The Brady Bunch Variety Show - Episode 1
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- The Brady's return to television with their very own variety show and realize that their father Mike Brady (Robert Reed) is "stinking up the act." Starring Florence Henderson, Barry Williams, Chris Knight, Maureen McCormick, Mike Lookinland, Susan Olsen and Geri Reischel as fake Jan. Guest Stars: Donny and Marie Osmond, Tony Randall, Ann B. Davis and the Krofftetts and Water Follies.
This is the 70's-est thing that has ever 70's-ed.
even by 70s standards when this was new it was considered cringe.
Then you haven't seen that 70s Liberace special with the mod dancers and him trying to sing popular songs like Feeling Groovy...wearing this crazy flower power outfit.
This was a bit before my time but I have seen the reruns of the Brady Bunch. This seems very odd even for this time. Or any time. Like really odd.
That's a mouthful right there! 😝😝😝😝😝
😂😂😂
Kudos to Eve Plumb for staying far away from this disaster.
I love Geri Reichel playing Fake Jan. Did you know January 2nd is Fake Jan Day?
You celebrate with a good cheese ball.
nah she was unavailable because she was filming the tv movie 'Dawn Portrait Of A Teenage Runaway'....which was pretty good at least they have 'fake Jan' to fill in the role
"That happened, and we all let it happen." - Peter Griffin
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Her father kept her away
Right up there with the Star Wars Christmas special.
The Star Wars Christmas Special had more class than this (and it had none).
I dunno. At least I understood the first 20 minutes of this. Maybe that's the drawback. 😂
😆😆😆😆
Don't you mean, down there?
The SW Holiday Special got the Rifftrax treatment. No reason why this shouldn’t! 😂
Jumping on the Sonny & Cher, Donnie & Marie and Carol Burnett train but this one jumped the tracks and derailed😂😂😂
As a huuuuge fan of The Brady Bunch sitcom, I must agree!
Red Foreman: "Who gave those people an entire hour?"
❤I’m here because 47 years ago I was in labor and had just checked into the hospital. All settled in and the tv in my room was on,and this is what was on. Just a memory 😊. That said,tonight I am sitting here with my beautiful daughter born that night. Happy Birthday My Ginger 🩷
Cool memory!
Ok
@@jat6547 are you jelly😂
2/11/24
Of The Brady Bunch. ? Really ? Funny
Lovely story! ❤️💕♥️
WOW! It's like taking LSD.....without actually taking LSD.
😂
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🤣😂
If I had an LSD trip that was anything like this I would consider that a pretty bad trip.
@@billhosko7723?????? 🥴
Maureen McCormick won the genetic lottery
So hot!
I like that I thought Bobby looked a bit like Chaka from Land of the lost
LoL!
😅
Nailed it!
Can't unsee that now.
They are actually pretty good actors- very entertaining!
People calling this horrible but honestly I love this so much.
It is sooo bad but I love it!! I grew up with The Brady Bunch on reruns 💗
@@kiranolan7104 same!!
I wanted to be Marcia so bad and had a crush on Peter and Greg.
Same
Pure entertainment
Lol, awful and cringeworthy for sure, but it immediately takes me right back to that place and time . . the nostalgia is deep.
You've got the cutest little baby face. There ain't nobody can ever take your place. Unless you're Jan-- you've been replaced.
Get off Jan's case. If she was here she would spray you with mace. But overall this show is a waste.
What you talking about Willis
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
Poor Jan.
😂
Those Man perms!!!
The Man perms made them look like poodles.
Well....it's official....I'm now hopelessly insane.
Welcome to the club 😜
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was that a moment from Grease, hopelessly devoted, never mind
This is soooooooooo bad that it’s absolute f**king GENIUS. I remember watching copy of this on VHS back in the early ‘90s and watching it in altered states. A life-changing experience.
If I watched the clown part on acid I would have never come out of that bad trip
Peter him a date.
Clean up your mouth you piece of trash. That’s what I like about the 70’s. We didn’t go around cussing like these losers today. We had parents that showed us how to have respect.
This has to be at the apex of 70’s variety shows. The over the top outfits the corny jokes and dance routines. Yet for its time it was a hit. As a little kid I remember seeing this episode when it was first run.
