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.
No. The commercial director was played by Paul Winchell (yes, the ventriloquist). The Johnny Bravo manager was someone much younger.
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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…)
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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.”
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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…
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.”
Buddy Berkman was played by Paul Cavonis, whose IMDB listing doesn’t include his year of birth. For a Brady Bunch episode guide, check out this page (scroll down to #99 for “Adios, Johnny Bravo”).
Paul Cavonis is 66 now, so was about 35 when that episode was made.
Alice always said Greg would go blind if he didn’t stop doing that.
*Anyone * seen Tiger??? Tiger…TIIIGER!!! Here boy… 