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He got off easy. My parents would have said, "Okay, wise guy, let's see if you understand this. For the next month, you don't step outside of this house unless we give you permission!"
I saw a statistic where the average salary in 1968 would be the equivalent of over $100,000 in 2023. The average income today is 48,000 which means we have lost over 52% of our spending power.
@@henrywallacesghost5883 Tons of household would get a new car every year, or every two years if they had struggles. Nowadays they have to squeeze every bit of life out of a car, hoping it doesn't turn into garbage before they can. That's not to say cars didn't turn into rust buckets back then either.
Loophole detected: “except for school you are not to leave this house.” So if he goes to school, then from school to the concert… TECHNICALLY he did what he was told. 😆😆
Once I was taking an evening class that met every Tuesday. One of my classmates sent around an e-petition to move next week's class to another day because his boss was making him work late and he would have to miss the class. The teacher said that couldn't be done. So I sent an e-petition to my classmates to get the commissioner of major league baseball to move this year's All Star game to another day so I wouldn't have to miss seeing it live.
Yes he was relieved. He thought Robert Reed was going to confront him about his date with Florence the night before....or with Maureen in the attic. Whew!
If I were grounded for 10 days, I wouldn't waste my time or my parents' time arguing about it, I would wait out those 10 days without fuss. Man up, Greg! You brought this one on yourself!
When Carol and George's mother met in the store, it's a wonder that it didn't occur to George's mother that Carol had their car, and that would be why Greg borrowed George's car. She, of course did not know that Greg was not supposed to drive. When Mike reminded Greg that he was grounded when Greg asked for an exception to use the car, being grounded usually means not leaving the property, if not the house.
I too am 58, and used to watch this show and loved it. But for me, I watched it because I saw this as how a family SHOULD operate. Mine was so far from this reality, with drinking and verbal abuse from my parents being the norm, along with chain smoking, even in the car with us kids inhaling every breath, as the windows were to remain closed. I suspect I wasn't alone either with my childhood reality. I know a lot of kids like me who grew up in the 70s in homes as dysfunctional as mine. We [all of us kids] watched this family [The Bradys] to escape ours. Sad but very true!
It's why I watched all family shows like this, family Affair, Leave it to Beaver, The Nelsons...etc. But it was because I was a foster, never adopted, and I wanted to know how a real family was like instead of the here today and gone tomorrow families I stayed with, I'm 63.
That sucks to have that kind of childhood, but remember, all these kids ended up messed up from the fame. behind the camera, they weren't happy like this one bit.
😹 Exactly the show was classic. I said Dad this is Led Zeppelin and I’m going. You can throw me another 28 days. I’m going to that goddamn concert first of all you’re not even my real mom so I’m not gonna listen to u 😹
Honestly I think Greg made a good point. I’m 41 now, and don’t have any kids, but if I did,(or if I were Mike in this case) I would have said, “Well technically he’s right, Carol. We never said he couldn’t drive someone else’s car because we didn’t think he’d come up with that. So you pulled one over on us this time, but you are not to leave this house for the rest of your grounding period. And next time we’ll be sure to use exact words the next time we give out punishments.” I don’t think his original punishment was 10 days so I don’t feel any additional punishment was necessary.
Also, they really can't forbid him from driving someone else's car since it is not THEIR car. If someone else is willing to let Greg use their car, there really is nothing they could do about that.
@@sergioperez2771 I agree but so many kids disrespect their parents to a degree that’s unimaginable today. I grew up with great respect for my parents. They taught me the right way.
Exactly. If I pulled a stunt like this my parents would've drank a bottle of whisky then taken turns waterboarding me before locking me in the cellar for a month.
The concert was the upcoming Saturday. And Greg needed tickets right now because it was going to sell out? What an odd amount of time between tickets going on sale and the actual show. 🤔
I bought concert tickets the week of in the 70s. However the rock concert this saturday and tickets this week selling out was a fairly consistent teen plot from 1960 to 1980s sitcoms.
To take a cab to the stadium just to buy concert tickets, the cab ride one way would cost more than the tickets themselves, especially if you live too far from the stadium to walk, or ride your bike there. Plus, some roads you would need to use to get there would be too dangerous to ride a bike on, and bicycles would not be allowed on those roads.
We just had to get to Tower Records down by the Pruneyard Shopping center on Bascom/Campbell Avenue where the concert ticket sales line would snake down the sidewalk! (San Jose CA in the 70’s) Sure miss those days!!
Not many teenage kids can knock a dad out. Dads are middle-aged and mean, and they know how to fight dirty. All my adult sons know danged well not to mess with dad.
Only if the kid isn't really theirs. Like if the dad couldn't make pipe to the mom good enough to even get her preggo in the first place he definitely won't put up much of a fight.
It was more then likely the last season since Greg is old enough to drive so 1973 to 1974 This is Pre Ozzy bat biting days. BUt he could have been going to Black Sabbath thou I don't think Greg was cool enough to go to such a great concert like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, or Led Zeppelin. It was more then likely some gay boy band like Bay City Rollers . Greg seemd to be the type to like them over a Awesome Metal band like Sabbath
@@mikekinsella2822 I'm trying to research who Greg would be seeing in 1973 at a Stadium, with his amount of "grooviness" and lack of cool factor. Wings wasnt touring the US. George Harrison and Ravi Shankar were, but arenas. Rolling Stones maybe, but I dont think they had a US tour around that time. I doubt Greg was going to see Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd or David Bowie, Grateful Dead Maybe Led Zeppelin? Most tours during this time was during the Arena concert boom Era. Elton John or a Stadium festival ala Texxas Jam with a lineup of rock acts is the only thing I can think of.
