I don’t know why, but it just struck me how you mentioned your childhood (and a couple of people that have replied as well.) for what it’s worth… I am really sorry that you had those experiences and sincerely glad that you and all of us were able to find little escapes like the Brady Bunch and whatever else. I don’t know about you, but I now know (years later) that I didn’t even realize how much coping I was actually doing and now trying to understand, and explain to myself why shows like this have such a special place now. all we can do is the best we can do with the circumstances we are given. Again, I know it’s kind of random, but your comment has inspired me to feel good about that and I hope my comment helps you (and the others) as well somehow :-)
@@paleo704 we all know that he was a gay man or at least that he was bisexual. We don't care. It's not like we can't say he's handsome. He is he was and he always will be. I am sure many people felt the same way. He was extremely good-looking and a very good actor
Ann B. Davis was doing a 3-week comedy act in Seattle when Sherwood decided to cast her for BB. He made Paramount buy out Davis's Seattle contract so that she could join the cast and start filming.
I Absolutely LOVED this series growing up in the 1970's. Liked the House too. ANN B. DAVIS indeed a Huge Part of the show's success. I don't think any other Actress would have been as Amazing in the role. Love her, she is amazing. GREAT SHOW ! :)
Cindy in her curls was the cutest thing I'd ever seen, bar Shirley Temple, so as an 80's kid, I wore my hair in pigtails to school, twirling them into ringlets so boys would think I was cute. I really what boys liked!
the best part n this episode & this vid is when bobby & peter run n the house covered w/ mud & splatter mud all over mike’s tux! that is my most fave part n this episode. also this episode is 1 of my fave episodes frm TBB. mike lookinland & chris knight r both hilarious & they just crack me up a lot when i watch different brady episodes! :) :) :)
It's still kind of a fascinating concept, the idea that "good servants" are loyal to the families that employ them. They do not live for themselves, they live for their employer's family. Alice, as a "Maid of All Service" (the most common type of olden-days servant and the only one that the lowest of middle-class families could afford) represents an archetype. The old saying, "Good help is hard to find," literally refers to servants who are either slow, lazy, ill-mannered, talk-back, or some combination of all these things. Alice is the definition of "good help." Pleasant and cheerful, sturdy and pretty trim, not ugly, but not more attractive than the Lady of the House (Carol Brady in this case), adores the children, wants to help wherever she can, has none of her own ambitions, cheerfully completes all of her work in a timely matter, and perhaps most important of all, she's loyal to the family as if it was her own. In the show "The Jefferson's," Florence is another Maid of All Service, but represents a more liberated servant, one who knows her value and knows she could find another job in a heartbeat, isn't afraid to talk back to her employer, and has her own ambitions and goals. She more closely represents the lower-middle-class malaise over having to treat servants as equals rather than subordinates. (Having at least 1 servant was a status symbol, and you really were not considered middle class without one.)
I love that song and Van McCoy (R.I.P.), but that was from a year after the original show's cancellation. They performed it on the variety hour, though! "Do the....hustle! La la la la la la la la la..."
@@Lisatropolis Either from the den (it had a different phone # than the phone that the kids use) or maybe he had called from the neighbors house/phone.
The girls really loved Alice she she’s really hilarious’ onery and pretty lively* it would’ve been the same without her* Good Ole’ Alice everyone really loved her* She’s always knew how to keep things lively’ onery and pretty lively*
Definitely. That first season has that 50s/early 60s sitcom feel with the smart alecky kids. By the time they got to the third season, it feels more with the times.
He didn't go to Gordy's. They were all pretending to be a handful so Alice would stay. You can see him jump out with the other kids at the very end of this clip.
Little known fact about Alice’s dress…..it stayed in storage until it was dyed grey and used as dr evils outfit in Austin powers decades later………riiiiiggggghhhhht. 😂
Yes. Mike assumed that Alice was really asking for a raise. But money was never the issue. She simply felt that her services were no longer necessary now that Mike had taken a wife. That was why they did the "Operation: Alice" to convince her that she really is needed.
I read the comments below of people complaining about wardrobe the plot the mud on the tuxedo. My reply to all that is WTF??? Who cares about all that Banana oil? It's TV!!! I found this episode very well written and acted by all!! But I do wonder how Greg got back to quickly from Gordy's house!!! Hmmmm???? Oh and I thought Carol looked rather delicious in that dress!!!
@@melissacooper4282 That's what I think, _too....._ (in regards to where Greg actually called from) ... or maybe he called _from the den_ (different phone line/number in the den than the rest of the house). 🙂🌷
@@morganjanelle4282 So many of the comments on here are centered around where Greg could have called from and like you a lot of people are saying that the den had a separate phone number. Really? I don't remember that. Did they ever say that it had a separate number? Which episode was it? The payphone episode?
To REALLY make the whole "messing up the fancy outfit" routine work, Mike should have REALLY should have worn a WHITE tuxedo, so it could show off MORE of the messiness...
They don't actually show them going to church except in the Christmas episode in season one, but they do talk about going to church in a couple of episodes.
