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Thread ID: 15164 | Posts: 7 | Started: 2004-09-30
2004-09-30 16:27 | User Profile
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I just watched a 35th reunion show of the Brady Bunch, Still Brady After All These Years. The hostess, Jenny McCarthy, starts the show by naming all the Brady Bunch-related shows that have been made. As she names them, the show's name is printed on the screen, cluttering the screen leaving room for only her head. In spite of wanting as many letters as possible to clutter the screen, they still found the name ââ¬ÅChristââ¬Â so offensive that a A Very Brady Christmas was identified as A Very Brady Xmas.
The first thing I notice is that most of the Brady's look like slobs. Only Greg has his shirt tucked in. Marcia is wearing a decent jacket, but she has an oversized shirt hanging out underneath it. Only Mrs. Brady dressed up. It also appears that their post-Brady success matches how much effort they put into dressing (I'm sure there's a causal relationship here).
Cindy is the complete loser. She's fat and has bangs down to her eyes. And explains her unemployment as liking to work as little as possible. The facial structure that made her a cute little girl does not make her an attractive adult.
I caught Marcia a few years ago on HBO doing X-rated commentary, ad-libbing foreign broadcast television segments. I don't think she has done anything since then.
Only Mrs. Brady and Greg do anything that involves their face on TV. Petter is unemployed. Bobby is a cameraman. Jan has done PSA voice-overs, but is otherwise unemployed. Mr. Brady is dead of cancer (even though he lived a heterosexual life, homosexual activity gave him AIDS).
Bobby has been the most successful, in my opinion. Not as an actor, but as a decent family man. He has steady work and two children. Marcia has one child. Fat Cindy, twice divorced, has a mildly retarded child. These six middle-aged people need 12 children just to replace them and their spouses, yet they could only muster 4... which is symptomatic of the decline of the white race and western culture.
Growing up, I liked watching reruns of the Brady Bunch. It's pretty decent compared to modern shows. Yes, it's a blended family, but at least that was almost never a subject and the first marriages ended in death, not divorce. The Brady children showed respect for their parents and the episodes usually attempted to have a good lesson. And, the plots were never too stupid. It's too bad the actors who played the Brady children couldn't grow up the way their characters were raised.
2004-09-30 17:08 | User Profile
HH, I watched The Brady Bunch everyday back in the early '70's, along with The Partridge Family and Gilligan's Island. The Brady alumni aren't too bad now it seems, considering that child stars typically suffer after they've grown up, for some reason or another. But if you really want an example of sitcom alumni degeneration look no further than the child cast of Diff'rent Strokes. One dead, one criminal, and one midget who ran for governor of California.
2004-09-30 20:53 | User Profile
[QUOTE=xmetalhead]One dead, one criminal, and one midget who ran for governor of California.[/QUOTE]
I expected that from Different Strokes. What happened to Dana Plato is a complete tragedy but she had almost no chance the way she was raised in both her real and her TV family. A beautifical girl raised as trash. She did have a son, by accident.
Todd proves that you can lead a savage to civilization but you can't make him drink. Or, whatever.
Gary is a good guy and has done alright.
None of the Drummond kids helped preserve the white race and culture, either.
2004-10-04 02:35 | User Profile
Happy Hacker,
I don't recall hearing anything bad about "Marcia" Maureen McCormick. She played Barbara Mandrell in a TV movie. She has been trying to get into country music for years.
Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126319/[/url]
Maureen McCormick Website [url]http://www.ttinet.com/mccormick/[/url]
Sadly they look much better dressed than most people I see everyday.
xmetalhead,
You ar most likely Right.
"The Brady alumni aren't too bad now it seems, considering that child stars typically suffer after they've grown up, for some reason or another."
2004-10-04 07:34 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]I don't recall hearing anything bad about "Marcia" Maureen McCormick. She played Barbara Mandrell in a TV movie. She has been trying to get into country music for years.
Nothing too bad.
Sadly they look much better dressed than most people I see everyday.
The picture I posted makes them look better than they looked on the show. But, look closely at the picture. Look below Marcia's jacket, that's her shirt hanging out, not a dress. Try to find Peter's pants. Nothing but shirt. I don't think tucking in a shirt is too much to expect for a TV appearance. Suits and dresses for everone wouldn't have been too much.
I think the casualness, even slobbishness, that is so common today is. . .
2004-10-19 15:28 | User Profile
I could never stand that show back in the '70s (which was the last decade in which I watched TeeVee on any kind of regular basis). But I was occasionally known to watch it with the volume turned down, just to see Maureen McCormick in those skimpy miniskirts.
As far as I've ever been able to determine, that was the one and only reason why anyone would [I]ever[/I] have wanted to watch this show, and its continuing popularity only confirms my low opinion of what passes for amerikan popular culture.
2004-10-20 20:45 | User Profile
arkady,
I can not disagree with that.
[QUOTE]I could never stand that show back in the '70s (which was the last decade in which I watched TeeVee on any kind of regular basis). But I was occasionally known to watch it with the volume turned down, just to see Maureen McCormick in those skimpy miniskirts.
As far as I've ever been able to determine, that was the one and only reason why anyone would ever have wanted to watch this show, and its continuing popularity only confirms my low opinion of what passes for amerikan popular culture. [/QUOTE]