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The show definitely promoted the traditional American values of the day.
I was never able to figure out what Carol Brady did besides rub Alice's nose in ****, but still a very good show.
Unfortunately that family could never exist today the way they did then.
America is just too screwed up.
Mike's job as an architect would have been outsourced to India, so it's anyone's guess who would have caved under the financial pressure and asked for a divorce first.
Between the current jobless recovery and the continuing decline in family income, the Bradys, with the help of some very shady bankers, likely would have refinanced their house for ten times its real value in today's market and be in the process of letting it go back to the bank.
Sam would get rich from defrauding the food stamp program while cash-poor and willing accomplice Carol would only get thirty cents on the dollar for the money he collected from her benefits card.
Alice would call Sam on an Obama phone since she would now be on permanent Social Security disability due to her allergic reaction to Tiger.
Bitter white male Greg would become withdrawn and loose all interest in the groovy chicks at school as soon as he discovered Internet porn.
It's hard to believe that in forty years we've gone so far in the wrong direction.
Lol, the Brady "family" would never exist, ever. Nine ppl supported by one paycheck architects aren't paid that well. Forget the astroturf lawn and nine ppl using ONE BATHROOM.
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Originally Posted by momonkey
I grew up watching The Brady Bunch (huge crush on Marsha).
The show definitely promoted the traditional American values of the day.
I was never able to figure out what Carol Brady did besides rub Alice's nose in ****, but still a very good show.
Unfortunately that family could never exist today the way they did then.
America is just too screwed up.
Mike's job as an architect would have been outsourced to India, so it's anyone's guess who would have caved under the financial pressure and asked for a divorce first.
Between the current jobless recovery and the continuing decline in family income, the Bradys, with the help of some very shady bankers, likely would have refinanced their house for ten times its real value in today's market and be in the process of letting it go back to the bank.
Sam would get rich from defrauding the food stamp program while cash-poor and willing accomplice Carol would only get thirty cents on the dollar for the money he collected from her benefits card.
Alice would call Sam on an Obama phone since she would now be on permanent Social Security disability due to her allergic reaction to Tiger.
Bitter white male Greg would become withdrawn and loose all interest in the groovy chicks at school as soon as he discovered Internet porn.
It's hard to believe that in forty years we've gone so far in the wrong direction.
The show definitely promoted the traditional American values of the day.
I was never able to figure out what Carol Brady did besides rub Alice's nose in ****, but still a very good show.
Unfortunately that family could never exist today the way they did then.
America is just too screwed up.
Mike's job as an architect would have been outsourced to India, so it's anyone's guess who would have caved under the financial pressure and asked for a divorce first.
Between the current jobless recovery and the continuing decline in family income, the Bradys, with the help of some very shady bankers, likely would have refinanced their house for ten times its real value in today's market and be in the process of letting it go back to the bank.
Sam would get rich from defrauding the food stamp program while cash-poor and willing accomplice Carol would only get thirty cents on the dollar for the money he collected from her benefits card.
Alice would call Sam on an Obama phone since she would now be on permanent Social Security disability due to her allergic reaction to Tiger.
Bitter white male Greg would become withdrawn and loose all interest in the groovy chicks at school as soon as he discovered Internet porn.
It's hard to believe that in forty years we've gone so far in the wrong direction.
So sad...
Yes, so sad we're no longer closeting gay actors, making them utterly miserable in their lives like Robert Reed was. Those were the days!
So sad Ronald Reagan decided to create the Lifeline program that provides discounted phone service to give low income families the opportunities and security that telephone service affords, including being able to connect to jobs, family, and 911 services. Those horrible Reagan Phones are holding people down, man!
So sad that Corporations are being "attacked" for daring to want to keep all their profits to themselves. So what that they're driving people deeper and deeper into poverty, it's Capitalism, baby! What's happened to this world when the 1% can't oppress Mike Brady without having a war waged on them!
So sad we can't go back to the good ol' days when Marsha needed a coat hanger to end the unwanted pregnancy that resulted when the star football player raped her behind the school bleachers.
Don't forget, it was actually groundbreaking (and bad, to the consternation of the usual suspects) when "All In The Family" featured the first American prime-time sound of a toilet flushing in the early 70s.
But you've nicely summed up the 1950s mythology -- pretending things just didn't exist.
Toilets, lynchings, gays, marijuana, chronic alcoholism, married couples sharing the same bed [how scandalous!], poverty, broken families -- those things just didn't exist in the shiny happy wonder-world of 1950s TV.
But they existed in reality. The one some people are bound and determined not to remember.
"The Movie Code" was even worse, there was a time where the slightest crime couldn't go unpunished.
But yeah, I recall that toilet flush and the intense canned laughter it caused every time, GROUND BREAKING STUFF.
"The Movie Code" was even worse, there was a time where the slightest crime couldn't go unpunished.
But yeah, I recall that toilet flush and the intense canned laughter it caused every time, GROUND BREAKING STUFF.
Do you remember when, in order to show the Playtex Cross-your-heart bra, they had to show it on a "bust"? Then, when they finally decided to show it on an actual woman, she had it on OVER a black sweater?
Oh yeah, I definitely want to go back to those days.
Of course, Love's Baby Soft cologne for little girls would never pass muster these days!
Yeah, those were the good ol' days, when we were encouraging pedophilia!
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