Did you ever notice?

[BestTVever]

This is a fun thread of oddities of different episodes that you notice. Here are a few.

Did you ever notice.....

In Mail Order Hero when Bobby is playing football in the back yard they take a break to get a drink from the hose. The hose is real and pumps water. Bobby's friend goes for a drink but he holds the hose several inches from his mouth and only pretends to get a drink.

In Sleepover Caper Robert Reed's daughter discovers a big hairy spider gag in her sleeping bag. Alice announces hot dogs and all the girls run over to get one. Reed's daughter gets a hot dog and pretends to take a bite. The hot dog is inches away from her mouth but she pretends to bite it while she is walking over to her sleeping bag and discovers the spider.

In Try Try again, the opening shows Cindy and Jan dancing with ballet dancers. But Marcia is not seen yet she is in the same recital practice as Cindy. Later after the recital they are at the kitchen table with Alice making them hot chocolate. We see some liquid come out of the pot into the cups. Shortly after Cindy is not holding her cup steady and you can see there is nothing in the cup and its empty. She is pretending to drink from an obvious empty cup.
Earlier in the same episode Jan is tap dancing in the bathroom and something falls off the shelf and breaks. No way tap dancing could rattle a wall where something would fall off the shelf. You see the shelf move as if there was an earthquake.

In Out of this world Greg creates a UFO and uses a plastic screen to shine the light on which creates the UFO. How come Bobby and Peter never saw the plastic screen or the cables that went from the attic to the back yard. Very similar to Fright Night. How did the boys not see an extension cord coming from the trunk in the attic.

In the Babysitters Mike and Carol leave dinner to check on the kids yet they dont go inside the house (until they are busted). They sneak around back to investigate a smoke smell and about to leave until Alice shows up. What's the point of staying outside. How do you check on your kids by not making contact with them. Its not until the police show up they are busted and go inside.
Earlier in the same episode, Mike and Carol are leaving for dinner the same time Sam shows up to pick up Alice. However Sam never comes in the house and keeps honking the horn. How rude. He keeps honking the horn like crazy when Alice is getting cold feet about leaving the kids. I guess they did not want to pay Sam for his appearance LOL

This is just for fun thread. What other oddities have you noticed.

[Dude111]

Wow I dont think I have seen that babysitter episode! (I dont remember one where the police find them outside)

Good noticing my friend!!!

[Tankeryanker]

The Babysitter episode is one of my favorites.

I guess the parents thought that if they could peek through the windows and see if the kids were still alive that would be good enough. They were sort of trying to let the kids grow up and going into the house would show the kids that they did not have faith in them? That's my thoughts.

[Dude111]

I would love seeing it now

[70s show watcher]

Originally Posted by BestTVever

This is a fun thread of oddities of different episodes that you notice. Here are a few.

Did you ever notice.....

In Mail Order Hero when Bobby is playing football in the back yard they take a break to get a drink from the hose. The hose is real and pumps water. Bobby's friend goes for a drink but he holds the hose several inches from his mouth and only pretends to get a drink.

In Sleepover Caper Robert Reed's daughter discovers a big hairy spider gag in her sleeping bag. Alice announces hot dogs and all the girls run over to get one. Reed's daughter gets a hot dog and pretends to take a bite. The hot dog is inches away from her mouth but she pretends to bite it while she is walking over to her sleeping bag and discovers the spider.

In Try Try again, the opening shows Cindy and Jan dancing with ballet dancers. But Marcia is not seen yet she is in the same recital practice as Cindy. Later after the recital they are at the kitchen table with Alice making them hot chocolate. We see some liquid come out of the pot into the cups. Shortly after Cindy is not holding her cup steady and you can see there is nothing in the cup and its empty. She is pretending to drink from an obvious empty cup.
Earlier in the same episode Jan is tap dancing in the bathroom and something falls off the shelf and breaks. No way tap dancing could rattle a wall where something would fall off the shelf. You see the shelf move as if there was an earthquake.

In Out of this world Greg creates a UFO and uses a plastic screen to shine the light on which creates the UFO. How come Bobby and Peter never saw the plastic screen or the cables that went from the attic to the back yard. Very similar to Fright Night. How did the boys not see an extension cord coming from the trunk in the attic.

In the Babysitters Mike and Carol leave dinner to check on the kids yet they dont go inside the house (until they are busted). They sneak around back to investigate a smoke smell and about to leave until Alice shows up. What's the point of staying outside. How do you check on your kids by not making contact with them. Its not until the police show up they are busted and go inside.
Earlier in the same episode, Mike and Carol are leaving for dinner the same time Sam shows up to pick up Alice. However Sam never comes in the house and keeps honking the horn. How rude. He keeps honking the horn like crazy when Alice is getting cold feet about leaving the kids. I guess they did not want to pay Sam for his appearance LOL

This is just for fun thread. What other oddities have you noticed.

I always have wondered about tthe ufo one myself you would think that at some point peter and/or bobby would have noticed the cables and stuff

[damon strong]

In the episode where Jan got glasses, and Alice pretended to have a toothache by sticking bubble gum in her cheek. Carol was taking Alice to the dentist, but wouldn't the dentist have been able to tell there was nothing wrong with Alice's tooth and known the swelling in her mouth was fake?

