History Series / TheBradyBunch

** "Law and Disorder": Similar to "The Tattletale" episode, only with Bobby finking on his older siblings when he decides to carry over his school Safety Monitor duties to home. (For example, Jan doesn't do her chores because she's studying for a tough test; Greg comes home after curfew because his date's parents hadn't arrived home after a night of their own on the town; and Alice setting out aerosol cans with the rest of the garbage because of new trash collection policies.) Mike and Carol get Bobby's report ... but then he gets set straight very quickly about his authoritative behavior.

** "The Big Bet," where – after Bobby wins a bet with Greg and, as part of the bargain, demands to tag along on a big date with Greg's sweetie, Rachel. Bobby (of course) makes sure there's no hot and heavy lip action at the drive-in movie ("Hey, I can't see!" complains Bobby when the two try to snuggle up), but he also makes asinine demands such as constant trips to the concession stand, annoying Rachel with stupid questions ... and tearing the convertible roof when he leaves his umbrella up as a frustrated Greg is raising the top (after Bobby remarks that it might rain).

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Most episodes saw the siblings get along with Bobby and Cindy. There were a few exceptions, and several episodes dealt with younger siblings being pure brats, including:

** The family literally wonders what happenend to the mouse in an episode about practical joking.

* FlirtyStepsiblings: Greg and Marcia in ''A Very Brady Sequel''. Averted on the actual show.

A 1969-1974 DomCom about an unattached woman named Carol with three daughters marrying widower Mike Brady with three sons, and the almost total ''lack'' of conflict which results. The blended family includes the star-studded athlete Greg, the popular and beautiful Marcia, the slightly clumsy Peter, the insecure Jan, the day-dreaming Bobby, and the snooping Cindy. The family is joined with Alice, their housekeeper that makes self-depreciating jokes.

In the years since the show's cancellation, various tidbits have come to light regarding the show and its cast: like its sister series ''Gilligan's Island'', the concept grated on several of the cast members (several actors were busy most of the time sending angry memos to the producers about the horrible scripts they had to work with). Also, there were behind-the-scenes romance stories between almost every member of the cast. Oh, and Tiger (the dog) was actually ''two'' dogs; the 'original' Tiger wandered off the set one day looking for a place to 'do his business' and was promptly hit by a truck.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: What Robert Reed often accused the Schwartzes and various writers of doing with the scripts. In addition, Reed's criticisms have fallen in the bad writing and TheyJustDidntCare tropes.
** In the Schwartzes' memoir about the series, Lloyd (son of Sherwood) refuted Reed's scathing critique of the infamous final episode ("The Hair-Brained Scheme") by contending [[ShownTheirWork there had been well-publicized real-life examples]] of people having their hair damaged by hair gels, and magazine "get-rich quick" advertisements enticing children to sell overstock of discontinued products. Reed refused to accept the explanation -- he insisted that the episode was written as cheap slapstick, and that no kid Bobby's age would be able to identify with him in wanting to engage in a money-making scheme -- and demanded that he be written out of the episode.

Never a huge hit in its initial network run on {{ABC}}, the show became inexplicably popular (perhaps through its ThemeTune, and the songs they did?) once it [[VindicatedByReruns went to daily syndication]] in the late '70s, and a cultural icon (and eventual subject of vast quantities of nostalgia and derision in equal measure) for Gen-Xers. Over the years, the show gained two made-for-TV reunion movies and a couple of spin-offs. Moreover, the actors of the children have appeared in specials and game-shows numerous times.

A 1969-1974 DomCom about an unattached woman named Carol with three daughters marrying widower Mike Brady with three sons, and the almost total ''lack'' of conflict which results. The blended family includes the star-studded athlete Greg, the popular and beautiful Marcia, the slightly clumsy Peter, the insecure Jan, the day-dreaming Bobby, and the snooping Cindy. The family is joined with Alice, their housekeeper that makes self-depreciating jokes.

SherwoodSchwartz (previously of ''[[GilligansIsland Gilligan's Island]]'' fame) developed and produced the series. He was shopping the show around to networks for a year or so before it was picked up to capitalize on the success of ''Yours Mine And Ours,'' a 1968 feature film about another large blended family. (This was obliquely acknowledged by the makers of ''A Very Brady Sequel'' when they selected one of the stars of ''Yours Mine And Ours,'' Tim Matheson, to play Carol Brady's long-lost first husband...[[SpotTheImposter sorta]]).

