Posted on 09/25/2022 10:43:54 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Since I posted the Partridge Family’s “I Think I Love”, to be fair here’s a song from “The Brady Bunch”. Unlike “I Think I Love You”, “Sunshine Day” did not chart.
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The spoof features of the late 90s made good-natured fun of the original series. Highly recommended.
True, true... one wonders to what extent that type still exists, not only because the caucasian middle class has largely abandoned L.A. but also because so many teen girls are confused by what they see on TikTok etc (e.g., gender-bending, lgbt propaganda)
Growing up as a kid in the 1970s, I loved watching The Brady Bunch in daily syndicated reruns.
My parents split up when i was young. About 5-6 years old. Mother retained custody of us kids. After the split, she turned into this psychotic, abusive monster. As a result, I turned towards watching LOTS of tv as a way to provide myself with escape and comfort from my misery.
Out of the many, many tv shows i watched in daily syndicated reruns, the Brady Bunch was (and still is) my number one favorite tv show. The Brady Bunch tv show more than just entertained me. It helped me to preserve what few shreds of sanity I had as well as provided me with much needed happiness, laughter, and joy in an otherwise joyless existence.
More than once my mother said to my face, “I wish you were never born.” Can anyone see Carol Brady saying THAT to any of her 6 kids? Much less multiple times?
The Brady family i saw on tv is the family i wished i had. Nice, normal, loving, no abuse, etc. My desire to belong to the Brady Bunch family was so intense, that on more than one occasion, while I slept, I actually dreamed that I was a Brady family member. They are easily the fondest, most happiest dreams I ever had in my lifetime.
Dont get me wrong. I had no illusions. I was well aware that the Brady Bunch wasnt a real life family. Just a bunch of actors playing a part and real life wasn’t exactly like that (speaking as an abused child, I think I already knew that better than most).
But at the same time i just knew that the fictional Brady family was much more closer to how a family was supposed to act and behave. And the fictional Brady family was much, much more closer to happy, loving, and normal than my real life family, home, and circumstances.
Geez, what I watched just to see Marcia..... God she was a hottie.
How horrible it is to hear that from a parent. I hope life has gotten better for you since then.
He was 15 completing puberty, I was a 10 year old, the victim of his rage.
I doubt you were born, 78, though. ;)
TV seems to have gone through the same phases, infancy, youth, maturity, etc., as people do.
Now, it just stairs endlessly into the toilet.
I’m a Petticoat Junction fan, and I’m 42. The shows might have been corny, but they were wholesome.
How many had Dads that said, "I brought you into this world, I can take you out, and make another one that looks just like you".
I just had a flashback of 16-year-old future Mrs. Chandler in a macrame bikini.
“Honey . . .”
As a straight teenage boy I never actually watched the show until my own daughters wrestled control of the TV, but I know exactly what you mean.
I find gentle movies, TV shows, and videos to be quite therapeutic during times of stress. Watching men capture and rescue seals from entanglement in various cords and lines is the latest.
Ok, admit it, who had The Brady Bunch lunchbox that they took to school?
Apparently Marsha and Greg had their own version of ‘sunshine’.
I thought Greg had the hots for Mrs. Brady.
And well as far as Mr. Brady, let’s not go there.
“I thought Greg had the hots for Mrs. Brady.”
Perhaps on the show, but at least one of them (can’t remember which) giggles and says ‘no comment’ whether there was some brother/sister love in that (patched-together) family.
Say, in that video, wasn’t that Johnny Bravo and his backup singers?
“Say, in that video, wasn’t that Johnny Bravo and his backup singers?”
Hell if I know.
They were in Nashville about 18 or 19 years ago doing some kind of reunion, or convention of some sorts. I saw Marcia and Cindy standing outside talking to each other. Cindy was smoking a cigarette.
Lori Saunders (Bobbie Jo Bradley), Dawn Wells (Mary Ann), Jan Smithers (Bailey).... : )
I’m a Betty Jo fan, myself.
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