PORKCHOPS & APPLESAUCE

I bet you thought Alice was already dead. Nope. But she is now. I loved this show as a kid. I particularly like the later episodes after Marcia and Jan had fully developed. Hey, I was 11.

RIP Anne B. Davis

Ann B. Davis, the Emmy Award–winning actress best known for her role as the housekeeper Alice on the iconic 1970s sitcom “The Brady Bunch,” has died at the age of 88 in San Antonio, Texas.

A representative of the medical examiner’s office in Bexar County said that no cause of death was available, according to the Associated Press, but that an autopsy was planned for Monday. Davis had suffered a fall Saturday at her San Antonio home, the AP cited a longtime friend as having reported. The actress died the following day.

As the housekeeper for a blended family of three boys and three girls and their respective parents, Davis’s “Brady Bunch” character has been described as the glue that held the household together.

“I think I’m lovable. That’s the gift God gave me,” Davis told the Associated Press in a 1993 interview. “I don’t do anything to be lovable. I have no control.”

The “Brady Bunch” ran on ABC from September 1969 to March 1974, according to the Hollywood Reporter. It has been a long-running rerun favorite ever since.

Davis had previously won Emmys in 1958 and 1959 for her work on “The Bob Cummings Show,” in which she played, according to the AP, a razor-tongued secretary.

Davis, noted the AP, had credited her relatively unremarkable appearance for her success on the stage and in TV and film. “I know at least a couple hundred glamour gals who are starving in this town,” the AP recalled Davis’s having told the Los Angeles Times in 1955, the year the Cummings show began its four-year run. “I’d rather be myself and eating.”

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Another life cut short. [/sarc] I’m seeing the advent of old age through the loss of people that have been dear to me since childhood. In the past couple years I’ve begun to lose aunts and uncles, my remaining grandparent, (plus way too many cancer victims)

Throw in the loss of dear childhood entertainers and it all equates to one thing.

I’m getting old and getting old ain’t for sissies.

And our world is toxic, but that is a rant for another day.

Stucky

I actually hated that show. It was so unlike MY family.

What kind of dad wears a fuckin’ suit and tie around the house all day anyway? Not mine! What mom is so damn cheerful all the time cooking and cleaning and shit and staying at home. Not mine! And I hated those fuckin’ goody-two-shoes spoiled little brat fuckers!! Not me!

Little know fact: Gene Hackman almost got the role of Mr. Brady. That would have been much better. At least he would have had the balls to tell his wife to “Blow me!” when she deserved it …. which was pretty much every episode.

Joseph E Fasciani

I’m 71, and still working as best I can in my residential design/build company. I plan to until 75, out of necessity driven by a disastrous late-in-life remarriage to the same psychopath I divorced 20 years earlier. No fool like an old fool, eh?

At any rate, it’s really not the age, but the mileage, and although I’ve logged enough for three lives, people tell me I look a good ten yrs younger. That may be, but on some days I still feel that I’m 500,000 yrs, give or take a few.

As I tell my students –even if they don’t ask, only complain– “Don’t be concerned about dying, that will take care of itself. Your job is to get on w/living as best you can, no matter how tough it gets.”

If life here is too hard for some of us, they need to think about Syria, where more than a million innocent people’s lives have been violently twisted beyond recognition, and for what?

Stucky

Robert Reed was a homo. (NTTAWWT)

Greg walked around the set with a hard-on.

Greg and Flo made out. (Incest … a game the whole family can play!)

Several of them smoked pot, and they pretty much hated each other.

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Zarathustra

I’m with Stucky. While I did enjoy other shows that depicted the idealized “typical” american family (Ozzie and Harriet, (I mean come on, EVERYBODY loved Ricky Nelson), Donna Reed Show, My Three Sons (before the kids grew up), Leave it to Beaver… I hated The Brady Bunch. I didn’t like Florence Henderson (short hair on a woman is a turn-off for me), I didn’t like the housekeeper and I didn’t like the kids. I think it was probably poor casting and shitty scripts but what do I know.

BUCKHED
BUCKHED

Hey the Brady’s had nothing on ” Leave It To Beaver ”

The dirtiest line ever said on TV was said by June Cleaver ” Ward, you were awfully hard on the Beaver last night ” !

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I hated that show.

Coyote
Coyote

Alice (above), Rhoda, Mrs. Kravitz, Endora, All the Golden Girls except Blanche, round out the top ten hard-on killers.

Speaking of which, Top ten reasons Mermaids are better than the two-legged variety:
1. You can get a blow job and never have to worry about your own performance.

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