# 3 Q's for Brady Bunch Fans **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354 "2013-03-30T14:02:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/21 "2013-03-30T20:04:18Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > The character Cindy was the youngest. This is clearly referenced in the theme song. “The youngest one in curls”. [SIZE=2]I started to [SIZE=2]say d’oh, but… maybe not. The lyrics only say she was the youngest \*girl: \*[/SIZE][/SIZE] > [@](#): > > Here’s the story of a lovely lady > Who was bringing up three very lovely girls. > All of them had hair of gold, like their mother, > The youngest one in curls. My impression, from reading at least two books including Barry Vashisname’s, is that Cindy was indeed the younger of the two. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/22 "2013-03-30T20:13:08Z")
> [@NitroPress](#): > > [SIZE=2]I started to [SIZE=2]say d’oh, but… maybe not. The lyrics only say she was the youngest \*girl: Excellent point. Thank you for a more detailed reading. ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/23 "2013-03-30T23:19:57Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The OP has a _long_ history of posting _really_ easily Googled questions. He’s been warned for it and he’s been pitted for it. So because people do not like **Jinx** , no one is willing to answer whether their ages were established in series or not? Only Buscar con Google? ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/24 "2013-03-31T00:56:15Z")
> [@JKilez](#): > > So because people do not like **Jinx** , no one is willing to answer whether their ages were established in series or not? Only Buscar con Google? Very well. In “A Room at the Top” when Greg gets the attic room, Cindy complains, in the tag, that since she’s the youngest, she won’t get it until last (see “Growing Up Brady” page 259) ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/25 "2013-03-31T01:48:38Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Very well. In “A Room at the Top” when Greg gets the attic room, Cindy complains, in the tag, that since she’s the youngest, she won’t get it until last (see “Growing Up Brady” page 259) Thanks dude! It is good to see that there is a basis for the factoid and it is not just something that was written on some backstory datasheet that they provided to the fans. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/26 "2013-03-31T02:03:33Z")
> [@Jinx](#): > > c) What did Robert Reed die from? A recent article said it was colon cancer, although he was HIV positive. I thought it was well known at the time he died of AIDS. What do you recall? Those are not necessarily exclusive of each other. Lots of people with AIDS die of cancer. But the wikipedia link says his HIV had not developed into AIDS yet. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/27 "2013-03-31T02:09:44Z")
The kid who played Cindy in the comedy Brady Bunch movies will be 30 this year. I feel very old. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/28 "2013-03-31T02:58:53Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Also, who created the show and did he do anything else I would have heard of? This is a rhetorical question … right? :dubious: S \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ S \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ and G \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ ’ \_ I \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ . ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/29 "2013-03-31T03:26:22Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > This is a rhetorical question … right? :dubious: > > S \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ S \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ and G \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ ’ \_ I \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ . Really. I’m pretty sure these are easily searchable. And, I’ll vote once more for Mary Ann. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/30 "2013-03-31T19:53:04Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > My parents had a [Country Squire](http://static.cargurus.com/images/site/2010/07/12/09/47/1985_ford_country_squire-pic-6247107812598910995.jpeg) in the late 80’s/early 90’s. It could have uncomfortably fit 9 people. Three in the front (there were three seatbelts up front), three in the back and then in the way back there was two seats (facing each other), but you could put two people on one side and one on the other. Come to think of it, I think we filled it up that full a few times trying to get two families wedged in there for a quick trip to the pool. I knew a family when I was growing up that had the previous version that you occasionally see in movies of the late 60s/early 70s, and can remember at least 2 trips with a bunch of us kids loaded into it for a trip from Perry NY to Letchworth State Park, where they had a lovely pair of pools [one swimming and one diving] In hitting google images, I _think_ it was the Ford Country Sedan but am not 100% certain, though it does show the funky seats in the back. We had a cooler and picnic basket in the footspace in the back, and loads of towels and sun tan lotion and assorted crap piled in wherever it would fit. Really fun for the kids, probably not for the mom =) ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/31 "2013-03-31T20:06:16Z")
