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And that's why Kay acted the way she did towards the kids. She was there to do one thing....perform her job as housekeeper, not get involved with what the kids (like playing checkers with Bobby and Cindy or basketball with Peter and Greg, or even dance to music with the girls) or even Mrs. Brady (she invited Kay to watch TV with her) do. Also, Kay felt that it wasn't nice the way the kids treated Alice, which purely explains her demeanor. Kind of like giving the kids the cold shoulder treatment. There is a segment on here with Kay in it.
Couple of interesting facts about this episode. 1. This is one of two episodes where Mr Brady did not appear. The other episode was the last one where Bobby sold Greg hair tonic which made his hair turn Orange. The reason Mr Brady did not appear in that episode was he did not like the way the script was written and totally disputed it with the production staff. Therefore, Mr Brady got written out of it. 2. There was a scene cut out from the episode (and I think it can be seen on DVD version of this show) where Bobby and Cindy were going over to swim nude at a neighbor's house. Alice opened up their robes and was shocked seeing the kids naked. She made them go put on a bathing suit. 3. The manager in the diner scene appeared on the show before. First time was during the second season where the boys broke a vase (Remember Bobby saying "Mom says don't play ball in the house?") And they bought glue from a hardware store. The actor played the hardware store clerk who sold the boys the glue. The 2nd time was (also in the 2nd season) where the actor played the clerk at a magic shop who sold a magic kit to Peter (it was the same episode where Cindy was afraid to go to sleep because she saw a kid disappear in a cabinet at a birthday party she attended....remember the disappearing cabinet scene?). My Brady Bunch unknown facts for the day
I love the scene when Carol rips Greg and Marcia a new one when the truth is revealed. '''I'm afraid sorry isn't good enough.. sometimes when you push people too much, you can't bring them back again'''! So true Carol !
What the Brady kids did was heartless and mean! They hurt Alice very deep. She loved those kids like her own and never deserved such bad treatment from them. It was like they ripped out her heart and stomped on it! Poor Alice. 😢
You know what really makes this heartbreaking 💔 is that the kids were ones who messed up (breaking the lamp and leaving the record player on all night) but instead of taking responsibility and excepting their punishment and excepting that they messed up, they acted like brats and laid all of the blame on Alice: Someone who looks out for them and loves them as if they were her own children. They not only pushed Alice away from them and out the house but they also (unintentionally) pushed her out of the family as well (temporarily as they were able to convince her to come back). I wonder what Mike would have said or done had he been in the episode and found out what the kids were doing and how they were treating Alice? I’ll bet he would have been even more furious than Carol was considering that Alice was there for him and his boys not long after he had lost first wife and long before Carol and her girls became part of the family.
😊❤️ Yeah she loves those kids like they were her own and that family was her family. I wonder what would have happened if Mike would have happened if Mike was in the episode and how he would have reacted if he knew how the kids were treating Alice? I’m thinking he would have been furious, I mean Alice was hired and was there for Mike and his boys not long after Mike lost his first wife and long before Carol and her girls became part of the family.
@@JordansMom769 But the phonograph could have been connected to a main soundsystem, with its own power switch. Still, a reminder to shut it off should have been good enough.
And the kids have the right to freeze her out! But kids often don't think things through very well ... and they were taught a very valuable lesson they'd never need to learn again ...
The Brady Kids were out of line. Carol asked Alice about the Lamp and the stereo. She had to tell Carol what happened. Alice didn't want to leave but she was hurt and felt the kids couldn't trust her anymore. Carol told Greg and Marcia sometimes when you push people too far you just can't bring thing back again.
It think it's really out of character for the Brady kids to turn on Alice like that after the years they've lived together, and especially immature for Greg and Marcia, being to oldest. Particularly so with Greg, having known Alice the longest.
I agree first of all Alice definitely is a loyal friend to the girls and the guys and when she walked in the room, she should knock I mean geez you don’t know what’s going on number two she explained it and apologized. I said oh she just asked me who was playing it and I said you were playing it listening to your favorite album. I didn’t know you were gonna get in trouble right there let it go.
Some old friends of mine once told me years ago that they read that the reason that Alice gave Carol as to why she was leaving was because Cindy was getting on her nerves.
