The Brady Bunch Movie (30th anniversary)

Put on your Sunday best, kids! We're going to Sears! (Are they even still around?) Mark celebrates the 30th anniversary of the hilarious, subversive, and wholesome-ish spoof The Brady Bunch Movie with his Brady brothers Tom Ciuba and Jason Kashiwagi. Who's the Jan, who's the Carol, and who's Marcia Marcia Marcia in this trio? Listen to find out as they relive favorite moments from when the 90s clashed perfectly with the 70s.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Straw Hut Media. Hey everybody, it's Mark J. Parker and
this is Release Date Rewind, a podcast that celebrates the
milestone anniversaries of movies. Do you need a laugh? Because
I sure do, so You've come to the right place, listeners.
I'm a movie lover and also a movie maker, and
I love talking about old movies on their special birthdays

(00:23):
with friends and fellow film lovers. This show is part
of the straw Hut Media network wherever you get your pods,
and now it's on the you Run podcast network with
other cool indie pods, so yay, and of course you
can watch it on YouTube if you like a visual aid.
Today we're talking about a movie that gives me so
much joy. I know, I know, I say that a

(00:45):
lot about all these movies, but this one, really, everybody,
this one really makes me smile ear to ear. Here's
a story of a lovely lady thirty years ago, back
on February seventeenth, nineteen ninety five, the Brady's invaded the
nineties in the Brady Bunch movie, and we're celebrating the comedy,
the fashion, and those wholesome Brady values. So grab your friends,

(01:08):
wear your seventies florals and if you'd like to watch
or rewatch this movie before listening, it's currently streaming on
Canopy in the US, which is a great streamer that's
connected to libraries, so you can do that, or you
can borrow it or rent it, or I'm sure find
it online somewhere. All right, groovy chicks, hip dudes and
far out people, let's fly down the highway in a

(01:30):
makeshift Model TA because it's time to rewind. I am
so so excited to have these boys on the pod.

(01:50):
They haven't been on in a while. One of them
hasn't been on in geez, like two and a half years.
The other was on almost exactly a year ago last March.
The gays are taking over release date Rewind. My friends
are here, Tom Cuba and Jason Kashawaggie are in the house.
We are the Brady Boys. Who's Greg? Who's Peter? Who's Bobby?

(02:10):
I don't know what do you guys think? Who's your
spirit animal? Are you? Who's the oldest Jason? Are you Greg?

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I don't know if I relate to Greg. I don't
have that like deranged confidence could or the movie or.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
In the movie, the movie it's worse than the TV show.
I feel like, yes, yeah, definitely.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Now, Tom, why are you saying you could be Greg?
Are you you're you're okay with that crazy comedy?

Speaker 3 (02:36):
You know my personality, you could totally see me's chasing
somebody around singing clowns. Never left before.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
You know, what about you, Peter Jason, You're a Peter.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
I'm in the middle. I could be that.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Okay, you're You're a Peter. And then so I'm Bobby.
I'm going around like Bobby doesn't really out of all
the siblings in the movie, Bobby probably has the least
to do, am I right? Would you agree?

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, yeah, he at least.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
In this first movie, Thettletale, he's like the he's the
rule follower, the rule follower.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
And he's like the the like, uh, he's upset for
a second there in the movie because he's he's yeah,
like the guard or whatever, like what do they call them,
like the safety officer kid?

Speaker 2 (03:22):
You know?

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, with that crazy scene with the
teacher spread up and.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
That is definitely before me two times.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Hey, you know she's she can really fit a lot
of you know stuff in there. I mean teachers don't
make much, Tom, so they gotta they gotta get those
supplies and hide them.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
But I also want to point out more that like
in our current times, it's okay that if we don't
identify with either Bobby, Peter or Greg, we can identify
with the women too.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Hey oh yes, yes, okay, I'm loving what I'm hearing.
All right, So who do you really identify with?

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Tom Dan, I'm a crazy bitch, you know it.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Do you have those voices in your head?

Speaker 3 (04:07):
You have?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
You know?

Speaker 3 (04:11):
But like, but there there are some things that I
could totally see myself doing.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Really, Tom, What about what about you? Jason? In the
whole cast? Who do you relate to the most?

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Actually? I think I could be Carol.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
I could see that.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
I could totally see that, Jason. Yes, she's so sweet.
Shelley Long, oh my god, just the best. Yeah, I
could see that. I could, you know why, Jason, Like
when you're around someone who's really you know, going on
a ride, when they're just long winded, like like Dad
is you know, I could see you going like m
you know, YEA love it? But I love that so much?

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Who?

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, who do I relate to? I mean I love
them all so much that I'm Masha. Do you think
I'm Marshay? Oh my god, I do calm my hair?

Speaker 4 (05:08):
What did she say?

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Four thousand ninety eight? No, I'm kidding. Wow, so you
both think I'm a Marcia. I don't know if I
should be offended. I mean, okay, I mean, well, thank you.
Wait what did you say, Jason? She did not What
did you say for the listeners that couldn't hear your shade?

(05:31):
Oh god, okay, I'm not I'm not pretty boy, dug Man,
I've always loved his hair. Oh my god, Oh my god,
very Chris Klin. Oh yeah, I love Chris Klein. Absolutely, yeah,
you're you're speaking my language. Yeah, yeah, he he is
a dream boat. But what a jerk. Right, We'll get

(05:52):
to that in a second. But okay, so I guess
I'm We have a Marsia, we have a jan and
we have a Carol. Okay, all right, girls, I got it.
I also feel like I'm sort of an Alice, which,
by the way, guys, the actress that plays Alice. I
worked with her for a few months when I first
started out What Would You Do? She was a producer
on What Would You Do? Henriette Mantel. I remember she

(06:13):
looked so familiar to me. Guys, this was like a
crazy time when like the show had just come back.
I got the job and like there were a few
new people, a few regulars, and she and I were
new and like crash course into this crazy, hitting camera show.
And by that Friday was like my first shoot and
I was like already producing. I was like, I don't
even know what I'm doing, but I swear every day.

(06:33):
I'm like, how do I know this woman's face? Did
I work with her before? And I think another coworker
like found out and I just went up to Henriette.
I was like, I know how I know you. You're
Alice in the Brady Bunch movie. And I shouted it
out in the office and she said later she's like,
you really embarrass me. I'm like, oh my god, I
didn't mean to, but like I love that movie. So

(06:54):
Henriette love you. Doesn't have a ton to do, you know,
because there's a lot of characters to follow, but she's
so funny in this in this movie with what's her
boyfriend's name, Sam, the meeting guy, the butcher, Yeah, the butcher. Yeah.
She definitely makes though, totally, totally yes, absolutely, they both too. Yeah,
it's nineteen ninety five.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
The world we know has changed. Put on your Sunday
best kids, We're going to see it. But the Breedies
really never will.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Let me set the scene, all right, and I want
to hear what you both think of this time, because
this is thirty years everybody, we were all kids. Jason,
you mentioned that you saw this opening weekend in the
movie theater. Am I right? Yes, Yes, I am jealous.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
Tom.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Did you see it? Oh it's a freshman. Oh my god,
I am so jealous. Tom. Did you see it in
the theater or no?

