Funny thing about the "Dear Libby" episdoe.

[Tweety]

At the end of the episode, just before "Dear Libby" shows up at their front door, the entire family and Alice are watching TV in the living room. You can't tell what they're watching, other than from what is heard coming from the TV.

What is heard is a lot of gun shots and whooping and hollering, something one might hear in a Western.

Kind of funny how, in Season one, the whole family watches shows with lots of shooting going on and yet, in a later season, Carol and Mike are all upset because Bobby likes Jesse James.

"Bobby's Hero" was a Season Four episode...yet in Season One, it was fine for the whole family to watch shoot-em-up shows.

[Mark Mallard]

Originally Posted by Tweety

At the end of the episode, just before "Dear Libby" shows up at their front door, the entire family and Alice are watching TV in the living room. You can't tell what they're watching, other than from what is heard coming from the TV.

What is heard is a lot of gun shots and whooping and hollering, something one might hear in a Western.

Kind of funny how, in Season one, the whole family watches shows with lots of shooting going on and yet, in a later season, Carol and Mike are all upset because Bobby likes Jesse James.

"Bobby's Hero" was a Season Four episode...yet in Season One, it was fine for the whole family to watch shoot-em-up shows.

I honestly don't get around to watching "Dear Libby" too often, so I've never taken notice of this on the few times I have watched it- excellent observation! Just another Brady plot hole. Of course, I can easily see where that would be forgotten come Season 4, since Dear Libby was a "Disc One Season One" episode. That's at least a solid 3 or so years before Bobby's Jesse James obsession!

[Tweety]

Originally Posted by Mark Mallard

I honestly don't get around to watching "Dear Libby" too often, so I've never taken notice of this on the few times I have watched it- excellent observation! Just another Brady plot hole. Of course, I can easily see where that would be forgotten come Season 4, since Dear Libby was a "Disc One Season One" episode. That's at least a solid 3 or so years before Bobby's Jesse James obsession!

Yes, definitely easy to not make that connection, especially during the series' original run. The other day, ME-TV ran the Dear Libby episode and I just happened to catch that.

My first thought during that scene is "hmmm, all 9 of them are watching TV together, I wonder how often that happened during the series run?". Certainly not very often. I guess it's most likely to happen while the kids are younger, and later in the series there was either no TV in the living room or there was a TV if the plot required it (rare).

One other thing that doesn't make sense about that episode is that, when the letter was published, Libby advised "Harried and Hopeless" to "give the situation more time, it just might work. "

Greg and Marcia were relieved when they saw Libby's reply, and yet they still tried to keep their parents from seeing the column. If Libby told H&H to go ahead and end it, that would be one thing...but Greg and Marcia got the answer they were looking for, so why not let the folks see it?

[Mark Mallard]

Originally Posted by Tweety

Yes, definitely easy to not make that connection, especially during the series' original run. The other day, ME-TV ran the Dear Libby episode and I just happened to catch that.

My first thought during that scene is "hmmm, all 9 of them are watching TV together, I wonder how often that happened during the series run?". Certainly not very often. I guess it's most likely to happen while the kids are younger, and later in the series there was either no TV in the living room or there was a TV if the plot required it (rare).

One other thing that doesn't make sense about that episode is that, when the letter was published, Libby advised "Harried and Hopeless" to "give the situation more time, it just might work. "

Greg and Marcia were relieved when they saw Libby's reply, and yet they still tried to keep their parents from seeing the column. If Libby told H&H to go ahead and end it, that would be one thing...but Greg and Marcia got the answer they were looking for, so why not let the folks see it?

My guess would be that Greg and Marcia didn't want Carol and Mike to know that they doubted their new marriage in the first place, seeing that it might hurt their feelings that their kids had such of a lack of confidence in them.

[Tweety]

Originally Posted by Mark Mallard

My guess would be that Greg and Marcia didn't want Carol and Mike to know that they doubted their new marriage in the first place, seeing that it might hurt their feelings that their kids had such of a lack of confidence in them.

Excellent point, that makes sense. lol, sometimes you have to look at these situations from the adult/parent POV , other times from the kids' POV.