Having run for 5 seasons between September 1969 and March 1974, The Brady Bunch remains
to this day one of the most enduring popular sitcom series ever created.
And if there was one thing that the bunch taught us, it's that little goofs and mishaps
are unavoidable in life.
Sometimes, you end up breaking your mother's treasured vase while playing basketball indoors,
or maybe you just wanted to draw up some simple football plays on a chalkboard in the kitchen
only to realize that you inadvertently erased the housekeepers cherished family cake recipe.
It happens to the best of us and the Brady kids were no exception to this rule.
So perhaps the creators of the Brady Bunch shouldn't feel that bad about making a few
minor continuity errors and revealing gaffes throughout the production of their show.
Things like that happen with every program.
But if you were a kid when you first watched The Brady Bunch, you probably didn't notice
any of these flubs.
Now that you're all grown up, however, they probably stick out like a sore thumb.
In this video, we're going to be discussing 13 things that you only noticed on The Brady
Bunch as an adult.
So, keep watching and get ready for a revealing journey down memory lane.
Chances are, after watching this you'll never look at The Brady Bunch the same way ever
again.
The Brady Kids Are Serial Pet Murderers
The Brady Brood often got themselves obsessed with animals and the exciting prospect of
becoming pet owners.
Throughout the five-year run of the series, the Brady Kids adopted many pets.
Easily, the family home could have been transformed into a loud, smelly zoo, but puzzlingly, the
Brady Pets had a tendency of vanishing into thin air.
In the pilot episode, for example, the girls have a cat named Fluffy who for some unexplained
reason doesn't make the move with the rest of the family to their new house.
The boy's dog, Tiger, on the other hand, did, but eventually, he too disappeared after several
episodes.
Not long after Tiger's unexplained departure, when Bobby sprained his ankle and had to take
it easy for a while, Mike gifted him a parakeet to keep him company.
That bird only made one appearance on the show and promptly faded into oblivion pretty
much immediately after being introduced to the audience.
Later, Bobby briefly owned a turtle named Herman as well as a bunch of frogs.
Cindy at one point also had a few rabbits.
Greg even talks about owning a rabbit of his own in one episode and the kids also won a
goldfish once at a carnival.
So, where did all of these creatures go?
After their initial appearances, the pets all seem to blink out of existence.
Either this was just a side effect of how the series wasn't serialized and pretty much
started out fresh with each episode, or the Brady Kids were secretly serial animal killers.
The world may never know the truth.
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Flubbing Up Names
It's not always an easy task to keep track of actors' and characters' names while in
the heat of the moment.
In the episode 'What Goes Up', while Peter is hopping about on a trampoline, Florence
Henderson tells him to 'Go get 'em, Chris'.
Later on, in the same episode, Greg accidentally calls Jan Eve.
This same kind of scenario unfolds in the episode 'Amateur Night' when the kids practice
for a talent show when Marcia exclaims ' C'mon Chris'.
The Phony Sliding Glass Window
Here's a little blunder that you can notice in several episodes, but the best example
comes from the episode 'The Big Bet'.
When Bobby enters the house through the sliding glass door, the curtain flutters in the air
current straight through the door frame.
Turns out, there is no glass in the sliding glass door!
In another episode, Sam the Butcher reaches his hand through the imaginary pane and nobody
seems to notice.
Wardrobe Malfunctions
Jan had a pretty significant clothing blooper in the episode 'The Not So Ugly Duckling'.
At the start of the episode when Jan is explaining to her parents that her crush Clark has his
sights set on Marcia, she was wearing a floral patterned shirt with a red rope of yarn tied
into her hair.
When she headed upstairs to confront Marcia about the situation, her hair tie suddenly
turned green and her shirt also magically transformed into an entirely different print.
What makes this especially stand out is the fact that Mike and Carol were still wearing
the same thing that they were wearing downstairs.
There's A Minor Star Trek Cameo
In the episode, Kitty-Karry-All Is Missing, Cindy's favorite baby dolls disappeared.
Cindy blames Bobby who never liked the doll in the first place.
To prove to his sister that he cares about her, Bobby heads off to the toy store so that
he can purchase her a replacement.
At the beginning of the scene, the storekeeper assists a mother and child.
