Greg Brady argues with Mike and Carol about using "exact words" -- and it backfires on him! #BradyBunch | Now streaming on Paramount+ Where to watch: para.mt/BradyBunch
When I got back late with the family car it was an automatic grounding of a week with no car, you didn’t waste your time asking for it, you just waited your week. Man up Greg.
Greg should have told Bobby that he no longer wants to take him to the frog jumping contest at the time he got grounded from driving the family car so he wouldn't have to miss the rock concert.
Well, Greg, you said you were going to use your "exact words," so what were you expecting, huh? Don't think you can try to weasel your way out of this one!
@@MisterMikeTexas This particular episode painted Greg as a weasel. He usually was not this lowdown or scheming ... just girl crazy and into waxing the surfboard and sometimes writing really dreadful pop songs, LOL. I think character behavior sometimes depends on who is writing that week's script, and once in a while they'll make a character act different. Kinda stupid, really ... you'd think _someone_ at the table read, maybe Sherwood Schwartz or a producer or cast member, would chime in and say "But Greg isn't a total d!ck, like in this episode".
To be 100% fair, Greg should've asked if his exact words thing could've started at the present moment he was making this deal. He was being held to exact words he'd spoken before all this happened. But since he didn't think of it they held him to his exact words no matter how long ago they were spoken. It's rough to have to give up the rock concert for a stupid frog jumping contest. And the money he spent on the tickets.
Back in the days when we needed babysitters when our parents went out, my mother would tell us before the sitter arrived, "If I get any bad reports from the sitter, you will not go out to play tomorrow." When I hoped that it would be a rainy day, she would say, "If it is such a nasty day, that nobody can go out, then we'll hold off on it until the next nice day."
It's a package deal. When Greg requested "exact words", Mike asked the question, "are you prepared to live by the same rules?", and Greg's exact words were "absolutely." It goes back to, "be careful what you ask for."
Yes how great to be home all the time have a maid, been doing your needlepoint that she cooks dinner and your prompt husband comes home, exactly at the same time everyday😅😅😅
ABSOLUTELY this is how I was raisaed. Remember in Season 1 or 2 where greg gets a D and he turns aroudn to walk out of Mike's office and Mike Brady smacks him hard on the rear end, even AFTER Greg says he will buckle down and study harder? THAT is HOW I was raised, too. Great parenting in this show.
When his parents said no driving, they meant the family car; it didn’t occur to them that Johnny Bravo would borrow some other cat’s car; take some bread and buy the tickets.
The brady bunch movies in the 90's were hilarious if the new generation hasn't seen them do yourself a favour and watch them im sure you'll get a laugh out of them they parodied the Brady's perfect
Both movies were great, very funny--- and chock full of Easter eggs and inside jokes for Brady fans, but I'm sure newbies to the world of The Bradys will love these movies as well. The films had excellent casting, costumes, set design, and background music. Oh, and fun guest stars too!
Good question. When I was growing up I had to wash the dishes for 6 people 2 or 3 times a day. My brothers didn't have to do anything but take out the trash (a 5-minute job) once every other week since there were 2 of them. How does that compare to washing the dishes 2 or 3 times a day? I'd have gladly traded with them. It was never a 5-minute job either.
Not perms. Robert Reeds hair was naturally that way. He had it straightened for the show until the Hawaii episode turned it back to its naturally curly state due to the humid air and they decided to leave it that way and Barry Williams also had naturally frizzy hair. I've heard him talk about it on his podcast. Said he tried everything including mayonnaise to tame it and once he said he even tried to iron it.
If only Greg had learned to master the use of water things would have gone a lot smoother. He still wouldn't have been gettin' any at the drive in, but he'd be dryer.
The two BB episodes where Greg ends up having a lousy time at the drive-in movie are fun stuff. This one, "Greg Gets Grounded" (Exact Words and Frogs), and also "The Big Bet" one when he loses a bet with Bobby and ends up taking him on his date with Rachel. Hope Juber, daughter of show creator Sherwood Schwartz, played Rachel in both episodes, and also two other roles in different episodes of the show.
Yes. Hope was in Marcia's slumber party episode, I think, as Jenny Wilton, the girl Marcia that originally thought that set her up for the drawing that got her in trouble. She was also in the final episode when Greg's hair turned orange. BTW. Closing credits have her as Hope Sherwood.
