The Brady Bunch - Over the Top

[@SweptAway529]

Jan's expression is the best! Also love Alice dancing with the laundry. Best episode of the series!!

[@jaengen]

It’s definitely the funniest!

[@LisaKoffler]

The whole scene is funny!

[@gretchennelson7056]

Hilarious😂😂

[@LisaKoffler]

ALL 6 kids got extra dirty on purpose, and I thought that was the most "realistic" part of the commercial itself! It's sad that the director didn't see that!

[@djs2356]

Beamish

[@markbrown4039]

"See what happens when you put a camera on a bunch of squares? They just flip out on ya!"

[@skinnybear5743]

Probably the funniest scene in the entire series.

[@Vanillabean434]

Jan’s face is hilarious

[@larry930legend]

One of my favorite episodes, liked their flashy clothes, Mike wore beautiful striped tie, Skip wore chic dashiki(?). I noticed Brady's carpet was incredibly spotless! 'My nice normal family just a bunch of dingalings'.

[@hallieharker4384]

If you were thinking you'd heard that voice somewhere before, let me refresh your memory: "The wonderful thing about Tiggers is Tiggers are wonderful things! Their tops are made outta rubber, their bottoms are made outta springs! They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun! But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers is I'm the only one! I'M THE ONLY ONE! Grrrrrrrowl!!!"

[@dawnkindnesscountsmost5991]

Those "come join our cult, we're so happy" expressions on the kids' faces were hilarious!! I forgot about those expressions from last seeing this, probably 40 years ago. 🤣 😃😃😃😃😃😃

[@LisaKoffler]

It was a family, NOT a cult! The kids "enjoyed" getting themselves extra dirty on purpose, but he thought they were playing in a swamp!

[@GretchenNelson-f9y]

Good God, don’t take it so seriously.

[@mocat1]

It’s weird seeing the actor behind so many iconic cartoon character voices, a lot of us grew up with. :) Glad I was able to find his name, quickly. First thing I heard was a Gummi Bear character, followed quickly by a Pooh Bear character, then. I saw the Gargamel post, and instantly heard Gargamel instead of the other characters. 🤭

[@skinnybear5743]

Tigger, Winnie the Pooh

[@tommycollins7846]

"Pops My Rock, man, you look like you flew in from the feather factory!!"

[@rolfbernerske2786]

Kinda did

[@pinkfreud62]

"What was that? The Dance of the Good Fairy? And what's with that spaghetti?" xD

[@walterschivo9123]

I liked that one. That was funny.

[@jengarica1441]

He was extremely rude to that family

[@dr.roberts4508]

Look like he flew in from a feather factory

[@LisaKoffler]

He was more angry than rude!

[@bellesogne]

You can see the tape marking the positions where the kids and the camera crew need to be for the shot. Bobby and Cindy hit their marks.

[@nickhill8612]

Bobby always hit his marks.

[@LuvTadnDixie]

"Okay team, I want you to listen to what I'm layin' down. Now Love, you're over there by the counter makin' it with the greenery, and then Pops, you come flippin' in, and you lay this box of flakes on the little lady, then you have a little wrap session, then we cut, dig?'

[@gretchennelson7056]

😂😂😂😂

[@Buddycoop1]

Still so funny especially when he goes off on Alice.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Really dig Paul Winchell (Skip Farnum)! In real life, he was a ventriloquist and inventor. Quite a man!

[@nickhill8612]

Oh really I didn't know that. What did he invent?

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

@@nickhill8612 With the help of Dr. Henry Heimlich (of Heimlich maneuver fame), he invented an artificial heart. Mr. Winchell held an early, but not the first, patent for it. He (Winchell) also invented and patented, among other things, a disposable razor, a blood plasma defroster, and a flameless cigarette lighter.

