History YMMV / TheBradyBunch

** Carol is commonly depicted as a widow, however it's never actually clarified what happened to her first husband. She was intended to be a divorcee, but the networks didn't agree on that, so her past marriage was kept ambiguous.

** In Season 1's "The Undergraduate," when Marcia is advising Greg on the qualities women look for in a man, she claims he should be "sort of innocent, like Creator/DustinHoffman''. Since TheNewTens have seen Hoffmann accused by multiple women of sexual harassment and assault over the course of his long career, hearing him described as "innocent" rings all too ironic.

* In Season 1's "The Undergraduate," when Marcia is advising Greg on the qualities women look for in a man, she claims he should be "sort of innocent, like Creator/DustinHoffman''. Since TheNewTens have seen Hoffmann accused by multiple women of sexual harassment and assault over the course of his long career, hearing him described as "innocent" rings all too ironic.

* In Season 1's "The Undergraduate," when Marcia is advising Greg on the qualities women look for in a man, she claims he should be "sort of innocent, like Creator/DustinHoffman''. Since the #MeToo movement has seen Hoffmann accused by multiple women of sexual harassment and assault over the course of his long career, hearing him described as "innocent" rings all too ironic.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: The show is ''very'' saccharine, even by family sitcom standards.

** Middle child Jan has to wait to get married because Marcia's still single, ''and'' needs her parents' approval despite being a grown woman.

** Also from "A Fistful of Reasons": Cindy is being bullied because of her lisp. When Peter stands up for her, the bully gives him a black eye. Today, bullying and violence are taken ''much'' more seriously in schools, and many of them have zero-tolerance policies. The bully would be at the very least be suspended.

** The oldest daughter's name is spelled "Marcia” not "Marsha". Marsh-uh is also not the correct pronunciation of this Spanish name - it is Mar-see-uh.

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** In his retrospective about ''The Brady Bunch'', Lloyd Schwartz recalled a dispute he had with Robert Reed over a line in the script for "Jan, the Only Child" where Mike walks into the kitchen, sees Carol and Alice cooking strawberry preserves for the Charity Hoedown, takes a whiff and remarks, "This smells like strawberry heaven!" Reed contended that, per various encyclopedia articles, strawberries don't have scents and got into a huge argument with the writers. After several days of fighting and not wanting production delays over a minor point in the script, the writers conceded and changed Reed's line to "This looks like strawberry heaven." (Although the line Reed would go on to use would be "I do believe I've died and gone to strawberry heaven." Strawberries, do in fact, have a very chemically complex scent. The Schwartzes (both Sherwood and Lloyd) and Barry Williams (in his own autobiography) note that disputes such as the above were commonplace, and Lloyd further added that in Reed's previous series, ''Series/{{The Defenders|1961}}'' (where he played an a young attorney), this was also a regular occurrence.

** While trying to meet up with a girl who works as a park mascot "The Cincinnati Kids", Greg approaches the wrong employee and hears an exaggeratedly gravelly voice from under the costume ask "Does this ''sound'' like a 'Marge' to you?" Actually, [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons yeah; it kinda does]].

** While trying to meet up with a girl who works as a park mascot "The Cincinnati Kids", Greg approaches the wrong employee and hears an exaggeratedly gravelly voice from under the costume ask "Does this ''sound'' like a 'Marge' to you?" Actually, [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons yeah; it does]].

** While trying to meet up with a girl who works as a park mascot "The Cincinnati Kids" has Greg approach the wrong employee and hears an exaggeratedly gravelly voice from under the costume ask "Does this ''sound'' like a 'Marge' to you?" Actually, [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons yeah; it does]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:

** Robbie Rist, the original CousinOliver, would later go on to voice Chouji Akimichi in the English dub of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''.

** Also from "A Fistful of Reasons": Cindy is being bullied because of her lisp. When Peter stands up for her, the bully gives him a black eye. Today, bullying and violence are taken ''much'' more seriously in schools, and many of them have zero-tolerance policies. Today, the bully would be suspended.

** In his retrospective about ''The Brady Bunch'', Lloyd Schwartz recalled a dispute he had with Robert Reed over a line in the script for "Jan, the Only Child" where Mike walks into the kitchen, sees Carol and Alice cooking strawberry preserves for the Charity Hoedown, takes a whiff and remarks, "This smells like strawberry heaven!" Reed contended that, per various encyclopedia articles, strawberries don't have scents and got into a huge argument with the writers. After several days of fighting and not wanting production delays over a minor point in the script, the writers conceded and changed Reed's line to "This looks like strawberry heaven." Strawberries, do in fact, have a very chemically complex scent. The Schwartzes (both Sherwood and Lloyd) and Barry Williams (in his own autobiography) note that disputes such as the above were commonplace, and Lloyd further added that in Reed's previous series, ''Series/{{The Defenders|1961}}'' (where he played an a young attorney), this was also a regular occurrence.

** In Season 3's "My Sister Benedict Arnold," Marcia (who at this point is in eighth grade) announces she's been asked out by a high school sophomore, Warren Mullaney (who is Greg's age). Carol -- with Alice smiling and nodding her approval as she remarks that "next, it will be college guys!" -- gives her permission to go on the date. The thought of Warren coming on to Marcia -- who possibly hadn't even turned 14 yet -- never crosses their minds, but today, the Brady parents would put a stop to the date ... and perhaps Mike would even tell Warren (and not-so-nicely at that) [[PapaWolf to stay the eff away from his family ... or else]].

** The oldest daughter's name is spelled "Marcia," not "Marsha."

* CommonKnowledge: Carol is commonly depicted as a widow, however it's never actually clarified what happened to her first husband. She was intended to be a divorcee, but the networks didn't agree on that, so her past marriage was kept ambiguous.

* 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 character.

* HollywoodHomely: Jan and occasionally Peter.

* MemeticMutation: When Creator/{{Netflix}} added ''A Very Brady Sequel'' in 2015, younger viewers got a kick out of the scene where Jan came up with her fake boyfriend George Glass, and 19 years after its original release, the scene became a huge Tumblr meme, centered on Marcia's "That's funny, I've never heard of a George Glass at ''our'' '''sküle'''", and her "Sure, Jan" becoming a popular reaction gif to express doubt at a statement.

** The first film shows the family [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rKeqPEGMvM going to a Sears department store and singing "Sunshine Day"]]. At the time of the film's release (1995), Sears could be reasonably said to be one of the biggest department store chains in North America. Two decades later, the company went bankrupt in the face of mounting online pressure and competition from other retail chains. Ironically, the sequence (which appears to have been shot as a way to modernize the family after the MisterSandmanSequence introducing them to TheNineties) comes off as just as dated, albeit even more hilarious in retrospect.

* MemeticMutation:
** Somehow, 19 years after release, the scene when Jan came up with her fake boyfriend George Glass became a meme on Tumblr in 2015.
-->''I've never heard of a George Glass at ''our'' sküle.''
** "Sure, Jan." is used as a reaction gif to express doubt at a statement.

* {{Sequelitis}}: ''A Very Brady Sequel'' wasn't as successful at the box office as the first movie, and was criticized for being a bit raunchier and relying too much on a stale plotline. (Ironically, it is better remembered ''today'' because it is the source of the "sküle" and "Sure, Jan" memes.) ''The Brady Bunch in the White House'' is unanimously considered less funny than the earlier movies.

* {{Sequelitis}}: ''A Very Brady Sequel'' wasn't as successful at the box office as the first movie, and was criticized for being a bit raunchier and relying too much on a stale plotline. ''The Brady Bunch in the White House'' is unanimously considered less funny than the earlier movies.