@@carrieheffernan1685 Something like that. This is the second of two episodes in which Alice tries to quit and makes up a fake relative story as an excuse.
Amazing how in the 70s one architect could afford to support 6 kids, wife and a live in houskeeper on payroll in a large home in southern Cali. As an architect now, I cant evene affor dmy own home let alone could pay the full time salary of a live in maid and support an entire family. Mike doesnt even have his own firm- he's an employee. Shows you how much the dollar has been printed by Fed Reserve and destroyed. I work the same hours, same career, same California location and struggle to afford a two bedroom apartment.
That job Alice told Carol about would've been a great job if it had been real. I'd leave a housekeeping job for it. Too bad it wasn't real and she was stuck having to work at that restaurant with Mr. Cranky Boss. It would be hard for Alice having to be in the middle. On the one hand she loves the kids and would rather slit her own wrists than rat on them but when Mr. or Mrs. Brady asked a direct question she had to answer it. I forget what happened with Peter and Greg to get them in trouble but as Alice said "Lately everything I say is something I shouldn't have said." Poor Alice.
..Carol can sense that Alice is full of bunk (2:38), but knows she can't make her stay, if she doesn't WANT to; The 'Bunch' were clearly in the wrong here, because what they said made Alice not feel as if she was FAMILY.....a far more hurtful thing to feel, when you *DON'T* have Family.....(2:06)...
Wasn't that stereo ( hi-fi?) the one Alice won in a jingle contest and said the family all could enjoy it in the rec room? Very generous and thoughtful....
Robert Reed insisted he be written out of the episode because flat out Mike wouldn't have let Alice leave. He would have called a family meeting and gotten to the bottom of it. End of story. But then we wouldn't have gotten that great diner scene! I can't even imagine how stupid Mike would have had to behave to fit the story ... Carol's like, let's just see how this plays out.
Remember the time that Carol was the one to leave the record player on? Alice had won a prize and gotten the record player for all to enjoy since Cindy had stopped being a tattletale ? Carol accidentally left it on and Cindy told Mike she didn't want to tell on her mommy?
Damn did Marsha act like a spoiled brat in this one! Why is it Alice’s job to turn off the record player if Marsha forgot? She’s the one that used it in the first place. Now Alice gets the blame? Alice is not your servant Spoiled princess Marsha! Geez! 🤦🏻♀️
Carol couldn’t be without a housekeeper for less than 24 hours… before she called an agency to hire Kay! Really? Mike… nowhere to be found in this episode.
The next time the kids do something wrong, they shouldn't take it out on Alice or anybody else they know and love, they should take it out on themselves.
Servant!? Alice was no servant. She was a housekeeper but much more than that. She was a friend and part of the family, like an Aunt to the kids. She was very much loved and respected in all episodes-except this one.
Flat out ... Mike wouldn't have let her leave. He would have called a family meeting and gotten to the bottom of it ... But then we wouldn't have gotten that great diner scene! I can't even imagine how stupid Mike would have had to behave to fit the story ...
"If you turn it on, turn it off." It wastes energy and would drive up the electric bill. Also, if it were on all night like Carol said and the noise were disturbing someone who didn't turn it on, they would have to get up and turn it off.
I'm picturing the music ending, the record still spinning, and the needle going around and around that last groove. Not a big deal (well, I suppose it could wear down the needle a bit) but kind of annoying if you don't like it when appliances are left on for no reason.
Even as a kid, I never did like this episode. With all they’ve been through with Alice up through this point hard to believe they would act that way. Especially when they experienced what happened when her twin cousin took over for a little while when alice was on vacation This kind of episode might’ve been better for the first or second season.
Funny in these sitcoms, that the kid characters would do some things that would have resulted in me not sitting down for a week if I did them and was found out, but would be grounded or a privilege removed over a forgetful mistake like leaving the stereo on. 🤦🏻♂️ But then would a teen as old as Marcia or Greg carry such a grudge against someone like the messenger, in this case, Alice, irl?🤔
This episode, although funny and touching in some scenes got on my nerves. Even though the kids should have known better than to blame Alice, Carol shouldn't have asked Alice what she knew in the first place! Adults shouldn't be tattle tales either and kids don't like to be picked on. Alice is basically a member of the family but her job is to clean house not parent. Carol should have gone to the kids herself. She put the all the blame on the children for Alice leaving but she put Alice in a bad position too.
