Posted on 12/01/2016 2:10:33 PM PST by Lorianne
The show, which ran from 1969-74 on ABC, offered a vision of America that left a lasting civilizational impression on the minds of young viewers, perhaps especially in the non-Western world. Watching reruns in India as a young viewers, perhaps especially in the non-Western world. Watching reruns in India as a young boy, I formed some of my first clear ideas of America from “The Brady Bunch”—rose-tinted ideas, for sure, but also important ones.
Theirs was an irrefutable wholesomeness that was at odds with the tumult outside the Brady home, a conciliatory counterpoint to the America of the Vietnam War. Cynics might say this was propaganda, but why sneer at a show that portrayed an unapologetically stable America that kept going without being torn apart? There was enough rawness on the TV news at the time; you didn’t need the Brady home as a canvas for Vietnam.
The Bradys’ America was a wondrous, clean-cut place: a kitchen with all the modern conveniences; an unruffled but not switched-off mom; an unflappable father who was an architect, a cool job in contrast to the salaried drudges who made up American manhood on TV. All this was presented in carefully curated multicolor, right down to the Brady women’s emphatic blondeness, a symbol of the Old Order in an increasingly multiracial America.
Viewers in the Third World marveled at the egalitarian treatment given to Alice, the housekeeper, a mere “servant.” Those of us with TV sets and maids were disconcerted, wondering why our own help was treated so differently.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Yes I know it was idealized. Yes I know it was unrealistic. Yes I know it was a tv show.
But growing up in suburban Ohio in the 1960s was pretty near idyllic.
L
No half the cast would be gay alice would be an illegal
Too bad daddy was getting some extra at the gay bar.
“But growing up in suburban Ohio in the 1960s was pretty near idyllic.”
I was in the country around Marysville in that era, and you are exactly right. I had an idyllic childhood.
The article also serves as a reminder that those who got on their knees to suck down and swallow whatever came out of the commiescum propaganda spigot during the Vietnam era, and since, still need to be dealt with.
They were enemy then. Since, they’ve wrecked our institutions and produced more enemy through their offspring.
Greg was doin’ his TV Mom.
It’s a mystery to me why that show has endured so well. There were certainly other family-oriented sitcoms at that time. The Brady family was very unpretentious and “normal,” I guess, for one thing.
For some reason, the Brady Bunch stands out as the most memorable to me, and obviously to many others.
Nine people and no toilet
Well, that will never do. You might not have been interested in cultural marxism at the time, but it was certainly interested in you and those around you.
Plus, in 1965, the Rats opened the floodgates to third world immigration into the US.
It's been downhill since then.
All goodwill this show gave the world was demolished by Cousin Oliver showing up there at the end of the run
Unless you are a lefty what in hell is wrong with wholesome?
I wouldn’t watch The Brady Bunch today, but I can still enjoy Petticoat Junction.
I know. But cut me some slack. I was 9.
LOL.
L
"Jindal's nickname dates to his childhood identification with Bobby Brady, an ABC sitcom character. He has said, "Every day after school, I'd come home and I'd watch The Brady Bunch. And I identified with Bobby, you know? He was about my age, and 'Bobby' stuck."[195] He has been known by his nickname ever since, though his legal name remains Piyush Jindal.[196]" -- wikipedia
Yes, I get it also. But I am really pissed at the leftists who have destroyed this country.
I don't care how "square" they were, they were fun, and they addressed many family conflicts.
I remember how Mike Brady was a very fair, but *strict* dad.
One episode Greg was being punished and somehow tried to weasel his way out of it by using some "technicality".
Mike said: "I think you know very well what we meant by what we said. But if you want to play it that way, we'll hold you to it."
His discipline was awesome.
Much like if a liberal screws up, make them play by their own rules.
Yes, I KNOW Robert Reed was a freak off screen, but he played a true "dad" on-screen.
I used to wish my own dad was that way.
Fair, but still holding me up to doing the right thing.
Even if I didn't like it.
But the girls’ bedroom ran at least 3/4 around the whole house!
(In various episodes, the girls could see the front yard, the back yard, and at least one side yard from their bedroom).
“Greg was doin’ his TV Mom.”
No he wasn’t, fool.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.