When all this started, all Greg had to say was: “Yes, the truck cut me off, but I don’t think he meant to-I must have been in his blind spot for a moment”-and certainly Bobby would have known to shut up and not mention Greg looking at the album cover
I think we're underestimating how dim and innocent a kid Bobby's age can be, especially on a sitcom like this. He'd have blabbed no matter what, because he seems a little tactless. Much like his sister Cindy.
Hang on, how did he _not_ go against the parents' wishes? First he drove recklessly with a child in the car, then got caught and punished, then he drove a friend's vehicle while grounded without car privileges and when caught he made up that whole "You just said 'you're not allowed to drive the car', you didn't say anything about other cars" b-llsh-t. Plus, buttering up Mike about the architecture plans just to try and get his way, that was lowdown and sleazy. Greg got what he deserved in this story line: an annoying wakeup call about being such a crafty and manipulative jerk. I like this episode a lot because we get to see the guy suffer after pulling that all nonsense. He learns his lesson but it isn't easy. 😆👏
@@eduardo_corrochio They told him he couldn't drive their car, and he didn't drive their car. Short and sweet. See how that's explained without all of your inane and tiresome rambling?
@pacnwguy9056 Sometimes, you have to explain the matter in detail so people can understand what actually happened. Besides, Greg was very lucky. In a lot of sitcoms from the 80s and up and including today, when it comes to distracted driving, just like real life, there isn't always a happy ending.
@@charlespeakjr2168 Yeah, I know...I'm 55 and have been around the block a few times. That being said, his original question was "Hang on, how did he not go against the parents' wishes?" Answer? He didn't. Also, he drove a friend's car, and Mike and Carol don't get to dictate who drives cars they don't own. I was also amused at the guy's coming unglued about a fictional character in a fictional family from over 50 years ago.
This could only work in TV, I NEVER EVER questioned or disputed what my parents told me. They told me and that was that. Period. This is fiction but it’s supposed to be fiction it’s a TV show. Ha!
I’ll tell you there’s no chance Peter, who was around 13 a preteen teenager would want to hang out with his stupid ass brother dealing with frogs no chance you’d be hanging out with your buddies and looking for the local chicks to hang out watching a little TV, etc. etc. there’s no way I would hang on my 10 year old brother not a chance it’d be all about checking out the chicks but classic seem later on with the frog goes in the goddamn pizza😂
@pacnwguy9056 I saw your reply in another post. Greg did disobey his parents. I'll explain it in another scenario to you. If Greg had gotten into an accident with George Thompson's car and was found liable. The victim's insurance company would not only go after the Thompsons, but considering that Greg was under the age of 18, they could go after the Bradys as well. Even though George gave Greg permission to use his vehicle, his parents pay the insurance for his vehicle, and Greg is NOT AN AUTHORIZED DRIVER ON THEIR POLICY.
Well, if they were living by exact words then they were definitely not going to a DINNER date that night. They might be going to a SUPPER date, but dinner is at NOON, so a date at NIGHT can NOT be a DINNER date. :-) #DinnerIsAtNoon #SupperIsTheEveningMeal #KeepingItRural
When I got back late with the family car it was an automatic grounding of a week with no car, you didn’t waste your time asking for it, you just waited your week. Man up Greg.
Exact words. My Mom used to tell us to turn that T.V. off. After we turned it off.... we immediately turned it on again.
This episode really made me realize how hard it is to live up to exact words.
Greg should have told Bobby that he no longer wants to take him to the frog jumping contest at the time he got grounded from driving the family car so he wouldn't have to miss the rock concert.
Bobby is annoying. Greg should have dumped him at the frog jumping contest and then gone on to the concert.
What didn’t backfire? Greg Brady’s plan to be super groovy! ✌🏼 🎸 🎵
With sweet pants and radical hair? 😂
@@MyNameIsUnavailable I've heard of sweat pants, but what are "sweet pants"? 🤔
@@MisterMikeTexas you know what he means
This was great acting... a classic show!
Well, Greg, you said you were going to use your "exact words," so what were you expecting, huh? Don't think you can try to weasel your way out of this one!
