How did the Brady family afford Alice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Houses did not cost $800,000 and college was not $240,000 per kid. When all the Mrs. Brady's of the world got in the workforce, that drove up the cost of housing and education.

My grandparents couldn't afford an Alice. Lots of people couldn't, even before women "got in the workforce." Nice try, though!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was just wishing for Alice in my life today. The 70s were a golden time...

Not for everyone. There were a lot of layoffs during the 70s where my dad work.

It was a sitcom. It wasn't meant to be reality. It was meant to be escapism. I don't think it reflected the lives of average people in the 70's.

[Anonymous]

The show's creator wanted her to be divorced but the network censors thought that was too risqué, so the fate of Carol's first husband was left vague. Google it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The real question is how did they have that big house with maids quarters, yet only 3 bedrooms upstairs.

I just thought this same thing. I was originally thinking it was a modest house with only 3 bedrooms, but then I remembered Alice's quarters, the den, the attic space...the LARGE family room, dining room, eat-in kitchen AND tv-watching room; oh and large foyer area...so it wasn't so modest maybe.

Don't architects make a lot of money?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The real question is how did they have that big house with maids quarters, yet only 3 bedrooms upstairs.

I just thought this same thing. I was originally thinking it was a modest house with only 3 bedrooms, but then I remembered Alice's quarters, the den, the attic space...the LARGE family room, dining room, eat-in kitchen AND tv-watching room; oh and large foyer area...so it wasn't so modest maybe.

Don't architects make a lot of money?

http://www.westcollection.org/images/mbennett2517.jpg

[Anonymous]

My cousin and ai would compete against each other to see who would the first person to guess the episode. We could pretty much guess each show abou 1 second into it. No jokes. We saw each episode soooo many times. My favorites were the Hawaii and Grand Canyon episodes.

[Anonymous]

I also loved how the Bradys were always going on these cool vacations with 6, count 'em 6 kids! We have three kids and have rarely been able to afford going anywhere more exotic than Florida.


My cousin and ai would compete against each other to see who would the first person to guess the episode. We could pretty much guess each show abou 1 second into it. No jokes. We saw each episode soooo many times. My favorites were the Hawaii and Grand Canyon episodes.

[Anonymous]

no minimum wage laws, we lived like kings over seas but here the lowest paid has a lot of upward mobility. On the opposite end the higher you are paid the less you are able to move up.

[Anonymous]

We had a housekeeper when I was 3-13. She lived with us, and she took care of us. When she got sick, we took care of her. My parents had some sort of arrangement where she would always be part of the family. She died when I was a freshman.

She is buried next to my grandparents. As kids, we never asked about her family. I wonder to this day about her backstory, but it was always verboten.

[Anonymous]

Mike had taken a huge insurance policy out on his wife before murdering her with Ricine. Mike was also selling weed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My cousin and ai would compete against each other to see who would the first person to guess the episode. We could pretty much guess each show abou 1 second into it. No jokes. We saw each episode soooo many times. My favorites were the Hawaii and Grand Canyon episodes.

Wow, I used to do that too! Yes, within about a second or two, I knew.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The real question is how did they have that big house with maids quarters, yet only 3 bedrooms upstairs.

I just thought this same thing. I was originally thinking it was a modest house with only 3 bedrooms, but then I remembered Alice's quarters, the den, the attic space...the LARGE family room, dining room, eat-in kitchen AND tv-watching room; oh and large foyer area...so it wasn't so modest maybe.

Don't architects make a lot of money?

http://www.westcollection.org/images/mbennett2517.jpg

Love it. But, if I do say so myself, I do not need a blueprint to know precisely how that house is laid out. I could find my way around that house with my eyes closed!

[Anonymous]

Even I knew at 10 years old that Alice wasn't sleeping with Sam. Cousin Oliver was more femme.

[Anonymous]

How did Mork and Mindy "do it"? And how did Mork lay an egg?

[Anonymous]

I watched tbe pilot again recently with dd. I definitely got the sense Carol was widowed-she talks about never thinking she's be happy again. It didn't sound too vague to me. Plus the girls call Mike "dad" pretty fast.