Published December 30, 2021 by with 2 comments

The 22 Brady Bunch Episodes Missing from Streaming Services

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I can be kind of a lazy human sometimes. Despite owning The Brady-est Brady Bunch TV & Movie Collection, I didn't want to walk over to the TV to put my DVD in when I have the Paramount+ app right there on my smart TV. Don't worry; I only reviewed "The Honeymoon" in this way and I verified that the version on the DVD is the exact same as the one on streaming since then. What I did notice, though, was that episodes were missing from season 1. In fact, there is at least one episode missing from every season.

At the time I compiled this list, which was in December 2021, there was only one season of The Brady Bunch on Hulu - the first season. The rest was already off of the service, possibly because of CBS owning the rights and moving it to Paramount+, which they also own. I did confirm, however, that the season 1 episodes missing on Hulu were the exact same episodes that were missing on Paramount+. The reason these episodes are missing are due to not having the necessary rights secured to stream these episodes - after all, how could they have predicted in the 70s that they would need to secure streaming rights for everything? You can see these episodes in syndication, which is usually edited from the original for time, or you can see them unedited on DVD.

So let's get into these missing episodes.

All 5 seasons of Brady Bunch theme songs unless they get removed.

Season 1

Season 1 of The Brady Bunch is missing a total of 8 episodes from streaming. Those episodes are:

  • Episode 5 "Katchoo"
  • Episode 6 "A Clubhouse Is Not a Home"
  • Episode 9 "Sorry, Right Number"
  • Episode 10 "Every Boy Does It Once"
  • Episode 13 "Is There a Doctor in the House"
  • Episode 15 "54-40 and Fight"
  • Episode 17 "The Undergraduate"
  • Episode 22 "The Possible Dream"

There has been some controversy surrounding "Is There a Doctor in the House," as some people have claimed the episode was pulled for spreading anti-vaxxer propaganda or something else equally asinine. This is not the truth. It has never been available on streaming. While rights issues can be related to things such as not having the streaming rights to certain music, or not having the right contract for certain performers, I'm actually stuck on why "Katchoo" or "A Clubhouse Is Not a Home" isn't available. Granted, at the time of writing this I have not yet rewatched episodes from "Every Boy Does It Once" on, but particularly for "Katchoo" or "A Clubhouse Is Not a Home," I can't think of any non-standard Brady music and both episodes only feature the main 9.

Season 2


Season 2 of The Brady Bunch is the season with the least amount of episodes missing from streaming. In fact, it's only missing one episode! Episode 23, "Alice's September Song," involves a person from Alice's past, so it could be there were rights issues involving the performer in the episode. I don't actually know and I'm just speculating, but that is my guess.

Season 3


The third season is missing five episodes from streaming, and I think one of them is really weird.

  • Episode 1 "Ghost Town USA"
  • Episode 7 "Juliet Is the Sun"
  • Episode 12 "Getting Davy Jones"
  • Episode 21 "Cindy Brady, lady"
  • Episode 22 "My Fair Opponent"

"Ghost Town USA" isn't just the season 3 premiere - it's the first part of a three-part episode. The other two episodes are available on streaming. This helps me narrow down that there is something specifically in the first episode that isn't in the other two episodes that ViacomCBS/Paramount does not have the rights to, but it's still weird that anyone who is watching The Brady Bunch on Paramount+ will have to start with the second part of this trilogy of episodes.

Season 4

The fourth season of The Brady Bunch is only missing three episodes; however, much like season 3, one of the missing episodes is really weird.

  • Episode 1 "Hawaii Bound"
  • Episode 7 "The Show Must Go On??"
  • Episode 21 "You're Never Too Old"

Replace "Ghost Town USA" with "Hawaii Bound" and "season 3" with "season 4" with what I said before, and you have why it's weird that season 4's premiere episode is missing. Why is this an actual trend?

