The Brady Bunch Retrospect Special (with Gil Palmer, Mike Ensing & James Bruno)

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[00:01:00] You groovy guys are really happening in far out ways. Yeah, yeah. What's for dinner tonight? Pork chops and applesauce. Ah, pork chops and applesauce. Oh boy. My mind was blown when I found out, as like there was rumors that Mr. Brady could have been played by Gene Hackman. Yeah. No, that's true. What was that documentary? I saw it on YouTube. Yeah, they mentioned that. True Hollywood story.

[00:01:29] And they tried getting Joyce Pafont to play the mom. They knew Joyce Pafont is. She's in a lot of TV shows, but played Murray Slaughter's wife on Mary Tyler Moore. Mm-hmm. And originally to play Alice, they wanted to get Kathleen Freeman, who was, you'd seen her in a lot of Jerry Lewis movies. She was like a battle axe wife or, you know.

[00:01:50] And that this was, the original script was the Bradley Brood, but that later became yours, mine and ours, the Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda original. Yeah. That's what inspired it basically. Yeah, that's what inspired it. And they're like, this movie is making box office. Well, let's take your original idea before we rewrote it and, you know, produced it and do a sitcom version. Scale the kids down to like three kids a pop, you know.

[00:02:17] Apparently Cindy's list was real. I had no idea. I thought that was just an act. Sorry. I don't really address it, but she might have been divorced, not a widow? Or was she a widow? Well, it's the question of what happened with Mike's wife. Oh, that's right. It was said that she was divorced, but, you know, they didn't really go into detail for either one.

[00:02:39] Yeah, they kind of said, they still, the network still thought that the divorce was such a taboo at that time. So they made them both widows. Okay. And what happened was, was that they said, okay, we can't say divorce, we'll say widow. You know, it's like, you know, you can say pregnancy on the air, you have to say expecting. So, you know, I've always been kind of like thinking to myself, come on, you know, there were other shows.

[00:03:05] I had fun kind of prepping for this because kind of like I Love Lucy, there are millions who probably have never seen a single episode, but they know kind of what it's about because it's been, it's not just that it's been lampooned or homaged in commercials or anything. Like, it's just one of those, you're like, oh yeah. Like if, if you show a t-shirt of this to someone, they're going to be like, oh, hey, the sitcom, like even the opening titles. I, you know, obviously off air, Gil shared the robot chicken spoof and was like, but see, that's the other thing.

[00:03:34] I've seen so many memes, so many other just photoshops people have done in the opening credits. Because I think that's the other thing. Like it tells you everything you need to know, like any good theme song in those first five minutes. It's a pop culture cloud in a way. Even when I was a teen, this was like, even when it had been almost a decade since I'd seen an episode, like this was always in my life. Like I would always see a new sitcom and me and my mother who were big TV heads were just like, yeah, I think they're going for a Brady Bunch kind of vibe there as opposed to an I Love Lucy or Seinfeld vibe.

[00:04:04] And it was just funny how just, like we've said before, just reading the template, like what is the formula and, you know, what is it inspired or based on? And unfortunately, I'm not going to belittle anyone here because I don't want a lawsuit. But when I saw that Christopher Knight was like doing reality shows while I was watching VH1, I was like, hmm, that's quite the character. They tried to get a lot of mileage out of the show after it ended. It's like, good grief. Can you not do anything else? Well, not really.

[00:04:33] I remember it started in 69. Yeah, 69, bro. The pre-cable era. I remember when ABC, I think after the fourth season, they started showing reruns in the afternoon, I think. Yeah, they were doing that. And I remember it was such a, it was unnerving. All of a sudden, these kids were little kids again. We hadn't seen them that way since they first aired. And all of a sudden, there they are. Oh, man, I keep going a little bit long now, you know. Oh, it's just like family photos, you know. Wow.

[00:05:03] That was four years ago. Look how little you look, yeah. Well, it's always crazy because ABC was doing that to keep interest in the show going. And not only that, but you got to realize, too, 1969 is like the last year of the 60s. You know, it's the last year of the 60s. But yeah, I think it's, it's, yeah. There's standards in place. There's new tone. Yeah. It's during the time of the Vietnam War. Vietnam War, you know, all the social changes going on.

[00:05:32] And this, this little family is a bubble. Yeah. Yeah. A microcosm of like, you know, what it's supposed to. I always say it's kind of like, you know, Ozzie. Like, like, yeah, I think it was, you know, it's like, you know, there were, there was just like, you know, Ozzie's and Harriet, Father knows best, you know, bachelor's father, you know. They were kind of in a bubble because it's kind of this, you didn't hear about all that. You didn't hear about you. In a bubble is kind of the best. Or civil rights. It is, especially considering the movies. So, yeah. The movies that come after in the nineties.

[00:06:00] And then they even do a TV special with Gary Cole returning once again, where they're like, Hey, an asteroid's about to hit earth. Let's watch the earth, the world end or something like that. Well, James is right. It was a continuation. They want to keep the Ozzie and Harriet, Olivia to Beaver thing going. I read that they were a minority. There was even a minority filled cast. It's supposed to be called Kelly's kids. Yeah, that was the spinoff that they were doing with Trinberry because he had just finished

[00:06:27] Mayberry RFD, which was the continuation of the Andy Griffith show. Like many shows, people would also notice some bloopers that were in post. That was going to be a Sherwood Schwartz production as well? That was going to be Sherwood Schwartz's production and it was kind of what they call a backdoor pilot in those days. So, um. Was that the one? I'm sorry. Sorry. I was going to say, is that the episode that there's an episode I saw that I thought, I mean, I don't know, but it looked like it could have been a possibility for a pilot

[00:06:57] where these people adopt like all these different. That's, that's what it is. Yeah. There was one kid. And then there was the hour that came later and everyone was just like, yeah, let's. We're not enjoying our time here at all. Well, here's how it goes. It goes to the Brady Bunch. Donnie Marie. No, no, no. It goes to the Brady Bunch. No, it's the cross. Yeah. Sorry. The cross did the, yeah, the cross did the variety era, but the, the Brady Bunch, then they had the Brady Bunch kids. Right. The Brady kid, the Brady kids. The Brady kids. Yeah.

[00:07:27] And they were doing their own. It's a bit technical, but sorry. And then they had that frigging, remember that magic magpie or something like that? You know. And we previously talked about pretty sure, uh, Schwartz on Gilligan's Island. And I can't remember where we landed on, if we liked Bunch better or Gilligan better. Oh yeah. Apples and oranges, I know. One's more, one's sort of, well, more adults, but it wasn't really more adult, but anyway.

[00:07:56] Then they did the Brady Bunch variety show. That kinked. Yeah. Then they did. Then they did. The Simpsons had a great parody of it. Didn't they, didn't, didn't they tour first before, is that what you were talking? Didn't they tour first before they, uh, had a variety show? I don't know. What they did was, was that in 1973, 74, they were, they had released a record and. Oh, so they were doing.

[00:08:22] There's, there was a, you know, cause yeah, I realized it's like, you know, it's the age of the Partridge family and all that stuff. And there was some documentary series like Brady home movies and the real live Brady Bunch. Yeah. I remember my dad coming in and almost every 70s show, some character always had to sing, you know? Yeah. The Hardy Boys, you know, whatever it was. I wasn't even a fan of singing back then, but I didn't mind it. Cause I guess the actors felt so like every day.

[00:08:50] Like Mike, when you, you were nine when the show started, right? Yeah. It was Bobby's. Oh man. Bobby, the youngest. Yeah. I would have been nine. I would have. Did you watch the show quite a bit back then? Yeah. I mean, we had three channels, you know? I mean, I remember seeing it when it was like, I remember watching it, you know, when it was still on the air, like two or three years. Cause I was two years old when the show started. I don't know. Damn. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm a newbie. JFK was still alive when I was two.

[00:09:21] I watched it until I was probably about 14. I didn't watch it near as much as say mash or Cosby show or one of those other just, you know, sitcoms that also had a moral to the story. And I think that's just it. Like it was more escapism. Just like it. Comfort food. Comfort food. No, that's absolutely. It was popcorn. Nothing wrong with that. But, but, but at the same time, like it just gave me that, okay, here's how I make something energetic.

[00:09:50] Even if it's looser in story, you know, here, here's the format for a successful sitcom, you know? Okay. Cam, you were saying that there was a possible spinoff with the black family. Oh, well, like there was a African-American and there was an Asian American and Brady world, which has been out for a while. It's like since 2005 actually did made some interesting trivia on noticing how it's one

[00:10:18] of the few shows to be shown in some form on all three major networks at that time. I'm like, wow. Yeah, that's true. Well, when you said that, it struck me because the only black character I ever remember on the Brady Bunch series itself was a reporter in like one episode, you know, it was rare. Maybe I'm misremembering. No, that's a good point. I mean, and the guest characters, it didn't need to rely on those as much as others shows

[00:10:44] kind of did where they're like, hey, here's something, some nutty person who enters into town. You know, it was kind of more like, I guess, kind of like Andy Griffith, let's show everyday life. But it wasn't as, again, I'm not bashing it or anything. I'm just trying to describe for everybody. Like, I remember real quick when you said Mayberry, I remember once watching the Andy Griffith show, the black and white version. And I'll say, hey, there's a black character in the crowd there. I've never noticed that before.

[00:11:14] I looked at the title of the episode. It was a black day in Mayberry. No, I'm not kidding. That's a one. I don't think it was intentional. I think it was just coincidental. But, you know, you would not see black characters in a lot of shows. In a lot of shows, you wouldn't see that, you know, in the segment. Yeah, they never, I mean, I think the first time you really see a black character kind of like making his own. I'm trying to go through it in the back of my head.

[00:11:44] I mean, you know, there was Mission Impossible. Yeah. There was, but I think Room 222 is like the first time I can really see, you know, I spy. Yeah, I spy. Okay. I spy. Yeah. Star Trek with Aurora. Star Trek. Yeah. Those are good points. Julia with the single mom, the single black mom. Yeah. That was one. But the thing was with the Brady Bunch, and I came to it when I was about six, seven years old.