Speaker 3 (07:45):
You know, I can't remember, but I definitely remember owning
it on VHS and watching it a lot. I can't
remember if I saw it in the theater though, nice.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, I definitely don't think I saw this in the theater.
I don't know why. I know it was number one,
So I'm happy that it was such a success. As
a movie like this, I could easily see it being
like a very small niche crowd was into it. But no,
I'm glad it actually was successful, and obviously it spawned
a sequel only a year later. But yeah, I'm pretty
sure I did not see this in the theater, but

(08:14):
once it probably hit HBO or whatever, I was hooked.
I loved it so much. Now, this movie came out
twenty one years almost to the day that The Brady
Bunch Show ended. Now I have to ask you, guys,
because I never really watched the actual show. I've seen
a clip or two. I honestly didn't know until a
few months ago that the movie spoofs scenes from the show.

(08:36):
I thought everything was just original for the movie. I
really didn't know. So what's your history, Jason, I'll start
with you. What's your history with the show? Did you
ever actually watch the Brady Bunch Show.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
I watched some of it. I wasn't like in the
lore of the Brady Bunch that I knew of certain things,
like maybe from VH one, like when they like recap
of the show and stuff. But no, I did not
have a strong relationship.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear you. How about you, Tom?
Did you ever watch the show either before or after
the movie?

Speaker 3 (09:13):
You know how they say that you create memories sometimes
that don't exist. I can't remember was this a nick
at Night show or not? Because I I feel like
I did. I have memories of it being on my
TV at night in my room during Nick at Night. Okay,
I'm not sure if I've just made that up.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
No, yeah, what do you think Jason did he make
it up? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:37):
I think he did, but I think it's a different channel.
I think it was on, but it was.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Maybe that was.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Which dream of Genie Dick Van Dyke was definitely Nick
at Night.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, I don't know, guys, I kind of I could
be making this up, but I feel like maybe it
wasn't on Nick and Knight at at a certain time
because it was I it was on something, because I
remember it would pop up and I just remember thinking, God,
this show looks so old and corny. So yeah, I'm
gonna so like it was on somewhere maybe, if not

(10:16):
Nick and Knight, maybe TBS or I don't know, there
was TV.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yes, it did. In the late nineties, Nick and I
picked up the reins of the Pravy Bunch.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Okay, all right, so after the movie came out, Okay, well,
I'm sure the movie because it was so popular, I'm
sure there was a new interest and you know, in
the old episodes, and I'm sure you know networks wanted
to capitalize on this, right, it makes total sense. But yeah,
I never really watched the old show. It just seems
so dated to me, you know. But here comes the

(10:46):
movie and I knew even as a kid that obviously
they're spoofing the show. But there's some new stuff some
old stuff, but it just felt so I don't know.
I guess it's like us little gaze. I don't know,
because Henriette did tell me, oh, my biggest fan base
for that movie was gay men.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
I was like, oh, that's so surprising.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Right, And I'll have to bring it up to her
if I if I do have her on, But like,
I don't know if it's that Like, we just were
witty and savvy young boys. And I just think it.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Was funny with Mike.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
If your sister would wear her glasses, she just might
improve her eyes.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Carol, Honey, I think you've stirred that enough. I'm not scary.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm looking for Katy carry out.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
And your pants.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Great, this is a car, Jack, of course, this is
a car.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
But my name's not Jack.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
It's Greg, Bobby and Cindy.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Why don't you hop back on the Swiss misspackage?

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Were you belong on.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Peter Lynch looks pretty gray.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
What'd you bring?

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Workshops? Napshot?

Speaker 3 (11:42):
Jan Hi, everybody, and you're John Rady Marcia. I'm sure
no one will ever notice that will never be a
team model.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
And Alice.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Jason tell us real quick, So what drew you to
this movie in the theater?

Speaker 2 (12:01):
The whole story?

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah, you gotta tell.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
My history with the Brady Bunch movie was I was
fourteen years old, a freshman in high school, and I
was like rallying my friends. It's like, we should do
a weekly movie double feature. So the Brady Bunch Movie
and Billy Madison with our first and we would have

(12:27):
lunch or an early dinner at TJ Fridays or Chili's
or one of those places. There was something in my
just I don't know, there was an aura with the
Brady Bunch movie that just really drew me the whole
like seventies and nineties current.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Day, it's very real. I say, those are like two
of your worlds. I feel like really merging the colors.
The grunge.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, I love the clash of things and so, and
it was like because I was in a closet then too,
But there was just something really drawing me to see
the Brady Bunch movie. And then also.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Billy Madison of course, Oh my god, what a combo. Yeah,
that's amazing.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Okay, yeah, so I guess the ads with the colors,
the styles, they just really in the comedy. Of course.
It just really hooked you, Jason. And so did you
say you went opening day or opening weekend?

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Do you remember Opening weekend? We went on a Saturday,
the Saturday Nice.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Who'd you go with? Do you remember?

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah? I went with my friends Teresa Ellen and my
friend Sandy. I believe it was the four of us.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Good memory.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
And then just week after week after week we just
kept on doing it.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Oh, now, so you would sneak in? You would sneak
into one movie?

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Am I right?

Speaker 1 (13:51):
You would pay the ticket for one movie and then
sneak into the other or would you pay for both?

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Times? We would pay for both. But this is when
movies worth two fifty?

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Right? Yeah? What about you, Tom? When you first saw
this at home? Probably VHS? Whatever were you watching with
your parents?

Speaker 3 (14:08):
You know, I can't remember, but I feel like I
feel like my mom is a Brady or was back
then in the seventies when the show was actually big
or was it sixties?

Speaker 1 (14:19):
No, I could see it was from sixty nine to
seventy four. It was five seasons, which it feels short
to me. Five seasons nowadays is like a good run.
But like I'm like, oh, I thought that was on
for like ten years, you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, remember that it was twenty four twenties.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
True, yeah, you both all right? Yeah, long seasons and
then they had specials absolutely, and like even long after
the show ended, right, they would come back for like
a special. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. I don't know who
I watched it with. Probably my parents, but man, I
was hooked, and maybe who knows, maybe like as a kid.
I don't know how old I was. It must have
been let's see ninety five, I turned eight, so maybe

(14:57):
later in ninety five I saw it, So I was
pretty young. But and I'm sure a lot of the jokes.
I definitely did not get the jokes. I did so
much fun and like.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Watching it now, I was like, oh, that right went
over my head.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
There's a lot of double entendres. We'll get to some
of the lines for sure, but oh yeah, and some
of them I kind of could tell, like, oh, Okay,
it's something I don't get, but it's funny, you know,
will be right back. I think Peter's a day well
in a still again sort of way. So this came

(15:32):
out like twenty one years, like I said, since the
finale of The Brady Bunch, and here comes this number
one movie. So, guys, I'm going to jog your memories.
This is what was going on February seventeenth, nineteen ninety five,
that is when the Brady Bunch movie came out in
theaters the same day as another movie I love. And
maybe you saw this one in theaters, Jason, I think
I saw in theaters Heavyweights. I love Heavyweights. You remember

(15:55):
that one?

Speaker 2 (15:55):
No?

Speaker 3 (15:56):
No?