@@RichV20 My guess is he was going to The Bay City Rollers. Seems the music Greg Brady would think was cool and groovy.NO way it was a real cool band like Led Zeppelin Black Sabbath Deep Purple Yes or Pink Floyd.
@@mikekinsella2822 Thats sounds right up Greg's alley, but the Rollers didn't break in the States until a year after this series ended. They were exploding big time in the UK at this time.
@@RichV20 Perhaps it was KC and the sunshine band? Another band that might fit Gregs type of music taste. NO way Greg would like Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath right?
Could have rode his pedal bike to the stadium or took the bus
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Sam the butcher would have driven him, or Don Drysdale, Joe Namath, Big Man On Campus, Harvey Clinger, Mike's boss Mr. Philips, Alice's old flame Mark Graison, any one of the Niedermyers, the "good" friend who planted a pack of smokes in Greg's jacket, Jan's boyfriend Harry Glass, Davy Jones or Peter's evil twin Phil Packer. Tons of choices
To be fair, Greg was banned from driving for a week, which not only meant that he wasn't allowed to drive the family car, but he wasn't allowed to drive someone else's car either.
@@kenlompart9905 He knew damn well what they meant. Did you see his face when Carol told him she’d seen George’s mother in the supermarket and she’d mentioned that he’d borrowed George’s car? It was like” ohhhhh SHIT!” He knew exactly what they meant.
Yes this is true. It's only because in real live Greg(Barry) was at least 18 or 19. His character was 16. I googled Barry Williams. Born in September 1954 would make him 18 here.
Greg is now filing a restraining order against his parents, and demanding use of the car to go to the concert. The ACLU and SPLC have filed amicus briefs on Gregs behalf stating failure of his parents to comply could result in irreparable harm to Gregs emotional state and could lead to his offing himself.
...this Episode aired Jan., 1973... I perused the comments, and I've noticed A LOT of People asking, "...WHAT Rock Concert?..." (1:37); these, were the Top 'Rock' acts (judging by the Top 20 LP Pop charts), that week...my best guess, is *NEIL* .....(cont.) Carly Simon WAR James Taylor Seals & Crofts America Moody Blues Neil Diamond Jethro Tull Cat Stevens Santana Loggins & Messina Carole King Joni Mitchell ....I excluded Babs, MISS ROSS, Al Green, 5th Dimension & Stevie Wonder & John Denver, for they aren't 'Rock'......but, it COULD be the London Symphony Orchestra doing "Tommy"...I wouldn't put it past Greg! ...ha-HAA! (2:55)
The Cowsills or The Partridge Family.....in fantasy TV LA it should have been: The Partridge Family Josey and the Pussycats The Archies The Monkeeys Reunion Or for Schwartz: The Mosquitos The Honey Bees
I don't think Greg's character thought like that. Even from ep.1 , Greg always thought of himself as "the man of the house under Dad". I can't see him considering bothering his parents to drive him to get rock concert tickets.
Mike knew where Greg wanted to go and what he wanted to do, because Greg asked him if he could use the car for that. If Mike were willing to drive him, he would have offered.
@@lindac7966 Yes, thank you! It would be pure gall on the kid's part to do that. Cannot believe people think it would be fine to ask for a ride from Dad after the stunt he just pulled with driving.
ABSOLUTELY this is how I was raised. Remember in Season 1 or 2 where Greg gets a D and he turns around 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.
@@loveforeignaccents No Carol was only doing what any responsible mother would do when a child willingly disrespected their father and said “f you to his word”.
@@1906tpir Yeah, my comment was meant to be taken as a joke, as we have had comments over the past few weeks about Cindy being a snitch, then Bobby being a snitch. Perhaps I should have put a smiley face after my statement.
@@loveforeignaccentsone episode had Greg trick Peter and Bobby into thinking a UFO was real to get even with them for telling their parents he got home late one night and Marcia loved it because they squealed on her too so it looks like Cindy is not the only snitch in the house even though that was a part of her character and snitching seems like an annoying younger siblings things Peter has eavesdropped on his siblings before but squeal on them he seems too old for that
They should have had a set number of family games ( like 5 or 7) , with a winner of each game. The last game would have determined the winner of the attic room. That would have been a fun episode and truly been fair.
He knew what his parents meant, and he was trying to play word games with them. Mike and Carol went easy on him. My parents would have extended the grounding at least another week, and probably more.
It's so strange to think there was a time not long ago that the image of a housewife was literally a woman who goes to the market in curlers! And such a choice to have the actress PARTIALLY in curlers while the rest of her hair was a frizzy mess! I guess they were trying to make her look like a "harried housewife" lolol
Robert Reed was written out of the last episode of the series because he had a loud argument with Schwartz. Names were called. Some alcohol may have been involved. The parents on Lost in Space had the same situation. They, actual serious actors, refused to do the walking vegetable episode which was the last one filmed.