Season 5

The Brady Bunch's final season is missing a total of five episodes from streaming. Those episodes are:

  • Episode 1 "Adios, Johnny Bravo"
  • Episode 3 "Snow White and the Seven Bradys"
  • Episode 4 "Never Too Young"
  • Episode 18 "Two Petes in a Pod"
  • Episode 20 "The Snooperstar"

I don't know what The Brady Bunch was doing in its season premieres that 60% of them are not available for streaming, but here we are. Also, the part of my brain that is tickled by patterns thinks it's interesting that both season 4's "You're Never Too Old" and this season's "Never Too Young" are unavailable, given their similar naming styles. I will 1000% guess that Disney is the reason behind "Snow White and the Seven Bradys" not being available, as I do recall this episode and if I'm remembering correctly, the Bradys use the names of the dwarfs in their play but those names were never in the fairy tale.

The Summation

This list is accurate, double checked, and triple checked as of December 2021. If any other episode appears to not be streaming that isn't on this list, it was pulled. Let me know if you notice that happen! I want to investigate if it does. Also, anybody who does exclusively watch The Brady Bunch on streaming these days - how do you feel about seasons 3 and 4 starting with the second of a three-part episode?

I will see you next week with actual episode reviews!

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Published December 27, 2021 by with 0 comment

Names of The Brady Bunch

Let's get a crash course in The Brady Bunch.


As part of my research to create content for a Brady Bunch blog, I was on Google Trends again and saw that one of the search terms was "names of The Brady Bunch."

I think I can do something with that.

Running from September 26, 1969 until March 8, 1974, The Brady Bunch had 9 main characters, one major recurring character, and an additional character. It had several sequel series and reunion movies, including The Brady Kids (September 9, 1972-October 6, 1973);  The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (November 28, 1976; January 23-May 25, 1977); The Brady Girls Get Married/The Brady Brides (February 6 - April 17, 1977); A Very Brady Christmas (December 18, 1988); and The Bradys (February 9 - March 9, 1990). It was followed up by two theatrical movie releases, The Brady Bunch Movie in 1995 and A Very Brady Sequel in 1996, and a made-for-TV sequel to the theatrical movies, The Brady Bunch in the White House, in 2002. Let's get into the cast of characters.

Carol Brady reads the newspaper in Dear Libby.
The lovely lady.


Carol Brady

Carol Brady is the lovely lady of the theme song. A stay-at-home mom in the original series, she went on to become a real estate agent when the kids were all grown up. This was apparently at the insistence of original Carol Brady actress, Florence Henderson, who reportedly wouldn't return for the reunions unless Carol had a job. While Carol Brady does not appear in the animated series The Brady Kids, she was portrayed by Florence Henderson in every other Brady series from 1969-1990. Carol Brady was played by Shelley Long in The Brady Bunch Movie, A Very Brady Sequel, and The Brady Bunch in the White House.

Carol was the biological mother to three very lovely girls. Though it was never stated what happened to Carol's first husband, it was intended that she would be a divorcee.

Marcia, Jan, and Cindy Brady read a newspaper in their room.
Three very lovely girls.


Marcia Brady

Marcia Brady is the oldest Brady girl, but there is a certain irony as she is technically a middle child herself, being younger than Greg. Marcia is intelligent and popular, though sometimes she can be portrayed as vain. Though Maureen McCormick is the most iconic Marcia, and the actress that portrayed her in most of the series, there are actually two fake Marcias. Maureen McCormick was not in the second season of The Brady Kids, with Erika Scheimer taking over the role. McCormick also did not appear in The Bradys, with Leah Ayres taking the role. Marcia is played by Christine Taylor in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel, and Autumn Reeser in The Brady Bunch in the White House.

Jan Brady

Jan Brady is the middle Brady girl and the fourth oldest Brady kid overall. Jan is the poster child for middle child syndrome, to the point that all of her characteristics that aren't her glasses and braces are stripped in the movies. Jan is a reformed prankster and an artist that marches to the beat of her own drum. Jan is also the only reason that the Brady Kids became a musical act - The Silver Platters - as her mistake was what led the kids to becoming a performers to pay for an anniversary gift. Though the world forever remembers fake Jan - Geri Reischl from The Brady Bunch Variety Hour - original performer Eve Plumb did portray Jan in every other sequel series and reunion movie. Jan is played by Jennifer Elise Cox in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel, and Ashley Eckstein in The Brady Bunch in the White House.