Speaker 1 (15:57):
But I oh you were and Tom Wow. Okay, So
Heavyweights was a Disney movie with Ben Stiller as this
crazy fat camp camp counselor, and so all these boys
mostly Keen Young Keenan Thompson from SNL was in it.
A couple familiar faces. Paul Fague, the director is in

(16:17):
it as an actor. Oh my god, I loved it.
And Ben Steelers just unhinged as this awful camp director
who Yeah, you know, really fun dumb movie. Jason, If
you remember, I don't think you were in that cabin.
But at my wedding years ago, we had posters on
all the cabins, and since that is a camp movie,
I had a Heavyweight poster and I remember I think

(16:38):
we put Greg's family in there and they were like offended.
I'm like, no, it has nothing to do with weight. No,
it's a camp movie. It was like chill out. It's
a great movie. But okay, I understand maybe not everyone
saw it. Right. So this came out the same day
as Heavyweights. Other popular movies like Jason just said, Billy
Madison love it so much. Such a dumb movie. Boys

(16:58):
on the Side, which I really want to Yeah, right,
Drew who just turned fifty, Happy birthday, Drew, Drew Whoopy
and oh god, Mary Louise right, yeah, from Weeds yep,
and Matthew McConaughey when he was, you know, getting started,
you know. So that was a big one. The Quicken
the Dead with Leo and Sharon Stone, Geane Hackman, a

(17:19):
young Russell Crowe before he was you know. So that
was another popular movie at this time, I think, directed
by Sam Raimi. I never saw that one. Kind of
weird that it was Sam Raimie if I remember correctly, Yeah, right,
So those were some movies. On the TV side, Seinfeld
of course was King. They had just broadcast their one
hundredth episode on NBC earlier in February, So that kind
of tells you what was popular at this time on

(17:42):
TV at home and on the music side, everybody. The
top song was TLC's Creep Love TLC So Much, What
a Good Song, followed by Madonna's take a Bow And
if you notice it at the end of the movie,
once it's over and then they're all kind of having
fun and theirs, you know, Brady Bunch squares. Did you
see Alice like takes off her uniform and she's got
like a Madonna boustier, you know, sexy thing on under there.

(18:05):
So shout out to Madonna. And so that's that's all
I got for, you know, time period, and incomes Brady Bunch.
What do you guys think of all that? Does that
feel old to you? Does that feel like about right?
What do you think, Tom?

Speaker 3 (18:19):
No, it makes me feel really really old. Yeah, it's
kind of depressing. Actually, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
How about you, Jason, I mean I you're the same, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, yeah, Like the fact that the nineties and the
seventies is still so relevant in fashion and pop culture
right now. Is like the Brady Bunch movie is like
perfectly relevant today right Actually, just style and finesse. Even
the humor is really sophisticated for for even contemporary comedies.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
It's legit funny, like there was some season was laughing
out loud.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yes, absolutely too, absolutely yeah, great, great script and even
having like rue Paul and that kind of like fun
You're pregnant, So I wrote that down too. I love
it so much as as guidance counselor Missus Cummings love her,
and I love that she came back for the sequel.
But like, yeah, I'm so glad you guys agree. I
think the humor holds up really well. It's very clever, witty,

(19:26):
very very queer. It's got that like queer hitch. You know,
I don't know if any of the writers were queer.
There were a lot of writers Sherwood sorts. What do
you know?

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Jason uncredited, uh Stan Zimmerman did rewrites on this and
he wrote as well.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Oh did he Okay, what else did he do? You know?

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Golden Girls? Yeah, and he wrote a couple I think,
he wrote.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
You know, my last guest, Jackie was doing a Gilmore
Girl's rewatch and she's loving it. Should I watch Gilmore Girls?
I don't know. I feel like I never got into it.
Did you never got into your tom? No? Did you
ever watch it?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Jason?

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (20:09):
I watch it during COVID. Oh well, I watched the
first season from begin to finish, and then I watched
the Netflix for Oh yeah, but I love complicated, self
destructive women. Yeah, and I love a new one.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
I mean, oh geez, all right, well, maybe one day
I will jump into it because it's one of the Okay,
it was one of the few WB shows I never tried.
I just was like, eh, mother daughter, too girly. I
don't know. I don't know what it was anyway, but okay.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Stan Zimmerman, Gilma Girls, Golden Girls, like, they all have
very witty dialogue, you know, and the Baby Bunch has
some of that as well, but more subversive.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
But yeah, yeah, for sure. Plus didn't Amy Sherman Palladino
create Gilmore Girls, if I'm correctly, And I loved Mazel.
I still haven't finished it. I just remembered it. I
need to finish the last season. But I mean so
I get it really good good writing, good good humor
there for sure. But yeah, this movie has so many writers. Obviously,
the characters were created by Sherwood Schwartz. Schwartz, what a name,

(21:16):
Sherwood Schwartz. He created the show, the characters in the show.
But there's Laurice Elahayney, Rick Cop, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner.
There's definitely a few writers. I'm going to talk about
the script in a second. It's directed by Betty Thomas,
who had done some TV. She went on to do
movies like John Tucker Must Die. Yes, Jason, what do
you think about Betty Thomas?

Speaker 2 (21:36):
I love Betty Thomas. I mean, for one, you know
too Beverly Hills. She was in Yes, and she was
also in she did some sort of improv TV show
that didn't go forward that I gleet. Henrietta was in
as well.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Oh always, Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Bettie Thomas had the clout. That's how I think they
got Jeane Smart, Michael all the other Michael McKean, he's great.
They stacked the rest of the CASTND and Shelley.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Long of course, that's so I forgot She's yeah, I
forgot she was an actress before being a director. Yes, Jason,
that's a great connection. Cool, that's really cool. Yeah, she's
a very interesting uh director. But it's interesting she didn't
and she also directed a movie. I do love that.
It's turning twenty five soon, twenty eight days. Remember that

(22:41):
with Sondra Bullock in Rehab. This movie, yep, Doctor Dolittle
Private Parts, so she definitely had she was busy for
a while.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
Is a great film.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah, oh yeah, I haven't seen that one a long time.
She did that a couple of years after this, so
she knew her comedies. Baby, But it's interesting she didn't
come back for the sequel, look like who can.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Well, she couldn't do the sequel because she was directing
Private Parts.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Okay, yeah, she got busy with that.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, there's another woman, Arlene Sandford. So at least I
love that, like these movies were directed by women.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
It went from a woman woman.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yes, and then I know there was the third TV
movie with none of the same cast except for Shelley
Long and Gary Cole did return, but none of the
kids were the same, which, yes, isn't that wild? They
were turned Oh yeah, the Brady Bunch in the White
House a two thousand and two TV movie, so quite
a few years after the nineteen ninety six sequel. I

(23:37):
mean they waited, I think a little too long. And
I remember hearing there were budget issues being a TV movie,
so they couldn't bring all the kids back. It's all
new kids. Some of them. You might recognize a couple,
like you know TV familiar faces here and there. But wow,
and that was directed by a man, so Neil Israel,
So we don't count that one. We don't count that one. Right.

