Marcia Brady gets in trouble for drawing an unflattering picture of her teacher -- and her slumber party gets canceled! #BradyBunch | Now streaming on Paramount+ Where to watch: para.mt/BradyBunch
Marcia had a right to be upset. i mean, when Greg told his parents that the cigarettes that fell out of his jacket weren't his, Mike and Carol believed him IMMEDIATELY.
@@ihaveinsomnia1 He was, but when confronted he didn't lie about it. And when he STOPPED smoking his parents believed him even though a pack of cigarettes fell out of his jacket. They didn't give Marcia the benefit of the doubt until AFTER she told them off. Heh, can't believe I can almost get worked up over an episode of the freaking Brady Bunch! Worse when I was a little kid and wanted to confront Mike and Carol... "Hey, where's Tiger? You've been keeping his empty house in the backyard for half a decade, but where's the dog??"
“And if you don’t believe me either, I don’t want a party! Or anything from you!” “Consider yourself UNINVITED!” Maureen McCormick was going for the Emmy on this episode.
Poor Jenny. She did nothing wrong and she got uninvited to Marcia’s slumber party. ( I know she was Re-invited at the end) but the look on her face when Marcia told her “ consider yourself uninvited!” Poor kid
I think the actress who played poor Jenny Wilkes was Sherwood Schwart's daughter. She also played Greg's girlfriend who had the frog land on her head at the Drive-In.
The one thing that I noticed was how much older she appeared to look than Marcia. Almost like Marcia was still in grammar school and Jenny was in high school.
@@jaengen Weren't the morals lessons in those episodes awesome? The principal made an assumption about Marcia which was wrong and Marcia turned around and did the exact same thing with her friend Jenny!
Marcia didn't even ask Jenny about the writing under the drawing. The evidence she has is all circumstantial and Mike already explained to the kids about circumstantial evidence and how innocent people get punished for something they didn't do. The principal did have solid evidence linking the misdeed to Marcia but Marcia didn't have anything linking it to Jenny. And Mr. Randolph did allow Marcia to tell her side of the story even though he didn't believe her.
That's right. Marcia didn't even tell Jenny why she was uninviting her to the party. She was upset over how she was treated but she treated Jenny far worse.
Marcia’s friend, Paula did the printing underneath the drawing but it was only for Marcia to see for a laugh. She didn’t mean to get Marcia in trouble.
I remember this episode I felt so bad and sorry for Marcia that she was accused of something that she didn’t do i believed her and I knew she was telling the truth I’m glad the slumber party was still on
A similar situation happened in the Season 3 Full House episode “Just Say No Way” where Jesse jumps to conclusions saying that DJ was drinking at her school dance but it turned out that she really wasn’t
@@hunhun23 True. One difference: At least she realized her error concerning Jenny when she found out that Paula did it, unlike Mike and Carol who jumped to conclusions on Marcia.
@@tylerwilliamson7128 Me three to the POWER OF INFINITY!!! Jesse TICKED ME OFF TO ACCUSE DJ!!! UNLESS STOMACHS HAVE TEETH THERE IS NO WAY DJ WAS DRINKING!!!
Still a good story after all these years. And it was great to have Robert Reed and E.G. Marshall reunited for this episode after their work together on "The Defenders". Thanks so much for sharing it. When I was a kid watching it, Maureen McCormick's realistic scene at 2:28 got to me and made me feel sad for Marcia.
When TV Guide would give a summary of each upcoming episode of the Brady Bunch, for this episode, they didn't say anything about Marcia or the slumber party- they just said, "This episode reunites Robert Reed and E.G. Marshall..."
@@TnseWlms That was probably around the time when "The Defenders" was better known than the two and remained popular in syndication. And "The Brady Bunch" was still a relatively new show at the time.
Robert Reed's daughter, Karen and Florence Henderson's daughter, Barbara also appeared in this episode. They played Marcia's classmates who attended her slumber party.
