Jan Brady is Nominated for Miss Popularity!

Jan Brady gets nominated for the most popular girl in her class!
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[@jaybarnes8034]

George Glass should campaign for Jan.

[@PhilAlumb]

He's shy.. doesn't like to be seen.

[@danielnnadi1991]

George Glass

[@jonnuanez7183]

George Tropicana...he's Cuban

[@nassauguy48]

She should never have thrown away that black wig, she could have campaigned as the NEW JAN BRADY!

[@Gretchen-u2x]

I thought George Glass didn’t exist anymore.

[@jamessatter7418]

This episode was a nice example of the two middle kids bonding. Greg and Marcia were frequent confidants/rivals, and Bobby and Cindy were teamed up together regularly. Peter, on the other hand, tended to pair up with one of his brothers, and Jan was the most independent of the six.

[@smy250]

Great observation. 🙂

[@henrywallacesghost5883]

Jan wasn't independent by choice just none of the other kids wanted to hang out with her. I liked how the movies had Jan hearing voices like a psychopath.

[@melissayoung7270]

Jan was gorgeous!

[@davedaves3489]

Mamash.

[@PhilAlumb]

Marcia. 😍❤️‍🔥🌟

[@Meltedcheese567]

She was a babe!

[@jamesr1703]

Jan was very pretty.

[@PhilAlumb]

Yes....and Marcia was a Supermodel.

[@HadassaMoon144]

Does that mean prettier than Jan? I never thought so, especially once she was older. Jan became more attractive than Marsha and stayed that way into adulthood.

[@borri68]

@@HadassaMoon144 Am meanwhile Cindy grew up to look like a roller derby queen

[@henaretaare8576]

I think nan is sexier than Marcia

[@PhilAlumb]

​@@henaretaare8576...who the heck is "Nan"?

[@Triggrrr]

I always thought Jan was so pretty in the final season

[@RapFanatic4ever]

I actually like Marcia’s flyer

[@paul16451]

Every kid had their "ego deflating" episode with a lesson learned at the end. Cindy - picked for TV game show Bobby - safety monitor Jan - most popular girl Peter - saved a girl from a falling toy shelf Marcia - Juliet in school play Greg - Johnny Bravo singing contract

[@darrenmiles-morland8038]

Greg also had his ego come crashing back to Earth with a thud when he thought that he was going to become the next biggest thing in baseball since Don Drysdale. He got clobbered on match day when he wouldn't listen to his coach and thought that he knew better than everyone else. Jan had her ego deflated a number of other times too. There was one time when her siblings even started letting her win at everything just to make her feel good about herself because they felt sorry for her for not being any good at anything. Jan really started to believe that she was good at the things that the others were letting her win until Cindy opened her big mouth about it.

[@PhilAlumb]

They're Morality Tales from a more innocent Era in television. But, BB is superior to most of the excessively violent, sexual and pessimistic crapola on television today.

[@alondralabute2310]

Add to this along with Darren Miles' comment, Greg when he went into high school, I think it's the first episode of season 2. He thought he was the big man now and even tried calling his parents by their first names! He tried to date a girl who was a senior. And took Mike's den as his bedroom. But he had to come crashing back to earth when the girl didn't want to date a freshman boy.

[@PhilAlumb]

Jan's tap-dancing episode.

[@nassauguy48]

Greg also had his dreams of becoming a great baseball player dashed.

[@jdmagana1132]

Sure, Jan..

[@dontellahfonne]

"My brother Greg is a *huwiz* at algebra!"

[@PatBrooks-u6w]

In the later seasons, all the Bradys were in the "Best Hair"" contest. 😄

[@Itstonytime77]

I always thought that Eve Plumb was the also the beat actress her performances were always the most natural to me.

[@Gretchen-u2x]

Kudos to Cindy for knowing how to spell anonymous right🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@Gretchen-u2x]

Or I should say the writers!🙃

[@nassauguy48]

Yeah, but she couldn't get the name of Alice's old boy friend right. MACKER MALDRILL!

[@Gretchen-u2x]

@@nassauguy48 True😂

[@tangiechapman6219]

Hahahahaha

[@nyla298]

That's when kids were smart 🤓

[@nunyabizness3889]

03:14 we had an automatic ice maker but not many people had a refrigerator with an ice dispenser and a cold water fountain back then.

