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6''The Brady Kids'' was the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', produced by Creator/{{Filmation}} and originally airing from 1972 to 1974 on Creator/{{ABC}}. Most of the plot was about their misadventures and their songs. They had instruments, too: Greg and Peter on guitars, Bobby on drums, Marcia on tambourine and Jan on keyboards. Added was Cindy (in front of Greg) on a smaller guitar. Alice and the parents were missing from the series, and Tiger had been replaced by Moptop, a different dog. They also had two pet pandas that spoke nothing but Chinese-sounding gibberish and a magical myna bird. They had a musical performance OnceAnEpisode, and encountered various guest stars, from Franchise/WonderWoman (in her first animated appearance) to Franchise/TheLoneRanger.
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8[[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation ...yeah, it's all about like that.]]
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11!!Provides examples of:
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13* TheSeventies: Very evident.
14* AnimatedAdaptation
15* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Ping and Pong, the two pandas. It's all gibberish meant to sound Chinese.
16* BandToon
17* CattleDrive: In "Give Me a Home Where the Panda Bears Roam and the Dog and the Mynah Bird Play", the kids go on a cattle drive. As usual, Marlon's magic makes a mess of things.
18* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Fleetwood, an added character
19* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: The Franchise/WonderWoman episode almost seems to be setting this up with Jan, who insists that brain power is superior to physical strength. But the end of the episode has both her ''and'' Marcia learning that "the ultimate equation is a healthy body plus a healthy mind".
20* CowboyEpisode: ''The Brady Kids'' had two: "Long Gone Silver" (guest-starring Franchise/TheLoneRanger) and "Give Me a Home Where the Panda Bears Roam and the Dog and the Mynah Bird Play".
21* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Each episode begins with the cast singing a ThemeTuneRollCall to the same tune as the ''Brady Bunch'' theme song.
22* FamilyTitle
23* FeatherFingers: Marlon the mynah bird uses them.
24* FreeRangeChildren: Hardly any adults appear in this series with a noticeably absent Alice, Mike, and Carol.
25* GratuitousAnimalSidekick[=/=]TeamPet: Moptop, Marlon, Ping, and Pong
26* HeliCritter: Marlon would fly by spinning his tail feathers like a rotor.
27* {{Jerkass}}: Chuck White, an added character.
28* LaughTrack: Like all Filmation shows of the '70s, not to mention the original live action show.
29* LimitedAnimation: And how. The animation of the kids walking and performing songs were [[StockFootage exact duplicate motions]] from Filmation's ''WesternAnimation/TheArchieShow'' series of four years earlier.
30* MagicSkirt: An episode featuring a scene of the kids ice skating on a pond had Cindy twirling around on one foot, but her skirt never twirls up. Likewise when she falls on her butt, her skirt does not flip up.
31* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: The theme song straight out introduces the boys as the brothers of the three sisters, taking care to describe Greg as "the leader and a good man for the job" while the girls are referred to as "See our sisters, they're all quite pretty" with the song only describing Marcia's "eyes of sparkling blue" and Jan being referred to with the vague "groovy". At least she fared better than Cindy, who merely got "And then there's Cindy too."
32* MythologyGag: In "You Took the Words Right Out of My Tape", Cindy is looking at the Sabertooth Tiger in the wax museum and comments on how nice it would be to have a "tiger" as a pet.[[note]]Get it?[[/note]] Doubles as a StealthPun.
33* PackedHero: In "Pop Goes the Mynah", Marlon is sealed in a can at a soda factory, and the Bradys have to rescue him.
34* TheRustler: In "Give Me a Home Where the Panda Bears Roam and the Dog and the Mynah Bird Play," the kids discover that the cattle herd they are supposed to be taking on a CattleDrive consists of one cow. However, it is marked for rustling by two grizzled old-timers, Sagebrush and Tumbleweed.
35* ShoutOut: In ''A Very Brady Sequel'', when Roy Martin aka Trevor Thomas experiences his spaghetti-induced MushroomSamba, he sees Marlon, Ping, Pong, and the Creator/{{Filmation}} versions of the kids.
36* SidekickExMachina: Whenever the Brady kids were in a jam, Marlon could always help them.
37* SpecialGuest:
38** Special mention goes to the kids meeting Wonder Woman in her television debut.
39** Superman also drops by and Cindy almost kills him. Her rock collection includes kryptonite.
40* WhatBeautifulEyes: The theme song refers to Marcia as having sparkling blue eyes.
41* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Mike, Carol, Alice and the house are nowhere to be seen.
42* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Great pains were taken to ''never'' say the name of the town in which the Brady Kids lived. In one episode, Greg deliberately ''turned off the TV news'' one word before the announcer said the name of the town.
43* [[RobeAndWizardHat Wizard Hat]]: Marlon wears one.

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