Behind him, you can clearly spot a strange little Star Trek toy from the era, the Flying
Rocket Plane which was made by a toy manufacturer called Remco who produced an entire line of
Star Trek toys that were completely unrelated to the show at all.
The Brady's Went Camping At The Andy Griffith Show Pond
In the episode, 'A-Camping We Will Go', the Brady family ventures out into the wilderness
to spend the weekend camping at one of their favorite spots near a serene lake.
That lake locale might look especially familiar to fans of The Andy Griffith Show.
The same location was used for the filming of the opening credit sequence of that iconic
sitcom.
The Franklin Canyon Reservoir was featured as a shooting location for several episodes
of The Brady Bunch as well as in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek.
The Shape-Shifting Station Wagon
Clothing wasn't the only thing that got swapped out halfway through an episode.
In the episode 'The Winner', Mike and Carol brought Bobby to a live-televised ice cream
eating contest.
When they set out for the television station, they drove there in a blue convertible but
upon returning to the family home, they are back in the family's brown station wagon.
The House Of Cards Held Together By Television Magic
In the episode '54-40 and Fight', the Brady kids constructed a house of cards Tiger, the
family dog, knocked over.
Can you imagine how tricky it must have been for the prop department to assemble that?
Well, obviously they cheated a bit and used a little bit of adhesive of some kind because
when the cards come tumbling on down, a few of them remained stubbornly stuck together.
So, which one of the kids do you think cheated?
Our money's on Peter.
That seems like something that he would have tried.
Or maybe it was Bobby.
On second thought, it was probably him.
Architectural Faux Pas
Mike is an architect, so you would think that his house would have been pristine, right?
Well, in a couple of scenes you can clearly see that a few tiles are missing from the
end of the raised brick entryway to the Brady family home.
Maybe the boys simply chipped them off while playing sports in the house again, or perhaps
the prop department merely forgot to apply the tiles when they were wrapping up their
work.
Who knows?
Those Seat Belt Close-Ups
In 1968, Title 49 of the United States Cope, Chapter 301, Motor Vehicle Safety Standard
went into effect.
This federal law required that cars be built with seat belts.
To encourage the use of seat belts, The Brady Bunch threw in a couple of extremely close
shots of the Bradys buckling up their seat belts in the episode 'Tiget Tiger'.
The Brady's Constantly Changed Their Phone Number
It makes sense why no one ever called Jan for a date.
Her home phone number constantly was changing.
In the early episode 'The Babysitters', Carol calls home while at a restaurant by dialing
the number 222-1116 on an old-school rotary payphone.
In the episode 'The Not-So-Ugly Duckling' Jans tells the operator that her home phone
number is 762-0799.
In the episode 'Mail Order Hero' the number once again changed to 555-6161.
A Peanuts Cameo
A girl with a black wig steals the show in the episode 'Will The Real Jan Brady Please
Stand Up?.
However, if you pay close attention to the party scene, in the back of the house a young
schoolgirl named 'Lucy' is present.
Her character, played by actress Pamelyn Ferdin, was given that name because she voiced the
character, Lucy, in several Charlie Brown animated television specials.
Jan Didn't Look A Thing Like Her Aunt
You have to feel a little bad for Jan Brady.
She was always misunderstood by others and was constantly getting screwed over.
In one episode, she took a break from resenting her sister Marcia to have a little breakdown
over the inevitably of her eventually growing into an 'ugly' adult.
When the family was cleaning the house one day, Jan discovered a black-and-white photo
of herself that she assumed was probably taken within the last couple of weeks, Perplexed
by her find, Jan asked her mother about the photo.
She then learned that the person depicted in the picture was actually her Aunt Jenny.
Jan then wrote her Aunt Jenny requesting a current photo of her.
She ended up getting one back and discovered that her Aunt Jenny is the very epitome of
what she finds to be unattractive.
She had bright red hair and broad features which obviously Jan resembled very little.
The actress's likeness that was used for the photo was the legendary TV Imogene Coca.
Thinking that she would grow up to look like her Aunt, Jan proceeded to throw a bit of
a fit.
The episode was meant to teach children a vital life lesson about how character is far
more important than looks, but for more mature viewers the real issue was that Eve Plumb
and Coca looked nothing alike.
How the heck was Jan supposed to transform into her?
It made no sense at all.
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