The Elopement
The Real Brady Bros
Wynnefield Productions
5 • 700 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
When Jan and Marcia overhear Alice and Sam discussing elopement, they mistakenly believe they plan to elope. The family prepares a wedding reception, while Carol begins interviewing a replacement housekeeper for Alice's honeymoon. Sam and Alice were actually discussing a cousin's elopement, and reveal the misunderstanding.
Note: At the end of the episode Alice announces to Carol and Mike that she and Sam are engaged. There is no subsequent mention of a wedding in the series. In the 1981 movie, Alice reveals that she and Sam have been married for 3 1/2 years.
The week's episode: The Brady Bunch S5 E12 - "The Elopement" - originally aired December 7, 1973.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time. It's time to podcast. It's time to recap. It's time to go to season five. |
| 0:24.0 | Okay. The reason I mentioned the seasons, everybody, |
| 0:30.0 | is because there are distinct differences between, well, both the look, the style, |
| 0:36.7 | the plot lines, and what's going on. So this is season five, our final season. Yet, |
| 0:42.6 | the show is predicated on a very, very simple plotline of misunderstanding, mishearing, and under false assumption. Not my favorite convention for an |
| 0:51.2 | episode, but nonetheless. But used quite a bit in comedy. |
| 0:54.4 | The convention is dramatic irony, where you as the audience, know the truth or know something |
| 1:01.9 | that the characters don't. |
| 1:05.5 | Don't. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, it's like farce, kind of the same thing, the style of comedy. |
| 1:10.5 | And so, you know, occasionally we would |
| 1:11.9 | slip back into that. Anyway, it was fun for, for my Brady mate and I to go through this and |
| 1:18.8 | revisit it and we'd like to share what, what we saw, and we're going to break it down |
| 1:23.1 | at infinitum into its smallest molecules so that you will have a more complete |
| 1:28.5 | understanding of what we think it was about we are talking about um a season |
| 1:34.1 | five the elopement episode 107 in the Brady bunch episodic arc it was the 12th episode |
| 1:44.0 | episode of the fifth season so we're nearing the end. |
| 1:46.9 | We're within, well, almost 10, 11 episodes of, no, 10 episodes of the end of the Brady |
| 1:54.4 | bunch produced by Howard Leeds, written by Harry Winkler and directed by Jerry London. |
| 2:00.1 | And I liked working with Jerry, as I recall. |
| 2:04.8 | So did I. |
| 2:05.8 | And just so you know who's talking here, I'm Barry Williams. |
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