Really?! lol, same here, and I thought I was the only one 🙂

John Denver's mini-me!

I nvever understood the point of having Oliver but now I do.

Yes looks exactly like him kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z9yieM-bssy8iaM.html

Yes I sẻe the rêsemblance. His mini me. I look like Actor Matthew Broderick. I get that alot and some elderly guy thought that I was Adam Sandler.

Right? The best part for sure

It's always funny when the big brother or sister pies the little brother and sister. It was funny that they pied him on top of his head then put the hat back on and shook hands.

Of that whole bunch Bobby was the most deserving to be pied.

It would've been funny if Carol had pied Greg and Peter and then as Bobby laughed she handed 2 pies to Greg and Peter and distracted Bobby as they snuck up and clobbered him. The girls should've all been shown individually close up getting pied.

+PixelMaster This one and the Whipped Cream

So fun to see the youngest in the suit get pied in the hair

Agreed! It's a great contrast - everyone else is laughing and then gets smacked. She's terrified and then gets smacked.

Her and Alice should've been pied first......then they get the kids.

what about the director when he got pied in the face

No, Robert Reed had an issue with the very last episode about Greg's hair turning orange. He was fired from a show that was cancelled anyway due to lack of viewers at the time so even if he wasn't fired the show would've ended.

@@Strode78 Bringing in Cousin Oliver wasn't going to save the show from it's natural demise. I read that Robert Reed thought using the antiquated term, "hair tonic," in addition to it being a really dumb episode, made him unwilling to participate. Good on him.

How do you all know this stuff about what Robert Reed wanted? I take it Robert Reed wasn't easy to work with?

@@richardmyers1506 He wasn't. In fact, do you remember the episode, "Jan, The Only Child"? In that episode, there was a line that Robert Reed was supposed to read while both Carol and Alice were making strawberry preserves. The line was, "This smells like strawberry heaven". Robert Reed refused to say that line because he said that strawberries have no odor while they are cooking, and even went as far as bringing back a page from an encyclopedia backing up his comment. At one point, Ann B. Davis said, "will you just do the scene!?" Robert Reed refused to do the scene until the line was changed. Sherwood Schwartz begrudgingly changed the line to, "Hey, I do believe I died and gone to strawberry heaven."

You have a "very good eye". In the episode "A Piece of the Action", (at about the two minute mark) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebahZqurnNGloXk.html watch Kirk and Spock pull away in the car. Look at the buildings --- their facade, the shape of the windows, the color of the buildings, the staircase, etc. Holy Crap!!! It "IS" the same backlot set. How did you notice this?????

It's the Paramount back lot. The Brady Bunch shot on sound stage 5, just up the street from the Bronson Gate (the gate in the opening shot). That street appeared in a lot of exterior shots for various Paramount productions, Star Trek TOS included. The street is named Leonard Nimoy Way. Take a look at it on Google Maps.

From this, the writers were phoning it in, pure lazy crap writing

In the story they didn't know that that was gonna be a pie fight. If he was in it, i wonder how the choreography would've been different.

@@claytonbrown7120 Or as Bob Reed said in his memo. A pie fight tacked on to an already weak script

She should've gotten pied by Marcia and Jan the same way Greg and Peter pied LOL

She BEGGED to have it done differently. No matter what her hairstyle was - the pigtails shared by Buffy Davis (Anissa Jones was 13 when Family Affair was cancelled in 1971 and was STILL wearing them!), or the braids, and finally the tieback here - all involved *curls* because of the theme song!

Do you not like Robert Reed?? 😉

@@finster1968 Thank you, Yeah, I noticed he forgot to add his name

Don't forget Robert Reed and Allan Melvin

You mean CBS studios!!

+Connor Fitzgerald Yeah it was and I also liked "Porkchawps and Applesawce"

it would have been funnier if it were all women

The girls should have rolled their eyes.

yes the pie in face of the director was funny what you think

Except that these kids never stopped being attractive. The only one who went through anything like an awkward phase was Chris Knight, who before and after the awkward phase was a really attractive kid.

I agree. After Oliver came on the show the series went to hell

They jumped the shark with this lazy writing

it wouldve been more groovy if robert was in here 💜

Robert Reed was dramatic actor and being in a funny sitcom was bad enough but he wasn't going to do any pie throwing scene. That was definitely beneath him.

I was surprised that Reed agreed to the episode where Peter meets Arthur (his lookalike) at school but made such a big deal about the hair tonic episode. To me that was way more far-fetched than Greg getting the orange hair.

Funny how He Agreed to be in the Brady Bunch Variety Hour ...

Yeesh

@Ken Lompart Yep. I didn't know until I read Barry's book

Amazingly, they brought in Robbie Rist for the final weeks of The Mary Tyler Moore Show for the same reason. He was the successor to Johnny Whittaker - the "it" kid who was in everything.

the others "kids" were growing up; they thought "Oliver" would add some cuteness to the show. It was cancelled soon after.

Yes

"Welcome Aboard" was the 18th episode of the fifth and final season. Cousin Oliver was only in the last 6 episodes of the show.

whenever susan's hair is pulled back into a shank of giant yarn you know it's late ssn 5..

Miss Popularity was the first show where Cindy wore her hair down. Then, the Driver's Seat (final show filmed in 1973) and Out of This World (first episode of 1974) and Two Petes in a Pod". That made this her fifth episode with her hair down.

dutchman063 nope different guy

You mean John denver.. bob denver is off gilligan's Island and don't be ridiculous.. John denver was a famous singer when the Brady bunch was on.. people just make shit up

Your mommy doesn't know what she's talking about.

Nope. You're wrong. Bob Denver was Maynard in Dobie Gillis and Gilligan in Gilligan's Island. What your mom was thinking was John Denver the singer. Robbie Rist played cousin Oliver in the final season 5 episodes of the Brady Bunch. To think that Robbie Rist was John Denver's mini me.

For the same reason he wasn't in what ended up being the last episode. He thought the idea was stupid, he refused to be in it, and they just wrote him out.

I agree. At least Robbie played a cool character on an episode of CHiPs when he and his friends are out for a joy ride and he played one of Jaime Sommers's students on some episodes of The Bionic Woman season 1

@@dancastro4732 He also ended The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1977...AND helped crash the attempted spinoff for Schneider on the finale of One Day at a Time in 1984!

Yes, nothing funnier than pie scene in old time outfits!

Anywhere!LOL!

Yes.I,m all southern.and there are some where I live I would,'ve loved to throw pies at.LOL!

That's funny. Would be fun to see that

It,s fun just to visualize.

7 kids and 2 adults.

Who cares.

So did I and so did Robert Reed

The series was tired and on its last legs.

karien