I don't remember Greg as a chronic weaseler.
@@MisterMikeTexas This particular episode painted Greg as a weasel. He usually was not this lowdown or scheming ... just girl crazy and into waxing the surfboard and sometimes writing really dreadful pop songs, LOL. I think character behavior sometimes depends on who is writing that week's script, and once in a while they'll make a character act different. Kinda stupid, really ... you'd think _someone_ at the table read, maybe Sherwood Schwartz or a producer or cast member, would chime in and say "But Greg isn't a total d!ck, like in this episode".
To be 100% fair, Greg should've asked if his exact words thing could've started at the present moment he was making this deal. He was being held to exact words he'd spoken before all this happened. But since he didn't think of it they held him to his exact words no matter how long ago they were spoken. It's rough to have to give up the rock concert for a stupid frog jumping contest. And the money he spent on the tickets.
You gotta love the music score with a little ding, ding dings, and a Wong Wong
LOL Greg is so FULL of himself sometimes...this is my favorite episode where he gets his comeuppance 😂.
Yeah, this is one of my favorite episodes, too. 😂👏
Man I just love it when you're parent gets revenge
Mike told greg he couldn't drive the family car for a week. Not no friends car.
Back in the days when we needed babysitters when our parents went out, my mother would tell us before the sitter arrived, "If I get any bad reports from the sitter, you will not go out to play tomorrow." When I hoped that it would be a rainy day, she would say, "If it is such a nasty day, that nobody can go out, then we'll hold off on it until the next nice day."
@3:20 sums up '70s clothing style, lol. Those thick belts are groovay!! 😎😎😎
How does your own medicine taste, Greggy boy?!? 😂😂
Exactly. He really pissed me off in this episode. He knew exactly what his parents meant.
Sounds like a question "George Steinbrenner" would have asked.
@@gretchennelson7056 But he didn't disobey them.
Notice how those "Exact Words" have come back to blow up in Greg's face, and then circle around to bite him in his azz.🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, that was kind of the point there buddy
It's a package deal. When Greg requested "exact words", Mike asked the question, "are you prepared to live by the same rules?", and Greg's exact words were "absolutely." It goes back to, "be careful what you ask for."
Duh, no. Could you please explain it to me?
Could someone please explain to me exactly what this means?
Wait, when was that part?!!
This is the parenting needed today.
Yes how great to be home all the time have a maid, been doing your needlepoint that she cooks dinner and your prompt husband comes home, exactly at the same time everyday😅😅😅
@@Dani-ICU-RN I’m talking about parenting not the other woke garbage that goes on.
Any kind of parenting would be helpful today because I see zero parenting taking place today.
@@Dani-ICU-RNlol
ABSOLUTELY this is how I was raisaed. Remember in Season 1 or 2 where greg gets a D and he turns aroudn to walk out of Mike's office and Mike Brady smacks him hard on the rear end, even AFTER Greg says he will buckle down and study harder? THAT is HOW I was raised, too. Great parenting in this show.
When his parents said no driving, they meant the family car; it didn’t occur to them that Johnny Bravo would borrow some other cat’s car; take some bread and buy the tickets.
Greggy was very dishonest in this episode. He knew that he wasn’t supposed to drive. NOT GOOD!
True...but at that age, we ALL tried to find loopholes (come to think of it, "grownups" do it too, don't they)
He violated the spirit of the law.
They told him NOT to drive "their car". . They didn't ANYTHING about driving someone else's. . . . . So NO, he was NOT dishonest.
Greg would make a good lawyer
Thank God that he became a doctor.🙏🏾
Not in "this case". Mike and Carol were able to use Greg's request against him, where he had absolutely no defense.
He became an obstetrician. 🍼
Greg was bummed because he was planning on getting some from Rachel at the drive in movie.
Jack mey 😂
Marsha would have been jealous…
Marcia actually went to the rock concert and willingly had a train pulled on her by the band and the roadies.
@@rsmith7994 They left that scene out when editing the tape. Bummer. I wouldve liked to have seen it.
lmfao. . you do realize that men and women were WAY more modest and controlled back then, right?
