History Trivia / TheBradyBunch

** Ann B. Davis plays Alice and the titular character in the episode "Cousin Emma."

** Florence Henderson and Robert Reed, in addition to playing Carol and Mike, play the roles of their grandparents Connie Hutchins and Judge Hank Brady, respectively.

** Subverted with Creator/BarryWilliams, the original Greg. He plays a record producer whom Greg visits to pursue his dreams of pop stardom...and tells Greg that the music he writes is terrible and he shouldn't bother.

** Due to the TV series dating back to 1969 and some of its cast being too old or having died long ago[[note]]such as Robert Reed[[/note]], every member of the Bradys were inevitably recast.

* DyeingForYourArt: Mike Lookinland (Bobby) is a natural blond. And for a time, Susan Olsen (although also a natural blonde)'s hair was dyed to match Florence Henderson's — until it started falling out in clumps. Both hated it.

!!!The series is the {{Trope Namer|s}} for:
* CousinOliver

** Of Sam Franklin, the owner of Sam's Butcher Shop where the Bradys get all their meat and Alice finds her boyfriend and future husband. Veteran character actor Allan Melvin took on what became one of his two signature roles (the other being Barney Hefner on ''Series/AllInTheFamily'').

** ''Confessions; Confessions'': As with the even-more famous "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!", the lines "Mom's favorite vase!" and "She always said don't play ball in the house" are uttered once. (They are repeated, yes, but through Peter's nightmare.) Some people also misquote the latter as, "She always says, 'don't play ball in the house.'" A Nick at Nite/TV Land [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLFkxA0P7Q8 promo]] actually referenced that Carol never said this, and even crudely stitched together sound bites of her saying each individual word to give some idea of what it might sound like.

** Due to the TV series dating back to 1969 and some of its cast being too old or having died long ago,[[note]]such as Robert Reed[[/note]] every member of the Bradys were inevitably recast.

* ActorInspiredElement: Cindy's sausage curl pigtails were 7-year-old Susan Olsen's own idea, because she wanted to look like the character of Buffy in ''Series/FamilyAffair'', who had the same hairstyle. She came to [[CreatorBacklash regret it later]], though, as she wasn't allowed to have any other hairstyle until Season 4.

** "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!!" is said more times on this page (twice) than it was on the actual show (''once''). As with many other so-called [[CatchPhrase catchphrases]], it entered the popular consciousness through [[TheParody parodies]]: first ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''[[note]]that sentence is told by Creator/MelanieHutsell playing Jan, against Creator/BethCahill as Marcia[[/note]], and then ''[[TheMovie The Brady Bunch Movie]]''.

* FollowTheLeader: Creator/SherwoodSchwartz wrote the original ''Brady'' pilot script in 1966. Two years later, while he was pitching it to the networks, the movies ''Film/YoursMineAndOurs'' and ''Film/WithSixYouGetEggroll'', which also dealt comedically with the resulting BlendedFamilyDrama after two single parents with kids get married, were released. While Schwartz always hastened to point out that he was working on the concept before then, he admitted that it was the success of those films (especially ''Film/YoursMineAndOurs'', one of the top 10 box office hits of 1968) that led Creator/{{ABC}} to greenlight ''The Brady Bunch''. Some people feel the series ended up as a SpiritualAdaptation of those films.

* HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/RobertReedActor hated starring on the "silly" show and constantly butted heads with creator Sherwood Schwartz, often having temper tantrums on set and sending memos criticizing the writing. There were some episodes that Reed outright refused to participate in for being too absurd for his tastes, including the show's final episode "The Hair-Brained Scheme". As a result, Mike Brady was said to be "out of town" for Greg's graduation. Schwartz later stated that he had planned to drop Mike for Season 6 had the show not been cancelled. Despite his problems with Schwartz, Reed got along very well with the kids on the show, and often bonded with them off-screen. He also reprised his role as Mike Brady in all ''Brady'' sequel series and TV movies.

** ''Confessions; Confessions'': As with the even-more famous "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!", the lines "Mom's favorite vase!" and "She always said don't play ball in the house" are uttered once. (They are repeated, yes, but through Peter's nightmare.) Some people also misquote the latter as, "Mom always said don't play ball in the house," which sounds less vague out of context than the original line does.

** Robert Reed, Sherwood Schwartz and Florence Henderson had daughters who were cast in an episode centering on the girls having a sleepover. Schwartz's daughter Hope (credited as Hope Sherwood) then went on to appear in three additional episodes (two as a semi-steady Greg girlfriend named Rachel), and after that helped out behind-the-scenes on ''The Brady Brides'' and ''The Bradys'', and co-wrote ''The Brady Bunch in the White House'' with her brother Lloyd Schwartz.[[note]]Making that movie even more of a Schwartz family project, the score was composed by Hope's husband, former Music/{{Wings}} guitarist Laurence Juber[[/note]]

* SpiritualAdaptation: While the movies are obviously an adaptation of the series, they also owe a lot to ''The Real Live Brady Bunch'', a stage show debuting in 1991 that simply re-enacted episodes of the series, but with heavy doses of {{Irony}} and AffectionateParody. The connection is very direct because Christine Taylor and Jennifer Elise Cox played Marcia and Jan, respectively, in regional productions of ''The Real Live Brady Bunch'' before they were cast as those roles in the films.[[note]]The original Chicago production of ''The Real Live Brady Bunch'' had [[Series/TheOfficeUS Kate Flannery]] as Carol, with Creator/JaneLynch as her understudy, and [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Melanie Hutsell]] as Jan. When it moved to New York for an off-Broadway run, Flannery and the original Mike dropped out, so Lynch took over as Carol and Creator/AndyRichter was brought on as Mike[[/note]]

* NamesTheSame: Don Simpson is not to be confused with the producer of ''Film/TopGun'' and ''Film/CrimsonTide''.

* HostilityOnTheSet: Robert Reed hated starring on the "silly" show and constantly butted heads with creator Sherwood Schwartz, often having temper tantrums on set and sending memos criticizing the writing. There were some episodes that Reed outright refused to participate in for being too absurd for his tastes, including the show's final episode "The Hair-Brained Scheme". As a result, Mike Brady was said to be "out of town" for Greg's graduation. Schwartz later stated that he had planned to drop Mike for Season 6 had the show not been cancelled. Despite his problems with Schwartz, Reed got along very well with the kids on the show, and often bonded with them off-screen. He also reprised his role as Mike Brady in all ''Brady'' sequel series and TV movies.