was not created by a racist bigot.

Why is HGTV not being held to task for including this vile person in the show?

R141, I was referring to recently, as in 3-4 years ago. She didn’t reveal anything per se, but when she said it, it was unnecessary.

She was voted off Dancing With the Stars (as I recall) and was thanking everyone and on the list, while looking skyward said and my friend, “Robert Reed, who died of AIDS....” I remember I was flabbergasted she included that. It would be like an Oscar winner saying, “I’d like to thank my mother, who died of breast cancer and my father, who died of cirrhosis of the liver.” It just rubbed me wrong.

[quote]Didn't Marsha turn into a crack ho? Or at least the actress who played Marsha on TV?

See R67/R68.

Reed was supposedly a nasty piece of work who was difficult to work with, but he adored the kids.

You’d think Robert Reed would have been the last one to agree to that awful variety show, but he appeared to have a blast doing it.

^ did he need the money?

I don’t think so. I think he really just enjoyed the singing and dancing.

Roseanne has said multiple offensive things - why are you fucking making excuses for that nutjob?

From what I've heard Reed used to host sex parties at his Pasadena home in the late 70's/early 80's.

As I recall, Robert Reed really wanted to do the variety show. Chris Knight was hesitant because he felt he couldn't dance or sing. The Bradys were in high demand, as well, after the show became even more popular in reruns.

[quote]why are you fucking making excuses for that nutjob?

not making excuses, just wondering why some hollywood missteps result in complete shunning/erasure while other ones (like Cindy's faggot diatribe) get ignored/forgotten. Same with Mel Gibson, all was forgotten. I guess it's still ok to persecute gays and jews in a public and hateful manner.

R153 I remember Marcia saying "what happened to my Led Zeppelin album" on one of the variety show episodes. I'm sure that line was Maureen's idea to make herself look cool, since everything about the show was just the opposite.

Sidenote: I get such a Christine Taylor as Marcia Brady vibe when I hear Meghan Markle speak.

I still get chills when I watch this.

I'm of two minds about Eve's bitterness, on the one hand I get the idea, 'if you don't like it, don't do it' and she should embrace her past and what people know her for. However, the fact that all of them were children when they signed on to do the show speaks to the fact that none of them had a lot of say in choosing to play a character that, as it turns out the world would identify them with for the rest of their lives, and a consequence of which was making it difficult to be employed as an adult actor outside of the Brady Bunch universe because nobody would cast them in anything else because they were so identified with their character. For most of them, particularly the youngest two, it probably wasn't a big deal because there wasn't a lot of talent or ambition for an acting career, but the older four at least showed some semblance of talent (or in McCormick and Knight's case, good looks) that might have made them employable in another situation.

I think that the youngest two have both led rather hard lives, Olsen's has been pretty well-documented, but Lookinland got a DUI a few years back which doesn't success he's the most stable mabel on the block.

success should be suggest

Does anyone remember the poster here from not too long ago who wrote about a friend who smoked crack with Barry and attempted to have anal with him...

R160

GASP!

Agree that Chris Knight can still get it. He looks like he would throw a mean fuck, and I’d gladly let him.

Susan suffers from migraines and takes medications.

Why was I not asked to be on the show, too?

R163 medication = meth

Was there any good scoop from this, for example maybe Greg and Peter spending some private time together?

Imitrex, which makes you drowsy

I don't find Christopher Knight attractive. Not then, not now.

I remember when Lee Majors slept on Mike Brady's couch. Robert Reed and Lee must have hooked up - two closeted actors.

which ep was that r169?

I can't believe Rip Taylor was alice's BF on the variety show. Must have been an inside bearding joke.

Maybe she thought that mentioning Reed died of AIDS was a positive thing for AIDS research or a cure? Or that it was a positive statement of some bizarre kind. It sounds kind of twisted but Florence was not a stupid woman. Maybe she was just misguidedly, trying to point up the fact that Reed died tragically because, at that time, there were no effective drugs for HIV management? And that we lost a talented man due to the insidiousness of AIDS. It sounds like I am reading an awful lot into her statement but it really makes no sense otherwise. I mean, she was not homophobic and even if she were that would have been a tacky, crass thing to say (if meant as an insult) and not really in her nature.

Fuck, that was bad, r157.

Susan Olsen is a has-been nobody so that's why her diatribes are ignored. As for Eve, I remember how much she changed from season 4 to 5. Particularly her boobs.

R171, I really don’t know what her motive was other than the way it was said. As I said earlier, it was like an Oscar winner giving a speech and including it. It just didn’t make sense. If she had added anything else, and I mean virtually anything, after the comment it would’ve made more sense. It was just...odd.

She is probably not a homophobe, but she did say nobody on set knew that Robert was gay. My understanding is he was out on set and everyone knew except for John Q. for obvious reasons.

