Why was Cindy Brady still in college during “A Very Brady Christmas” (1988)?

PS I love watching this movie. It’s so much fun and sweet, and the closest we’ve gotten to truly seeing the entire original cast together (or at least the best one out of all the reunions).

Susan Olsen would not have been believable as a college student....a collage student yes.

R2, Let’s be real, even “collage student” it a bit of a stretch for Susan.

Cindy was not very bright. It was probably a reference to her taking part-time classes at Los Angeles Valley Community College for the last eight years.

Jennifer Runyon. She played played Gwendolyn Pierce! Charles’ girlfriend on “Charles in Charge.” I had such a gayboy crush on her and the little scar on her upper lip.

She wasn't the brightest Brady.

In the Brady Girls Get Married Greg was already finished with med school and heading up a maternity ward.

[quote] It was probably a reference to her taking part-time classes at Los Angeles Valley Community College for the last eight years.

I went to U of A you dumb cunt! Didn't you see my sweatshirt in the background?! And I had a black roommate. I was woke before anyone else was awaken. So fuck right off!

Because she was busy at KKK rallies. Susan is a racist, homophobic cunt.

I turned 60 you whores and practically no one acknowledged my milestone.

I wath thudying to become the world'th firtht lithping dithc jockey.

Robert Reed queens out so many times in this., especially when he asks where his checkbook is.

R12 he queens out a few times near the end of the film too.

Let's face it, his entire life was queening out.

"Mmmm.. it smells like I've died and have gone to strawberry heaven!" They wrote him that line for a reason, you know...

He hated that show. I wonder why he agreed to the spin-offs and films.

Was it because he loved the cast so much?

He did it for the check so he could buy sum cock grease for his insatiable hole

He truly loved Henderson and the children. (I've never found out how he felt about Ann B. Davis, however.)

Maureen McCormack and Barry Williams have both testified to how much he adored them and the other four kids--he took all six kids with his own family during the show's run on an ocean liner for a trip across the Atlantic.

Also, he did the variety show because he loved to sing more than anything. He knew he wasn't a very strong singer, but he figured (correctly) he'd be paired most often with Henderson (who got her start as a professional singer) and she'd carry him along, and he knew that both Williams and McCormack were extremely talented singers (they both later performed in musicals on Broadway) who could with Flo carry the ensemble numbers.

OP, I think the bigger question is why did the director and Christopher Knight agree to the night shirt.

R19 I remember seeing this as a kid and wondering why Peter was wearing a nightgown lmao

Jan was such a cunt in this movie. And she was sporting that dark roots/just below the ear length hairdo every woman had in 1988/89.

[quote] Jan was such a cunt

Eve Plumb always seems to be in a foul mood.

I'm not bitter damn it!

Why did Maureen only have like 6 lines in this? Is it because she was still a druggie and they didn't want to risk her not being able to complete her scenes?

Maureen really was surprisingly underused. She looked amazing too!

They actually all looked great. I was watching The Brady Brides last week and the actor who plays Jan's husband had an incredible body in a practically nude scene at some fashion show. I would've never guessed that was under those clothes.

I found the actor who plays Jans hubby in the Christmas movie handsome. Too bad he had to put up with her bitchiness

Every line of his was ridiculous - I'm moving out with as much alacrity as I can?!

Robert Reed battled Sherwood Schwartz about every line of Phillip's.

She was still working on her Ed. Doctorate.

^ Not cute.

The way Carol says "you can be late for breakfast" to Jan and Phillip is so creepy and cringey.

R31 it was. She was telling them to fuck

I started my MFA at age 26, finishing it at 28.

I love the Brady's which will be the first kid to go to God. Anybody but Susan will be heartbreaking news.

Jan's husband was hot. Unfortunately in real life he's a rightwing fundamentalist.

Only on DL, OP. I LOVE IT!

I totally understand why she would feel that way, R23, but she was straight-up CUNTING in that "Jenny Jones" appearance. Why did she even go on the show, knowing what it would entail?

Susan was off on her honeymoon when they filmed Brady Christmas, thus the Runyon recast. Good point about her still being in college op. But if we are asked to accept Cindys changing face no questions asked, her still being in college is less serious.

R37 yeah she was being a cunt about it. Why the fuck do you think you were on the show? They weren’t going to ask you questions all hour about your Dawn runaway films. Interesting that Eve only didn’t do the Brady variety hour in all the reunions shows. . Money always talks and overrides any resentment she felt about doing Jan. She has admitted they threw money at her to get her to do the Brady Brides series.

Where do you see that about Ron Kuhlman r35?

Bobby was supposed to be going to graduate school in the movie, but didn't tell them that he was racing cars, so perhaps Cindy was finishing her last semester of graduate school as well.

The Cindy switch I didn't really mind. The Sam switch I did. They could have gotten Allan Melvin to do that five second cameo.

Jennifer Runyeon and Chris Knight played lovers on Another World - only to later play Brady siblings in this movie

[quote] the actor who plays Jan's husband had an incredible body in a practically nude scene at some fashion show

well he is a trained dancer, so he needs to keep his body in shape

Robert Reed's only daughter has for years REFUSED to allow Reed's image to be used in any licensed "Brady" memorabilia

The lawyer for Robert Reed's daughter says

"The family has turned down offer after offer," from producers and writers who want to tell the "whole" Robert Reed story: "A lot of the publicity about him has gone toward one part of his life, rather than the way the family wants him remembered."

And in this way, Mr. Brady abdicated part of his throne.

"Does it matter that he's not on T-shirts?" Fleischer says. "I don't think so. His presence still exists. He's the all-American father. He always will be."

I can’t find any information about Ron Kuhlman being a Christian fundamentalist, even on his own website.

He was in the original Broadway cast of A CHORUS LINE (1975). He’s pictured 2nd from the left.

I think the above poster might be mixing up Jan’s husband with Marcia’s. I’m not sure if he’s fundamentalist but Jerry Houser got Maureen McCormick involved in their church The Vineyard, which has some cult-like aspects.

R45 he looks like a porn actor

He posed in Oui with Valerie Perrine.

Jerry Houser posed nude?

[quote]"Mmmm.. it smells like I've died and have gone to strawberry heaven!"

Except strawberries don't smell when you make jam.

No, the real cunt is the real estate lady who snaps, “Mrs. Brady... If that’s your REAL name.”

And Carol wanting to give Mike a trip to Greece is a hint she knows he’s gay.

R50 really? 🙄🙄🙄

I wath tired of playing the Thindy character.

R1, all the original cast were in The Brady Girls Get Married. Though it's not as good as A Very Brady Christmas.

Thindy watch probably delayed in thcool becauthe the had to take all thothe thpeech clatheth for her lithp.