# Was the Brady Bunch premise forgotten?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 14, 2006, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-brady-bunch-premise-forgotten/356701 "2006-05-14T02:05:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-brady-bunch-premise-forgotten/356701/41 "2006-05-17T00:17:32Z")

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> [@Stranger On A Train](#):
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> The only way I can tolerate _The Brady Bunch_ is, as with _The Wizard of Oz_, \*, _Gilligan’s Island_, and Bill Flanigan’s _Spy Magazine_ article on _My Three Sons_ (“My Disappearing Sons”) in which he sketches out the murderous regin of Fred MacMurray, is to speculate on the underlying darkness and depravity behind these shows. Every happy family has a mad great-aunt (or a few) locked in the attic, and the more perfect they appear, the more they have to hide.
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> That’s my theory, anyway. And remind me to tell you about June Cleaver and the vaccuming she was aways doing…
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> Stranger

At least it wasn’t a handheld Hoover! :eek:  
I had never heard the Professor/Carol linkage, but it’s plausible to my mind.

And just what was in that pipe that Fred was smoking? And how gay was Uncle Charlie? Inquiring minds want to know.

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