I did “Step by Step” recently, so it got me thinking about other shows involving step brothers and sisters in it. Since I already reviewed “Bonanza” it looks like we’re going to the original annoying little kid show, as the title said, “The Brady Bunch.” In this review I would like to tackle a few major issues. First of all, we have to discuss Cousin Oliver. I’ll leave that hanging there. A few other issues is all the sexual tension between every cast member and Greg, how Sam the Butcher is the best character in television history, and maybe we can discuss all that singing and dancing.
In case you were living under a rock for most of your life, which I’m not judging you for because the rent is cheap, you’ve probably heard about the “Brady Bunch.” Just so you know, it’s a story, of a lovely lady. She is bringing up three very lovely girls. They also had hair of gold. The dude she married was named Brady, and he lived alone with his three boys. That’s the run down, add in an awesome slave named Alice and a dog that pulls a Chuck from “Happy Days” after in real life he was killed when hit by a truck. There is the synopsis. Somewhere down the line Davey Jones shows up and the Brady Kids are singers because of some stupid bird group.
Huh?
There we go, now here is a real review in 6 words: Jealousy, bowling, architecture, singing, King’s Island. What that last thing? King’s Island is an amusement park where I grew up. The Brady’s for whatever reason went there, mainly because Paramount used to own the park, and Sherwood Schwartz’s soul. It was fun to see, and the fact that the classic coaster the “Racer” was a big deal in the show, and when I was a kid, it was the starter coaster for you to get ready to die on the Son of Beast.
Now on to the issue at hand; Cousin Oliver is an innocent young man. I heard a lot of rumors saying that he killed the show. Now, this poor little kid had it so bad. All the Brady kids got to move on to do nothing but Brady reunions, but what did Oliver do? Nothing. Why? It’s because he was wrongly blamed for killing a show that was already dying. He was only on the last six episodes. SIX! I think they writing was on the wall. They had 12 year old Cindy acting retarded for the sake of being a cute little girl, Greg was almost older looking than his dad, and let’s face it, Alice shouldn’t be there. The kids are old enough to do stuff now, you don’t need a live in made. I just want it to be known, Oliver was a scape goat, and everyone should be ashamed.
Greg Brady was played by Barry Williams. Let’s face it, that guy was drowning a lot of otters. He was with Florence Henderson, Maureen McCormick, and probably the other girls too. And if we can spread rumors, with absolutely no basis and no need for legal zooming, I bet that Robert Reed. I mean, it came out that Mr. Brady was gay, and I’m sure Barry played that way too. No one plays Johnny Bravo without being a little curious. If we can tie together the singing and colorful clothes, on tour the Brady kids had to get lonely. I’ll just leave it at that. This is a family review, so I’m not going to say anything like Cindy taking on bunches of Brady’s. That would be obscene.
I want to end not on anything very important, but I want to talk about Sam the butcher. He was a great actor. I mainly came to like him as a featured actor on numerous Andy Griffith’s show, parlaying that into a role on “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. He was known best for his role on this show though. He dated the crazy maid Alice, and put up with a lot of crap for her and those stupid kids. He only appears in 8 episodes, but his presence is felt. He even gets a movie later on where he gets married. I have no real purpose here, I just really liked this actor, and may he rest in peace.
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