Greg Brady Turns Mike's Den into a Groovy Bachelor Pad

[@Loverof_christ99]

I honestly really love this show, it takes me to the 70’s but not back, for the first time since I’m young lol, It always surprises me the way people spoke, their customs, and the style of decades past. It feels ancient almost, historical even, Thanks to the channel for uploading 🎉

[@jaengen]

This show is so groovy! Like far out man!

[@bobdavis4848]

Outtasite, dynamite, really bent the gig outta shape! (All these expressions replaced "boss," "gear" and "way out.")

[@denisemayosky1955]

​@@bobdavis4848 Funny how slang comes around again! In the '80s, we used the term "boss" as a synonym for "cool"!

[@bobdavis4848]

@@denisemayosky1955 I think I recall that. To insult a trend or call it passe, one would say it's "on the way out." But "way out" by itself meant a compliment like "far out" or cool, haha.

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

"Groovy" no "far out" were descriptors for the room................

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

@@bobdavis4848 These 1960s terms are part of the reason I wish I had been born in the 70s or later...... or in Herod's time and one of the babies he had knocked off.

[@gretchennelson7056]

“Make it my own pad, my own scene”😂😂

[@stephensheridan1279]

You can see Mr. Brady die inside upon hearing these words… I think I’ve made a terrible, terrible mistake! What have I done?! 😳

[@TnseWlms]

Junior year in high school, my parents wanted me to have a giant office calendar on the wall of my bedroom so I could keep track of all my school assignments.

[@sylviaisgod6947]

Plaster the walls.

[@MontagZoso]

Hey that was the talk in this time period. 😊

[@bingcherry1122]

@@TnseWlms That would be very useful. Not very cool. But very useful. Lol!!!!🤣

[@BobSebring]

Greg's room gave me the inspiration to decorate my own room like that. A totally psychedelic experience.

[@TheAverycross]

Thanks so much for sharing this classic episode! This scene still has me in stitches, knowing that it is still Mike's work den. And coincidentally, it's great to see Mike (and Carol) supportive and understanding about Greg's growing up.

[@Aramanth]

LOL In 1979 I turned my room in a pad! I was 13. I had three colored disco lights!! First time I turned on my disco light I got a scare. I saw the shadow of a huge man on the wall... It was my King chess piece's shadow being projected! Still it was fun. Though I didn't have Greg Brady's decorating budget...

[@larrywakeman4371]

LOL!!!! Remember Lava lamps? LOL! MY mother wouldn't let me get one she said it was too hippie-ish LOL!!! Love the Bradys and this episode! SO funny! I grew up with them! Kim

[@SR-iy4gg]

@@larrywakeman4371 I have two lava lamps! Born in 1979!

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

Hollywood's decorating budget.............

[@formerlyduped2429]

That was funny when Mike stood under the groovy light with fringe

[@gmccord1970]

If I was Mike, I would be checking Greg for some hidden bowls, bongs and rolled up joints.

[@Professor__S]

Mike finds a spoon, a syringe and a lighter under Greg's bed.. Mike: I think its time we had a little chat about heroin young man😂

[@beccamcdonald9846]

Greg was definitely the Hippie of the family 😂💜

[@peterbreughel4440]

That door is really soundproof.

[@larrywakeman4371]

LOL!YEah, especially since the ir is a huge open area that goes from the living room fireplace to the den LOL!

[@TnseWlms]

Good enough for the visiting FBI agent.

[@TomMarvan]

Not really, the laugh track is louder than ever.

[@RapFanatic4ever]

I love the 70’s theme and I haven’t heard the word “Pad” In years .

[@bobdavis4848]

I know; feminine protection products are all called maxi-dens lately. I love the 70s theme, too.

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

@@bobdavis4848 I have yet to get and iRoom because they don't have keyboards.

[@davidmusicmaker]

@@bobdavis4848 I don't remember maxi-dens. There were Maxi Pads, though.

