When I was a kid this episode didn’t mean anything to me. Now that I’m a stepfather in my early 50’s to two beautiful girls this scene makes me cry everytime I watch it.
i'm 59 yrs old, and no, i'm not tearing up, there's something in my eye i grew up watching this series, saw them all i wish i could wake up and it was the 70's again it was a great time to be a kid...we had OUTSIDE lol
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I have a soft spot for shows or movies that portray the relationship between a stepdad and his stepdaughter in a tender, loving light. They feel very personal, since my own stepdad has been taking care of me since I was 3 years old. He's never seen me as anything but his own daughter, even though apparently he had a bit of trouble winning me over at the beginning, and has always treated me as an equal to my younger brother, who's his biological son. Like any father, he hasn't been perfect, but we've both learned a lot from each other over the years. Even now, more than 20 years into our shared family life, I'm still in awe of how generous a heart he has and how lucky I am to have him. That's why I wish wecould see this kind of relationship more often in the media, and why scenes like this always make me tear up a little bit.
I'm glad your step father loved you as his own. That is not common these days. The scene at 4:14 is very moving even after all these years. Mike Brady loved Carol's girls as his own and she loved his sons as her own. They were one big happy family. I wished I had a family like this when I was younger.
@@mainecoon6514 well, he adopted them. So technically he was their father, not their stepfather. Carol also said to Peter in one episode, “The only ‘steps’ in our home take you to the second floor.”
+Walter Schivo Of course she loved him it was obvious. Mom, Dad, Son Daughter are what make a true family!!! It doesn't matter if adopted or natural born, my mom's adopted and I'm natural born so I may even have family I don't know! See the beauty of blended families? Even happens in nonblended (aka original parents still married and/or alive). You need both parents to raise a respectable family. The girls need the mom and the boys need a dad and everyone needs each other! And it's moments like this why I absolutely love this show even though it's before I was born I still enjoy the Me TV reruns!!!
+phillies4100 Yeah, the people who raise us, protect us and love us are the people we call, "Mom and Dad." There are all kinds of families, some kids just live with their mom or their dad, some live with their aunts and uncles, some live with their grandparents and some are adopted or have step-parents but as long as they love you, that's what makes them your family. I've met a lot of people that have different families. In grade school, I knew a girl who lived with her grandparents because she lost her parents at a young age, one of my best friends from grade school to jr. college lived with just his mom because his father died when he was ten, one of my best friends from college never knew or met her natural father but she considers her step-father her real father, another friend of mine is adopted but she considers her adoptive parents, her real parents. One of my high school teachers has a daughter that he and his wife adopted and they love her and have given her a good life.
phillies4100 My girlfriend knew a boy in school who lived with his aunt and uncle and cousin. He knew they weren't his parents but he did call them mom and dad. Even though they're not his natural parents, he knows that he's still related to them by blood. Knowing that is always a comfort to kids who don't live with their natural parents.
Same here. I recently purchased The Brady Bunch DVD box set and even though I vaguely saw this one as a kid in the Eighties, re-watching this one really got me teary-eyed, especially when Mike Brady is stunned having learned that his eldest step daughter Marcia was the reason why he is Father of the Year.
Mike Brady and the whole cast will always be loved by me. The show that was looked down on when it first aired is the type of show that society needs on T.V., today. 2016 television SUCKS!!!
You wish? But im not the man in the film in real life. Nobody is as perfect as Mike Brady, and no family is like the Bradys. Its simply a Hollywood mirage.
Michael Brady was the greatest Dad ever. I do hear tho Robert was a very fatherly man with the children. He had a daughter but did not get to see her...
This (and the pilot) episode don't get played very often but they are both very touching. Grew up with this show. Now an adult with almost grown boys and I still enjoy it
Love this scene!!! If you didnt tear up. You didnt feel it! ❤As a dad with the most wonderful daughter in the world. This is something to watch! All parents and their kids should watch this clip!
Considering that the acting he specialized in was serious and dramatic acting, that doesn't surprise me. This had to be one of his few favorite moments on the show. I bet he just wished there'd been a lot more of them but Sherwood want to stick with the crude, slapstick comedy(as Robert Reed called it). Robert Reed was serious/dramatic actor not a comedian.
This always makes me tear up. I was such a daddy's girl, and I lost my dad at 13. My mom married years and years later, and I was close to my stepfather also. He died 3 years after they were married.
I was born in 1962 so "The Brady Bunch" was an indelible part of my childhood. Every episode was a neat little life lesson. I can't imagine being a kid today. Every TV show today is some twisted shit with no redeeming qualities at all.
That was neat seeing the look on Mike's face when he found out why the tv crews were there. Well, he found why Marcia snuck out to mail that letter that night. I'll bet he ended her punishment of not going on the skiing trip. How touching!
I was adopted too. Can't make it thru this moment without tears. My glance goes over to a picture of my dad who passed in 2004. I was far from the model daughter Marcia was. I love and miss him always😔
Robert Reed did not like the show or his character but he absolutely LOVED the 6 child actors! They're mostly the reason why he chose to stick around and continue playing Mike Brady despite how demeaning he believed it to be.
He was a Dramatic Actor who studied abroad at The Royal Academy Of Dramatic Arts. Other US Alumnae were Tamara Braun (Ex-Reese All My Children) who was part of the First Same Sex Wedding on a Soap, (Ava Days Of Our Lives), and Carly #2 (General Hospital) as well as Ray McConnell who played Dr. Joe Martin on All My Children. He only did it because he needed The Money and when TBB went off the Air, he worked very hard to live down that image. He blew me away in ROOTS although his Speech To Toby & Bell about Kizzy disobeying was similar to what Mike Brady would have said back in the day.
Critics have said how it was a 1950s show taking place in the 1970s. I mean, this was Southern California in the wake of the Manson murders and at the height of the drug and free love cultures. Reed was correct about the show being 20 years behind the time.
Good acting on robert reed though he said he hated the show but many years later swell the music and rewatched this yep i sobbed. So touching now gives her a hug and the kids said he kind of fathered them in real life. Brady bunch never gets old.
The best message here is that blended families and adoptions do sometimes work out! It's also implied that Carol's first husband was an ex-husband, meaning that she was divorced, not widowed. Mike taking in a divorced woman's children as his own, especially if they are step-children and he has no custody, truly makes him deserve that award. :)
I was thinking that too. I don’t think it would have been as deep if Greg (or any of the boys) wrote in to give Carol Mother of the year, seeing that their real mother truly was gone.
Mike came in the back door how true is that statement. Always love the show I love watching it on RU-vid it is so good even the Variety show was very good
I'm very sure he realized that was that PRIVATE thing she was working on in his den and when she was supposed to be finishing those chores. He knows she couldn't say because in case he won, she wanted it to be a surprise. I'm very sure all is forgiven and her punishment is over. Besides, a family ski trip will be a great way for all of them to celebrate Mike's victory!
I remember in one episode of The Brady Bunch, one of the boys said to Carol “… but I’m only your stepson”. And she immediately replied “Let’s get something straight here: The only steps in THIS family are the ones leading to the second floor!”. I thought that was really neat.
