History Recap / TheBradyBunchS1E11VoteForBrady

* '''Round 2''': (*ding* *ding* *ding*) Mike and Carol have the idea of allowing Greg and Marcia to rehearse their campaign speeches before an audience, that audience being their parents and siblings. Only Marcia's speech is heard, and the stone-faced looks on the boys is priceless as they sit there, disgusted and refusing to acknowledge her speech. Marcia begins to cry at the boys' rude refusal to even give polite applause.

* TheGlovesComeOff: What Greg's campaign manager proposes late in the episode with his rumor about Marcia being seen with school creep Felix Brown, this coming after he sees that the race is too close to call.
* Retcon: Partial, concerning Carol's golf game. In this installment, it is explained Carol owned a set of golf clubs and played regularly. In the Season 4 episode "Greg's Triangle" -- incidentally, another episode where Greg's integrity would be tested, although in that episode the stakes were ... well, much different -- Carol is a hopeless novice who performs so badly she winds up twisting one of Mike's clubs (literally) into a pretzel.

* ContinuityReboot: Partial, concerning Carol's golf game. In this installment, it is explained Carol owned a set of golf clubs and played regularly. In the Season 4 episode "Greg's Triangle" -- incidentally, another episode where Greg's integrity would be tested, although in that episode the stakes were ... well, much different -- Carol is a hopeless novice who performs so badly she winds up twisting one of Mike's clubs (literally) into a pretzel.

Well, not really. In the tag scene, Cindy happily breaks the news to Carol that she had been elected the crossing guard at her school. (Odd, that a school would make a seven-year old a crossing guard). But not everyone is so happy, when Bobby comes in crying.

Mike and Carol decide immediately that they will not take sides and show impartial support for both the eldest Bradys, but that's where the lack of taking sides ends. Greg manages to enlist the support of Peter and Bobby, while Jan and Cindy are loyal to the end to Marcia. Bickering soon begins, and as pro wrestling announcer JimRoss would say 30 years later on TV, "Business is about to pick up!"

While all this is going on, Marcia had been leaving the house to go to the library to work on her own campaign. She overhears the whole thing unfold – Rusty suggesting the rumor and a furious Greg running him off and outright threatening him if he followed through – and realizes something about Greg she didn't know. Yes, Greg is an intensely competitive person, of which there is nothing wrong – but his sense of fair play and integrity are by far his bigger virtues. And so is his sense of family unity – meaning at least Greg was listening to his father's lecture the other night.

* '''Round 1''': (*ding* *ding* *ding*) Using his dad's tape recorder, Greg records a series of "commercials" to play over the intercom, encouraging his fellow students to vote for him. Simple commercials ... except when he plays the tape back to his friends, all there is is silence. Greg immediately decides Marcia got ahold of the tape recorder and erased the tapes. Meanwhile, Marcia has copiously been taking notes for her campaign speech and leaves them on the family room table to get a snack. When she returns, the notes are missing ... and who would be the only one – in her mind, at least – to want to spy on her campaign by taking them (or in the very least, just simply dispose of them)? Greg.

While all this is going on, Marcia had been leaving the house to go to the library to work on her own campaign. She overhears the whole thing unfold – Rusty suggesting the rumor and a furious Greg running him off and outright threatening him if he followed through – and realizes something about Greg she didn't know. Yes, Greg is an intensely competitive person, of which there is nothing wrong – but his sense of fair play and integrity are by far bigger virtues. And so is his sense of family unity – meaning at least Greg was listening to his father's lecture the other night.

It's also been said that the best way to nip a brewing family feud in the bud is to call attention to it before it even has a chance to get going and then stop it right away.

* '''Round 1''': Using his dad's tape recorder, Greg records a series of "commercials" to play over the intercom, encouraging his fellow students to vote for him. Simple commercials ... except when he plays the tape back to his friends, all there is is silence. Greg immediately decides Marcia got ahold of the tape recorder and erased the tapes. Meanwhile, Marcia has copiously been taking notes for her campaign speech and leaves them on the family room table to get a snack. When she returns, the notes are missing ... and who would be the only one – in her mind, at least – to want to spy on her campaign by taking them (or in the very least, just simply dispose of them)? Greg.