[@bobdavis4848]

​@@davidmusicmaker I was trying to make a joke. it seemed the OP literally meant only that he had not heard of a den being called a pad in years, but his words had not clarified that. It seemed much less likely he really also had not heard the term "maxi-pa,d" to mean a kind of feminine protection, as they called it, in years. Hearing it the latter way also counts as hearing the word "pad." I could have instead asked him like, "You mean to take notes, everyone around you uses a den of paper and not a pad of paper?"

[@MountainMan.]

Mike's den is almost as much square footage as my house.

[@willymaykit1482]

You live in a shed ?

[@TheSaturnV]

I'm diggin' the scene in these comments man!

[@ronnyber]

They really messed up on the HGTV renovation by not including Greg's funky pad.

[@christopherblue2004]

He just hovers over the girl and stares at her.🤣

[@decembergal]

1:57 what’s he using the gas can for in the back? A flowerpot? 😂

[@sylviaisgod6947]

I think it's a water jug from the army or something.

[@mysticwolf75]

I loved Greg's room in this episode! I actually had that one light in my room, as well as a couple blacklight posters, back in the 90s. I was a semi-regular shopper at Spencer Gifts. 😅

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

I remember my mom having a Spencer catalog and everything looks so nice but when we got the things we ordered we were sorely disappointed. They looked like the crap you would get either from Cracker Jacks (R) or Cereal boxes.

[@mysticwolf75]

@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 I never bought from their catalog, just their store at the mall. And they had pretty quality stuff. I still have most of it, but it's in storage. There are still a handful of novelty lights I still have out that I use occasionally. And I still have one blacklight poster hanging up in a frame, but it's a classic one, "Lost Horizon" I think it's called.

[@foxworthhall726]

Dude!!! Loving that scene!!!

[@theresecallahan8548]

Very late 60's-early 70's.

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

That's what I was thinking.

[@billsmith281]

Gregs allowance must've been pretty big to afford all that stuff😂

[@bobpike8050]

Obviously he was dealing.

[@jlohmann13]

​@@bobpike8050Oh, gosh darn it! You stole my thoughts precisely.

[@LB__1]

You've got to admire Greg's confidence. I remember my first day of high school and I wasn't anywhere near as bold ad Greg was.

[@willymaykit1482]

It was in the script.

[@RB2331]

I agree this was a great episode. I was only a couple years old when the show came on the air in the early 70s. I used to watch it around 7980 as a preteen. Loved every minute of it come home but channel 5 on cable and just just love this show and let me tell you I’d be an easy father For a great son like Greg, but there’s no chance in hell that he would get my den that’s my den. He can sleep with his brothers until he leaves college and that’s it and what’s funny about the designers house that the house was mammoth but one bedroom for three kids one bedroom for the three girls and they share one toilet are you kidding me in one shower, stupid design but maybe the attic but it gets too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter even for California the great episode a wonderful time but I’m so glad with the school in the mid 80s. I had a sports car jeans Nikes my jacket that looks still holds up 41 years later lol but those 70s look are you kidding me holy smokes

[@chrishultgren777]

Robert Young would have put his shoe up Buds rear end if he tried this on Father knows best.

[@abacab87]

Ah, the good old days. s/

[@Lisa-b3c1u]

😂😂😂😂

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

So would've I.

[@RosieGaelic]

Reminds me of “Laugh In” skit “The Party”. I can just see Goldie Hawn dancing.

[@Leadeshipcoach]

I know that Robert Reed hated being on the show- but his acting, his responses and timing were superb. He may not have liked the show but he definitely was professional and did his job with excellence!

[@reriley2002]

What’s that funky song playing in the background? I love it!

[@tashalynn29]

I tried to Shazam it..... no luck

[@gojewla]

Greg Brady is ready to drop some serious acid.

[@swengeer]

More likely fruit punch.