** Parodied in ''[[GrandTheftAutoViceCity GTA: Vice City]]''.

* DyeingForYourArt: Mike Lookinland (Bobby) is a natural blond.

* {{Flanderization}}: The theatrical films exaggerated the characters' personalities a bit such as Jan's jealousy towards Marcia and Cindy's tattling, but true to the show. They were the characters from the later seasons stuck in the 1990s. The TV movie The Brady Bunch in the White House made them unloveable parodies, such as Marcia crying when she got captain of the cheerleading squad and the vote wasn't unanimous.

* FlirtyStepsiblings: Greg and Marcia in ''A Very Brady Sequel''. Averted on the actual show.

* FullHouseMusic: Years before the trope namer was so much a twinkle in the eyes of Miller-Boyett, ''The Brady Bunch'' made liberal use of mellow or dramatic music cues, often at a dramatic point or (even more often) as Mike or Carol offered the [[AnAesop moral]] for that particular episode.
* GameShowAppearance: Cindy (on a ''CollegeBowl''-type game).

** Arguably the female housekeeper could be balanced by the male dog.

* ObfuscatingDisability: One episode had a plot where a man claimed to have been grievously injured after only a minor car accident with Carol. Mike proved the man was lying by throwing his briefcase on the floor while the man's back was turned; after the sudden slamming noise, the man rapidly turned in fright, and the judge immediately ruled in favor of the Bradys.

* ShapedLikeWhatItSells: A client, Beebee Gallini, freaks Mike out when she asks him to design her makeup factory first in the shape of a powder puff, then a lipstick, and finally a compact, complete with hinged roof.

* TreehouseOfFun: The kids briefly had a treehouse, just long enough for Bobby to sprain his ankle climbing up, developing a fear of heights.

* UncannyFamilyResemblance:
** Alice's cousin Emma in "Sergeant Emma"

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Alice's cousin Emma in "Sergeant Emma" and Connie Hutchins and Judge Hank Brady, Carol's grandmother and Mike's grandfather in "You're Never Too Old".

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* {{Meganekko}}: Whether or not Jan became an example or an aversion of this trope once she started wearing glasses is possibly [[YourMileageMayVary in the eye of the beholder]].

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: "Time to Change", in the episode where Peter's voice...changes.
** Not really suspicious. They were going to sing We Can Make the World a Whole Lot Brighter and then Peter's voice changed during a rehearsal. And taking a vote whether or not to keep Peter or dump Peter (which came out a tie since Cinday voted twice), Greg wrote Time to Change from scratch to allow Peter to sing with them.

Never a huge hit in its initial network run on {{ABC}}, the show became inexplicably popular (perhaps through its ThemeTune, and the songs they did?) once it went to daily syndication in the late '70s, and a cultural icon (and eventual subject of vast quantities of nostalgia and derision in equal measure) for Gen-Xers. Over the years, the show gained two made-for-TV reunion movies and a couple of spin-offs. Moreover, the actors of the children have appeared in specials and game-shows numerous times.

* VindicatedByReruns

** Maureen [=McCormick=]'s autobiography also says/claims/admits that there was some attraction between [[LesYay Maureen and Eve Plumb]].

** In the Schwartzes' memoir about the series, Lloyd (son of Sherwood) refuted Reed's scathing critique of the infamous final episode ("The Hair-Brained Scheme") by contending [[ShownTheirWork there had been well-publicized real-life examples]] of people having their hair damaged by hair gels, and magazine "get-rich quick" advertisements enticing children to sell overstock. Reed refused to accept the explanation -- he insisted that the episode was written as cheap slapstick, and that no kid Bobby's age would be able to identify with him in wanting to engage in a money-making scheme -- and demanded that he be written out of the episode.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: What Robert Reed often accused the Schwartzes and various writers of doing with the scripts. In addition, Reed's criticisms have fallen in the BadWriting and TheyJustDidntCare tropes.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ann B. Davis, when Robert Reed got her pissed off enough, or when she was forced to work with Rip Taylor in ''The Brady Bunch Variety Hour''. In the latter instance, no explanation has been offered by Davis, as she has refused to talk about her experiences on the program ... even to longtime friend and co-star Susan Olsen (who wrote a book about the series); it has been speculated that she viewed Taylor's act as profane and contrary to her Christian beliefs.