Cindy Brady

Cindy Brady is the youngest Brady child. Cindy has been shown to have a knack for performing in the show, but her main schtick is just being young and cute. It's also harder to tell what Cindy's thing is because she very unfortunately still manages to live in the shadow of five older siblings. Susan Olsen almost exclusively plays Cindy Brady, as she did return for all of the sequel series and The Brady Girls Get Married, but she was not in A Very Brady Christmas because she was on her honeymoon. Jennifer Runyon filled in for Cindy in that movie. Cindy is played by Olivia Hack in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel, and Sofia Vassilieva in The Brady Bunch in the White House.

Mike Brady over sugars his coffee in The Honeymoon.
The man named Brady.

Mike Brady

Mike Brady is the formerly single father to three boys. He was a widower when he met and fell in love with Carol. Mike originally is shown to be short tempered, at times, but he grows to be patient with his children and often imparts useful advice. I don't think it's exaggerating to say that Mike Brady is considered to be one of the top 5 TV dads. Robert Reed hated being on The Brady Bunch and often got into arguments with the creator Sherwood Schwartz and the network over the scripts, and if the show had not been canceled, Mike Brady would have been written off the show. Except for The Brady Kids, where Mike does not make any appearances, Robert Reed still managed to return for every single sequel series and reunion. Reportedly, he was one of the first to sign on to The Brady Bunch Variety Hour. That doesn't mean he was done complaining about the scripts, however - he didn't think the ending of A Very Brady Christmas was very realistic. Mike Brady is played by Gary Cole in The Brady Bunch Movie, A Very Brady Sequel, and The Brady Bunch in the White House.

Greg, Peter, and Bobby Brady sit sadly in front of cake.
They were four men, living all together


Greg Brady

Greg Brady is the oldest Brady child. Though Greg can be short tempered with his siblings, he's normally kind and considerate. He tries to be honest and act judicially. I've heard that a lot of girls had crushes on Greg, but I always just wanted him to be my big brother. Though Greg is almost always portrayed by Barry Williams in every series and movie from 1969-1990, Barry Williams did not return for the second season of The Brady Kids, instead being voiced by Lane Scheimer. What do you know - a fake Greg. Greg Brady is played by Christopher Daniel Barnes in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel, and Chad Doreck in The Brady Bunch in the White House. 

Peter Brady

Peter Brady is the middle boy and third oldest Brady kid, and this middle child got done dirtier than Jan. Besides puberty, a series of catchphrases, and having a doppelganger, name me one major Peter Brady characteristic. A positive - or even a negative - contribution he has made to the Brady family. Most of Peter's non-gimmicky storylines were tied up in one of his other siblings' stories. It turns out there's also a fake Peter - much like Barry Williams, Christopher Knight did almost exclusively portray Peter from 1969-1990. However, he also left The Brady Kids during the second season and Peter was then voiced by David E. Smith. Peter Brady is played by Paul Sutera in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel and Blake Foster in The Brady Bunch in the White House.

Bobby Brady

Bobby Brady is the youngest boy and fifth oldest Brady kid. Bobby had a much better deal than middle brother Peter and youngest sister Cindy because this kid got some good storylines. He had to worry about catching mumps from a kiss, which is kind of an ambitious story for The Brady Bunch's standards. In season 1, he planned to run away from home. These are actual plots. Bobby is the only Brady kid to not have a "fake" as Mike Lookinland was Bobby's only performer from 1969-1990. Bobby Brady is played by Jesse Lee Soffer in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel, and by Max Morrow in The Brady Bunch in the White House.

Alice Nelson talks on the phone.
The maid named Alice

Alice Nelson

Alice Nelson was the long time maid for Mike Brady and his boys, and blended right with them when the Brady ladies all joined the family. Alice is unquestionably part of the family, as she's nearly left over not seeing herself as such and the family stepping in to stop her because she belongs in the Brady home. Much like the Brady parents, Alice was not a character in The Brady Kids, but Ann B. Davis played her in every appearance from 1969-1990. Alice is played by Henriette Mantel in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel, and by Tannis Burnett in The Brady Bunch in the White House.

Not Pictured

I'm still pretty early in rewatching the series at the time that I am writing this, so I don't have pictures of the next two characters because they haven't appeared yet.

