Cousin Oliver comes to live with the Bradys. He immediately causes a series of accidents, which lead him to believe that he is a jinx.Cousin Oliver comes to live with the Bradys. He immediately causes a series of accidents, which lead him to believe that he is a jinx.Cousin Oliver comes to live with the Bradys. He immediately causes a series of accidents, which lead him to believe that he is a jinx.
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- TriviaRobert Reed refused to participate in the pie fight at the end of the show.
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Carol Brady: Okay, I demand to know what's going on around here!
Alice Nelson: Well, if you insist, Mrs. Brady, we know about the new family addition and we're all very happy about it.
Carol Brady: Oh, you've heard about Oliver!
Alice Nelson: Oliver? Won't that be kind of a funny name if it's a girl?
Carol Brady: Wait a minute! Ha! Is this family under the impression that I'm going to have a baby?
Alice Nelson: Aren't you under that impression?
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 20 Exact Moments That Killed TV Shows (2022)
- SoundtracksTheme from 'The Brady Bunch'
Written by Frank De Vol & Sherwood Schwartz
Sung by The Brady Bunch Kids
Vocal Recordings Supervised by Jackie Mills
Robbie Rist was a little older than Ricky, but a fun kid who made his debut on LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE.
You had to give Schwartz credit for being creative, starting off the episode with the idea Carol may be pregnant! --though the child she's expecting is her cousin, Oliver? Right off the bat, Oliver tries to fit in and things start go wrong, making him think he's brought a ton of bad luck with him. The idea could have been inspired by the famous introduction of Ernie on MY THREE SONS, years earlier, who also thought he was doomed.
Robbie, who is still acting today and doing voice work, was a talented kid and seemed destined to make at least one appearance on the show anyway. The problem is ABC didn't do much to introduce him, which made his addition to the Bradys kind of awkward. The clever transition here is when the gang gets to go on a movie studio tour (naturally Paramount's famous backlot) and a WILD, old fashioned pie fight begins, likely due to Oliver and his lousy luck.
I give it 9 Stars because the pie fight is funny, and at a time when nostalgia (particularly silent movies) was thriving in the 70s. Applause to the costume department for coming up with some neat clothes and it looks like everyone had fun. This ABC did promote and over the years the pie fight episode got lots of publicity, especially in reruns.
The only negative note was Robert Reed refused to do the scene, long fighting with producer Sherwood Schwartz, which soon brought an end to the series. He was also dropped from a recurring role on MANNIX. Mystery solved!
All of us kids back in the day often wondered whatever happened to Reed on Mannix?
A neat episode, if for the nostalgia angle.
Robbie Rist DID have some extremely good luck (in real life) when Mary Tyler Moore and her producer husband, Grant Tinker, apparently liked him and cast him as Ted's adopted son. TV history assured, and Ted Knight and Robbie made a hilarious team, and still looking very much like Cousin Oliver. What a snub to ABC from CBS! That's showbiz.
SEASON 5 EPISODE 17 remastered color ABC/Paramount.
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