Jan Admits She Ruined the Family Portrait

Jan admits she ruined the family portrait when she wasn't wearing her glasses!
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[@AC62-m5w]

Jan was beautiful with and without glasses and she had the most gorgeous hair.

[@eddiejadams]

My favorite of the girls 💖💖

[@nightowlchad]

I know she blossomed and surpassed Marcia in the last season

[@hmfrias]

@@nightowlchadtotally

[@hmfrias]

Eve had blonde hair envied by Susan and Maureen. Susan’s hair was bleached as a child to match the wig Florence wore in S1

[@morganjanelle4282]

@@hmfrias ✔ They also dyed Mike Lookinland's ('Bobby') hair to make his hair match the other boys & their dad. His natural hair color was too light. They ended up not doing it anymore, though, because the bright overhead lights on the set was causing the dye to run down his face, lol.

[@AAAskeet]

I like this show even more as an adult

[@Cas82958]

This is one of (if not) the most touching moments in the series in my opinion.

[@Lava1964]

My vote goes to the climax of the Father of the Year episode. That one makes me--a 60-year-old male--tear up.

[@sasz2107]

To me there were quite a few. The one where the kids get mad at Alice, so she leaves, and then the kids go to a diner where she got a new job and they tell her they love her and want her to come back - that episode is one of the most touching for me. Or where Marcia gets kicked out of the school play because she's being difficult - then someone who played a much smaller part gets sick, and she offers to do it, and they let her back in - that one is also quite touching.

[@sylviaisgod6947]

I like the one where Greg drives Marcia to the abortion clinic.

[@Redeemed1968]

@@sylviaisgod6947 Wait.. huh?

[@Redeemed1968]

Yes it is but the one that gets me in tears is when Bobby was going to run away and carol packed her bags to go with him.

[@eriknelson7077]

I love Robert Reed’s reaction when she tells him that she sold her bike to pay for the new picture. It’s subtle but you really feel like he’s saying to himself “Whoa! She’s already grown up” Reed wasn’t just a good actor playing a father, he really was a father figure to those kids off screen

[@AshMorton]

Apparently, that’s not true. According to Sherwood Schwartz, he was a real jerk off screen as he thought the show was absurd

[@eriknelson7077]

@@AshMortonnot to the kids though

[@jonthomas8569]

@@AshMortonaccording to everyone, he loved and respected the kids, and really doted on them. But it is true that Robert Reed was difficult to work with when it came to the scripts. Apparently he frequently fought with the producers over plot points and the writing.

[@Rockhound6165]

@@jonthomas8569 not to mention he, just to piss Schwartz off, would bring his boyfriends to the set.

[@Rockhound6165]

@@AshMorton it is true. Robert Reed treated the kids as if they were his own. This is from the actors themselves and not the jaded producer.

[@RichardM1366]

Jan knew she did wrong. She went to extreme measures which shows she is being raised right.

[@kaitiscarlett9022]

Gotta luv those sad violins at 2:25

[@josebro352]

The only other time that I remember hearing them was in the scene where Carol finds Bobby and Cindy when they were lost in the Grand Canyon

[@Jimmersaunt]

I like that Jan asked him to make the punishment something else even though selling her bike was punishment enough.

[@mikep5335]

This was when Mike's hair was halfway between the short straight version in season 1 and the curly hair in season 3.

[@davidcooke8005]

As a parent I'd be overwhelmed with pride if my kid effed up, owned it, and made it right, all without being told like Jan did here. We'd be on our way to the bike store, cash in hand. We all make mistakes. It's how we handle the aftermath that counts.

[@kaitiscarlett9022]

This! And bravo to the other five who willingly helped her out. THAT'S family love.

[@Berkner80]

Your kid is probably really proud of you with your use of the English language. Not shocked anymore but people just can’t express themselves without inferring and using foul language.

[@davidcooke8005]

@@Berkner80 Care to elucidate me where I used foul language?

[@Berkner80]

@@davidcooke8005 effed up, we know what your trying to say. Keep using it, that’s your business but not very nice. Guess that’s acceptable by today’s standards but just sad in my book and a language we didn’t even know about in the 70’s or at least in my circles, and thankful for it.

[@davidcooke8005]

@@Berkner80 You didn't get invited to very many parties back in the 70's did you?

[@sasz2107]

I remember this episode very clearly. I felt very bad for Jan in this moment. I think this is one of the best acted scenes. Pretty effective if you ask me.