[00:12:14] So I'm getting it on reruns. Oh, yeah. So I'm like watching this and I'm like, okay, but this is what life was in the signal. Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. Yeah. So it was like, you know, but later I was, here's the funny thing. Here's something I was kind of said, you know, there's that thing about the Brady's was like, you got to think it's kind of overlapping with the time of all in the family. So. That's a good point. But you got to think the Brady's are, you know, wholesome American, you know, and

[00:12:44] there's the, you know, there's the yearly, you know, there's that time of disagreement that dad has with Greg or, you know, Marsha or something like that. And then on the other channel, CBS, you know, and we don't need to play video games. You got, you got Archie Bunker, you know, who's basically, you know, the, the, the, what's really going on in America. But, um, I can remember just like watching episodes and going like, okay, I don't, you

[00:13:12] know, the father would tell you now, Greg, now Peter, now Jan, now Marsha, you know, it was always kind of like, you know, he would always be like, now listen, now kids, you have to realize what's, you know, and it's like, okay, he tells the lesson in the end. And, you know, and then the kids are always like, he's still following the, a good screenwriting and it's like, okay, let's build up to the next gag, but let's introduce who's, you know, who this involves. And so you can remember everybody's name.

[00:13:39] It's a good blend of both while also talking plausibly, even if not exactly. But I did have fun also looking up that, uh, Schwartz was also inspired. He's like, he had heard that 20 to 30% of all families had at least one kid from a previous marriage. And he wanted to, that was kind of as realistic as he got. He wanted to commentate on this, like, okay, let's have a blended family. And because they get along so well, you do forget. Oh yeah. They're there. Some of them are from an earlier marriage.

[00:14:08] They're immediately calling their, you know, mom and dad. They're immediately calling both mom and dad. All of them. It wasn't. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm just saying that that's, that was kind of an irony there. Cause yeah. Yeah. It was a small step in a more realistic TV, even though the Brady Bunch really isn't that realistic. Just the fact that it was, um, introducing a concept. It's not going all the way, but at least it's giving families from two different families. No. I mean, marking on it as opposed to ignoring it and sugarcoating it. Yeah.

[00:14:38] I don't think there's another show prior to that, that had a blended family like that. Yeah. I can't think of any, I can think of maybe some movies that had step kids or some creepy noards, but I can't think. Oh, you had the parent trap movie, I guess. For TV. Was it the first time you had, cause it was 69. Was it the first time you had the mom and dad sleeping in the same bed? Yep. Yeah. Oh yeah. Wait, they didn't have a toilet. Yeah. Well, they didn't have a toilet. Yeah.

[00:15:07] All the family was the first one to hear. You could hear the flush of a toilet. Yeah. Yeah. But I can, I can remember like thinking to myself, all right, my house doesn't look like the Brady Bunch house. And I've seen some of those houses were in my town, like those types of houses. Yeah. You know, but I can remember like, you know. Props to the art direction, you know, it's a stage, but it's not an implausible looking stage, you know. But the thing I loved about it was, you know, it was like those five years that it was on.

[00:15:36] You watch the kids grow up and become adults. Yeah. That's why they had to introduce Cousin Oliver. It was unnerving to see the first season, five seasons later or four, you know. Yeah. And that's why they introduced Cousin Oliver in season five, but he's only there for a few episodes before it's the last episode anyway. Oliver the jump the shark. Yeah. Listen, I'm going to say this right now. I'm friends with Robby Rich, the kid who played Cousin Oliver. Whoa. Yeah. I'm friends with him on Facebook.

[00:16:07] Yeah. And he's a good guy. He relishes it. I'm also friends with- Apparently he does voiceover work now from what I saw. Really? Yeah. Wow. Wow. That's cool. And I'm also friends with Fake Jan from the Brady Bunch variety show. So, Jerry- The timing of him coming in was, it was, the series was almost done. That's- Yeah. Well, you know, they brought him in because the kids were getting older though, but they brought him in because the kids were getting older, but it was- Yeah.

[00:16:35] Were they planning on going maybe hopefully for another season? I don't think so. I don't think so because Robert Reed and Sherwood Schwartz were always at locker heads. Well, he didn't show up in that last episode. He didn't show up at the last episode because there was a line. He says, oh, I can- Alice, I can smell the strawberries because she was cooking something. And he goes, he tells Schwartz, he's like, look, this is a stupid line. And he's like, Rob, just say it. You know, because Robert Reed was like this, you know, classically trained actor.

[00:17:06] And, you know, Sherwood Schwartz was like, just say the line. You know, he's like, no, I'm not going to say the line. This is so stupid. You know, I mean, why am I saying this? You know, and he'd been bitching about the scripts for like the past maybe two or three years. Well, he said the orange hair thing was too much. Yeah. Yeah, I remember that. And he said, he said that, and they said that, you know, he just basically said, all right, I'm not showing up for this show. Oh, damn. Stick to your guns. Excuse me. Isn't there a scene? I can envision it.

[00:17:34] I think I've seen it where he sneaks a curse word in. I think he's talking to Alice from the top of the stairs or something. The stairway's- Motherfucker, come down. No, it wasn't that. Not that intense. It was something fairly, for that time, fairly damn or something. I do see dams and hells get snuck into some of these shows. I think it's been mentioned, like those words have been used more than once, I think. I mean, we were watching- And that's probably all you were allowed to. Right.

[00:18:03] One damn and one hell. He played it back. So I think he just swore. Yeah. Hold on, Mike. As long as it wasn't derogatory, like your ass, you know. No, it was a minor. It was a mild swear word, but it's in there. What in the hell? I think it's something about she was out all night or where have you been? I can't remember the situation. Something like that. J.D. is researching. I did find something. Hold on. Lying in the Sergeant Emma episode.

[00:18:35] That sounds right. That sounds right. Wasn't she? It's just an urban legend that he said, Alice, it's six o'clock in the blanking morning. Yeah. You know? It sounded like he said effing morning or something? Yeah. Supposedly he might have said. He could have said freaking morning or something like that. I don't know. It snuck through, yeah. Maybe he said something and they bleeped it out or something. Yeah.

[00:19:03] I think it was so subtle it got through. I do remember seeing Good Will Hunts on ABC TV and a couple of F-bombs snuck in, but they're so quiet and quick, you know. That's the other funny thing, too, when you see even songs being played in the background. And if you don't hear it in the background, but if you turn it up or remaster the sound, you're going to hear something inappropriate.

[00:19:26] I've seen that with even certain 80s and 90s shows where there's a bit of cleavage to where they'll even censor it a bit. It's like, oh, a nipple got through. Sorry. McCartney drops an F-bomb on Hey Jude. It's buried in the mix, but you can. Yeah, you can hear it. What is it? Where does he say it? He says fucking hell or something like that. He messed up a take, but they kept going. It wasn't bad. They just left it in. That's kind of what I'm reading a lot of, which I never realized. But it also wasn't uncommon.

[00:19:55] And, you know, we were still growing as filmmakers. But, yeah, there wouldn't be a lot of bloopers or mispronunciations. But they, like any trained actors, they just kept going. And so did the filmmakers. They're like, that's the take for the day. We're wrapped. I will say this. One more I got to mention. There's a Beach Boys song. On the fade, you can hear a mattress spring and a girl moaning. Oh, my God. What song? Yeah, it's, I can't remember. Was it one of the Manson girls they were engaged to? Maybe. Maybe.

[00:20:25] It's, gosh, is it on Smiley? I think I got on one of the Beach Boys. So over 1,200 kids auditioned. 464 were personally interviewed. Sorry, go ahead, Cam. Sorry. 1,200 kids auditioned. 464 were interviewed. Can you imagine back in that day, like, as a Hollywood agent and a producer having to make all this work?

[00:20:55] That was a lot of work. There's probably millions now because they can, they got technology and they can waste everybody's time now. They don't care. But it's just like, man, I can't even imagine in that day, you know, pre, you know, phones what they are now. So, you know, Dana Gould talked about auditioning kids for his Stand Against Evil show. And you got to basically go home and tell your mom I just broke your heart. You know, that kind of thing. It's tough to audition children if you think about it. Because they think, oh, I'm going to be on TV. You know, they all think that.

[00:21:25] They all do. Even if you don't say anything. Yeah, it's a reality check for them. They think it. Yeah. Coming soon. Dana Gould episode. Promise. The thing that gets me the most is like when they brought the Brady's back in the 80s. Now, this isn't not the Brady's TV show. They did. Remember they did the Brady girls are getting married. Yep. And then they did the Brady brides. I never saw it. I might have seen part of the Christmas special.

[00:21:50] All I'm going to say to you is that forget that happened. Because it was just it was like, oh, yeah, we can see the Brady. Pretty much they're all growing up. And Marcia and Jan are going to get married. And I'm like, oh. It was weird because they tried to make it adult. But it seemed still kind of too saccharine for the time. They couldn't buck the formula. What's the one where Mike's trapped? The dad's trapped in a burning house or something.

[00:22:19] Or did he have to rescue him from a house? I think that was one of the things. I'm surprised he didn't burn down more. Yeah. Well, there was one. There's an episode. That was the Brady's. I think they were in a building. Yeah. And it was Christmas Eve. And the mom started seeing Silent Night or something like that. And everybody starts singing. Like, Mike gets out miraculously. Little do we know that. But little do we know that.

[00:22:48] The building was unsafe. And what happened was that they made it kind of like 30-something for the Brady's. Because remember, Bobby gets in a car accident. And he's paralyzed temporarily. And Marcia's an alcoholic. If only it was that way. Yeah. And those problems were resolved in like one episode. Right. In real life, you'd be missing two months worth of work while your bones heal. I'm pretty sure they brought Leave It to Beaver back years later. And Wally. I think they did.

[00:23:17] Wally had been divorced. Yeah. I remember. I have a vague memory of that. But I didn't really watch a lot of it. Still the Beaver. Still the Beaver. Still the Beaver. Still the Beaver. He had to have the disclaimer. I'm still. Still the Beaver. And they brought. I remember. That was like a whole wave of things. So they brought back Leave It to Beaver. I think they did. In the 80s, they brought back Mission Impossible. Mission Impossible. They brought back. Well, they tried doing The Monkees called The New Monkees. Oh, boy.

[00:23:47] Yeah. Didn't MTV run. Come up with that? No. No. That was. That was. I think it was a bunch of comedians. But. No. That was. That was. That was. Bert Schneider and Bob. No. That was not. It was a Schneider. Who the hell was it? That guy. It was. It was the other guy. Steve Blower. And they were on the Today Show. And. And. And Jane. Jane Paul was asking. What do you think about The New Monkees? He says. Well. We can't say what we think about them. But we know what we're saying. And the person who's doing it.

[00:24:17] You just don't know what the hell you're doing. Do you? Yeah. You know. There's. It's a great. It's a great thing to watch. Because they're just acting so goofy on it. But. MTV was responsible for The Monkees revival. Because. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh. Mid-80s. Late-80s. Yeah. It was 1987. Because I remember they just did. No. Was it 80? No. It was 86. Because. It was going to be the 20th anniversary. And they had. Yep. They had. That February.