(24:01):
How about this? Normally, when I have two guests, I
kind of have you split it up. But this time,
because it's a pretty simple, straightforward movie, lovingly said, I'm
gonna have each of you take turns. I want to
hear in your own words, just in a little nutshell.
It doesn't need to be long. What is the logline?
What's the brief synopsis of the Brady Bunch movies? So, Jason,
I feel like, since you saw this movie before Tom

(24:22):
and I did, why don't you go for it? And Tom,
you just try not to be swayed. You come up
with your own description in a minute. But Jason, you're
in your own head, good girl. Okay, good So Jason,
give it to us. What's what's this movie about? For
anyone who hasn't watched.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
So, this movie is about taking the Brady family and
they are in the seventies, but we're taking them into
current day, the nineties, and they're like struggles and dealing
with high school, dealing with a marriage, dealing with trying

(25:03):
to secure twenty thousand dollars to save their house, and
their Brady bunch can do spirits aka the seventies kind
of challenging the nineties cynicism.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Absolutely, yeah, well said love it Jason? Okay, good Tom
what you got? Give me your description?

Speaker 3 (25:25):
I would say it's about a very quirky family who
runs into some neighborhood trouble with a neighbor who does
not have their best hint interest in mind and doesn't
appreciate their innocence. And it's about them figuring out that
the world can be cruel sometimes and how to save
their family and their house.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Love it. Yeah, that's great too. I love that. I know,
and you know it is very sweet. I know they're
corny and we're supposed to like laugh at them because
they're so corny, but I don't know, maybe like because
of where I am in my life and in my head,
I'm like, this is actually really sweet. Like I love
that they all dance together at home and play the
potato sacks and at the mall. Like I kind of

(26:05):
love that they are like that they all love each other.
I think it's sweet. It's so not realistic, but I Jan, oh,
yes they do. Poor Jan. Guys, we're watching it, Poor Jan,
Like Jan, is this isn't fair. I have to say,
like I forgot that Marcius steals her idea to do

(26:27):
the singing contest search for the Stars. Oh my god,
I would be livid, and everyone's like Jan, oh, Jan, Jan,
shut up. You know terrible the things they do to
that girl, right, she is so I wonder why.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
She puts a wig on and gets the hell out.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
That afro wig. Oh my god. Let's talk about the
cast before we get into our favorite moments. I mean, like,
you're like you, I think, just said Jason. This cast
is stacked, both the familiar faces and the nod You
know a lot of the kid actors we didn't really
know them. But everyone is so good. Everyone has the
time to shine. What do you guys, think of the cast,
just rattling off some names. We obviously Shelley Long, Gary Colder.

(27:05):
There are leads, but good supporting turns from Michael McKean,
the villain, Jean Smart as his wife. She doesn't have
a ton to do, but man, she eats up the scenery.
I mean, you have a lot of you Bach, Oh
my god, who I didn't really know at the time,
but she went on, of course, to do great things.
She is so funny as Marsha's friend. And then of
course you have all these kids. Christine Taylor, Eric, Christian

(27:29):
what's his name, Eric, No, Christopher Daniel Barnes. He is
Greg Brady. He's a manor and does everyone know he
was the voice of Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid,
the Disney animated film. Oh good, Yeah, he's done some
major voiceover work. So yes, Christopher Daniel Barnes. But what
do you think, Tom, I'm gonna throw it over to you.
What do you think of this great cast? Who stands
out to you, who made you smile? Tell me, you know,

(27:52):
it's funny.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
When I was rewatching it, I forgot just how famous
at the time Christine Taylor was. Like to me, she
is like the marquee name right aside from Long of course.
And then I just like started thinking about like all
the movies that Christine Taylor did the craft right like
and then and then I was wondering where did she go?

(28:13):
But yeah, she she really stands out for me. And
the girl who played jam I can't remember her name,
the actress's name, but.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
She was.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Jennifer Cox. Now is she done?

Speaker 4 (28:25):
Well?

Speaker 1 (28:26):
What did she do? She went on to do some
like TV. I know she sort of like had a
little bit of a bumpy ride if I remember correctly,
but she taught a comedy like.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
She's perfect for comedy. She's just perfect good.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
She's so good. Yeah, I feel like she popped up
in something else around this time that really made me laugh,
But now I can't remember, but she's she's popped up
in like Two Broke Girls, The Client List, your girl,
jenn she popped up in that. So she's she's definitely
made a career out of like TV roles, especially I
see numbers east Wick pushing daisies. So she's been around

(29:02):
for sure. But she is so funny and I agree
those two names right off the bat, just to pause,
Christine Taylor and Jennifer lees Cox both their dynamic together
them separately, they are probably the most memorable actors for me,
uh from this movie. They just are so good and
so committed in their roles.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Right for me, it was Shelley Long and then because
I was a big hey dude fan.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Oh yeah, hey dude. So that's what Christine was on, right.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
That's my new Christine from And I was like, oh great,
someone from a you know, Nickelodeon show got a studio
film and this is me at fourteen thinking bad like
I was. I love it.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
That she had a breakthrough moments. It was just a
very great mix of new and veteran mm hmmm.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Actor Well said, I wonder if Betty Thomas like sent
especially the kids like video of the show, because I
feel like you really had to watch the show right
at least a couple episodes that they then were mocking

(30:15):
to really, you know, because even the way Christine Taylor
says skewel, I didn't I never really noticed that until
this latest rewatch, much like the you know, the real
Marsha So like the I'm sure they all watched it
together or separately, but they had to watch the original
episodes to really kind of study what was done before
and and of course rip it apart lovingly, right, But
even like Cindy, even little Cindy is so friggin funny.

(30:40):
Guys that lisp and like just her very kind of
robotic look, and Peter with his with his crackling voice
so funny.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
I remember, like this, right, Dad, there's a Brady in
her yard, which I was cackling at, like cackling, yeah,
the Swiss miss Box.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yes, well, can I just say I love that his
Brady daughter who we never see again. But I love
this girl her line, This is like she is my
spirit animal. She says, see you on the Thief though
in Indie, like, oh my god, they are brutal, those
jick Myers, Oh my god. And you know what's also funny,

(31:27):
I forgot that I think his name is excuse me,
Burp Burping. I'm so excited, excuse me everyone I had
like hiccup Burps. But I think his name is Jack
Davenport if I remember correctly. He's like the punk that
goes up against Peter. Totally forgot years ago. I was
his stand in guys on a TV show in New

(31:47):
York short lived show for the c W or W.
I guess it was a c W called like the
Beautiful Life, and he was like a Nash show and
I worked on it a few days. Totally forgot. I
had that kind of to him. Forgot he was in
this movie. But speaking of the ditt Meyer family and
how awful they are, and then Geene Smart, who's like
so horned up and drunk and it's just so fun

(32:10):
to see her, Like, I mean, I know, Tom, you haven't.
Really we've talked about this offline. You're not a Hacks fan,
which is crazy to me.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
That's the wrong way of saying it.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Okay, watched it, that doesn't mean crazy. Jason, have you
seen Please tell me you've seen Hacks.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
I've seen season one.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
I have not seen girl.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Enjoyed a lot.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yes, Okay, at least you're further along than Tom.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
I love it so much season I mean, I just
finished White MOUs season two, so.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Oh okay, I haven't watched three yet. You've watched three?

Speaker 3 (32:48):
So good?

