History Series / TheBradyBunch

** First up, it's Peter in "The Hero". After he saves a girl at the local toy store from a being crushed by a shelf and gets featured in a local newspaper, he becomes insufferable -- even going as far to throw a party for himself.
** Next is Greg in "The Dropout". When LA Dodger Don Drysdale gives him some pitching tips, he starts believing it makes him ready for the big leagues.

** Later on, it's Cindy in "You Can't Win Them All", when she wins a spot on the school's team for "Question the Kids", a local TV show. She then makes a huge deal out of being on TV and the other kids' enthusiasm for her wanes.
** Then Jan when she is elected "Miss Popularity" in the eponymous episode. She campaigned by making a host of promises, but after winning, she just brushes them off and acts as if they don't matter anymore.

** "Never Too Young," where Cindy (again!) sings "I've got a secret! It's for me to know, and you to find out!" to each one of her siblings. The secret: She had witnessed Bobby's first kiss ... actually, a classmate named Millicent (Melissa Sue Anderson, of ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' fame) kiss him on the cheek.

Never a huge hit in its initial network run on Creator/{{ABC}} (with the premiere of the series, ABC began a successful relationship with Creator/{{Paramount}} Television that lasted until 1992), ''The Brady Bunch'' found its audience once it [[VindicatedByReruns went into daily syndication]] in 1975, and went on to become a cultural touchstone (and an object of nostalgia and derision in equal measure) for Gen-Xers. Over the years the show spawned several spinoffs, two made-for-TV reunion movies and a couple of short-lived revival series. Moreover, the actors of the children have appeared in specials and {{game show}}s numerous times.

** First up, it's Peter in "The Hero", after he saves a girl at the local toy store from a being crushed by a shelf, and gets featured in a newspaper, he becomes insufferable, even going as far to throw a party for himself.
** Next is Greg in "The Dropout", when LA Dodger, Don Drysdale, gives him some pitching tips and he starts believing it makes him ready for the big leagues.
** Then in "Juliet is the Sun", Marcia turns into a total diva after landing the lead role in the school's production of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.
** They're followed by Bobby in "Law and Disorder", when he is made the safety monitor and school and becomes bit of a RabidCop, even going as far to start abusing his jurisdiction and enforcing the law at home.
** Later on, it's Cindy in "You Can't Win Them All", when she wins a spot on the school's team for "Question the Kids" TV show. She then makes a huge deal out of being on the TV and the other kids' enthusiasm for her wanes.

** And finally, Bobby (a ''second'' time) in "The Hustler". When the Bradys get a pool table, Bobby quickly proves himself as the pool champ and begins practicing pool the whole time, boasting, forgoing his homework and annoying his older brothers. Unlike the above examples, however, Bobby is never forced to fall back down to earth and eat his humble pie. Why? Firstly, he never makes a boast that he can't actually substantiate with his pool-playing. Secondly, he seems aware that practice is necessary to elevate him from the talented beginner that he is to the pool-master that he dreams about. As a result, this example can pass more as justified self-confidence than exaggerated delusion.

Until the one day when the lady met this fellow, and they knew it was much more than a hunch\\
That this group must somehow form a family...\\

* HulaAndLuaus: The show's BeachEpisode takes the family to Hawaii for a vacation filled with alohas, hulas, leis, Hawaiian shirts and surfing. Greg also obtains a cursed Tiki.

''The Brady Bunch'' is a 1969–74 DomCom about Mike Brady (Creator/{{Robert Reed|Actor}}), a widowed architect with three sons, who marries Carol (Creator/FlorenceHenderson), an unattached woman with three daughters, and all the conflicts and challenges which result. The blended family includes the star-studded athlete Greg (Creator/BarryWilliams), the popular and beautiful Marcia (Maureen [=McCormick=]), the slightly clumsy Peter (Creator/ChristopherKnight), the insecure Jan (Creator/EvePlumb), the day-dreaming Bobby (Creator/MikeLookinland), and the snooping Cindy (Creator/SusanOlsen). The family is overseen by self-deprecating housekeeper Alice Nelson (Creator/AnnBDavis).

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: No one can forget when Marcia got hit in the nose by her brothers' football.
-->'''Marcia''': Hey, you guys! ''[gets hit by the football]'' '''''OW, MY NOSE!!!'''''

* HulaAndLuaus: The show's BeachEpisode takes the family to Hawaii for a vacation filled with alhoas, hulas, leis, Hawaiian shirts and surfing. Greg also obtains a cursed Tiki.

''The Brady Bunch'' is a 1969–74 DomCom about Mike Brady (Creator/RobertReedActor), a widowed architect with three sons, who marries Carol (Creator/FlorenceHenderson), an unattached woman with three daughters, and all the conflicts and challenges which result. The blended family includes the star-studded athlete Greg (Creator/BarryWilliams), the popular and beautiful Marcia (Maureen [=McCormick=]), the slightly clumsy Peter (Creator/ChristopherKnight), the insecure Jan (Creator/EvePlumb), the day-dreaming Bobby (Creator/MikeLookinland), and the snooping Cindy (Creator/SusanOlsen). The family is overseen by self-deprecating housekeeper Alice Nelson (Creator/AnnBDavis).