* '''Round 2''': Mike and Carol have the idea of allowing Greg and Marcia to rehearse their campaign speeches before an audience, that audience being their parents and siblings. Only Marcia's speech is heard, and the stone-faced looks on the boys is priceless as they sit there, disgusted and refusing to acknowledge her speech. Marcia begins to cry at the boys' rude refusal to even give polite applause.

The parents have enough of what's already shaped up to be a family feud, and Mike gets up and says that he will tolerate no more. "We are going to be a family, much longer than either Greg or Marcia will be class president," he sternly tells the kids, suggesting that family unity is far more important than who wins a school election. Carol – perhaps recognizing the partisan politics were already taking root in the late 1960s – suggests that rude behavior might be tolerated and expected on the national or maybe even state scene, but is totally inexcusable at home.

* '''Round 3''': Greg has called his friends over to get the results of a straw poll and plot campaign strategy. When they see that the vote is going to be close, one of the boys – Rusty – comes up with a ''great'' idea ... by spreading a rumor about Marcia. Greg allows Rusty to explain – he suggests that Marcia is easy and that she and class creep Felix Brown were seen kissing and necking in the movie theater.

Greg's eyebrows rise ... and then turn downward – he doesn't like that idea one bit. In fact, he makes it clear that he does NOT want to have anything to do with that idea. "That's my sister you're talking about!" says a pissed-off Greg. When Rusty explains that he's going to go ahead with the rumor anyway, Greg warns him he had better not or else he'll really regret it. He then fires Rusty on the spot, rips the "campaign manager" ribbon from his shirt and tells him to scram.

* '''Round 2''': Mike and Carol have the idea of allowing Greg and Marcia to rehearse their campaign speeches before an audience, that audience being their parents and siblings. Only Marcia's speech is heard, and the stone-faced looks on the boys is priceless as they sit there, disgusted and refusing to acknowledge her speech. Marcia begins to cry at the boys' rude refusal to even give polite applause. The parents have enough of what's already shaped up to be a family feud, and Mike gets up and says that he will tolerate no more. "We are going to be a family, much longer than either Greg or Marcia will be class president," he sternly tells the kids, suggesting that family unity is far more important than who wins a school election. Carol – perhaps recognizing the partisan politics were already taking root in the late 1960s – suggests that rude behavior might be tolerated and expected on the national or maybe even state scene, but is totally inexcusable at home.

* '''Round 3''': Greg has called his friends over to get the results of a straw poll and plot campaign strategy. When they see that the vote is going to be close, one of the boys – Rusty – comes up with a ''great'' idea ... by spreading a rumor about Marcia. Greg allows Rusty to explain – he suggests that Marcia is easy and that she and class creep Felix Brown were seen kissing and necking in the movie theater. Greg's eyebrows rise ... and then turn downward – he doesn't like that idea one bit. In fact, he makes it clear that he does NOT want to have anything to do with that idea. "That's my sister you're talking about!" says a pissed-off Greg. When Rusty explains that he's going to go ahead with the rumor anyway, Greg warns him he had better not or else he'll really regret it. He then fires Rusty on the spot, rips the "campaign manager" ribbon from his shirt and tells him to scram.

While all this is going on, Marcia had been leaving the house to go to the library to work on her own campaign. She overhears the whole thing unfold – Rusty suggesting the rumor and a furious Greg running him off and outright threatening him if he followed through – and realizes something about Greg she didn't know. Yes, Greg is an intensely competitive person ... but his sense of fair play and integrity are far bigger trump cards. And so is family unity – so at least Greg was listening to his father's lecture the other night.

Greg and Marcia vie against each other in a heated campaign for student body president.

* TheGlovesComeOff: What Greg's campaign manager proposes late in the episode with his rumor about Marcia being seen with school creep Felix Brown, this coming after he sees that the race is too close to call.