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Like, yeah, so far, it's really.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
So good so far.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
I had such an adrenaline rush after what do you know? Me?
I go to bed at like nine pm Sunday night.
After watching the episode two live, I had trouble falling
asleep because I had such adrenaline from the episode being
so good.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Wow, Tom, geez, Okay, that's a good review. But you know, really, guys, Jason,
continue hacks and Tom, when you have free time, start it.
She is amazing and seeing her the way she is
in this movie, it's just so fun because you you know,
you just see hints of her now, you know, ruling
this new show. So I just love her so much.
And I didn't really know who she was back then,

(33:26):
because I know she was on What Designing Women, but
that wasn't airing at this time. I think it had
it had ended before this ended, right, Yeah, And I
knew my mom liked it, but that was a show.
I was like, oh, yeah, that's like for moms to watch,
you know. I didn't know it was so good?

Speaker 4 (33:40):
Kay?

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah, I know? And gay of course, Yes, next Christmas,
you tell your daddy, I'd be more than happy to
wrap this package.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
Okay, here hit the road, bad Seed.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
So how old were the two of you when you
first watched the Baby Wunch movie f nine?

Speaker 1 (33:57):
You were nine, Tom, I must have been probably eight later,
and they this year in ninety five. I was eight,
maybe not until the year after nine, but yeah, I
was young, but I loved it.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Watch it with your parents?

Speaker 1 (34:09):
I think I did. Yeah, I think I watched it
with parents both both.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Like on rewatches with friends.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
For sure? Did your parents pick up on the queer humor?
Doubt Whaul was?

Speaker 3 (34:25):
My mom loved RuPaul because he was a morning DJ
on one of three five K to you, and she
used to love him when he was on the morning
show there, So yeah, she knew who RuPaul was.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah, okay, okay, okay, Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure my
parents knew who RuPaul was, and I'm sure they picked
up on the humor. But my parents, even though they
are conservative, they're very like cool at the same time
and have always like laughed when it was appropriate to
laugh at like queer humor. Like they showed me and

(34:58):
Tom you've been on the show we talked about the
bird cade. My parents show me the bird cage and
they love so Like my parents are really kind of
funny that way, where like they totally embrace and and
like that kind of queer humor. It's just you know,
they are disappointing in other.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Aspects, as as they all are. At some point, I
do feel that the Brady Bunch movie for people in
the nineties, it did kind of educate people on subversive humor.

Speaker 4 (35:33):
You know.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Oh that's fair. Yeah, that's a fair yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
For even for young queer kids or just kids in general.
Because this is very different than the slapstick of Billy Madison.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
You know, that's a great point, Chase.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah, it's a very different type of humor. Yeah, And
I think that, and it isn't too sophisticated that it isolates.
You know, even as like eight or nine, you understood humor,
some of the humor out of it.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yes, as totally.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
I understood the double Tandra. I didn't even know what
a double on Tandra was. Yeah, probably saw the bunch
of me.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
Good point, so I said, so.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
Like when Jean's hand is down Greg's pants and she's like,
you're growing right before my eyes. You you picked up
on that. He was going hard.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
Oh interesting, Oh the sandwich joke. I, oh my god,
it's so funny we're talking about this. I love this
so much. This is why I love doing the show.
I I later in life. I mean, I probably. I
think I last saw this five years ago for the
twentieth anniversary. But later in life did I understand the
sandwich joke? For a long time as a kid, I

(36:42):
really thought like, oh, okay, she wants them to I
just thought like, oh, she likes them, she likes younger men.
She just wants them in the kitchen to help her.
I'm like, no, Like, so it is funny the sandwich joke,
because now I get it.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Why don't you come inside and help me make a sandwich?

Speaker 1 (36:58):
I totally get it. So Jay and you understood at fourteen,
Yeah what she's say?

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Yeah, like I knew when Mike and Carol were trying
to have sex.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Oh yeah, I think I even knew that too. Yeah, yeah,
that was I feel like at a young age, I
was sort of able to right right the way she says,
time to put your bookmark in, mister Brady, It's like, oh,
what are they gonna do? She doesn't seem tired, you know,
But I do love how like Randy they are, like,

(37:28):
there's a couple of scene is.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
The book Yeah, put your bookmark in?

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Uh huh yeah yeah, And to.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Put your bookmark in, mister Brady.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Let's talk about, like why do we love this movie?
Feel free to shout out any moments that really like
stand out for you. We can go back and forth,
you know, what is the Brady Bunch movie to you?
In a few you know, favorite scenes. So I don't
know who wants to start talking, So start off to this.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
Day like before you like, I don't think about Brady
Bunch off and right, it had been a very long
time since I thought about it when you asked if
I wanted to come on the show and do it.
But I always have a soft spawn for the line
when it will forever make me laugh when Jam goes

(38:16):
out with the wig on and the hooker's standing there
and she's like, what happened, Honey? An animal down in
your head? Lose the hat. You'll be okay. Like that
kind of quirky, nuanced writing always fits perfectly with my
sense of humor because I always pick up on like
slight things like that, Like even in a Nora when
I was in the theater, I was tackling at some
lines that Sean Baker wrote in there that I'm positive

(38:39):
no one else in the theater was even like paying
attention to or picking up on, so I always like
pick up on those little nuanced things, and that to
me is just I don't it's just so fucking fun
can it curse? It's so fucking funny.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
I love that, and Tom, I feel like, yeah, I
can picture you laughing at things that other people aren't
even really hearing or you know, but you are.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Yes, yeah, yeah, And that's a lot of them, like
forever will be something that will if someone says Brady Bunch,
Like I said, I don't think about it often, but
if they say the Brady Bunch, my mind goes right
to that.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
That's so funny.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
That's a line that hits you. Yeah, I wrote that
down too. I think it's also funny because it's supposed
to be like cd LA and she's like walking amongst
the prostitutes and she's wearing the afro wig, right, so
the whole thing is so goofy. Yeah. I love that.
And that's when she meets the real uh from Cholsey
the truck driver. Right. Yeah, What about you, Jason, is

(39:35):
there a certain moment or line you want to throw
out that is just Brady Bunch movie for you?

Speaker 2 (39:40):
So this movie is like ingrained in me. This is
like one of my core movies, Like when Elizabeth Olsen
brought up in WandaVision that she went to the Brady
Bunch movie as inspiration.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
That's funny. I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
I was just like I felt. I felt that like
validated that there's other people that like remember this movie too,
like yeah, in their heart.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
I love a slow mo walk, beauty walk. So when
Marcia is walking through the school, so I don't remember
the name of the song, like She's got it or something.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
She's got it, Yeah, I can hear it in my
head yep, and all the guys are looking yep.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
But I love the fact that like Marcia can integrate
into the nineties more so with the guys because you
know they want to sleep with her, but that she's
not ridiculed in that sense. But I also love the
fact that using like a seventies song in a nineties
situation yeah again, And with the slow mo beauty walk

(40:50):
yeah yeah, And you get introduced to the guys that
want her and a lot of you bach who also
wants her.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
You think you're the prettiest grown entire school. God.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
Absolutely, it's a great scene. And you're right, Jason, I
never really thought about it until right now. She might
be the only Brady child who isn't like made fun of. Right.
Everyone else is like, Greg is not cool, Peter's not cool,
Bobby we don't really know enough about him. Cindy's not
really cool. Jan It's definitely not cool. So, yeah, you're right,
Marcia's actually does fit in with the nineties group. No

(41:29):
one seems to like roll her eyes at her, even
the girls like no one's jealous or weird it out
by her. Right yeah? Oh wow, Well thank you for
saying on Marcia.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
Exactly, you could fit into any era.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
So I actually have a question for Jason, because you
keep bringing up about the seamless integration of seventies and nineties.
Do you think this movie would have worked if they
decided to keep it in the nineties in all way,
shape and forms, abandoned the seventies fashion, abandoned the seventies

(42:04):
architecture of their house, abandoned the seventies music. Do you
think the movie would have worked?

