The Brady Bunch

The Brady Bunch (1969)

5 mistakes since 17 Apr '24, 23:19

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The Cincinnati Kids - S5-E11

Continuity mistake: Mike has just pulled into the driveway and honked, as the family waits excitedly for him to come in and share his great news. Then, a second later, he's coming around the counter to greet everyone, instead of a car door or patio shutting.

pgsgrad16

How to Succeed in Business? - S4-E19

Plot hole: At one point Peter admits to Greg he was fired. In a later scene, Peter tries to talk the parents out of going to the bike shop (where they think Peter still works), and soon after the parents ride new bikes and see Peter in the park and admit to him that his boss told them what happened. Carol said that Greg filled them in as well. This is incorrect because before leaving the house, they didn't know of the firing, and went straight from the bike shop to the park. Greg never told them.

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Suggested correction: Just because we didn't see it on camera doesn't mean it didn't happen, it's known as "implied action."

That's not really the case here... the sequence of events explain it all. It went from going to the bike shop to find out what happened to the park. Even if they went home in-between, there would still not be a reason to have to question Greg, since they know what has happened at this point.

To build on the implied action point that the user stated, we do not know what happened off-screen so it's not impossible to believe that Mike and Carol went home after learning about what happened from the boss to talk to Peter and then have Greg explain where he may be and why. Peter did tell Greg about feeding the pigeons in the park so it tracks.

Out of This World - S5-E16

Other mistake: Near the end, when the police chief "sees" the fake UFO, he picks up the phone and dials 3 numbers and immediately speaks to said caller instead of the operator or asking for an extension.

pgsgrad16

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Suggested correction: Maybe he dialled 911 as an emergency. He even told the person on the phone to "alert the defence command immediately" (or something like that).

Bobby Brady: Mom always says not to play ball in the house.

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Out of This World - S5-E16

Trivia: Barry Williams has a Band-Aid on his lip in this episode because he was in a car accident a few days before filming and needed stitches in his lip. (00:05:00)

Jeff Swanson

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Season 2 generally

Question: In season 2, there were 5 episodes made without one of the kids appearing in the episode. (Marcia, Jan, Cindy, Peter, and Bobby were each absent one episode). What was the reason behind this?

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.

Answer: According to Lloyd Schwartz, in the book he wrote with his dad, Paramount studios made the decision to remove one child from each episode to save money. Sherwood Schwartz eventually told the studio that this was a mistake because "viewers have their favorites." The practice was eventually stopped.

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