Cindys 9th year of college???

I was mentioning something like that to my family while watching the movie yesterday.

Cindy said she was 6 years old in the Brady Bunch Christmas show which aired in 1969. This means Cindy was born in 1963.

In the Brady Bunch Hour, which aired in 1977, Cindy was in high school and the mate tells us that Cindy was 14 years old. The Brady Brides aired in 1981 so Cindy was 18 and she was going off to college. The math makes sense.

But GEEZ, A Very Brady Christmas aired 9 years later in 1988, which means that Cindy would be 25 years old. Kinda old to still be doing finals in school!

The same with Bobby who is suppose to be in school too! And he's a year older than Cindy and not talking about finals at all. Not too many 26 year olds are still in school, especially if they are in business school.

But math is a huge problem with others in the family too. There is Jan who acts as if she's 35 years old when she's only 29 years old.

But the WORSE is Jessica, Marcia's daughter who looks like she's 7 or 8 years old. Wally and Marcia had only been married 7 years by 1988 and we KNOW Marcia didn't get pregnant right away because of the Brady Bride series.

Writers cannot count and they think that we, the audience, are total morons who can't count either.

"I'd rather believe what I believe and be wrong than believe what you believe and be wrong."

Mike escapes a collapsed building because the family sings "O come all ye faithful' and the logic police here are concerned with Cindy's college term? Seriously people there are bigger problems. The beauty of this iconic series is that these people defy what is normal or even what is remotely close to the realm of reality. The house alone - 6 kids, no toilets, 6 kids two bedrooms. Mike DESIGNED the house.

Makes a person think that Sherwood Schwartz wrote this movie in 1985, but didn't get around to filming it until 1988.....or maybe we're supposed to think "Very Brady Christmas" had a setting of 1985, even though it was filmed and shown in 1988. Who knows.

Otherwise, if you fast forward to "The Bradys", hate to think Cindy spent 9 years in college to become a disc jockey. LOL

Not to get too far off the subject...It did seem there were a few continuity errors within the movie itself....such as where they all slept. Like I think the boys and girls had their rooms growing up, but only Marsha's family used one of the rooms. Because Jan slept in Mike's office, because I remember her husband ending up in one of the filing cabinets....Cindy was in a lower level room....Greg was in the family room off from the kitchen...and Peter and Bobby slept in the living room. So, I'm not sure why the other kids room wasn't used. LOL

But as has been mentioned, that was sort of the fun part of watching this movie....was thinking back to how things were in the original series while watching this movie.

Like some posters have stated, it only takes a change of majors to add on extra time. During the movie, while on the phone Mike asks Cindy if she's having any problems in school (the way he says it implies she's had former troubles) and Cindy replies, "No, I just have this one final semester and I'm DONE." So I get the feeling Cindy struggled in school and was eager to be done with it.

Maybe she was either getting her masters or phd??

Not a big deal. After all, Jennifer Runyon was 28 when she played Cindy in this. Besides, continuity was never a strong point for the show. First they said Greg would have to be a midget to live in the attic, then the next season, the attic grew a few feet so an even taller Greg was comfortable moving into it. And then when this movie rolled around, they forgot all about the attic when they made sleeping arrangements.

They were usually approximate about ages on the original series. Yes, Cindy was a little old to be an undergraduate. But she always was a bit of a dumba$$. She may have attended college part time or even not attended for a few years. I was only 21 years old when I graduated college. But many classmates I graduated with were much older. Colleges now refer to students over 25 as "non-traditional". When I was in school we called them geezers or grayheads.

Wait, if she was going off to her first year in '81...

...and the movie takes place in '88...

Isn't that 7 years, not 9? Regardless, some people don't graduate in just 4 years either.