The list for February 20, 1997
The Top 16 Brady Bunch Secrets
- Marcia and Jan’s catfight on raucous “My Sister Is a Bitch!” episode of Rikki Lake.
- There’s a reason Greg, Peter, and Bobby have the same hair as Gabe Kaplan.
- Six kids being forced to share one bathroom leads to six lofty therapy bills.
- Marcia’s date for the senior prom was a then-28-year-old Joey Buttafuoco.
- Oliver? The producer’s kid.
- Two episodes in the second season substituted a heavily drugged Ernest Borgnine as Alice.
- Florence Henderson used more Wesson oil in the bedroom than in the kitchen, if you know what I mean.
- Annual Extreme Fighting event against the “Eight Is Enough” family.
- In the rarely seen pilot, the Brady home is a heavily fortified ranch in Idaho.
- While away “on business,” Mike Brady fathered both Keith and Danny Partridge.
- Original show title, “The Thompson Throng,” dropped because it was just too friggin’ hard to sing.
- Alice was almost fired in the first season after being caught washing little Bobby a bit too carefully.
- “Sam the Butcher” actually nicknamed by FBI crime lab.
- “Please, Dad, no! Not the wire hanger!”
- When off duty, Alice preferred to be called Al.
And the Number 1 Brady Bunch Secret…
- Marcia, Marcia, Marcia?
Pregnant, pregnant, pregnant.
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CREDITS
Selected from 87 submissions from 32 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:
- Don Horton, Sacramento, CA — 1 (2nd #1)
- Chuck Smith, Woodbridge, VA — 1 (3rd #1)
- Sam Evans, Charleston, SC — 2, 6
- R.M. Weiner, Brighton, MA — 3
- David W. James, Los Angeles, CA — 4
- Lev L. Spiro, Los Angeles, CA — 5
- Paul Paternoster, Redwood City, CA — 7
- Bill Muse, Seattle, WA — 7
- Mitch Patterson, Atlanta, GA — 8
- Alexander Clemens, San Francisco, CA — 9
- Phil Doyle, Mercer Island, WA — 10
- Bruce Ansley, Baltimore, MD — 10, 13
- Jeffrey House, Detroit, MI — 11
- Greg Sadosuk, Fairfax, VA — 12
- Alan Smithee, Sugar Land, TX — 13
- Spike Jones, Atlanta, GA — 14
- John Voigt, Chicago, IL — 15
- Chris Gleason, Germantown, MD — 16
- Kermit Woodall, Richmond, VA — Topic
- Chris White, New York, NY — Listmeister
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