Ooooooooooooooh my nose! Mom always said, "don't play ball in the house"
One of the best episodes
The brady bunch movies in the 90's were hilarious if the new generation hasn't seen them do yourself a favour and watch them im sure you'll get a laugh out of them they parodied the Brady's perfect
"TPS Reports" Gary Cole is Mike Brady. 😅
Both movies were great, very funny--- and chock full of Easter eggs and inside jokes for Brady fans, but I'm sure newbies to the world of The Bradys will love these movies as well. The films had excellent casting, costumes, set design, and background music. Oh, and fun guest stars too!
@@eduardo_corrochio yeah they really were great all round
"Say what you mean, and mean what you say!" - Gene Simmons 😅 Greg should have been grounded for that hairstyle.
I don’t think Gene Simmons was the first to say that.
So how is taking out the trash out & doing dishes a fair trade
It's not a trade, he said he would do it that day so he must live up to his exact words.
It's not the chores. It's the promise he made to Marcia and living by "exact words".
What about Alice? Dishes is her job.
Good question. When I was growing up I had to wash the dishes for 6 people 2 or 3 times a day. My brothers didn't have to do anything but take out the trash (a 5-minute job) once every other week since there were 2 of them. How does that compare to washing the dishes 2 or 3 times a day? I'd have gladly traded with them. It was never a 5-minute job either.
Let's not forget washing the car.
Mom and Greg should go out for a drink. Maybe get it straight between them.
Loving this episode!
Without the frog that 🍕🍕🍕 looked good tho.
My exact words are: Those are some bitchin' perms.
Not perms. Robert Reeds hair was naturally that way. He had it straightened for the show until the Hawaii episode turned it back to its naturally curly state due to the humid air and they decided to leave it that way and Barry Williams also had naturally frizzy hair. I've heard him talk about it on his podcast. Said he tried everything including mayonnaise to tame it and once he said he even tried to iron it.
Complete honesty????? Do you really want that????
In our family, the younger brothers world never do that because they know older brother would give them a beat down.
Good Episode.....I love how Mr. Brady is so cool and suave and
Collected🚗🚗🚗🚗🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙
I still don't see mr brady as being gay. Never did
Even if Dr. Gregory Brady did not mean any accidents he feels sorry over this.
Who takes a shower at 11:45 p.m.? Why not wait until you get back up to go to work six hours later?
Wouldn’t have gotten this far if they hadn’t banned Greg from using the car
People shouldn't have taken advantage of Greg like that.
"Specifics, Bob!"
3:58 Don’t give Bobby any dirty looks Greg, you know you didn’t. 😂 😉😤
Watched the show as a kid and had the hots for Marsha----now diggin on Mr.s Brady.
Love this! 😂
Careful what you wish for....
"Exact Words" are pretty hard to live by because Greg had a hard time keeping his promises. It's just like in real life.
Greg really put his big fat foot in his big mouth by agreeing doing things exact words & promises.
When Carol told Gredg to "Come in." Exact words 💦 🍦 🥧
About time to try some of Bobby's hair tonic
Couldn’t he have taken 60 seconds to change out of his pajamas and robe and put on something different to wash the car?
It wouldn't have been as funny.
No because he also had to be ready for bed.
Nope. It's comedy, not found footage.
The parents, Alice, or Sam should have driven Greg to the store to get the concert tickets.
This is good
but first of all, one needs parent consent to drive any car,.
Greg, you're down at the Stadium having BIG FUN at the big rock concert with The Wretched!
CINDY, go to BED!
If only Greg had learned to master the use of water things would have gone a lot smoother. He still wouldn't have been gettin' any at the drive in, but he'd be dryer.
Nice try, Greg!
Carol's nightwear was comforting to see as a child....To think Mr Brady chose hairy azz over that....
Man those parents are a bunch of squares. No far out groovy parent would ever ground their kid for that
The two BB episodes where Greg ends up having a lousy time at the drive-in movie are fun stuff. This one, "Greg Gets Grounded" (Exact Words and Frogs), and also "The Big Bet" one when he loses a bet with Bobby and ends up taking him on his date with Rachel. Hope Juber, daughter of show creator Sherwood Schwartz, played Rachel in both episodes, and also two other roles in different episodes of the show.
Yes. Hope was in Marcia's slumber party episode, I think, as Jenny Wilton, the girl Marcia that originally thought that set her up for the drawing that got her in trouble. She was also in the final episode when Greg's hair turned orange.