I'm on Greg's side. Mike Brady said "you cannot drive the car for one week." It was for a specific car, not any car. Of course, in 2024, there's no need to go around looking for a car to borrow. Just steal one and then abandon it somewhere. Mr. and Mrs. Brady would have never known, and Greg gets to go to the concert. 🙃🙂🤪 How old is Greg Brady (Barry Williams) in this episode? This one looks to be in The Brady Bunch's later seasons. He must be 18 or 19. Isn't that kind of old to ground your kids? Anyway, I'm trying to remember the rest of the episode. Wasn't there some emergency, like the entire family were having heart attacks and he had to drive everyone to the hospital to save their lives? Torn between letting the car sit in the driveway or The Brady Bunch being cancelled because they're all dead, he drove the car.
Actually it was for not paying attention while driving, they found out he was looking at a record cover he just bought and almost got into an accident.
Buttering up Dad never works LOL!! 🧈 That was nice of Jenny (curlers lady at supermarket) to offer to drive Carol home with her own groceries and Carols groceries for 9 people LOL! What does Jenny drive, a semi truck?? Great scene.
@@yossarian6799Lol! That's hilarious! Station wagons rocked! We had 1977 Ford station wagon that had electric windows and locks. That was a big big deal for us kids at the time. Haha 😅❤😊
@@yossarian6799 I _wished_ we had a station wagon in the 70s! We had a Ford Fairlane with no A/C and we lived in the South! It sweltered in summer in that hot box! But the front and back seats were like sofas LOL!
2:30 Sounds reasonable to me. Mr. & Mrs. Brady did say that Greg couldn’t drive the family car. However, they didn’t say that Greg couldn’t drive ANY car. So, who’s the bad person here? 🤷♂️
His parents believe he knew what they meant Mr Brady forbade him to use the car to think about is driving habits because he almost got him and Bobby in an accident if he drove a car that would still mean he isn't taking his punishment seriously but he did it use a loophole on them.
Cannot stand Greg in this episode. What a slime ball, and so transparent in trying to ingratiate himself into Mike's favor by feigning interest in the design plans. ((dry heave)) LOL
Greg tried an "Eddie Haskell" move of trying to sweet-talk his dad. Unfortunately for Greg, Mike saw through the scam. Mike was a teenager once, so he knew the tricks.
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Agreed, slime ball move, but when Mike said "forget it" Greg should have said "next time design a house with a toilet in it man"
Greg is right. Parents should be clear on what they mean. He should have said no driving. My dad was always very clear with what he meant and we never had this problem. If I found a loophole, it was good for me.
Even if Greg did call Rachel and asked her to buy the tickets from the stadium (either to go herself OR ask her to drive him to the stadium with her car), I still think that would be a loophole too. That is, in addition to asking Alice if he (Greg) could borrow her bus pass or Marcia if he could borrow hers. Rachel would drive too. That is true. If Greg called her and did not go with her (telling Rachel to buy the concert tickets from the stadium by herself), Mike and Carol would've had no problems with that. (That is, even though Greg was grounded from using the car for a week --until Monday.)
So the punishment all along was You Can’t Go To The Concert. It wasn’t about the car or driving. His parents were going to make sure he missed that concert.
I found the Brady House a challenge growing up as a kid. That place was huge even for the 70’s it created in my mind a disconnect on what size house the average family had.
Not really. Although that 4th wall being missing makes it feel.more spacious. The Brady house had 3 upstairs bedrooms , 1 bathroom with no toilet, Alice's bedroom off the kitchen prob with bathroom or 1/2 bath, kitchen, dining room, den , living room, laundry room, Mikes den or office, the attic room that later became Gregs bedroom.,carport or garage.pI grew up in a 2 story home 5 bedrooms 3 with fireplaces, 2 baths , a full length of front side of house living room with fireplace,formal dining room that eventually became the den/TV room, sun/sewing room , full length of front side of the house front porch, breakfast room/ pantry that later became my youngest brothers bedroom, eat in room off the kitchen area that became our dining room, basement/ laundry room, small walk in porch with closet that my dad finished in ,detached 2 car garage with above garage storage room and my dad didn't make a lot of money and had 6 kids.
Technically Greg's right. Mike and Carol said he couldn't drive the car for a week.. meaning the family car... wait this is Bobbys fault that little drunken sh!t 😅
I used to watch this show all the time when I was a child but I don't remember this episode. I'll assume Mike and Carol eventually gave in and allowed Greg to go to the concert.
Greg finds a loophole : "You mean technically, they aren't my real sisters?"
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Now you know why jane and marcia dont get involved in the reunions.
This is the wholesome content I came here for.
@@Aqua.man045For a long time that was true. But they have embraced it through the years.
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I loved this show as a kid. Now I'm 58 and STILL love it !
LOL I'm now 58 as well and WATCHING THIS CLIP!! LOL LOL
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We literally grew up w this show ! ( high 5 )
Me too
56 and love it too
My mom is also 58 and use to watch this. I'm 35 and watch this. Some things never get old.
Six kids and one bathroom is punishment enough.
And iirc, the bathroom was missing the toilet
@@somethingepic777 There was a bucket in there. Alice would empty it into the back-up outhouse in back.
