Monday, March 21, 2016

The Brady Bunch: Peter and the Wolf

"X-rated behavior"
The Brady Bunch: Peter and the Wolf
ABC
October 12, 1973
Sitcom
DVD
B

Tam Spiva's last Brady script, and the penultimate episode directed by Leslie H. Martinson, is one of the more farcical ones, as Greg desperately drafts Peter into a double date for Greg's date's visiting 18-year-old cousin.  Since Peter is 15 or 16 (more likely 15), Greg passes him off as Phil Packer, and Peter lowers his voice and wears a mustache to complete his disguise.  The girls think it's a prank, so they decide on revenge.  Meanwhile Mike and Carol entertain Mike's client Juan Calderon and his wife Maria (Alma Bertran, who was temporarily the Hartleys' maid Marina).  The Calderons want to have "real American food," pizza.  The girls suggest Marioni's, but instead everyone ends up (if the exterior shot that Paramount recycled means anything) at Nino's, Ann and Donald's favorite Italian restaurant on That Girl.  New York seems an awfully long way to go for a date or a business dinner, but I guess the Bradys like to impress people.  Unfortunately, the girls flirt and cuddle with Peter, shocking the Calderons.  Everyone learns a lesson, including presumably Peter, who is much more naive than Greg and doesn't understand why it doesn't matter what movie is at the drive-in.  (It's always the same Western, but Greg happens to like that.)

This is the 100th episode of BBunch, but the kids had already passed that point thanks to their cartoon show, and Reed wouldn't reach it quite yet.  It is the 100th for Henderson and Davis though.

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