[00:24:46] They ran Pleasant Valley Sunday. Which was. All the episodes. Wow. Up and. You know. Uncut. You know. It was like. Early binge watching. Yeah. I remember watching. The best way to do it. They just did marathons. So I think that's why I was always in the mode. When. There were. Movies or shows. They announced that you could binge. And I was doing it before. Streaming. I just always. Loved sneaking in. You know. But. Four episodes on a two hour. You know. TV. But. When they did the Brady's.

[00:25:16] The Brady's. They brought that back. But then you realize that the. You know. When that was going on. You know. They. They. It was. Yeah. Yeah. Great. You know. It's gonna be funny. And then all of a sudden. It's just like. Oh. Boy. You know. And little did we know at the time. That Robert Reed was sick. You know. We didn't know he was sick. He died early 90s. Right. Ninety. Ninety. One. Ninety. And no one knew. Until later. That he was gay. And I'm like. Well. It was a well-kept secret. Right. It's like. He was. 2020 special.

[00:25:46] And 2000. I saw that. It would have been. Yeah. Lawrence Henderson knew. Yep. From the way he kissed her. On the show. Hmm. And she said that. Yeah. She knew he was. But. When they were doing the Brady's. He was taking these large amounts of pills. And she was like. She was like. Oh. It's probably on vitamin. Or something like that. I saw that one of the other Brady kids. Liked to experiment with something. And he claimed it wasn't weed. But it was pretty apparent. That he was doing something. That was making him late to set every day.

[00:26:16] Yeah. I think. I can't remember if they replaced him. Like one of the other girls or not. Wait. Didn't they replace some of the other actors? Only during the. Only during the. Variety show. Oh. Okay. Or not the variety show. But was it the live show? So never during the actual show. Okay. Gotcha. Well no. What they. What they did was. When. They did the Brady punch hour. The Eve Plum. Didn't want to do it. So they brought in. Uh. Uh. Jerry Reshy. Who was.

[00:26:45] Who played. Who's known as now as fake Jan. I'm friends with her on Facebook too. And uh. And the funny thing was like. You know. It's like. Wait. Hold on. And when they did the Simpsons. She's the voice of fake Lisa. Yeah. You know. Also uh. The Gilligan's Island. Sherwood Swartz Revivals. They had a different ginger too. Different island. Same thing. How about that? Why can't we all just get along? So. Florence Henderson. Loved to be 82. Yeah. Uh.

[00:27:15] So how many of you guys. We were making jokes about other people. Who might be Brady's. Like Alan Brady. I used to love her on Hollywood Square. She was a little racier on that. Oh really? Okay. Oh god yeah. Yeah. Did you guys see her Who's Line episode? No. It was great. She was on Who's Line. Was it anyway? Oh okay. Are you kidding me? I'm not kidding. I saw it actually recently. And I was good. Are you talking Drew Carey or later? Yeah. Drew Carey in 2002. And.

[00:27:43] Colin even kisses her in a one skit. And. She even jokes that Wayne Brady's her lost Brady son. It was like. Oh my god. You go for it. So that would be. All. All I'm going to say is. Go ahead. When. When you become a teenager. And you're watching the Brady Bunch. And you see Mrs. Brady. And you're like. Oh shit. Wow. You know. You know like. You know. The makeup department loved her. That is for sure. Oh. No. Dude. She had.

[00:28:13] I remember my. Me and my friends. We were like sitting there. One day. We're like. Okay. If you had any. Woman on television. To like fool around with. Who would it be? I know. We were like. My friends. I go. I go. Carol Brady. They're like. What? I said. Dude. You ever see the. Hawaii episode. When she's got the bikini on. Holy shit. Oh hell. I would have said Daisy Duke myself. But. There you go. If you can be hot for teacher. We can be hot for. If memory serves. There was.

[00:28:41] A Chicago theater group. That would stage. A Brady episode. Word for word. Oh my word. I think it was Chicago. Or was it. I think it was. It was the groundlings. The groundlings. The groundlings did it. Wow. And Melanie Hustle. Were they. I mean if it's. 25 minutes. Would they do three episodes. A show or. Yeah. Yeah. And I remember. The girl who. The girl who played Jan. In the. Brady Bunch movie.

[00:29:11] I think was part of that group. Okay. But if you ever see. The old Saturday Night Live. Remember. Remember. They had a woman on there. Melanie Hustle. She was. She wasn't. She wasn't used. She was used a lot. In some sketches. But she's the one. The first thing was. Imitating. Imitating. Jan Brady. Okay. So she would have the glasses on. And like the little. Ringlet pigtail. And she. And then my sister. Marcia. She said. Yeah. She's the one that started. The Marcia. Marcia. Marcia. Yeah.

[00:29:41] That the movie kind of picked up on. Oh and don't forget the Super Bowl ads. I don't remember that. Yeah. Steve Buscemi did one. And he's going up to someone. He's like. Marcia. Marcia. Oh yes. Right. Yeah. It was like. For a Butterfinger ad. Or something. Something like that. Snickers. Snickers. That's what it was. Yes. And it's just so funny. Again. Everybody knows what they're saying. Even if you've only seen the SNL. It's like. You know it. It's in our bloodstream. Yeah. It's in our bloodstream. It's a virus. It's our DNA.

[00:30:12] We used to. We used. There was this one. There was this girl. Came to the class one day. She's like. She's like. Oh I got a boyfriend. He's so great. And you know. And she's a real stuck up. Girl. And I said. I just said. What's his name? George Glass. And she just went. She just looked. Gave me this look of like. You know. Shut up. What do you know. She did. Kids were giggling. When I said it. But she's like. She's looking at me like. What the hell. Yeah.

[00:30:42] She probably didn't know. What did you just say? What did you just say? What did you just say? You know. Well I remember his name was Gary. And he was like. Five years older than she was. And I was just like. Thinking to myself. You know. Wow. You know. I was. I was actually surprised. The episode. Where Marcia gets her nose. Smashed with a football. And she has the double dates. Yeah. At the same time. Well. Actually. I can't remember how it went. In the movie. But. I was watching the original episode.

[00:31:11] And I was actually surprised. To see that her. Her. Her. Jock boyfriend. Was the guy who played Spider-Man. In 79. Oh. Oh. What's his name? Nick Hammond? Yeah. Nick Hammond. Yeah. Oh. That's great. Well here's. Here's another one. That's great. The one where she's working in the ice cream parlor. Right? I didn't see that one recently. But. She's. She's. She's working in the ice cream parlor. She squirts. She squirts the kid with whipped cream. That's Michael Gray who played Billy Batson in Shazam.

[00:31:41] Oh. Yeah. All these. They had a lot of guest stars on that show. Yeah. Davy Jones. I remember Davy Jones specifically. And he actually shows up in the movie too. Yeah. Davy. I remember Davy Jones. I remember Joe Namath. Joe Namath. Yep. I remember. Vincent Price. Vincent. Oh. Vincent Price. That's the Hawaii. One of the Hawaiian episodes. That's wild. That Davy. I'm going to eat my beans. Yeah. Oh. I love that. I love Jim Backus being in it. Hmm.

[00:32:11] You know. Which was kind of a callback to Gilligan's Island. Yeah. Uh. Deacon. I keep thinking. Deacon Jones was in it. Deacon Jones was in one episode. Um. James. James McDivitt. The astronaut. Because. Remember. I think Bobby or Peter sees aliens land in the backyard. Oh. That's right. And. And supposedly James McDivitt when he was on Apollo 10.

[00:32:39] Or Apollo 9 or Apollo 16. He thought he saw a UFO. Oh. Oh. You know. Oh yeah. Dude. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. He thought he saw a UFO go flying by. Um. They had really good. And they had some really good supporting cast too. Because I can remember Dennis's dad from Dennis and the Menace played one of the doctors. Played a doctor who visits the house. Richard Pryor shows up on A Partridge Family. I know that. Yeah.

[00:33:09] Richard Pryor and Louis Gossett Jr. Damn. Richard Pryor was supposed to be the Hipper family. But I think that's also why the Brady started singing. Yeah. Somebody had to. Because you know. The Partridge Family. Because the Partridge Family. Sure. Yeah. No. I think on the Brady cartoon did they sing too? I think they did. Yeah. They did. They. They. They. That. That was the thing that drew. I can. If you guys want to. They didn't go to outer space or anything.

[00:33:39] They were like Gilligan. No. No. I don't think they did. That was Partridge Family. 2200. That's right. 2200 AD. Yeah. I'm thinking I borrowed Space Nuts when he. Saw. Bob Denver thought the button said lunch. Lunch. Said lunch. Yeah. That was the whole premise of the show. I'll give you. I'll give you. I'll give you a great thing to watch. Watch. It's on YouTube. Watch Sid and Marty Croft live at the Hollywood Bowl. Oh.

[00:34:08] That'd be fun. Oh. All right. It's. It's. Johnny Whitaker singing Friends and telling the world's worst joke ever. Yeah. He's like. You watch it. You're like. You're like kid. You're bombing up. This shit had a big giant cane come off and like yank him off after he was done. Um. Then they had. Then they had Jack Wilde come out. And do. He did. Like it's later in the show. He does consider yourself one of the family. And then.

[00:34:39] Between that. It's the Brady kids coming out. And they're doing. Proud Mary. Of course. Right. Which is like. You know. Every. Every wedding. Every wedding for decades had that song. Yeah. Oh God. Yeah. And it's like. And also like. Mike. Mike Lookingland. Comes out. Does this really. Funky version of. Uh. Whole lot of shaking going on. So here's this like 12 year old kid. Seeing a whole lot of shaking going on. And we're.

[00:35:09] I'm just like. It's like you're covering your. Your eyes. And you're. Not sure how to feel. Oh God. Oh. That reminds me. Some of the side projects they did. Like you were. Showed. You showed. You showed that. That record. That Eve Plum put out. For the cookie fortune. Mike. And I was just like. Listening to that going. Yeah. Yeah. I was rolling my eyes. So bad at that. I just joined. Records that didn't make the top 40 group. And that's where I found that. Records. What was it called?

[00:35:38] It was. The fortune cookie song. Oh yeah. Yeah. I can't believe you found that. I didn't get through more than the first minute. So. Well I listened to the whole thing with my wife. And my wife just looked at me with an evil eye. Like. What did you bring into this house? Was it that bad? Like I said. Drop it in the bottom of the room. It was bad. Well her dad was a producer. Some music mogul. Eve Plum. Yeah. A little nepotism there. Yeah. I mean.

