The Impractical Joker - S2-E13
Corrected entry: Alice calls the exterminator for them to come out to the house but never gives them an address.
Corrected entry: Dr. Howard uses the same tongue depressor twice, which no doctor would do for sanitary reasons.
Correction: The only time we see Dr. Howard using "the same tongue depressor twice" is when he checks Carol's tonsils twice, and this is not unsanitary. After checking Carol's tonsils the second time, that tongue depressor is offscreen for four consecutive shots. In the interim we can hear Dr. Howard going through his medical bag, and by the time Cindy let's Dr. Howard look at her tonsils that's when we see a tongue depressor again, though it cannot be said that it's the same one used on Carol since it was offscreen for four shots (00:11:00).
Corrected entry: Greg Brady is suppose to be under 21 so he can't legally sign any type of contract, also at the end he rejects his new persona and tears up the contract. Tearing up a contract doesn't nullify it.
Correction: This is correct, however, it's not unlikely for this to happen at this time period. There were several cases in the 70s where they had individuals who were over 17 but under 21 sign contracts as it wasn't a widely known law to the public yet. One of the most notable being David Cassidy. As having Greg sign it would make the contract void to begin with, they wouldn't bother coming after him for not fulfilling his contract as it wasn't legal anyway.
Confessions, Confessions - S2-E12
Corrected entry: While in the store to shop for glue to fix the broken vase, the man tells Bobby the glue he's holding is a 'special glue' that will fix anything which is really just a standard tube of Elmer's Glue used by any household for craft projects.
Correction: At the store, the man never uses the words "special glue" nor does the man say that it "will fix anything" while he's talking with the kids. The man actually says, "This is the best glue we've got, kids," and has them read the bottle's label about it being "good for vases," it being "not invisible," and he tells them "you've got to squint to see it." Also, it is Peter holding the Elmer's Glue-All bottle, not Bobby.
Kitty Karry-All is Missing - S1-E7
Corrected entry: Near the beginning, after Kitty Karry-all goes missing, Cindy says she's going to tell daddy (Mike) that Bobby took the doll, and Carol tells her daddy went golfing. However, when the kids meet up in the bathroom and begin arguing over who took the lost doll, Mike and Carol suddenly open the adjoining bedroom door to break it up, when he's supposedly out golfing.
Correction: We don't know how long it has been since Mike went golfing and the kids all started arguing. The scene cuts completely in between Cindy accusing Bobby and them talking with their siblings about it.
Corrected entry: Peter was the only Brady kid who never cried onscreen, though he did come close to crying in the episode "Confessions, Confessions."
Correction: He did cry right after that. Carol hugged him while he was softly crying.
Correction: In Season 2 Episode 16 ("The Drummer Boy"), although we don't physically hear him cry, we see him walking away appearing to cry at the end of the scene after his football teammates ridicule him about singing in the glee club.
Corrected entry: Near the end when Greg goes into the living room to call the police, he picks up the phone receiver and says into it "Jan, hang up the phone, I have to make an important call." But Jan was in the TV room, watching the TV, sitting next to Marcia.
Correction: The phone is sitting next to her on the couch and you can see she's on the phone.
Corrected entry: After Jan and Marcia argue about Jan hiding Marcia's trophies in the closet, Carol and Mike take Jan to the den to talk with her. A few moments later, Marcia runs in to say she just got a call from the school...but we never hear the phone ring. In other episodes there are phones in the den, family room, living room, the parents room, and who knows where else.
Correction: There was an obvious cut in time between when Carol takes Jan to the den and when Jan starts talking about hiding the awards. We can safely assume this cut in time was when the phone rang.
Corrected entry: Tiger escapes from Mike's car by pawing on a power-window lever that doesn't even exist. In fact, a manual window crank can be seen in the same shot.
Correction: Not a goof. That model of car [68 Dodge Polara] had both crank and power to operate the windows. And the power windows could be operated when the car was off.