I’ve been trying to find video of it to make it clearer to everyone, but it’s difficult to find one tiny clip.

I've seen Florence interviewed many times about Robert Reed and she was always very supportive. She knew he was gay and didn't care. He never told any of the kids, even though they all knew. None of them cared. He was very good to them. Even Susan Olsen has had nothing but praise for Reed over the years, which makes her anti-gay tirade somewhat surprising, but I suppose that's what happens when you start diving into the right wing politics. She lost her job after that rant, so glad to see she suffered consequences.

I agree with R171. Whatever she may have said on Dancing with the Stars, I'm sure she didn't mean it in any sort of offensive way.

Florence Henderson was a devout Catholic. So who knows how she felt about him.

Several years ago, they did a tv movie about the making of the Brady Bunch and in the tv movie they acted like Greg knew he was gay.

Thank you, R171, r175 et al.

I was hoping to be wrong about her because I always thought she was great. Maybe it touched a nerve or something, who knows. I’m glad to see she was an advocate, though.

Thank you for enlightening me.

r164 You were mentioned upthread seeing as there were shards of you in Eve's vagina.

I liked younger Greg. He always seemed so angry. He really looked like he'd throw an angry face fuck behind the jr. high bleachers.

When it's time to change, you've got to re-arrange!

Sunshine Day, bitches

Did Chris Knight get a hair transplant, or is it a hair system? I can’t tell.

Mike Lookinland as an adult looks kind of like my first boyfriend, the closet queen.

[quote]You’d think Robert Reed would have been the last one to agree to that awful variety show, but he appeared to have a blast doing it.

Bruce Vilanch (who worked on the show) said Reed LOVED doing it and that he really let his inner song-and-dance queen come out.

Vilanch also has said "Thank God for Florence Henderson" and refers to the show as "Tennille and the Seven Captains."

Not that it really matters that much but how did they explain the Brady's getting a variety show? Fake Jan could sing too. Ann B. Davis hated the Brady Bunch more than Eve. Ann knew where the money came from though so she hopped at any chance the Brady franchise threw her. As bad as it was you can't say they didn't give it their all.

R186 Mike was supposed to give up the rat race of being an architect and decide to become a variety performer along with the family. Creator Sherwood Schwartz thought it was ludicrous and was not attached to it in any way.

Link about Ann B Davis? They’ve been numerous interviews where she said she loved doing the show and not one little thing about hating it that I’ve seen.

There have been^^^

Ann B Davis even wore makeup for the variety show.

[quote] Fake Jan could sing too.

which made Maureen's singing even more dreadful.

Barry was fucking hot too. He reminds me a lot of my 10th grade math teacher Mr. Smith in this pic.

Barry had gorgeous eyes. He became unattractive when he started wearing that pornstache.

Greg was hot as fuck when he was young

Robert Reed was extremely handsome in his youth. A graduate of Northwestern, majoring in drama, he also attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Gene Hackman was the original choice to play Mike Brady. Hackman was ultimately passed over because he was a relative unknown. Reed showed interest in the role of Mike because he was genuinely interested in issues related to blended families. Plus, he acknowledged in interviews that it was also a financial decision.

Chris Knight looks like an Osmond. Fun fact, he’s the only BB cast member with brown eyes.

When they cast Fake Jan for the variety show, the runner-up for the part was Kathy Hilton, who later went on to spawn Paris.

R157 I notice she hides her fidgety hands in her dress.

R197 I meant Cocaine.

One of the reasons Eve is so bitter is because after the show she did by far the best of the kids. In the late 70s she frequently starred in Movies of the Week. But then suddenly the roles dried up, and she's bitter about it. The other kids didn't do very well at all ever or until they were much older (such as when Barry and Maureen went on Broadway for different shows).

Apparently Sherwood Schwartz and the writers of "The Brady Bunch" decided she was by far the best actor among the kids, and was especially good at playing tormented and miserable. That's why there are so many episodes where Jan is so anguished. But of course that's what people now remember about the character, and so her character got the most mocking in the 90s of all the Brady kids when there was suddenly a Generation X nostalgia obsession with "The Brady Bunch." Eve HATED that, but she would also take advantage of the attention by doing things like appearing on Jenny Jones, hoping this would get her cast. But she did not grow up to be a very good actor, and she lost her prettiness she had as a teenager. And her superior attitude pissed everyone off if they liked the show and their memories of her as a kid.

I think Schwartz wanted Hackman who was coming off an Oscar nomination at the time. He might’ve gotten the role if Reed didn’t have a contract with ABC to fulfill. Reed said he had two choices for roles (can’t remember the other one). He made the right choice. He had perfect chemistry with the cast, which a lot of times can make up for silly scripts, which TBB had in droves.

[quote] which made Maureen's singing even more dreadful.

Maureen's not a dreadful singer by any means.

Maureen's voice. She was considered the best singer among the six kids.