[@whosaidthat4299]

Oooo fancy 😊

[@jonathannerz1696]

I love Cindy’s hair here. If the show continued, they could have had her hair like this, and she still could be the youngest one in curls.

[@themermaidstale5008]

Herman looks a lot like Peter

[@RapFanatic4ever]

They look identical defenitley

[@dem20233]

Herman really does look like Peter

[@peacefulmindtoday]

Herman is really Jan who is a transman

[@ering.3978]

Not as much as Arthur. 😂

[@allansuaza]

@@ering.3978 Omg, the resemblance was uncanny😉❗

[@stephendobbins9251]

Alice: This calls for a celebration. I'm going to make a special meal, something different, something far out! Mrs. Brady: What's that? Alice: Something with meat in it!

[@nassauguy48]

The Bradys evidently lived on a budget. Not surprising, with six kids, a housekeeper to pay, and Carol not working. I remember seeing a lot of spaghetti and stews (the latter probably meatless) in the episodes.

[@nunyabizness3889]

@@nassauguy48 Carol was a lazy B who married Mike so she could live a life of leisure while he supported her and her daughters. she did zero.

[@nunyabizness3889]

@@nassauguy48 wasn't Alice the lesbian boning Sam the butcher so she could get discounted or free meat? that was another sacrifice she made for Mr. Brady and his extended family.

[@MichelleNelson-my8lp]

​@@nunyabizness3889Sam & Alice had been together for a long time. They were very much in love. They were so cute & sweet together.

[@hmfrias]

I’ll always remember 5 as the season when Jan got hot

[@natashab3412]

Jan and Peter wrre the two cutest imo

[@rebeccalowe-hodges8162]

was a perm a prerequisite for these later episodes??

[@jaredjlinden]

“All Brady men have perms!”

[@C.R886]

Lol the father and Greg had natural curly hair Florence Henderson said she told them to grow it out

[@DeirdreBaker-zo9gl]

Cindy was such a beautiful little girl

[@Alan-lv9rw]

Jan’s bikini back in 1972 changed my life. After seeing that, I didn’t think girls were icky.

[@davedaves3489]

When they were in hawaii ?

[@Lava1964]

Ah, yes...I recall a certain hula lesson on the beach.

[@landreaulover]

This is probably the only series where I never tire of seeing a rerun.

[@kevgibbons929]

this has to be near the end of the series seeing how Cindy or her actress doesnt have curled or braided pigtails anymore

[@Lava1964]

"Beautiful, Brainy and Built..." Honestly, which attribute was Jan lacking by Season #5?

[@PhilAlumb]

Modesty.

[@monkeyb1820]

maybe could have used some lessons at the Strasburg school.

[@marymoran8859]

Jan is PERFECT

[@ThisisstillMYROOM.]

@@marymoran8859Unfortunately that’s an illusion , no human is perfect.

[@jamessatter7418]

Good continuity about Greg being good at math, which was established the first season.

[@Gretchen-u2x]

Could you post the part where Herman says”thanks a lot Miss Popularity!”😂😂

[@AnnaAmoroso-sj8kt]

❤ I love it

[@deeanna3335]

I had that same algebra book when I was in high school

[@Benjamin-ip5vk]

The fashion at the time was actually really good

[@thegreenmanofnorwich]

It's nice to have them all get along. Cindy seems to be acting a little younger than her age.

[@PerAllwin1963]

The school building set at 1:55 is the same one used in “Happy Days” in the 1970s.

[@williamcampbell2656]

Whoa! Not cool- a- mundo ! Leather Tuscadro is going to pay Jan a visit! If you get my drift!

[@nc2227]

Wasn’t she supposed to be nerdy? She’s gorgeous and dresses nice. Her dress is beautiful 😍

[@nunyabizness3889]

03:24 clearly the fridge was filled with non-perishable props since the light didn't work because it was never plugged in.

[@caseykelso1]

No light on in the fridge 😂😂😂

[@READINGSCARESIDIOTS]

They finally let Cindy take her stupid braids out.

[@fergonzalez5670]

Cindy looks more mature with her hair down instead of her curls

[@Stephen10528]

Jan tells ☝️ of her siblings, I forget which, that she doesn’t have to keep her promises because they’re campaign promises. Even if you don’t know how campaign promises work, it’s predictable she’s going to get in trouble with her friends for not keeping her promises.

[@josephphelan646]

Lots of trash is promised durin heat n hipe of election campaigns. !!!!

