How is it that when Father, Mike Brady, gets up to give the before meal family homily (didn't 80s families ask for blessings or say Grace before meals?) he remarks that he and wife, Carol, celebrated their 20th anniversary this past year, and I look around the table, and all their kids are over 20 years old ( The youngest even reminded her mother, Carol, that she was 22).
How did the censors let that one get by? Did Mike and Carol have the kiddies before they got married? Did they have families before they got married to each other, like Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball in Yours, Mine and Ours? How did the kids let Mom and Dad get away with that one for Christmas dinner? Or did Mike just screw up his anniversary date yet again? And how did Carol let Mike get away with screwing up their anniversary date yet again? And how did Alice let him get away with that misspeak without one of her comments?
I never watched the Brady Bunch so there is lot of back story I am not aware of, that may or may not explain about the kids. But as I just caught this dinner bit while checking in on my kids fussing over what they wanted to watch on TV, I noticed the set up for the homily, and the anniversary gaff caught my attention. It struck me as kind of a big hiccup in the otherwise lame Brady Bunch storyline.
How did the censors let that one get by? Did Mike and Carol have the kiddies before they got married? Did they have families before they got married to each other, like Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball in Yours, Mine and Ours? How did the kids let Mom and Dad get away with that one for Christmas dinner? Or did Mike just screw up his anniversary date yet again? And how did Carol let Mike get away with screwing up their anniversary date yet again? And how did Alice let him get away with that misspeak without one of her comments?
I never watched the Brady Bunch so there is lot of back story I am not aware of, that may or may not explain about the kids. But as I just caught this dinner bit while checking in on my kids fussing over what they wanted to watch on TV, I noticed the set up for the homily, and the anniversary gaff caught my attention. It struck me as kind of a big hiccup in the otherwise lame Brady Bunch storyline.