He knows that jan and marcia are sisters and decides to keep one and let go the other? I think it would have made more sense to let them both go and hire another person instead of coming in between two sisters like that.

He had to know that Marcia would feel some type of way but it worked out anyway since the guy marcia likes became available


BTW: I wonder if he would have hired Marcia back if Jan had resigned to save their relationship LOL

why would you fire a good employee and have to worry about training a new employee? - it costs time and money to train someone, and you don't get rid of someone that is working out if you can help it,

i find it much less believable that a business owner would hire relatives - it almost guarantees drama.

Despite the fact that Marcia got Jan the job in the first place,I think he kept Jan cause he wanted to nail her.There's a theory..................

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Why wouldnt you keep Marcia over Jan? Jan always seemed like a klutz and a goof

Why wouldnt you keep Marcia over Jan? Jan always seemed like a klutz and a goof

Apparently Haskell's Ice Cream shop was the only place where Jan ever excelled over Marcia. In this episode, or at least this job, Jan wasn't a klutz or a goof. Strangely enough in an episode shortly after this one, "Try Try Again", Jan is at her klutziest, and her esteem is at an all-time low, but the next episode, "Miss Popularity", has Jan at her snobbiest ever. This series wasn't great on character consistency at times.

If you look at it logically, he did not need to fire anyone. He hired Marcia and then Jan so that he could take some time off. He was OK paying two employees so that he could relax. Then he comes back after deciding he can't relax and he decides he can't afford to pay them both? He had two good workers. Why not keep them both? Even if he gave each of them half the hours, I doubt there is any difference in what they are paid. It isn't like he was offering benefits. They were part-time student employees.

I would have kept them both. Had both work some days, one work some days, and maybe split the day between them other days (for example, have Marcia work Saturday morning and Jan work Saturday afternoon).

If you look at it logically, he did not need to fire anyone. He hired Marcia and then Jan so that he could take some time off. He was OK paying two employees so that he could relax. Then he comes back after deciding he can't relax and he decides he can't afford to pay them both? He had two good workers. Why not keep them both? Even if he gave each of them half the hours, I doubt there is any difference in what they are paid. It isn't like he was offering benefits. They were part-time student employees.

I would have kept them both. Had both work some days, one work some days, and maybe split the day between them other days (for example, have Marcia work Saturday morning and Jan work Saturday afternoon).

Good points. I mean, what did Haskell do, cut his own salary so he could hire Jan in addition to Marcia? And then when he decides that playing golf was too much for him, he decides to go back to work and start paying himself again? All the guy was doing was taking afternoons off.

The shop wasn't even that busy, even on weekend afternoons (when Peter was listening to a football game on the radio).

why would you fire a good employee and have to worry about training a new employee? - it costs time and money to train someone, and you don't get rid of someone that is working out if you can help it,

i find it much less believable that a business owner would hire relatives - it almost guarantees drama.


In Canada, the boss would have fired both of them and hired Temporary Foreign Workers from the Philippines. :lol:

In Canada, the boss would have fired both of them and hired Temporary Foreign Workers from the Philippines. :lol:

In the U.S., with this economy, and with taxes being what they are, he would have moved the ice cream shop to the Philippines. :)

How did Jan go from being super-efficient and on-top-of-things in "Marcia Gets Creamed" to being a no-talent klutz in "Try, Try Again"? Apparently Jan's skills at the ice cream parlor didn't transfer over into anything pertaining to school clubs. The real question here though is why choose Jan over Marcia in anything? I mean come on, it's Jan! No one likes Jan!

That wasn't fair. He had to have known that would hurt Marci's feelings. She had seniority, if one had to go it should have been Jan. Unless Marsha was really a slacker and Jan was WAY better. But not really so, maybe he thought Jan was a better worker but he thought Marsha was good too. He even said "But Jan is a little better"! On the flip side though, it was good to see Jan get the glory in an episode, where as Marcia was the "golden girl" always and Jan was the goofy middle sister in Marcia's shadow.