Sid and Marty Krofft could do no wrong.
Clean, fresh.... intended corny fun. Thank you for posting.
no tattoos
Brady boys hair giving Land of the Lost vibes.
The world's entire supply of glitter was used for this programme
Poor Robert Reed. He was a classically trained actor.
What's funny is that he was actually EXCITED to do the variety hour! In fact, I could be wrong, but it might be the only Brady-related project he was actually happy to do.
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He wanted to sing and dance.
You can’t keep an old queen down!
"Actors" are just professional deceivers...it's in the name!
This is up there with the Star Wars Holiday Special. 😂
I disagree. Star Wars Holiday special was 100 times worse.
As much as Robert Reed hated doing The Brady Bunch, he was the first one to sign up to this show. He said he missed the kids.
I was 11 when this first aired. I remember thinking to myself “what the heck is this”. I thought it was the dumbest thing I’d ever seen.
And you were right 😅
Same, I think I made it through 5 minutes then pouted as my sisters insisted on watching it on the family TV, and I had to go read a book. Simpler times!😊
I was 10 and over the moon for this variety show! It was advertised for weeks before and I marked it on the calendar. We didn’t have VCR’s back then so if you missed it, that was it. My whole class was so excited that day and couldn’t wait for that evening 😂
Did anybody else fast-forward through this thing just to pick out the scenes with Marsha?😅
Did anyone not do that? 😄 The hover scan over the red time-line works well.
Florence Henderson had a beautiful voice!! She is missed..
4:56 Marcia: Yeah! Why can't Jan be dead?!
Marcia being cold to Jan, again.
The cheese factor is off the charts. But I can’t stop watching this!
Marsha saying "Yeah, why can't Jan be dead?!?"... was a dark moment.
So funny!😂
Guess that explains why Eve Plumb is missing. 🤷♂️
That was crazy!😮
God bless Geri Reischl, Jan #2, the only replacement cast member capable back then of making me say "Marsha who?" Wonderful singer as well.
The BB theme done on kazoo, really sets the stage for the show.
Haha! Yeah, that was beyond goofy!! I almost can’t watch this.
At first I thought this was a SNL skit 😂😂😂😂
18:42 Greg fell! 😂
They did pretty good considering they probably hadn’t done tons of roller skating…
I would love to see the entire series released.
Greg falling down unplanned, during the roller skating number, a fake Jan, underwater clowns? Yup, pretty scary.
But Maureen McCormick was just plain 🔥🔥🔥! Lol
@@pjjacunski7979 She was big time into cocaine at that time.
@@lullarmstrong3423 did not know that. Yet for some reason, not at all surprised
Camp at its best….
@@lullarmstrong3423 I recall Greg doing drugs during the original show..as he grew older...there were times he had a far off look in his eyes and you could tell he was on something...for Example in the episode when he worked with Sam at his Meat shop.. when he was hired to be the delvery boy...during the scene you could tell he had been on something by the look in his eyes.
Their chemistry! So corny-fabulous! Beautiful routines and costumes. Talented.
Greg Banana
I grew up with the Brady Bunch and love them oh, never saw this crap though
What about The Brady Kids?
I loved it in reruns. My.
Parents though never would have watched a variety show like this. They were into classical, opera, big band. This never would have seen the light of day. 😂
I'm sure someone down the line has mentioned this, but Robert Reid, who had written memo after memo to the Schwartz's complaining about Brady Bunch scripts, loved the variety show! They were all stunned.
Proof right here that The Osmonds were better across the board at variety show business. The Brady Bunch had only one better bit using the pool rather than ice angels.
Robert Reed really looked quite thrilled to have an outlet like this to vent his “inner flamboyant.”
Gotta say Greg looked pretty happy too.
yup, Bob was coming out!
LOL
Hah! 😂
This show was awesome! ❤
They must have been desperate for money
Just turned 55 and I have never seen this show. Don't know what possessed me to watch this now, other than it came up in my suggestions.
Same 😂
It was ludicrous - but fun! I'd never heard of this before either... and I'm 58.
Robert Reed really needed a drink.
We all needed a drink after watching it, so I don't hold that against him. He had to be in it.