''The Brady Bunch'' is a 1969–74 DomCom about Mike Brady (Robert Reed), a widowed architect with three sons, who marries Carol (Creator/FlorenceHenderson), an unattached woman with three daughters, and all the conflicts and challenges which result. The blended family includes the star-studded athlete Greg (Creator/BarryWilliams), the popular and beautiful Marcia (Maureen [=McCormick=]), the slightly clumsy Peter (Christopher Knight), the insecure Jan (Creator/EvePlumb), the day-dreaming Bobby (Mike Lookinland), and the snooping Cindy (Susan Olsen). The family is overseen by self-deprecating housekeeper Alice Nelson (Ann B. Davis).

* VocalEvolution: All of the kids' voices would gradually deepen as the series progresses; the most noticeable being Greg, Peter and Jan (the latter two especially in the final season). There's even a season three episode ("Dough Re Mi") and song ("Time to Change") based around Peter's change.

-->'''Marcia''': Hi guys! ''[gets hit by the football]'' '''''OW, MY NOSE!!!'''''

* VocalEvolution: All of the kids' voices would gradually deepen as the series progresses; the most noticeable being Greg, Peter and Jan (the latter two especially in the final season).

* VocalEvolution: All of the kids' voices would mature as the series progresses; the most noticeable being Greg, Peter and Jan.

''The Brady Bunch'' is a 1969–74 DomCom about Mike Brady (Robert Reed), a widowed architect with three sons, who marries Carol (Creator/FlorenceHenderson), an unattached woman with three daughters, and all the conflicts and challenges which result. The blended family includes the star-studded athlete Greg (Barry Williams), the popular and beautiful Marcia (Maureen [=McCormick=]), the slightly clumsy Peter (Christopher Knight), the insecure Jan (Creator/EvePlumb), the day-dreaming Bobby (Mike Lookinland), and the snooping Cindy (Susan Olsen). The family is overseen by self-deprecating housekeeper Alice Nelson (Ann B. Davis).

* FriendshipSong: During one of the show's many Talent Show episodes, Marcia & her mother sing "Together" from ''Theatre/{{Gypsy}}'' as a pair of hobos who stick together through thick and thin.

* GettingMyOwnRoomPlot: In the episode "Our Son, the Man", Greg decides he wants his own bedroom, now that he's in high school and is too mature to share one with his 2 little brothers. He manages to take over his father's den, but he is back to the shared bedroom by the end of the episode. Ironically, Greg did get his own room 2 seasons later, in the attic, in the episode "A Room at the Top", though his oldest sister, Marcia (who also shared her room with two younger ones) also tried to claim it. There was an infamous continuity error here, since in the earlier episode, the attic was ruled out as a bedroom for having too low a ceiling.

*** In fact, in ''A Very Brady Sequel'' he seems to show up, after seemingly swept overboard in a boating mishap, although [[spoiler:he's really an imposter, and the real Mr. Martin's fate never is resolved. It's heavily implied that he's The Professor from ''Series/GilligansIsland''.]]

* ParentalTitleCharacterization: Despite their lack of blood relation, the boys address Carol as "Mom" and the girls call Mike "Dad," just as each parent's biological children do. At the beginning of the series, Jan and Cindy call them "Mommy and Daddy," but switch to "Mom and Dad" like the others as they get older.

* PayPhone: Mike gets one to try and stop the kids running up the bill, then can't find a dime when he's making a business deal.

* AbsenteeActor: Robert Reed refused to appear in the original show's final episode, finding its plot (Bobby selling Greg a shampoo that turns his hair orange) to be too ridiculous. (He doesn't appear in "Goodbye, Alice, Hello" either.) All the younger cast members (except Barry Williams) also sit out at least one episode each:
** Susan Olsen is absent from "Call Me Irresponsible."
** Maureen [=McCormick=] didn't appear in "What Goes Up..."
** Eve Plumb doesn't show up in "A Fistful Of Reasons."
** Christopher Knight is MIA from "The Tattle-Tale."
** Mike Lookinland is nowhere to be seen in "Coming Out Party."

* CallingParentsByTheirName: A no-no, established very quickly in the series; each set of Brady siblings is calling their step-parent either "Mom" or "Dad" by the second episode. That said, Greg attempts to call Mike and Carol by their first names in the second-season episode "Our Son the Man"; with raised eyebrows, Mike suggests that this may be allowed in some households "but around here, we are 'Mom' and 'Dad'."

%%* DeadpanSnarker: Alice.

** Mike (short for Michael), Greg (Gregory), Bobby (Robert), and Cindy (Cynthia).

%%* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!"
* GoodStepmother: Carol did such a good job raising the boys, the fact that she was a stepmother was never even mentioned except in one episode (season 1, #10) when Bobby, after watching Cinderella on TV, and being told to clean out the fireplace, convinced himself that Carol was a WickedStepmother.