[@supermilkguy]

Jan and Greg were the true endgame and the writers knew all along.

[@PGTransformed]

That was the moment Marcia should be jealous for a change: JAN, JAN, JAN!!

[@PhilAlumb]

Good for Jan...they always gave Eve Plumb the "underdog" scripts..but she was Nothing like her character.

[@paul16451]

@user-kf8wb2cq4f yeah I remember her seeing her interview on a talk show (can't remember which one) and how beautiful she looked. It was about a decade or so after the show ended and she was no longer blond. Someone asked if she was getting syndication royalties from the show, and the question surprised her and elicited an "huh, I wish!" response. I remember thinking that I wouldn't have recognized her if she hadn't been introduced.

[@SunshineCatwoman]

@@paul16451 Bobby was naturally blond, and they dyed his hair brown; Cindy was a natural brunette, and they dyed her hair blonde.

[@ECJ49]

Not true. In the 35th Brady Bunch reunion special Eve Plumb herself said they took traits from the actors and amplified them for the characters they were portraying. It's more accurate to say Jan was an exaggerated version of Eve Plumb. Same for all the other kid charaters on the show.

[@PhilAlumb]

​@@ECJ49...well, the BB producers wrote that Eve Plumb 's real mother was always trying to get Eve "special treatment" which the producers didn't go for. Maybe that's why Jan was always pouting and depressed.

[@TnseWlms]

Should they have given her "sweet polly purebred" scripts or "simon bar sinister" scripts instead?

[@Loupdelou-ly1ve]

"A glass of milk and a slice of baloney...." sounds delicious 🤣🤣

[@User-tt9ow7c9e]

I don’t like when they change the girl room from pink to yellow and the bed were pink and then yellow.

[@Gretchen-u2x]

You left out the part when she tries to tell Bobby and gets shot down again🙃

[@Mokkari77]

Brady Bunch writers during break "We've got lots of new story ideas about nerdy Jan!" (Eve Plumb shows up at start of season 5 looking 🔥) BB writers: Shit.

[@firstname7330]

3:24 - Fridge light bulb is burned out. ;-)

[@LarryJones-c4m]

I'm glad Sherwood Schwartz finally let Susan Olsen (Cindy) take down her silly pigtails and wear her hair down and long just like Marcia and Jan. Susan Olsen hated her pigtails and begged Schwartz for years to let her wear her hair down. She hated having the hair style of a 5 year old. Unfortunately, the writers continued to portray Cindy as dumb (1:33), another thing Olsen hated.

[@johns7868]

Side note - Cindy outgrew her pigtails but I wasn't sure about the new do. The creator's were really trying hard to keep the curls

[@laurenralph5968]

Jan was a very pretty girl

[@darrenmiles-morland8038]

What about Part 2;- When her siblings turned against her and gave her the cold shoulder?

[@Gretchen-u2x]

Yeah!😎

[@timothykozlowski2945]

Big surprise that it went straight to Jan's head.

[@abacab87]

That seems to happen a lot on this show.

[@timothykozlowski2945]

@@abacab87 Yep

[@PhilAlumb]

Jan always wanted to feel..special.

[@monkeyb1820]

these kids were prone to ego/narcissism issues after the trauma of having their mom/dad die (for the boys and girls respectively). Mike and Carol were powerless to stop this.

[@PhilAlumb]

​@@monkeyb1820...Stop your nonsense.

[@writerspen010]

The movies have made too big an impact on me. I saw this title and thought, "Sure, Jan..." xD

[@jaengen]

I hope Jan didn’t tap dance during her campaign.

[@PhilAlumb]

She twirled the Baton.

[@biancamonzo8117]

She's perfect to go into politics, making campaign promises she can't keep.

[@minnbeef]

If she was really that popular, she wouldn’t have to pimp Alice’s cookies.

[@PhilAlumb]

Wrong.

[@PhilAlumb]

​​@@josephphelan646.... Because that's what they do in High School..or did.

[@disneytoysr4fun975]

Hot dogs anyone?!! Last call for hot dogs!!!

[@thatvalensteingirl]

​@@josephphelan646They didn't have a voting system at any school you attended? Even our prom queen had to campaign to win, and damn near the whole school near her.

[@josephphelan646]

​@@thatvalensteingirlno , yule have to forgive me . I'm 67 yoa. Irish , so know nuthin a bout US girls schools . Nor boys' . I'm like fronm another planet . Xcuse spellin a bit also . Altghough it was a "good" school l attended !!!!