The truth of the matter what she had a torrid affair with Greg and she was impregnated she must leave before she shows ..word had it she is having quadruplets unfortunately she had an STD too.. thanks Greg
So in Marcias world if she forgets to turn something off it should be Alice's responsibility to turn it off? It's Alice's fault that she forgot to do something? Then gets so mad she turns the other kids against her.... If she were my daughter I'd take everything from her and make learn some goddamn responsibility.. make her realize that she needs to be responsible for her actions
I remember watching this episode as a kid and really feeling heartbroken for Alice. She was the glue of the Brady family
Brady Brats!!!! The didn’t deserve Alice!
They deserved Kay!
They learned their lesson and apologized to Alice!
Well, the point of the show was to teach lessons. You have to mess up first to do so ...
Shame on you Brady kids for treating poor Alice that way! Alice is a part of your family!
And that's why Kay acted the way she did towards the kids. She was there to do one thing....perform her job as housekeeper, not get involved with what the kids (like playing checkers with Bobby and Cindy or basketball with Peter and Greg, or even dance to music with the girls) or even Mrs. Brady (she invited Kay to watch TV with her) do. Also, Kay felt that it wasn't nice the way the kids treated Alice, which purely explains her demeanor. Kind of like giving the kids the cold shoulder treatment. There is a segment on here with Kay in it.
@@MK-el6fr She did it to teach them a lesson. Just goes to show they were no better off than they were with Alice.
Couple of interesting facts about this episode.
1. This is one of two episodes where Mr Brady did not appear. The other episode was the last one where Bobby sold Greg hair tonic which made his hair turn Orange. The reason Mr Brady did not appear in that episode was he did not like the way the script was written and totally disputed it with the production staff. Therefore, Mr Brady got written out of it.
2. There was a scene cut out from the episode (and I think it can be seen on DVD version of this show) where Bobby and Cindy were going over to swim nude at a neighbor's house. Alice opened up their robes and was shocked seeing the kids naked. She made them go put on a bathing suit.
3. The manager in the diner scene appeared on the show before. First time was during the second season where the boys broke a vase (Remember Bobby saying "Mom says don't play ball in the house?") And they bought glue from a hardware store. The actor played the hardware store clerk who sold the boys the glue. The 2nd time was (also in the 2nd season) where the actor played the clerk at a magic shop who sold a magic kit to Peter (it was the same episode where Cindy was afraid to go to sleep because she saw a kid disappear in a cabinet at a birthday party she attended....remember the disappearing cabinet scene?).
My Brady Bunch unknown facts for the day
I love the scene when Carol rips Greg and Marcia a new one when the truth is revealed. '''I'm afraid sorry isn't good enough.. sometimes when you push people too much, you can't bring them back again'''! So true Carol !
The kids didn't write the script. They just did what they were told and acted. 😂
What the Brady kids did was heartless and mean! They hurt Alice very deep. She loved those kids like her own and never deserved such bad treatment from them. It was like they ripped out her heart and stomped on it! Poor Alice. 😢
Yes
aww, that last scene was so heartbreaking. ann b. davis was a great actress.
She just plays her part effortlessly and believably!
Alice was the glue that held their family together
You know what really makes this heartbreaking 💔 is that the kids were ones who messed up (breaking the lamp and leaving the record player on all night) but instead of taking responsibility and excepting their punishment and excepting that they messed up, they acted like brats and laid all of the blame on Alice: Someone who looks out for them and loves them as if they were her own children. They not only pushed Alice away from them and out the house but they also (unintentionally) pushed her out of the family as well (temporarily as they were able to convince her to come back). I wonder what Mike would have said or done had he been in the episode and found out what the kids were doing and how they were treating Alice? I’ll bet he would have been even more furious than Carol was considering that Alice was there for him and his boys not long after he had lost first wife and long before Carol and her girls became part of the family.
One of the more heartwarming and heartbreaking 💔 episodes of season 4 Alice was incredible love the Brady bunch ❤😊
😊❤️ Yeah she loves those kids like they were her own and that family was her family. I wonder what would have happened if Mike would have happened if Mike was in the episode and how he would have reacted if he knew how the kids were treating Alice? I’m thinking he would have been furious, I mean Alice was hired and was there for Mike and his boys not long after Mike lost his first wife and long before Carol and her girls became part of the family.
