The Brady Bunch played perfectly as a five-day-a-week time-killer for kids just coming home from school—frequently to a grownup-free house—in the late ’70s and early ’80s. And because the show’s stories and dialogue weren’t its main selling points, the generation that watched The Brady Bunch the second time around could see the same episodes over and over without getting burned out. The mood woven by the show was a lot like the Bradys’ lawn: plastic and evergreen.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
WHEN IT'S TIME TO CHANGE, YOU KNOW IT'S TIME TO CHAAANGE: A Very Special Brady Bunch Episode, Harlan Ellison and the commodification of the counterculture, video from the spinoff shows and "like, how did they afford a band to record a backing track?". All in one place:
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So much of that article hit home . . . I was a card-carrying, five-times-a-week-in-syndication Brady watcher. And yet not a gigantic fan - I wouldn't have defended the show to anyone as quality entertainment - but it was relatively fun and non-challenging, and more interesting than my other options including The Andy Griffith Show (pro-Opie, pro-Andy, firmly anti-Barney).
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