Sam Franklin

Best known as Sam the Butcher, Sam Franklin was the long time beau of Alice Nelson. He was also the butcher at the meat shop, and rumor has it the Bradys always got the best deal. The Bradys didn't have a lot of recurring characters, but Sam was definitely the most prominent. Sam was played by Allan Melvin on The Brady Bunch, Lewis Arquette in A Very Brady Christmas, and David Graf in The Brady Bunch Movie.

Oliver Tyler

Oliver Tyler, also known as Cousin Oliver, was Carol's nephew who moved into the Brady home in the fifth season. He's known as a jinx, but that's not really a characteristic and he wasn't exactly a beloved addition. Cousin Oliver even has a TV trope named after him, and is a known form of Jumping the Shark. For only being in six episodes, he sure left his mark on pop culture. Robbie Rist played Cousin Oliver on the show, and while he never returned for sequels or reunions, he was referenced in A Very Brady Sequel, along with other long lost characters Tiger and Fluffy.

Honorable Mentions

The Brady Bunch did not exist in a bubble. It had four sequel series and one reunion movie (The Brady Girls Get Married is technically part of The Brady Brides and The Brady 500 is part of The Bradys). One of the movies even fleshed out an only heard of and never seen character. So, without further ado, the rest of the names of the rest of the Brady characters:

The Brady Kids

A series with no adults, The Brady Kids added the characters of Marlon, Mop Top, and Ping and Pong, all of whom had cameos in A Very Brady Sequel. The show also had the characters Chuck White, Babs, and Fleetwood, who all went to school with the Bradys.

The Brady Bunch Variety Hour

Rip Taylor portrayed Jack Merrill, a love interest for Alice on The Brady Bunch Variety Hour. I guess everyone just forgot Sam existed for a minute.

The Brady Spouses

Most of the Brady kids get married between 1981 and 1990, and the established spouses returned for every reunion and sequel series after they were introduced. The Brady Brides introduced us to Marcia's husband, Wally Logan (played by Jerry Houser) and Jan's husband, Phillip Covington III (played by Ron Kuhlman). A Very Brady Christmas introduced us to Greg's wife, Nora (played by Caryn Richman). Then Bobby got married to Tracy (played by Martha Quinn) in The Bradys.

Larry Dittmeyer

Mr. Dittmeyer, the unseen but still mentioned neighbor of the Bradys in the original series gets upgraded to main antagonist of The Brady Bunch Movie, where he was played by Michael McKean.

Are there any other notable Brady characters that I should have named? Let me know!
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Published December 23, 2021 by with 0 comment

Who is Phoebe, the Lost Brady?

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Here's the story of a forgotten Brady...

In the weeks leading up to June 1, 1998, Nick at Nite was excited to add a hit classic series to its lineup. Having been a syndication hit and having two relatively recent and successful theatrical releases based on the series, Brady Fever was holding strong. The Brady Bunch, however, deserved more than just a typical marathon to celebrate its addition to the Nick at Nite Family.


It deserved an expose. It deserved a cast member nobody got along with. It deserved…


Lost Brady Phoebe pushes Greg Brady into a house of cards.
Phoebe really wanted the girls to win.


Phoebe Brady.


Phoebe Brady was just as terrible as her actor, Fanny McNeal. Fanny didn’t get along with the rest of the cast, except for Sam the Butcher, who fed the child’s thirst for violence and mild depravity. She especially didn't get along with Tiger or Cousin Oliver. Fanny was often playing tricks on the cast that would lead to them being injured, and since she often ad-libbed and generally didn’t follow directions, she shaped the character of Phoebe in the vain of The Bad Seed’s Rhoda, except somehow meaner despite the lower body count.


All of the Phoebe Brady promo clips, until a corporation ruins everyone's fun.


During the first week of The Brady Bunch’s run on Nick at Nite, the network had a top 40 marathon, but they also toted lost footage of old episodes featuring Phoebe, the Lost Brady. Phoebe was between Jan and Cindy in the birth order of Carol’s girls, and unlike her sisters had red hair. Most of the surviving cast at the time - minus Ann B. Davis, Maureen McCormick, and Eve Plumb - did interviews talking about how horrible of a character Phoebe was and how her actress wasn’t any better. In Susan Olsen’s clips, she had the opportunity to joke about how often Phoebe was almost fired from the show. In Mike Lookinland’s clips, he humorously reminisces about the Phoebe-heavy episodes that had to be cut when she was edited out, such as the firecrackers episode or the time that the Bradys went to Las Vegas. I honestly would have loved to see a Brady Vegas adventure, but c'est la vie.