[@alondralabute2310]

Jan had to learn about politics the hard way. Make a lot of promises and people might expect you to fulfill them.

[@monkeyb1820]

but she was a natural politician. It's all about making and then ignoring promises.

[@TnseWlms]

She rested on her laurels.

[@clivechiam]

Sure Jan

[@SamanthaStevenson76]

Im glad Jan got popular by giving out favor, “safely.”

[@jimzone8153]

Oh, Alice. Such a card. 🤣🤣🤣

[@youseeangelsflyy]

Honestly, I never saw the series. I only saw the movie a few years ago, but comparing them, I realize that Marcia and Jan's relationship in the series is very different from the movies. Here, in the series, you see a lot of support, but not so much in the movie. There's a lot of envy and enmity. I don't understand why they changed that.

[@prismaticmarcus]

The movie calls back more to earlier seasons (this is the final one) where Marcia was just the best at everything (of course! She's Marcia!) and Jan felt overshadowed. 'Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!' was a real line from the show.

[@Diane-ck9uz]

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[@islandbee]

Most popular girl? We call that homecoming queen.

[@Tigerheiress]

Marcia’s hair

[@user-bn7cg5kz9p]

There’s no way Marcia hand lettered that sign.

[@katefevre6222]

How grown up Cindy is with no pig tails !

[@lindagurrera685]

Ah is Herman - Peter

[@michaelpaul9208]

I have alway thought susan Olsen looked drew barrymore as a child

[@MM75955]

Marcia would have easily won most popular..

[@jad8123]

By Season 5 Maureen & Eve were way hot. Susan was still young but finally got to wear her hair long and straight-ish. LOL!!!! I think by Season 5 Susan was the age that Maureen was when she the show started give or take a year. Nice memories.

[@joesullivan-y9r]

Was this actually a thing back then?

[@Triggrrr]

@@joesullivan-y9r I went to middle school in the ‘80s. It wasn’t a thing then.

[@borri68]

Who nominated Jan for Miss Populaty, Alice or Tiger?

[@jaengen]

One thing is for certain, it wasn’t Marcia.

[@borri68]

@@jaengen Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.

[@Tim_the_Enchanter]

Pandering Jan.

[@JamesLaumand]

Gitmo,ffamily

[@bunny_smith]

This is preposterous.

[@dawggirl]

Most popular? This whole concept is gross.

[@VinMar-m6w]

And the eighth graders are seeing a play today about how to be that popular... safely.

[@panaderofilms]

Cindy was a smokeshow..

[@jank8365]

What a jerk !!!! She promised all those promises and didn’t even write them down. She didn’t even care about people what a rotten thing to do.💀

[@1Rdby]

I always thought this episode was funny until that you didn’t run for superlatives( like smartest , best looking, athletic, etc) like you did for say a class officer. There was no need to campaign of no official duties.

[@nassauguy48]

Hmmmm, that is something Marcia was NEVER nominated for!

[@barnswardrowan3022]

campaigning for popularity makes more sense than doing it for political office.

[@kingsecho3351]

Built=hooters

[@jons.6216]

The writing got SO BAD by the fifth season! "... like trying to sneak sunshine past a rooster...!" Egads! Haha!

[@Gretchen-u2x]

It’s”sunrise” actually. It yeah, that was bad.

[@abacab87]

I bet someone in the writers group thought that was really clever.

[@PhilAlumb]

I ❤ All the Seasons..for Different reasons.

[@kingsecho3351]

Jan was so gorgeous in the last season.

[@lovesmesomelilacs-ke5rz]

Such a ridiculous contest to have in a school. Never heard of such a thing.

[@requinremembers]

wow the acting is cringey bad..lol..guess I never noticed, as a kid...

[@monkeyb1820]

I think Jan was consistently the weakest actress of the three girls. Marcia was really good.

[@aprilkim266]

A recipe with meat in it?! Was that not a common thing then? Or was this a health thing?

[@AndrewLane-pm2ro]

Cindy Brady ... pure evil. 😈

[@gostreaks]

Jan Brady or Kamala Harris? No difference between the two except for the years that transpired from then to now.

[@pouetpouetdaddy5]

is it really what Republican want to go back to...with help of Trump? lol🤨

[@Gretchen-u2x]

You left out the part when she tries to tell Bobby and gets shot down again🙃