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* AbsenteeActor: While he was on set during the filming of the episode, Robert Reed, who heavily criticized the main plot of Bobby selling FDA unapproved hair tonic, doesn't appear at all in the episode, with Mike only being mentioned briefly near the end. However, it seems odd that Mike would miss his son's graduation. The writers could have written that Mike had to get back to a meeting after graduation or something similar.
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* HilarityEnsues: In the clinching scene, where Bobby is trying to get rid of the hair tonic. First, pouring tonic down the sink would be frowned upon by the municipal public works department because of possible contamination of the water supply. And, when Bobby absent-mindedly pours some of the liquid on the rabbits (to temporarily color their fur), animal rights activists would have a field day.
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Cut to the tag scene, where all is well for Greg's graduation ... though Carol mentions that [[AbsenteeActor it was unfortunate Mike was out of town and missed it]]. [[note]](Although in reality, Robert Reed was a few feet away, shaking his head at what he considered a train wreck of an episode was filming its final scene.)[[/note]] And now, apparently, it's up for Marcia and Peter to see who will get Greg's cool attic pad. Except that Oliver suggests that he could get it instead and rent it out as a guest room.
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Cut to the tag scene, where all is well for Greg's graduation ... though Carol mentions that [[AbsenteeActor it was unfortunate Mike was out of town and missed it]].it. [[note]](Although in reality, Robert Reed was a few feet away, shaking his head at what he considered a train wreck of an episode was filming its final scene.)[[/note]] And now, apparently, it's up for Marcia and Peter to see who will get Greg's cool attic pad. Except that Oliver suggests that he could get it instead and rent it out as a guest room.
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* AbsenteeActor: It's been stated, ad nauseum, why Robert Reed was absent from this episode.
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* AbsenteeActor: It's been stated, ad nauseum, why While he was on set during the filming of the episode, Robert Reed was absent from this episode.Reed, who heavily criticized the main plot of Bobby selling FDA unapproved hair tonic, doesn't appear at all in the episode, with Mike only being mentioned briefly near the end. However, it seems odd that Mike would miss his son's graduation. The writers could have written that Mike had to get back to a meeting after graduation or something similar.
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As far as the show's fate goes, this episode was aired on March 8, 1974. Despite "''Sanford and Son''" easily decimating ''Brady'' in the Nielsen ratings, there was still speculation that ABC was planning to renew ''Brady'' for a sixth season. After all, even though its audience share was diminishing, there was still a loyal audience and a demand for family friendly programming. Reports were that some scripts were even being drafted for the sixth season ... likely around Greg moving to college, possibly Alice and Sam getting married, Cindy maybe going on her first date ... and then that little matter of why Mike wasn't around anymore (or failing that, [[TheOtherDarrin why a different actor was playing the Brady family patriarch]]). Speculation had it -- and various sources and books have also suggested -- that Robert Reed was being fired and could now pursue other endeavors. But then ABC -- after weighing their own options -- decided everyone was going to be fired. That all had absolutely zero to do with Reed's impending fate, either ... rather, with dismal Nielsen ratings having decided its fate, it was decided it was simply time to end the show with dignity and try something else.
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As far as the show's fate goes, this episode was aired on March 8, 1974. Despite "''Sanford and Son''" ''Series/SanfordAndSon'' easily decimating ''Brady'' in the Nielsen ratings, there was still speculation that ABC was planning to renew ''Brady'' for a sixth season. After all, even though its audience share was diminishing, there was still a loyal audience and a demand for family friendly programming. Reports were that some scripts were even being drafted for the sixth season ... likely around Greg moving to college, possibly Alice and Sam getting married, Cindy maybe going on her first date ... and then that little matter of why Mike wasn't around anymore (or failing that, [[TheOtherDarrin why a different actor was playing the Brady family patriarch]]). Speculation had it -- and various sources and books have also suggested -- that Robert Reed was being fired and could now pursue other endeavors. But then ABC -- after weighing their own options -- decided everyone was going to be fired. That all had absolutely zero to do with Reed's impending fate, either ... rather, with dismal Nielsen ratings having decided its fate, it was decided it was simply time to end the show with dignity and try something else.
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* StockSeriesFinales: Although this was not intended as the finale – it was still undecided in January 1974, when this episode was taped, whether ''The Brady Bunch'' would be returning for a sixth season, despite being pummeled in the ratings by ''SanfordAndSon'' – the common series finale plot of a character graduating from high school is used to frame the episode's infamous plot.
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* StockSeriesFinales: Although this was not intended as the finale – it was still undecided in January 1974, when this episode was taped, whether ''The Brady Bunch'' would be returning for a sixth season, despite being pummeled in the ratings by ''SanfordAndSon'' ''Series/SanfordAndSon'' – the common series finale plot of a character graduating from high school is used to frame the episode's infamous plot.
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Basically, Reed had lost patience with a writing team that had time and again, in his view, created completely unbelievable situations and nothing more than mere inane slapstick that would entertain only a mere idiot, and that his complaints weren't being listened to. On the flip side, both Sherwood and Lloyd Schwartz used their biography to insist that such story ideas, as crazy as they might seem, were based on actual events and tried -- without success -- to show Reed news clippings and other proof that there were consumers who were victimized by such things as non-FDA approved products and "get rich quick" schemes (such as what Bobby falls prey to after he responds to an advertisement in a magazine, one targeted to youths, seeking salesmen to sell overstock of what turns out to be a shoddy and/or discontinued product), among other things. And by now, Paramount and network officials were basically ignoring Reed, often taking his meticulously typed memorandums criticizing in detail every aspect of a given script ... and pitching it, unread, into the trash bin.
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Basically, Reed had lost patience with a writing team that had time and again, in his view, created completely unbelievable situations and nothing more than mere inane slapstick that would entertain only a mere idiot, and that his complaints weren't being listened to. On the flip side, both Sherwood and Lloyd Schwartz used their biography to insist that such story ideas, as crazy as they might seem, were based on actual events and tried -- without success -- to show Reed news clippings and other proof that there were consumers who were victimized by such things as non-FDA approved products and "get rich quick" schemes (such as what Bobby falls prey to after he responds to an a advertisement in a youth magazine, one targeted to youths, seeking gullible salesmen to sell overstock of what turns out to be a shoddy and/or discontinued product), among other things. And by now, Paramount and network officials were basically ignoring Reed, often taking his meticulously typed memorandums criticizing in detail every aspect of a given script ... and pitching it, unread, into the trash bin.
