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tashacakes · 09-07-2006, 12:31 AM

I know this question has probably been asked before, but I looked back a bunch of pages and couldn't find it. So what did Carol Brady do for a living? Stay at home mom that did pta and so on?
Thanks in advance for the response

Ireneparalegal · 09-07-2006, 12:39 AM

Nothing. Alice did everything.

Mr. Television · 09-07-2006, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

Nothing. Alice did everything.

I always wondered about that. Why have a housekeeper if you're a stay at home Mom?

Tweety · 09-07-2006, 06:24 AM

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Originally Posted by I Walk The Line

I always wondered about that. Why have a housekeeper if you're a stay at home Mom?

For comic relief!!

Yup, Carol didn't do anything for a living... being a stay-at-home Mom/homemaker is hard work, but as Irene correctly pointed out, Carol didn't even do THAT... Alice did, indeed, do it all.

We learned early in life to bring our dishes to the kitchen after a meal, and the Brady kids never even did that... after dinner in the living/dining room, or even breakfast at the kitchen table, they'd just walk away, leaving Alice to do all that stuff.

Later on, (in "The Brady Brides" series) Carol became a Real Estate Agent (I guess she's the one who found that home for Jan and Philip and Marcia and Wally). Wonder how many times Carol had to take the Real Estate exam before she passed?

tashacakes · 09-08-2006, 01:11 AM

That's what I was remembering, that she was a real estate agent at some point, I just didn't know when! Thanks for the help!

TJL · 09-08-2006, 10:04 AM

Alice didn't know how to drive, so Carol's job was to chauffer her houskeeper around on errands.

Tweety · 09-08-2006, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by TJL

Alice didn't know how to drive, so Carol's job was to chauffer her houskeeper around on errands.

Great point!!

Scoobiedoo30 · 09-08-2006, 10:51 AM

Carol was a stay at home mom

PrettyinPink55 · 09-08-2006, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

Nothing. Alice did everything.

caladon · 09-18-2006, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Tweety

Wonder how many times Carol had to take the Real Estate exam before she passed?

Only once; but Alice took the test for her.

scott_bolger2001 · 09-18-2006, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by agmfox8@yahoo.com

Carol was a stay at home mom

I'm pretty sure that's a job an a half already!

TV Knowledge Fan · 09-18-2006, 05:38 PM

...what did Carol do for a living BEFORE she married Mike, I don't know. Nothing was ever mentioned about how she supported her daughters in the pilot episode. She had to have SOME kind of job and income to feed, clothe and give Marica, Jan, and Cindy some kind of "normal" homelife...but we never find out about THAT part of her life. Only Sherwood Schwartz would know that part...

brgmgb · 09-19-2006, 09:06 PM

I always assumed she moved back in with her parents after her first husband died. (I have always assumed he died). Maybe he had a big life insurance policy.

Scoobiedoo30 · 09-24-2006, 02:51 PM

What Test did Alice take for her

PracTz · 09-24-2006, 10:07 PM

Yeah, it seemed after her first marriage ended 'a few years' before her 2nd wedding, she'd moved back into her parental abode with her three daughters but had not had any kind of paying job. This, in spite of the fact, that it would later be revealed that she had gone to college.
No doubt her parents so close to retirement age who'd provided for these four all that time then thrown the Brady Wedding in their backyard were so grateful for the nonstop appreciation and efforts the Bradys made to keep them in their lives over the next four years after the honeymoon!

09-07-2006, 12:31 AM	#1
tashacakes Member Forum Cub Join Date: Sep 07, 2006 Posts: 2	What did Carol Brady do for a living? I know this question has probably been asked before, but I looked back a bunch of pages and couldn't find it. So what did Carol Brady do for a living? Stay at home mom that did pta and so on? Thanks in advance for the response

09-07-2006, 12:39 AM	#2
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09-18-2006, 05:38 PM	#12
TV Knowledge Fan Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 29, 2006 Location: Long Branch, N.J. Posts: 2,577	If you meant that... ...what did Carol do for a living BEFORE she married Mike, I don't know. Nothing was ever mentioned about how she supported her daughters in the pilot episode. She had to have SOME kind of job and income to feed, clothe and give Marica, Jan, and Cindy some kind of "normal" homelife...but we never find out about THAT part of her life. Only Sherwood Schwartz would know that part...

09-08-2006, 01:11 AM	#5
tashacakes Member Forum Cub Join Date: Sep 07, 2006 Posts: 2	That's what I was remembering, that she was a real estate agent at some point, I just didn't know when! Thanks for the help!

09-19-2006, 09:06 PM	#13
brgmgb Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jul 26, 2006 Posts: 88	I always assumed she moved back in with her parents after her first husband died. (I have always assumed he died). Maybe he had a big life insurance policy.

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09-24-2006, 10:07 PM	#15
PracTz Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 14, 2002 Location: United States of America [Happily Living in the 20th Century] Posts: 2,711	Yeah, it seemed after her first marriage ended 'a few years' before her 2nd wedding, she'd moved back into her parental abode with her three daughters but had not had any kind of paying job. This, in spite of the fact, that it would later be revealed that she had gone to college. No doubt her parents so close to retirement age who'd provided for these four all that time then thrown the Brady Wedding in their backyard were so grateful for the nonstop appreciation and efforts the Bradys made to keep them in their lives over the next four years after the honeymoon!