History Recap / TheBradyBunchS3E8AndNowAWordFromOurSponsor

* Commercial Types: Skip wanted a [[{{Straightforward}} basic commercial]], but instead got:

* GetOut: After he fires them, Skip tells the Bradys to "get out of my house!" Mike reminds him that this is his house ... and Skip grumbles sheepishly as he barks at the crew to pack up.

** AppealToVanity and PerfumeCommercial: Alice, wearing a fancy dress and her hair permed, clasping a (wet) mop to her breast and celebrating. Skip stops the filming, with Alice telling him that Safe could get the laundry done so fast and so well she had time to appeal to her vanity, not seeing that what she is doing has little to do with pitching the product.

** FreezeFrameBonus: An unintended example, but fans who play their [=DVD=]s in slow motion during the opening scene in the supermarket parking lot will notice what appears to be a man and a woman talking and exchanging money. In his autobiography and retrospective of the series, Lloyd Schwartz says this was very likely a prostitute making a deal with a client. This was not noticed until after the show aired.

** MethodActing: To the extreme, particularly by Mike and Carol after they take lessons from acting coach Myrna Carter, who is a [[BadBadActing bad, bad actress]] and couldn't teach a pencil how to draw.

* Acting tropes associated with this episode:
** WriteWhoYouKnow: How Skip Farnum envisioned the Bradys when he hired them, expecting natural performances.
** MethodActing: To the extreme, particularly by Mike and Carol after they take lessons from acting coach Myrna Carter, who is a [[BadBadActing bad, bad actress]] and couldn't teach a pencil how to draw.
** BadBadActing and LostInCharacter: How the Bradys perform on the day of shooting, disgusting Farnum and leading him to fire them.

** FreezeFrameBonus: An unintended example, but fans who play their [=DVD=]s in slow motion during the opening scene in the supermarket parking lot will notice what appears to be a man and a woman talking and exchanging money. In his autobiography and retrospective of the series, Lloyd Schwartz says this was very likely a prostitute making a deal with a client. This was not noticed until after the show aired.
* HeyItsThatGuy and [[HeyItsThatVoice The Man Behind the Voice]]: Paul Winchell, the ventriloquist behind Jerry Mahoney and voice of countless HannaBarbera villians (Dick Dastardly and (later) Gargamel among them), and inventor of the artificial heart.

** FreezeFrameBonus: An unintended example, but fans who play their [=DVD=]s in slow motion during the opening scene in the supermarket parking lot will notice what appears to be a man and a woman talking and exchanging money. In his autobiography and retrospective of the series, Lloyd Schwartz says this was very likely a prostitute making a deal with a client. This was not noticed until after the show aired several months after production was complete.

* FreezeFrameBonus: An unintended example, but fans who play their [=DVD=]s in slow motion during the opening scene in the supermarket parking lot will notice what appears to be a man and a woman talking and exchanging money. In his autobiography and retrospective of the series, Lloyd Schwartz says this was very likely a prostitute making a deal with a client.

* FreezeFrameBonus: An unintended example, but fans who play their DVDs in slow motion during the opening scene in the supermarket parking lot will notice what appears to be a man and a woman talking and exchanging money. In his autobiography and retrospective of the series, Lloyd Schwartz says this was very likely a prostitute making a deal with a client.

** MethodActing: To the extreme, particularly by Mike and Carol after they take lessons from acting coach Myrna Carter.
** LostInCharacter: How the Bradys perform on the day of shooting, disgusting Farnum and leading him to fire them.

* CommercialTypes: Skip wanted a [[{{Straightforward}} basic commercial]], but instead got:

* BrandX: The ''really'' generic (and then some) names of the laundry detergents the Bradys have used over the years, most notably Best (the incumbent detergent going into this episode) and Safe (the one the family is cast to do the commercial for).