[00:36:08] She didn't go anywhere after that. Obviously. Musically. But. Yeah. Oh yeah. The producer guy was named Plum too. So yeah. Yeah. There's. I think in the YouTube notes. It mentions her father was a. Yeah. Either. Record producer. I think it was a record producer. Or something like that. Have you guys ever seen. I'm going to get you sucker. Yes. That's been a long time. Yeah. Watch. Watch the scene where he talks to Clarence Williams the third. And guess who comes out. Eve Plum. So when she comes out here.

[00:36:38] You hear. Here's the story. How's my newbie and warrior doing? You know. It was just so funny to see that. And she's got like the freaking. The freaking. The curl. Like the. The corn road hair. And everything like that. And you're just. You know. She's wearing the cheeky. And you know. The kid's kind of like. Abraham Lincoln was a no good honky. Damn. Damn.

[00:37:08] Damn. I love the Brady Bunch. The Brady Bunch movies they did years later. And Gary Cole. I thought. Gary Cole was incredible. He had that down. You also have Betty Thomas to thank for directing the first one. Okay. Richard Belzer had a cameo as the cop at the end. I think. Yeah. I thought it was brilliant. I'm sorry. Greg and Marsha kissing that too. Make out on that one. In the movie. Yeah. That's the second one. I think. That's the second one. Kind of okay. Because they weren't really blood. You know. I don't know.

[00:37:37] But they were still brother and sister. That's true. What are the legalities of that? I don't know how that works. No. I thought it was brilliant. That's a weird. That's a weird rabbit hole. I thought they were brilliant with. You know. Putting like these characters who are stuck in the 70s. Yeah. In present day. Yeah. And so you still got that bubble that you talked about. Yeah. You got that bubble that you talked about from the series. And you take that bubble and you just move it to 20 years later in the 90s. Well hell.

[00:38:07] They were antiquated in the 70s. They were. Yeah. They were. They were not of that time really. You know. It was. It was. They were too perfect or something. Yeah. I wouldn't know if adults really were identified with it. But kids certainly did. Yeah. At that time. Oh no. It was a very popular show. I mean. I did. I worked on a school paper I put together for two issues. And one of the first things they did was a little thing about the Brady Bunch. I think. Because that's one thing I'm remembering. I did some cartoons about it or something. Yeah. Yeah. That's one thing I'm remembering.

[00:38:36] I really didn't start watching it until I was about five or six. But I didn't watch it too much. You know. Like you were nine when it started. When I was nine. I think I'd lost interest in it at that point. Yeah. Mm. I was. The youngest. The boy makes me laugh. Because I was exactly his age when it aired. So. You know. Even watching as an adult. You just. I think he's a funny character. I can relate. Yeah. Peter's. Bobby is like the. Is like the runt of the litter. But as he gets older.

[00:39:06] He starts to like. You know. Begin to find his own voice. It's always like. Okay. Greg's like. Greg's always trying to be cool. Right. Johnny Bravo. Yeah. Johnny Bravo. Johnny Bravo. That started there. Yeah. You know. You know. There's. Greg is. You know. Bobby. Peter is like. Is like. He's trying to be like Greg. But he's like.

[00:39:35] He's a little more geekier. You know. And Bobby's like. Bobby's like. Look. I'm the youngest. But I'm gonna. You know. I've got my sister. My sister's like my best friend. You know. And I'll stick up for her. No matter what. You know. And you know. He. He. He doesn't. You know. He's. So it's like. You know. And then you got. You know. Marsha. Jan. And Cindy. And Marsha's like. You know. Beautiful. Perfect. Jan's always living in her shadow. But the thing is. Jan. Jan always has her own.

[00:40:05] Her own voice. You know. To. You know. She'll start. Becoming more. Vocalist. And then Cindy's always like. Kind of like. You know. I don't know. I always see Cindy's like. You know. The one that kind of like. You know. You know. Kind of. You know. Goes nowhere. You know. Kind of like. Just like. Disappears. And she comes back. You know. She was in another dimension. Or something like that. But. Who is it? Barry Williams played. The oldest. Yeah. Barry Williams. There's a YouTube.

[00:40:35] Supposedly. There was one scene. That made the cut. Where he stoned. On there. Wow. Wow. Do you know what episode that was? I've seen it on YouTube. It's in the front yard. I think he's shooting hoops. Or something. But you could just. You could see it in his eyes. That he was buzzing. Yeah. Yeah. I've heard about that. Yeah. I gotta find that. He made it later. In a biography. I think. That he was. Growing up Brady. Yeah. Yeah. Growing up. Yeah. He said that. That. Mike. That. Barry Knight. And.

[00:41:06] Eve Plum. Went out on a date one time. Was it. Plum. Or I thought it was. Oh. He went out with the mom. No. No. No. No. No. No. This is another story. He went out with. Yeah. He did go out with. With Florence Henderson. And there was. But Eve Plum. And Barry Knight. One night. Barry Knight. Eve Plum. And Chris Knight. Went out on a date one night. And they started making out. And the cops came. And like. Knocked down the window. And they were like. You know. They got freaked out. And everything. Like that. Didn't make the. Well. Obviously. We know about it.

[00:41:36] Yeah. But. There's like. There's stories. He told about them. Like getting drunk on a plane. One time. And like. Chris. It was. Mike Lickenland. And. Susan Olsen. Were like. You know. Going like. I love you. I love you too. You know. Like that. You know. They were just doing that shit. Susan Olsen. Is really. Not exactly. The world's most. Liberal person. In the world. Oh really. Yeah. She's.

[00:42:05] She's. I'm friends with her. On Facebook. Man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Her and Robbie Rist. Have gotten to some good arguments. And I kind of take Robbie's side. On shit like that. You know. Oh. I remember reading some article. About the Brady Bunch. It might have been People Magazine. Or something. Maybe. It was something like that. And I just remember Eve Plum's mom. In real life. Caught her reading. The Exorcist. Yeah. With a flashlight. Under the covers.

[00:42:36] I don't know what. Yeah. It might have been TV Guide. Or something. But that. It's funny how they can get. You know. That little gossip. It's kind of fun. Reading that kind of. It's just like. They always say. They're just like us. You know. Well. Well. I can remember. Her doing the Brady's. And that went off the air. And then. They had a. TV show on Saturday mornings. Called Super Fudge. On Saturday. And she played the.

[00:43:05] She played the mom. Careful. Super Fudge. Yeah. What the fudge? Yeah. Oh fudge. Oh. What the fudge man. I didn't say fudge. I said it. The word. The queen mother of all words. Fudge. Fudge you. Coming to TVS. Fudge you. Oh. It was kind of cool. With the movie. You know. Like Marsha's being the popular one. And you know. Back in the day. And this. Even though she's. Out of time. She seems to be. The one.

[00:43:35] All the boys are turning. She's turning the heads. Of all the boys. It was a double success. From that point too. Like a lot of the actors. In those movies. Went on to do a lot of big. Other TV stuff. So. That was a good career boost. For them. For doing an impression. Of another. You know. Other TV stars. You know. But it seems to me. Like the movies. Kind of centered a lot. Around Jan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because you were put upon it. The sibling rivalry thing. They were not even. Marsha. Who played Marsha? I should know these names. She was married to.

[00:44:05] Christine Taylor. Christine. That's right. I'm talking with the original Marsha. In the series. Oh. Maureen McCormick. Maureen McCormick. I do remember her doing TV ads. For Barbie. Or something. You know. I think she did some other B movies. didn't she do a russian corman movie the same time as the brady bunch though yeah she was in the i remember she was in the idol maker oh okay i could see you in that sure where she played a

[00:44:29] reporter or something like that who sleeps with the guy who's oh wow there's a deep cut wow but i can remember like eve plump doing some you know uh you know kind of like you know diary of i think it was diary of a hitchhiker or something like that and susan olsen was like working on working actually as a film crew now there was a big rumor going around that she was in a pornographic movie

[00:44:53] but what happened was was that the girl who who played her the girl who looked like her was a girl named dorothy lame and if you look at dorothy lame she looks like susan olsen i'm not shitting you you can look at a picture of dorothy lame with her clothes on and and susan olsen like and they look the same almost so but what happened was that susan was like yeah i did some movies you know like i did production work on it but i was never in one and i'm kind of like oh yeah i kind of agree with you

[00:45:22] on that because it was there's it's two different you know it's two different things you know it's like i i was just going that's why you get away with it you're the crew you're not the star of said movie so yeah but i think he played in a tv movie where she played a a teenage hooker or something at once yeah i think well eve plump i think of them all had more acting and stuff after the movie than or after the show than the other guys which did reality shows or just played themselves

[00:45:49] he's trying to compete with marshall yet myself but all i remember is i just remember like barry williams not really barry williams did a lot of like stage stuff i don't remember i know i met mike looking land um yeah he was kind of like he was he became it he was a he's a deadhead he follows the great he followed the grateful dead wow i was you know i'm a deadhead too so it

[00:46:15] was like you know i was like hey man you know he uh he saw the dead so you can imagine like you're like you're some guy like listen watching the grateful did you look over there's like there's pete there's bobby brady and you're like hey man what's you gonna get in trouble you smoke a jay with me is the old man gonna take you aside and give you a little lecture about drugs he has a hell of a hair just i gotta say it's just which one's looking land is he the one the youngest yeah he was the

[00:46:44] youngest yeah okay man that's cool that you got to meet him i was at i was at a convention and they had like it was susan olsen um mike looking land jerry rush jerry 2000s he it had to be yeah had no it had yeah it had to be like maybe 2014 2013 yeah and i can remember like i was walking around

[00:47:11] with my grateful dead shirt on and uh looking land style he's like hey man like that shirt i'm like yeah man thanks and he's like yeah did you ever see him i said well i went to the further festivals a couple times i never he said i told him i wanted to get tickets before garcia died you know yeah i was like i was gonna get like yeah i'm gonna go see the dead at radio city music hall you know i'll just save up and get some tickets and it'll be cool and then i'll send like august 9th i hear jerry garcia was found dead this morning like mother fucker like you know uh

[00:47:42] the deadhead at work when that happened i remember that yeah scott missed opportunity i gotta check with my wife on something on peter brady i'll be right back yeah there you go guys prepare for the trivia pop quiz yeah christopher i know christopher christopher night was christopher night was doing was married to that one woman airy

[00:48:07] yeah other than that vh1 reality show i don't know if he did anything else other than and i think they got divorced like like maybe a couple like two years after they got married that sounds about right and he's like he was really into like like computers and shit for one yeah he's a big that's the one in the middle right because i saw yeah yeah but i do remember i can't remember

