Trivia: Mike Brady and Bobby Brady swapped character names with their real life first names. Mike's real name was Robert and Bobby's real first name is Mike.
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: In Season 2, out of the five episodes with one of the kids not appearing in the entire episode, three episodes used the name of the missing kid in the dialog most likely to make their absence from the episode more unnoticed. (Marcia/Peter/Bobby in these cases - each one's name mentioned at least once even though they never appeared). The episodes were ("What Goes Up...", "The Tattletale" and "Coming-Out Party"). Also the 4th episode of season 2 - "A Fistful of Reasons" contained Jan being mentioned yet she did not appear in the entire episode.
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: The dangling bracelet was used for dramatic purposes - to keep the audience on edge.