Oh hell Yeah! He would have pissed!
Alice has feelings, too.
Alice is awesome. She has a heart of Gold. It makes me sad that kids treated her like that. If I had a maid, I would want her to be Alice.
It makes me sad the executives approved this script! Not like the Brady kids at all.
Omg me too. They treated her like family and she was a live in. Don’t get much better!
I freaking love that Ann B. Davis!! She is ADORABLE🥰🦋🩷🔮👗🥰🎸🌈🎶☮️🤘🌺🌟🌟☯️♾️ 1:24
When Alice was right there she overheard Bobby and Cindy saying she was not their friend anymore. That just tore Alice apart.
Exactly
Marcia can't use the stereo for a whole week!!!!!!! The HORROR! The HORROR!
Punishment was a little harsh. Everybody makes mistakes. Irl, Carol would have asked her kids to remember to shut it off when finished.
@@MisterMikeTexasplus record players are supposed to shut off on their own at the end of the record.
@@JordansMom769 But the phonograph could have been connected to a main soundsystem, with its own power switch. Still, a reminder to shut it off should have been good enough.
That would actually be the equivalent of taking away her iPhone for a week if this was modern times
Aww, they really hurt her feelings... poor Alice!
How do Bobby and Cindy not notice Alice standing right there listening 😂
Those brats made Alice feel like crap 💩
Even if Alice did squeal, she has every right as an adult and a family member to do so!
And the kids have the right to freeze her out! But kids often don't think things through very well ... and they were taught a very valuable lesson they'd never need to learn again ...
The Brady Kids were out of line. Carol asked Alice about the Lamp and the stereo. She had to tell Carol what happened. Alice didn't want to leave but she was hurt and felt the kids couldn't trust her anymore. Carol told Greg and Marcia sometimes when you push people too far you just can't bring thing back again.
It think it's really out of character for the Brady kids to turn on Alice like that after the years they've lived together, and especially immature for Greg and Marcia, being to oldest. Particularly so with Greg, having known Alice the longest.
Because there has to be a reason to make the chapter of the show, my god.
She was there all those years and all of the sudden they thought she was telling on them. Such ignorant children
I agree first of all Alice definitely is a loyal friend to the girls and the guys and when she walked in the room, she should knock I mean geez you don’t know what’s going on number two she explained it and apologized. I said oh she just asked me who was playing it and I said you were playing it listening to your favorite album. I didn’t know you were gonna get in trouble right there let it go.
I don't blame Alice for leaving after the Brady's gave her the cold shoulder. If I was in her position I'd just leave without a note and phonecall.
Is that you Cousin Oliver?
Some old friends of mine once told me years ago that they read that the reason that Alice gave Carol as to why she was leaving was because Cindy was getting on her nerves.
I wonder if Uncle Winston ever ran into George Glass?
or the sick aunt in Seattle!!
@@kaitiscarlett9022 Was that Downhill Em? I can't remember!
@@carrieheffernan1685 Something like that. This is the second of two episodes in which Alice tries to quit and makes up a fake relative story as an excuse.
I don't think so. To each of them, the other never existed!
LOL!
Amazing how in the 70s one architect could afford to support 6 kids, wife and a live in houskeeper on payroll in a large home in southern Cali. As an architect now, I cant evene affor dmy own home let alone could pay the full time salary of a live in maid and support an entire family. Mike doesnt even have his own firm- he's an employee. Shows you how much the dollar has been printed by Fed Reserve and destroyed. I work the same hours, same career, same California location and struggle to afford a two bedroom apartment.
California has really accelerated into hell since the early 70's as well.
actually Alice never got paid so that helped.
That job Alice told Carol about would've been a great job if it had been real. I'd leave a housekeeping job for it. Too bad it wasn't real and she was stuck having to work at that restaurant with Mr. Cranky Boss. It would be hard for Alice having to be in the middle. On the one hand she loves the kids and would rather slit her own wrists than rat on them but when Mr. or Mrs. Brady asked a direct question she had to answer it. I forget what happened with Peter and Greg to get them in trouble but as Alice said "Lately everything I say is something I shouldn't have said." Poor Alice.