She released a country album as an adult, and played Rizzo on Broadway in the 90s in a revival of "Grease."

How come Carol Brady isn't involved in this?

Cindy has the look of a skank who drinks Schlitz out of a can at a biker bar. Her hair has been the same her entire adult life. Just awful. Peter was on a reality show with his ex-wife years ago and came across as nasty and egotistical. Eve Plumb's paintings are actually amazing. They dyed Bobbys hair for the show so he'd look like the other boys. He was a natural blonde.

Because Florence Henderson died in 2016, R203.

[quote]Chris Knight's furniture collection is on overstock.com in case anyone is frantically trying to find it.

My nightstands are Christopher Knight, although I think I bought them on wayfair.com. They're attractive, well made, and were downright cheap considering their quality. When I bought them I had no clue it was THAT Christopher Knight. It's nice to know that I spend my nights flanked on both sides by the most fuckable Brady.

[quote]Peter was on a reality show with his ex-wife years ago and came across as nasty and egotistical.

Anything to make a white male look bad. That’s Viacom’s plan.

It might have something to do with the fact that SHE'S DEAD.

They could always get a Ouija board and use it to ask their dead co-stars for advice.

Cindy and Bobby looked the worst but Bobby seemed pretty happy and likable. The other four looked fine to good - esp. for their ages. Greg does seem like the one who accepted his fate as forever being Greg Brady the earliest and seems pretty content. I think Maureen maybe has accepted it now compared to a few years ago. She seemed more relaxed that she has in other interviews and seemed pretty content.

As a kid I though Greg was the hottest. As adults - Peter probably had the edge.

Couldn't they just replace her on these get-togethers and hope nobody notices? Sandy D maybe?

I have never ever heard that Ann B Davis hated TBB. I don’t think it’s true because the Alice character was in many ways an extension of her most famous role, Schultzie.

As a millennial, I started watching this show in re-runs obviously. I was about 11 or 12 and would get a boner every time for Peter! I wanted some Peter and Chris Knight is still sexy.

Susan Olsen is a CUNT.

Maureen was your typical blonde American beauty.

Robert Reid was so handsome esp early in the shows run.

I loved the Brady Bunch movies and the casting was perfection. I thought it elevated each character AND the show. They nailed it with both movies without making fun of it. So many classic scenes I could watch over and over.

Favorite episodes

54/40 and Fight house of cards

That was Alice I’m Kay

Due to a scoring error, Nora Coombs is the winner of the essay contest.

I’m sorry Marcia, but Jan is just a little bit better.

Father of the year contest

I’m strictly a no talent

[quote] As a millennial

No, you're not. Making sure you add something that has no relevance shows advanced age and loneliness. You should have thought twice about trying to pose younger than you are.

[quote]I started watching this show in re-runs obviously

No, you didn't. Use of the word 'obviously' is another filler. It failed.

[quote] I was about 11 or 12

Yes but you were 11 or 12 when the show originally aired.

[quote] and would get a boner every time for Peter!

Boner? Definitely not the word of a millennial.

One can be a millennial these days and still be over 30.

Would you like a cold drink or a cold piece of fruit?

The thing I find funny about actors (especially child actors) on successful shows is that the ones who get "stuck" in their famous TV role are the ones who never did ANYTHING during their time off.

I certainly understand wanting to take a break, but if you want people to see you as anything else besides "That Character" when the show ends, you have to have something to show.

Hey, they're all still alive. That's saying something.

[quote] a cold piece of fruit

Hey, I resemble that remark!

R219 = Shirley Jones mourning her dead TV children.

[quote]As a millennial

Oh gawd.

I think they ALL (with the exception of Ann B.) did guest stints on The Love Boat.

Leave me out of this, R222. I have enough trouble keeping Robert Reed from hitting on Rock Hudson as it is!

Eve wasn’t the only kid who worked after the show. Maureen guest starred in various tv shows and was in the cheesy flick Skatetown USA with Patrick Swayze and Scott Batio.

Mike Lookinland for Coca Cola...

Maureen comes off as the most "on" (affected, actressy). Barry's got a little bit of that too. The others seem, more or less, normal. Weird being a child actor. You don't have much say in it and then it could affect and inform your entire life. I almost feel bad for these Bradys. Imagine people singing that fucking song to you everywhere you go.

Barry has been milking the Brady cash cow for decades - since the ‘90s at least. It started with his book Growing Up Brady (which I own). He’s even toured over the years as Johnny Bravo.

Handsome

Robbie Rist has worked pretty steadily in cartoons since this show ended. He was also on [italic]The Mary Tyler Moore Show[/italic], which Joyce Bulifant, the original choice for Carol Brady, was also on, but I don’t remember them doing a scene together. He was also on Sherwood Schwartz’s next sitcom, the Saturday morning live-action NBC show [italic]Big John, Little John[/italic], along with Herb Edelman and once again Joyce Bulifant.

