The Way We All Became The Brady Bunch by Kimberly Potts
Author:Kimberly Potts [Potts, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2019-12-02T16:00:00+00:00
Neither the Brady Kids nor The Brady Bunch Hour had long lives in the Bradyverse, but music has always played a significant role in the show’s history and pop culture influence.
“The theme song is perhaps even more iconic than the actual show,” Brady fan Al Yankovic said. “It’s one of those brilliant theme songs that encapsulates the show’s entire concept at the start of each episode. It’s basically the elevator pitch for The Brady Bunch in song form.
“I loved theme songs like that…Gilligan’s Island, Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, Mr. Ed. They don’t write theme songs like that anymore. That’s why when I was given my own network kids’ show on CBS in the late nineties [The Weird Al Show], I wrote a retro-styled theme song for it, wherein I go into excruciating detail about the stupid reason why the show exists.”
Yankovic’s song “Brady Bunch” contains a lyrical, though not musical, adaptation of the Brady opener, and other entertainers have been just as inspired by Sherwood Schwartz and Frank De Vol’s seminal theme song.
Oscar and Grammy winner Jamie Foxx’s 2002 HBO stand-up special I Might Need Security included a segment during which the performer sat down at a piano and talked about his special way of using a wholesome TV theme song to get romantic with his girlfriends on his grandmother’s living room couch, without offending the sensibilities of his strict grandma. He treated the audience at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California, to his slow-jam cover of the Brady Bunch theme—taking “a song off the TV and making it sound good enough to make love to.” In the ultimate unique Brady theme mash-up, Foxx employed his pitch-perfect impersonation skills to sing the song in the style of fellow Grammy winners Babyface, Luther Vandross, and Prince.
Sesame Street employed the theme song and the opening-sequence format to teach young viewers how Street resident Telly had a “hunch” that ingredients like bologna, lettuce, cheese, and a loaf of bread could form a healthy lunch in the 1996 segment “Telly’s Lunch.”
A 1995 Sesame Street segment called “The Braid-y Bunch” parodies the Brady theme and tic-tac-toe board opener to spotlight kids who love wearing braids in their hair. The adorable little girl with braided pigtails who’s occupying the square where Mike Brady usually resides: Lindsay Lohan.
In the season eight “Secret of the Flushed Footlong” episode of Robot Chicken, a Brady theme song and checkerboard opening-sequence parody offers a harsh theory about what really happened to Carol’s first husband. It’s an irreverent tale, involving radiation poisoning, an exploding face, and falling out a plate glass window.
Credit for the most star-studded Brady theme homage goes to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In 2018, the late-night series premiered the instant viral video and song “The Marvel Bunch,” featuring the cast of Avengers: Infinity War singing the origins story of the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe). Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark (“Here’s the story of a playboy genius”), Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, Chris Evans as Captain America, Scarlett Johansson as
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