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Posted on 03/03/2025 10:43:03 AM PST by DallasBiff
“The Brady Bunch” is back in the news after 50 years, thanks to anti-vaccination activists who are using a 1969 episode of the family sitcom to back up their case that, as diseases go, you “sure can’t beat the measles.”
And Marcia Brady herself, Maureen McCormick, is not happy about it
The episode called “Is There a Doctor in the House?” finds the Brady children sick with the measles and staying home from school. “If you have to get sick, sure can’t beat the measles,” Marcia says. The kids are thrilled they didn’t have to take medicine, and Jan is especially glad she didn’t have to get a shot. In another part of the episode, Bobby tries to color Cindy’s measles spots green
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When I was growing up getting the measles was a rite of passage.
Mo McCormick was, and still is, hot. But she’s a barely-educated former child star with a history of drug abuse, mental-health issues and abortions. She’s not exactly my go-to person on advice on the safety/efficacy of vaccines.
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They used to run commercials on the TV urging moms to be to get the “rubella umbrella” vaccine for German Measles. I remember asking my mom about, it she told me since I already had the measles I didn’t need the vaccine. Life was so much simpler back then.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2008/10/13/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-admits-to-swapping-sex-for-cocaine-in-new-memoir/
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Our local cemeteries are full of children who died of measles. There are two kinds.
I think most Americans look to fifty year old sitcoms for their most accurate medical advice.
Sanford and Son for cardiac care.
Gilligan’s Island for how to treat they flu with tropical remedies.
The Bob Newhart show to treat Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
I like to introduce my children to older pre-woke TV shows.
A few years ago we watched all of the first 3 seasons as one child in particular really liked the show. Season 4 fell apart - the plots got boring and somewhat woke with concerns about the social maladies of the era. I don’t think we finished season 4 (1969), of which the measles show must have been a part.
She wrote a Brady era book and hung out in case the blob needed her. I remember her praising some leftist dunderhead a while back. When they tell her to jump, she does it. Nothing more. Typical.
Susan Olsen (Cindy) was 8 years old when they taped this episode.
Theres a scene where the parents are bringing the kids lunches to their bedrooms. When the mother hands Cindy her lunch, Cindy asks, “Why do I always get peanut butter and jelly sandwiches?” Her mother replies, “Because you love them.” Cindy responds, “Oh, yeah. I keep forgetting.”
When Susan first read the script before they began taping and she saw those lines, her reaction was, “What is she? Retarded?”
Are you sure it was measles?
I know chicken pox was considered not very serious but measles still was more serious
Are you sure it was measles?
I know chicken pox was considered not very serious but measles still was more serious
I come from a family of fifteen (with no sets of twins!). Measles, mumps, chicken pox - you name it. Once one of us had contracted one of these as well as the flu or common cold, each one of us would contract it in turn. By today’s standard, our household was an epidemic. If I remember correctly, we had all gone through these “epidemics” without vaccinations and, of course, survived.
I don’t want to minimize experiences of any others, since we all handle illnesses differently. Later, our family lost our two youngest sisters to cancer and one older sister to pneumonic/covid, as well as our parents (father at 75 to congestive heart failure and mother at 88 respiratory failure).
The rest of us at 80, 78, 76, 75, 71, 69, 68, 66, 65 and 63 are alive and well.
BIDEN ALLOWED/ENCOURAGED 60 MILLION INVADERS
THEY BROUGHT MEASLES WITH THEM
Good one!
LOL.
I doubt that measles was the only disease.
Awe geeze...the effing Brady Bunch today would have Greg a trans, Jan would be lesbian...I better stop there. Sorry.
...and one of the kids would be inexplicably black or Asian.
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