The Brady Bunch is a TV classic. I can’t get enough of those kids just took me back to the 80s. Those were the cool days. Today’s generation shows are not the same going back in the day is better no drama can you dig it?
You're absolutely RIGHT
70s
@@michelebazinet9003 the Brady Bunch is a 80s classic television show. This took me back to Hollywood.
The brady bunch tv show debuted in September 1969 and it's last episode aired in March 1974.
Maybe you are referring to having watched syndicated reruns of the show in the 1980s? I did that from the 1970s-1980s.
Or maybe you're referring to The Brady Brides? That originally aired in the 1980s.
@@lowbridge7070 dant, dant dant, dant!
This bombed because cousin Oliver wasn't included. There, I said it and I'm not taking it back!
What i will love forever, is they loved each other.
Except for Marcia, wanting Jan to be dead. 4:56
It's going to take a lot of beer to forget this ever happened.
Well, there's no time like the present to get started.
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@@billhosko7723 Nein, nur ein entfurtner Cousin.
Who here noticed Greg biting the dust at 18:40 while skating?
I noticed. 😂 And whomever posted cut out most of his solo song. Greg couldn't catch a break.
@@blu48 yeah, poor Greg. I'd have rather seen that song than those bizarre clowns in the pool.
WHERE WAS JAN ??? YOU CANNOT HAVE A FILL IN BONEHEADS!!!RIDICULOUS FOR THEM TO EVEN TRY ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS!!
She was the only one smart enough to steer clear of this train wreck. She was making a TV movie called Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway that was very favorably reviewed by critics
I only watched because wanted to see marcia
Yes, and she was absolutely at her peak here, as hot as ever.
This variety show needed some Sleestaks
I’m glad Robert reed was still alive when he did this
😂😂😂😂
Wow 😂
Just his career was dead
This was a terrible bomb. When The Brady Bunch was finally canceled they should have just left it all alone.
I would have to be pretty high to agree to do this. I would also be pretty high if I realized I was one of the Brady family.
I was a kid in the 70’s. Variety shows were fun. The Brady Bunch was fine. But a variety show where they act as the characters they once played on tv is weird.
I never knew until now that this was a Sid & Marty Krofft show. I was always surprised that with all the complaining Bob Reed did during The Brady Bunch series that he agreed to do this show.
The reason this may be called 'horrible' because the actors were given material was beyond their capabilities. They would have to be at the level of the old Saturday Night Live level of comedian.
Also, I can guarantee you that every major figure in this TV production was coked out of their mind.
Synchronized swimming clowns!!! That’s just ONE of the reasons this was horrible.
Lol I grew up in the 70's I watched this every weekend the Hudson brothers too
Both shows are awful. 😖 🤮
This was only a six episode Summer replacement.
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The Hudson Brothers were great! The Adventures Of Chucky Margolis, The Island Of Pagi Pagi, and Rod Hull and Emu!
Barry Williams a legend in his own mind
He thought he was the new Elvis. In fact he was a 3rd rate David Cassidy.
@@jaengen4th rate Danny Bonaduce extra.
I think he thought he was the next David Cassidy
the dude hooked up with marcia brady so as far as I'm concerned he is
Alice shaking her booty made me chuckle 🤭
I was obsessed with the Bradys until I saw this....was that pool bit in the opening if the 2nd half supposed to be funny? Evd Plumb had the right idea steering clear of this piece of junk.
This is so wonderfully bizzare. The variety show was big at the time but it was always Dean Martin, the Osmonds or whoever as the ringmaster. Here the actors are playing their TV characters hosting a variety show. Tony Randall, as himself, adresses' his fellow actors as the characters and its convincing. Its a mindf*** and I'm not sure anyone else was doing a variety show in quite this way.
Also you can tell Florence Henderson was working in her sweet spot. Her skill set was perfect for the variety show and I bet she loved doing those show tunes.
love it. Remember watching back in the 70's
Fake Jan was gorgeous!
Fake Jan also had a good singing voice.
Still fake
fake jan always freaks me out
Wonder what happened with Eve Plumb😊
@@AntiHolyChrist She was in the brotherhood of satan.