Phoebe Brady included in The Brady Bunch title sequence.
Phoebe was always the odd one out.


Interestingly enough, some young viewers who happened to see these segments when they aired on Nick at Nite believed Phoebe Brady was real and that she had been cut out of the episodes. However, the whole thing was just a fun marketing gimmick to entice people to watch the marathon. When these clips played on Nick at Nite, I poured over them, amused by the the faux skeleton in the Brady closet. We all have that relative, and isn't it better when you don't have to wish to be a Brady because you can totally relate with the Bradys? I did a lot of research to see who was the young actor portraying Phoebe in these clips, and I found literally nothing. Commercials don’t have credits or IMDB entries, and any search for Phoebe Brady just leads to those promos and not the child behind them. Somewhere out there, however, is a 30-something who knows they had a small but fun impact on pop culture.


Phoebe Brady threw the football that broke her sister Marcia's nose.
And then Phoebe broke Marcia's nose, just because she could.

What are your experiences with Phoebe Brady? Were you afraid you were making this up and you’re now very glad to learn it’s all real? Do you know who played Phoebe Brady? Tell me!


I will see you real soon with episode related content. I hope you all have a good holiday season!



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Published December 17, 2021 by with 0 comment

Investigating A Very Brady Mystery

Despite a life of reading credits and always wanting to know everything about the things that I'm obsessed with, I can honestly admit that there's one Brady Bunch related moment I never put too much thought into, even though it's one of my favorite scenes in A Very Brady Sequel.

Who voiced Kitty Karry-All?


In a scene in A Very Brady Sequel, the Roy Martin impersonator has kidnapped Carol and tied up the kids, Alice, and even Kitty Karry-All, which on its own was funny enough. However, as each hostage thinks of the ways this could be all their own fault, Kitty Karry-All also chimes in. And never once, until recently, have I ever thought about who voiced Kitty Karry-All. It's not in the credits and it's such a small part I didn't give it too much weight.

But now it's a full on investigation. Because it may have been voiced by original Marcia Brady herself, Maureen McCormick. In fact, IMDb and Wikipedia both say so.

Maureen McCormick IMDb page A Very Brady Sequel credit
IMDb thinks Maureen McCormick voiced Kitty Karry-All.

Maureen McCormick Wikipedia page A Very Brady Sequel credit
Wikipedia agrees.

Maureen McCormick voicing Kitty Karry-All makes sense. It would be a double allusion, as in the 70s, Maureen McCormick provided the voice for a re-designed Chatty Cathy. Kitty's voice is a little Chatty Cathy-esque, but I couldn't locate any recordings of the doll from the 1970s to compare - most collectors have the older ones that were voiced by June Foray, who herself provided a voice in The Brady Bunch episode "A Clubhouse Is Not A Home." And it's on IMDb and Wikipedia. That should be good enough to trust, right?

I can't. I'm a fact checker. And most articles agree, not a single original Brady Bunch cast member was in A Very Brady Sequel. There's also no article of fun facts, no trivia, nothing outside of Wikipedia and IMDb to confirm that this unvoiced credit belongs to Maureen McCormick.

It could totally be her, but there's nothing to verify that it is. Are there any sleuths out there that are better at research than I am? Can you discover the truth? Wouldn't it be fun to discover there really was an original Brady Bunch cast member cameo in A Very Brady Sequel the entire time, under our noses, that we missed for 25 years?

I will post an update if this mystery ever gets cracked.
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Published December 17, 2021 by with 0 comment

Random Brady Thing That's Hot Right Now: Avengers Brady Bunch

As someone who wants to run a very successful Brady Bunch related blog, I constantly search to see what's trending so I can get an idea of what people want to know about.

But sometimes I see things that just feel random. I decided I would like to talk about the random. 

Today's random Brady Bunch trending item: Avengers Brady Bunch.

