@MLClark Wait 'til you get to the 2:30 mark for the payoff ...
:) Such a lovely confluence of so many wild cultural moments. There were some good parts of the 20th century tucked in with all the nonsense, no?
@MLClark The two parody movies had the conceit that the Bradys were somehow caught in a time bubble. The laughs came from turning them loose in our modern world.
There was a third film, a TV movie with Shelley Long and Gary Cole, but they recast the kids because the original actors had aged out of their roles. The short version is that Mike Brady became President of the U.S. No longer as improbable as it seemed when it aired.
I saw the first two, not the third.
There was something really special about '90s cinema: the last era before big budget CGI became critical for promo cycles, and when the nature of the film-going experience in chain theatres invited producers to take more chances on smaller, quirkier pics with a wide range of plots and lower costs and production times. We got a lot of fun, smart, cult-favourite films out of the moment. Now we rely on streaming platforms for such play these days.
@MLClark The White House movie was pretty awful, although it did have some scathing political comedy here and there.
The new cast didn't measure up to the first two films.
There's also a made-for-TV movie, a fictional version of how the series was made. It's pretty good, and accurate, e.g. Florence Henderson going out on a date with Barry Williams, Barry and Maureen McCormick making out, Robert Reed's sexual preference, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brady_Bunch_in_the_White_House
@MLClark This scene was filmed at Santa Monica Place.
I think you had to be a child of the era to truly laugh at all the little easter eggs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05nRqVJlunA