[@RBS_]

*...THAT MIKE...* ...(1:16).... Six Kids, a Wife, & a Housekeeper, and he's sharp as a TACK!🤨 ....very rare for a Father to take action (& punishment) over his Daughter, especially if he's a "Family Man"...but, Jan was responsible, honest, & remorseful enough, to accept it ...props to YOU, Mr. Brady..(0:26)...

[@LuisPerez-i3v]

I always loved this show! RIP Robert Reed.😢

[@curtpiazza1688]

Touching scene! 😊

[@bluediver2]

Very touching moments on the show

[@shanekilpatrick3378]

I was so in love with Jan watching this show as a kid.

[@maryannlockwood7806]

My crush was Peter. But Jan had the best hair. 😊

[@jonthomas8569]

Robert Reed had such an understated delivery that still managed to convey so much. He really was a terrific actor, and the only person I could imagine playing Mike Brady.

[@simonealexander7313]

All these years later, I still don't understand why you would keep the photo on the garage floor.

[@tarabuff]

To hide it from Carol!

[@simonealexander7313]

in the garage sure, but on the floor??

[@sylviaisgod6947]

These are people that mow Astroturf. Not exactly geniuses.

[@crpsaiyan]

​@@simonealexander7313If I may be so bold, how would YOU hide the photograph?

[@zzzbbbooo]

Or why the photographer wouldn't have been able to reprint a copy!

[@SterlingFogg]

Mike Brady is the best tv dad ever!

[@maryannlockwood7806]

I agree!😊

[@Redeemed1968]

Is it weird I cry on that part? The Brady bunch is timeless! And do I love Jan’s hair!

[@zhoulijun6296]

😭 every time! Grew up in 🇦🇺 in the 70s watching the bunch. Sweet. Innocent. Loving. Some of Lost In Space has these qualities too

[@NEWYORKGIANTS1FAN]

Everything is solved in a half hour, if only life was like that 🤪

[@roachtoasties]

Something closer to 23 minutes. You got to subtract for the commercials and credits. :)

[@TnseWlms]

Once Robert Reed did a commercial where he said, "Back on the Brady Bunch all our problem were solved in half an hour. That's a far cry from reality..." I don't remember what he was trying to sell, though.

[@luvspaiste]

Jan is always effing up.

[@lenb7275]

In The Brady Bunch Movie She Almost Did Get Hit By A Car Where The Driver Yells " Stupid Punk Kid ' And Gives Her The Bird Where Jan Is In The Middle Of The Street On Her Bicycle Smiling At The Driver !

[@waynemacfarland1546]

It takes a real person to admit her mistake and do what she can to correct that mistake, and Jan Brady delivered on that just perfectly! You go, Jan!

[@SydneyAstrologySchool]

Eve was the best thing in this show. She was such a lovely little actress

[@RB2331]

I agree the show was just so good. I was only a year old when it came on, but I watched it in syndication in the early 80s as a preteen loved every episode the styles don’t hold up but wow, the family themes are terrific.

[@andrewjerome6573]

Much better than that boring Marsha!

[@danicegewiss862]

Robert Reed was a funny man. He is missed. We all wish he had been our dad.

[@TVHouseHistorian]

Robert Reed was absolutely nothing like Mike Brady, which is why Mike Brady came out of him with such strength and sincerity. Many actors are very troubled people with a lot of demons haunting them. Reed was no exception. He was not anyone I would ever have been interested in knowing personally, but his character Mike Brady sure was.

[@mls617983]

@@TVHouseHistorianit was said that he had issues but was a nice man.

[@wildmike951]

Jan was so cute.

[@JeanesaPierre-un2xj]

I Love Jan Brady From The Brady Bunch 1969 - 1974 Tv Show

[@kel319100]

Love this!!!!!

[@bbgarnettTotallyNotABot]

So Mike just assumes Jan is responsible because she's wearing glasses in the new photo? I mean couldn't it have just as easily been broken by any of the other kids and Jan would still have worn the glasses in the new photo regardless?

[@kev7161]

They only have 22 minutes to get the story finished!

[@Lava1964]

I never thought of that! Let's give Mike credit for being a good guesser.

[@loveforeignaccents]

Yeah. Why TH is he jumping to conclusions like that?! Maybe he just thought she would spill the beans regardless of who it was.

[@kaitiscarlett9022]

bbgarnettTotallyNotABot - That was my exact thought, 100% !!