R228 Johnny Bravo sounds like a gay porn star name.

The animated character Johnny Bravo looks like a gay for pay porn star.

Nothing beats the scene where a stoned Barry Williams nearly trips over the bike pump. He was clearly high.

So many great episodes of this show over the years. Great ones that come to mind are Greg Smokes, Jan's numerous middle child angst, Jan's only child wannabe, Peter loosing his voice, Cindy appearing on a TV show, Cindy and her lisp, Marcia's make over of an ugly classmate, Cindy & Mrs. Brady have their tonsils removed, Alice feeling unwanted and leaving the Brady family, the house of cards competition, one could go on and on. If I had to be stranded on a desert island forever and could only pick one TV show, this would be it.

TV critics are notoriously poor judges of comedy.

[quote]Peter loosing his voice,

Oh, dear!

Not to be confused with Alice Ghostley, who is even more so these days.

Who really would want to buy that house? Seriously, does anyone want to live in a house in outdated colors and finishes? The house itself is a great Mid-Century home, but the Brady's decor was primarily that garish, awful "Mediterranean" style that emerged in the late 1960s.

Maureen probably would have made something out of her career if she had done some topless scenes. She had the perfect opportunity to in "Moonshine County Express"

R239=Ann B Davis

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia,

Sure Jan

Bobby is ugly.

I loved the Grand Canyon episodes. And the UFO episode. Oh and when Greg’s hair turns orange from that hair tonic

[quote] Cindy....Her hair has been the same her entire adult life.

Because it's a wig.

"Marcia, Marcia, Marcia" actually isn't a catchphrase, at least not in the way that "Whatcha talkin' about Willis?" or "Dy-no-mite" or "God'll get you for that" were. Jan only said it once in one episode. Those other catchphrases were very common in multiple episodes of their respective shows.

It did not become a catchphrase, at all, till Melanie Hutsell and Saturday Night Live, and then the Brady Bunch movie spoofs reinforced it.

Simlarly, "Sure, Jan" is from the Brady movie.

UFO episode?

R245 Peter and Bobby spot a ufo. The family doesn’t believe them.

Susan Olsen doesn’t wear a wig. You wig nazis are tiring.

Also, Jan never said "Macria, Marcia, Marcia!" the hilariously histrionic way Melanie Hutsell did. In the actual episode where she says it, she says it in a very depressed way.

Mom always said don't play ball in the house

Pork chops and applesauce

Eeww, my nose!

OMG I used to fantasize about Mike, Peter, Greg and I having a 4-some. Loved that show. I was a budding little gay boy then, so it was perfect.

Do you think mommy will be able to thing her tholo?

Clash of the titans!

Greg surfing in Hawaii may be responsible for my first boner.

Cousin Emma may be responsible for my first Subaru Forrester.

Aunt Jenny may be responsible for my hara kiri.

I haven't watched the interview. Are Maureen and Eve on speaking terms again? After Maureen's book came out she went on the interview circuit and said something like she and Eve might have made out. Eve was furious and wouldn't speak to her, saying Maureen was making shit up to sell her book.

Would you like a cold drink or a cold piece of fruit? Why does the fruit have to be cold? I can understand the drink, but the fruit?

Fun fact: Chris Knight is ALSO the name of a very, very good, very, very handsome Americana singer-songwriter. His CDs are terrif.

Would fuck both Chris and Barry

In real life, Davy Jones was a real piece of work. Lots of good dish posted about him in the Monkees thread that ran shortly after Peter Tork died.

I don't know if she ever came out publicly, but I'm pretty certain Maureen is bipolar. When she's in her manic periods, she's loving but can also be a little creepy. There's a Dr. Phil episode where she's trying to rescue her father from her brother's grasp. It was at least 20 years ago and might be available on YouTube. If anyone watches it, you'll see what I mean.

Eve strikes me as someone who grew into a kind on no-nonsense, doesn't want to be bothered with the entertainment bullshit. And she didn't want to be pulled into the stories Mau was spinning for her book. When Eve does participate in a Brady event, (almost always reluctantly), I think it's solely for the money. Not that she needs it, but they probably sweeten the offer enough that it's worth it every once in awhile.

Ever since Howard Stern asked her about doing anal I've noticed Maureen being very flirty with hosts in subsequent interviews.

Mike Lookinland is uglier than Mindy Cohn.

Maureen looks the best.

r264

she was the best actress too, here she outcunts eve.

It does amaze me the "kids" are still milking this cow 50 years after it started. Why not make money? I would completely understand either way -- distance themselves or play along -- but at least for most of the big media events, all 6 of them are there. The only things I can think of that Eve missed were the variety hour and the TV Land award show so I'm not sure why there is a perception that she's usually absent.