@@roachtoasties 🤣
He will miss his perm appointment too.
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I liked how Greg tried to butter Mike up looking at the plans, only to get backfired. Proves that Mike knows Greg well.
Greg was reading the plans upside down that’s why Mike knew he was full of crap.
From what I understand there's no toilet in their bathroom.
He knew he was bullshitting, but it didn’t help that he said Dad this is fantastic and it was upside down lol
Lol at the lady in the market with rollers on her head.
He got off easy. My parents would have said, "Okay, wise guy, let's see if you understand this. For the next month, you don't step outside of this house unless we give you permission!"
Mine would have used a belt on me.
@@dirtydragon9not necessarily. It's not against the law to use the belt. Parents get in trouble if the spanking/belting leaves bruises etc.
@@ITIsFunnyDamnITAbusive parents are the lowest.
Why didn't Greg just ask his father to drive him to buy the concert tickets?
One of his architectural projects near the stadium collapsed years ago, killing five, and thus he doesn't like to go anywhere near the stadium.
That's gay.
Because then the episode would only be 3 minutes long
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LOL, it wasn't in the script, wink.
Carol's full shopping cart: $18.54.
With 20 lbs of ground beef.
I saw a statistic where the average salary in 1968 would be the equivalent of over $100,000 in 2023. The average income today is 48,000 which means we have lost over 52% of our spending power.
@@henrywallacesghost5883 Bingo! Inflation and devaluation. All by design, of course.
@@henrywallacesghost5883 Tons of household would get a new car every year, or every two years if they had struggles. Nowadays they have to squeeze every bit of life out of a car, hoping it doesn't turn into garbage before they can. That's not to say cars didn't turn into rust buckets back then either.
@@henrywallacesghost5883 Ummm, no, the avg salary in 1968 equals more like $36,000 today.
This should go to the Supreme Court.
Mike really kept his cool about the situation.
because he wasn't specific. . .
Loophole detected: “except for school you are not to leave this house.” So if he goes to school, then from school to the concert… TECHNICALLY he did what he was told. 😆😆
Greg's father said he could not leave the house for the next 10 days. He didn't say anything about the next 10 nights. There's another loophole lol.
next punishment is we'll make you un-perm your hair, young man!
I would have taken "punishment" from Marsha any day!
Don’t even joke about that. Perm is life in that family.
Greg fooled around and found out.
You have to say fooled because it's a family show. 😊
Greg fooled around with Marsha too.
Is this the one where Greg calls the stadium to make bomb threats to postpone the concert till he's no longer grounded?
No, Marcia did that. This is the one where Greg sends anthrax to the band’s management to delay the concert.
Once I was taking an evening class that met every Tuesday. One of my classmates sent around an e-petition to move next week's class to another day because his boss was making him work late and he would have to miss the class. The teacher said that couldn't be done. So I sent an e-petition to my classmates to get the commissioner of major league baseball to move this year's All Star game to another day so I wouldn't have to miss seeing it live.
No no no, he pays Bobby $5 to call in the threat.
When Mike asked Greg if he went and got tickets, Greg nervously looked at Carol. He knew something was wrong.
Yes he was relieved. He thought Robert Reed was going to confront him about his date with Florence the night before....or with Maureen in the attic.
Whew!
Well spotted, detective.
He knew EXACTLY what they meant.
Robert Reed is so sincere, genuinely thoughtful but powerful.
A little scene, a joke of a show and he never missed a beat.
The origin of the "Exact Words" TV Trope
If I were grounded for 10 days, I wouldn't waste my time or my parents' time arguing about it, I would wait out those 10 days without fuss. Man up, Greg! You brought this one on yourself!
Greggy trying to butter up Mike is embarrassing. Mike would never fall for that.
Exactly!!!
Just as entertaining to watch as when I was a little kid watching reruns. Interesting that it was still a popular show on tv in the 90s.
When Carol and George's mother met in the store, it's a wonder that it didn't occur to George's mother that Carol had their car, and that would be why Greg borrowed George's car. She, of course did not know that Greg was not supposed to drive. When Mike reminded Greg that he was grounded when Greg asked for an exception to use the car, being grounded usually means not leaving the property, if not the house.
Good point 👍
Greg should have just bought the tickets online. That way he would have saved all that trouble. Silly guy!
And he could just get an Uber to the concert
Only one problem. They’re in the 1970s, so no internet yet.
Lesson, even Johnny Bravo went through rebellion 🤪
First he got caught smoking when he joined The Banana Convention.
Yeah, whatever...
I too am 58, and used to watch this show and loved it. But for me, I watched it because I saw this as how a family SHOULD operate. Mine was so far from this reality, with drinking and verbal abuse from my parents being the norm, along with chain smoking, even in the car with us kids inhaling every breath, as the windows were to remain closed. I suspect I wasn't alone either with my childhood reality. I know a lot of kids like me who grew up in the 70s in homes as dysfunctional as mine. We [all of us kids] watched this family [The Bradys] to escape ours. Sad but very true!
It's why I watched all family shows like this, family Affair, Leave it to Beaver, The Nelsons...etc. But it was because I was a foster, never adopted, and I wanted to know how a real family was like instead of the here today and gone tomorrow families I stayed with, I'm 63.