[@seadweller386]

Lol - he should’ve questioned Cindy or Alice since they’re the known tattle tales

[@loveforeignaccents]

1:15... ew-eee, Jan is busted, with a capital B!!!

[@hoosrfan]

It’s always Jan’s fault!

[@jaengen]

Everything is.

[@swengeer]

Jan! Jan! Jan!

[@jamessatter7418]

Peter messed up a lot too.

[@markleneker9923]

You're grounded. Two weeks no shooting range. Dad could you make it something else? You can't ground me from using my gun. Yes, I'm afraid I can. I don't have a gun anymore, I tossed it after knocking over a coffeeshop to pay for the New photograph.

[@nickbrundidge9089]

2:31

[@cruehead23]

I like Jan. I'm a middle kid who also hated wearing my glasses, and I get her frustrations

[@Lava1964]

Jan should have eagerly said, "Yeah, I'll happily accept that punishment!"

[@toddmccreary4579]

Yes but that would sort of be like Peter dishing out punishments when he broke the vase.

[@kev7161]

That's why kids today are so messed up, parents trying to find ways to help them skirt responsibility and escape punishment.

[@Lava1964]

@@toddmccreary4579 I was just kidding. Jan did the right thing--and she accepted the consequences of her actions.

[@johnoconnor6356]

When the photographer asked Mike how long he was married, and he answered 3 years, and the photographer said, "Everything these days, Rush Rush Rush, did he really think that all six kids were under 3 years old, and very big for their ages?

[@grl9917]

I think its called…a joke.

[@dgh4229]

Oh Jan

[@alexanderpytko5394]

By me, Mike: Jan, why weren't you wearing your glasses in the first place? Jan: Because I didn't want Bernie Macquire to see him in them. I was afraid I was going to goofy in front of him. Mike: Jan, what's more important, good looks or good eyesight? Jan: Do I have to answer that? Mike: Yes. Jan: I guess good eyesight. Mike: Good answer.

[@billdivine9501]

Mike Brady’s nickname should have been “The Punisher!”

[@mikaelpersaud5094]

What was the picture doing in the garage?

[@roachtoasties]

I think Jan and Mike both have problems beyond prescription glasses. I swear there are no lenses. Just frames. There's absolutely no reflections from the lighting, but I do see reflections on the frames. Jan will continue to bump into things until she's mentally well enough to realize that wearing glasses without lenses doesn't correct vision. For Mike, and the entire family, to not even notice this tells me whatever mental illness there is must be contagious.

[@gregorymoore2877]

"I know I didn't have my glasses for the first photo. But then I got glasses and that made the original photo out-of-date. I didn't want mom to have an out-of-date photo." - Jan if she thought on her feet more quickly.

[@kacicottrell]

@gregorymoore2877 I don't think all the kids would dress up again just so Jan could wear her glasses and the parents knew she hated wearing them. Also, he probably wouldn't believe she paid for another photo just to wear her glasses.

[@gregorymoore2877]

@@kacicottrell You're probably right, but she didn't even try. Although to be fair I didn't even think of that "possible explanation" until about 40 years after I first saw the episode.

[@mls617983]

The minute I ruined the picture, I would've been thinking up lies and excuses in case I was caught.

[@karenwelch7232]

Why didn't the photographer have a negative of the original photo?

[@stephaniecruzado384]

He lost it

[@Dani-ICU-RN]

0:40 imagine,Anniversary gifts from SIX kids

[@jank8365]

Poor Jan 🙏😇🙏 She’s THE BEST KID IN THE WORLD 👍

[@PerAllwin1963]

At least Marcia wasn’t to blame this time.

[@Rockhound6165]

The only thing that bothered me about this episode is that all they had to do was get the original picture reframed.

[@carlosquimtw1080]

What about the other presents?

[@kacicottrell]

Something about watching two people slobbering on each other's face while moving their necks like birds makes me sick.

[@coisafofa420]

“Fake” French kissing LOL

[@Dani-ICU-RN]

2:15 I kinda think she did the right thing Mike

[@chrisamon80]

Jan's job is done. She's given up the bicycle for 2 weeks to be grounded.

[@johnvaldez407]

Jan is funny

[@MrTaryns]

as an adult you realize even then they could have just reprinted from the negative and know one would have known any different but then there would have been no story.lol

[@drsbhs]

the photographer was an absent minded clown. he lost the negative. there's a clip here on youtube with that part of the episode.

