For me it's probably the one that completely revolves around the kids arguing over which doctor to go to.
shareTough call. So many to choose from, lots of dumb and silly eps, which is part of the show’s charm.
I’ll go with the ones I skip. I don’t like the ep where Carol and Cindy both have tonsillitis; boring. Also, the one where Mike and Carol play the grandparents who the kids try to match with each other. And lastly, the one where friends of Mike and Carol adopt a boy who ends up missing his two best friends- one is Asian and one is black. Don’t know why we were subjected to this episode which showed very little of the Bradys; I imagine the network or the powers-that-be were working on spinoff series or something.
I imagine the network or the powers-that-be were working on spinoff series or something.
Yes those were some real stinkers, or the Snow White episode where they keep arguing over who is going to play Dopey, gotta admit that makes sense considering the intelligence level of this show.
shareLaughing at your use of the word "stinker". We still use that term jokingly in our house today, as a tribute to The Brady Bunch, and the only time on network TV that such a lame term was used. But I believe Bobby even got scolded by his mother for using it... "Now Bobby.....".
shareApparently Sherwood Swartz (producer) really got into it with actor Robert Reed, who played the dad on the show. Swartz wanted to keep the show dumb while Reed wanted it more of a serious drama. There were some major disagreements there and Robert Reed refused to be a part of the last episode -the orange hair plot- and stayed off camera but made a real nuisance of himself off camera.
shareThe sitcoms that tried doing serious eps in the 60's 70's & 80's failed at it anyway.
I remember some of the serious episodes from Different Strokes, Good Times and The Jeffersons being the ones that affected me the most as a kid.
shareFair enough, I can see how they were restricted at the time and had to make it serious yet still kid friendly. What always got me, even back then was that the topic was never mentioned again after that, the character was seemingly unaffected by what happened etc.
It was always too neat and clean.
As a kid they were hard hitting but looking back I am not sure they really did the topics a lot of justice.
shareThe Facts of Life was impressive.
shareI always hated the eps where they went on vacation I think they were usually two parters.
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I never liked the episode Kelly’s Kids and the other episode Sargent Emma from season 3 was not one of my favorites.
shareIt's hard to pick just one, but the one where Peter wears the fake mustache to look older on a double date with Greg comes to mind.
shareWasn’t there one where Jan gets a locket from a mystery person then loses it then all of a sudden remembers where it was as it just fell off her neck (kind of anti climactic). Then it turns out Alice sent it to her and she says something like “as long as I have this locket I’ll know I’m loved” uhhhh if you need a locket to know you’re loved then you probably aren’t actually loved.
Yeah that one was bad also
Poor Jan was depressed, shocker, for not getting attention being the middle child. Turns out Alice was a middle child as well so she felt her pain. The whole family had to recreate what they were doing the night it went lost. Turns out it fell in a tree as she was looking for the little bear in the sky. Frickin Jan!
shareYeah that episode was so damn stupid.
shareI like the double date episode. I crack up when Peter spills the popcorn on his date and immediately lunges for her crotch to clean it up. Then he is actually mesmerized by the movie showing and begins to eat his own mustache with his popcorn.
shareThe Cindy tattletale episode bugs me. But the one where they film a short Settlers video is prob the worst for me.
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