..Carol can sense that Alice is full of bunk (2:38), but knows she can't make her stay, if she doesn't WANT to; The 'Bunch' were clearly in the wrong here, because what they said made Alice not feel as if she was FAMILY.....a far more hurtful thing to feel, when you *DON'T* have Family.....(2:06)...
“Remember yesterday, when we all used to like her?”
Ugh, that hurt my heart - poor Alice! :(
Trying to leave, Alice?
You're grounded for a week
Wasn't that stereo ( hi-fi?) the one Alice won in a jingle contest and said the family all could enjoy it in the rec room? Very generous and thoughtful....
Robert Reed insisted he be written out of the episode because flat out Mike wouldn't have let Alice leave. He would have called a family meeting and gotten to the bottom of it. End of story. But then we wouldn't have gotten that great diner scene! I can't even imagine how stupid Mike would have had to behave to fit the story ... Carol's like, let's just see how this plays out.
Bobby wearing a Hang Ten tshirt
I remember even Clint Eastwood wore one in a movie around the time of this episode
They all seem to, even Mike. Guess Hang Ten was a sponsor?
Alice should have framed the kids for her murder like in Gone Girl.
About time Alice was put in her place. She needed reminding of her status within the hirarchy.
Carol is lazy and worried now she'll have to get off her butt and do some housework.
Remember the time that Carol was the one to leave the record player on? Alice had won a prize and gotten the record player for all to enjoy since Cindy had stopped being a tattletale ? Carol accidentally left it on and Cindy told Mike she didn't want to tell on her mommy?
Of course they immediately have to hire Kay as a replacement for Alice because Carol is too lazy to cook and clean.
So true. And is often seen lazily paging through magazines when the kids approach her mid afternoon with a problem.
Damn did Marsha act like a spoiled brat in this one! Why is it Alice’s job to turn off the record player if Marsha forgot? She’s the one that used it in the first place. Now Alice gets the blame? Alice is not your servant Spoiled princess Marsha! Geez! 🤦🏻♀️
Alice was nothing but nice to those kids.....what a bunch of brats!
These damn Brady brats. How could anyone have the heart to be mean to Alice??
Alice really loves those kids
Alice, a squealer? Ask Sam. He's the one that delivers the meat.
"Alice! Alice! Alice!" 😮
That was Alice's stereo, wasn't it? She won it in a contest.
These later episodes had Carol with that tight mullet. I think it has come back in style twice for women.
Carol couldn’t be without a housekeeper for less than 24 hours… before she called an agency to hire Kay! Really? Mike… nowhere to be found in this episode.
Robert Reed was possibly being a diva over something. I hear he butted heads constantly with the script writers.
Saw this when I was a kid. Alice was really hurt in this episode :(
Dam Brady’s
What do they need a maid for anyway? See ya Alice.
Cuz Carol couldn't do shit.
@@loveforeignaccents lol
The next time the kids do something wrong, they shouldn't take it out on Alice or anybody else they know and love, they should take it out on themselves.
I bet Sam can make her squeal.
This episode made me so angry. Poor Alice.
The Bradys were awful for treating their servant that way. NOT GOOD!
She wasn’t their “servant.”
🙄
Servant? How did you manage to get five thumbs up with such a ridiculous way of describing Alice? She was a member of their family.
Servant!? Alice was no servant. She was a housekeeper but much more than that. She was a friend and part of the family, like an Aunt to the kids. She was very much loved and respected in all episodes-except this one.
Sam makes her squeal
Those brats!
I guess the episode where Jan gets 👓 isn’t the 1st episode where she has them.
No wonder Robert Reed wasn’t in this episode.
Flat out ... Mike wouldn't have let her leave. He would have called a family meeting and gotten to the bottom of it ... But then we wouldn't have gotten that great diner scene! I can't even imagine how stupid Mike would have had to behave to fit the story ...
They cut out the scene where Alice told their parents about Jan's vibrator.
"Know your role and hit the bricks, Alice! You wore out your welcome.... Easier to do without Big Mike around"
Carol
Alice didn't do anything wrong, the Brady kids shouldn't treat hear that way
But what's the big deal about leaving the record player on?
"If you turn it on, turn it off." It wastes energy and would drive up the electric bill. Also, if it were on all night like Carol said and the noise were disturbing someone who didn't turn it on, they would have to get up and turn it off.
