I'm sure your dad is proud of you no matter what. My prayers and heart go out to you 💜💜💜🙏🙏🙏

Allow me to give you the same advice I gave my now ex husband back in the mid 1990s: Go to his gravesite by yourself and say all the things you couldn't or didn't get to say when he was alive. Explain why you did what you did, apologize for your mistakes and then forgive yourself. Otherwise, the regrets replaying over and over in your mind will eventually consume you. This experience can be quite cathartic.

@northernbettygirl Marcia wasn’t an adopted daughter Mike was her stepfather he married Carol the girls mother

Well, none us were always perfect angels for our parents but our parents know they weren't always that way for their parents(our grandparents), either. Parents always love their children, no matter what they do.

@@kellymcfalls1458 I think Mike adopted the three girls, and Carol adopted the three boys.

So start dating someone nice with kids!

I would have killed to have any parent desire to love me so much 🥺

@@samanthakazer8257 Me too girl! You are not alone!

What about the episode where Carol had laryngitis & Cindy asked Santa to get her voice back so that she could sing in church on Christmas Eve? That one was also very special

@@buckeyeguy1977 Yeah, that was a good one too!

Same for me. Every time I tear up. I sympathize about your father's passing. Mine has been gone for 7 years now. I miss him every day. We were among the fortunate ones to have good fathers.

One thing that I have learned is to cherish each day of life. Our time here on earth is precious. Life picks up speed as you get older. I will be 50 on September 16 and my mom is 70. Everyday I am thankful that she is still alive. She is my whole world

@@laurlicia I have to confess that Maureen McCormick was an early celebrity crush for me. She was so pretty and sweet when she played Marcia Brady. She still looks pretty and sweet today. She never lost her touch

@@laurlicia I think that Robert Reed was definitely a popular favorite for TV dads

Terrific dads are missed forever, because we never have them long enough---even when they live to 80, 90 or beyond.

1 of the most beautiful episodes just love it❤

it's not shameless tho

I don't think he despised the show. He just thought it should be a bit more realistic. And I agree. But Sherwood Schwartz wanted "Gilligan's Island in Los Angeles", so that is what it was, basically. Although he occasionally threw Reed a bone or two.

@@trwentSimilar issues as John Amos I suspect for Good Times while not quite the same. The show started with the premise what lesson should person A learn and let’s work backwards from there no matter how silly the character arc or situation was. The Brady kids had no real problems like drug use which was prevalent in California at the time. Good Times on the other hand showed poverty and inner city issues but the manner in which they addressed them were handled superficially.

@@SnowDaulphin- I agree. Both dad actors had similar goals for their shows: A bit more reality. The Brady Bunch was too corny and wholesome for Robert Reed even though there was parental guidance written in. John Amos felt parental guidance was completely lacking in favor of Jimmy Walker’s comedy.

@@finster1968​​⁠Amos never said anything bad about Walker publicly but it was rumored he hated the Dynomite schtick and silly dating problems JJ dished out.

I love it 🥰 especially when Mike and Carol’s reads Marcia’s essay especially Mike’s was chosen Father Of The Year especially when the judges from the Daily Chronicle newspaper 🗞, The Best Came From Your Daughter Marcia’s especially when she’s hugs her parents especially her Daddy. Jennydebrier

Absolutely, Me too - just now. : ) The show was able to strike a cord in a way that no other sit com has been able to.

I agree first of all I’ve seen this episode. Literally 100 times I’m watching it right now is a 57-year-old guy who grew up watching the show and syndication. I was only two years old when this was filmed obviously, my tears are flowing and that was the rare time by the way they called Michael Brady instead of just Mike Brady and I’ll tell you a great writing when they’re waiting for him in the door and he comes in the back way which he never comes in the back way never, he always comes in the front door so that was sort of funny, but that was so good specially when early in the scene where she was in his den, she needed a privacy. She got in trouble a little bit, but then when she went out the window. She really got in trouble couldn’t go. This was fantastic television, father daughter bond. I feel sorry for this generation who goes home, says on the couch and watches Netflix or watches the Kardashians or stays on their phone. I came home and watch shows like this sad generation to be honest with you, we were just so lucky that and great other shows from the 70s.

@@jackkircher1755 Marcia

I bawl like a baby!

No, he had one daughter named Karen.

His daughter appears in the episode where Marsha has a sleepover and the brothers torment them.

@@denisedoherty4909wow 😮I’ve think I’ve heard that too. Which daughter is it?

He had a daughter

She should still be punished.

@@sylviaisgod6947😅… why? You know she went on the ski trip!

Because she still broke the rules. It would be hypocritical of Mike if he didn't punish her, basically he's saying that if she does something dangerous but it benefits him, then it's OK.@@123123snickers

@@123123snickers She broke the rules, it would be hypocritical of Mike if he didn't punish her. Would be like him saying, "It's ok to commit a dangerous act, as long as it benefits me."

@@sylviaisgod6947 There are exceptions to every rule. This was an exception because she had to sneak out to mail the entry for the contest. She wanted to show her love towards him and once he could see that reason, it was only fair and fitting for him to let her go on the ski ⛷️ trip. 😀

I didn't know his daughter had a kid. Nice. He and his ex-wife divorced when his daughter was very young. His ex-wife got remarried and they moved far away. Since he hardly got to see his daughter, he gave a lot of the love that was meant for her to the 6 child actors.

@@alexanderpytko5394 He had his daughter appear on season two episode, Marcias slumber party. He rarely saw her but reconciled in his later years. When he became ill, he only told his daughter and actress Anne Haney about his HIV diagnosis. When he passed away, he willed his estate to his daughter and infant grandson.He was a tortured soul.

I agree with you there. I lost my dad to cancer 13 years ago. We had our ups and downs but he was always there for me. We got along for the most part. Seeing this episode brought back a lot of pleasant memories

I noticed now. Wow 🤯

The boys real mom and the girls real dad are both to believe have passed

The boys' Mom died, it was implied in the pilot episode (Bobby had a picture of her) and never mentioned again. The girls' father is never mentioned, but Sherwood Schwartz has said that they are divorced, but the network wouldn't allow that to be talked about on the show.

In interviews Florence Henderson said that she always believed that Carol murdered her first husband.

I thought the same thing. There was never really a clear explanation of what happened to the girls Dad. Almost like he never existed.

@@denisedoherty4909I agree. In the very first BB episode before the wedding, Carol tells Mike that earlier she’d thought “it was the end of the world.” That sounds more like a death than a divorce, but as you said, the writers never made it clear exactly what happened to the girls’ father.

@@denisedoherty4909True… I’ve always wondered that.

I think it’s very touching. Makes me cry!

If the deadline was midnight that very day, that would mean that the entry's would have to be post marked by midnight that day. So, if Marcia snuck out to mail the letter that late, obviously all the mail pickups for that day had already been accomp!ished, and it would not have been post marked in time.

​@@johnoconnor6356 She would have to walk all the way to the main post office in downtown Los Angeles to get the postmark for that day. In her pajamas and robe.