Reminds me of "That '70s Show" when Frank (Mitch Hedberg) said: "I did not lose a leg in Vietnam to serve hotdogs to teenagers". "You have both your legs, Frank!" "Like I said, I did not lose a leg in Vietnam". Link -> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w2xxELjumuI.html
Great episode. These early ones were the best. Chris Knight was a good little actor. You really feel for him when he realizes he had let the praise go to his head. The lessons the Brady kids learn about life are all very relatable.
@@dangurney1042 No. I was the oldest in my family. Peter and Jan were more like average kids to me. Bobby was a bit outgoing and a clown. Cindy was kinda bratty -- at least when tattling. Marcia was the prom queen, and Greg was too cool for school. In the words of Goldilocks, Jan and Peter was just right.
It was really nice of him. Peter was a really sweet kid. He didn't realize people were getting annoyed with his constant retelling of his heroic deed. He was just really, and rightfully, proud of himself.
That's they way it was done 50 years ago. As I well remember when I was a kid. What I want to know is; what the hell happened? Why does everyone today dress like they just got off an 8 hour shift on a garbage truck?
Peter should have told the third kid, Jason, that there would be a hot dog eating contest, followed by all the pizza and tacos he could eat. That would have cinched at least one attendee.
@@pinkfreud62 Really? I'm an old bachelor, but from what I read and hear from others, today's teenagers use texting as a kid of 'word of mouth' about a party and whole groups of them just show up.
Chris Knight was such a good juvenile actor, very gifted, funny and hitting his marks every time. Curiously, I lived in Palm Springs CA and sold real estate. One afternoon, I showed a property and it turned out the home had been Knight's. Even MORE curious was the woman who saw the property had gone to high school with Knight. Now even more crazy, and deeply personal was I am the same age as Knight and when the show was new, I had a secret TV crush on Knight and wished I was just like him. To this day, at times, I still act like Knight, trying to be plucky and funny.
Peter should have gotten suspicious when he asked Jenny what time she had to visit her grandmother and she asked what time the party was and he told her it was at 4 & she said she would be visiting her grandmother then.
Unless good fortune happens to them, people don't want to hear about it. Something similar happened with me back in the 80's. I through a little get together, not because of me, but to let my friends in on my victory. Nobody showed up. My neighbor even bad mouthed me. When something happened to a "popular" person at school, the school through them a party. The person the schol did this for was very self centered, but I think I learned the biggest lesson. After that I kept my money to myself.
LOL - yes, they did this all the time to save money. The episode with Jerry Rogers, the Quarterback Sneak, shows him in his bedroom and it’s just a redressed version of the Brady den.
This has to be the saddest thing that I have seen in a long time!! It’s so very HEARTBREAKING💔 how ALONE Peter Brady FEELS, HERE~ OMG☮️💖❤️⚠️🎁🌈🌹💞🦋😇😇☀️🌺☯️♾️Nobody wanted to come to his party!!! Nobody ever really liked PETER BRADY because he was always ‘so high,’ on HIMSELF😢. 3:00
Fifty bucks was a small fortune in 1970--especially for a kid. Today $50 would get you (perhaps) two large pizzas with three toppings and one bottle of cola for your party..
Occasionally you come across pizza bargains. A pizza restaurant flyer in my mailbox today advertised a large, three-item pizza for $18.95 Canadian.@@vjblock
Political trolls, just go away. This was a TV sitcom. Inflation raged during the '70s. That's the reality. Get out of fantasy land. We had Watergate, gasoline lines twice, in '73 and '79. Drugs and crime rising. But Amnesia enables people to make up a false past.
They edited out a good scene in the kitchen between Mike and Carol. Carol is blaming herself because she said OK to the party. Mike says there are some things parents can not teach kids, they have to learn on their own.
At 3:47 we get a rare look at the ""Fourth Wall" in the Brady residence. That's where the cameras usually filmed the scenes, and thus the space that separated the performers from the film crew. There is a china cabinet in front of what is usually the fourth wall in this video.
Proving that the Brady's did have a china cabinet and chandelier in their dining room, which HGTV never bothered to source. They left that wall blank, installed a door leading to the upstairs master bedroom and Greg's attic room recreated in the lower level. A big hutch there would have taken the emphasis away from the door that was never a part of the set.
With a hutch and chandelier, neither of which HGTV found for the house. The cabinet with the mirror over it at the bottom of the stairs is the server to the dining room suite. They found it on rollers and put four legs on it just like the one on the set had. The curio cabinet is also part of the suite. American of Martinsville brand.