[@melissacooper8724]

I mainly remember him as the voice of Tigger and Gargamel.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

@@melissacooper8724 True. He also did the voice of the head bubble on the Scrubbing Bubbles ad and Dick Dastardly in the late '60s cartoons "The Wacky Races" and its spinoff, "Dastardly and Muttley." Early in his career, he was a ventriloquist. His dummy was named Jerry Mahoney.

[@d-man8570]

Paul Winchell voiced Clyde on Wacky Races and Moe on The Robonic Stooges. Also he voiced Clyde on The Perils of Penelope Pitstop too.

[@j-rockwells3807]

What was that Dance of the good fairy and whats with the spaghetti 😂😂😂😂

[@seventhfirestephanie8740]

Director: Kids, what's with all this dirt? Greg: We were supposed to be out playing Director: In a swamp? 😂😂😂

[@nickhill8612]

Too funny.

[@GretchenNelson-f9y]

Thank God for KZbin. It is my GO TO during this insane time.

[@TnseWlms]

Robert Reed hated this episode! He said in his whole acting career he never met a real director who wore flashy tunics and rattled off a hundred cliches a minute.

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti1663]

Ironically, this was actually my favorite episode of the series on account of one of my favorite people, Paul Winchell, being the guest star...

[@dancastro4732]

He also wrote it in his memos to Sherwood as well

[@sean2015]

@@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti1663 if that's the case then Robert Reed has poor comedic sense, because I consider this the funniest Brady Bunch episode. Robert Reed should've been in a soap opera not a sitcom, because he was clearly too serious of an actor.

[@susanb2015]

@@sean2015 He was a serious actor and he didn't want to do the show. They thought the show wouldn't last long.

[@SamWesting]

@Susan B Robert Reed often said he hated the show, yet signed on to do the Brady Bunch Variety Hour, which was even cornier. Actions speak louder than words.

[@TheAsharedhett]

Robert Reed: "I was thinking of the boys in the office." Mhmm

[@j-rockwells3807]

My nice natural family just a bunch of ding-a-lings 😂😂😂😂😂

[@LisaKoffler]

Being a ding-a-ling can be a lot of fun, and I'm a ding-a-ling myself!

[@getoverit2789]

LOL 😆 🤣 "We were just trying to be bigger than life!" "Well, you can be bigger... but not in MY life!"

[@LisaKoffler]

He made his point loud and clear!

[@SFox-fy3gd]

Feather factory....real life Mr. Brady!!

[@conscience-commenter]

Paul Winchell played the groovy director and voiced many cartoon characters along with his ventriloquist dummies . He was also an inventor . Talented dude .

[@JohnWilliams-cx3ip]

He invented the first artificial heart.

[@robertcarldecker]

I wonder what April Winchell thought of this. (Her late father Paul Winchell, best known for voicing Tigger in Winnie the Pooh is playing Skip Farnum).

[@GGHaj12]

Paul Winchell, as the weirdo ultra-liberal hippy commercial director was great. Very convincing performance.

[@tuttt99]

I can dig it

[@pmsfar-outgrooviness8025]

I don't recall the director sharing any of his political views during the episode

[@JohnSmith-rk6jy]

Can't believe that's Gargamel?!

[@jaredjlinden]

You’re right. I’m sure Skip Farnum was a big Nixon supporter.

[@pmsfar-outgrooviness8025]

@@jaredjlinden Jeff "Skunk" Baxter

[@battlestar4293]

Man this made me laugh man when t.v shows were good laughs no violence no swearing just good actual laughs for fun for the whole family

[@renay1958]

You are so right! Now a days the shows are filled with violence and sex. I wish that we could return to the old days of clean entertainment.

[@TheVCRTimeMachine]

Paul Winchell was great!

[@sharonhyback3981]

That's the voice of tigger.

[@robertcarldecker]

He was also the voice of Dick Dastardly

[@dancastro4732]

@@robertcarldecker No way. Seriously? I know he voiced Tigger

[@melissacooper4282]

He also voiced Gargamel!