[@Berkner80]

I grew up during this time never wanted a room like that, had a few posters but that’s it.

[@SamuelGriffin-zt1ze]

Greg turned his father's den into something groovy

[@PlastiqueTechnologique2002]

It’s funny how the decade could be different, but the story never changes 😂😂😂😂😂 My parents reacted the same way when I decorated my room with a very TikTok aesthetic back in the day 😂😂😂😂😂

[@angelrivera8558]

I am a teen of the 1979s at that time that was a cool room

[@lindac7966]

The guy who took the girl's book also played Jerry Rogers, the opposing QB who stole Greg's football playbook. Dude needs to stop swiping books! 😂

[@johnnastrom9400]

He also played Eddie, the guy who sold him the piece of sh*t car in season 3. Also played Hank Carter, a college friend who offered to take Greg in as his room mate, in season 4.

[@jlohmann13]

​@@johnnastrom9400Well, hello there Mr. Trivia. I believe you are right on all accounts.

[@rodneysammons5544]

@ 0:11 Lad's pad, Kid's castle.

[@djmarvelousmark]

0:32 “This place is real funky”

[@AnnamarieAmoroso-hy5zg]

I love the room

[@naddeer1821]

That room is far out and solid. Mr and Mrs. Brady are L7

[@jamesr1703]

I remember those shaded glasses. I had some. They were groovy.

[@danbremer7010]

So many activities!

[@michaelvaladez3012]

Greg's room looked so 70s Lol 😂 I can only imagine what this new generation thinks of that!

[@davemustaki134]

You'd be surprised a lot of those lightings and style are coming back with this online streaming stuff

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

@@davemustaki134 NIMBY, if I had one...................

[@davidmusicmaker]

@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 what is a NIMBY?

[@demophys4883]

Yes, but it's not genuine. The set decorators bought all that stuff in "safe" places, like department stores, not in the actual shops where the young people actually went. The stuff on display there is bland and inoffensive.

[@hypnos9336]

the new generation doesn't have a style, they just copy whatever is popular on the internet

[@heidifedor]

Before the attic became part of the house.

[@retroguy9494]

No, the attic was there. It's just that it was small. In fact, Mike even comments when Carol said 'what about the attic' and Mike says something like 'that would be perfect is Greg were three feet tall.' It's later in the series that it became a full walk up attic.

[@MeMeDaVinci]

It seems like that room would have bee better suited to be a tv room if not Mike's office.

[@Beachdudeca]

That was not a den , that was a home office

[@bingcherry1122]

If Tyrone F. Horneigh (Laugh In TV Show) saw Greg's room he would say "This room looks really groovy. Can I bring Gladys over one day???? I just know she will love it!!!!!" Lol!!!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@jackmeyhoffer5107]

Where did Greg get the “bread” to buy all that stuff that he used to decorate the den?

[@sylviaisgod6947]

Sold dope at school.

[@marymoran8859]

GROOVY

[@fredWaxBeans11111]

A groovy room vibe for Johnny Bravo

[@jlohmann13]

Love it.

[@troyturner1235]

Where did Greg get everything

[@SamuelGriffin-u8d]

Greg was the first son to enter college during the final season of the show

[@mikereiss4216]

That's one psycho delic bedroom.

[@ryanarborist]

Next video in my suggestions "Greg Brady stoned."

[@SamuelGriffin-u8d]

In the early seventies we used like far out groovy

[@bobdavis4848]

"Far out, solid and right on." "Groovy" was biggest in the 60s. The Fifth Dimension were "Working On A Groovy Thing."

[@davidmusicmaker]

Also, "dig it," "jive," outta sight," "out of this world," "what it is," "my pad," and "far out." Clothes were called "threads."

[@abacab87]

Give it six months and it will smell funky as well.

[@Langolin1998]

Mike may have known “soft hour glasses” would be on Greg’s mind, next. But they weren’t on his.