[00:48:33] the brady bunch movie the cameos that they had um and my favorite one was she uh james running away from home and she gets picked up by a hitchhiker by a trucker and the trucker is ann b davis right from the movie yep yeah and then they go see their grandma and the grandma is laurice henderson you know but they had they had a couple of really you know good cameos in those those movies you know

[00:49:02] that i liked you know um the second one they had uh they had barbara eden in the barbara yeah and uh and higgins from and higgins from magnum pi talking about his son gilligan that was lost at sea yes my son gilligan was lost at sea my ears for gilligan lost at sea you know but um oh man

[00:49:25] that's great thing that connects that the great thing about that that those first two movies was the first one was like it was so it was funny you know it was funny because it was like every cliche you knew about the brady bunch yeah they threw it all in they they incorporated like episodes and kind of blended it all into the movie yeah yeah much like roseanne and cosby show we're talking

[00:49:51] about pregnancy and don't do drugs it was interesting how this show a little more promiscuous but still saying hey get back in time for dinner and don't be you know out past eight well and then and then they're playing you know the family's playing you know they're they're they're oblivious to the world around them yeah you know that one girl she uh marcia has a sleepover and it's the woman who plays ted's

[00:50:16] mom on the tv show oh wow or not you know not ted but you know on on the tv show ted she plays the mom oh oh god i knew why she looked so funny yeah way to go man why is your hand on my leg yeah yeah oh i thought it was my leg i'm gonna have to check that out once i get peacock again thank you oh god i i i love watching that that movie and the way they they had the talent kind of what are the judges

[00:50:45] thinking the judge pans over to the judges and it's the monkeys and then and then they they're going to they park for the talent show a bus goes by and it's the partridge family bus yeah wow my wife was working for the press in town here years ago and peter brady shows up one day i think he was promoting some charity or something they're doing an article about it

[00:51:11] yeah i just remember one of her co-workers can i touch you you know i couldn't believe it was there you know that's really kind of you exist all of a sudden you look up there's peter brady walking around the newsroom you know it just that's kind of cool she met ernie harwell the tv um she wrote his actually wrote i'm proud to say she wrote ernie harwell's obituary for the paper ernie wait ernie who's

[00:51:35] ernie howell harwell was the detroit tigers announcer for decades oh yeah okay okay on the radio yeah he's also on the radio you know the famous shot heard around the world that's him he worked for the oh no not on the tv foot he was on the radio when that happened though he was the radio coverage which here but i remember he was promoting walking and i got to walk him for a minute and a half i felt

[00:52:00] like i knew him for 20 years he's a really his persona and the tigers really cool guy the tigers did the the stupidest thing letting him go i'm sorry yeah well they brought him back yeah they brought him back i remember when they let him go i was like bring it back y'all bring it back i talked to when i talked about the why do you thought the best team he's ever seen he thought he thought it was the 61 yankees yeah so i was thinking about the movie you remember like the youngest didn't have a

[00:52:29] whole lot to do in the movies the two the two younger characters but i remember the one being the being the hall monitor and he has the teacher spread eagle against the bus remember that wow she's holy shit you need to spread your legs further apart you know whatever the teacher's name was and all this stuff comes falling out from underneath her dress wait was that in the movie yeah yeah okay

[00:52:54] okay yeah i was gonna say that then there was the part where you know you mustn't tattle you mustn't tattle cindy yes so then what happens you know she starts talking also these reporters come out of nowhere well yeah she's supposed to not tattle but she sure tells everybody everything that's going on yeah did you guys bring up the burt mustin episode the billy the kid one yeah i remember that one did you yeah that was also there was what the heck's going on here the braided bunches in the twilight

[00:53:23] zone is also it was real serious and gilligan's island did one of those too they did a they did a help it man they had to have some freak out episode gilligan had the uh most dangerous game episode too where the hunter was yeah somebody had to hunt him yeah i remember the next day at school boy gilligan's island was really kind of scary yesterday what happened you know

[00:53:47] but yeah it uh somehow i used to the brady's father would always figure out you go to hell and back to resolve these situations he was a smart guy but we never saw how he figured out we just had to find this guy that his dad you know somebody that billy now you make me want them to reboot it but he's a private eye no one gets past me no one well that was another thing in the

[00:54:14] movie you know like you were saying gary cole he was he was brilliant as uh mike yeah and and he had him down he'd always give his advice he's still great he's always great you know i got one freaking birdman and he's a smart actor like so i can only imagine betty thomas reuses him later when she does a rendition of i spy with eddie murphy is the bad guy but like uh i fun fact about him like he's just always when he's doing any of his voiceover he's always warming up and giving

[00:54:43] him different voices to use uh originally his villain you know the evil boss in office space originally they filmed him reacting to his car being vandalized at the end and he protested that he's like no i don't want any of the audience guys feeling sorry for my bastard of a character oh and so he was so relieved on opening day when they had cut the scene thanks to his protest well you know the first show he was he was on a tv show i don't remember night caller night call that

[00:55:13] call yeah and then he was also in the babylon he also did a babylon five spinoff yes he did one of my favorite captains yep but the thing i loved about him was he got the cadence down of robert reed and if you see one part you know he's talking to her and you see shelly duvall's reaction and she's gone and she's like looking like what the hell are you saying and i'm sure like many of these

[00:55:43] theater trained actors they're they're doing voice exercises so they know hey i can change the tone just like that based on how you want it you know and he nailed he nailed it he he was giving like advice to the kids that sounded like it was scripted by ed wood yeah because i mean it's like it was great at it i think that's why he gets some of those other comedy roles later he just knows how to just say the most absurd stuff with a straight face they did an episode of family guy

[00:56:12] where he's he's like uh he's like you know greg has cigarettes greg you know you have to do you you know what about yeah and you know for you telling you have to spend five hours in the snake pit it's just like just of all the things you have to tell me i have to do i have to do what what oh good stuff i mean i i don't think you'll ever see a movie like the tv show like a brady

[00:56:42] bunch i think the closest you got was step by step interesting yeah which was uh it was the guy from dollars and patrick duffy you know and i think that's that's something you know we all kind of like we're like it's like the brady bunch except everybody looks yeah modern you know is that is that the one that had the girl with the that was from my two dads

[00:57:08] yeah yeah oh wow hey who's that lawyer who were the two dads and my two dads greg evigan and paul riser paul riser yeah from diner okay and well mad about you no no you guys are bringing up some good points you know it's like because there's all other sitcoms that kind of have their own formula you get family ties and what have you it was like yeah that that was similar in that again it was a blended family my favorite is married with children oh yeah there you go

[00:57:37] nothing will ever top that show i'm sorry but the more i watch that show the more i kind of look and go that was my family i still you know i talk about because i talk about cousin oliver i was raised on cosby's show i guess and then i think about the episode of married with children where they introduce the kid into married with children and then then he just disappears and then one time in an episode of married with children you're seeing a milk carton with his face and name with his face on it yeah

[00:58:06] roseanne did something with the two actresses played her daughter too late late oh yeah well one went off to college and then sarah chalk came in i think yeah right and then they did and then they did one time at the end of of the roseanne show they did it where it was they did the patty like a takeoff on the patty duke show and it was sarah chalk and the other girl and they were they were doing like the whole you know patty duke thing and then it cuts over and there's william shallert

[00:58:33] sitting standing next to standing next to john john goodman you know smiling like going hey look what we got here you know but there was one where they they kind of made fun of it one time and this is hey becky you look really different yeah and then one division started out like the dick van dyke show in black and white well that's you know there was an episode of there was an episode of um what was it

[00:59:00] that did it was roseanne then it became whatever the family name was which i can't the conners the conners and sarah chalk shows up and i think it was about trying to you know sarah chalk's in the episode but she's not playing becky yeah playing a different character and she's trying to get they do that in community too they have baguette brewster play a tech gal and then the following season they're

[00:59:27] like hey you look like the gal in it they did that with uh with fresh prince of bel-air that was my show too i love it yeah remember when the original ant viv left yeah she got fired and they brought in they brought in the other they brought in the other one they're like hey ant viv you look kind of different yeah and you know it was like you get some work done girl yeah

[00:59:53] that was the joke you know yeah but um yeah i love the original ant viv because she had a freaking talk back to somebody um yeah they brought in daphne daphne maxwell reed to play the second the second ant viv you know and what did you get can you see the nanny existing in the same universe seems like she had that same kind of mutterly figure what with uh what the nanny in the brady

[01:00:18] universe yeah a couple blocks over maybe yeah uh yeah kind of thing i don't know you know just that butler it's yeah that you remember this brady episode i'm burning up and then alice takes the baseball bat to the bust of uh mr brady that uh remember that one no wow

[01:00:44] i lost you i'm sure i've seen it i just don't remember the kids were doing a ghost trying to scare somebody with a ghost and alice comes in thinks it's the real she hits something with a baseball bat and it turns out to be mrs brady made a bust of for his birthday they glued it back together i'm not making this up that's not no that's great see we've all put each other on the spider today and we've all done a deep cut on an episode somehow

[01:01:13] that escaped us all so i think this is more fun but like see i watched a lot of those episodes yeah but i was looking forward to this because it's like it is it's just it didn't require much research but it also was going to be more of the nostalgia mixed with a proper review mixed in with hey remember when this you know you first got addicted to this because that's the other thing too i i kind of miss when tv was a little more accessible versus oh now you gotta you gotta watch it you gotta subscribe

[01:01:41] to this and it's just co-workers aren't as good at selling you on something anymore either and trailers are kind of forced this was so much there's you only had my sister-in-law said there's just so much tv it's there's too much there's stuff that people are like you should check out and i'm like you haven't sold me so duly noted you know i just i i i try watching lully hammer after all these years you know i'm gonna get there i let's see that's the other thing too it's terrific

[01:02:08] by the way it's really good i i have no doubt it's van zandt but like it yeah it's one of those you gotta also sell people people gotta like the premise before they waste time with anything and it was one of those this is back when we're we were kind of more laid back and we liked how there was options for sitcoms instead of a let's just have a four camera you know laugh track and that's all

[01:02:31] you get you know it's it i wouldn't say it was necessarily as experimental but it it's pretty hard it was a pretty hard premise to have to goof up you know like people that from all this research we've done tonight it's pretty clear that everybody trusted each other you know the producer pitched it really well by just flat out just you know he's like hey you liked my original script uh

[01:02:59] what what you guys did with it worked so let me do my thing it will still work and it did it worked but it was also one of those you know but with all the stuff like you guys what we're saying even though there were some behind the scenes issues they were able to get past it you know as opposed to other sets where it's very clear especially later on it's like oh these two stars can't stand to be in the same room or we had to write them out because they're late to set due to drugs you know i gotta

