I always found episode eighteen to be typical and "highly" predictable! Mr. Brady designed the house with the understanding that all he and his first wife would ever have would be three children. The house offered plenty of room for a family of that size and there would be a reasonable amount of privacy for everyone. However, when circumstance caused Mr. Brady to take on a second wife and "three" new children, things changed vastly! I do not think that I have ever met children who would "not" complain about having to live "three" to a bedroom and "six" to a bathroom! Because both Mr. and Mrs. were reasonable people with a sizeable amount of income, they were willing to do the research to find a home that would better accompdate them. However, once it seemed like a reality, the boys felt unable to let go of the memories of that house and the girls did not want to deal with the seperation anxiaty that would go with having a bathroom seperate from the boys. It was a "calssic" case of "be careful what you wish for because you just might get it! Does anyone out there remember, "The Wizard of Oz", "The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse" or just about half of the episodes of "The Flintstrone"?

What I don't understand is that Mike and the boys lived in a different house before the wedding. Then he and Carol got married and then they were living in the house we all know.

Mike supposedly designed the newer house. When was is built? Maybe someone else was renting it and Mike kicked them out when he got married. :crazy: :confused: :dizzy:

I have always assumed we are supposed to ignore that the sets in the series pilot are quite different from episode #2 onward. If they didn't sell the pilot there would be no series, and who knows how likely that was at the time? But as it did come to be, it's no surprise they wanted (and/or the network insisted) inside-the-home sets which looked more modern and designed by a professional architect for his own family; one thing for which I do give credit to TBB.

I have always assumed we are supposed to ignore that the sets in the series pilot are quite different from episode #2 onward. If they didn't sell the pilot there would be no series, and who knows how likely that was at the time? But as it did come to be, it's no surprise they wanted (and/or the network insisted) inside-the-home sets which looked more modern and designed by a professional architect for his own family; one thing for which I do give credit to TBB.


That makes sense! :)

The first thing that I would like to do is tell everyone how "flattered" I am to see that, in less then two days, my innitial message has "three" responses! If anyone who is reading this would like to flatter me even more, they can go to the "Nurses" page of this site and respond to a message that I posted there less than an hour ago. The message that I posted in regards to "Nurses" was in regards to an inconsistency between two episode in the course of the sereis. After I post this message, I plan on going to the site known as "Jump the Shark" and write about an inconsistency regarding the "The Golden Girls". In any event, I would now like to write about an inconsistency in regards to "The Brady Bunch" that is also related to the size an design of the house. In a way, I think that the writers were wise for making them stay in the smaller house because, in years to come, they could make a lot of different episodes about lack of privacy and fights to get into the bathroom. In the second season, Greg felt that, now that he was in high school he needed more elboy room and started bellyaching about wanting his own bedroom. In the course of the episode, they contemplated and discarded ideas of renivating the garrage or the family room. For those of you who do not remember, they eventually decided on moving Greg into his father's old den. Needless to say that this reality ended before the end of the episode, but that it beside the point! In any event, here is where the inconsistency comes in. One thing that Mrs. Brady suggested was putting Greg in the attic. This idea got nixed as soon as Mr. Brady said "that would be great is Greg were 'two feet tall'"! In any event, by the end of the episode, Greg's privacy issue got ironed out and he was happy to be back in his old, overcrowded room. Several years later, Greg is now a senior in high school and is bellyaching "again" about lack of privacy and living space! We now find that the house has a "huge" attic with windows and everything! They are getting rid of a whole bunch of junk that they no longer have use for and Greg suggests that they use the space to give him his own room. Both parents reluctently aggree. I could "never" figure out what happened in between episodes that suddenly made the attic grow! Incedentially, my father had a friend on Long Island who had a house with just a crowl space on top. As his two daughers were getting older, he was in want of more bedroom space for them. He managed to raise the roof of the attic to make it a walk-up type. I have heard of this being done on several different occasions. However, this could not have been the case here, because the attic was already being used as storage space and turning it into a bedroom was an afterthought. If would really mean a "lot" to me if the people reading this message would put this reality into their pipes and smoke it!

The only explanation for the big attic, which is first seen in the episode "Fright Night" exists because perhaps Mike as an architect, remodeled the upstairs, and added an attic room. Nothing else in my view, would explain this continuity issue.

Jack

I am titleing this response "second" because it is my second attempt to respond the a post that was made on August 10th. I tried to post a response last night, but it never made it to the board. In any event, the last person to post mentioned the idea of Mr. Brady having redesigned the upstairs so that they now have a walk-up attic. This brings us back to what I said about raising the attic roof which I am well aware has been done more than a handfull of times. However, if Mr. Brady took on such a project, he only did so since Greg's Freshman year in high school. We find that, in this episode, the attic had been used for storage space. It would seem unusual for someone to do something as extreme as raising the attic roof just for the sake of extra storage space. In my experiences, when people are willing to build a new room or give up having a garage, it is either for a new bedroom, an extra bathroom, a study or something of that nature. Furthermore, if having that storage space was so important to Mr. Brady, it would seem unlikely for him to be willing to give it up as soon as Greg starts his bellyaching again.