Eenie, Meenie, Mommy, Daddy - S1-E3
Trivia: This episode was based on something that happened to a classmate of Sherwood's daughter, Hope. At Hope's school there was a play, but only one relative was allowed to come. Hope's classmate's mum had just gotten remarried and he was confused and wondered whether he should take his new dad to show he was OK, or risk taking his mother.
Trivia: Look at the wall behind the girl Peter is on the phone with. As pointed out in the commentary, that is the same wall seen at the head of Mike and Carol's bed. (00:19:55)
Trivia: The daytime camping scenes were shot at the Franklin Canyon reservoir, which is also where the opening credits of The Andy Griffith Show (1960) were shot.
Trivia: Carol and her three daughters had a cat named Fluffy - who "disappeared" from the show after the first episode (honeymoon).
Trivia: During the ending credits, when showing the boys (with their real names), this is the only episode in all of season one where Barry Williams (Greg) looks to the side just before all the cast is shown together once again. In all other season one episodes, he continues looking straight ahead the whole time.
Trivia: This pilot episode "The Honeymoon" was filmed in 1968. The remaining episodes in season one were filmed starting in 1969. This would explain why the kids look much younger in this episode as opposed to the following episodes at the start of the series.
Trivia: In one scene, Bobby is about to get out of the car and the camera focuses up close on him taking off his seatbelt. This was most likely to promote the safety of seatbelts as they were fairly new in the 1960s.
Trivia: Although portraying the oldest children in the Brady family, Maureen McCormick and Barry Williams were both the youngest children in their families in real life. Also, unlike the characters they played, neither one of them had any sisters.
Answer: Much trivia has been written about "The Brady Bunch, " including the various interrelationships and dynamics among the members of the cast. For example, much has been written about why Robert Reed's Mike Brady did not appear in a couple of episodes, including the series finale, due to rancorous creative and artistic differences with series creator, Sherwood Schwartz. However, in contrast, I have never run across any reasons given why a particular child did not appear in specific episodes - only that the episodes were missed. This suggests the causes were likely unexceptional, such as illness, injuries, vacations, or real-life family obligations.
Michael Albert
Although those options ARE possible reasons, it just seems a bit ironic that this happened all in Season 2 ONLY and within a short amount of nearly consecutive episodes. Never happened during the other 5 years of the show at all.