[01:03:27] i gotta say this i've been watching a lot of the later episodes of cheers after um shelley long and and they brought kirstie they brought kirstie alley in and i gotta say the show it's like it's what i call the the mcginley effect no no because listen listen listen hear me out hear me out remember ted mcginley was the guy if they brought him in he was going to kill a show yeah he was the show killer yeah he was the show

[01:03:55] killer and then they brought him in with children so that's good and there's a show who's an actress too the same thing but go ahead paula marshall go ahead so what happened was was that um when he they brought him into married with children it got better because now he was a guy who wasn't you know he he was more like you know laid back you know jefferson was more of a you know a an asshole

[01:04:20] artist he was a con artist yeah so like when they brought when they brought kirstie alley in there the whole thing of you know her having a relationship with sam okay that went out the window and now it was you know she was just he was just a person who had caught up in this whole madness of what that place was you know well you know christie alley's character was just so

[01:04:44] dysfunctional and she never got she she never got a break it seemed like no no i love that's what i loved about her character you know she was just so she was just so funny to watch she was jan for cheers yeah that's a good point um so good news i've read about paula marshall being the show killer but the only time i've seen her is she plays she plays iris west in the first episode of

[01:05:09] the flash 1990 she really is a good actress she never appeared again and she's also on the seinfeld episode where she thinks george and jerry are gay there's nothing wrong with that obviously that well the flash lasted one season but i i read that if she was kind of like the mcginley though she'd show up on a show she had her luck layer blair underwood jimmy smith's unfortunately are all kind of on that boat which is ridiculous and going back to forget brewster she said in interviews that

[01:05:38] producers often do that just because they can't own up to their failure that they had a crappy script to work with or something and they just want to throw the main face under the bus now james you'll be happy to know a really long career on miami vice yes he did um it's the miami vice effect uh but all right so no it's fine and so james you'll be happy to know that ted mcginley isn't killing shrinking

[01:06:04] no i heard he's i was wondering what he was in he is funny he is oh god yeah he's a well-meaning dipshit but he is a dipshit yeah you want to take out the garbage with me wait you want do what you want me to take out you want to take out the garbage with me so you want me to walk down the driveway with you to take out the garbage yeah sure and then he's talking to the woman next door hi hi barbara how's everything going bill yeah we don't like barbara oh okay suck a bowl of dicks

[01:06:34] barbara yeah and you're watching this you're like you know i had to watch the i had to watch that whole pre i'm like wait hold on i had to like play it back i'm like fucking mcginley's a fucking pimp in this show man you know he's and that's it he's so well-meaning and yet he's he's even told like mr brady cursing at alice it's a bit of that he he's the he's a mix of the fathers are sorry lot

[01:06:58] mixed in with just you just can't catch a break dude what what what do you even think before you say anything i know you mean well but god man um what's his character in shrinking is he like is he's just like he's the one of the next door neighbors uh is that that one with harrison ford that i haven't watched yeah yes and it's by uh what's his name bill lawrence who you know is the head writer on scrubs spin city and at this and ted lasso back to back he is taking over apple just

[01:07:27] like taylor sheridan's taking over paramount crap i'm gonna have to start subscribing to apple again but harrison is wonderful in it uh wendy malik is also in there oh wow yeah she because that's the other funny thing too you have these therapists needing to get their own therapy that that's how meta it is and it's just like jessica williams yeah yeah she she's dynamite on it as a former artist and who also works at the office and it's just so funny seeing her just give harrison ford some shit once

[01:07:56] i just i've been watching like parts of that show american housewife yes did you and i gotta say i gotta say that show's hilarious especially when you've got barry bosdick and julia duffy and well that's a that's another show where the like young daughter left and somebody else came in in later episodes yeah and it was and it and the show died after right after that yeah it was about two free seasons but it wasn't bad and there was an unofficial drew carey show reunion on their

[01:08:26] one one episode where they had ryan and kathy kenny and a few other guys yeah and yeah drew carey even showed up now there you go hey i saw the preview and i was like that's funny i've been watching that and i've been watching like little parts i want to see that show the middle again because that show look that show is hilarious especially yeah that was the janitor from scruzz patricia heaton and yeah i forget who played the kids but they were good the youngest one was

[01:08:54] hilarious though the one i think it went on a little longer than need to kind of family but it was it was good break had a growth problem or something kind of the actor did i can't that's the other thing too when in that weird time slot in the 2010s that's when people are so surprised that what stuff flew under the radar is like well that's kind of when we began having the physical media wars the

[01:09:18] should i get cable or should i get streaming possibilities and then you know the economy kept changing so i'm really not surprised at how much stuff just kind of flew under the bus i was kind of that way with uh you were talking seinfeld earlier i was kind of that way with julia lewis streifus's other thing old adventures of new christine is like that was another one i was like i i would see parts of it i'm like this is really funny it's generally in my neck of the woods it's

[01:09:42] just it was on at a bizarre hour trying to escape high school so i didn't i see much of it i i thought about like some shows that were like like if you look at 1969 when that show came on abc was still i think the the king of the networks yeah yeah all the comedy stuff yeah they were still doing

[01:10:09] the growing pains yeah and then we got to mix it in with like biblical stuff like touched by an angel and you're like good grief no no no this this is 1969 yeah you're talking way back okay way back so did they have the mod was the mod squad out by them mod squad was out yeah because that was abc that's a good show but hey they were they were put abc was known as putting out a lot of like

[01:10:34] cutting edge stuff but you know cbs was still you know nbc was kind of just the go-between it's like you can have a show here you'll have a sitcom here and then a medical and a cop show and and then what they did was a young a man came along one day named fred silverman yes who began to change the face of the networks and he worked for all three of them and then one day he made a show called super train

[01:11:00] and that show flopped terribly and super train and then he he green-lighted pink lady and jeff and that and that did him in we'll return after these messages if you like small town mystery crazy news and wild history then the florida men on florida man podcast is for you each week josh

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[01:12:20] there were some episodes that were missing i wonder why music right maybe i don't know oh my word whoa okay so they were gonna do a cbs reboot but cindy actress susan olsen had a documented hate speech

[01:12:44] oh and doesn't surprise jj well there's the politics you were talking about jj yeah i was trying to avoid it for as long as i could but i didn't realize that was the case they right on the news all right well i'm gonna move on i don't yeah no i'm i'm gonna move on i'm trying to keep the light but um yeah so i don't know i because that that's a good question because you do

[01:13:11] see that with certain sitcoms it's like they'll have only certain episodes it's like they i it does make me wonder because i see that with other shows too and it's like i guess those are the only ones that they want to syndicate and the others have a little too many intense storylines or whatever i don't know but maybe they just wanted to order 10 episodes to syndicate versus 17 i don't i don't know well they've done that barney miller barney miller i don't i can't find all the episodes of

[01:13:38] barney miller really i haven't seen that they still show it on get tv and me tv and a few others but yeah i think you can get them all on dvd now but coming soon by the way uh yeah no i i don't know i don't know if that's a music ride or if there's just not as big an interest which is weird because it's pretty easy to syndicate and afford so i would have to ask someone in

[01:14:06] cells and programming probably i've been watching i've been watching the episode they're all got stoned on wojo's brownies hey barney let's go down to the beach and shoot some clams barney barney your mother's from kilarny for those who don't know that is the episode hash

[01:14:29] i saw um steve landisberg uh shortly after the last ever episode he did their junior college in town had the talk festival and they'd get people like you know robert klein did it once and he was talking to us about the fact i think that's the first time i heard it wrapped i think he actually told us it was the last wow that was cool that was that it was neat to see him i found out

[01:14:56] something about that show though they would like you know how most shows film like eight hours you know like they'll take they'll do right danny danny arnold was like still improving the script on those shows so maybe they're like maybe two three o'clock in the morning they were still shooting so what they did was instead of having the audience there they would have the laugh track dubbed in so all the scenes some of the scenes would be sweetened with the live audience some of them

[01:15:18] would be you know pre-recorded that makes sense um the thing i think that's i that's one of those shows like you know the brady much great show will live you know will you know and i know my my uncle was a cop and uh he said that barney miller was the closest to being cop you know with a real cop show than anything in the world you know and it was a show you had that dry kind of atmosphere

[01:15:45] he's like you said what you did what yeah here let me take this to you know the records it was more about the routine life that they have yeah yeah if you're at a desk you literally are an engaging secretary they can call us all day basically i remember the one where fish had to retire and he didn't want to that was pretty pretty no no i'm not it was it was it was kind of sad no no that's true

[01:16:10] because like that back when they but i think this is kind of the what we're getting from other sitcoms you see it now and now it's second nature but many of the ones in the 60s and 70s did kind of start the whole let's be you know completely comedic all the time and then to end every season let's have a very you know dramatic episode and so it is wild how that kind of became the norm

[01:16:37] yeah definitely had a few of those yeah yeah i remember the episode where uh um barney chewed out um who was it the the older guy the guy that james fish no no not fish no no inspector luger inspector he chewed out inspector loser luger for interrogating a he like hit the guy a couple times

[01:17:02] and uh you know luger's like hey barn that's how we did it he's like this is not how we do it today you know he's like okay all right all right you know just trying to get some information i got and he's like tell him no we don't do that anymore that's not the way things are done anymore but the one part i love is luger they arrest they arrest a hasidic jew for doing something and the entire congregation comes and he says and they they come and they just you know destroy the entire station yeah and you see

[01:17:30] you see you see uh you see luger comes like well what happens like i went out there with him with a megaphone barney i told him to calm down i told him to go home and take a shave and that's just it like the comic timing was just so perfect there and i think what we're also learning from all these sitcoms that we've been fortunate enough to cover so far is

[01:17:56] and something that unfortunately you don't see too much today and for better or worse sometimes it works sometimes it's annoying but you see more over editing than you do seeing an actual scene kind of naturally ignite you know what i mean and to me it's the writing nowadays too because a lot of these writers don't know how to write no absolutely i mean you can improve a script as you go but like now now i'll see a show and it's like i don't know if i want to dedicate you know i don't know if it's

[01:18:24] working or not i'm still iffy after free episodes i i get into scenarios like that and shows like this like they're kind of easier to get into even now i think because the again the staging is just perfect you know where the character is in proportion to the laugh track audience off screen you know you actually can still believe that they're in something resembling a house or station or even a ranch you know and i mean same thing that's kind of how i am with andy griffith like it's like

[01:18:52] that it helped that they were both inside and outside but i felt like they were doing everyday normal you know town stuff instead of just you know come on home or go out and fish you know just you know always like andy griffith you had those you know those uh sister uh shows like mayberry rf

