Father of the Year

[BestTVever]

This was on TV yesterday and something jumped out at me and made me cringe. Mike Brady is leaving for work and Marcia comes running to the door to ask her step dad to help her with her homework. Her mother then says, "I will help you Marcia" Marcia then says "Mom, its math."

Wow what a sexist comment from a little girl. We find out that Carol Brady was college educated when she encourages Greg to go to her college. She is college educated but cannot help her daughter with Jr High school math?
Its just funny watching this from the lens of today. When this aired men were the bread winners and the smart ones in the family.

[Kermit T Frog]

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Father of the year - Marcia, "mother its math"

Alice doesn't live here anymore - Greg, "Its okay, mom will help me. She explains math really well. She has helped me twice this week"-paraphrasing.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by BestTVever

This was on TV yesterday and something jumped out at me and made me cringe. Mike Brady is leaving for work and Marcia comes running to the door to ask her step dad to help her with her homework. Her mother then says, "I will help you Marcia" Marcia then says "Mom, its math."

Wow what a sexist comment from a little girl. We find out that Carol Brady was college educated when she encourages Greg to go to her college. She is college educated but cannot help her daughter with Jr High school math?
Its just funny watching this from the lens of today. When this aired men were the bread winners and the smart ones in the family.

I'm wondering if this was discussed on the podcast at some point.

I'll bet Maureen McCormick disliked the line, even at her young age. And the dialog must have come from a male writer, maybe Sherwood himself.

[BestTVever]

Originally Posted by stevea

I'm wondering if this was discussed on the podcast at some point.

I'll bet Maureen McCormick disliked the line, even at her young age. And the dialog must have come from a male writer, maybe Sherwood himself.

I love the podcast. But it really frustrates me because sometimes they talk too much about themselves and don't properly focus on episodes. They both admit they never watched them before so maybe I should not be harsh in my critique. Recently someone asked about the episode about the trampoline where the kids are jumping on it to convince Bobby to not be afraid of heights. Alice gets on the trampoline and starts jumping. The scene is edited and a stunt double with a very bad Alice wig is filmed far away while she starts flipping upside down and then jumps off the trampoline in the arms of Mike Brady. The scene is edited poorly because it keeps cutting from the fake Alice to the real Alice. When asked about this scene they allege its really Alice on the trampoline. Well that is part right guys. If you watched the clip closely you can see the stunt double. It would have been a fun discussion about the only time a stunt double was used on the Brady Bunch but it gets over looked. When they had Eve Plumb on all they did was talk over her and not let her talk more about her episode.
Don't get me wrong I love it when they do talk about trivia but they are wrong many times. There is another poster on this board that corrected me about quoting Chris Knight about the center bathroom door in the kid's bathroom. Chris said it only appears in a few episodes. That is wrong. The door appears in every episode.

[Dianne3]

This episode is the 2nd (and last?) that mentions step parents.
The other one was when Bobby thought Carol was an evil stepmother.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by Dianne3

This episode is the 2nd (and last?) that mentions step parents.
The other one was when Bobby thought Carol was an evil stepmother.

This is straying off topic but there is never any mention of adoption--suddenly all the girls' last names are Brady.

[BestTVever]

I think this is very typical of the first season. Carol played the submissive house wife. There is even an episode where she cries when Mike makes a joke about the girls putting up curtains in the boy's clubhouse. The season is all boys vs girls. Men vs women. Which is harder to raise? Boys or girls. Mike Brady was the bread winner and naturally the smart one. Carol Brady's character changed the most as the seasons went on.

[Tankeryanker]

Originally Posted by stevea

This is straying off topic but there is never any mention of adoption--suddenly all the girls' last names are Brady.

We weren't privy to the pow wow they had after they caught Fluffy and Tiger at the wedding. That is when they sprung it on the girls that they had to be Brady's from then on out and that they couldn't use their own father's name ever again.

[stevea]

We also didn't see them cleaning up the mess lol

[Rich3]

Maybe lower level math. But I excelled in math and I don't remember a lot of high school material. Plus, the father did work in the engineering related field of architecture.