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Brady Bunch is back for holidays
NEW YORK (AP) - What do you
do when you tell your friends you
can’t have dinner with them because
you have to watch “A Very Brady
Christmas,” and they are thrilled and
come over with takeout blinis to
watch it with you?
You sit down and watch 4 4 A Very
Brady Christmas.”
The holiday movie isn’t on until
Sunday, but we had a review tape
from CBS. My friends were mightily
impressed at getting to see “A Very
Brady Christmas” before anybody
else in America.
“Yep, it's the same living room,”
one friend remarked as the show
began. She recalled the earth tones of
the original Brady house and exactly
where the furniture was. “Same
kitchen,” another friend noted. “The
faucet’s different. It’s a washcrlcss
faucet.”
I’m glad they noticed all this. I was
never big on “The Brady Bunch”
myself. I preferred “The Partridge
Family.”
My friends were just as quick to
detect changes in the show’s 25-year
old sensibility as they were to spot
new upholstery on the dining room
chairs.
I litre s ucimiieiy more sex in
this one,’' said one. “They never had
sex in the old one. Just kids.”
Interesting observation. Might
make a trend story.
As the movie opened, we immedi
ately learned that Christmas was
coming, and Carol Brady (Florence
Henderson) was planning to surprise
Mike Brady (Robert Reed) with a trip
to Greece. But Mike was going to
surprise Carol with a trip to Japan.
W hat a kncc-slapper! This had all the
makings of an extremely Brady
Christmas, indeed.
What do the Bradys do? Flip a
coin? Arm-wrestle? No way. They
use the money to send plane tickets to
all the kids so Christmas can be even
Bradier.*
There are also subplots. One is a
“Towering Inferno” kindoflhing. In
another, Alice the maid (Ann B.
Davis) is distraught because her hus
band, Sam the butcher, has left her for
a younger woman.
But we. didn’t especially care,
because our real goal in watching “A
Very Brady Christmas” was at hand:
what do the kids look like as adults?
Greg, the oldest boy, is a doctor.
He has a moustache and is balding.
Peter, the middle one, has turned
into a yuppie.
Bobby, the youngest one, is blond
and races cars.
“I remember when he and his sis
ter tried to break the world’s record
by going up and down on that thing in
ihe backyard,” said one of my
friends, awash in sentiment. “What’s
that thing that goes up and down?”
A teeter-totter?
‘‘Yeah, the teeter-totter.”
Yeesh. These reunion movies re
ally raise the conversation level.
Anyway, on to the girls.
Marcia, the oldest one, looks
pretty much the same.
Jan, the middle one, looks pretty
much the same.
Cindy, the little one, looks re
markably the same considering she’s
played by a different actress.
Well, it turns out that every one of
The Brady Bunch had A Very Secret
Reason for not wanting to come to A
Very Brady Christmas.
Greg ’ s wi fc had gone off to see her
family instead. Jan’s husband had
moved out of the house. Marcia’s
husband has lost his job. Cindy was
tired of being treated like a baby.
Peter didn’t want the family to know
he was afraid of marrying his girl
friend because she’s his boss. Bobby
had dropped out ol graduate school.
Detecting a philosophical facet of
the script lost on me, one of my
friends noted, “This is definitely
what Christmas reunions are about -
deception.”
OK, we were Bradied out. We had
seen the kids, and we had figured out
all the subplots. All that was left was
for Sam the butcher to show up.
*41 can sec it a mile away,’ ’ snorted
one of my friends. “They’ll all de
cide it’s best to be honest.”
In the end, they all decided it was
best to be honest. And Sam the
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