Because sometimes she is. She didn't want to do a cameo for The Brady Bunch Movie like the others. She wasn't in Day By Day Brady episode.

And she didn't attend the Brady Brunch Convention in 2014. Maureen was at least scheduled at one point but had to back out.

I’m ugly! Ugly! Ugly!

I hate high school, I hate it I hate it.

R266, Oprah reportedly wanted to do a Brady Bunch reunion in 2009, around the time Maureen McCormick’s book came out. Eve was supposedly the hold out, and Susan Olsen insinuated it was because she didn’t want to be around Maureen at the time.

Publicly, Eve hasn’t said a word about a feud with Maureen. I do recall when they both appeared on The Weakest Link around 2001 and kept trying to vote each other off.

Eve farted in the dressing room, very anal.

R266 None of them have learned any real world skills that would land them a job otherwise. Susan Olsen is very anti-education and SO proud of the fact that her slacker son doesn't attend college.

Don't worry about me. I'd like to know why that skank Susan Dey isn't helping them out.

Cute clip from 1993.

....

too bad this got left on the cutting room floor.

,,,,

Did Thindy get along with Tharah?

Here's the kind of thing that makes me feel some sympathy for actors on beloved shows from yesteryear.

Yes, there's probably someone who absolutely loves them wherever they go, and as annoying as that may be, it probably opens the door to their being treated well in their daily lives.

But, with the way the contracts were written then, they received residuals for a certain number of reruns, and that's it. Even after the 1974 SAG Exception, people on 80s-early 90s shows do not have huge fortunes. HOME IMPROVEMENT, FRIENDS and a few other key shows changed all that, along with the rise of cable and home video and streaming.

No one really saw this coming when these 70s-80s residual deals were made, that these shows would live on and on and on. Sometimes there's a difference between what is legal and what is right. While cutting these actors out may be legal, it's really not right. These shows are still printing money, and there's plenty for all parties involved.

If the show still follows them around, so should the dollars. If people are still walking up to Maureen McCormack saying "Oh My Nose" on a regular basis, if the show is on GetTV or wherever, she should be receiving some money for putting up with it all. No wonder they do things like this HGTV show to get cash from their Brady fame...what's the harm? Because one negative way THE BRADY BUNCH follows those actors around is they're so ingrained in our heads as "Beloved Character" it's very difficult for casting directors or America at large to see them as anything else. And many of these vets of television past are still capable actors. Same with all the retro merch produced, to this day, for a show like TBB or GILLIGAN'S ISLAND. Those actors should be getting a little piece of the pie for that.

Here's a Variety article from 1998 that says--as of 20 years ago--THREE'S COMPANY had grossed half a BILLION dollars in syndication. I feel, in a just world, that some of that should have trickled down at the very least to the actors in the opening credits, to the point that Joyce didn't have to do dinner theatre and Jenilee didn't have to do infomercials and all the ones who are still alive didn't have to do the conventions.

Robert Reed and Florence Henderson and Ann B. Davis all received residuals. The kids didn’t because in the past child actors didn’t receive residuals in their contracts. That was just for adults.

Peter looked hot for a while, but seems not to care anymore.

While Maureen, Barry and Eve had been continuously working in entertainment, Chris in the computer industry and Mike running a business, Susan really seems to be the only one who has done nothing substantial since the show ended.

yet she's the one you love to talk about.

Barry Williams looks more like 74 than 64.

R283, what have any of them done that is 'substantial' since the show went off the air? Seriously.

Michael was a crew member on Halloween 4.

Eve played the mom on "Fudge."

R288 Eve was so good in that.

I love that episode of The Facts of Life where Eve played Blair’s nun in training sister. Jo ends up decking Blair because of the latter’s disdain for her sister’s choice.

Wow! Lesbo heaven there.

r290

Eve bitched about it, because they made her audition for the part. She didn't think she should have to, and that it should've been a recurring role. But she was no Cousin Geri.

Ha r292, seriously? God she's an asshole!

Also, I remember in the book about Karen Carpenter that Eve's dad owned the first record company to sign the Carpenters so I think her family did pretty well and that may be why she had money to invest.

Yep Eve talked about having to audition and Geri Jewell mentioned it when she talked about how small her role was, because the show had five major parts and there wasn't enough material for her much less anyone else they tried to add, like Kelly the dykette, or any slew of males from Ryan Cassidy to George Clooney

r294

Maureen said she came out of the Brady Bunch with $400,000, which to her credit, she admits she wasted on drugs. Maureen also says she could've had lots of small parts but she was too wasted to do it.

Seems to kind of be a theme. David Cassidy and Joyce DeWitt also said, they could've had many small, non starring working actor parts but they turned them down, lived off the money till it dried up.

Contrast that with those like Tony Dow, Dawn Wells and Kathy (Cissy - Family Affair) Garver all who remained as actors, in small parts and local theatre. Must have some ability to make money because Lara Jill Miller (Sam on Gimme A Break) became a lawyer in real life and stopped practicing and went into voice overs and other small non starring acting arts, rather than her law career.