Why did they have money for a live in maid but not a bigger house? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/32 "2013-03-31T20:16:38Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > This is a rhetorical question … right? :dubious: > > S \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ S \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ and G \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ ’ \_ I \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ . _ **Gilligan’s** Island **Brady** Bunch **Dusty’s** Trail_ He seemed to be on a roll naming convention-wise. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/33 "2013-03-31T20:19:37Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Why did they have money for a live in maid but not a bigger house? Maybe it was a choice between one or the other. What would you choose? ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/34 "2013-03-31T20:23:33Z")
I would pick a bigger house and a part time maid. related topic : I wonder how busy the Jefferson’s maid was in that small apartment? It seems like she spent 90% of her time cracking jokes and arguing with George. ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/35 "2013-03-31T20:56:09Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Why did they have money for a live in maid but not a bigger house? Alice was like a surrogate mom to the boys, and I already mentioned how, from one episode, it was established for the entire run that the kids were too bonded to the house to leave it. Remember when they offended Alice until she left, then the kid’s had to get her back? Nowadays, sitcoms “lampshade” (according to TVTropes) this inexorable return to the status quo before the end of each episode. Back then, just mentioning it once was adequate. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/36 "2013-03-31T21:04:01Z")
> [@Arkcon](#): > > Alice was like a surrogate mom to the boys, and I already mentioned how, from one episode, it was established for the entire run that the kids were too bonded to the house to leave it. Remember when they offended Alice until she left, then the kid’s had to get her back? Nowadays, sitcoms “lampshade” (according to TVTropes) this inexorable return to the status quo before the end of each episode. Back then, just mentioning it once was adequate. There was a whole episode about it. They got a boring housekeeper to replace Alice. Alice took a job as a waitress and the kids went to eat at the diner where she worked. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/37 "2013-03-31T21:22:26Z")
At the end of [_A room a the top_](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Brady_Bunch_episodes#section_2) (episode 95, end of season 4): > [@](#): > > Greg and Marcia each want to convert the newly cleared attic into their own room. Greg is ultimately given the room as the oldest of the children, but relinquishes it to Marcia after hearing her tearful pleas for privacy from her sisters. An annoyed Bobby and Peter — wanting to keep their room to themselves — conspire to frustrate Marcia enough to have her relinquish the room. Marcia initially accuses Greg of the shenanigans, but they soon realize what’s happening. Marcia reasons she will have her opportunity to take the room when Greg leaves for college so gives him the room. > Note: In “Our Son, the Man” in season two, Mike tells Carol that the attic would be suitable for Greg if only he were two and a half feet tall. I recall at the very end Cindy complaining that she will be the last to get the attic room after everyone else leaves. That would make her the youngest. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/38 "2013-03-31T21:47:48Z")
> [@ZenBeam](#): > > At the end of [_A room a the top_](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Brady_Bunch_episodes#section_2) (episode 95, end of season 4):I recall at the very end Cindy complaining that she will be the last to get the attic room after everyone else leaves. That would make her the youngest. Also, it makes little sense, as by that point she would ALREADY have her own room. As would Bobby by his turn, though he’d still be sharing the toiletless bathroom with Cindy if he stayed there, so that might make the attic still desirable if it had its own john (and I think it did). ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354/39 "2013-03-31T22:11:03Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Also, it makes little sense, as by that point she would ALREADY have her own room. As would Bobby by his turn, though he’d still be sharing the toiletless bathroom with Cindy if he stayed there, so that might make the attic still desirable if it had its own john (and I think it did). Not true. When Jan goes to college, Cindy would indeed have her own room at which point Bobby would get the attic leaving Cousin Oliver alone in the boy’s room. ---
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> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Very well. In “A Room at the Top” when Greg gets the attic room, Cindy complains, in the tag, that since she’s the youngest, she won’t get it until last (see “Growing Up Brady” page 259) Unless one of the older kids moves back in, why would she need the attic room? She’d have the large girls’ room to herself.🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-qs-for-brady-bunch-fans/654354.md?page=3)