![]() ![]() Readers, please take a look at the shirt Jan is wearing. The girls seek some way to help Peter out. It’s a shame prime time TV today doesn’t have these subtle reminders. Feeling upset over no personality trumps the need to exit the house safely in the event of a fire! Greg shares what happened the night before and points out how a few careless words can really wreck a person’s feelings. He was excused from it due to his self loathing. With the fire drill over, the other kids notice Peter is absent. Were chickens in need of plucking still being sold in stores in 1971? This bird still has its neck too! I imagine it’d take two or three birds to feed the Bradys and Alice, so she had her work cut out for her! She makes a few lame jokes about the bird being too well done in the event of a fire and how the next surprise drill will have the chicken left on its own. The way she picks at it, it appears she was plucking it. Alice exits the house with a chicken in tow. Carol finally tells him to get on with it! The Brady family (minus Peter) and Alice are out of the house in 21 seconds. While standing at the bottom of the stairs, he yells up to them to be certain they are acting naturally and not expecting him to blow the whistle. In a scene that played a few seconds too long, he overly explains how the family is supposed to be acting when he initiates the fire drill. When Mike arrives home, Bobby and Cindy immediately remind him of the need for a fire drill. Here is a quick snapshot of some past occurrences and our most recent. After they leave, Peter looks in the mirror and says, “Boy are you dull.” It never occurred to me until this episode, the Brady kids, and sometimes Alice, looked into mirrors and talked to themselves quite often. Mike and Carol tell Peter the words that cut him like a knife tonight will not seem so bad tomorrow after a good night’s sleep. Mike and Carol try to convince Peter he has a good personality, but he replies they are only saying that because parents have to “say junk like that”. Another kid at the party diagnosed Peter’s social pariah status as the result of having no personality. It turns out he was practically invisible at the party and nobody sought to socialize with him. After going upstairs, Peter is convinced to share the events of the evening. This “something” was an event so grave he doesn’t want to talk about it. When questioned why, he gives the vague reply of “something happened”. A funny wrap to this scene would have been Alice shrugging and then noticing the appliances unplugged and rendering the kitchen dangerous again.Īs they leave the kitchen, Mike and Carol notice Peter is home early from a party he was attending. Alice is understandably confused by Carol’s remark. Alice enters the kitchen and Carol shares how the room is now safer since they have gotten rid of the octopus. The array of cords going here and there is identified by the kids as an “octopus”. In the kitchen, the danger created when multiple appliances plugged into a single outlet is being discussed. Bobby and Cindy have a school assignment to see that their home is safe as possible. Inside, the episode’s subplot is being introduced right away. Peter, clad in his finest duds, is walking across the patio after dark. ![]() The episode opens with the slow ominous Brady background music. ![]()
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