Product: The Brady Bunch Variety Hour - Vol. 1 [VHS] (1977)
Rating: 1.0
How was this ever even made?
This is probably the WORST of all variety shows ever made in the 70's. Part of the charm of the Brady's was watching them mow the astroturf, keep an empty dog house in the yard, watch Marcia date everyone from Desi Arnaz, Jr. to Davy Jones, and watch them put on plays in their back yard. It's all fake,we know. But transporting them to a "variety show" as if they were a real family - what were they thinking? Watching "Greg" trying to sing a Broadway number is painful; watching Mike dance to "shake your booty" is agonizing, making the Silver Platters routine look like a Bob Fosse number. The jokes are hopeless; watch as one the confused Water Follies kicks in the opposite direction at the end of the show. Tony Randall is boring, the fake Jan is, well, as fake as that famous black wig. The roller rink sketch that places real life brother/sister Donny and Marie Osmond (themselves cheesy variety show royalty) and fake brother/sister Greg and Marcia singing "Splish Splash" is the singlemost vapid and devastating piece of television ever created. Watch this after the party is over and you're very drunk.