When Peter told Greg and Marcia that they did not have to attend his party, but his other friends would be there, did he forget that they all declined? Or when Steve said that he would try to come, he took that as a definite maybe. And when Jennifer said, "I think I promised to visit my Grandmother." I would have replied, "You think? You're not sure?"
I'm not keeping up with all of Peter's parties. There was this one, and another in which he thinks nobody likes him yet he is surrounded by girls, and another for getting an A in geometry. Are these three separate parties? I'm old and have spells of CRS from time to time.
Nobody showing up is similar to when Kevin Brooks who was part of a Study Group in The Book & Movie Version of The Paper Chase, he wasn't a very good student and lied about his outline. Why didn't Carol and Mike sit Peter down and tell him how big headed he was getting. Also when they did this scene they used The Brady Bedroom when Peter talked to his Friends. Calvin Klein did the same thing when he rescued his Daughter Marcy and he told the story over and over and his friends were getting annoyed. They couldn't believe that a "Gay" Man was so brave. Also at School his Daughter Marcy was teased relentlessly being told "You're Daddy Is A F@ggot!" and this was in 1978.
Because Peter won a newspaper award for saving a little girls life in a toy store when a shelf almost fell on her and all he did was brag about it every day. So all his friends from school were sick and tired of hearing about it. When he decided to throw a party for himself because he got such a swelled head, none of his friends wanted to go.
Part of me wanted to feel bad for him when no one showed up for his party.. But at same time its hard to feei bad for him when he acted so stuck up about him being a hero. Then when people tried to give reasons for why they couldn't go he just up and assumed that they all wanted to go and that they'd go after what they had going. Didn't even listen to them trying to say no
Those kids were so gosh darn attractive while being absolutely genuine. Since the 80s TV kids have been just picked on looks, cuteness, and nothing else. Back then they picked kids like Jodie Foster, the Brady kids, the Partridge family kids, and the Witch Mountain kids to be stars. Cousin Oliver may have been annoying but at least he wasn’t the annoying beauty pageant kid you’d see now.
At 1:00, the background of where she is at looks like the same background of shots of the parents' bed as seen in the burglar episode: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p_ZtD7wr6N0.html
Hey you guys out there in RU-vid viewer land---help me out: Since I haven't seen this episode at a reasonable hour of the day when I'm fully awake in a very long time, and my memory is fuzzy, who are those two seated at the 6 and 7 o'clock table positions there at the end ? Got any ideas ?
At the 6 o'clock position is the mother of the little girl that Peter saved at the toy store and at the 7 o'clock position, of course, is that little girl.
@@alaricabercrombie2692.....oh yes....now I remember ! Thank you for clearing this up. Much appreciated. At least the girl and her mom were polite and gracious enough to accept the invitation and actually attend. Can't say the same for those so-called friends making up BS stories to weasel out of going.
Yeah, his friends not showing up have always bothered me, too. Hey, you would think that free food & drinks would had been enough for them to endure a couple of hours of Peter's self-boasting, lol 😂. It would had for me 😄. But anyway, you're welcome and I was glad to help. 👍
1970 wasn't like it is today. Especially for grammar school kids. Most kids went home after school to their stay at home moms. It was the time to do homework, chores, etc. Until dinner time when the whole family ate together. So having a party at 4 the next afternoon would have been doable for most of those kids.
@retroguy9494 I was born in 1970 and growing up was just as you described it, but we always had Little League Baseball practice, Music lessons, dance practice, or something else right after school. Then dinner as a family. So a Last minute party still would be tough to attend.
@@wildmike951 Well, I'm 6 years older than you and we had all that stuff too. But Little League wasn't year round. At least not here in the northeast. I, too, had music lessons. But not every afternoon after school. I forget if it was one or two days a week. I'm sure there would be some kids who were unable to attend because of after school sports or lessons, but still, enough COULD come to make a good party.
@@wildmike951 Cool...I'm in NJ too! I have to think back almost 50 years, but I think I remember some parties on the weekends. Birthdays, first communion, etc. Yes, I guess a Saturday would have been better. But the next day kind of worked with the plot which was Peter being all full of himself over being a hero and saving that girls life in the toy store.
I love how each episode has a moral. Like this episode stresses if you are fat don't go to cake parties instead stay home and play the piano. Even though there was NO WAY that kid is passing on that candy buffet. Looks like he needs a bath too.
...(2:20) *....BUSTED!* .....whereas Jan gets insecure & pouty, Peter lashes out and becomes defiant; It shows he's strong-willed, but needs 'support', from time -to -time....all it took was a Table of People, to make him feel LOVED....because, he IS...... (3:51)...
