The Brady Bunch: Marcia Gets Creamed

The Brady Bunch: Marcia Gets Creamed
ABC
October 26, 1973
Sitcom
DVD
B-

In this Ben Gershman and Bill Freedman story, Marcia gets a job working at an ice cream place run by Mr. Haskell (Henry Corden, who's mostly known for his cartoon voices but who would be on The Bob Newhart Show later that year). Since Peter is job-hunting, Marcia first talks her boss into taking time off and then recommends having her brother fill in in the afternoon.  Mr. H makes no objections.  Unfortunately, Peter, who had been a perfectionist at the bike shop, now is a "capital-G Goof-off."  Marcia fires him and then hires Jan, who is a very hard worker.  Meanwhile, Marcia doesn't have time for her new boyfriend Jeff, who shows up with a Girl (Kimberly Beck, who was Marcia's friend Laura before).  Marcia sprays them with whipped cream.  Mr. H comes in a minute later and it seems like he must've seen the customers leaving with whipped cream on their clothes, but actually he's tired of leisure time, so he fires Marcia and keeps Jan.  Marcia is upset so Jan offers to quit, but then Jeff and Marcia make up, so Marcia "retires."  And Peter gets a job delivering pizza.  There's also a subplot that has Alice and Mike both dieting, and yet Mike digs into the pizza that Peter brings home, without any qualms, or scolding from Carol.

I've gone into detail on all this, because I don't think the script quite works.  It's entertaining, but full of holes, including that there's no way that Carol could know what Mike weighed in college.