Eve's parents took some of her money and bought a beach house in Malibu (in her name). She sold it a few years ago for a NIIIIIICE profit

Susan Olsen recently posted a closeup of her neck folds on Instagram.

R292, Do you remember where Eve complained about having to audition for The Facts of Life?

Most of the Plumb family was involved in entertainment—both parents as well as Eve’s older sister, Flora, an actress who passed away last year.

[quote]I wonder how many of them have a #MeToo story.

These kids grew up in L.A. suburbs that were filled with ambitious stage moms and predatory “talent agents” who would convince them that their toddlers would earn their college savings doing commercial work, but in reality few were successful. Most who “made it” were overworked and then abandoned when they aged-out of the industry.

When EP once said that she was discovered by a talent agent who “lived next door” it made me wonder what actually went on with these kids and their agents and photographers, how easy it was for gullible parents to hand their progeny over to neighbors or acquaintances who offered a road to stardom. This is why these L.A. ‘burbs were (and still are) havens for pedophiles.

Who is EP?

Eve Plumb, R301

fanks

peter - hubba hubba in life after BB.

Eve's dad was musician turned record company producer and executive Neely Plumb, whose name is on many a legendary RCA album as producer, from The Sound of Music soundtrack to The Monkees to Esquivel.

R300 Barry Williams always wanted to be an actor. He begged his parents for acting classes, then private lessons. He enjoyed working on 2 Dragnets, Jack Webb loved his . professionalism. (Barry had memorized both his and Jack's lines). He thought working on Gomer Pyle was going to be a drag, instead he had fun. He looked forward to That Girl. On the set however, it quickly became apparent that the most prized entity on the set was Marlo's hair. After every take, spray spray spray. Barry said you can literally see her 'do get larger as the episode goes on. He learned a lesson between those two shows he said.

Susan Olsen used to have a radio show in LA for a while. Her transition from being a Graphic Artist. The show didn't last but a year. Seems she conveniently forgot about it.

Well, I hope with the renovation of the original house turned into a real version they should rip up the real grass and put Astro turf for authenticity.

Will the laundry room smell like Alice's clove cigarettes?

How did any of these actors get casted in their rolls in the first place? Were they well known actors or actresses as children?

I have seen Barry Maureen and Eve in guest star roles from before the Brady Bunch. Even might have been in the most depressing Family Affairs episode ever, which is saying something. Maureen was on Bewitched, I think as a child witch in a dream sequence. I think Susan might have been on Gunsmoke or something similar.

They weren’t Stars. They had to audition and different groups of 3 boys and 3 girls were matched.

This is the group they ended up going with.

[quote]How did any of these actors get casted in their rolls in the first place?

Oh dear x 2!!

Eve and Susan both had older siblings who were actors as well. Chris Knight’s father was an actor, too, IIRC.

Performers who get their start that young often have a familial connection to the industry, I think. Having parents who know the business is a huge asset.

I missed out on the Brady Bunch phenomenon. My family watched PBS on Friday nights.

That's just sad. Have you been to therapy for it?

Should I call Amnesty International?

So no one is mentioning the new box set?

There's a new Brady Bunch DVD box set that is being released on June 4th to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the show.

It's a 31-disc set which includes all 5 seasons of the show, both seasons of the cartoon series, The Brady Brides (1981), The Bradys (1990), the 2 theatrical release movies (The Brady Bunch Movie from 1995 and A Very Brady Sequel from 1996), A Very Brady Christmas (1988), Growing Up Brady (Biography), and The Brady Bunch in the White House (2002).

Seems like a good deal for BB fans at $66.00 on Amazon as of today (4/20/19).

R319 What a shame its not a Blu Ray release. I'd buy it without hesitation then.

There was a season or two wear Eve became hotter than Maureen. She lost the glasses and her tits grew.

OMG R319! I just shot a huge wad! I'm one of the 5 people who liked The Bradys and while the series episodes were kinda blah I loved The Brady Girls Get Married TV Movie. So glad these are finally going to be on DVD. The artwork is chinsy but who cares.

[quote]Seems like a good deal for BB fans

What does barebacking have to do with the Brady’s, other than Robert Reed?

R319 Great collection, but a shame it doesn't include The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.

Does it also include the rarely seen "The Brady Boys get fucked up the butt and like it"?

R324, I was thinking that but it was a Sid and Marty Krofft show and the music rights are probably ridiculous.

R324, for what it's worth, the variety hour is available on DVD. There's even a book about the making of it. I think it's called Love to Love You Brady.

I used to have the Love To Love You Brady book, but sold it on eBay after Susan Olsen's homophobic rant.

Is Susan Olsen married or divorced? She comes across like an immediate regret after waking up next to her the next morning. Is there an ex who admits to being her ex?

