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This is my review of Brady Bunch episode number 14. It was one of my favorite episodes as a kid. It’s about Marcia crying a lot. It’s also about her nominating her new step-dad for Father of the Year. She has to sneak around and climb out windows in the middle of the night to make this all work. She gets caught and gets grounded. She gets pissed off and cries a lot. She doesn’t get to go skiing with the family. Boo hoo. But as in true Brady style, everything works out in the end. This episode is called “Father of the Year” and originally aired on January 2, 1970. Enjoy.

The show opens with Mike on his way out the door to give a speech. Marcia runs up whining. “Daddy! I need help!” You can say that again, sister. Marcia needs help with math and I guess Carol is too stupid to help. Mike tells Marcia that he needs to be at a meeting. She gives him an ugly ass pouty face and Mike decides to stay. Yeah, right.

Marcia is cleaning up the newspapers in the family room when she notices an article about Father of the Year. Cut to Thindy waking up in bed late at night. She gets out of bed and wakes Jan to tell her that Marcia isn’t in bed. They decide to go looking for her. They sneak into the kitchen where they find Carol and Alice ironing. They suspiciously go over and get a drink of water. When Carol asks if the faucet upstairs isn’t working, Jan tells her the water downstairs tastes groovier. Thupid Thindy says “It’s wetter”. Smort.

Jan and Cindy continue their search for Marcia and finally locate her in Mike’s den. Cindy bursts in and says “We’re not thuppothed to play in here!” Marcia wasn’t playing. She was writing a sappy Father of the Year letter. Jan and Cindy try to get the letter Marcia is writing away from her (they think it’s a love letter to Felix Brown) and hilarity ensues. Mike walks into his office and slams the door. Uh oh. Bitch slappin’ time. Mike sends Jan and Cindy back to bed and starts asking Marcia questions. She told her dad she was in his office without permission because it was the only place she could find privacy. Uh….what about the bathroom? Marcia starts to walk out of the office all pouty when Mike reminds her of their slogan. “A wise man forgets his anger before he lies down to sleep.” Stupid. Mike then knocks over the bottle of white out Marcia was using and it goes all over the place. He’s an unhappy pappy.

Mike assigns a bunch of extra chores as punishment for Marcia. She doesn’t do any of them because she’s busy working on her letter for the contest. Mike gets tougher with her and grounds her for a week. Marcia doesn’t like that and crumples up her letter and throws it away. While lying awake at night, she has a change of heart. She gets out of bed and takes the crumpled letter out of the trash and continues writing. She finishes the letter and then reads the newspaper article again. It turns out the letter has to be mailed now! Oh my gosh! Marcia climbs out the window and I guess goes to a mailbox. I don’t get that. It’s not going to get postmarked that day. The mail would have already been picked up. Maybe she went down to the Chronicle building. Whatever.

Mike and Carol are headed to bed and decide to check in on the kids. They discover Marcia is missing. She could have been going poop. Oh wait, there was no toilet. They wake Jan and ask if she knows where Marcia is. Marcia then pops her head in the window and says, “Here I am, Mommy.” Mike really punishes her this time. The whole family is going skiing over the weekend and Marcia doesn’t get to go. So there!

Cut to a bunch of suits at the Daily Chronicle trying to decide which letter to pick for Father of the Year. They’ve narrowed it down to three people. How come Marcia’s letter isn’t all crumpled up when they show it? It’s nicely folded in thirds. She crumpled it all up before sending it. Mmm…….

Marcia sadly watches from her bedroom window as the kids teach Alice how to ski for the upcoming ski trip. Marcia looks like a sad puppy dog. The kids are having fun because Alice is such a goof. Marcia starts crying. I think she may be the ugliest person crying ever. I don’t think she’s an ugly person, but her cry face is bad.

Jan and Cindy try to cheer Marcia up. Jan tells Cindy ahead of time not to mention the ski trip. The first thing Thindy says (in her super short dress) is “Too bad you’re not going skiing”. Marcia runs into the bathroom to cry (or poop). Jan says to Cindy “Do you know who’s got the biggest mouth in the whole wide world next to you? Nobody!” Way to tell her off!