Speaker 2 (42:11):
No, not at all.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
I agree with you at all.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
You needed to warp the nostalgia while still honoring it.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
Do you think the movie would have worked set in
the seventies instead of the nineties.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
M that's a possibility, you think, possibility, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Like if you bring in the real seventies into the
Brady Bunch seventies, that could have maybe been an interesting
and also but that could be more depressing because it's like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
That's interesting. Yeah, well because on the show, were they
kind of and I should know this, but were they
kind of odd on the show? Like did neighbors and
people at school? Not like they were very normal?

Speaker 3 (43:01):
Right?

Speaker 1 (43:02):
Okay, yeah, so that's totally because that's what I again,
because that's since I never really watched the show that much.
That's what I think of the Bradies. They're this weird family.
But actually that's just from the movie. You know. That's
how strong this movie is that it's totally changes are
some of our perspective, you know, on on the ip
of it all. You know.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
So in the nineties, there was that seventies revival happening,
like bell Bottoms were very popular, yes, like in nineteen
ninety five, like the Brady Bunch of Sky like ahead
of his time in essence for a film, but like
Madonna did the Girly Show Tour like in ninety three,
I believe ninety two, and she had a whole nineteen

(43:42):
seventies disco act that. Yeah, in a very nineties and.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
In a small way, I mean, cinema was embracing it.
I mean, granted spaced out in the nineties, but you
had the fifty four movie, you had Nights, you had
Brady Bunch, you had Son of Sam, you had Dick
right with Duns and Michelle wins in like nineteen ninety nine,
and I feel like love that millennium love, so there
was You're right, there was kind of a low key

(44:14):
embracing of the seventies in pop culture for sure.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Mm hmmm, yeah. Yeah, Bell Bottoms and now with Kendrick
Lamar wearing them again at the super Bowl, I guess yeah,
we're we're bringing them back right. Also, what I kind
of love and going along with the juxtaposition of the
nineties and seventies. The movie even sort of almost kind
of pokes fun at the nineties as well, do you
know what I mean, We're like, it's so grungey. The music,
the bands, everyone's like so like nineties. Even in the beginning,

(44:42):
like the traffic, the phones, they're really hitting you over
the head. That like, yes, this is the real world,
but it's kind of like a fantasy real world where
it's just so hard and gray, and like, you know, Punky,
you know.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
What I mean.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
And I think that that was smart.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
Well.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
I remember my mom always saying to me that she
felt like the nineties was a bookend to the seventies, right,
and like the eighties was in the middle of like
this this sandwich where like seventies were great and fun
and sexual liberation in a lot of way continuation of
the sixties, right, And yes, of course you had Vietnam
and other grave things that were going on, but then
the eighties became so like money focused and you had

(45:19):
like the Reagan era and everything right, and people kind
of missed the vibe of the seventies, and that's where
you had the nineties to bookend it. Because she always
used to say that dance music of the nineties was
an extension of disco, and she's right, she's not wrong.
So it's always interesting to me that those two decades
are so correlated in a lot of ways.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
That is really interesting.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
If you walk like jam Glasses.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
Maybe the positively goofy.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Talk like Peter Peter, what do you want it's puberty, sir,
dance like Marcia.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
Marcia did it again Marcia Marcia Marsa.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
And sing like great clown never left before? Then join
the family.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
How can I resist?

Speaker 4 (46:06):
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Speaker 1 (46:14):
Since you mentioned Alana Yubach, Jason, I'm just gonna shout
out her as one of my favors of this movie.
Like I was saying, I love her so much. Talk
about a comedian. I mean, she's obviously queer, and even
I think on my first watch, I'm pretty sure, like
I have never been. That never went over my head.
I knew it's pretty obvious, right, except to everyone except

(46:36):
Marcia that it's like, oh, she's not just Marcia's best friend.
She's a tomboy. She's very focused on Marcia. She's upset
when Marsha's talking about Doug or boys in general.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
Right.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
I love and still every now and then to this day,
I say the line, oh I thought that was my
leg when they're in bed together, you know, so funny.
I love when she punches Doug at the at the
dance house about a little punch, you know. And then
Marcia Marcia thinks it's Charlie, the nerdy guy that punched
Doug and saved the day when it was Noreen, you know.

(47:08):
And then the way Noreene cries and then takes the
tissue from the pretty blonde, and I just it's just
comedy gold. Guys, when she notices her as she does
her short little nose blow and she's like enamorate, like
she is so funny. I can't remember if she made
it to the sequel. Do you guys know if she's
in a.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Dang.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
I want to see a spin off with Noreen. I
love her so much. She is so funny, so just
got to give her some love.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
Oh, here comes Doug. Go away, no no stay, no
no leave, fire no no stay.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
And pretend I just said something really funny.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
Marcia.

Speaker 3 (47:50):
Oh, the guest gene scene is like comedy Gold. The
modeling audition, you know you what are you modeling for guests?
Which is I didn't heard that name in a long time.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
Yes, so dated, I know, I love that too, so much,
and that girl is beautiful, just is like so confused,
and then that leads to the photo shoot, which is
also so much fun with the Charlie's Angels theme, right,
and that guy with an awful like piercing accident. What
does he say, how do you feel about breston the nineties? Oh?

(48:29):
Totally right? Like the leather that ve like again, that grunge,
it was so like extreme right. But then what if
she she slaps him and she says because he says
like you need to cut that mouse hair my hair?
Oh god, so good like that always.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
May say sausage or something like that.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
It's like, oh my god, exactly. Yeah. I love that
photo shoot scene and also just that Jan because it
was Marsha's idea to be a teen model. And then
cut two Jan's there and she's like why did you
have to tag along or come along or whatever? Right,
So that's also just great tension. Yeah, great tension between
the two of them. How about you yet she's like whoa, yeah,

(49:18):
bye Bob.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Definitely the school dance with Davy Jones and the teachers
going crazy for him and there.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
I love those teachers. They made me laugh out loud
and absolutely the way they're like, you know, shimmying like
with the group. Yes, they are so funny. Oh my gosh, Jason,
I'm glad you brought that up, because truly like rewatching
it that scene in particular in this whole joyful movie.
It gives me so much joy. I actually love that
version of the song, like it's actually a really great song, right,

(49:54):
And you better believe at any school dance. Once I
saw this movie, I was always doing Marsha's some dance,
so maybe I really am Marcia. Marcia Marsha and Marcia.
I love that dance. I love that she sets this
trend and it's only her and Charlie, and Charlie's kind
of figuring out, and then one by one, the whole
crowd is kind of doing a nineties like Sway version

(50:15):
to it. Love it, love it, Jason. Yeah, and the
teachers and baby.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
It's one of those things where it's the seventies and
the nineties collide with each other and Marcia does not.
Everyone adapts to Marcia.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
Yes, you know, absolutely, Yeah, again, she's getting her way.
She's a trend setter, whether whether she even knows it, right, Yeah,
I love it. And it's also nice that they're colliding
in that scene. But the seventies are cool, you know,
because a lot of the time the seventies are lame,
but that's a time when all these kids who are
the most critical are actually like, yeah, like taking it

