The Brady Bunch : Episodes with poorly contrived plots

Episodes with poorly contrived plots

Two come to mind for me.

Eenie, Meenie, Mommy, Daddy - Really, would it ever come to that a child could only invite one parent? I know they had the scene with the teachers explaining the situation (I forget the details), but it's hard to believe they couldn't come up with a solution to invite more than one family member.

Peter and the Wolf - Granted, the drive in scene was pretty hilarious, but it's not believable that Greg had to (and would) go to those extremes to keep a date.


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The Un-Underground Movie. Greg got an "A" from his teacher but the film had virtually no real info about the Plymouth Colony.

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the enie menie mommy daddy would work today. in my school.

when we do graduations we have a very strict policy of 2 tickets per graduate due to space [we are not mean with these tickets despite what the parents say]. often times we have parents wanting to bring an entire entourage of grand parents, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews of the graduate [yeah], great grandparents and cousins... sorry. only two tickets.

these kids with the entourage of family are lucky. we had some kids who had NOONE SHOW UP!

getting itchy... so they are all in a sleepover and there are like 12 girls downstairs in the big center room with sleeping bags and such... jan is telling a scary story and bobby is doing -- hell, what is he doing? he has a white sheet around him and a green mask on. he ditches the mask and then howls and the girls are all 'what is that' then IMMEDIATELYAFTERTHAT they all itch. what? no one was scratching during the story? and for it to be a big outbreak like that? immediately??? what?


Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.

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Well, there's only one graduation ceremony, but the school play can be performed more than once. What always irritated me about this episode is that the kids had a
second performance ONLY for the Bradys, and not all those other families who were crowded out.

The Family Frolics night didn't give the father-daughter horn duet much support, but the whole stage was set aside for Carol and Marcia's musical number? Then Mike and Greg got to perform their poetry reading that included pouring water on the stage? Clearly the Bradys had too much influence with the school board.


Similarly, if the retiring schoolteacher was so beloved, there would have been a lot more former students who would have loved to participate in a show for her (personally, I would have loved to see Warren and his accordion show up to play for her). The Bradys were so desperate for "Snow White" performers that they had to recruit Sam the Butcher to play Dopey?!

That "most popular boy/most popular girl contest" was pretty far-fetched--since when do schools endorse popularity contests for the students when there's too much of that social hierarchy stuff going on in schools as it is? And what would candidates really have to do to be popular? . Also, having the
guys vote for Head Cheerleader is just asking for trouble--of course there are going to be predatory girls who'll do anything to get chosen (if Greg had been more of a jerk, he could have gotten more out of what's-her-name who was competing against Marcia--good thing it was a family show).


I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!

Hewwo.

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but a fifth grader's nieces and nephews don't need to see this.

Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.

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Well, the Shirley Temple episode takes the cake for poorly contrived plots.

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hows about the great grandparents getting married??? eh!

Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.

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Peter and the Wolf - Granted, the drive in scene was pretty hilarious, but it's not believable that Greg had to (and would) go to those extremes to keep a date.



I LOVED that episode.

As much as I liked Two Pete's in a Pod, I would say that plot was a reach.

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Gregs hair turning orange

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In the final part of the Hawaii Trilogy, I thought the fact that Mike didn't report the professor to the authorities and then agreed to vouch for his find/claim and then even invited him to a luau was pretty unrealistic. I know that Mike Brady was just about the most understanding/forgiving man who has ever lived but I think even he would have called the cops after his kids were abducted.

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The goat episode was a little too silly. Especialy with the Three's Company style misunderstanding.

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The episode where Bobby falls trying to climb the tree house ladder (I think it was called "What Goes Up.") He appears to only fall a couple of feet, probably not enough to instill the type of fear that is portrayed. Also, whatever became of his Parakeet? By all accounts, Bobby loved the bird but we never see or hear anything more about him in any future episodes. I guess the Parakeet went wherever Fluffy the cat went.

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Alice just happened to have a wonderful recipe for Parakeet Kiev.



I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!

Hewwo.

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The Personality Kid - Someone kid made a rather benign comment to Peter that he was dull. That would not give a kid a complex like the one he had. I guess this was to even out all the "Jan issue" episodes.

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There were some bad episodes here and there in all of the seasons. However, it really got bad starting with the Kelly's Kids episode and the UFO episode and got progressively worse after that.

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it really got bad starting with the Kelly's Kids episode and the UFO episode and got progressively worse after that.


Yeah by the time it got Cindy dressing up like Shirley Temple and Bobby thinking Sam was a secret spy (after all he's been delivering meat to the Bradys for so many years), it was OMG!

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The kids were getting too old for the scripts and it seemed like they were running out of ideas. They ended the BB at the right time.

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You are absolutely right.
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