Susan is divorced.

R328 is a fucking warrior.

R327 The only release is a single DVD with 2 or 3 episodes. We need the complete series, but I suppose the music rights for all those great disco tunes are an issue.

[quote]Susan Olsen is very anti-education and SO proud of the fact that her slacker son doesn't attend college.

She must have read the thread about Camille Paglia. That would turn anyone off of higher education for good.

[quote][R319] What a shame its not a Blu Ray release. I'd buy it without hesitation then.

CBS/Paramount took a bath on [italic]I Love Lucy[/italic] and [italic]The Andy Griffith Show[/italic] Blu-Ray releases, and they know restoring the uncut versions to HD resolution is going to cost lots of money. Hence the endless repackages.

What cheeses me off is that if you already bought the complete series DVD set before, then you have to get it again to get the sequel series. How greedy can one studio get? At least Disney doesn’t own it.

Mo McComick lost in thought

(notice, too, how she applies her lipstick to make her lower lip look thicker)

R334 at least the price for that new set is relatively cheap. Not bad considering how much is included.

For people who never owned the show on DVD before, maybe.

I can't imagine needing the Brady Bunch on DVD. Late night reruns or Netflix, sure, but OWNING it?

No variety show, no sale!

HI GERI!

I could care less about the variety show. I'm just glad The Brady Brides and The Bradys are finally available on DVD. The Bradys was a trainwreck but I still loved it.

I already put my pre-order in for the box set.

I hate to say it. I mean really hate to say it. I really enjoyed The Brady Brides.

The Brady Brides got great ratings but NBC killed it anyways. I remember seeing some of the episodes strung together as a 90 minute TV movie in syndication (the ones with Florence as a guest star).

I seem to remember Alice was a guest on the series as well though Wikipedia doesn't bear me out on that.

I wonder if The Brady Brides and The Bradys will get separate DVD releases. I'm not sure if I like the fact that Eve was not included on the front of the box.

Probably not. I don't think there's enough interest for either to be a stand alone release. If so, I think it would've happen by now.

Maureen is in the news today.

Why are the Brady children so long lived, while the Partridges are so short lived?

R347, wow, you go Maureen!

I’m surprised her lawyer hasn’t sent a cease and desist. That’s her likeness, surely she has some rights to it.

The anti-vaxxers are brain dead.

I'll watch anything Brady, they are tv icons!

I loved the Brady Brides. Can't wait for the chance to see that series again.

Someone upthread mentioned Ann B. Davis on the series. As I recall, she was a regular and was included in the opening credits.

In fact, I just checked. Below is an episode on Youtube. The credits are at the very start and there's Ann included

Intro to Brady Brides

The Bradys (1990) Theme. I don't know what's worse - the lyrics or Florence's singing.

Thuthan Olthen comth acroth ath dykey.

McCormick is older than Kim Cattrall.

[quote]Susan Olson looks like a washed up crack whore.

You say that as if it’s a bad thing.

Someone upthread mentioned that Dawn Wells was the only G I cast member to get residuals. Natalie Schaefer’s husband had her contract rewritten so she got residuals. I don’t know if Wells got them.

That's heresay, R359. Dawn herself in interviews says she doesn't get them (because if she did she would be far less likely to need a GoFundMe as she recently did). 1974 is the general rule of when residuals started, though residuals from anything well into the home video era are at this point very slight.

It's really in the 90s, when tv series were available on VHS then DVD for home purchase, plus cable channels were exploding and mining these old series, and vintage series were being sold and resold for millions (none of which went to the actors) that stars who could command it on current tv series realized "I'd better make sure I get a piece of this for life." Thus sweet residual/home video deals for stars (not all, again, the irreplaceable stars) of Home Improvement, Seinfeld, Friends, Law & Order, etc. People on the show who couldn't throw their weight around or just did guest shots got whatever residual SAG or AFTRA had negotiated at that time.

[quote]That's heresay

Oh, dear!

When is the HGTV show going to premiere?

I think the premiere will coincide with the show’s 50th anniversary so probably September?

90210 in August, Brady Bunch in September! I'm lactating.

Why are they doing this after Mrs. Brady died?

Asshole. They've had her ashes in the urn on the set the whole time. Don't be so disrespectful.

New video of the house that’s pretty cool.

Now that I've seen the reveal there is no need to watch the HGTV show. Unless it has lots of fighting and wig tugging and drink tossing like all good reality shows have.

Dawn Wells in her own words

[quote]Dawn Wells: A misconception is that we must be wealthy, rolling in the dough, because we got residuals. We didn’t really get a dime. I think my salary - of course, I was low on the totem pole, Ginger [Tina Louise] and Thurston [Jim Backus] got more - was $750 a week. Sherwood Schwartz, our producer, reportedly made $90 million on the reruns alone!

