The Brady Bunch is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC. The series revolves around a large blended family with six children.
References to The Brady Bunch in The Simpsons
Episodes
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Season
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Episode number
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Episode name
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Reference
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7
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131
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"Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily"
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Couch gag: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Grampa, Santa's Little Helper, and Snowball II are in a nine-square grid as seen in the opening credits of The Brady Bunch.
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7
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144
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"Lisa the Iconoclast"
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Couch gag: repeat of 3F01's gag.
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8
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177
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"The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase"
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The show is a parody of The Brady Bunch Hour, which was cancelled after nine episodes.
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12
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249
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"Treehouse of Horror XI"
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The witch in the "Scary Tales Can Come True" segment claims to have a boyfriend named George Cauldron. This is a reference to the episode "The Not-So-Ugly Duckling" (1970), where Jan Brady has a make-believe boyfriend named George Glass. However George Cauldron, unlike George Glass, turns out to be a real person and not just a made-up name.
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15
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249
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"The Regina Monologues"
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The first act plot — where Bart happens upon a $1,000 bill and Marge subsequently tells him to advertise for its rightful owner — is inspired by the 1970 episode "The Treasure of Sierra Avenue."
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19
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412
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"Love, Springfieldian Style"
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The third segment, when introducing the story, Bart mentions The Brady Bunch.
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20
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431
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"How the Test Was Won"
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Couch gag: The Simpsons as the Bradys. Lisa gets hit in the nose by a football, a reference to one of the sitcom's most iconic scenes in which Marcia Brady gets hit by a football and eventually loses a date with a boy.
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20
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441
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"Coming to Homerica"
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Couch gag: repeat of LABF02's couch gag.
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23
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498
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"Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"
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Couch gag: repeat of LABF02's couch gag.
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30
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660
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"D'oh Canada"
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Couch gag: repeat of LABF02's couch gag.
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Books
Comics
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Comic issue
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Story name
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Reference
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Simpsons Comics #15
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A Trip to Simpsons Mountain
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Bart is correct in that Abe's story incorporated multiple TV references, including The Brady Bunch: At one point, the characters sans Young Abe are dressed in a late 60s-early 70s style ala the Bradys, Young Abe is called Greg, a woman resembling the Bradys' housekeeper Alice appears with a tray of fishsticks and jello, and Lisa-Marie gets hit in the nose by a football ala Marcia Brady.
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