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Seen on the Small Screen Podcast
Seen on the Small Screen Podcast
Ep52—It's the Story of a Brady Marriage
As the title of today's program states, this is the tale of the Brady Bunch sisters, the hybrid of a reunion movie and a last-minute, executive-driven television pilot called The Brady Girls Get Married. Much time has passed for the Brady clan since the show's final episode, enough of it in fact for Carol and Mike Brady to see their youngest daughter Cindy off to college. But, their relaxation as empty nesters is short lived for the elder Brady girls, Jan and Marsha, have found romance; Jan over the course of a long courtship and Marsha in just seven days. Jan's husband-to-be is about as boojie as they come while Marsha's fiancé is a fast-talking stalker who sells toys, which instantly takes away the taboo; yet, both siblings get on board with the idea of tying the knot in the same ceremony. This leads to an assumption on the girls' part as to what their ideal wedding should be: the status quo or 1960's-inspired rebellion? With that and Peter Brady flying Air Force maneuvers on the day of the wedding, can the plot work out a satisfying series end of tying the knot a second time? The Brady's inherent unluck when it comes to weddings point to hijinks and nods to the original series. And about halfway through the episode, Sammy the cat comes a calling with a jingling bell around her neck that Jake and Becky may or may not have forgotten to remove before they began the recording. They, of course, plead plausible deniability to that claim.