The crew from the local television station (KTRY) arrives at the Brady home. The only info they’ve given Carol is that Mr. Brady has won an award. Hamilton Samuels from the Daily Chronicle presents Mike with his Father of the Year plaque. When it’s revealed that Marcia is the one who entered the contest, Mike starts to realize that all the acting out she did was for this. I still get goosebumps when that happens. Robert Reed looks gorgeous in this episode. Father and daughter hug. Mike declares that Marcia is now his favorite child. The end.

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When this boy meets world, boy meets world
Wandering down this road, that we call life
Is what we’re doin’
It’s good to know I have friends that will always
Stand by me
When this boy meets world.

I loved TGIF back in the 90′s. It was a great time. Although I probably should have been out partying and dating like most people my age, I preferred to plop my butt in front of the TV. Some of the shows on the Friday night line up were Perfect Strangers, Full House, Family Matters (I love Jaleel White!), Step by Step, Mr. Belvedere, and Just the Ten of Us. This blog is about Boy Meets World, another TGIF show.

Boy Meets World centered around Cory Matthews (played by Ben Savage) and his buddy Shawn Hunter (played by Rider Strong). Both boys became teen idols in the mid 90′s. Many color pinups and posters could be found of them in Teen Beat, Tiger Beat, Bop, and other teen magazines. Even though Ben Savage played the main character on the show, I think Rider Strong was more popular as a teen idol.

Boy Meets World ran from 1993 to 2000 on ABC and had many great characters during those years. Cory’s brother Eric was played by Will Friedle who was friggin’ hilarious. I think he was my favorite character on the show. Now in his mid 30′s, I fear he’s balding and overweight. I haven’t seen him. It’s just a suspicion.

Cory’s girlfriend Topanga Lawrence was played by Danielle Fishel. She looked like a weeble wobble. Her boobs always seemed huge and pushed up in her face. She dated ‘N Sync member, Lance Bass. Confused.

Shawn’s half brother, Jack Hunter, showed up in the fifth season. Jack was played by hunky Matthew Lawrence, another teen idol. Matt is the younger brother of Joey Lawrence. Lots of hotness in that family. I thought Matt did a great job, especially when paired with Will Friedle.

Some of the guest stars over the years were:

• Larisa Oleynik
• Jason Marsden
• Will Estes
• Sam Horrigan
• Micky Dolenz
• Josh Keaton
• Brittany Murphy
• Peter Tork
• John O’Hurley
• Jonathan Jackson

I don’t see Boy Meets World anymore when I’m channel surfing. I know that Disney owns the rights and that they edited the show to make it kid Disney friendly. I can’t believe they had to edit Boy Meets World. Whatever.

The first three seasons were released on DVD but due to dismal sales, the remaining seasons were not released. The first three seasons are also out of print now. Go sell them on eBay if you own them and make some money! There are rumors that those seasons are going to be re-released in a few months. Maybe I’ll buy them.

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Welcome to my Brady world! Why isn’t this show on in reruns anymore? I own every DVD ever made, but it would be nice to see it while channel surfing. Anyway, this is my expert critique of episode number 11. This episode is called “Vote for Brady” and originally aired on December 12, 1969. Greg and Marcia both compete for class president at their school. It’s boys against the girls again in the Brady household!

The show opens with Carol and Alice gardening in the fake backyard. Marcia runs in yelling “Mother, Mother!” Who the hell calls their mom “Mother”? Can you please pass the grey poupon? Marcia is all excited because she’s been nominated for president of the student body. Greg then runs in with his big ole alien eyes and says the same thing. Both Brady kids have been nominated to run against each other for president. Uh oh!

The fighting starts almost immediately with Greg and Marcia. They start screaming at each other over the use of the phone. Maybe it’s time for the pay phone again. Marcia gets pissed at Greg and slams the phone down. Mike bitch slaps her. And when I say bitch slap, I mean he lectures her.

The next scene is in the boys’ bedroom and shows Peter and Bobby fighting with Jan and Cindy over who will make the better president. There’s a hippity hop there. I loved those as a kid. I just saw an adult one for sale on eBay. I think I’ll get one and hop around my house and scare my dog. Anyhoo……

Mike and Carol decide to let Greg and Marcia know they’re not taking sides and that they’ll be there if they need them. Mike shows Greg how to use a tape recorder. That seems funny. Weren’t tape recorders common in 1969? Greg goes to show off his groovy cassette player at school the next day but realizes the tape has been erased. That dastardly Marcia! Of course he blames Marcia, but he probably screwed it up himself.

