The Drummer Boy - 01/22/71

[Bachu]

Not an episode I remember as good but on rewatching it is actually a decent Brady episode.

At the start of the episode Peter, Jan and Cindy run through the patio and into the kitchen. Bobby is seen next walking slowly with the same route. We should see the others running in the kitchen through the patio doors behind Bobbys shot but we don't. In the next shot we are in the living room looking into the kitchen and Peter, Jan and Cindy are out of shot before we see them and it is clear they are still at the patio door where Bobby is. The whole sequence is out of synch.

There is a unique shot of Mikes car and the house in this episode (though it could have been used once before). The camera is pointing down the street and we get to see a part of the neighbours house who have some very nice shrubs in front of their house. Mikes car is seen driving down the street towards us before turing into the Brady drive way.

When Greg and Marcia walk into the parents bedroom the hallway is messed up. There is wall up with a chair and a picture suggesting that the door to the parents room is in a corner. Later, at then end of the episode when Mike leaves the room to put a knot in Bobbys instrument, the wall looks corrected but Mike walks to the left which is down the hall towards the girls room. Perhaps he was going to shout out of the window...

Deacon Jones utters the sentence "Go get'em Tiger" during the kids game. Mrs Brady says this to Mike at the start of The Brady Bunch Movie.

[old grouch]

And after Carol says, 'Go get em, Tiger', she says, 'I wonder whatever happened to that dog'.

What's funny about this episode is that Bobby is a bad singer, when in fact Mike Lookinland is actually a pretty good singer.

[catlover79]

From the recent book about the Variety Hour, Love to Love You Bradys, it is revealed that Mike is also an accomplished pianist.