[@inkyguy]

Robert Kidd Carl Cornell, and the scrubbing bubbles on the bathroom cleaner advertisements: "We work hard so you don't have to."

[@sasz2107]

I forgot how funny this whole episode was! "What happens when you put a camera on a bunch of squares?? They flip out!!" Then telling the kids to "get out"! Then telling Alice "What's with that spaghetti??"

[@amyanda]

I couldn't figure it out til you said that I looked him up! It's Paul Winchel who was Dick Dastardly, Gargamel on the smurfs, Zummie Gummy on the Gummy Bears, TIGGER, and Mr. Owl from the Tootsie Roll Commericals! (plus more but that's enough)

[@inkyguy]

And the scrubbing bubbles who "work hard so you don't have to."

[@ja8452]

One, a-ta-HOOOOOOOOOOOOO, a-three

[@kaitiscarlett9022]

Ha!! I was just thinking about that line "Nobody up there digs me!" yesterday, and here it shows up on my you-tube page.

[@dancastro4732]

Paul Winchell also the voice of Tigger from Winnie The Pooh

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

He also did Dick Dastardly in "The Wacky Races".

[@melissacooper4282]

He also did Gargamel on The Smurfs.

[@dancastro4732]

@@melissacooper4282 I always thought that was Alan Oppenheimer but awesome to know

[@gretchennelson7056]

“My nice natural family’s just a bunch of ding a lings!”😂😂😂😂

[@LisaKoffler]

There's nothing wrong with being a ding-a-ling! I'm a ding-a-ling myself!

[@gretchennelson7056]

“We were all out playing Mr. Farnum” “In a swamp?”😂😂😂😂

[@LisaKoffler]

I thought it was the most "realistic" part of the commercial!

[@djs2356]

Myierna Carter !........... I use that reference to this very day.

[@patrickworkman1014]

That’s the nut. She blew my mind 😂.

[@jfq7223]

Myrna!

[@LisaKoffler]

She was ridiculous!

[@keithshevlin5427]

Safe didn't save the washing machine after Bobby broke it

[@LisaKoffler]

The storyline didn't say whether or not the washing machine broke, but Alice STILL had to mop everything up!

[@jmharms21]

Before I read the comments, I knew the director was Paul Winchell because I knew he sounded like "Tigger" and "Zummi Gummi", which he provided the voices for in the television shows.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Yep. Playing a hippie in this one, though.

[@alexthebold]

It's too bad Robert Reed never got "the joke" of the series. I think he would have enjoyed his time there a lot more.

[@LisaKoffler]

He was "too serious" for his own good!

[@gretchennelson7056]

Exactly.The show was never intended to be Shakespeare, he should’ve just tried to go along with it.

[@LisaKoffler]

Absolutely! I read something about the producers originally wanting to cast Gene Hackman, but they said they didn't know him!

[@turbotime1964]

This was when hippies were the rage.

[@BrownPride483]

"Ok now team, i want u to listen to what im layin down. Now love, your over at the counter makin with the greenery. And pops you come flippin in and u lay this box of flakes on the little lady. Then u have a lil rap session and then we cut"

[@LisaLisa-526]

Getting motivated!! GROOVY

[@LisaKoffler]

It was "overdone" in this case!

[@scowlistic]

Is that a Sears poncho?

[@nickhill8612]

Haha probably.

[@LisaKoffler]

Anything's possible!

[@EerieVonIII8574]

Notice how none of the equipment is plugged in

[@roshelen884]

Skip out get out of my house Mike this is my house skip oh come on gang let's split lol the chemistry was great

[@LisaKoffler]

I NEVER heard of anyone "forgetting" that they were in someone else's house!

[@bigdust211]

We were motivating. MOTIVATING?!

[@docadams7099]

Skip Farnum was played by Paul Winchell. Mr. Winchell found fame as a ventriloquist (with dummies like Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff), and was the voice of Tigger. He also did a voice in The Fox and the Hound.

[@rotcod2886]

Far out!