In the Davy Jones episode, a big music star was in the recording studio and Marcia was just able to walk in off the street and enter the recording studio.

In the episode where Tiger stole Alice's registered letter, Cindy saw Tiger take the letter and go hide in his doghouse, but she just let on that she didn't know where it was. Why at some point didn't Cindy go into the backyard when nobody else was around and crawl into Tiger's doghouse and retrieve the letter? Instead, she just acted as though she knew nothing. In the same episode, Alice was counting jellybeans and placing them into a glass bowl. She was up to over 4,000 and lost her count. It was obvious that there were nowhere near 4,000 jellybeans in that bowl.

[BestTVever]

Originally Posted by damon strong

In the episode where Jan got glasses, and Alice pretended to have a toothache by sticking bubble gum in her cheek. Carol was taking Alice to the dentist, but wouldn't the dentist have been able to tell there was nothing wrong with Alice's tooth and known the swelling in her mouth was fake?

In the Davy Jones episode, a big music star was in the recording studio and Marcia was just able to walk in off the street and enter the recording studio.

In the episode where Tiger stole Alice's registered letter, Cindy saw Tiger take the letter and go hide in his doghouse, but she just let on that she didn't know where it was. Why at some point didn't Cindy go into the backyard when nobody else was around and crawl into Tiger's doghouse and retrieve the letter? Instead, she just acted as though she knew nothing. In the same episode, Alice was counting jellybeans and placing them into a glass bowl. She was up to over 4,000 and lost her count. It was obvious that there were nowhere near 4,000 jellybeans in that bowl.

The swelling tooth was only a ruse to fool Mrs Brady. Alice did go to the dentist for a cleaning because at the end of the episode she reveals the dentist found 4 cavities. The ruse was not to fool the dentist.

[Tankeryanker]

Originally Posted by BestTVever

The swelling tooth was only a ruse to fool Mrs Brady. Alice did go to the dentist for a cleaning because at the end of the episode she reveals the dentist found 4 cavities. The ruse was not to fool the dentist.

I am assuming that Alice already had an appointment for the cleaning, but she and Mr. Brady called it an emergency otherwise Mrs. Brady would wonder why Alice didn't take the bus like she normally did.

Which then makes me ask, wasn't Alice good enough to get a ride from the Brady's for a cleaning? Taking the bus would be a pain. If you are good enough to sleep under the same roof, aren't you good enough to get a ride 2-3 times a year for good oral health?

[Smartboy]

Originally Posted by BestTVever

The swelling tooth was only a ruse to fool Mrs Brady. Alice did go to the dentist for a cleaning because at the end of the episode she reveals the dentist found 4 cavities. The ruse was not to fool the dentist.

I would have posted a response like this if I had gotten around to it first. Very logical thinking on your part.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by damon strong

In the episode where Tiger stole Alice's registered letter, Cindy saw Tiger take the letter and go hide in his doghouse, but she just let on that she didn't know where it was. Why at some point didn't Cindy go into the backyard when nobody else was around and crawl into Tiger's doghouse and retrieve the letter? Instead, she just acted as though she knew nothing.

This is probably the episode where she is being called out for tattling. Since she didn't go out and retrieve the letter, why would she consider it tattling to inform the adults that Tiger took the letter? Would a kid that age be silly enough to worry about "telling" on a dog?

[damon strong]

In the episode with Peter's erupting volcano, the group of girls got covered in mud. Peter was standing just as close to the volcano, but didn't get a trace of mud on himself.

[biffbronson]

That's an interesting observation on the volcano, thanks for adding that...!

One scene I always find distracting is in the Season 1 episode "54-50 and Fight," when the house of cards is built. People have noticed that Jan's hairstyle changes along with the camera shots. Really obvious when you know about it.

[damon strong]

After the kids gave Alice the cold shoulder and she quit to go work at the diner, where did she go to live? Did she just hurry and rent an apartment and then cancel her lease after she quit the diner to return to the Bradys? She would have had no furniture, etc. I don't recall it being mentioned.

[BestTVever]

Originally Posted by damon strong

After the kids gave Alice the cold shoulder and she quit to go work at the diner, where did she go to live? Did she just hurry and rent an apartment and then cancel her lease after she quit the diner to return to the Bradys? She would have had no furniture, etc. I don't recall it being mentioned.

Good point. We see her at Kaye's apartment so maybe she was living there. But it is never mentioned. Robert Reed refused to appear in this episode because he found it too unbelievable the kids would ever do this to Alice

[BestTVever]

No toilet is ever seen. That is widely known. However we do hear a toilet flush in the episode "My Brother's Keeper." Peter and Bobby are fighting and divide the room. Bobby reminds Peter that the bathroom is on his side of the room and walks into the bathroom and the toilet flushes.
Its funny how TV was evolving during this time. All In The Family broke the norms. When the Brady Bunch started it was taboo to show a toilet. All In The Family was the first TV show to air a toilet flush. It was comedic gold. So a few years later the Brady Bunch also added their toilet flush for comedy.