# Brady Bunch Show ?'s **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2004, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-show-s/222859 "2004-01-05T18:54:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Brad\_Pittiful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Brad\_Pittiful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brad_Pittiful)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-show-s/222859/21 "2004-01-07T04:24:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Frink \* > \*\*Hey…Carol Brady had 6 (six!) children of various ages. Plus she was on the PTA AND the Anti-Smoking Brigade (run by that McCarthy-like lady) She was a Ladybug Den mother, was on several charity board, etc… etc… > > AND she had to make sure none of the kids would take “playing doctor” too far. Weren’t there a lot of episodes when Marcia would “hang-out” with Greg in his attic “bachelor pad”??? Way Too Many Episodes like that??? \*\* she also sang in the church chior…remember she lost her voice in the xmas episode greg and marcia were not blood relations…so they could marry if they really wanted to…but the wholesomeness of the show prohibits that ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-show-s/222859/22 "2004-01-07T08:08:27Z")
and why did the girls have the last name of Brady? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-show-s/222859/23 "2004-01-07T16:14:03Z")
They were adopted. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-show-s/222859/24 "2004-01-07T16:36:48Z")
Wonder what kind of strange goings-on occurred in Alice’s mysterious, rarely seen, off-kitchen bedrrom? Hmm…wonder if Sam had a secret entrance to the boudoir so he could “deliver the meat” w/o the rest of the family knowing? Anyone else ever notice that despite 9 people living in the house, they only bought _quarts_ of milk? Someone would fill up a glass and the bottle would be 3/4 empty. Maybe ALice’s other job was running to the grocery store every 15 minutes. On a sociological note, do you think any shows today will be such cultural touchstones as this one? I mean, if you’re a certain age, you can probably name every episode, line of dialogue, and plot point there is. I don’t see any shows today having that kind of effect. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-show-s/222859/25 "2004-01-07T17:22:42Z")
_Seinfeld_, _The X-Files_, _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_, and _Friends_ have seen-every-episode, quote-every-line followings. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-show-s/222859/26 "2004-01-07T17:56:15Z")
I don’t know about X-Files, there. The first few seasons were great, but eventually the alien conspiracy stuff got too convoluted and paranoid for most people to follow. ---
**Author:** ![squareorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@squareorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squareorange)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-show-s/222859/27 "2004-01-07T18:02:56Z")
I highly suggest reading Barry whats-his-name’s aka Greg Brady’s autobiography “Growing up Brady” came out in the early 90’s and HIGHLY informative… I liked the section that Greg talked about taping one of the episodes completely and utterly stoned out of his mind - something to do with fixing his bike… got it past Sherwood Schwartz though… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-show-s/222859.md?page=1)