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Paul Winchell, who played the director in this, did many, many, cartoon voices.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Also, Paul Winchell was an inventor. He was one of the original inventors of the artificial heart (he donated the patent to the University of Utah Medical School), a car that runs on battery power, and many other inventions still around. Source: imdb.com.

[@donicaburley9163]

Groooovvvvy!!!

[@roshelen884]

No one up there digs me lol

[@sean2015]

Funniest Brady Bunch episode by far

[@gretchennelson7056]

“Now come on, out, all of you out of my house!” “This is my house” “Hm? oh”😂😂😂😂definetely one of the funniest episodes

[@LisaKoffler]

I couldn't believe that he "forgot" that he was in someone else's house!

[@elbolsillo]

“What are these people, Mormons or something?!” -The Director

[@LisaKoffler]

No, I think they were just Protestants!

[@LisaKoffler]

No, they were just a wild and crazy family!

[@Mr6stringchaos]

The great Paul Winchell!!!

[@Kat.Evangeline14]

We were out playing ! 😅

[@LisaKoffler]

In a swamp?

[@RavnerRavner]

Guy reminded me of Charlie Manson

[@inkyguy]

Manson was never that grounded, sober or sane.

[@ja8452]

How? He looks and acts absolutely nothing like him...

[@nickhill8612]

@@ja8452 I never thought about that and your right.

[@gretchennelson7056]

I so loved Paul Winchell😎

[@geor67]

Hey it's Dick Dastardly!

[@erindee3246]

I liked the part with Alice walkthrough

[@LisaKoffler]

Alice didn't walk, she danced!

[@adamw8469]

Flew in from the feather factory… how true that was

[@LisaKoffler]

Getting extra dirty on purpose would show that the new laundry detergent cleans ANYTHING!

[@phatato]

The lighting guy with a mustache is super cute

[@GretchenNelson-f9y]

Yes he is

[@Keven19741]

Safe commercial Directed By: Dick Dastardly

[@larry930legend]

You may recognize actor HARRY CRIGGER, wearing striped shirt holding 'high boom'(?). Familiar face,also appeared in Partridge Family,Odd Couple and other ABC shows

[@melissacooper4282]

Why didn't he just straight up and tell the Bradys that he wanted them to just be themselves? If he would've done that then they wouldn't get acting lessons from that Myrna Carter and went over the top!

[@jfq7223]

Or warn them beforehand. Don't go trying to learn to act...

[@LisaKoffler]

I thought he did tell the Bradys to just be themselves, but they didn't have confidence in their own capabilities, and Myrna Carter gave them the worst acting advice!

[@donnawoodford4127]

Yeah, I dig it! Will someone get me a shovel? And Alice's dress. That's the same one she wore in the episode with 'Mark Mallard', the con artist. But what real life housekeeper would really wear her best clothes to do her work? You'd ruin them. You wear clothes you don't mind getting dirty in, because housekeeping is messy work. Alice should have been wearing her work dress.

[@melissacooper4282]

That was why Farnum had a fit at Alice's appearance. He wanted her to wear her uniform like she usually does. He wanted her to be herself

[@inkyguy]

Donna Woodford, apparently the comedic irony went right past you.

[@LisaKoffler]

YES! I remembered the dress from the "Mark Millard" episode, too! Alice was just taking part in the TV commercial, and she dressed up because of Myrna Carter's acting advice!

[@jfq7223]

...everybody, outta my house. This is MY house. Hmm? Oh...

[@LisaKoffler]

Whoever heard of anyone "forgetting" that they're in someone else's house? That's weird!

[@Stephen10528]

Don’t be so grouchy, Skip!

[@terryrollins1973]

It's Gargamel

[@jacobwiles547]

The best episodes were when the plot revolved around everybody!

[@djs2356]

we must not judge Myierna....she was just Motivating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@LisaKoffler]

Maybe so, but she was STILL horrible!