[@kavalere]

wow wholesome TV imagine that these days

[@Truckergregg]

Old school Boomer ethics- 😊

[@grl9917]

Too bad they didn’t teach their children properly.

[@swengeer]

The 70's were such a traumatic decade. However did they get through it?

[@dbtech4562]

No social media. The world was very simple in those days. The color TV with maybe 6 channels was the most advanced thing people had in their homes and it was tiny but weighted a ton.

[@sylviaisgod6947]

Lots of cocaine.

[@that70sschwinn]

Jan sold the Schwinn 😪🤔

[@lagarde2011]

I'm pretty sure it was a Huffy that she crashed into the photo.

[@that70sschwinn]

@@lagarde2011 You are correct, I went back and found the clip and sure enough, the short ape hangers and square head badge sure look like a Huffy👍👍

[@lagarde2011]

@@that70sschwinn Hey, it's cool that you looked into it. I didn't notice your name and av before. The scene of Jan blindly crashing through the garage is great fun.

[@that70sschwinn]

@@lagarde2011 I also found another clip with the entire family riding more Huffies, I wonder how Huffy got the contract over Schwinn when every household in America had a Varsity, Continental, Suburban and of course the Sting-Ray Krates and Fastbacks. Chrysler provided the cars, including the 1969 Plymouth Satellite station wagon exactly like the one my parents had😂🏡 Great fun indeed kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKispZprod-Vo5I

[@lagarde2011]

@@that70sschwinn I always enjoyed the Brady cars. Mike had the Barracuda convertible that Bobby poked a hole through with the umbrella in the episode where he insisted on going to the drive-in movie with Greg and his date.

[@loveforeignaccents]

So glad to know Jan sold her bike to get the dough... my mind went to the gutter yesterday. And who was Jan's real dad? Wonder why he never saw the girls, nor the boys' mom ever seeing them either. 😕😕

[@dawggirl]

Uh, they were dead.

[@loveforeignaccents]

@@dawggirl Saw Mike's wife supposedly passed after some online research, but nothing mentioned about what ever happened to Carol's former husband.

[@sylviaisgod6947]

Carol divorced her first husband. It's never mentioned in the show but Sherwood talked about it when he was creating the show and censors wouldn't allow it, along with showing a toilet.@@loveforeignaccents

[@loveforeignaccents]

@@sylviaisgod6947 Well, I would imagine they were either divorced or he had passed, but my question still remains why he never saw his children throughout the years?!?

[@shawnduncan5779]

Both the husband and wife were widowed when they got married

[@hockeyfanism]

This was a good script, for once.

[@theoneandonly6431]

Maybe she should've tried contact lenses instead then none of it would've happened.

[@davidr4523]

For stepdad Mike Brady was quite mean. In real life the mother would have said to back off since you are not their real dad.

[@brianmcdonald6519]

That is how a blended family is supposed to work!! Both parents having authority over ALL the kids! One parent telling the other who they can and cannot discipline would probably be the fastest way to a divorce!!

[@Julia29853]

That would make the marriage break up in about two weeks. Most immature advice ever!

[@turbogato1]

Mike Brady assumed Jan ruined the photo. Maybe Peter was playing ball in the garage and the ball hit the photo or even a squatter got into the garage and stole it. Even though he was right to assume it was Jan he should have asked tattletale Cindy what happened just to be sure.

[@kellymcfalls1458]

@turbogato1 . He should have not asked Cindy that would be encouraging her to tattle

[@jeffreycone7504]

All these episodes always ended solomnley. What a bummer. Thats why this series wasnt all that funny. Give me I Love Lucy any time.

[@SterlingFogg]

It was never meant to be funny. It was meant to have heart and soul.

[@billhosko7723]

troll

[@sasz2107]

Being 100% funny all the time, or zany, slapstick humor, was really not the point of The Brady Bunch. It was intended to be a funny show, and in some cases was outright silly. But there was a lesson to be learned in every show. Almost every episode had a theme in which one of the kids had a lesson to learn. Think about who the intended audience of the show was - it was school age children. The kids watching the show could learn something from the lessons the kids on The Brady Bunch learned. There was a bit more reality to this show than there was to I love Lucy. I Love Lucy's intended audience was adults - so it's a bit different.

[@Julia29853]

You do know these are little clips from the middle of the episode? 🤦‍♀️ lol

[@jrcwwl]

Jan was always my favorite, and thought she was the prettiest too.