[01:19:19] they all lived within this universe yes they did before happy days that i kind of started the whole uh tv cinematic verse yeah and then you had like beverly hillbillies and um and i totally forgot about green acres yep the agu fun the agu i love it so fun fun fact so um when you have a dramatic episode of a sitcom you call it the billy the kid episode based on the

[01:19:48] brady yeah you could call it that you could call it the will finds his real dad episode yeah but um it's so funny you guys brought up green acres i used to have a co-worker who was still addicted to that he's like that's the only show i watch that was the most surreal of all those shows it was yeah one time we messed with a crazy little show you know it was a great show but what was so funny is we were at my uncle's house and we're messing with siri and my dad i kid you not he

[01:20:17] screws with it he's like siri play the green acres theme and it plays it word for i'm like get out whoa and that was a show where they never got their house fixed they never got their house fixed there was always something to fix yeah goodbye city life i think they played on that they played on that with murphy brown because they she had that painter that worked on her the painter whoever

[01:20:41] he was working on he had a budget to spend i was disappointed when they brought back murphy brown it just wasn't quite landing the cast kind of seen out all i'm gonna say is my imitation of pat buttram on green acres well mr douglas that's what you call a dearth berger it's not a dearth

[01:21:04] berger and then and then hank kimball hank kimball hank kimball well yeah you see you got this uh this thing here goes uh in there and then you got this uh this part no let's look at let's look at this part here okay that's the uh no no that's the other part i gotta watch and i there were all these characters you were just like like if you watch they're enamored by because they've just they're

[01:21:28] showing again an abnormal kind of farm style life everyone there was insane but mr uh douglas yeah mr douglas mr douglas jj have you heard the gilbert godfrey episode with dana gould and dan or gilbert doing uh barney fife and um floyd the barber doing a scene from it's a wonderful life i've never heard that but i gotta hear it now it's terrific like it up i think i put a link

[01:21:58] to it on facebook at one point let's do it man let's do it it's really put it up please please i wonder if anyone's ever done it's in the last 20 minutes of the episode but here's a question for you has anyone ever done a parody of the waltons uh yeah carol burnett did called the walnuts oh it was a price played the great had a uh gospel music parody record called now

[01:22:26] and near the end they're going good night john boy yeah they're doing all that yeah now i can't think of any real older tv drama that still gets syndicated i'll still see fox affiliate show something like little house on the prairie or in the heat of the night but i don't really see them every once in a while i would see in early morning hours someone would be playing

[01:22:47] uh the monsters yeah there but you could you could watch here here in new york you could watch the monsters in the on channel 11 and the adams family on channel fiber i think it went the other way around but i remember like in the morning like if i was home from school or something i would watch like the monsters beverly hillbillies right right to this day i still don't get i get it now you know

[01:23:15] i'm the same way i'm not a big fan of that show for some reason you know i like i like i love them beverly hillbillies oh yeah the monsters i love there's two red next for you moody no i'm just kidding the monsters i love because of al lewis because al lewis like yeah yeah yeah didn't get royalties on that show yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah put me and put me and fred winning a show

[01:23:40] together yeah yeah good yeah yeah leo schnauzer yeah yeah peter griffin just invaded this conversation what the hell no no that's that's how like that's how al lewis used to talk that's grandpa right that's grandpa yeah al lewis because he would like he would he one time me and my buddy i think i told this me and my buddies were walking through greenwich village and i see this old guy like on

[01:24:04] the corner smoking the cigar outside a restaurant i'm looking i'm like that can't be i'm like can't be i'm looking i'm looking like can't be oh my god i was like it's al fucking lewis it's grandpa guys i just saw al lewis smoking a cigar yeah right jay right right right i'm like dude it's him and i remember he had that restaurant in the village uh grandpa's villain villa italiana or something

[01:24:30] like that and it was like the worst italian food you could eat in the world oh damn they just put his name on the phrase like yeah yeah yeah my restaurant yeah yeah yeah it's just how i am shit yeah yeah damn yeah yeah yeah mob joint yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah try the veal the best in this city

[01:24:55] pull pull pull toilet pull chain toilet yeah yeah two guys get wet i don't care yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah there's a story that billy west tells about there's a story billy west tells about uh about um this little like this family was at at the restaurant and this

[01:25:23] little girl came up and she goes she goes to al lewis where he is he goes dark hey dark hey mocking bird lane and she like ran away he turns so he goes hey women women wow the brady bunch all uh for season one episode where mrs brady sings in church i think or there was

[01:25:49] some yeah there was issue that she couldn't maybe if she couldn't sing or something or where i forget she couldn't she had laryngitis okay and all of a sudden she gets to church and she's like she's yeah yeah she's saying to the church yeah or did they do did they do like on uh mayberry when uh jim neighbor sang for barney in the back to make a song yeah remember that wow can you sing acapella

[01:26:14] acapella acapella i can do my best they they put them off mic or something and it was actually jim gomer singing for for barney you're just making me think actually she did wind up singing in that episode correct oh yeah probably and so gill you're thinking i was just saying you were just making me think of those uh i can't think of gomer pyle's real name right now you just your neighbors their

[01:26:39] neighbors yeah i can remember seeing like the late night ads for his like music oh my god oh jesus census did a great parody of him too they're hey they did a gomer pyle but hey and then also he breaks into song you know right in the middle of the scene you know he's that is this real hickey voice and oh you know it was it's perfect

[01:27:10] oh my god there's a spotify playlist of him my god there's a great moment in forrest gump when uh gomer's on the tv and some you know they're they're in the army hospital and turn that shit off you know i'm trying i'm trying to think with vietnam you know it was an army show i'm trying to think the characters in that the actors like uh for example i know mike brady um which i can't think of his

[01:27:40] name at the moment robert reed robert reed we've seen him in things like the killer shrews or something no it's the um it's the other one wonder uh island oh no it's it's the one that's kind of like um kind of like most dangerous game yeah kind of like bloodlust bloodlust bloodlust yeah you're right so no it was festus that was in the killer shrews and the guys got like humans and mummified in his

[01:28:09] yeah it was a creepy one what was it that um it was gross af what what was it that shirley um shirley jones no no no uh florence henderson florence henderson she was on the today show for a while really and she was yeah and she was a singer and not only that she was in a song she was in a movie about about the guy who wrote pierre gint um called the song of norway

[01:28:36] okay before the brainy bunch before the brainy bunch yeah yeah okay so yeah yeah and the movie bomb yeah uh yeah and the kids were there any of them that had a career before brady bunch i know that do you want them to marcia marcia i know marcia and jan had a couple of like tv supposed like you know gun smoke or something like that episodes or something yeah

[01:29:02] i i remember barry williams being on an episode of mission impossible and i'm trying to think who the hell else was that guy the kid no the two other kids i don't think they really that kid they did probably did commercials and stuff like that because you gotta realize kids back then they weren't like you know they were doing commercials and stuff like that you know like here's the new you know here's the new rocket blaster by whammo you know and you know they'd get like they get you know they get their 50 bucks and then you know they get like you

[01:29:30] all the air blasters they can you know and you know the jerry bravo thing uh didn't i can't believe johnny bravo came potential agent claudia jennings queen of the bees yeah the movies yeah and then the the maid um she was ambie davis she was she was on the john forthouse show um she'd done some some

[01:29:59] some some stuff on television she was also famous for on what's my on what's i've got a secret because what happened was was that she's a twin so she one they did one where she skated behind a uh like a like a a piece of wood and then she skated behind in different clothes and what happened was that her and her twin sister were you know in that you know you know that was their big secret but

[01:30:27] i can remember her being on some tv she was on the bob cummings show too um or love that bob um playing i think his secretary or something like that she was one of those like you know she was like the thelma ritter type you know wow good actress but you know you know i can't really given the bimbo kind of role no no not the bimbo no no no no no no like always the you know the girl who's trying to follow you man come on guide me guide me here so secretary role or just

[01:30:56] one note yeah yeah secretary role yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah didn't uh cindy then cindy and bobby have an episode two where they're trying to break the teeter-totter record yeah i kind of remember that and they wound up going to sleep and you know wow

[01:31:17] they they kind of said yeah i don't remember them all but the movie kind of hinted at like bobby in one movie one episode must have been a hall monitor yeah something like that i think that was there a ping pong thing too or am i thinking something else there was there was one where let's just say yes so we can have it be true i don't know i'm not gonna confuse it with the teeter-totter thing

[01:31:42] and he thought he was he was like the hustler and he was playing pool and jim backus came over and hustled him it was mike he was nobody hustles me and then and the cindy had a part where she had to get give up her doll or something her yeah kitty carrier doll yeah yeah yeah sorry

[01:32:06] yeah yeah yeah yeah she should have had a eddie munster doll only murders in the building i've been actually pretty blown away by this recent season because they're they're going deeper into the well of making fun of recent hollywood trends and everything i've still got to catch up on that i haven't watched the season i'm not giving anything away but at one point martin short does bring up is like what was the stupidest bond girl name and they bring up holly goodhead from moonraker

[01:32:33] yeah uh but it was just a funny skit i think there's one or two other contenders but that's up there yeah oh yeah there's plenty there's plenty to choose from but i just thought there's what's he galore oh no that was that was that was just sexy but i know what you mean yes it's like so uh we said gene tool gene hackman might have been mr brady how about recast it how about jack

[01:32:57] jack nicholson that for now something carol the movie somebody was talking about madonna being mrs brady oh god i can't almost see that i can't almost see that i mean she was great in league of their own you know right no she works in some stuff but yeah i don't know if they would have been able to jack nicholson jack nicholson is mr brady know something there alice every time i come home

[01:33:27] we have the same goddamn meal every night can't you just cook something different once in a while like a meatloaf or a roast beef or me a goddamn turkey i know we gotta have the same meal and i don't know what it is but it's put on the table and you know something carol would it do you a little it'll be a little favor about having you greet me in nothing but saran wrap i'm from a hard day at

[01:33:54] work and i just want to bone you but what do you do you scoot away and go go in the living room and sit there and read your colliers maybe i want to get it on once in a while maybe i just want to get it on with you and show those kids how they came into the world i don't know if you're doing christian slater doing jack nicholson or you're doing i don't know you need christian slater and jack nicholson it'd be the same goddamn thing you know i know or you're doing the mad tv version of

[01:34:19] jack and i was just thinking of the mike brady in the movie his job as an architect every one of his designs was his house yeah i don't even know why they make characters architects in movies like they do that with charles brosden and death wish and he does very little architect is like the reason gonna take that art skill and throw it at shit yeah it's like if you're gonna give me a skill it