At first, my reaction was "what the fuck?" I was confused. But then I looked into it and it's a video I've seen like a hundred times. But it's three and a half years old, so it wasn't top of mind.


It's "The Marvel Bunch" musical sketch from The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

In April 2018, ahead of the much anticipated release of Avengers: Infinity War, Jimmy Fallon assembled the Avengers for this fun parody of The Brady Bunch theme song. I guess people were just feeling nostalgic for it now.

Of course, this isn't exactly the last time The Bradyverse and the MCU collide. While there may be no official theme song video for WandaVision Season 1 Episode 3 "Now In Color," one of the 70s shows heavily referenced in both the theme song and the episode itself was of course The Brady Bunch. While the actual song has more Partridge Family vibes, the episode font and the hexagonal motif borrow heavily from the Bradys. It also features a backyard - never once utilized in an actual episode of WandaVision - that is clearly modeled after that trademarked wooden fence and Astroturf. The episode itself even features a Kitty Karry-All.

Is it odd that people are suddenly interested in a three and a half year old comedy sketch? Are there any MCU/Brady connections that I've missed? How often do you watch "The Marvel Bunch" or the WandaVision: "Now In Color" theme song? I would love to know, and I'll see you very soon with more content!

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Published December 16, 2021 by with 0 comment

Launch Date Announcement

Hello, those of you who have stumbled upon these early posts before the official launch date (and those of you after who went all the way back to this point in time)! I am so excited to get into the actual content of That Damn Brady Show. I had to make sure I had a solid plan into place to make sure I wouldn't immediately fall off schedule and not update anymore. I love The Brady Bunch and overshare in real life, so having an outlet where you want to be held captive by what I have to say is something I genuinely want, and I hope you enjoy.

I will be launching this blog with 2600+ word look into The Brady Bunch's pilot episode "The Honeymoon" on Thursday, January 6, 2022 - which is three weeks from today.

Why January 6? Well, the next two weeks are Christmas week and New Year's week, and I didn't think that would be a good time to launch a blog and build up excitement for it.

Why am I announcing this three weeks early? Again, because of the next two weeks being holiday weeks. I don't think it's good to make an announcement when people are busy doing other things.

The blog will update on Thursdays with reviews and deep dives into new episodes. I may take a small break between seasons because everyone deserves a break sometimes, but otherwise I will update on Thursdays. Why Thursdays? Well, a lot of blogs like this one update on Fridays, and I didn't want to update on the same day as everyone else to give people a chance to stagger their entertainment reading. Also, if I update on Thursday, the post will still be here on Friday or the weekend, if that's when people prefer to read it.

If I have bonus content, that will update outside of the Thursday schedule, likely on Saturday as that will be when I have the most time for it.

If you don't already, you should follow me on Twitter and TikTok, and subscribe to me on YouTube.

I look forward to starting the deep dive into The Brady Bunch with you on January 6!

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Published December 09, 2021 by with 0 comment

A Shout Out to Those Who Came Before

When this blog is fully live, it will be the story of my complete obsession with The Brady Bunch. I think I failed to mention I found opportunity to write college papers on the Bradys not once, but twice. At least twice. I digress. It is 2021, and I'm fully aware I'm not the first one to ever write about the Bradys. So I wanted to shout out some of the people who came before me.

First up, we have Brady Bunch Reviewed. Having once been part of the "Reviewed" type blogs that popped up when "Full House Reviewed" blew up - and maybe one day I'll finish "Small Wonder Reviewed" - a lot of hesitation with starting this blog is that I didn't want to sound just like them but with the occasional curse word. The more I developed the idea in my mind, the more and more I felt confident it wouldn't be an uncensored carbon copy. Fun fact, I also grew up watching The Brady Bunch on Atlanta's Superstation 17 TBS. And I do mean Atlanta's channel 17 - I spent a hefty amount of my childhood in a suburb north of Atlanta. Anyway, I digress. The blog also reviews nearly everything, including the very recently released Dragging the Classics: The Brady Bunch. It's a very wholesome blog that still pokes fun, but in a very wholesome way. I love it.

