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Crimes against humanity and Bradys

So Eve Plumb & Maureen McCormack's 'lesbian feud' has derailed a reunion? The Brady Bunch has endured way more than that before.

Media just love a good Brady story. While some of them are getting all hung up over an apparent BRADY! LEBSIAN! FEUD! you have to wonder how they can overlook much bigger crimes against Bradys -none of which have dented their endurance.

Was Eve Plumb feuding with her big sis when she didn’t turn up for The Brady Bunch Variety Hour? Nup. She was busy letting down her hair (and then some) on Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. What a Brady has to go through just to get some cred…

Some of us are still recovering from the shock that was stand-in Geri Resch (only surpassed by fake Lisa on “The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase”.)

Then there was The Brady Brides. If the girls were supposedly forever feuding why the hell did they agree to that sitcom turkey? God knows it wasn’t for the post-nuclear family storylines.

And then there was A Very Brady Christmas. Non-feuding Susan Olsen didn’t front for that one. Maybe she took one look at the script when Carol sang down a mineshaft to the absent Mike and said “pass.” Or maybe she just wasn’t getting any action from her two big sisters.

While we’re talking Brady crimes what about the complete lack of a toilet in a house built by an architect, what about that godawful horse statue underneath the stairs, what about Alice banished to a single bed beside the laundry, what about Peter trying to sing (Dear God make it stop!) -and can we please remember two little words? Astro. Turf.  That stuff gave us more nightmares than having dad install a pay-phone in the living room.

And the biggest crime of all in Brady-land? Cousin Oliver. Talk about killing off the series.

So do I care that a Brady Bunch reunion is now off after Eve Plumb decided not to front with Maureen McCormick because she wrote of a supposedly-lesbian affair just to sell her autobiography?

Come on. The Bradys have gone through way more crap than that and they aren’t going anywhere.

Jan was probably off with George Glass at the time anyway.

8 Responses

  1. The kids of today have turned to drugs and violence now that they aren’t showlng re-runs on Ch 10 anymore! We need the Bradys as pinups for our moral values 😉

  2. Speaking of crimes against humanity, the later spinoff “The Bradys” was responsible for inflicting Jonathan Taylor Thomas onto our screens.

    And has anyone seen Tiger?

  3. Gotta love a good Brady story.

    And don’t get me started on Cousin Oliver ugh! Thank goodness that annoying kid was only in the last handful of episodes.

  4. Having read Maureen McCormick’s memoirs, I can say that there is not one mention of any alledged lesbian affair with Eve Plumb in it.

    I think all of that came from a quote McCormick did while publicising her book, but it is definately not in the book itself.

    Was a good read anyway though – I found it rather depressing really – she’s had a hard life.

    Besides any Brady reunion would have to have Mike Brady in it, and since Robert Reed is long gone having it wouldn’t be the same.

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