Corrected entry: Marcia gets braces, however in following episodes the braces have magically disappeared. Braces would never be put on someone unless they were going to remain for at least 6 months - the usual treatment at the time was 2 years.
Correction: True, but in many sitcoms the timetable is different from what it is in real life. For all we know, well over six months of time could have elapsed in the Brady's world between episodes, and Marcia had her braces removed. (Think about it: In the entire run of the series, for example, there was only one Christmas episode - but 5 real-life Christmases came and went!).
Corrected entry: Throughout the whole episode, the girls, the boys, and Mr. & Mrs. Brady searched through the catalog multiple times to try and find something to get with everyone's books of stamps, and couldn't decide on anything. Then the girls came home with a color TV instead of a sewing machine, and everybody was thrilled and delighted. If a color TV was such a wonderful item for the family to choose, then why didn't anybody decide on it or think of it earlier, when they were combing through the catalogues?
Correction: It is true that a color tv was a great item to have, but was more expensive back then than they are now. They probably did think of it. But they already had a black and white tv. They probably wanted to get something they absolutely didn't have and something that was a bit more cheap.
Kitty Karry-All is Missing - S1-E7
Corrected entry: Bobby is accused of stealing Cindy's doll, but there's no way that Bobby could have done it. Bobby left the room after talking to Cindy (not knowing Cindy was about to leave the room too), then Cindy walks out of the room (leaving the doll behind) for only a few short seconds, then walks backs in and suddenly the doll is gone. Bobby walks back into the room and is immediately accused. Reviewing all this, Bobby wouldn't have enough time to walk into the room and take the doll without being seen by Cindy.
Correction: The audience might know that Bobby didn't do it, and we obviously find out it was Tiger. But that wasn't the point. In Cindy's mind, Bobby hated her doll and was the only one who could have taken it, and in her mind (she's only 7 or 8 years old remember), she was gone long enough for Bobby to take it.
Corrected entry: In about the middle of the series,Tiger just disappears. Where does he go? They never explain this at all. They even make reference to this in The Brady Bunch movie when Carol says "Tiger,what ever happened to that dog?"
Correction: In his autobiography; Barry Williams (Greg Brady) explained that during the filiming of the episode "Kachew" (where Jan finds out that she's allergic to Tiger) Tiger (while out for his evening walk with his owner/trainer) was hit and killed by a florist truck. The owner scoured every pet store and pound until he luckily found a look-a-like, but the dog couldn't act. In fact, in that episode's scene where the dog is eating a bone in the boy's room, he's actually being held down by the collar that was nailed to the floor. So after that, the producers used him for quick cameos and eventually wrote out Tiger all together. Now in case you're wondering about why they kept the doghouse as part of the backyard set; it happens that a spotlight had fallen and left a large burn mark in the astro-turf that was being used as grass. The doghouse was used to cover the burn.
Corrected entry: When Greg calls Jennifer, he only dials 4 digits. (00:22:50)
Correction: This isn't really a mistake. When I was growing up in the 70's, if you called someone who had the same prefix as you (prefix meaning the first three numbers of a 7-digit phone number), you only had to dial the last four numbers of their phone number.
Corrected entry: Jan introduces her school friend to Carol, Cindy and Bobby. Carol greets her with "Hi, Kerry, welcome to the neighborhood". Carol was not told that Kerry was new to the neighborhood. (00:01:55)
Correction: Carol may not have been told on-screen, but it's likely that she had heard that a new family was moving in and that they had a daughter named Kerry.
Correction: Alice calls the Zap-It Exterminator Co, and says, "This is the Brady residence, you did a termite inspection for us a while back," then Alice ends the call with, "Yes, I'll be waiting." So the Zap-It exterminators already have their address on file from the termite inspection.
Super Grover ★
Despite Alice telling them 'it's the Brady residence', there could have been a dozen or so residents in the area last named Brady. So there'd be no way of knowing which one was actually calling, as doubtful they had caller ID or call tracer in 1970.
eaglegrad16 ★
But it's entirely believable that this specific exterminator might only have worked for one Brady household, and therefore knows who's calling.