History YMMV / TheBradyBunch

** The 1993 theatrical remake of ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'' drew humor from showing a classic TV family interacting with modern-day Los Angeles, two years before ''The Brady Bunch Movie''.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Brady Kids performing "Good Time Music" while flying a plane to Hawaii in ''A Very Brady Sequel''.

* MisaimedFandom: An episode where the kids get measles and the disease's seriousness is severely underplayed has been co-opted by the anti-vax movement, much to the dismay of several of the show's actors and crew.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The entire premise of the show, about a mixed marriage family, has fallen victim to this since non-traditional families have become far more common. Also, how the Schwartzes -- in their autobiography -- view Robert Reed's vision of the show ... mindless "lectures" rather than just letting the scriptwriters do their work and taking reasonable input into consideration for script changes.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: George Glass, Jan's imaginary boyfriend. He was so popular, that he not only in a "two"-person Funko Pop with Jan, but he was referenced in ''A Very Brady Sequel''. He first appeared as a dummy Jan brought on a double date that Marcia and Greg were having [[spoiler:and then she met and fell in love with the ''real'' George Glass, a real teenage boy she encountered in Hawaii.]]

** Thanks to the movie, many people misremember the aforementioned "George Glass" story ending with George turning out to be RealAfterAll.

** Some people will claim that the Bradys' status as a blended family was more or less irrelevant to the show, that it wass really just an "excuse" to have a sitcom about an unusually big family, because the kids "always" acted like biological siblings and treated their stepparents like real parents. Actually, Creator/SherwoodSchwartz specifically chose to create a sitcom about a blended family, because of the rising number of blended families in '60s America, and many of the first season's episodes revolve around the two halves of the family adjusting to each other's presence.

** Robbie Rist, the original CousinOliver, would go on to have a successful career as a voice actor, including voicing Chouji Akimichi in the English dub of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Why a climactic scene featuring Robert Reed and Barry Williams was shot a day after production was to have ended. Reed – already disgusted with the script as a whole – was particularly annoyed at a scene where Mike and Greg talk to Greg's pet mouse to get it to run through a maze. When Reed lost his argument with Sherwood Schwartz over the script and was told he wasn't being written out, Reed promptly went out, got very drunk and returned to film his scene with Williams. Lloyd Schwartz, who was also on the set, realized that if the scene was filmed, someone – most likely, at ABC or in the very least Paramount Studios – would easily figure out that Reed was highly intoxicated, a media frenzy would ensue and it would ruin the integrity of the show ... prompting Lloyd to knock over a flood light onto the set and cause an overnight stopdown ... and time for Reed to sober up. To the Schwartzes, a day late with production and related costs were worth the price of saving the show. Both Williams and the Schwartzes have related this incident in their respective autobiographies. Of course, Barry Williams did famously shoot a scene of the episode "Law and Disorder" while visibly high.

** A 1990 guide to the series ''The Brady Bunch Book'', quotes Robert Reed as saying that any classically trained actor like himself "would rather have ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' on his tombstone than ''The Brady Bunch''; but the books' authors conclude "Hamlet on his tombstone? No, Robert Reed will remain the Brady patriarch forever." Reed died just two years after the book was published, and as it turned out, his tombstone makes no reference to ''The Brady Bunch'' and does say "Goodnight, Sweet Prince."

* ContestedSequel: While ''A Very Brady Sequel'' has by and large been VindicatedByHistory, whether it remains overshadowed by the first movie or is a SurprisinglyImprovedSequel is open for debate. In particular, arguments tend to crop up about whether the downplaying of Jan's CharacterExaggeration between the two was better or worse for her portrayal.

** Al Schwartz also directed an episode. Schwartz is best known for co-creating ''Series/{{Dotto}}''.

** In "The Brady Girls Get Married," middle child Jan has to wait to get married because Marcia's still single, ''and'' needs her parents' approval despite being a grown woman.

* SoundtrackDissonance: All episodes of the first season originally ended with Creator/{{Paramount}} Television's "Closet Killer" logo - which during 1969-70 had a [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UXpdsJmHwU4 jingle]] that is considered one of the scariest logo themes in history. Not what you'd expect to see after such a light-hearted show. This is even preserved on the DVD release.

** Some people will claim that the Bradys' status as a blended family was more or less irrelevant to the show, that it wass really just an "excuse" to have a show about an unusually big family, because the kids "always" acted like biological siblings and treated their stepparents like real parents. Actually, Creator/SherwoodSchwartz specifically chose to create a sitcom about a blended family, because of the rising number of blended families in '60s America, and many of the first season's episodes revolve around the two halves of the family adjusting to each other's presence.

* Some people will claim that the Bradys' status as a blended family was more or less irrelevant to the show, that it wass really just an "excuse" to have a show about an unusually big family, because the kids "always" acted like biological siblings and treated their stepparents like real parents. Actually, Creator/SherwoodSchwartz specifically chose to create a sitcom about a blended family, because of the rising number of blended families in '60s America, and many of the first season's episodes revolve around the two halves of the family adjusting to each other's presence.