[@muzikdude1188]

Where did he get the money for all of that stuff in his room? I know I couldn't afford to buy anything close to that when I was 14.

[@SamuelGriffin-u8d]

Greg trying so hard to fit in as a high school freshman

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

That part should've had it's own clip because it was irrelevant to the main subject. I was kind of expecting Greg to try to invite her to see his new "pad", and it was the other kid who said "groovy".

[@cindymalone4006]

It's clunky,it's clinky

[@cindymalone4006]

For fun,here at our house,we say stuff is " clinky" all the time

[@outoftheforest7652]

Looking back on this.. it is ridiculous. I think Greg wanted a private bedroom cause he was getting older? But for his dad to give up his critical office space? Mike will never get ANY work done if he moves into the family room.... That is the noisiest busiest part of the house 2nd to the kitchen. So then suddenly years later the house has an Attic that greg moves into.. oh well, that's tv..

[@TT_09]

Greg had the right idea. How’re you gonna have a huge house with 6 kids and only 3 bedrooms?

[@Oridginale24]

I thought Alice had her own room.

[@TT_09]

@@Oridginale24 Good point, Alice probably had her own room, so maybe 4-5 bedrooms. Unless she stayed at Sam’s all the time?

[@jimhandler1129]

wasn't that guy Jerry Rogers who stole Greg's playbook and sold him that lemon of a car?

[@mikereiss4216]

And Greg learns the lesson that the bad boy always get the girl.

[@joejones9520]

julie cobb "boom boom bonnie" from salem's lot

[@coasternut2034]

2:37 Just like the Brady's back yard, the local school also has wrinkly green carpet for grass :)

[@isacece1334]

Oh yeah. I never noticed that LOL

[@davemustaki134]

Some of that stuff is worth a mint now

[@Tif91522]

I ❤ The Brady Bunch 💘💘💘💘💘💘

[@kristinesharp6286]

One would think an architect could figure out how to turn the attic into two bedrooms…. Or just say no. The house already had a room for Alice, three bedrooms, a bonus family room, a den, a front room and dining room combo and an eat in kitchen. I also can’t understand the fight over closet space in master bedroom. Add another dresser or get a wardrobe.

[@swengeer]

And don't forget, 1 bathroom, no toilet.

[@svonkie]

Where's the bong

[@rhondaphillips7471]

Make it my own pad,my own scene” Rita Wilson the “The Brady Bunch” Tikkune

[@raamin141]

Mike's den/office should have been Alice's room. She definitely earned it.

[@kevsta67]

she was a hired hand not family.

[@jbreakstone]

I’m not sure if Alice ever got a paycheck….

[@xjcrossx]

She had her own room

[@josebro352]

​@@xjcrossx She certainly did. Although it was only ever shown in one episode. I think it was the one where she broke her ankle and was bedridden.

[@williamevans7932]

I think they kept Alice in a closet when she wasn't needed lolz.

[@videox222ify]

there was another ep in S4 when Greg moved to the attic

[@retroguy9494]

Yea but in S4 the attic somehow magically transformed itself from being 3 feet tall to a full walk up!

[@JamesHayes-ip4dv]

No way I'd give up the Den

[@danielnnadi1991]

Aww!

[@purefoldnz3070]

shaggadelic baby!

[@donaldzinman2184]

MIke was the sole breadwinner for the family and a prominent architect. He deserved to have his own den.

[@billhosko7723]

this program aired 50 years ago... it IS fiction.

[@TypicalTonk]

Yet somehow he managed to pay the mortgage, a full time housekeeper and clothe and feed six kids. Either you got more bang for your buck back then or I'm calling bullshit.

[@beckypeters5449]

More bang for buck in the 70s women were still predominantly stay at home

[@sylviaisgod6947]

One of his buildings collapsed.

[@josebro352]

​@@sylviaisgod6947It was Beebee Galini's powder puff factory

[@Lantern72]

Simpler times❤

[@a1aprospects470]

Biggest room in the house is the den... yep, Mike was a great architect.

