# Mike and Carol Brady-who were their exes?

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**Created:** [May 30, 2004, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-and-carol-brady-who-were-their-exes/247799 "2004-05-30T15:50:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-and-carol-brady-who-were-their-exes/247799/41 "2011-06-27T21:54:46Z")

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> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#):
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> I like this so much I will accept it as gospel. Greg \*does \* look a bit like the professor…

But Greg is Mike’s natural son, not Carol’s. Later on edit, I realize this has already been pointed out. Dammit, I’m always too late for these one-upmanships!

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-and-carol-brady-who-were-their-exes/247799/42 "2011-06-27T22:33:47Z")

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_Julia_ was a show that ran at the same time as _Brady Bunch_ and _Andy Griffith_. [Julia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(TV_series)) starred Diahann Carroll and is mainly remembered now for a variety of “African-American Firsts”: first show with an Af-Am star who didn’t play a domestic, first Af-Am college graduate character, etc… Julia was a widow whose husband was- per the writers- killed in Vietnam, though this was very understated and hardly referred to at all after the first episode; to have had her dealing with his death in a very controversial war would have been both a bit of a buzzkill for a sitcom and also arouse the wrath of pro-Vietnam War Americans who then as now loved to label anything from Hollywood unpatriotic.

Anyway, there was an episode of the show _Laugh-In_ set in “TV Heaven” in which Andy Griffith’s dead wife was complaining about his romance with schoolteacher Helen to a character played by [Johnny Brown](http://home.comcast.net/~matchgame/3x5pictures/JohnnyBrown1.jpg) (bka Bookman on _Good Times_).

Brown sympathizes with her and says “I know what it’s like, my wife never talks about me at all anymore and acts almost like I never existed”.

Mrs. Griffith: I can’t believe Julia is so coldhearted.

Brown: Who’s Julia?

Mrs. Griffith: Your wife… the mother of your cute little son.

Brown: I don’t have a son. I have three girls. My wife’s name is Carol and she just married some dude named Brady.

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**Post date:** [June 27, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-and-carol-brady-who-were-their-exes/247799/43 "2011-06-27T23:32:50Z")

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> [@Kings\_Gambit1](#):
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> Yes! The beautifull brick barbecue in the back yard was never used once throughout the entire run of the tv show. 😕
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> Your turn GargoyleWB 😉

I have an issue with this answer sort of, we saw Mike cleaning it for a party they wanted to have but kept getting canceled because of Cindy’s appearance on the quiz show.

I am deeply embarrassed to know this.😛

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