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hc Maybe "The Brady Bunch" was much more of a family affair (no pun intended) for the producer and actors than a TV show for the fans. From what I've read, Florence Henderson's and Sherwood Schwartz' daughters also appeared in a couple of episodes for the show's last season. And as a side note, Michael Lookinland's brother played an adopted child for the proposed spinoff "Kelly's Kids" around that time. Just as I said, a family affair on "The Brady Bunch":)
@@TheAverycross You forgot about Christopher Knight's father, Edward , played a game show host on one episode where Bobby Brady was trying to win a contest on a TV game show.
I did a side by side comparison of the drawing with a picture of George Washington. Some of it resembles him but some of it doesn’t. Looks more like him if he was overweight. Mike: Mr. Randolph, does Mrs. Denton really look like that? Randolph: Unfortunately, yes. Unfortunate for who? Marcia or Mrs.Denton.
I love that phone that Jenny was using!! An olive green Trimline phone with the dial in the receiver. How could Marcia not be friends with someone who had a phone like that?
Trivial, but Marcia pronounces "period" oddly! Like "purr-iod". This is when she is guessing who wrote on her picture and said Jenny has that desk last "purr-iod"
On another note, this episode enabled a reunion between the two former stars of "The Defenders": E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed, who had played father and son attorneys.
What is so illogical about another person adding the comment at the bottom of the drawing? Really, it takes that much deep thinking to realize how that might have happened? And the parents too? I can just see teachers now accusing kids of this sort of thing and how far they'd get.
The teacher was the troublemaker! She had no business snooping in Marcia's desk. Even if she was cleaning you DO NOT read other people's things! Carol had no business telling Marcia her party was off. When something like that is planned you do not cancel it! Marcia did nothing wrong and her parents still believed a stranger over their own daughter!
My Junior year English teacher _would_ read our journals. It was part of the grade.... I think the teacher _would_ have a right to inspect the desks of her class room to make sure nothing "illegal" were being kept in them.
What planet are you from? Students don't own school property. And those desks would have been shared by several students during the day. Teacher has every right to inspect things in a classroom.
Maureen is a wonderful actress. To be able to cry and show that kind of emotion as a young girl on a TV set and stay in character had to be difficult....
It'll come back one day. Everything has been done and so styles, patterns and tastes are cyclical. Every kind of designer looks into history to see what would be new and interesting to market to a generation that's never seen it before.
It is still available....special order. When they redid the original Brady house to look like the sets for the show, they came across that same problem. But they got it!
The girl who Marcia uninvited to the party went on a date with Greg in a later episode. And on that date, she ended up with a frog on her head! Stay away from those Bradys....
You mean like what these undisciplined and deeply disturbed kids are doing nowadays? Imagine a time in this country when very few kids were bullied and the ones who were weren't so traumatized from it that they resorted to sue*a*side and the worst thing that kids did back then if they decided to act up was talk in class, pass notes, throw spitballs or maybe put a "kick me" sign on some poor unsuspecting doofus if he was really bad. Those days are long gone now unfortunately and now we have only have a future generation filled with sociopaths and degenerates to look forward to. So much has changed in only 50 years, it's crazy.
@@martymcfly5764 This comment could have been written nearly half a century ago and it would have reflected how adults felt about the "latest" generation of kids.
4:03 GEE WHIZ, that was low, even for you, Marcia! It's not like Jenny framed her for something she didn't do! I mean, did Marcia have any proof that it was Jenny?
Mr. Randolph, I can understand discipline as much as anyone else. Punishing innocent people is how people in cities and states for crimes they never committed is how the government gets sued. How about going to the class and asking the class about the situation and see if the person is will come forward and admit what they did. Save many situations.
I don't think "jerks" is the word I'd used. Maybe they were being a bit biased toward the principle based on him being a "responsible man", as in not being one to just put off onto the kids without having a strong reason.
@@retroguy9494 Yes Mr Brady. Gets itching powder dumped all over his when the boys intend it to happen to the girls coming to the party........ Let's just spoil the hell out of this episode.
In "The Bradys in the White House", the resigning U.S. president was named Randolph, probably after this principal, who was played by E.G. Marshall who was typecast into playing U.S. presidents.
