@sdstewart1962, not to be a beo-otch, but if Marcia and Greg compared notes, the episode would’ve been furring boring and a lot shorter.

@@ninademci1500 LOL not being a be-otch at all! It's just another example of what I've always called the "5 second sitcom rule"--If the characters would do what any "normal" person would do in a similar circumstance, the show would be over in 5 seconds.

​@@ninademci150060s 70s TV show episode season start show hollywood story life look back

LOL. The Bunch always made things more complicated than necessary. Remember how they scoured the whole city trying to find Jan's made up boy friend George Glass? 😆

That’s how tv shows are. Just go along with it! 😊

Although, in the case of my former mother in law, she was just awful to her stepson at times---giving him yet another reason to distrust all women and develop a particular hatred for his dad's choices in partners.

I wanted parents like they had.

Me too

So true, even in this first season it seems that every episode, her hair is different!

@@bretstanley8931After they shot the pilot in late 1968, she cut her hair very short for a film "Song Of Norway". When the series was picked up and started shooting in 1969, they had her wear a wig till her hair had time to grow back out. By the time they did the Christmas episode, she was back to wearing her real hair.

@@hoagie1978 That explains it! Thanks!

At some point later in the series, Florence wore what were then considered "cool Mom" hairstyles. Although, not all the cool moms were good or happy moms. Some drank, had affairs or were saddled with husbands who cheated or drank or both. There was also abuse and deception by either spouse. I went to Catholic grade school and can't believe what my peers sometimes experienced at home behind a BB-like facade of middle class stability.

​​@@msr1116My parents told me about the "swinger" parties that went on in the 70s when I was a kid. They were not involved, nor any of their friends. But it was in town near where our school was.

Hopelethhh

Like Alice's was innocent bystander

@@LindaMerchant-bq2hp Alice probably thought afterward "Oh shit, I was hoping they WOULD break up, I'm sick of caring for all these assholes!"

@@nassauguy48 I wish comments like this would bring heatwaves, tornadoes and other inclement weather to the city where the writer lives.

I think it was a crematorium .

That's some macabre thinking you have there......😬

A touch of the macarbe , u just can't beat it ....!!!

They can read the byline.

Do you call your husband, Mr Brady??😮

Well, there is that one episode where Mike realized he should pay Alice more with for additional family members. But yeah, no toilets in the 70's

Why wouldn't it? Would you want your fairly new spouse feeling unhappy, thinking they made a mistake and maybe at the worse contemplating divorce?

Of any series that tends to be true. I though the same thing

This first season shot in 1969 had more of a 60's sitcom format. When they got into the 70's they found their footing and it got better. That last season with Cousin Oliver was a jump the shark moment.

The first season stayed true to the format of the problems facing a blended family. In subsequent seasons, it was hardly ever the focus of an episode.