Well, Mrs. Brady, you have some very garish taste if those earrings were your favorite! How many things stand out in this episode? Perhaps significant for one of the few odd-kid pairings of Peter and Cindy (as opposed to opposite kid or older-younger kid competitions, which was usually the case, like Greg & Marcia or Peter & Bobby), as well as Mike and Carol dressed as Cleopatra and Marc Anthony (which truthfully never intrigued me), this episode also gives way to what always confounded me with Cindy's odd logic of 'big sisters always protect little sisters' defense to Marcia when Cindy lost the earrings.
There's also a strange bit of how the mystery played out. Oh, it should have worked, but we have to configure the layout of that hallway and exactly how big it must be.
Carol summons Cindy into the girls room to show her the clothes. This is when Cindy hides the earrings in the pink towel on the sink. Now while they are in the bedroom, Alice must enter, pick up the towel, toss it in the clothes bag, then take it back out, deciding the kids must pick up after themselves. So as Cindy is now entering the bathroom, Mrs. Brady should have seen Alice in the hallway.
Not that any of that should be significant, but what suddenly did Alice have to do that she abandons the clothes bag in the hallway like that, for Jan to retrieve later on and put in the laundry room? This then also contradicts with how Mrs. Brady views her kids; she tells Alice they have to pick up after themselves, but here is her own daughter Jan willingly helping Alice out by carrying the clothes to the laundry room.
And why would Jan suddenly do that? If Alice had a reason for leaving the clothes there, wouldn't Jan's unrequested act result in Alice having to hunt down that bag? Where is it? Now we come to Mrs. Brady emptying the clothes. However much more clothing Alice picked up, those earrings are falling loose in that bag, not wrapped in the towel.
And it's not like Cindy tied them up in the towel. Shouldn't they have fallen back out when Alice returned the towel? And back to Jan. While we aren't given much of a changing day timeframe (other than when the party is going to be), Jan is answering Marcia's phone calls and carrying laundry to the laundry room. Hey, Mrs. Brady, give the girl a break. She's doing good.
But the biggest mystery of all. They were Mrs. Brady's favorite earrings! For wearing when, I wonder?
There's also a strange bit of how the mystery played out. Oh, it should have worked, but we have to configure the layout of that hallway and exactly how big it must be.
Carol summons Cindy into the girls room to show her the clothes. This is when Cindy hides the earrings in the pink towel on the sink. Now while they are in the bedroom, Alice must enter, pick up the towel, toss it in the clothes bag, then take it back out, deciding the kids must pick up after themselves. So as Cindy is now entering the bathroom, Mrs. Brady should have seen Alice in the hallway.
Not that any of that should be significant, but what suddenly did Alice have to do that she abandons the clothes bag in the hallway like that, for Jan to retrieve later on and put in the laundry room? This then also contradicts with how Mrs. Brady views her kids; she tells Alice they have to pick up after themselves, but here is her own daughter Jan willingly helping Alice out by carrying the clothes to the laundry room.
And why would Jan suddenly do that? If Alice had a reason for leaving the clothes there, wouldn't Jan's unrequested act result in Alice having to hunt down that bag? Where is it? Now we come to Mrs. Brady emptying the clothes. However much more clothing Alice picked up, those earrings are falling loose in that bag, not wrapped in the towel.
And it's not like Cindy tied them up in the towel. Shouldn't they have fallen back out when Alice returned the towel? And back to Jan. While we aren't given much of a changing day timeframe (other than when the party is going to be), Jan is answering Marcia's phone calls and carrying laundry to the laundry room. Hey, Mrs. Brady, give the girl a break. She's doing good.
But the biggest mystery of all. They were Mrs. Brady's favorite earrings! For wearing when, I wonder?