He only played THREE presidents. Cleveland, Truman and Eisenhower and those parts were spread out over a 35 year period! He was hardly typecast. He had a long and illustrious acting career where he played many different roles. From one of the jurors in 12 Angry Men to one of the grandfathers in Christmas Vacation to Attorney General John Mitchell in Nixon!
Mike went to talk to Mr. Randolph. Mr. Randolph showed Mike the paper. Mike said that he can't confirm if the drawing and the print underneath it was done by Marcia but the name and the class at the top of the paper is definitely Marcia's handwriting.
She did say it was her handwriting and her drawing but she had said, she never wrote down her teacher's name nor the word hippopotamus. No offense to the character Marcia, but it is kind of hard to believe a student when they admit to almost 100% of what they did but then say that it isn't what they did.
Marcia did exactly what the Principal did. Jump to conclusions without all the facts. All set up for a very moral ending, as only the Brady Bunch can do.
You very obviously were not in school back in the 1970's. Assumptions were made all the time and innocent kids got punished for it. I know because I was a victim of that many times.
@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 It WAS simpler in a lot of respects. You're no spring rooster and neither am I. You have to remember back way back in the day. It's just that certain things were NOT simpler. Like the ways schools handled problems. Like back then, if a kid got bullied in school by multiple kids, they thought something must be wrong with the kid BEING bullied and he was looked at as the disruptive one. Today, we know better.
Well this episode seems incomplete considering how MR. RANDOLPH apparently skated through unpunished, when he's responsible for all the suffering in this episode - Marcia's lost party, Paula's lost invite, Mrs. Denton's (apparently) lost self-esteem - they're all his fault!
@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 Well Paula SAID she wrote the remark. She was never seen or caught doing it. And after Marcia chews her out, Paula volunteers to go to Mr. Randolph herself to confess, without being asked. Sounds like Paula and Randolph were in cahoots...!! Randolph put her up to the deed and Paula volunteered to confess knowing she'd get no punishment. Very crafty...
I had a student who almost got expelled for a situation she never did in the first place. I solved the mystery on the day before she almost got expelled. One: the signature was false and two(thanks to me): THE DATE WAS FALSE. When the counselor and the principal found out, the expulsion was PURRMANENTLY ADJOURNED and the girl got a MAJOR APOLOGY TO THE POWER OF INFINITY!!! I know that girl felt she got VICTORY!!! ALSO SHE GOT READMITTED.
you used to detective skills just like batman and i am a huge fan of batman myself i still have some comic's stored away i would sell them cause they can be worth something
@wonderwoman5732 yeah how about you were you a comic book reader and collector to cause I got some batman comic's and i got one were he even meets spawn to
2:36 they didn’t show the part when Mike said “OH HELL NO! Marcia bring yo ass back here!! Alice-yes Mr Brady- whoop Marcia with Sam’s belt-right away Mr Brady”
So, hold on... @2:00 in the scene where mom, dad, and Marcia are convening in the family room, Carol is wearing an outfit that includes a light pink top. Fast forward to about @2:47 (say, maybe an hour after the conference in the family room, "Hollywood time") Carol walks upstairs and into the girls' bedroom now dressed in a groovy custom-tailored green paisley outfit. Okaaaaaaaayyy... So is this to mean Carol had outfits she only wore downstairs and others she only put on for downstairs activities? This show had so many blocking foulups it's fun to poke at it all these years later. When I was 6 years old, there was no such thing as a "rewind button," much less "the internet," so none of this was primary.
I would absolutely believe her you can tell by our mannerisms her answers come on principal and this is a famous actor. By the way I don’t know why he ended up on our Brady Bunch episode. This guy is like a classical Shakespearean actor lol but obviously didn’t look like George Washington, but her answers were absolutely succinct and she’s obviously straight student. I would’ve taken that picture ripped it up and said just be careful little lady have a good day. I mean it’s an episode you better watch but in real life I would’ve ripped it up. There’s no way I would punish this girl. You can tell. She’s telling the truth . 😀
as a parent myself, I would side with my son first before taking someone else’s word over my child. His teachers always raved about what he good student he was and always well behaved. He’s grown now, will be 20 this year. Even his bosses at his work love him.