BTW. Closing credits have her as Hope Sherwood.
@@charlespeakjr2168 Thanks.
A frog jumping contest......imagine that today.. Frogs and toads
Piss on you , immediate reaction,no wonder I never wanted to touch them.🐸🐸🐸
Greg looks older than Mike.
When all this started, all Greg had to say was: “Yes, the truck cut me off, but I don’t think he meant to-I must have been in his blind spot for a moment”-and certainly Bobby would have known to shut up and not mention Greg looking at the album cover
I think we're underestimating how dim and innocent a kid Bobby's age can be, especially on a sitcom like this. He'd have blabbed no matter what, because he seems a little tactless. Much like his sister Cindy.
This episode irritated me. Greg didn't disobey them in the first place.
Hang on, how did he _not_ go against the parents' wishes? First he drove recklessly with a child in the car, then got caught and punished, then he drove a friend's vehicle while grounded without car privileges and when caught he made up that whole "You just said 'you're not allowed to drive the car', you didn't say anything about other cars" b-llsh-t.
Plus, buttering up Mike about the architecture plans just to try and get his way, that was lowdown and sleazy. Greg got what he deserved in this story line: an annoying wakeup call about being such a crafty and manipulative jerk. I like this episode a lot because we get to see the guy suffer after pulling that all nonsense. He learns his lesson but it isn't easy. 😆👏
@@eduardo_corrochio They told him he couldn't drive their car, and he didn't drive their car. Short and sweet. See how that's explained without all of your inane and tiresome rambling?
@pacnwguy9056 Sometimes, you have to explain the matter in detail so people can understand what actually happened. Besides, Greg was very lucky. In a lot of sitcoms from the 80s and up and including today, when it comes to distracted driving, just like real life, there isn't always a happy ending.
@@charlespeakjr2168 Yeah, I know...I'm 55 and have been around the block a few times.
That being said, his original question was "Hang on, how did he not go against the parents' wishes?"
Answer? He didn't. Also, he drove a friend's car, and Mike and Carol don't get to dictate who drives cars they don't own.
I was also amused at the guy's coming unglued about a fictional character in a fictional family from over 50 years ago.
@@pacnwguy9056 I'm 60. I've been around the block a little bit more and dodged a few more bullets.
Bobbys a brat in this.
This could only work in TV, I NEVER EVER questioned or disputed what my parents told me. They told me and that was that. Period. This is fiction but it’s supposed to be fiction it’s a TV show. Ha!
Greg went out with the producers’s daughter.
Shoot if I was Greg I would've just moved out instead of taking all that bullshit from Mike.
My sister had a boyfriend named Greg. He was so handsome. But he was a ne’er do well.
Never could stand that show
I’ll tell you there’s no chance Peter, who was around 13 a preteen teenager would want to hang out with his stupid ass brother dealing with frogs no chance you’d be hanging out with your buddies and looking for the local chicks to hang out watching a little TV, etc. etc. there’s no way I would hang on my 10 year old brother not a chance it’d be all about checking out the chicks but classic seem later on with the frog goes in the goddamn pizza😂
Nobody says chicks anymore, Boomer.
Greg was a manipulator for sure..
But he didn't disobey them.
@pacnwguy9056 I saw your reply in another post. Greg did disobey his parents. I'll explain it in another scenario to you. If Greg had gotten into an accident with George Thompson's car and was found liable. The victim's insurance company would not only go after the Thompsons, but considering that Greg was under the age of 18, they could go after the Bradys as well. Even though George gave Greg permission to use his vehicle, his parents pay the insurance for his vehicle, and Greg is NOT AN AUTHORIZED DRIVER ON THEIR POLICY.
@@charlespeakjr2168 He did not disobey his parents. Moving on now.
Good night and God Bless.🙏🏾
Well, if they were living by exact words then they were definitely not going to a DINNER date that night. They might be going to a SUPPER date, but dinner is at NOON, so a date at NIGHT can NOT be a DINNER date. :-) #DinnerIsAtNoon #SupperIsTheEveningMeal #KeepingItRural
A-ha. For those who say the Brady Kids didn't have chores. Watch it and weep@!