THIS was by far~ the funniest and funnest episode ever of, “The Brady Bunch.” Cousin Emma worked those kids behind’s OFF!! As a child~ I laughed hysterically through this entire episode!!! HAAAA!! Far out, man!!♥️💍♏️☮️🤩🎬🆒🌈☘️💞🙏🔮🎶🌺🤱🏻🎁🧚🏼♀️🧚🏼♀️👼👼☯️♾️ 0:08
Another dual role: Peter met his doppelganger in the high school (Arthur Owens, who wears eyeglasses); shenangians ensued. Episode title was _Two Petes in a Pod_ and it was episode 18 of season 5. The split screen effect, to show both characters at once, always looks obvious. These shows of the 1960s rarely did anything interesting with it (except when Jeannie would lay on the sofa and her evil brunette sister stood behind it). It's usually just two characters standing in front of each other ... like the thumbnail image here.
Actually they played the Brady kids GREAT grandparents. Grandma Hutchins and Grandpa Brady were Carol and Mike's grandparents. It was one of my favorite episodes and I saw it when it first ran back in '73.
@@user-hd3dc5up6iI don't care for that episode where they play the great-grandparents. I do like the episode with Peter meeting his "twin" at school though.
Watch when Alice & Emma meet, so to speak. They don't hug or even shake hands. That's because both characters are played by Ann B. Davis - they simply kept the camera and everything in that scene in the very same place while they filmed the "Alice" character first (talking to the left [really at no one]), and then after a makeup & wardrobe change, they filmed the "Emma" character, talking to the right [at no one], but timed just right, that when you overlap the two film-clips, you get two different characters talking to each other.
Emma ran the mess hall for an entire company and Mike says that must've been a very difficult job, Emma says, "Not if you're organized." The truth is no job is difficult if you're organized.
Robert Reed im sure definitely hated this script.... because it didnt make any sense, no house guest is gonna impose their will like that on a family they have never met before
...methinks Ann B. Davis (who played 'Alice') asked for the 'Emma' character to portray, because she was that character moreso, than Alice...notice how MUCH more invested she is, into her!? (3:23)
You may be onto something. I suspect that Ann B was not as bubbly and corny as Alice, at least based on interviews she did. Probably more of a serious and spiritual type.
@@eduardo_corrochio ABSOLUTELY 💯%. Ann B. Davis was a highly divine, spiritual, and totally ENLIGHTENED WOMAN, who spoke her mind candidly~ and was totally ahead of her time ~ in every way, shape, and form!!! She was amazing, so cool, headstrong, and she ROCKED!!!🌻🌈🦋🙏👑🎁💯☮️🆒🤱🏻♥️💞🌹🌺🥰☘️🧚🏼♀️🧚🏼♀️🌟🌟☯️♾️
Come on, the house is massive, and there are eight mouths to feed without the maid. That's a ton of work for one wife/mom. Carol helped Alice often with managing the place, if anyone watches the show at all it's right there to see.
@@eduardo_corrochio right I was watching the episode last week where Marsha comes home from school in love with a boy and Carol was dusting the table in the living room and she was always in the kitchen with Alice.
@@robinbarber49 Yes--- you said it. Plus, they did let Carol have some quiet leisurely moments, doing needlepoint or whatever (everyone needs some relax time or "me time") but she definitely assisted Alice most of the day, because it must take two people to do it all, between cooking and prepping lunches for school and cleaning and laundry and shopping for groceries, etc etc etc. I know this is TV fiction, of course, but if I just *think* about vacuuming a house that size, I get tired, LOL.
@@eduardo_corrochio Plus, Carol had to chauffeur all those kids to their after-school events, doctor's appointments, etc., and do all the things "non-working mothers" were expected to do -- PTA, boards, committees, and so forth.
Getting the kids up for the military-style routine is extreme, though fitting for Emma’s character and the show’s hilarity, but I want to see more of what Emma would do when the Brady kids behave badly, like when Marcia blamed Alice for not turning off the record player that SHE left on. Making Bobby and Cindy go back to close the sliding glass door and walk nicely? More of that, please!
Even though it was Ann B. Davis playing both parts. Did you know she had an identical twin sister Harriet in real life? I've seen the photo of them together dressed the same. It was hard to pick out which was Ann B.!
Yep. Not one member of this family points out that these two are identical. The "magic" of goofy sitcoms, haha. But at least on _Bewitched_ it was acknowledged that Serena and Samantha looked very similar facially.