That sucks to have that kind of childhood, but remember, all these kids ended up messed up from the fame. behind the camera, they weren't happy like this one bit.
Same thing with me born in 62 grew up in the seventies. My parents were drunks and immoral.
I’ll bet the “Rock Concert” was awfully groovy.
Yeah, I'm sure everyone had a swell time!
@@RocKnight11 Everybody dancing with their thumbs out.
I'm sure he dressed up as Johnny Bravo
@@RocKnight11We didn't say swell in the 70s.
@@professorwiggins3290 100% correct!
I loved this show as a kid. I still love ❤ it!
Who's your favorite character? Mine is Marcia.
thank you
I find it odd that they said their 🚙 when they meant any 🚘
Greg was not only grounded, but his movements were RESTRICTED by Mike and Carol. 😱🙄🤦🏿♂️😂
Well Well Well, Lets see you loophole this one Mr. Smart guy. You can't leave the house EVER!
I make it so annoying on my parents that I am stuck in the house that they make me leave LOL.
"Richie Cunningham" was "Grounded for Life!" on "Happy Days" once!😂🚘🚫🏠B.W.
Greg's father said he could not leave the house for the next 10 days. He didn't say anything about the next 10 nights. There's another loophole lol.
😹 Exactly the show was classic. I said Dad this is Led Zeppelin and I’m going. You can throw me another 28 days. I’m going to that goddamn concert first of all you’re not even my real mom so I’m not gonna listen to u 😹
At least he was excused from going to school.
I’m pretty sure he was going to see the big comebck concert of the Mosquitos, who has just escaped from Gilligan’s Island.
Honestly I think Greg made a good point. I’m 41 now, and don’t have any kids, but if I did,(or if I were Mike in this case) I would have said, “Well technically he’s right, Carol. We never said he couldn’t drive someone else’s car because we didn’t think he’d come up with that. So you pulled one over on us this time, but you are not to leave this house for the rest of your grounding period. And next time we’ll be sure to use exact words the next time we give out punishments.” I don’t think his original punishment was 10 days so I don’t feel any additional punishment was necessary.
i feel the same way.....im on gregs side on this one
Also, they really can't forbid him from driving someone else's car since it is not THEIR car. If someone else is willing to let Greg use their car, there really is nothing they could do about that.
Nowadays the son would tell his dad to F off. It’s scary what we’ve become as a society. Parents aren’t the same anymore. Well at least many aren’t.
I highly doubt it. The kids who are quick to tell a parent to F off generally aren’t being raised by their father.
@@sergioperez2771 I agree but so many kids disrespect their parents to a degree that’s unimaginable today. I grew up with great respect for my parents. They taught me the right way.
So very true!!
Exactly. If I pulled a stunt like this my parents would've drank a bottle of whisky then taken turns waterboarding me before locking me in the cellar for a month.
@@bobwoods1302 You'd have gotten off easy, too!
Greg should have just called for a Lyft!
Hahaha, right.
I guess he could have called a cab.
Actually ride sharing existed back then.
@@dezeraejames9698 For me it was someone's mom or dad driving me and my friends to the mall and back every weekend.
@@RisingTidesAC Me too. I wasn't around during that time; I just know because I watch I Love Lucy, and that show was around before The Brady Bunch.
Back in my day if I did this the next car I got in would be the hearse on my way to the funeral…mine! Lol
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The acting in this show was superb.
They were some of the best kid tv actors ever. They had the chemistry down.
Very true I loved this show
The concert was the upcoming Saturday. And Greg needed tickets right now because it was going to sell out? What an odd amount of time between tickets going on sale and the actual show. 🤔
Ahhh, good catch! It would make more sense if the venue was small, but it was a stadium! You're so right!
I bought concert tickets the week of in the 70s.
However the rock concert this saturday and tickets this week selling out was a fairly consistent teen plot from 1960 to 1980s sitcoms.
Greg could have called for a taxi cab, or taken the bus, or rode his bike to pick up those tickets.
To take a cab to the stadium just to buy concert tickets, the cab ride one way would cost more than the tickets themselves, especially if you live too far from the stadium to walk, or ride your bike there. Plus, some roads you would need to use to get there would be too dangerous to ride a bike on, and bicycles would not be allowed on those roads.
We just had to get to Tower Records down by the Pruneyard Shopping center on Bascom/Campbell Avenue where the concert ticket sales line would snake down the sidewalk! (San Jose CA in the 70’s) Sure miss those days!!
Today a kid would knock his parents out if they tried to do that. 😂
Worse.
Not many teenage kids can knock a dad out. Dads are middle-aged and mean, and they know how to fight dirty. All my adult sons know danged well not to mess with dad.
Only if the kid isn't really theirs. Like if the dad couldn't make pipe to the mom good enough to even get her preggo in the first place he definitely won't put up much of a fight.
“The Rock Concert”. Let’s be honest it was Ozzy biting the heads off of Bats that he was going to see.
