i thought all the jokes were the same. Yea, sometimes once or twice in a show Bobby or Cindy would say something Funny, but i think it was very MAGOO!! i thought Alice was the only funny one and the brady bunch singing was probley the worst thing i ever heard of!

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Lucy" I saw a sign that said take one so i took one.After that i took anything even if it didnt say take on. I took a bright new bicycle, a shiny new penny. I even took a little boy... yeah but my mommy made me take him back."

Personally I think "The Brady Bunch" is very funny. Shows made today don't even hold a candle to TBB. It is, in fact, the only show left on N@N I find watchable, especially when I consider the "new" shows coming to the network!

I started watching "The Brady Bunch" again when the first movie came out. I wanted to familiarize myself with the episodes again so that I could appreciate the way they were spoofed in the movie. Then I found myself enjoying the series itself in a new way, recognizing its campy elements while still appreciating the characters and situations. That combination makes "The Brady Bunch" one of my favorite sitcoms even though the actual scripted jokes are seldom laugh-out-loud funny.

See its not like a one liner Jay Leno or Seinfeld type comedy But the funny part of the Bunch is its portrayal of Brady Life. What with the clothes, styles, 70s memorabilia, and what have you.

I recommend www.jumptheshark.com (http://www.jumptheshark.com) as a good picture of what makes Brady Life funny. Notice how many times Cousin Oliver is mentioned, not to mention other Brady Things.

Righteous is the Brady Grid for thus is the Kingdom of Paramount.

So its not Ha Ha Funny (most of the time) but its Funny Peculiar.

Right 4:00 on the dubdown.

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The comedy in Brady Life comes from its Brady Living, whether its Mike's perm or the crazy 70s styles or even Cousin Oliver!

Brady Grid is Righteous for Thus is the Kingdom of Paramount.
www.jumptheshark.com (http://www.jumptheshark.com) Brady Bunch board gives you a good idea of how funny Brady Life is, for indeed its not Ha Ha Funny but more like Ha Ha Peculiar.

Right 4:00 on the dubdown and

Something suddenly came up when Sherwood Schwartz made BB. A great show of CheeseWiz Living that's almost Real in its wackiness. I mean Mike's an architect and yet the house don't match up, Marcia is supposed to be the Pretty one, the cool girl, etc and yet Jan wins Most Popular Girl; stuff like that. The biggest running jokes about BB are the No Toilet business, Johnny Bravo, Cousin Oliver, and the thing is:

All Kids of All Nations at 1st just enjoy the show as a kids show. Shoot I gave up backyard football games w/my friends for Brady Bunch but then you grow up and notice the wacky stories and sub-stories about the show like the whole Brady House thing and so forth.

Its Growing Up Brady. Amen.



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I personally thought the Brady Bunch was funny..maybe not as funny as some other shows but it was a great sitcom...I love it for some reason.

"I love it for some reason" reminds me of something my nephew said. I got him into "The Brady Bunch" and he likes it even though he usually thinks stuff like that is dumb. One night we were watching a Brady marathon and he asked me "Why is this show so good?" So he liked it even though he couldn't figure out why.

I really like the show, but I generally don't find it that funny, with the exception of a few episodes or good lines here and there. There's just something very comforting about it.

"The Brady Bunch" was great for what it was, but now wwhen you look at it, you think, "What in the world?" It seems that the Brady Bunch came from the 1950's instead of the 1970's because of the subtlety of the situations. The 1970's were a period of turmoil and controversy and the Bradys are worried about things that aren't worth a hill of beans. I think that one of the reasons was that, and I learned this in "Pop-Up Brady", they kept contemporary issues like war and the youth generation's real problems out of the show by getting rid of the current newspapers and magazines because they were thinking about syndication and that sort of thing would get old real quickly.

And there was the annoying "laugh track"! Most sitcoms of the 1970s were filmed in front of a live audience like "AitF" or "Happy Days" and "The MTM show". I guess it was better that way because it provided a better lighting and made the show more "realistic", but I would prefer a studio audience in attendance because laugh tracks are so impractical and outdated. They are still used in some shows today, but laugh tracks are so lame.

I have to agree that a lot of its appeal is its campy-ness/kitchy-ness factor. I watched it as a kid but I wasnt in love with it....maybe a few episodes. Now its a classic to me.Sometimes even in a "so bad its good"way. And a lot of the fun in watching it is in the fashions,hairstyles,shoes....etc.The "far out"lingo.Even their standards of Big Brady Problems("Buddy Hintons teathing me!)all seem to come from a kinder simpler time.I watch with my nieces and they go "Did people REALLY dress like THAT?!" Its fun.

I disagree with the post. I thought the Brady Bunch was funny! Once you got past the "slapstick elements" of the first season and a couple of episodes like that after that ("And Now a Word From Our Sponser...."Skip Farnum....ugh!) The Brady Bunch was a cult classic that is just as enjoyable today as ever! The scene in "Peter and the Wolf" with his phoney mustache IS hilarious and I still laugh at many lines in "Getting Greg's Goat." Many classic funny lines! I think Alice was probably the funniest, although when I watched the series growing up I remember not caring for her and today I can't understand why. Maybe it was, her humor was more "adult oriented" on what was a basically, kids sitcom and maybe some small children didn't understand that type of humor. Here are my favorite funny quotes:

Carol: "Alice, how come we buy the same things every week?"

