You can bring only one parent to the play...

[Ireneparalegal]

that was an idiotic episode. I felt for Cindy, she shouldn't have had to be put in that predicament, being so young and wanting her ENTIRE family to watch her perform. But! it wasn't fair that her entire family got to see the play. How many of the other students' families got to be so lucky? That isn't fair to the other students' who had to pick one parent.

[Tweety]

Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

that was an idiotic episode. I felt for Cindy, she shouldn't have had to be put in that predicament, being so young and wanting her ENTIRE family to watch her perform. But! it wasn't fair that her entire family got to see the play. How many of the other students' families got to be so lucky? That isn't fair to the other students' who had to pick one parent.

Exactly...that's always been one of the great mysteries of that particular episode...

As long as they were going to put on another performance, why not invite the other parents who missed it the first time?? I mean, what sort of school IS this??!?!!?

One can only assume that the ending wouldn't have been as "funny", at least in the writers' opinions...

[snl 70s show fan]

i couldnt believe that the princpal and whoever else was involved in putting that hodgepodge of a school program togaher wouldnt have thought about renting extra seats or something or was the school too cheap

[Ireneparalegal]

Originally Posted by snl 70s show fan

i couldnt believe that the princpal and whoever else was involved in putting that hodgepodge of a school program togaher wouldnt have thought about renting extra seats or something or was the school too cheap

Hodgepodge...OMG I haven't heard that word in a long-ass time...

but it's so true...why on earth would children be put in that predicament!?

as parents, the bradys should have had a meeting with the school, with other parents. they seem to forget, Cindy was not the only child who may have had this problem.

[sixfingers]

Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

Hodgepodge...OMG I haven't heard that word in a long-ass time...

but it's so true...why on earth would children be put in that predicament!?

as parents, the bradys should have had a meeting with the school, with other parents. they seem to forget, Cindy was not the only child who may have had this problem.

Sherwood Schwartz said that that episode, and to some extent the series itself, were based on an actual incident where he heard a kid's conflict over whether he should give his one ticket to his school play to his step parent or real parent. This was one of Hope's classmates.

So apparently something very similar did actually happen!

[Ireneparalegal]

Originally Posted by sixfingers

Sherwood Schwartz said that that episode, and to some extent the series itself, were based on an actual incident where he heard a kid's conflict over whether he should give his one ticket to his school play to his step parent or real parent. This was one of Hope's classmates.

So apparently something very similar did actually happen!

Just because it occurred to someone in real life, doesn't make it right or ok. I still would have a field day if a school did that and put my child in a predicament.

[sixfingers]

Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

Just because it occurred to someone in real life, doesn't make it right or ok. I still would have a field day if a school did that and put my child in a predicament.

I'm not saying it was right, I'm just saying that it isn't as implausible as some people think.

There was a time when if someone had made a movie about a guy in SF starting a cult, forming a community in south america, massacaring a congressman and his entourage as they were preparing to leave and then carrying out the mass suicide of over 900 people, the reviewers would have denounced the plot as absurd and implausible. Of course, nobody would say that now!

Now, the bit about a special performance just for the benefit of the Bradys, that's rediculous!

[Ireneparalegal]

No one here said it was implausible. It was only stated that it was idiotic.