[01:34:46] better pay off in the movie it's like no it doesn't have shit george on george on seinfeld always talk about wanting to be an architect i wonder if that was right it must have just been a thing in the new york art scene and it's like why it doesn't mean anything cinematically i'm all crazy i'm an architect yeah he's trying to sell a gas station design and it's his house with gas i'm going to

[01:35:12] carve emmett um yeah just get off those sketches again we'll use it all yeah save some money we use it do it again play it again sam that's the other thing too the plate stones have a 20 mile long house and it's the same same window yeah it's the same damn window and it's like i thought they broke it last episode i guess it's fine question mark um and don't you like it's no dry mr brady

[01:35:35] there was one where peter was got fired and i is mr brady goes well i've been fired before like it was right the backstory there why did you get fired you know but he was just like oh no big deal i got it doesn't matter the question doesn't matter you're okay let's just say a copier was involved in

[01:35:57] part of the anatomy yeah and let's just say he just said this reminds me of the boss every time i look at him and you know i don't know i made one copy but i hit two zeros and i made a hundred and uh i love how you're filling in the blanks of the backstory and it's all off color and let's just say one time i took some mushrooms and walked in wearing a toga and thinking i was julius jesus

[01:36:27] greg i need to tell you something whenever you do mushrooms remember beware of your surroundings why do you say that dad because one time i took magic mushrooms and i thought i was jesus christ and i tried walking on water and well it took the lifeguards five minutes to get me out and then i sat up and i said i have risen so remember that son remember that son uh once told me i was king of

[01:36:53] the world and i used to believe that don't ever try to like don't ever try to light your farts on fire peter because one time i did it and i burned my asshole tiger was he in one episode or one season yeah they lost the dog i think in real life yeah i saw that hit by carl tried to replace him but the dog that dog didn't work out that was sad to

[01:37:18] read yeah but was it like one season or one episode it was one it was he was seen through i think three seasons and then he's seen one episode of one season and then the dog house is just still there yeah you know and then they touch on like i said they touch on in the movie they touch on um you know they see the dog run through the wedding that they're having at the end of the second

[01:37:42] second movie yeah dog run through and he goes tiger tiger runs off screen he says oh cousin oliver and then you hear a car screeching like it just hit something was that an inside joke that was the end of yeah i remember that yeah i remember uh early on marsh's first real date i remember watching it when my my dad goes what the hell is he doing with her he was just kind of this geeky looking guy

[01:38:12] yeah i remember that yeah the first time she had a date yeah yeah is that that one she had the double date no no no no it was before that or maybe maybe it was the double date and she had a yeah he was a real awkward kid i remember that was just what yeah because he tied at the end of the scene with him he ties the shoelace to the bench and they get up to walk away and he trips i also i i

[01:38:38] just think maybe the actor at the time just was a little stage fright just didn't pull it off very well or something no he didn't have stage fright marcia he had an erection oh no that's the movie okay no the movie the movie was the remember to wear your raincoat don't worry mr brady i will some tv critics saying that cindy brady was one of the strangest characters in tv history she was

[01:39:07] kind of an odd little she never weren't they all she always had pigtails you know she never yeah she always had a little girl thing maybe that was it yeah it's a long time until like the last episode she was always like a little too little you know but no i remember the the movie like uh marsh is going off on the date with the bad guy with the bad kid and uh and uh the mom is like uh so do you you kids have protection you know she's talking about random stuff like that he goes he says

[01:39:36] yes i have assorted colors oh wow yeah i remember that yeah yeah or else again i thought he was gonna say he was packing heat or something yeah but then and then when she got like in in the tv show marcia gets her nose busted or you know messed up and immediately nick hammond is like uh sees the nose and he's like

[01:39:58] he's he gets out of going out on a date with her and in the movie um she shows up with the nose and he goes it's not your and the guy goes it's not your nose i was after anyway you know so it's just the difference of the times that was i think one of the hundred most tv guys 100 most memorable tv moments was marsh getting hit by the football you think about it that was kind of rare at the time for something

[01:40:25] bad that bad to happen to a care a tv character you know break their nose on a sitcom you know what i mean but do you remember peters you remember peters date the girl with the glasses and then he wore glasses or something like that or he was yeah the girl who played was the girl who was his date was denise nickerson oh that's right she got to be a real bitch when she she started looking hot yeah

[01:40:52] which i remember that one yeah oh she's one of the ones take off the glasses let down her hair huh yeah hitting every guy hitting up on every guy or something yeah oh that's right marcia helped her um get pretty be pretty yeah hope to be marcia basically yeah but no it's funny too because like they like i said they incorporated in the movie they incorporated all these different episodes

[01:41:17] right like the scene where she gets her the scene where she gets her nose smashed up and she wakes up the next morning before the dance and uh jan in the movie is like really unhappy she's having this great she's having this great dream where marsh is getting hit over and over again with the football she wakes up and jan's nose is or marsh's nose is just fine and she gets all very unhappy about it but

[01:41:46] of course that's a different episode in the brady bunch show and jan doesn't react to it that way but i liked how they carried that into the movie and that's how jan reacted because that carried through the entire movie i love how jan has evil voices in her head yeah and like and like at the end when they go visit florence henderson you know she's like oh there's there's my little girl and like like you see jan starting to have obviously and florence henderson goes jan snap the hell out of it

[01:42:13] slap it yeah and then she was just fine after that yeah you just play that right yeah and then greg got his own room up in the attic oh god they played that it lasted like one episode i think and every but they played that up with him and uh marcia having the same room in the movie and that was yeah that's where they yeah that's when they made out that's where they started getting hot and

[01:42:37] bothered for each other and all the ball the ball the ball the ball the ball that's from a thing uh harry potter puppet pals whatever mike why is the bed squeaking up in greg's room i don't know maybe he's just having a bad dream hmm okay

[01:43:02] the kitchen was always uh a lot would happen in the kitchen on that show too i remember can i say that's the weirdest kitchen i've ever seen in my life because they didn't really see where the focus on it much yeah well they it was all where people under marks and camera work and all that yeah he had to fit he had to fit like nine people in that spot

[01:43:27] real sparse too and they were a middle class family so you're just like okay who's middle class with a maid yeah yeah they weren't rich but that was back before we couldn't you know i guess the average viewer could tell the difference yeah well well you know you know ambie davis was ambie davis wasn't uh was in hazel but she was good you know

[01:43:52] you know because yeah they have an episode where they go to an amusement park where i'm thinking of something yeah didn't they go to a zoo well what places did they visit they visited hawaii that's why i'm asking why the grand canyon the great um no zoo uh uh there'd always be a crisis whenever they went on vacation yeah something scary would happen yeah

[01:44:19] bobby to be continued somebody was going to drown in the ocean i think it was yeah there you go um i don't know uh greg gets hit with the surfboard i think uh in yeah episode of the hawaii episode the tiki the tiki episode yeah that's where we're talking about all the bad luck with the little uh amulet or something that was a curse person yeah cursed yeah but then great uh but mike is like

[01:44:43] no there's no such thing you know but like yeah what is it uh my or uh greg gets hit with the surfboard and then um peter gets a spider on his chest yeah yeah and bobby bobby's kidnapped by um a bunch of uh hawaiian drug lords and made a drug mule um yeah that did not that was a plenty swim movie

[01:45:10] oh yeah i'm sorry i'm sorry you're mixing it up any which way you can brady coming soon there i love it i love it but vincent price comes up and explains everything at the end or something but first yeah i prayed of him at first i don't know well that's another thing too i can't think of the actress's name but she was in designing women on the movie james smart being smart and she's all

[01:45:35] hot and all the brady men yeah she does that sometimes who does she who's who does he who does she hook up with in the end i don't know oh gene smart is what uh what's his name lenny from lenny and squiggy laverne and shirley you know yeah but in the end of the movie she hooks up with somebody does she because she was already married i can't remember no i think it was it was like when they do the ending like like you know you see like you know oh you're talking about the tic-tac-toe square and

[01:46:03] all that stuff yeah yeah the tic-tac-toe i keep forgetting who does she get i think greg i think she winds up with greg or santa next to him anyway and kind of yeah flirting with him yeah and then and then the the lesbian shows up um the guidance counselor was rupaul yep oh my god before he was i gotta watch those again they're really good before he was a transphobic guy

[01:46:34] my friend hello friend well yeah and then he and rupaul's character they show up they show up at a swimming pool uh there's some swimming pool pool stuff and um greg and marcia have some more of that sexual chemistry stuff going on there he accidentally hits on marcia from the back marcia marcia so rupaul has daughters apparently yeah imagine if there's someone making out with

[01:47:00] marcia marcia do they say her name that many times well in it well oh they had the three they had three black girls in there and and one of them's going moesha moesha moesha yeah that was probably a reference to the sitcom of the time i don't know oh they were just making a comparison know how they're so much like the other girls oh i suck i can't keep that

[01:47:27] what's the one where the greg had a babysit bobby and and took him to the driving when he had no no no no no they lost the bet so greg had to be bobby's slave oh okay he had to take him around with him everywhere yeah on the premise okay wow but that doesn't involve frog a bunch of frogs or something the frogs are gonna turn those guy it's like i don't know i don't remember what it was it was

[01:47:53] like a bet that he lost and he says they did our family guy who says he goes through he goes do you remember that he's like you want me to i'll do anything for you to do anything he's like he's like do you remember that episode of the brady bunch where bobby had to be greg had to be bobby's greg had to be bobby's slave for one week yeah that's gonna be old can you tape that for me oh my god

[01:48:17] wow gentlemen i gotta head out did they do much with uh them in school yeah there were a couple episodes they catch greg with a cigarette at school yeah and then jan has the episode where she's trying where she does something that gets attention uh oh she gets a certain score that's higher than everybody else then she finds out that they didn't do the score right

[01:48:44] she's not the highest scored person and they got her up on stage and i think they did that on married with children too just everybody had to do some kind of tests that they had to pass well that was uh that was the scene where uh uh kelly has to get up and dance she gets up and dances and she's got everybody in the audience starting to get hot and bothered for each other because the dance is so hot yeah but i remember do you remember do you remember the one where cindy's on the kids tv show and she's doing the quiz and like she the camera goes on her she just completely goes

[01:49:13] blank yeah she wants to be she's like she's like i'm not having steak steak's fat and i don't look fat on television like she just forgets everything and she's like cindy brady will you answer the questions the camera goes on her she's like you know like deer in the headlights kind of look i remember that and then she had the thing about adjustments too she had to make adjustments

[01:49:37] and adjustments wow yeah she said something about she's having trouble at home had to make adjustments boy i guess i've seen more than those it's in there it's in there i remember you instead of adjustment she'd say adjustments

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