It was more then likely the last season since Greg is old enough to drive so 1973 to 1974 This is Pre Ozzy bat biting days. BUt he could have been going to Black Sabbath thou I don't think Greg was cool enough to go to such a great concert like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, or Led Zeppelin. It was more then likely some gay boy band like Bay City Rollers . Greg seemd to be the type to like them over a Awesome Metal band like Sabbath
@@mikekinsella2822 I'm trying to research who Greg would be seeing in 1973 at a Stadium, with his amount of "grooviness" and lack of cool factor. Wings wasnt touring the US. George Harrison and Ravi Shankar were, but arenas. Rolling Stones maybe, but I dont think they had a US tour around that time. I doubt Greg was going to see Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd or David Bowie, Grateful Dead Maybe Led Zeppelin? Most tours during this time was during the Arena concert boom Era.
Elton John or a Stadium festival ala Texxas Jam with a lineup of rock acts is the only thing I can think of.
@@RichV20 My guess is he was going to The Bay City Rollers. Seems the music Greg Brady would think was cool and groovy.NO way it was a real cool band like Led Zeppelin Black Sabbath Deep Purple Yes or Pink Floyd.
@@mikekinsella2822 Thats sounds right up Greg's alley, but the Rollers didn't break in the States until a year after this series ended. They were exploding big time in the UK at this time.
@@RichV20 Perhaps it was KC and the sunshine band? Another band that might fit Gregs type of music taste. NO way Greg would like Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath right?
Sorry, Greg, but I'm afraid I have to agree with your parents on this one.
He could have just ordered the tickets on his smart phone.....oh, yeah lol
Or taken an Uber.
Could have rode his pedal bike to the stadium or took the bus
Sam the butcher would have driven him, or Don Drysdale, Joe Namath, Big Man On Campus, Harvey Clinger, Mike's boss Mr. Philips, Alice's old flame Mark Graison, any one of the Niedermyers, the "good" friend who planted a pack of smokes in Greg's jacket, Jan's boyfriend Harry Glass, Davy Jones or Peter's evil twin Phil Packer. Tons of choices
This was sometime in the early 1970s. It would have been very difficult for Greg to use his smart phone when it hadn't yet been invented.
@@darrenmiles-morland8038 um yeah
Honestly, though we live in a world where you do have to use exact words. And those exact words can come back to bite you!
and that actually came to bite Greg later in the episode.
No means No. How hard is that? Kids tested the boundaries, got caught and got into deeper trouble. That was enough. Not anymore. Those days are gone😢
Whatever you try to get away with.. your parents WILL find out about it!!
If Carol was just telling Mike that she found out about Greg borrowing his friend's car, how would Jann know that Mike wanted to see Greg?
To be fair, Greg was banned from driving for a week, which not only meant that he wasn't allowed to drive the family car, but he wasn't allowed to drive someone else's car either.
Exactly. He knew he wasn’t supposed to drive period.
@@gretchennelson7056 And he got double grounded for disobeying his parents.
Actually Mike only said he couldn't drive the car for a week, he didn't say he couldn't drive at all for a week.
@@kenlompart9905 He knew damn well what they meant. Did you see his face when Carol told him she’d seen George’s mother in the supermarket and she’d mentioned that he’d borrowed George’s car? It was like” ohhhhh SHIT!” He knew exactly what they meant.
@@gretchennelson7056 I didn't say Greg didn't know what Mike meant, I just pointed out technically Greg was right.
Very good episode actually.
Greg look like he was too old to be grounded.
Yet too young to use Reddi-Whip on.
"You live under my roof, you follow my rules!"
Yes this is true. It's only because in real live Greg(Barry) was at least 18 or 19. His character was 16. I googled Barry Williams. Born in September 1954 would make him 18 here.
It was tail end of the series. He was either 17 or 18 in character....and under 20 IRL: 18 or 19.
Series ended with Greg's HS graduation.
Why is Jenny in the grocery store with rollers in her hair, 😂
I’m 50 years old now, but can remember watching the Brady Bunch maybe 40 years ago on channel 56, here in Boston!
The era of groovy belts!
Greg is now filing a restraining order against his parents, and demanding use of the car to go to the concert. The ACLU and SPLC have filed amicus briefs on Gregs behalf stating failure of his parents to comply could result in irreparable harm to Gregs emotional state and could lead to his offing himself.
So the parents get thrown in jail for 30 days and must pay a $10,000 fine and take a “parental sensitivity” training class.
Some generic rock concert! I’ve always loved that! Maybe it was Zeppelin!
Greg was always the rebellious one with the parents 😂
...this Episode aired Jan., 1973... I perused the comments, and I've noticed A LOT of People asking, "...WHAT Rock Concert?..." (1:37); these, were the Top 'Rock' acts (judging by the Top 20 LP Pop charts), that week...my best guess, is *NEIL* .....(cont.)
Carly Simon
WAR
James Taylor
Seals & Crofts
America
Moody Blues
Neil Diamond
Jethro Tull
Cat Stevens
Santana
Loggins & Messina
Carole King
Joni Mitchell
....I excluded Babs, MISS ROSS, Al Green, 5th Dimension & Stevie Wonder & John Denver, for they aren't 'Rock'......but, it COULD be the London Symphony Orchestra doing "Tommy"...I wouldn't put it past Greg! ...ha-HAA! (2:55)
No, it was The Cowsills.
Neil Young?
