Brody Haywood

**Brody** is a main character that first appeared in the Series premiere. He is portrayed by Jamie Martin Mann.

## Throughout The Series

### Season 1

In Crazy, there is a bad storm hitting the Haywood ranch, when there’s a knock at the door. Tuck ends up answering the door, thinking that the lady at the door is their new nanny.

Unfortunately, she is not. Instead, she’s a woman whose car has broken down near the Haywood property. Bailey has no cell service and needs to use their phone to call for help. The kids end up deciding to let her in without thinking twice about it, even though she repeatedly says that she’s not the nanny.

Brody however insists that she is one.

The boys are all for her being the nanny.

Cassidy takes one look at Bailey and then looks at her brothers. She then tells them that they are not hiring her just because they all think that she’s hot. Bailey asks Tuck and Brody if it's true that they think that she is hot, and they both say she’s smoking. In return, she tells them that it means so much to her that they think she’s hot.

Not long after, a tornado warning comes in and the kids go running into the basement.

In the basement and all of the sudden a pole comes through the window and Brody with the help of his brothers rush to cover the window with a tarp. In an effort to take everyone’s mind off the tornado, Bailey grabs a nearby guitar and uses it to start singing.

Everyone starts grabbing instruments and singing along. Although Summer doesn’t grab an instrument, she does start singing along with everyone else.

Eventually, along with the rest of his siblings, he is excited to have Bailey officially as their nanny.

In Teardrops on My Guitar, once Bailey's audition wraps, she calls the boys when Cassidy's guitar goes missing. She calls the boys for help, but Dylan is worried about Bailey’s audition, while Tuck is worried about helping Bailey cause he has a crush on her, and Brody is just freaking out. In spite of not having his driver's licence because he failed his test, Tuck takes the truck and drives with Brody on the passenger side. Though he is quick to say that this is not what he meant. He wanted to go rescue Bailey in an Uber. In the end, the boys don’t end up helping her because they get caught by the cops. Bailey’s phone dies, and Beau finds out that something is up when he has to come get the kids from the cops.

Despite Brody's protest and the rest of his siblings, Bailey ends up getting fired as their nanny.

In Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign, the Haywoods are in the kitchen getting ready for the wedding of Summer’s little sister, but Chloe complains that it never hurt when Bayley did her hair. Beau reminds her that Bailey doesn’t work for them anymore because she was irresponsible and has bad judgement. Just as Beau tells them to stop talking about Bailey, Tuck asks the other if it’s just him, or does it smell like Bailey. He eventually realizes it’s Brody, who used Bailey’s perfume on himself. Brody explains that it was just a squirt from the bottle of perfume Bailey left behind, and that he only did it because he misses her. Eventually, the kids see Bailey in their house, who had used the spare key Beau gave her to take the rest of her stuff with her. The kids run to her and hug her in excitement. then calls We have a bunch of kids that are running wild. And then there is Bailey, who is more lost than that single sock that somehow the dryer eats.

Later, the boys are at the church and Summer’s Mama just doesn’t know when to stop talking. Beau is trying to avoid her but of course he can’t. She likes to talk a lot and she’s all about her kids getting the richest men.

As they wait for the bride to show up to her own wedding, the preacher asks if anyone would like to come up to give their testimony about the lord. Brody and Tuck over going up front to sing a song to Sarah Beth, the Mayor’s daughter. But eventually Tuck wins out, and sings a song that all the girls and a guy in an IZOD enjoy. After Chloe gives Brody a pep talk, so he doesn’t give up without a fight, Brody jumps in while Tuck starts to sing his second song. The two end up dueting in an effort to one up the other.

In My Girl, While Beau is asking for a name for the horse, Brody is upset because whether it’s intentional or not, he feels like a loser when it comes to girls. He’s at that age where he’s discovering girls and he has to deal with his older brother who gets all the girls and steals all of the attention away from him.

Cassidy is trying to cheer him up and reminds him that his best friend is returning from France.

Jo is apparently like his bro-friend, only she’s a girl. She’s one of the guys to Brody and he’s excited that she’s coming back but he wants a girlfriend. Not a girl who is a friend.

When Jo arrives, Brody is wonderstruck, because she looks completely different from when she left. She's beautiful, she's funny, she's smart; she's everything he ever wanted! He immediately falls in love with her, and can't talk to her properly because of his nerves.

The lucky thing for Brody is that everyone is drawn back to Beau every five minutes because he’s over there having a nervous breakdown.

The day continues and Brody is still pouting. Cassidy reminds him that pouting on the couch doesn’t help. Chloe is trying to get him off that couch and reminds him that Jo is coming back and she wants to know when. Of course, this reminds him to lash out about wanting a girlfriend, not a friend. Beau reminds him that Jo was a good friend and that he needs to appreciate that.

Brody is over it and wants to get the horse. After all, he knows that it is a girl that will come home with him. But when he opens the door and Jo is there. Brody is shocked to see how much Jo has changed since the last time he saw her, and Cassidy is the first to recognize her.

Chloe just wants presents. Brody is tripping over his words to try and say what is on his mind but he can’t. But unfortunately he just continues stumbling over his words.

He’s embarrassed and runs to his room. Bailey goes to talk to him to try and explain young love to him by using Dawson’s Creek and the relationship with Joey and Dawson as a guide book on relationships.

Bailey says he should tell Jo how he feels about her. But Brody admits that he’s never had a problem talking to her before. He continues by saying he missed the window when she was best friends, totally out of league. Brody says he can’t talk to girls. Bailey says he should sing his feelings out.

Later, Bailey drops hints to Jo that someone likes her, and she thinks that Jo likes Brody, but finds out that she likes Tucker instead.

