Are Mike and Carol "Harried and Hopeless"?

[@detmstr341]

I loved this episode because the kids felt a dilemma and later went to their parents for help. I know this is just a show, but, it's a good example of what a family should be.

[@cynthiasmith4130]

I watched this all the time growing up.. It's a wonderful show full of values being taught to their children. It all starts at home...❤❤❤❤❤.....

[@jeffreymacintyre2711]

I was 8 in 1973 and loved this show. At 59, I still watch it today

[@RapFanatic4ever]

Glad that Mike and Carol cleared up the misunderstanding

[@sdstewart1962]

This second half of this episode never made any sense to me. After talking to Mike and Carol, the boys know Mike didn't write it and the girls know Carol didn't write it; and Alice knows that neither of them wrote it. All they had to do was compare notes. "Hey, Marcia. Dad didn't write it." "And Mom didn't write it! We were all worked up over nothing!"

[@ninademci1500]

@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.

[@sdstewart1962]

@@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.

[@derekllewellyn6663]

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

[@nassauguy48]

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? 😆

[@MontagZoso]

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

[@thomasplinguidy4588]

Wonderful! Even back when I first saw the series, I thought every family should have an Alice - a kind of neutral person who holds the household together and gives everyone good advice on how to come clear with each other. Even though she describes herself as an innocent bystander, she is so much more.

[@Ani_Watermelon]

I love their house. Always imagine to have one like that when I was a child.

[@stephenr3910]

I wanted parents like they had.

[@MotleySioux-bw6qn]

Me too

[@pinkfreud62]

Alice should have told Mike what Carol told her - that she was worried Mike wrote the letter. Then Mike could have eased everyone's fears right then & there.

[@DeannaRoberson-t2p]

This is one of my comfort shows.

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Florence Henderson went through so many hair styles over the Brad'ys 5 year run

[@bretstanley8931]

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

[@hoagie1978]

@@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.

[@bretstanley8931]

@@hoagie1978 That explains it! Thanks!

[@msr1116]

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.

[@stephenr3910]

​​@@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.

[@lynnettecapobianco2757]

I love how the show explained that Cinderella or Snow White gave steparents everywhere a terrible name

[@msr1116]

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.

[@paul16451]

Funniest thing about this episode was Alice yelling at all six kids for behaving themselves and doing what they were supposed to.😂😂😂

[@supremeduff]

I Was 5 Years Old When I First Seen This Playing On The TV Back Then And Today For Some Reason Something Randomly Told Me To Look This Tv Show Up

[@bretstanley8931]

"I'm sure glad we're not Harry Hopeless!"--Cindy Brady

[@MotleySioux-bw6qn]

Hopelethhh

[@disneytoysr4fun975]

Why didnt Alice calm them down after finding out the dad didnt write the letter? She had propf that both Mr. And Mrs Brady didn’t do it by that point.

[@AnnamarieAmoroso-hy5zg]

I love the Brady Bunch so much ❤😅

[@ninademci1500]

In my opinion, Alice didn’t seem convinced either.

[@ninademci1500]

I love the pen names Alice and the kids gave themselves.

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Like Alice's was innocent bystander

[@nassauguy48]

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

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

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

[@stephenr3910]

As a kid I never picked up on Mrs. Carol deflating in response to Alice's protesting too much.

[@friendofdorothy9376]

Robert Reed was so handsome. YUM. Looking so good in jeans with more messed up hair.

[@SOCORROSILVA-in7px]

Thank you very much, The Brady Bunch, for uploading this interesting video so that I can see it again in the near future. Please have a nice weekend. ™ August 12, 2023 @ 1:40 am ™

[@msr1116]

I've always been curious about what that opening at 2:23 was, to the left of the double ovens. I'm guessing an indoor grill....am I correct ?

[@josephphelan646]

I think it was a crematorium .

[@msr1116]

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

[@josephphelan646]

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

[@TnseWlms]

The first several times I saw this episode, I misheard the moniker as "Married and hopeless."

[@jaredmayo5820]

She ain't no Alice,you can't paint it with your brush anyway you want to make it look or you can go back to your van down by the river

[@brianarbenz1329]

No, I think the letter came from the King Family.

[@SOCORROSILVA-in7px]

Mike's and Carol's 3 children each wrote a letter to Dear Libby specially their maid, Alice. Please post only positive comments over here. ™ August 12, 2023 @ 1:20 am ™

[@ninav7083]

The first season was the best. So innocent.

[@davidthegreat5230]

yes

[@jaredmayo5820]

😂we have our opinions too and your not pulling the strings of our day or life

[@donaldzinman2184]

Harry Hopeless.

[@daisieb7547]

Wow

[@nassauguy48]

LOL. What kids that age would use the term "harried"?

[@nonamenoname6921]

They can read the byline.

[@GalaxyTheCrazyQuilt]

Im thur glad we're not Harry hopeleth 😅

[@tmasbu.5358]

Socialization the family's no. 1 responsibility how social are you?😂

[@tmasbu.5358]

Do you call your husband, Mr Brady??😮

[@milfinu]

Did you guys know Alice works for Free, and ONE bathroom for all those kids and Iv Never seen a toilet either

[@llofdarkwater9152]

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

[@jflow178]

Here's a story...of a man named...

[@Mudd_1969]

Mr Brady needs longer pants😄

[@nunyaaliveta]

Alice wrote the letter 😂

[@jsmith6436]

They needed to show Carol in a bikini.

[@kimjensen8838]

Dude what is your obsession with Carol and bikinis?

[@jaengen]

The first season was the worst. Thankfully it got better and better until the last season that went out with a whimper. Ah, the lifecycle of a sitcom.

[@turboredcart]

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

[@hoagie1978]

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.

[@Lava1964]

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.

[@cindyb3704]

Why does it matter

[@pinkfreud62]

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?

[@IamMarjoree]

What time do you think think so Her lisp is pronounced right now Ya ya I like her hair it's Shiny This is crap So I Adjust You're full of it