(50:51):
on and you're making it a whole thing. I love it.
I just love seeing like there's like some grungy guys
that are just kind of like doing this with their head,
but everyone's into it that scene so much.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
And what's going on in that scene because that's also
when jan has her coming out scene and Bobby is
dealing with oh not Bobby Peter trying to get the girl.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Yes, like the red hair I forget her character's name,
but yes, they have a thing. They're very cute.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
She's loving his seventies.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
Yeah, you know, it's funny you say that, Jason, because
I kind of forgot the order of scenes because, like
I said, it had been at least five years since
I last saw this. I kind of forgot the story order.
And the dance almost feels like because there's a few
things going on it and also maybe we're just so
used to it with like other teen movies, the dance
for a little bit there almost kind of feels like
the climax of the movie. But it's obviously not, because

(51:46):
the real problem is the house and the twenty thousand dollars, right,
But yeah, that's a good point that, like there are
some things converging with some of our siblings.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
You.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
Yeah, the dance scene is like a like a teen movie.
It feels like an authentic teen movie. Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Absolutely yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
I kept getting compared, Like my my mind kept going
to like she's all that for some reason from there,
like I just tell similarities, not quite, but you know,
in struct if.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
You will, absolutely absolutely yeah, And I'll say a quick well,
I'll talk about a moment that is truly iconic. Marcia
gets the football to her face. Oh my god, right,
I mean iconic. Now, honestly, I did not know until
recently that that was from the show, that that was
totally from the show. Did not know until a few

(52:38):
months ago. So, oh my god, so funny. Her nose
is so hideous. And then incomes dreamboat Doug with his
nineties hair, and she's she's cousin it. She's a blonde
cousin it right from Adam's family, with her hair in
her face, which is so funny. Why don't you show him?
And then she reveals herself and she's like, I guess
you don't want to go with me now? And what
does he say? He says, well, it's not your knows

(53:00):
I'm after. But they all they all take that like
as a compliment. And what does her dad say.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
You have protection, son or something like that. He's like, yeah,
of all different colors and textures, which.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Oh yeah, I knew, I knew something was there. But
I'm like, I don't know what that means, but I
know I'm missing something, you know. Oh yeah, he's such
a slimeball. But they're like, you know, looksyching.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
You better take your shawl, Doug. Do you have any protection?
Oh yes, ma'am. That's sword colors, antextures. That's a fine boy.

Speaker 1 (53:32):
Marcia's got that. That takes them before the dance. What
I was going to say was I do love how
awkward their little like pre dance date is at like
lover's lane and he's got his hand his arm around
her shoulder and she's like, well, that's third base and
I never go that far. And I'm like, I think
this movie confused me about what the bases were. Because

(53:55):
I heard that, I was like, oh, so that's third base. Okay,
So then you go from that to a home home run. Wow. Okay,
you know. So then later when I'm like told the
real basis, I'm like, oh, Marsha doesn't know. I get it,
I get it right. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
And then he says something about french kissing, and she's
like dying, I thought you were from Nebraska.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Yeah, I just got that's called a french kiss motion
us Nebraska. But then she french kisses Charlie later and
he thinks it's like she's like such a pro right,
She's like, it's called a French kiss Charlie, right, And
then that that's another thing I kind of forgot. We
have a motif here. The line something suddenly came up

(54:37):
is said a lot in the movie for different reasons, right,
And I just thought of that because Charlie says that
because he got excited. But then, like Greg Brady is
telling Peter earlier, like just tell him like something suddenly
came up or something like that, right, Like they a
few of them say that line for different reasons throughout
the story, which I had forgot about. I just thought
that was like a cool little theme throughout bon Yes, absolutely,

(55:04):
Boner humor for sure. It always works let's go back
to you, Tom, and then we can start to kind
of wrap it up. I guess any other scenes we
haven't talked about that you want to shout out.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
The carjacking scene is hilarious, like, this guy's coming carjacking,
my name's not jackets Craig.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
They have no idea what he's talking about, I know.

Speaker 3 (55:26):
And then the guy falls for their stupidity too. He's
like answering their questions and he's like, wait, no, I'm
supposed to be carjacking you.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
Yes, I love him, and then I forgot. He comes
back later when they need a ride, right, and he's.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
Like, nope, take them.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Yeah, yeah, I know. He's great. He's so memorable carjacking
and like they're just like, well, this is a car,
but my name's not Jack. Yeah. So as a kid,
that made me laugh Like that was like, oh my god,
rolling over laughing.

Speaker 4 (55:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
Yeah, what about you, Jason, what's another scene you love?
You got anything else to Sears? The musical numbers absolutely,
and when they go to Sears and it's like their
special treat and they do the song and dance.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
Yeah the Escalator.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
Oh yeah, it's so iconic, right, I think I'll go
for a walk. I would sing these songs like at
school with friends, you know. Yes, and again another fun
moment where I always caught the like extras behind them
who are very nineties, who are like glaring at them.
They're so confused because they're doing you know, the choreography.
Their hands are on their hips and all that. So yeah,

(56:41):
the Seers stuff is really fun. Yeah, I'm glad you
brought it up.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
Yes, toy saying is premiering her perfume or something like that.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
Yes, yea autographing her new perfume or something like that. Yeah,
And that makes that makes Michael McKean, who we haven't
talked enough about. I mean, he is so good as
this slime ball villain, right, this real estate guy. But yeah,
that makes him like drop the toilet because he realizes.
And I thought that was so clever that, like in
the TV the like electronics section that ya, it's so clever,

(57:17):
and they're like being dummies. They don't even know that
he's looking. But like it's stuff we all did. We
would go up to those cameras and like get close
to them, you know, and be like, oh, I'm on TV.
That was really clever that it's nine TVs. They're stacked
on top of each other. I just, oh my god,
so clever. Love it so much.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
Yeah, I love like ways in the movies to show
homage to like the TV show, especially when you have
such a famous opening credits yes scene, So the Seis
scene was really joyful in that sense. And we'll definitely
have to talk about the end credits.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, Well before we get there, I'll give
one more favorite thing and one thing I just thought of.
I I forgot, guys, that the infamous sure Jan, which
is a saying now in pop culture. I mean, it
probably was back then, but it definitely is now meme worthy. Right,
that's not even in this one. That is in the sequel.