I'm picturing the music ending, the record still spinning, and the needle going around and around that last groove. Not a big deal (well, I suppose it could wear down the needle a bit) but kind of annoying if you don't like it when appliances are left on for no reason.
it was the 70s
And then not being able to use it for a week.. Holy sh**, Carol wasn't playing !
Yeah, no biggie. Let the kids leave *everything* on, 24/7. It'll be fine.
Nice
why didn’t Marcia turn the stereo off?
I got so mad at all of the Brady kids in that episode especially mostly at Marcia and Greg, im on Alice's side❤
0:09 Marcia!! Marcia!! Marcia!!!!!
Everyone knew Alice was a MOANER not a SQUEALER. Saturday nights when Sam was over got kinda loud!!
Probably more than what went on with Mike and Carol to be honest.
@@ThreeLions82 hahahhahahahahha
As loud as Greg and Marcia?
Ann are you realted to jegine Davis are you cindy cusin
Whole damn house is full of snitches 😅😅
Sam said Alice was a squealer too.
Sam the butcher can attest to that.
Didn't he become Archie Bunker's neighbor?
@@MisterMikeTexas yep. Only one episode, i think. The Cannon ballers episode.
@@TadRapidly He was a reoccurring character on Archie Bunker's Place, the spinoff.
A whole week without listening to Bobby Sherman or Davy Jones? Put Marcia on suicide watch.
Robert Reed didn't appear in the one.
Hey there Alice
The Bratty Bunch
When the kids make a mistake, they should have just admitted to it. Covering it up and then taking it out on someone is only making it worse.
Especially since she probably only got $100.00 a month putting up with those brats..
Even as a kid, I never did like this episode. With all they’ve been through with Alice up through this point hard to believe they would act that way. Especially when they experienced what happened when her twin cousin took over for a little while when alice was on vacation This kind of episode might’ve been better for the first or second season.
snitches get stiches.
I never noticed how poorly they treated Alice. I just thought it was a show that was boring enough to fall asleep on.
Awful
I would have left and never come back
After seeing this, Buddy Hinton wasnt such a bad guy after all. Cindy's lisp was kinda stupid, wasn't it? Slug Peter once for me too, Buddy!!!
There never was a solid foundation was there. Easy to blame when the Root was not properly planted.
Alice should have lived away from house and kept her mouth shut.
Dibber dobber
Was Mike Brady in this episode???
No, he refused to do it because he didn't like the script. Reed thought the whole premise was dumb and that Alice would never just up and quit.
Funny in these sitcoms, that the kid characters would do some things that would have resulted in me not sitting down for a week if I did them and was found out, but would be grounded or a privilege removed over a forgetful mistake like leaving the stereo on. 🤦🏻♂️ But then would a teen as old as Marcia or Greg carry such a grudge against someone like the messenger, in this case, Alice, irl?🤔
Alice is a narc.
What on earth does her sex life have to do with it?
This episode, although funny and touching in some scenes got on my nerves. Even though the kids should have known better than to blame Alice, Carol shouldn't have asked Alice what she knew in the first place! Adults shouldn't be tattle tales either and kids don't like to be picked on. Alice is basically a member of the family but her job is to clean house not parent. Carol should have gone to the kids herself. She put the all the blame on the children for Alice leaving but she put Alice in a bad position too.
Marcia Marcia marcia
OUCH!
Brady brats.
The truth of the matter what she had a torrid affair with Greg and she was impregnated she must leave before she shows ..word had it she is having quadruplets unfortunately she had an STD too.. thanks Greg
I know the kids were brats
Who wrote this episode, really? Bad writers! Bad! Bad! 😞
Robert Reed agreed which was why he didn't appear in this episode.
Never liked marcia 🙄
So in Marcias world if she forgets to turn something off it should be Alice's responsibility to turn it off? It's Alice's fault that she forgot to do something? Then gets so mad she turns the other kids against her.... If she were my daughter I'd take everything from her and make learn some goddamn responsibility.. make her realize that she needs to be responsible for her actions
Kids can be a-holes. Never really liked the show.
It's bull shit that Alice has her own room,and they stick 6 kids in two rooms!?!!
That's funny, isn't it?