Peter Brady becomes "Peter the Great" when he takes up magic -- and Cindy becomes his assistant! #bradybunch | Now streaming on Paramount+ Where to watch: para.mt/BradyBunch
You'd think that Cindy would have figured out that if the disappearing banana and the disappearing handkerchiefs are just illusions, so is disappearing Bobby.
Cindy was an eight or nine year old girl, here. She didn’t yet understand the concept fully, of object permanence. She was a little kiddo. She couldn’t yet distinguish between fantasy and reality, completely. This is all totally developmentally appropriate to the age of an eight year old child💯🎁😎🎀♏️🌅🌟🥰🌸🎆👼🦋🎊🎶✨🎄☮️❄️💞♥️☯️♾️ 3:24
The premise of this episode cracks me up because it's 1971 and the school is holding a vaudeville show in which the kids can perform. Yes, vaudeville (i.e., a type of entertainment in the USA from the 1890s to the 1930s, featuring a variety of acts such as comedy, music, magic, and acrobatics done in front of a large audience.). Come on, folks, what kids in that era even knew about vaudeville? Man, these writers must have been well over age 50 to keep throwing in such old-timey notions and events on The Brady Bunch. Too funny.
Back then, various late night talk show hosts brought old vaudeville performers on their shows to discuss their experiences and careers. I had heard of the era but to me these were really ancient guys who were forcibly retired by television, an aging audience and changing tastes in entertainment. I think the vaudeville idea had run its course when it became viewed as hokey but the BB writers evidently did not think so.
You're not wrong; the idea of Vaudeville was a bit of an anachronism at this time. But remember the Brady Bunch, as must early TV, was trying to give people simple, old-fashioned, easy to digest studies that made audiences happy and tune in every week. Parents and children together were tuning in to one of three or four channels, and a talent show featuring kids singing contemporary songs might have been too controversial.
@@flowertrue The show sure changed quickly because in the following season the kids started recording original pop songs written by Greg in episode 16 of season 2 (even though Peter's voice was in the state of flux, haha). Then in episode 16 of season 4 the kids perform rock music on the Pete Stern contest show to earn money for an anniversary gift for their parents. So it appears that The Brady Bunch kids got into music fairly quickly, and the TV audience seemed to like that. (I looked up those episode/season numbers. Didn't know 'em by heart.)
@@eduardo_corrochio .. The BB producers jumped on the bandwagon by marketing another sibling singing group, a la the Partridge Family. I recall more than a few family sunshine pop groups that appealed to pre-teens. It was a trend then. .. copied from the Jackson 5 who actually could sing and dance.