[quote]“It’s a total lie,” Wells said. “I have no idea where that story came from, but I didn’t get a dime.”

However, it's probably also a lie when she said she didn't get a dime. Back then industry standard was to pay for up to four runs. In other words you got paid residuals for the first four complete run throughs of all the episodes.

The issue may stem from a lot of actors got paid their residuals up front. In other words they received a base salary of say $500/week and they got paid residuals at the same time, even though the show didn't air yet. So they'd be getting say $600/week, the extra $100 was residuals but paid up front, so they didn't realize it.

Box et is on sale at Deep Discount. very cheap plus additional 10% off...

The show was an answer on Jeopardy tonight. Florence, Susan and Maureen all were mentioned by name, only Eve was snubbed (Famous Blondes)

Even the Facts of Life girls don't get shit. Lisa Welchel posted her residual check once and it was for ten cents.

Can't wait for the box set to arrive. I hope they kept the instrumental version of The Bradys theme song and not that embarrassing one Flo did.

Eve's not bitter dammit that she didn't make the cover art but Barry did twice.

I'm wondering if Eve is still giving Maureen the cold shoulder on HGTV's A Very Brady Renovation.

It doesn't air till September, but they have YouTube videos of them going through the process of the renovations.

I don't understand what this Brady Renovation show is supposed to be about. Is the show just going to consist of clips of these washed-up actors making chit chat while their old set is being rebuilt?

Yes. It's rumored though that Susan will show 1970s orange colored beef curtains when she sits at the work bench.

The Brady Bunch is a classic and is a permanent part of Americana.

The shows 50th anniversary is in September. Hence the interest and this show. I think Eve has finally come to terms with having Jan as her legacy. And that probably includes getting along with Maureen.

R376 It's a Real Housewives type reality show with bickering among the cast though I'm not sure if they'll each be in character or not.

Is Alice dead?

Unfortunately yes. She used to love to do the alphabet.

Too bad Florence isn't around anymore.

Wow, the Brady Kids are orphans, now...

[quote]Even the Facts of Life girls don't get shit. Lisa Welchel posted her residual check once and it was for ten cents.

Their show was made by Embassy, a company that no longer exists, and they only get anything for actual TV reruns and not DVD. They also had a lower budget since they were shot on tape and only used background music towards the end (and had to share background cues with [italic]Silver Spoons[/italic]). But residuals are residuals. The Brady kids signed a contract with Paramount TV, which only recently was still Desilu until Lucy sold out, for 10 rerun cycles and nothing after that. They had no idea it would be that big a hit in reruns when critics vilified it mercilessly and it only did moderately well in the five years it was on ABC, who went on to dominate the ratings in the latter half of the 1970s. Yet the show that won the Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy for the 1969-1970 season, [italic]My World and Welcome To It[/italic], was a flop because it was impractical to mix live action and animation for 25 shows a year and make money, and in that case still-perpetually-second-place NBC new it.

Knew it

If Florence was still around, she'd be a constant fixture in front of the cameras to say outrageous things for attention. Remember her late-in-life memoir in which she detailed her extra-marital affairs and STIs? Yuck. Anything for a bit more attention.

It'll be nice to see the "kids" have the moment to themselves on this HGTV show.

The Facts of Life Girls are fine (well the ones that weren't cut anyway). Mindy Cohn was making 40K an EPISODE by the fifth season. That was in 1984. Most people don't make that much in a YEAR nowadays.

Back then, Larry Hagman and Gary Coleman had the top per-episode salaries on TV.

Gary Coleman and Johnny Carson were responsible for 35% of NBC's profit during the late 70s early 80s. Most people forget how awful NBC was doing, everything it touched fell apart. Even after spending a record amount for the Olympics, Jimmy Carter cancelled America's participation, screwing NBC over.

It wasn't till Cosby that the network turned around and without Cosby, shows like Cheers and Family Ties would've been long cancelled.

It's a shame Gary Coleman, for doing so much to boost NBC got nothing while NBC kissed Johnny's ass constantly.

I remember reading somewhere that Mindy C was making $250,000 an episode by the last season of The Facts of Life and she was the least famous of the four girls, so...Lisa was probably raking in well over half a mil and episode by then..

R387 Sounds like Shirley Jones and her horrible book.

[quote]Even the Facts of Life girls don't get shit. Lisa Welchel posted her residual check once and it was for ten cents.

I remember when she posted that. Speaking of meager residual checks.....

There is a bar in Studio City, CA named "Residuals". Been there 30+ years, just east of Vineland in a strip mall. If you bring in a residual check that is for less than $1.00, your second drink is free!

^^ correction: just WEST of Vineland.

Who was butcher: Sam or Alice?

Well we already know Sam was the butcher, so what’s your question?

Did anyone else from The Sound of Music guest star besides Freidrich, Gretl and Franz?