The Brady Bunch

Trivia: Many believe the show was based on the movie Yours Mine and Ours, but Schwartz insisted he came up with the idea years before the movie came out.

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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.

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Tiger, Tiger! - S1-E18

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.

Season 2 generally

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.

Season 1 generally

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.

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Jan Brady: Well, all day long at school I hear how great Marcia is at this or how wonderful Marcia did that! Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.

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54-40 and Fight - S1-E15

Question: Would someone please explain to me why Marcia did not just simply remove her dangly bracelet that endangered the girls standing in the house of cards competition after Carol said "Oh Marcia, Marcia, your bracelet"? It would have made it less stressful on her not to mention her team, and she wouldn't have had to restrain it with her other hand.

Answer: The dangling bracelet was used for dramatic purposes - to keep the audience on edge.

Answer: There were several episodes throughout the run of the show where Marcia was infatuated with a guy she went to school with. This bracelet could have been a gift from her then-boyfriend; as such, she would not want to take it off, as a sign of loyalty. A stupid thing to do, of course, but it's not a mistake for a character simply to be dumb.

Matty Blast

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