Marcia and Greg are all pissy at each other again. Marcia thinks Greg took the plans for her campaign slogans and Greg thinks Marcia erased his tapes. Mike and Carol come in to save the day. Lecture number three thousand.

Alice, Jan, and Cindy decide to help out Marcia by creating campaign posters for her. Cindy (Thindy) makes one that says “Vtoe fro Mriaca”. Why am I not surprised? Stupid.

Greg and Marcia give their speeches to the family for practice. What family owns their own podium? While Marcia is giving her speech, the boys are giving her death looks. Marcia can’t take it and starts her fake crying again. Thindy doesn’t get it and starts clapping. That part always made me laugh. Brady lecture number three thousand and one. “We’re going to be a family for a lot longer than either Marcia or Greg would be in office.”

Greg is out in the backyard with his campaign people when one of them suggests they start a rumor about Marcia. That’ll be a sure way for Greg to win! “Marcia was seen in the balcony at the movies last Saturday afternoon with that creep, Felix Brown!” Yeah…….that should make her lose the election. Stupid. Marcia overhears everything as she hides behind a twig in the backyard. Greg threatens to “knock your head in” if those rumors get started. He then fires his campaign manager. What a sweet brother.

During the speeches at school, Marcia reconsiders her candidacy because she thinks Greg is “real groovy”. Alice bakes a cake for Greg and Marcia and everyone is happy. Mike says he wants a rose. Thuper!

The tag is Thindy excitedly yelling for her mommy. She’s very happy that she was voted crossing guard for a whole week. The down side is that she beat out Bobby for the position. Uhhh…..what school has a six year old crossing guard?

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Here’s the story, of an awesome blogger. Welcome to my review of Brady Bunch episode number 10. My plan is to review all 117 episodes. My favorite years were the middle years. I can hardly wait to get there. Anyhoo, this episode originally aired on December 5, 1969 and is called “Every Boy Does It Once”. Mmmm……that could refer to so many things. Tee hee. This show focuses on Bobby and is perfectly and wonderfully played by Mike Lookinland. After watching Cinderella on TV, Bobby thinks that all stepmothers and stepsisters are evil. Carol asks him to sweep the fireplace and Marcia and Jan are being little bitches, so Bobby decides to run away. I’m sure glad everything works out in the end because otherwise that three by three cube in the beginning of the show wouldn’t work.

The show opens with Bobby, Thindy, and Tiger laying on a pillow watching Cinderella, or as Cindy would say Thinderella. Hey, whatever happened to Tiger? Why is Cindy wearing orange and red? Ugly. The kids talk about how mean the stepmother was in the movie they just watched. Thindy says that Bobby thure is lucky he got a nithe thtepmom. Just then, Carol walks in and asks Bobby to help out Alice by cleaning out the fireplace. Ummm….what are they paying Alice for? Why should any of the kids have to do her work?

In the next scene Bobby is bitching about having to wear Greg’s old clothes. Look at the pants he’s wearing. They’re so high I can’t believe it. They’re higher than was fashionable at that time. Whose hand-me-downs are those? The midget from next door? Jan and Marcia come downstairs moments later and Jan’s pants are fine. They’re the perfect length. The girls make fun of Bobby and are total bitches before they leave for the movies. Their laughter as they exit is not very nice. How come Mike and Carol allowed that? It was so not Brady like.

Everyone is out of the Brady house on Friday night except for Bobby and Alice. Bobby is being all pissy because nobody said goodbye to him. Alice tells him how everyone in the house loves him. Bobby says: “When everybody leaves and nobody says goodbye, that ain’t love.” I like when everyone is out of my house.

Bobby decides to run away since everyone hates him. He’s up in his room packing when Peter finally makes his first appearance of the show. Bobby tells Peter what’s up and makes him promise not to tell anybody. The next scene has Peter downstairs telling Greg everything. What a turd.