Brody eventually comes down and sings a song that he wrote for Jo. Meanwhile, Bailey and Beau are fighting over who is gonna tell him.

When Dylan and Tucker arrive back home, Dylan tells them Jo asked Tucker out. Brody is crushed and as usual Tucker is oblivious. Bailey tells him that Brody likes Jo and Tucker makes this big show about how he’s gonna back off.

Unfortunately, when the whole family gets to the barn sometime later, they all end up seeing Tuck and Jo kissing inside the barn.

In Blue, two months later and the boys are still fighting over Jo, with Brody being pissed at his older brother. Tucker is trying to act as if he’s the victim and Jo was the one that kissed him, but everyone sees through the lie.

Despite Beau's best efforts, Brody and Tuck are still fighting over the kiss between Tucker and Jo. Beau says they aren’t handling it right, so he's taking them to the archery range, where he will solve the issue. Beau says that he knows that Brody will win.

When Brody and Tuck get home, Brody is in a sling.

In the process of LeAnn Rimes singing, Brody and Tuck hug it and out, and in the end, everyone finishes the night by all singing *Can’t Fight The Moonlight*.

In Summer Lovin', as it turns out, Brody has a date with Lorraine’s cousin, who wants to go out with him. Everyone is shocked, but trying to be supportive at the same time.

As Brody and Tuck are getting ready for a double date with Lorraine and her cousin Luanne. But Beau ends up telling them that because he will be away, he doesn't want them going out. As a result, Tuck and Brody seemingly cancel their dates.

Brody is upset over having to cancel the date, but Tuck always has a plan and says dates are coming over. He promised that they wouldn’t go out, but not that the dates couldn’t come in.

While looking for their dad’s cologne, Tuck finds it missing from the medicine cabinet, and comes to the conclusion he is at Summer’s place. As a result, Brody is clued in on his dad's lie.

Eventually, Lorainne and her cousin show up. Bailey wants to talk to the boys because she is angry that they lied. Tuck however is quick to point out how Beau and her lied to them first. He also reveals that they figured out that he is at Summer's. Brody for his part ends up going along with Tuck's plan. When confronted, the boys admit to blackmailing Bailey into not tell on them, because they want to spend some quality time with their dates.

He and the rest of his family end up confronting his dad about why he felt the need to lie to them. Once they leave him at Summer's, he takes his dad's cologne without him knowing.

In You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You, He like the rest of his family is quick to sing alongside the rest of his family to Kelly Clarkson's *Stronger*, to cheer Bailey end up, when Boone hurts her once more.

Later that night, the Haywoods (including Bailey) go out to Tootsies, and while Bailey is performing, Tuck like the rest of the Haywoods ends up seeing Boone propose to Bailey.

In Back in the Saddle Again, his dad's birthday is right around the corner and despite the fact he said he didn't want anythin, Brody is searching for the perfect birthday present. Eventually he lets his siblings know he has found the perfect present. They tell Baily, that Beau once sold a saddle that he loved. But now, Brody has found one that is on sale and is like the one he sold. Only it’s $1,200 bucks and that is way too much for the kids or Bailey to pay for.

Eventually Brody, like the rest of his siblings, they end up approaching Summer to lent them $1,200 bucks to buy his dad a saddle that looks like the one he sold years earlier.

At the surprise party, Beau is overtaken by the kids present and they then tell him that they couldn’t have done it without Summer.

In You Matter to Me, it’s Bailey’s big day, the kids really want to be there for her. But Brody doesn't want to get one up by Tuck who is sick but still trying to flirt. He does end up feeling bad for causing Bailey's bid day to not go the way she hoped. He apologizes to Bailey, but she's still too hurt to accept any of their apologies.

Later, he and the rest of the family end up sleeping near their horse My Girl in hopes that she does get up and doesn't die on them.

He ends up cheering when she does wake up.

In Bless the Broken Road, the kids want to be supportive of Bailey, but they can’t imagine a life without her. She’s become such a big part of who they are. They want her to know that they want the best for her.

The family arrives and Cassidy is there. Beau had to tell Cassidy that she’d be grounded if she didn’t show up. Summer is already there and looks like she is going to church. Brody notices that Jo is there and he becomes a wreck with words as he does every time a girl is around.

Jo is clueless and doesn’t get that Brody likes her. She’s apologizing for not being around and understands why he didn’t come around. She figured it was weird and he needed to take his brother's side.

Meanwhile the kids are out enjoying themselves. Tuck is looking for Maria, but through Brody talking to him, he realizes she doesn’t really like him. He ends up talking in return to tell Brody that he should realize that he didn’t get rejected by Jo. The reality is that Jo probably didn’t know he liked her because Brody never told her.

So when Jo approaches Brody, he runs.

Eventually, Tuck spills to Jo that Brody likes her.

When Bailey comes out to leave, she’s called to the stage. The kids, including Brody are up there, ready to support and get her through it. She’s staring at them, unsure of what to do, because she doesn’t think she can do it.

When Bailey takes the stage, she can’t manage to sing. But the kids started it for her and she is able to go through it.

## Personality

Brody is a very sweet and kind guy. He is a little quirky, but who isn't? He loves his family and is desperate for a girlfriend. He is a little shy but when he gets to know someone he can be very out going. He is described as having a "lanky charm".

## Physical Appearance

Despite being younger than his older brother Tuck, Brody is actually taller him. He is not as muscular as Tuck, but ever since Tuck took him under his wing, he has begun to sport abs. which is really proud of them.

## Trivia

* In Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign, Brody reveals that he apparently has anxiety and a gluten intolerance.
* In Summer Lovin', Brody imitates Elvis Presley, and makes a good impression.

## See Also

Cassidy HaywoodDylan HaywoodBooneSummer