The Cowsills or The Partridge Family.....in fantasy TV LA it should have been:
The Partridge Family
Josey and the Pussycats
The Archies
The Monkeeys Reunion
Or for Schwartz:
The Mosquitos
The Honey Bees
Could've been The Eagles, Jefferson Airplane, Cher, or up and coming act like Van Halen or Metallica.
@@STho205 It would have been Davey Jones, duh.
Even though Greg was grounded, why couldn't he just ask his father to drive him to the Stadium to pick up the concert tickets????
Good question.
😂😂 Mike wouldn’t fall for that, either
I don't think Greg's character thought like that. Even from ep.1 , Greg always thought of himself as "the man of the house under Dad". I can't see him considering bothering his parents to drive him to get rock concert tickets.
Mike knew where Greg wanted to go and what he wanted to do, because Greg asked him if he could use the car for that. If Mike were willing to drive him, he would have offered.
@@lindac7966 Yes, thank you! It would be pure gall on the kid's part to do that. Cannot believe people think it would be fine to ask for a ride from Dad after the stunt he just pulled with driving.
Mike: “you’re not to drive the car for a week.”
Greg: “hmmmmmm…….I can push it!”
ABSOLUTELY this is how I was raised. Remember in Season 1 or 2 where Greg gets a D and he turns around 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.
Greg will forever be Johnny Bravo
He fit the suit.
@@Tim_the_EnchanterFar out!
Outta sight
These days Mike will tell him to ride a bike or take the bus.
Or use Uber.
Mike rip
I didnt know I couldnt take an UBER?!
🤣 Haha. Greg.
Peter would never do such a thing.
Kids today don’t want to drive. Or really even leave the house. 😆 Exceptional my a**
Everyone talks about Cindy tattling, but in this case it was Bobby who tattled.
Looks like Carol was the snitch today though!
@@loveforeignaccents No Carol was only doing what any responsible mother would do when a child willingly disrespected their father and said “f you to his word”.
@@1906tpir Yeah, my comment was meant to be taken as a joke, as we have had comments over the past few weeks about Cindy being a snitch, then Bobby being a snitch. Perhaps I should have put a smiley face after my statement.
@@loveforeignaccentsone episode had Greg trick Peter and Bobby into thinking a UFO was real to get even with them for telling their parents he got home late one night and Marcia loved it because they squealed on her too so it looks like Cindy is not the only snitch in the house even though that was a part of her character and snitching seems like an annoying younger siblings things Peter has eavesdropped on his siblings before but squeal on them he seems too old for that
@@tamyasaunders7689 Oh, yeah, I slightly remember the UFO incident. Hope this channel uploads it soon!!
Mr Brady drops the HAMMER.
Fortunately that’s all he dropped
They should have had a set number of family games ( like 5 or 7) , with a winner of each game. The last game would have determined the winner of the attic room. That would have been a fun episode and truly been fair.
What if he had asked his dad to drive down there to get the tickets?
That was a pretty funny loophole i must admit 🤣
Greg wasn't wrong.
He knew what his parents meant, and he was trying to play word games with them. Mike and Carol went easy on him. My parents would have extended the grounding at least another week, and probably more.
Greg was too fine to be wrong!!😋😋😋
It's so strange to think there was a time not long ago that the image of a housewife was literally a woman who goes to the market in curlers!
And such a choice to have the actress PARTIALLY in curlers while the rest of her hair was a frizzy mess! I guess they were trying to make her look like a "harried housewife" lolol
You see much worse at Walmart these days. And some of those things have 4 or 5 spawn following them.
What was she "harried" about? Was Alice on vacation?
Greg eventually went to the concert after he talked to producer Sherwood Schwartz and told him to throw his dad off the show. 🤣
😂
Robert Reed was written out of the last episode of the series because he had a loud argument with Schwartz. Names were called. Some alcohol may have been involved.
The parents on Lost in Space had the same situation. They, actual serious actors, refused to do the walking vegetable episode which was the last one filmed.
Too bad he went to the concert with orange hair
Robert Reed was the perfect tv dad
Hmmmmmm
He is 100% right. Smart kidd.
I'm on Greg's side. Mike Brady said "you cannot drive the car for one week." It was for a specific car, not any car. Of course, in 2024, there's no need to go around looking for a car to borrow. Just steal one and then abandon it somewhere. Mr. and Mrs. Brady would have never known, and Greg gets to go to the concert. 🙃🙂🤪 How old is Greg Brady (Barry Williams) in this episode? This one looks to be in The Brady Bunch's later seasons. He must be 18 or 19. Isn't that kind of old to ground your kids? Anyway, I'm trying to remember the rest of the episode. Wasn't there some emergency, like the entire family were having heart attacks and he had to drive everyone to the hospital to save their lives? Torn between letting the car sit in the driveway or The Brady Bunch being cancelled because they're all dead, he drove the car.
You're never too old to be grounded when you're living in your parent's home, and they're paying your way.
Grag was grounded for driving the car too fast and almost causing an accident.
Actually it was for not paying attention while driving, they found out he was looking at a record cover he just bought and almost got into an accident.
@@kenlompart9905 little brother Bobby told the parents what Greg was doing.
Greg Brady later figured out that technically, Marcia wasn't his real sister. 😜😜😜
Buttering up Dad never works LOL!! 🧈
That was nice of Jenny (curlers lady at supermarket) to offer to drive Carol
home with her own groceries and Carols groceries for 9 people LOL! What
does Jenny drive, a semi truck?? Great scene.