Alice: "I think it's because we got the same kids every week!" (What episode is this from?)

Carol: (reacting to Bobby's drumming) "Alice, Bobby hasn't improved at all has he?"

Alice: "Mrs Brady, every day he plays just a little worse than the day before. And today he's playing like tomorrow!"

Marcia: "But I doodled George Washington, I didn't doodle Mrs. Denton!"

Peter: (talking about hero's) "Personally, I like George Washington, now there's a hero!

Bobby: "Yea, some chance I have of growing up 7 foot 2....and Black!"

I think the Brady Bunch was perhaps the most overrated sitcom of all-time. But for some reason it still has mass appeal, otherwise we would not be discussing it.

My critique of the show is largely due to the poor writing. If the writing had been better, then perhaps I would look back at the show more favorably.

The Brady Bunch is one of my all-time favorite shows and it has nothing to do with humor. I personally don't find myself laughing out loud as often as I do with shows like The Jeffersons, Good Times, The Golden Girls or Everybody Loves Raymond but still there are moments. (mustache scene in Peter and the Wolf, the entire episode: Confessions, Confessions, Alice's reactions in To Move or Not to Move, Bonnie Boland's character in And Now a Word from Our Sponsor, Bobby's dream in The Winner, the pizza/frog scene in Greg Gets Grounded ... to name a "very" few)

I grew up in the late 80's and early 90's with this show, and the reason I love it is because it's a perfect world where the problems are not too earth shattering. You can escape to the Brady world and live for 30 minutes (Actually 22 minutes, 25 if you have the Columbia House tapes) and who wouldn't want to live in the Brady world.

Yes, the Brady Bunch makes me laugh and personally, I find the laugh track to be perfect for this show. The writing was fantastic. There were a number of writers who had extensive experience on other classic sitcoms and they were superb. However, the overall wholesomeness of the show is what attracts me. It's interesting that shows that are wholesome seem to be the shows that have a large portion of people loving it and a large portion of people hating it. I think The Brady Bunch has just the right amount of "sweetness" to it that allows people to love it. Now, everyone has different levels of "sweetness" tolerance. For me, The Donna Reed Show, Father Knows Best and Full House are way to sickening sweet for me. The Brady Bunch, is just right.

to be honest, i like this show alot better than what they air on network television today. all network shows seem to be the same. they need something new.

Would you all agree that the best writing in Brady Bunch was when Robert Reed started his influence on the scripts/storylines? Do you consider Sherwood Schwartz to be a "slapstick writer" of comody? (This is what Reed often thought of Sherwood...they NEVER got along) Do you think Robert Reed was overly critical about the "realism" of the show? (Which he thought there never was enough of)

How would you have made the writing better?

I didn't think it was to funny either. But I still watch it mainly because my parents watch it. I just like to see corny tv.

I think it's a different kind of funny than most sitcoms...it's a show that you think is funny to yourself, but you don't go 'hahahaha' outloud to it. The total corniness of the Brady Bunch is the whole point of why people like it so much I think. That's the reason it's still so popular! What show had a movie 30 years after it's premiere, and came in no.1 at the box office!? the Brady Bunch Movie/Sequel! What other sitcom theme song can you hear being sung in school to this day? The Brady Bunch! We all kno it's not funny...but that's the whole point. Im sorry for rambling on like this, I usually leave that up to Robert Tilton, but Im just trying to make clear people who dont really 'get' what the show's concept, and current popularity is really all about. It's not your average sitcom. Sorry, Im done. :D

Originally posted by tcbubblegrl
Im sorry for rambling on like this, I usually leave that up to Robert Tilton, but Im just trying to make clear people who dont really 'get' what the show's concept, and current popularity is really all about. It's not your average sitcom. :D

:eek: Courtney! I think maybe you have been reading to many of Robert Tilton's posts! :nonono: LOL but that okay we still like ya! :crazy: :happyface


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:eek: Courtney! I think maybe you have been reading to many of Robert Tilton's posts! :nonono: LOL but that okay we still like ya! :crazy: :happyface


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LOL! I think Im going to need professional help with all the confusion that this guy has put me thro, reading his posts! Im going crazy! Im about to loose my mind! U can help me Vanessa tho. Warn me whenever I start to do 'ramble on' posts.

I still enjoy seeing the Brady Bunch. I watched it when it first came on TV. I remember the clothes, the wide belts and the hip huggers. I remember the Orange/green/ colors they used back then in our apartments and houses. I remember the formica kitchens. I use to like Greg Brady back in the day.

I saw the show today about Jan wishing she was an only child. It brings back memories because I also grew up in a large family and some of the stuff I could relate to back then.

Some people may not find it funny but, that's okay because times have changed. :D

I admit as much as like the show it's corny - I LOVE IT! It's interesting and good and sometimes I occasionally find a joke so stupid that it becomes funny! Nontheless I think it's a very creative show

Brady Grid Is Righteous.

Amen.

Originally posted by Robert Tilton
Brady Grid Is Righteous.

Amen.
okay....glad ya feel that way.......

Originally posted by tcbubblegrl

okay....glad ya feel that way.......

LOL :lol: :lol: :lol: :D