# Brady! Brady! Brady! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 26, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-brady-brady/266173 "2004-09-26T16:27:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2004, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-brady-brady/266173/21 "2004-10-05T00:36:40Z")
Yeah, these days it would be like, “Yo, why don’t you just burn a blunt and chill, Mikey. Then we can git down to bidness.” At which point they would begin disrobing, and show as much skin as they could possibly get away with, set to a soundtrack that includes some top 40 rising hit that the record company paid for placement. The show would break for commercial right as Carol got to her knees and started unbuckling Mike’s belt. But no nipples. Definitely no nipples. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-brady-brady/266173/22 "2004-10-07T11:16:13Z")
> [@Jinx](#): > > Does anyone recall? > a) What Greg’s manager in “Adios, Johnny Bravo” the same “groovy, far-out daddy” who put the Bradies in a TV commercial about Safe vs. Best laundry soap? No. The commercial director was played by Paul Winchell (yes, the ventriloquist). The Johnny Bravo manager was someone much younger. [/quote] b) Was “Alfie”, the department store salesmen with the silevr platter, the same man who was the absent-minded photographer when the kids got a group photo taken (which Jan crashed into with her bicycle when she refused to wear her glasses…) [/QUOTE] Yes. The actor’s name was Robert Nadder. But I don’t think it was so much that he was absent-minded. Just that he got irritated that the kids kept asking if the shot was set up to be a perfect match to the earlier one. “Yes, there’s film in the camera! **Yes** , color film! [checks camera]…Yes, color film.” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-brady-brady/266173/23 "2004-10-07T11:18:28Z")
:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-brady-brady/266173/24 "2004-10-15T15:20:23Z")
And another :smack: … **Jinx** , I was the one in error, not you. The photographer **was** absentminded; for one thing, he lost the negative, which is why the photo had to be reshot. Sorry 'bout that… ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-brady-brady/266173/25 "2004-10-15T17:07:12Z")
> [@Dewey Finn](#): > > I was amused in the honeymoon pilot episode when Mike Brady admitted to being nervous, and Carol suggested he take a tranquilizer. When he said he’d already taken one but was still nervous, she suggested he take another. That seemed so different from what a TV show today would show. Considering that we Americans are much _more_ tranquilized today than back then, and that anything goes today as far as topics for sitcom humor, how would it be different? Number of persons in U.S. who used tranquilizers nonmedically in 1969: 247,000. No. in 2002: 1,194,000. Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2002 and 2003. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-brady-brady/266173/26 "2004-10-15T19:11:30Z")
Here’s an interesting trivia question that a lot of people (including myself, initially) get wrong: How many times over the course of the series did Jan utter her catch-phrase “Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!” ?? (I dunno how to do that spoilerbox thing, so I’ll put the answer in a seperate post below.) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-brady-brady/266173/27 "2004-10-15T19:14:39Z")
A: She said it exactly ONE time. But that line has been parodied so often that a lot of folks have tended to misremember the series and believe she said it quite often. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-brady-brady/266173/28 "2004-10-16T02:06:35Z")
I knew that, but I didn’t read the question until after you posted the answer. and just to let everyone know… I miss Fluffy. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-brady-brady/266173/29 "2004-10-16T04:20:48Z")
I’ll admit I was slightly interested in the latest TVLand reunion. My favorite moment was when the cast was talking about their current projects and Susan Olsen (Cindy – the youngest one in curls) said “Of course I’m proudest of my career in pouring.” ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-brady-brady/266173/30 "2004-10-16T06:13:02Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > No. The commercial director was played by Paul Winchell (yes, the ventriloquist). The Johnny Bravo manager was someone much younger. Buddy Berkman was played by Paul Cavonis, whose [IMDB listing](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0147186/) doesn’t include his year of birth. For a _Brady Bunch_ episode guide, check out [this page](http://www.bradyworld.com/episodes/fifth.htm) (scroll down to #99 for “Adios, Johnny Bravo”). ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-brady-brady/266173/31 "2004-10-16T06:23:46Z")
Paul Cavonis is 66 now, so was about 35 when that episode was made. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-brady-brady/266173/32 "2004-10-16T07:08:43Z")
> [@Odinoneeye](#): > > You know Mom always says, “Don’t play ball in the house” Alice always said Greg would go blind if he didn’t stop doing that. ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-brady-brady/266173/33 "2004-10-16T14:16:58Z")
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