And did she think Mrs. B was going to walk home toting all those groceries????
Trunks in cars back then were huge.
Our family car was 1972 Pontiac Grand Safari station wagon. We once squeezed 13 Cub Scouts and two nerve-rattled den mothers in it.
@@yossarian6799Lol! That's hilarious! Station wagons rocked! We had 1977 Ford station wagon that had electric windows and locks. That was a big big deal for us kids at the time. Haha 😅❤😊
@@yossarian6799 I _wished_ we had a station wagon in the 70s! We had a Ford Fairlane with no A/C and we lived in the South! It sweltered in summer in that hot box! But the front and back seats were like sofas LOL!
Exact words! Very important!
2:30 Sounds reasonable to me. Mr. & Mrs. Brady did say that Greg couldn’t drive the family car. However, they didn’t say that Greg couldn’t drive ANY car. So, who’s the bad person here? 🤷♂️
His parents believe he knew what they meant Mr Brady forbade him to use the car to think about is driving habits because he almost got him and Bobby in an accident if he drove a car that would still mean he isn't taking his punishment seriously but he did it use a loophole on them.
Ahhh Bill Clinton logic.
I'm with Greg on this one, he specifically said he couldn't drive their car, I think he has grounds for a successful appeal 😉
Greg should have threatened to sing and wear his johnny bravo costume around the house for 10 days!
Cannot stand Greg in this episode. What a slime ball, and so transparent in trying to ingratiate himself into Mike's favor by feigning interest in the design plans. ((dry heave)) LOL
Greg tried an "Eddie Haskell" move of trying to sweet-talk his dad. Unfortunately for Greg, Mike saw through the scam. Mike was a teenager once, so he knew the tricks.
Agreed, slime ball move, but when Mike said "forget it" Greg should have said "next time design a house with a toilet in it man"
Greg was only parroting the strict textualism of his judicial hero, William Rehnquist, who was new to the bench when this episode aired.
Oh the curlers....😮
Back when I was 15, I actually considered getting that hairstyle. Mom talked me out of it. 😂
My mother use to wear curlers to the grocery store to
Greg is right. Parents should be clear on what they mean. He should have said no driving. My dad was always very clear with what he meant and we never had this problem. If I found a loophole, it was good for me.
Love it! ❤ 😂
I wonder what artist Greg was planning to go see at the rock concert 🤔 maybe Elton John Lol 😂
Bread?
@@MisterMikeTexas Butter?
Even if Greg did call Rachel and asked her to buy the tickets from the stadium (either to go herself OR ask her to drive him to the stadium with her car), I still think that would be a loophole too. That is, in addition to asking Alice if he (Greg) could borrow her bus pass or Marcia if he could borrow hers. Rachel would drive too. That is true. If Greg called her and did not go with her (telling Rachel to buy the concert tickets from the stadium by herself), Mike and Carol would've had no problems with that. (That is, even though Greg was grounded from using the car for a week --until Monday.)
This is child abuse. 10 days? Mike didn’t say nights. Loophole
"Mike didn't say nights." Semantics! 😂
Another Robert Reed loophole Greg, pound away
I agree with Greg. He was not allowed to drive the family car, which he didn’t.
At least all the fudge got packed before this episode.
How do you do, fellow kids? Is anyone going to the big rock concert Saturday?
54, certainly different times. Most definitely miss the simple times.
So the punishment all along was You Can’t Go To The Concert. It wasn’t about the car or driving. His parents were going to make sure he missed that concert.
He said he couldn't take the car for a week.He said he couldn't drive their car not drive at all
Greg knew exactly what they meant. He was trying to get off by using semantics.
“Rock concert”
Greg was right he said not to use "our car" But his parents told him not to "drive" Talk about a communication gap.
I found the Brady House a challenge growing up as a kid. That place was huge even for the 70’s it created in my mind a disconnect on what size house the average family had.
TV houses always look bigger without the "fourth wall".
Not really. Although that 4th wall being missing makes it feel.more spacious. The Brady house had 3 upstairs bedrooms , 1 bathroom with no toilet, Alice's bedroom off the kitchen prob with bathroom or 1/2 bath, kitchen, dining room, den , living room, laundry room, Mikes den or office, the attic room that later became Gregs bedroom.,carport or garage.pI grew up in a 2 story home 5 bedrooms 3 with fireplaces, 2 baths , a full length of front side of house living room with fireplace,formal dining room that eventually became the den/TV room, sun/sewing room , full length of front side of the house front porch, breakfast room/ pantry that later became my youngest brothers bedroom, eat in room off the kitchen area that became our dining room, basement/ laundry room, small walk in porch with closet that my dad finished in ,detached 2 car garage with above garage storage room and my dad didn't make a lot of money and had 6 kids.
Huge but only one bathroom for 6 kids.
Technically Greg's right. Mike and Carol said he couldn't drive the car for a week.. meaning the family car... wait this is Bobbys fault that little drunken sh!t 😅
Greg was right.
I used to watch this show all the time when I was a child but I don't remember this episode. I'll assume Mike and Carol eventually gave in and allowed Greg to go to the concert.