History Film / TheBradyBunch

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Peter's attempt to sketch the Brady House somehow ends up looking instead like a detailed sketch of the Eiffel Tower.

* AccidentalMisnaming: Trevor tends to get the Bradys' names wrong, fibbing early on that he has amnesia.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Greg, who thinks he's a real ladies man, an all-star athlete and the next big rock star ... except that any self-respecting girl wants nothing to do with him except to tell him he's a geeky loser. Contrasted with the original Greg, who was truly one of the Big Men on Campus. Additionally, film!Greg fully embraces "Johnny Bravo" – in the high school dance scene, where he is quickly booed offstage less than two bars into his song "Til There Was You" – whereas the TV Greg rejected the concept as a manufactured marketing gimmick that would also have eliminated his creative input. (Ironically, Williams did later record an album of songs under the "Johnny Bravo" umbrella.)

* ParentalNeglect: Mr. Dittmeyer is too obsessed with work and his wife being an alcoholic lush that their kids are obnoxious little shits.

** Played with in a scene where Mr. Dittmeyer is seen carrying a toilet at Sears (which the Bradys' antics cause him to drop on his foot).

* ChekhovsGun: The Search for the Stars contest

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Trevor Thomas was the associate of archaeologist Roy Martin, Carol’s first husband. Trevor resorted to cutting the fuel line to their boat and leaving Roy and the six others on board to die (though from the sound of things, they may have been [[GilligansIsland stranded on a desert island]] instead). He later poses as Roy to get into the good graces of the Bradys and resorts to kidnapping Carol and threatening people with a gun to get what he wants, which is their antique horse valued at about $20 million.

-->'''[Roy/Trevor then sees flowers poping out of Carol's dress.]'''

* MushroomSamba: After Roy/Trevor ate the spaghetti that Alice made for him, he finds out the one of the ingrediants were the "mushrooms" from his room. This caused Roy/Trevor to hallucinate a trippy Animated sequence. Doubles as a ShoutOut to ''WesternAnimation/TheBradyKids''.

* MushroomSamba: After Roy/Trevor ate the spaghetti that ALice made for him, he finds out the one of the ingrediants
were his "mushrooms" from his room. This caused Roy/Trevor to hallucinate a trippy Animated sequence. Doubles as a ShoutOut to ''WesternAnimation/TheBradyKids''.

* MushroomSamba: Doubles as a ShoutOut to ''The Brady Kids''.
-->'''Roy/Trevor:''' "Oh, no...I'm tripping with the Bradys!"

* HairFlip: Jan swishes her hair side to side whenever she walks.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The Brady family is hopelessly stuck in the 70's despite the world having moved on long ago.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The Bradys continue to engage in 1970s fads and activities despite moving to the 2000s.

* Chekhov'sGun: The Search for the Stars contest

* MiddleChildSyndrome: Mrs. Cummings diagnoses Jan with this during their counseling session. She tries to help Jan cope with it by suggesting "a new look", resulting in Jan wearing a curly brunette wig to the dance, and by giving her a free self-help book and cassette set.

* NobodyPoops: The Bradys' neighbors wonder if this is the case for them, after one neighbor admits that he couldn't find a toilet in the Bradys' house.

* LineOfSightName: How Jan comes up with the name of her "[[GirlfriendInCanada boyfriend]]", George Glass. When she first sees the glass, it has some orange juice in it, so she claims to have a boyfriend named, "George Tropicana." She changes the last name after Carol asks, "Is he Cuban?"

-->'''Roy/Trevor:''' "Oh,no...I'm tripping with the Bradys!"

** Christopher Daniel Barnes, who played Greg, previously starred in "Day by Day", one episode of which was a special Brady Bunch episode based on the original series, guest-starring Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis, Maureen McCormick, Chris Knight and Mike Lookinland.

''A Very Brady Sequel'' followed in 1996. A man identifying himself as Carol's first husband, Roy Martin, returns from a several-decade absence, and causes friction among the Brady household. Unbeknownst to the Brady Bunch, their visitor is actually a smuggler named Trevor Thomas (Tim Matheson of ''Film/AnimalHouse'' and ''Series/BurnNotice''), seeking to steal their horse statue for Dr. Whiteman, a rich man living in UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}. Trevor uses the ''Bradys''' cluelessness to carry out his plan, as well as openly insult them throughout the film.

* LiteralMinded: Being stuck in their early 1970's sitcom bubble, The Bradys won't understand certain phrases that exist outside of their bubble.

* BadLiar: Jan can't trick Marcia into believing that the former has a boyfriend named George Glass, [[spoiler:until it comes true]].

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Trevor snarks that Jan could only get a boyfriend if she made one up, Jan doesn't feel insulted at the jab towards her awkwardness, but rather thanks Trevor for giving her an idea on how to make Marcia jealous.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Jan asks this

* TheRunaway: Jan eventually feels so neglected by her family, she tries to ditch them by hitchhiking onto a truck driven by a spinster played by Ann B. Davis.

** In Hawaii, [[spoiler:Jan just ''happens'' to meet a boy with the same name as her imaginary boyfriend, George Glass, and he ''miraculously'' falls in love with her back. Assuming that Jan wouldn't have noticed him if his name didn't already sound familiar to her, it seems that the only way for her to get a boyfriend really did involve making one up.]]

** Jan attempts to smooch a mannequin she refers to as her imaginary boyfriend, George Glass, but its head falls into an ashtray.