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CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 07, 2018, 10:23:31 am ---Speaking of the Brady Bunch, not long ago I read a piece on Slate arguing that Carol and Mike Brady, who as you recall were both widowed, murdered their former spouses.
The writer presented "evidence" from the show. The piece was tongue in cheek, but one piece of evidence was pretty compelling: Nobody in the show ever mentions the dead spouses. Not the parents, and weirder still, not the kids.
Some if not all, of the kids are easily old enough to remember their late father or mother, so inevitably IRL they would refer to them now and then.
I guess that's not really evidence of murder, unless the kids were all in on the crime, but still, it's weird.
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Actually, the whereabouts of Carol Brady's first husband are a mystery.
When filming started for the show, it was originally thought that one of the parents would be divorced. They didn't want audiences to think badly of Mike Brady, so they made him a widower. This was addressed in the first episode. Carol Brady was to be divorced, as per the show's creator, Sherwood Schwartz, but the network felt that may be too risqué, so her first husband was never even mentioned.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on August 07, 2018, 07:42:51 pm ---Actually, the whereabouts of Carol Brady's first husband are a mystery.
When filming started for the show, it was originally thought that one of the parents would be divorced. They didn't want audiences to think badly of Mike Brady, so they made him a widower. This was addressed in the first episode. Carol Brady was to be divorced, as per the show's creator, Sherwood Schwartz, but the network felt that may be too risqué, so her first husband was never even mentioned.
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That makes it even more scandalous, though! Maybe she had her kids out of wedlock. Maybe they had three different dads! That Carol Brady gets around.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 08, 2018, 10:06:17 am ---Maybe they had three different dads! That Carol Brady gets around.
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The Brady's are just shocked by your accusation!
Jeff Wrangler:
I heard yesterday that the Brady's house has just been sold, but I forget who bought it. :(
BradInBlue:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 07, 2018, 10:23:31 am ---Speaking of the Brady Bunch, not long ago I read a piece on Slate arguing that Carol and Mike Brady, who as you recall were both widowed, murdered their former spouses.
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Slate, according to the 'MediaBiasFactCheck' site is: "These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage liberal causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy."
Quoted the above to defend my position that a Liberal source is trying to tear down a 1970's idea of an intact Male/Female/Bunch of Kids family that is thriving, happy, and despite dealing with all the things I/we grew up with, was a success. Slate is all about 'Identity Politics' so the fact that this intact, all white family unit, through the thick and thin of divorce, death of spouse, etc. couldn't be legit so they had to murder their spouse(s)……. I bet whoever wrote that piece (of S) for Slate has never seen an episode of Brady Bunch, can't relate to the '70's, and is doing everything in his/her power to tear down our/my history. Kinda like what is going on in the South.
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