I liked this episode though. Peter who is such a cutie was really a slacker , he was funny! And the boyfriend that Marcia got jealous when he brought the other girl in the parlor was a hotty!

And Peter ended up getting a job at the Leaning tower of Pizza! LOL!!

How did Jan go from being super-efficient and on-top-of-things in "Marcia Gets Creamed" to being a no-talent klutz in "Try, Try Again"? Apparently Jan's skills at the ice cream parlor didn't transfer over into anything pertaining to school clubs. The real question here though is why choose Jan over Marcia in anything? I mean come on, it's Jan! No one likes Jan!

In high school I was pretty darn good at bagging groceries and running a cash register but couldn't dance a lick, hit a baseball very far or shoot a basket.

I'm getting off topic here, forgive me if I sound like an air head, but YUMMY!! Ice cream!! I want to go to Haskell's right now. I wish ice cream parlors were still popular like they were back in the day! It is so hot out, maybe I will go to Rite aid and get an ice cream cone!!!

That was pretty crummy for Haskall to keep Jan and fire Marcia --especially since Marcia had been at the job longer and had more seniority.:mad:
I hope Jan quit the job soon after, and left Haskall by himself.
Perhaps a busload of hungry kids arrived at Haskalls, and Jan got frustrated and walked off the job leaving Haskall by himself to deal with it. That will teach him a lesson.:crazy:
But that wouldn't be very Brady-like. She probably gave him her two weeks notice.:(

That was pretty crummy for Haskall to keep Jan and fire Marcia --especially since Marcia had been at the job longer and had more seniority.:mad:
I hope Jan quit the job soon after, and left Haskall by himself.
Perhaps a busload of hungry kids arrived at Haskalls, and Jan got frustrated and walked off the job leaving Haskall by himself to deal with it. That will teach him a lesson.:crazy:
But that wouldn't be very Brady-like. She probably gave him her two weeks notice.:(

LOL!!! A shame Cindy was too young to work, since the trend seemed to be to hire Brady girls! :lol:

That Ice Cream shop must have needed help if you hire dippy Jan.

That was pretty crummy for Haskall to keep Jan and fire Marcia --especially since Marcia had been at the job longer and had more seniority.:mad:
I hope Jan quit the job soon after, and left Haskall by himself.
Perhaps a busload of hungry kids arrived at Haskalls, and Jan got frustrated and walked off the job leaving Haskall by himself to deal with it. That will teach him a lesson.:crazy:
But that wouldn't be very Brady-like. She probably gave him her two weeks notice.:(


I felt the same way. Also as some posters have said, he could have kept both of them and reduced their salaries a bit.

Marcia's one mistake was hiring Peter who goofed off. She finally fired him though.

I felt the same way. Also as some posters have said, he could have kept both of them and reduced their salaries a bit.

Marcia's one mistake was hiring Peter who goofed off. She finally fired him though.

Wasn't Peter kind of young to be working? He also had the job at the bike shop where he messed up too, than the leaning tower of Pizza! :D

Yes Peter was too young and immature to have a job and to take it seriously.

Wasn't Peter kind of young to be working? He also had the job at the bike shop where he messed up too, than the leaning tower of Pizza! :D

Peter was older than Jan, though not by much, so if Jan was old enough to work then so was Peter.

Peter was older than Jan, though not by much, so if Jan was old enough to work then so was Peter.

But girls mature mentally faster and younger than boys do, so in reality Jan was emotionally more mature than Peter.

I have to disagree. Jan always came off to me as a clumsy, dippy person.

In the end Marcia quits the job to go out with a boy, proving that the owner WAS right in picking Jan.

Marcia needed to be cut down to size. Her firing was well deserved.

Something else occurred to me about this episode...

Haskell sits Jan and Marcia down and then proceeds to fire Marcia.

So basically, he holds a staff meeting and then fires an employee during the meeting.

What kind of a boss fires someone in the middle of a staff meeting in front of the whole staff? (granted, it's just the three of them, but that's not how it's done!)