[@400KrispyKremes]

Wait I thought Greg moved into the attic?

[@ThisisstillMYROOM.]

Clunky , finky , funky. 😂😂😂

[@MaryEverling]

Groovy

[@donnahollywood8007]

Who else liked his room! I did!

[@michaelleary9233]

Didn't he think of moving in the attic til his senior year?

[@scottbarclay8066]

1:00. HILARIOUS!!!!! I think one of his parents references the attic earlier in this episode and the other one says ' "that'd be great, if Greg were only 3 feet tall (or 2 feet tall).' "

[@robettgriffin1904]

​@@scottbarclay8066do you want a boyfriend😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@LC-r2b]

That sure was a sound proof room

[@biancamonzo8117]

I always loved it when Greg went psychedelic, and when he got his groovy new threads (clothes) as well. 🌈 🍄 ☮ ✌

[@itgetter9]

Some's been hittin' up Spencer Gifts.

[@paddy9449]

Man' that's what I gotta do.....GET GROOVY!!! Then I can get some chicks!!!!!!

[@timbrown8038]

Jonny Bravo on the horizon.

[@hyacinthlynch843]

Uhh, wouldn't the attic make a groovy pad as well?

[@wgsuperstar7730]

Now all he needs are a couple brods

[@lindagurrera685]

No wonder they put him in the attic

[@janetjenkins2674]

but Greg ended up in the attic

[@timothykozlowski3346]

Why didn't Greg just keep the room after he came back down to earth

[@msr1116]

Danish Modern to American Disaster. Only square parents would say that, 😂😂. At the time this was a super cool room....hibiscus flowers, psychedelic posters, mobiles, neon colors on everything including the bed spread. I love it when Mike unexpectedly finds himself standing directly underneath a light fixture, and then looks straight up into a fringed lampshade. Back then, nothing was more gloatworthy than teenagers succeeding in freaking out their conservative parents.

[@retroguy9494]

1968 called.....it wants that room back! 😂

[@georgemcmenimen1413]

And.....outta nowhere.....comes all these groovy wall accessesories, never seen before, never to be seen again----not even in the attic!!!!!

[@lagarde2011]

Greg was able to return everything to Spencer's Gifts at the mall.

[@Belmont-o1r]

Shagadelic!

[@Racer997]

Greg wanted privacy. But why….? What would a teen boy need privacy for? 🤔

[@gretchennelson7056]

Well…….😏

[@sylviaisgod6947]

So he can master the art of baiting.

[@retroguy9494]

I'll give you ONE guess! 😂

[@Tim_the_Enchanter]

He wants to go blind.

[@quailshootr6389]

Gregs attic pad was more hip...

[@Truth72500]

Greg you don't need pads

[@mattm7798]

Just about every teenage boy identified with Greg so much in this episode. I know I did. Thinking your parents were lame, diving head first into the cool fashions, and being awkward around girls. One of the greatest days of my life was the day I graduated high school. It felt like a giant weight lifted off my shoulders "I don't have to care what all these people think about me 24/7" lol Sticking hundreds of kids in one place 5 days a week is IMO not healthy. Just creates cliques and massive peer pressure. Kids need to learn to be social, but not clique-y. Just my opinion but the homeschooled kids I know are miles ahead of public school kids in maturity and the ability to enter the real world.

[@DocumentMedic]

I love how Greg does not know how to "read the room" at school.😀

[@edmurray611]

Old Mr Brady had a pad…for other men

[@jsmith6436]

A gay architect with 3 kids was rare in the 70s...plus marrying a stay at home woman that refused to work.

[@toddgrogg8005]

There is no call for the Gay thing.

[@mikereiss4216]

He wasn't gay on the show just in real life and back then many women stayed home and didn't work if the husband did.

[@76vike19]

Is this the episode where Mike took all of Sam’s sausage?