(58:12):
The whole time, I'm like, wait, when did sher Jan happen?
I missed it. I'm like, that's in a very brady
sequel when Jan is talking about her boyfriend George Glass. Right, Yes,
I totally forgot. I thought that was in this one,
right right. I just thought like, because you know, it's
so rare for a sequel to also have such memorable lines,

(58:32):
you know, so especially for a comedy, you know, So
I just want to shout that out, but no, I
all just quickly before we get to the end credits,
I will say a scene I love is the ending when,
oh my god, not Chlorus Leachman. Why can't I think
of Henderson Hendersonson, sorry brain fart, totally different woman, but

(58:56):
Florence Henderson is Grandma, you know, yes, And what a
fun ending where she's still like Jan is just not
catching a break. Even Grandma flocks to Marcia, right, and
those voices are coming back. I love Jan's scary voice.
I always have then, you know, like you know, and

(59:17):
she's like, nop it, and then I just I have
always thought it's so funny when Grandma says Jan, cut
the crap, and that pushes the voices away and she's
like thanks Grandma, and you can just tell like Grandma
hates Jan. It's so funny. And then that's when the
voices somehow have transferred to Cindy, and I just love

(59:37):
that ending where we have weirdo Cindy. You know, why
is it always about jin jin Jim? And she really
is so like robotic with these head tilts. I just
think that ending is so funny, right, it's a great
crazy ways, right.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
I mean there's so much going on in those end credits,
so again you get like a more nineties version of
the Brady Bunch theme song, and then you have still
more storyline happening in every single box, like in Hooking
Up with a Lot of You you Bucks character Jane

(01:00:34):
and Marcia getting to a fight in jams and Cindy
playing with her doll I believe, yeah, And then Alice,
like you said, takes off.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
Taking it off yep, And it's just like I'm trying
to think what happens on the other side. I know,
RuPaul joins Greg I believe, mm hmm. And then Peter's
with his teacher, right, yes, what's going on with Bobby?
I feel like, is he wearing like a cop?

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
Like hat? And is he with someone I can't remember now?

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
No, No, he becomes he's just a real patroller.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, she's smart.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
Yes, up with the dad and Florence's carrot. The grandmother
tells Carol you better rally at your husbands. Yes, and
then so Carol goes down and they get drunk and

(01:01:36):
they finally finally get laid.

Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
Well, also what makes it so fun finally hook up?
But yeah, absolutely when Jean Jean was getting him ready, right,
And it's funny because Jean's wearing Jean Smart is wearing
like a wig in her reddish hair color, like a
like a wig that looks like Carol in that moment,
which I thought was really cute. But what also makes
that whole sequence really fun is they're all very aware

(01:02:04):
of where they are in the layout. You know, yes,
I noticed you right when like Marsha comes into Jans,
Jan's like looking up like aren't you up there? You know,
Like so that was also really clever to make it meta,
make it fresh. You know, we're kind of like loving
this this kind of classic format and like you said,
recently paying homage to it, but we're kind of skewering

(01:02:26):
it and lovingly twisting it. Right. Yeah, it's a great
fun ending for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
And shows how awesome the theme song is. Like that's
the theme song that you do not get tired of,
Like you could play that song over and over and
over again.

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
And that's a good point. Yeah, yeah, it's so you're right,
it's a party song, Jason. You need to play it
at one of your birthdays. Maybe you did, maybe you
have already because I could see you jamming out to
that song right with some drinks in your hands.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
Yeah, oh, hey, you that Davy Jones song.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
I'll be up there raven with me.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
I mean, there's a Shrek Rave, there's an always sunny
Philadelphia Rave.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
Now really, but Chris Brady.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Bunch rave could be very psychiconic.

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
Yeah, yes, because then you can plug in some seventies
disco in there, like you can actually like you know,
play some songs of the era, but then twist it up. Yeah.
And how fun to get dressed up? Yes, you could
wear long wigs and you know. Yeah, Okay, I'm into that.
You need to make that happen, Jason. I know you
invited me to that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
That's actually a really good idea, right, the TV show
and the movie and the specials.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
Yes, Tom, you'll love this. Jason invited me to a
rave at the end of March, but I told him
we'll be at nineties contra.

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
Oh, how do you feel that like the young twenty
two twenty three year olds are very much into the nineties.
I love it, Nirvana, a lot of Marsades, the fashion.

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
I I'm telling you, Jason, I feel like lately when
I brought up a lot of more set to younger,
younger people, they had no idea what I was talking about.
And there there are people that I talked to you
that had no idea what Daria was. I'm like, oh,
and they were they were like this was a while ago,
but they were like a little bit more, I guess.
But oh my god, I love Daria.

Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
It kills me that people don't know who Sarah Michelle
Giller is. Like literally rays.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
Really good job of educating.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
Yes, Olidia's very nineties. I love her whole vibe. Yes,
But wow, people don't know who Sarah Michelle is. That's crappy.

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
I guess Jeff's nephew who's nineteen has no idea who
I feel like people.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Nineties times can be very interesting. With the passing of
Michelle Trackenberg, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:49):
And then of course with Shannon heaven died too, so
the whole nine of two and oh cast is going,
like even Gabrielle's going this time and she rarely ever goes,
so oh.

Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
Yeah, yeah, that's a big loss. You're right, I know,
And actually, when you think about it, Sam Michelle Geller
was close with Shannon and Michelle.

Speaker 3 (01:05:06):
From you know, she was still friends with Michelle.

Speaker 1 (01:05:10):
I think so they still every now and then like
posted pictures. I mean, maybe it's been a little while
because we know, Michelle started getting kind of weird. But
you know, they were close, so that's crazy to lose
them both. You know, pretty prominent stars from your past,
you know. So yeah, that is a bummer. But no,
real quick, guys, I want to going back to Brady Bunch.
I just want to end it with some trivia that

(01:05:30):
maybe you guys saw this. I thought it was very interesting.
So the original draft of this movie was going to
be this. It was supposed to be a noir, like
like a spoof of a noir. So it was The
Desperate Hours, a movie I've never seen, but it's a
noir film I think from the fifties. The Desperate Hours
meets the Brady Bunch and it follows the Brady family

(01:05:51):
falling victim to a home invasion by escaped who then
proceed to hold the family hostage while they hide from
the alreadies. So maybe the whole movie was just set
in the Brady house. Maybe there was, right, and then
they hired more writers to then make it a spoof,
you know, but like I don't know, I'm so glad

(01:06:11):
we got the movie we ended up getting, because that's sure,
definitely right.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
But I feel like some of that was put into
very brady sequel.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
Oh with the con man boyfriend, right, they're.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
Tied up on the stairs.

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
Yeah, true, guys, I didn't think about that. I really Okay,
I'm gonna later tonight. I'm totally rewatching the sequel because
I do remember, Yeah, is he he's supposed to be
like Carol's long lost husband?

Speaker 4 (01:06:41):
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
Absolutely, on excursion, that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
Oh my god, it's all coming back. Yes, yes, So yeah,
I had to shout that out because I thought that
was really kind of crazy that that was the first
idea that they were going with, and then as they
brought in more writers to make it funny, they just
told totally totally revamped it into the movie we have now.
So I'm glad we have what it is now and
girl better.

Speaker 3 (01:07:10):
I think it holds up really well, and I think
it's very representative of the nineties, mid nineties, right, a
decade that we grew up in. And yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
This film holds up. It is a classic to some people,
yeah to us, to us and hopefully it'll continue to
be remembered.

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
Mmmm. Absolutely. It is just too funny to be forgotten.
And it was only you know what, maybe six months
or so before Clueless. So I do feel like I
could picture Marsha and Share hanging out. Maybe they were friends,
may maybe they were enemies, maybe they were like rivals.
I don't know, but I feel like it's pretty fun
that Clueless came soon after this. When you think of

(01:07:56):
how I think of the time period, think of the look,
the style, the campiness of it. All right, So yeah, yeah, cool? Well,
thank you boys, Oh thank god, I agree. I agree,
And that's the way we all became the Brady Bunch.
Thanks so much everybody for listening or watching, and thank

(01:08:17):
you to my Brady family, Tom Cuba and Jason Kashawagi
for being such great guests. Thank you, thank you, Thank
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