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Recap / The Brady Bunch S 1 E 16 Mikes Horrorscope

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Tropes present in this episode:

  • Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Played with. Apparently Carol got sunburned during her fishing trip with the boys, not that we see a red Florence Henderson, but Carol also complains about smelling like fish after falling into a bucket of them which the viewer cannot glean from the screen.
    • We also see a good dose of Beebee Gallini's hairdo (which took three hours to arrange) and running mascara after meeting up with three out of six Brady kids.
  • Bizarrchitecture: What cosmetics heiress Beebee Gallini demands in her specifications – a building shaped like a perfume bottle. She scoffs when Mike tries to tell her that such buildings are impossible to design, much less structurally hold up.
  • Compressed Hair: Beebee has her long, wavy red hair arranged into an elaborate updo; getting it's length revealed after Peter's airplane wrecked it.
  • Fiery Redhead: Beebe is a auburn-haired redhead who gets offended at small slights, she warns Mike that was the mistake her third or fourth husband made.
  • Freudian Slip: Carol fears that Beebe Gallini would try to steal Mike away from her; when she reads Little Red Riding Hood to Cindy, she ends up calling the wolf pink. Cindy takes note of this.
  • Horrorscope: Mike scoffs at the idea that a "strange woman" will walk into his life, and even reassures Carol that horoscopes are "for entertainment purposes only" ... until a new client (literally) walks into his office that morning at work.
  • Jerkass Ball: Peter, Bobby, and Cindy are normally very well behaved and polite children with adults; not so much when Beebe comes to the house where they are either shooting water guns at each other or flying model airplanes. Peter doesn't understand why Mike demands for him to apologize for his plane hitting her head.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: The European-accented and glamorous Beebe is likely a shout-out to the Gabor Sisters (in looks and accent), Liz Taylor (looks), or Sophia Loren (looks and slight accent).
  • Pink Is Feminine: Bebee is clad in pink outfits, from head to toe and uses "pink" and "fluffy" as descriptors for what she looks for in a factory or a song to play as she makes her grand entrance.
  • Strangely Specific Horoscope: "A strange woman will walk into your life ... ." And one does ... into Mike's!

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