Mike and Carol are at the bike shop trying to buy Bobby’s love. They get him a super duper bike with a banana seat and his own license plate. Groovy. When they realize that the bike is just a bribe, they leave without purchasing the bike. They return home to find that Bobby is about to run away from home. Mike goes up to talk to Bobby. Bobby is surprised that Mike is going to let him go. Mike walks Bobby down the stairs with his big ass suitcase. Surprise! There’s Carol waiting at the bottom of the stairs with a suitcase. She’s going to run away with Bobby too! When Bobby finds out that his stepmom would make this huge sacrifice and go on the lam with him, he decides to stay. Carol tells him the only steps in the house are the ones leading back up to his room. Stupid.

FYI, The Partridge Family stole this same episode when Chris and Tracy ran away.

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Why, hello there. Thank you for joining me for my seventh Partridge Family review. This was one of my favorite episodes as a young child. I can remember laughing over this episode with my older sister, Lori. This episode is entitled “Danny and the Mob” and originally aired on November 6, 1970. BTW, “The Partridge Family Album” was released in stores that week. By the end of the year it had sold over one million copies and had reached number 4 on the LP charts. This episode is about Danny being roughed up by the mob. Sounds cool, huh?

The show opens with a strobe light. Awesome. The band is rehearsing and singing one of my favorite songs, “That’ll Be the Day”. Chris is messing up the tempo and going faster than he should because the strobe light is at a different tempo than the song. Yeah, that’s the reason you suck. Reuben is saying how it’s Vegas and how you need big production items like strobe lights. Why not do some dry ice? Maybe Keith could spit fire. Maybe Danny could vomit blood. Wait. I think that came later in his life.

Hot chick LaVon LaVeen LaVern walks up and Reuben hits on her. She declines. Loser! Keith then walks up and tries to hit on her. She makes David Cassidy look like the little midget man that he is. Danny ends up winning the woman and leaves with LaVon. It turns out that Danny is innocently tutoring LaVon in the stock market. It’s nothing sexual at all.

LaVon’s fiancé, Harry, hears about this Danny Partridge dude and wants him roughed up. Harry is actually Schneider, the building superintendent from One Day at a Time (Pat Harrington). LaVon is pissed at Harry because they’ve been engaged forever. She doesn’t think they’ll actually get married. Not knowing that Danny is only 10, Harry gets his mob like thugs to “lean on” Danny and scare him.

One of Harry’s two thugs is Mel from the TV show Alice (Vic Tayback) which also starred Dave Madden (Reuben). Anyway, the two thugs find Danny at the pool. They realize that Danny is just a kid but always follow the rules of the boss. They grab Danny while he’s wearing his ducky life preserver. I remember laughing as a kid over Danny’s line “You’re squeezing my duck, sir”.

Danny is convinced that the mob is after him because he’s involved with the boss’ girlfriend. He’s scared, so of course he goes to see his buddy Rueben. “Mr. Kincaid, Danny Partridge here” should be a drinking game. Danny asks Reuben if they can leave Las Vegas. When Reuben says they have a contract to fill, he asks Reuben to help him write his will.

Danny is terrified and locks himself inside his hotel room. When Shirley, Reuben, and LaVon try to coax him out of his room, Danny runs out the other door and into the elevator. Look closely. That’s not Bonaduce running into the elevator. It’s a double.

Harry breaks the fourth wall (talks into the camera) and says “How come nobody ever believes you when you take the 5th amendment”. I don’t recall a fourth wall being broken on other Partridge episodes. I’ll have to look more closely as I continue my reviews.

I love the montage when Danny is running away from everyone. They show Danny running through the streets of Vegas which looks exactly like the Partridge neighborhood. Danny drives the riding mower he stole through town. How come he passes Janet’s dress shop from the episode before? They’re supposed to be in Vegas. FYI, you can see the Friends fountain during this montage. The song “That’ll Be the Day” plays throughout. All of the people chasing him are doing so to tell him that everything is okay. Danny doesn’t know this and is running for his life. Funny.

Everything works out in the end. The police want to arrest Harry and his thugs but Danny has a better idea. Danny pushes Harry to marry LaVon LaVeen LaVern or else go to jail. That’s a good reason to get married.

BTW, Susan Dey looks beautiful in this episode but she’s too skinny.

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