For those who don't know "up your nose with a rubber hose" became a catch-phrase after it was used a few times on Welcome Back Kotter as an insult the Sweathogs liked to say.
oww!! my eyes! my eyes! my ears!! So bad that it's good!!
They sing 🎤, they dance 🕺 💃 , they do the old soft shoe 👞.
Wow this was embarrassing even then. I remember
The Osmonds were slumming it.😅
Love this tho. Mindless entertainment. Fake Jan is the best fake Brady because you know she appreciated her time with these people.
All this glorious disaster needed was Cousin Oliver. He would have solved everything.
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Or cousin Itt!
Wish there were more shows like this on air today!!
Yeah it may be corny but at least it's not overrun with bl*cks
There are no words to describe this show
Awful
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And this is part of why every brady kid never got good legit acting roles ever again. Just waited for the next brady gig. What a cringe fest
Where’s the episode with Charles Manson?
I’m going to take that other hit of acid now. Thanks.
Went from the Brady Bunch to the Singing Bunch. How corny and pathetic.
There was just this unfortunate phase in the 70s where every TV actor thought they could sing. Remember the William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy albums?
Fake Jan is the only talented Brady kid. She sings & dances.
An insane fever dream. The lack of actual entertainment/talent is staggering.
ha, my thoughts too, they seemed nice enough. I hate to offend older folks but some of this is rather cringey, the whole clowns jumping in the pool scene seemed unnecessary.
I think the raw talent is there, but this vehicle simply didn't serve them as well as the original sitcom did. Barry Williams and Flo Henderson actually have forged careers in musical theater, and Maureen McCormick has recorded at least one album.
@@tylerm0089 Of course it's totally cornball and hokey. But still, at least it was real voices and not the pitch-corrected junk that is put out these days that eliminates the subtleties and uniqueness of the human voice.
Couldn't agree with you more though about the clowns in the pool. That was one of the worst things I've ever seen that was supposed to be "entertainment."
It's the Brady and it was the 70's what more can you ask for except for the original Jan!
We were laughing so hard as kids at this! So nerdy, hoaky, lol....
Ah, the 70's - with the endless variety shows. Those were the days . . .
This is worth the view just for the costumes 😉
The 70s weren't all that bad. On second thoughts, maybe they were.
I love everything about the 1970's!!!!!!!!!!!!!
31:00 "Greg's" song was cut. I wonder why....
Could not have been worse than the insane clowns in the pool. I enjoyed the campiness of most of this, but that was a miss.
Who in the F is Geri? 😂
The Brady Bunch was a never a ratings hit for ABC even though it was a 8PM lead in for popular shows like The Partridge Family and The Six Million Dollar Man. After it was cancelled it became a huge hit in syndication and this was ABC's desperate and poorly planned attempt to cash in on that.
Is it it me or are those background sets the same ones used from the "Electric Company" show?
Greg trying to look he man with his shirt unbuttoned 😮😮😅
Now I have been thoroughly entertained beyond comprehension.
So Robert Reed couldn't get away fast enough from the original series (because it wasn't serious enough) but signed up for this schtick?
I'm obsessed with fake Jan
Did you have to make the Sid & Marty Kroft archives logo so HUGE?? takes up a the whole corner and totally ruins the viewing experience. Biggest one I ever seen on youtube and completely unnecessary and obnoxious. Will not be subscribing nor viewing any more content from this channel. I'll find it for free elsewhere on internet
Was absolutely everyone on drugs during the 1970's ? Or mainly Hollywood ?
Everyone was. That’s why the 70’s were so fabulous!
This show died a merciful death in its first season. Garbage. Absolute garbage.
I enjoyed this.
Marcia really had that coke jaw going at 17:05
Even as a nine year old spazz I knew this was an abomination. Ugh. Sid and Marty were pretty tacky.
I wonder if they froze that pool into the ice rink for the first episode of Donny and Marie
It's a possibility
😮I was one of the few boy's who had a crush on Jan so I missed Eve
Man, I miss the 70s
I loved the Brady Bunch but this is cringe.
I remember watching this when it first aired in Australia in the 1970s. I liked it then. We only had 4 TV stations then and any variety show was good to watch.
cringe
Bunch of hipsters!!