[@dancastro4732]

Robert Reed hated this episode so much. Can't say I blame him

[@LisaKoffler]

I've seen WORSE!

[@thomasdudley4558]

They should have got zappa lol

[@gretchennelson7056]

“My rock”😂😂😂😂

[@keithbrown8814]

It had to be hard ....good acting playing bad actors trying to act well...wow confusing and a very good episode of a good television series!!!

[@LisaKoffler]

They were good actors who got bad acting advice from a friend!

[@ninav7083]

"What happens when you put a camera on a bunch of squares?" We just found out....

[@MissterX]

The guy who plays the director has a very familiar sounding voice.

[@gretchennelson7056]

Well for one he was the voice of Tigger. And so many other cartoon voices.

[@BarekHalfhand]

Pre GMO celery.

[@toddgrogg8005]

Eve, looks likes she's stoned.

[@LisaKoffler]

REALLY? She looks like she's still smiling from "playing in a swamp!"

[@Perririri]

Myrna Carter?

[@345mrse]

No, no...Meerna Carter.

[@TwoShedsJackson]

Yeah, THAT’S the nut!

[@LisaKoffler]

It doesn't matter, since she was REALLY a horrible actress!

[@skinnybear5743]

Voice of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh.

[@Stephen10528]

Why did they give this episode a bad ending?!

[@LisaKoffler]

I've seen WORSE!

[@brianlayman9824]

Trying to understand why this is TV-14 restricted...

[@LiveLaughLove8489]

Should I say third? Or is it old hat by now? LMBO

[@kaitiscarlett9022]

Damn! Alice is beautiful! She always was, but here she is just stunning.

[@jaengen]

They finally got her out of that damn maid’s outfit.

[@LisaKoffler]

She was wearing the same dress she wore on her second date with her ex-boyfriend from high school, Mark Millard!

[@gunnerzane5230]

An old dude calling a young dude pops..

[@DavidBayliff]

box of flakes and playing in a swamp

[@adamw8469]

Kind of ironic that Robert Reed is holding a box of Safes… he died from AIDS.

[@BrandonTobatto]

SECOND

[@fabiolavivanco2574]

ew what happend to them ?

[@LisaKoffler]

The kids wanted to show that the new laundry detergent cleans ANYTHING, so they got themselves extra dirty on purpose to do that!

[@jengarica1441]

He was extremely rude them they were trying there best he didn't need to be so insulting and obnoxious to them

[@LisaKoffler]

He had NO IDEA they took acting lessons from Myrna Carter!

[@Gretchen-u2x]

For God’s sake!

[@sylviaisgod6947]

Jan should be punished.

[@LisaKoffler]

I don't think so!

[@barryblitzstein6054]

Paul Winchell???? REALLY??

[@roshelen884]

Barry b yep that's him

[@roshelen884]

Barry b yep that's him

[@tommycollins7846]

That is Paul Winchell in this episode.

[@345mrse]

This is when BB was jumping the shark.

[@joeancona2784]

This is one of the 🌽 cornyer episodes!! Its almost like they wanted to ruin the commercial 😢😢😢!! It's not 🚫 🚀 science 😮😮😮😮

[@LisaKoffler]

Carol said they wanted to be "bigger than life!" They didn't "ruin" the commercial, Myrna Carter's acting advice did!

[@Getrealpeeps]

I HATED that episode!!!

[@gilson1982]

That’s cause you’re not motivated.

[@LisaKoffler]

That's because you don't have a sense of humor!

[@obiedryer486]

Dumb episode

[@larry930legend]

Obie dryer just for that, I'm gonna switch your laundry detergent

[@dancastro4732]

The last episode of the series was dumber

[@inkyguy]

Obie Dryer, the series was definitely starting to run out of steam. Because the kids were aging out of their parts the Oliver character was added to give younger children to relate to, but Sheldon Leonard decided to shelve the entire series.

[@LisaKoffler]

I've seen WORSE!