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!
Julia was a show that ran at the same time as Brady Bunch and Andy Griffith. Julia 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 (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.
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.