Was Alice's entire lineage dedicated house keeping types of duties? Wasn't that her cousin that took over when she thought the kids didn't like her anymore?
This episode really showed the kids what it was like without Alice then a little over a year later they give her the cold shoulder for telling their mom about mistakes they made. That was one of my all time least favorite episodes.
As far as Emma being Harriet, I don't think it was. But Harriet was more outgoing as my mom remembered. Both Ann B and Harriet are Stong Vincent High school Alumni in Erie Pa.
They would have had to hire a double and put the double in the costume to film any physical interaction between them - maybe they didn't think it was worth it
No explanation is ever offered for why the Bradys ever submitted to Emma's rule. I remember as a kid watching this and waiting for the scene where the Bradys gently (or maybe not so gently) but firmly told Emma that they didn't mean to hurt her feelings but that they weren't going to put up with this anymore. That scene never took place. Emma leaves without the slightest misgiving about having intruded on the household.
It’s beautiful. It’s because Cousin Emma was nice and sweet!! She loved the Brady Family so much that she wanted to make them all into the strongest and best versions of themselves. Cousin Emma coming from the military barracks knows that’s it’s a tough world out there~ and it’s the survival of the fittest!!! No wimps and no whiners, in Cousin Emma’s regime; drop and give me 100 push-ups in under a minute, NOW or it’s off to bed without supper, BOBBY BRADY!!!🥰💍🎶🔮☮️🪝🎬🙏🆒♏️🎁🌻🤱🏻🌈🤩♥️☘️🌺🧚🏼♀️🧚🏼♀️👼👼💞☯️♾️ 0:04
@@CassidySienna192 "Nice and sweet"? We watched different episodes for sure. I see a stern, staid, uptight tyrant who pushes her own agenda on an unsuspecting family, without even asking if she can turn their lives upside down. She's a jerk. They were fools to let her invade and conquer.
I realize that I am in the minority here, but to me, this episode made no sense. First, yes, why would Mike and Carol submit so easily to her authority? (So as not to offend Alice?) Second, sorry, no cousins can resemble each other that identically. That is why I thought The Patty Duke Show was corny. (I do remember Alice telling Jan that she had a bossy older sister named Emily, and this would have made somewhat more sense. Her name was similar to Emma, and sisters, even if they are not twins, can look very much like each other). Given the fact that Robert Reed opted out of a couple of episodes because he thought they were too unrealistic, I am surprised that he did not opt out of this one!
@@nassauguy48 This episode was COOL 🆒😎!!! I liked it because it was so different from the usual coddling~ everybody hugs and kisses~ typical Brady Bunch episodes!! I liked seeing the Brady children having to be extremely obedient and docile for a change!! Sometimes that Dad ~ Mike Brady was a little too passive~ and totally not sexually stimulated/ aroused by his wife~ Carol~ hardly at all!! Carol Brady and Alice spent more time together~ and acted more like a couple with the kids~ than Mike and Carol. Mike was usually at the office. Carol Brady was such a cutie~ pie wife~ and Mike Brady ~ hardly even paid any attention to her~ or noticed her!! I think cousin Emma and Mike Brady would have had more chemistry and made a better/ cuter couple~ with certainly more chemistry than Mike and Carol did!! Mike Brady would do anything cousin Emma told him to do~ and he would have probably LIKED IT!!!✅🦋🆙💯🎥🌈🎵🔮🙏🤱🏻☮️🥰🆒😎💞🌹🌻🎁🌺♥️☘️🎶🌟🌟🧚🏼♀️🧚🏼♀️☯️♾️
Mike should've put his foot down and firmly told Emma, enough is enough! No family should ever tolerate someone barging into their home and ordering them about like that! That is so injustice!
What i don't understand was why didn't they just get Ann B Davis's real life identical Twin Sister to play the part?Unless Ann B Davis wanted to play both parts but it could have been easier with her twin Sister.
I knew that The Bradys had "jumped the shark" when, I believe it was the last season, PETER'S identical cousin came to visit and began to cause all kinds of havoc. Recycling old plots, along with adding annoying and not so cute little kids to the cast (Cousin Oliver), are signs that it is time to throw in the towel.
Now, Emma, you're here as a housekeeper on kitchen duty, not as a commanding officer! This is not the Army and the Brady's are not troops that you can order about, so back off!
