I love the dynamics between Florence Henderson and Robert Reed. They really do act like a happily married couple. The whole TV show has awesome chemistry.
Rather than superficial, I always thought we were dropping in to see what the Bradys or Gidget (another favorite show) were doing at a specific time. They had arguments and things like that, but it didn't matter, in the way doing their homework or hanging out with their friends didn't matter. Kind of like, how we don't remember the boring day to day stuff we do as much as those snapshot days when something out of the ordinary happens. It's not superficial, just selective.
@@SnowDaulphin Considering that he was also gay in real life (and Florence was aware of it), they did a good job, and Robert was getting meta. I don't believe there really were any episodes where the two of them ever had a real argument beyond the wallpaper episode.
ikr. I grew up watching them in the 70's & I was an only child. I had a couple close friends & cousins, but the BB always seemed like an extended part of my family.
Not weird at all. I’ll tell you what’s weird. I vas very young when this show was on prime time. My mother had a good laugh seeing the confused look on my 5yo face as I watched season 1 in syndication for the first time and asking about the hairstyles and why Dad and Mom were calling each other Mike and Carol.
God, I loved them. They were warm and real and devoted to their kids. They were strict with the kids when they had to be, but they didn’t hold them at arm’s length like the unaffectionate Ward and June Cleaver.
9rooms? The den, the study, the 3 bedrooms, Alice's bedroom that's 6? Does the kitchen count as a room? So there should be 2-3 more rooms for the kids, so why did Greg have to move to the garage?
I totally remember this episode! "Look, Mommy! She cries black tears!" In regards to the building design that makes her factory a compact - "No! It has to be more fluffy! As Bebe is fluffy her factory must be fluffy!"
Interesting! There was a season 5 episode where Greg gets caught up in a shower curtain in their bathroom trying to capture Rachel, the runaway goat mascot he kidnapped from a competing high school. Brady's must have done some remodeling between seasons!!
@@SweptAway529 Actually it was Raquel and the bathroom was always there. It was behind the bed, they didn't mention it but occasionally you would see Mike walk out while they were getting ready for bed brushing his teeth and stuff.
@@kenlompart9905 Yes, well aware of the bathroom's presence - just commenting how it morphed from shower doors to a curtain. Definite memory fail for me on Rachel vs. Raquel. Bad goof given Raquel Welch in the news recently with her passing.
I like to think that this was part of Carol's plan, at least from the writer's perspective. She just got done scolding Mike the night before that this client was eating up all his spare time to the detriment of the family and his own sanity, but he kept insisting things would work out. When Bebe walked into their home unannounced to completely change the design all over again, Carol decided instead to flip the script and be positive, bubbly, and make jokes, which she knew would annoy Mike, in hopes that he'd come to his senses. However, the kids ended up solving the problem another way. :)
It was in Season 1. It was called Mike's Horror Scope. It was about that his horoscope said that a strange woman would enter his life. That Bebe was definitely a strange woman!
I wish they let Carol present herself a little more fabulously like the terrible client! She always had to present as the sensible mom and nothing else visually. But she was so warm and wonderful she comes across as a terrific mom a d a fantastic completely secure and confident wife ... still..I Wish ..! Oops ! I wS writing this comment watching the little woman episode just b4 this one in the season 1 playlist !