Next, we have A Very Brady Podcast. It's a podcast that hilariously dissects every episode of The Brady Bunch. I listened to it to make sure that still feels like what's not out there already, and I had a very good laugh. I'm also personally amused by the fact that the two hosts have a total of six kids - three boys and three girls. I'm amused by relevant coincidences. They are currently up to season 4 of the series.

Actually, that's kind of it for dedicated Brady Bunch content. I've looked. There's some other blogs, but they're not exclusively Brady, and there's another podcast but they abandoned it after five episodes. Even though I was worried about what came before, I'm in still pretty uncharted territory.

Hopefully content will be arriving soon! I look forward to having you all here. 


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Published December 02, 2021 by with 0 comment

Coming Soon

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Welcome to That Damn Brady Show! This blog will be dedicated to dissecting every Brady episode and movie included on the DVD set "The Brady-est Brady Bunch TV & Movie Collection." That is The Brady Bunch, The Brady Kids, The Brady Brides, The Bradys, TV reunion movie A Very Brady Christmas, cinematic releases The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel, the made for TV movie The Brady Bunch in the White House, and the made for TV movie Growing Up Brady, which was based on Barry Williams's book Growing Up Brady: I Was a Teenage Greg.

Whether or not I can actually finish and update everything remains to be seen, but I would absolutely love to try and I would be thrilled if you came with me on this journey. I'm also hoping to make a video version, for those who don't want to be bogged down with words.

So, here's a little about me and why the Brady-verse and why I chose the name of this blog. I easily obsess over things, which is why I can start out hot on a project and then forget it existed. However, I have been obsessed with the Bradys since the 90s - I was born in the 80s to two parents who are not fond of the Bradys, which is how it took so long for me to get into it. But even in a time where my family didn't have Internet, just thanks to watching out for reruns on TV and watching interviews, I very quickly learned more than anyone born between The Brady Brides and A Very Brady Christmas ever needed to know about the Bradys. One of the things I learned was that my mother wasn't very fond of the Bradys for a reason - she met them, and they were unkind to her. Up to that point, she had watched the show but she never watched again after that. My dad never liked the Bradys, and was always telling me to stop watching that damn Brady show - hence, the title for the blog. Mom, however, had an experience of one of her sisters destroying the optimism of another sister by making a mean comment over a show she liked, so my mom did talk to me about The Brady Bunch and even told me she still liked Christopher Knight and Eve Plumb, and not just because my mom was the middle of six kids herself, but because that fateful day they were unkind, those two were the nicest.

Also, I clearly don't take sides in things that happened in the 70s because I wasn't there. Do I believe my mom? I do. But it was at The Orange Show, and The Orange Show is cursed. It is literally cursed. It always rains at the Orange Show, except for in a drought because obviously raining would be a blessing. It's hot, if it's not raining it's probably still more humid than California has any business to be, the grounds are cursed, and you're six children on tour - I don't expect that they'd be nice all the time. So my mom's feelings are valid, but that doesn't stop me from loving The Brady Bunch.

I also chose my dad's 90s catchphrase as a title for this blog because despite my love of one of the most wholesome shows ever, I'm not necessarily a wholesome person. I swear, I snark, and I don't hesitate to tell people where they can stick their own vileness. I'm not going to be all bubblegum pop just because the Bradys are. I'm also not afraid to call out the things I love when they do something wrong. You know Home Alone 2, the second greatest Christmas movie of all time after Home Alone? It's not a good movie. It's a copy paste of the first movie with 20 minutes added on to brutally punish 3 hotel workers who were doing their jobs and maybe didn't handle a weird situation in which they found themselves in the best possible way. Just because something isn't always great doesn't mean it isn't worthy of love, and just because you love something doesn't mean there's nothing wrong with it. I will call out the family Brady if it is needed - especially considering how much of the staff went on to work on Small Wonder. That is a true statement, and Small Wonder is another one of my favorite shows but I get why it's not on a lot of top 10 lists.

Thank you for reading 844 words about the purpose of this blog, why I want to do it, and some weird personal tangents I went on. I feel like this should also give you enough of a feel of who I am as a human to see if you want to go on this journey with me. I hope you do. I don't have an official launch date yet, but I am currently working on curating content and I'm hoping this blog will be alive with updates within the next month.

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