Pure horror. I once moved a couch with Barry Williams cause our neighbor was his personal manager. The couch wouldn't fit, and Greg Brady was yelling at me.."TILT! PIVOT! NO!" all mad. I just had to remember this show and all was suddenly right with the universe.
@@apt2223Barry Williams actually said to me “nice shades” in the late 80s . He was at university book store in East Lansing signing his “Growing Up Brady” book (I think).
I used to live off Hollywood Blvd and Yucca (El Cerrito dive Apt.) and I saw 👀 Barry Williams CONSTANTLY on Hollywood. He seemed to be looking 👀 for people to recognize him: this was mid-80’s when he was begging anybody for work!!
Nowadays performing in blackface would be career suicide, but in 1977 nobody was offended by dancers in neon-colored Afros. The times certainly have changed.
I am mesmerized by this, I can't believe this kind of stuff was shown on TV. It's like a car crash, you don't want to look but you can't help yourself. And look at how bad Robert Reed looks trying to dance at 4:43 🤣😅😆😂
I had a great laugh reading these comments. All I'll add is was worth watching to see Rerun and his amazing dance moves. Haven't thought about him in years.
WTF? Wait.... Did I just see Rick Dees singing Disco Duck? Ann B. Davis in a duck outfit? The glitteriest stage I have EVER seen?! I'm stunned. I've never seen this before, and I absolutely fucking LOVED IT!
@@thebigorangecouch6261 I remember watching for the first time in 1995 when I was a teenager. My mom even said this was bad, and she lived through the era of variety shows.
I'm a bona fide child of the 1970s, so I've never had a problem liking the insane pop culture from that decade. The 1970s featured mockery of "good taste" and seriousness in the form of crazy alienation and guiltless extravagance. I have lots of fun watching things like this crazy "disco" segment on the Brady Bunch's variety show. 1970's pop wasn't made for the weak or the self-conscious, but for those who had (and still have) a very active sense of humor and a guilt-free love for camp.
Everyone looks back with rose colored glasses, but the crazy volume of commercials makes me wonder how we accepted it. That’s not even mentioning how awful variety shows were , in general. Although there are certainly modern equivalents.
I was around then as a teenager, and we always thought the 70s were a bit of a musical black hole, but honestly, it was better than everything since or maybe even before. Not this, but... there was damn good music back then.
Yes it’s odd (because of his attitude to the original show) but according the tell all book about the BB hour Robert absolutely LOVED doing the Variety show for some reason 🤔
For those you who weren't there to watch this trainwreck (I was), this show made about as much sense as a Married With Children Variety Show or a Two Broke Girls Variety Show.
waterfieldV I recall seeing an interview somewhere on RUclips where a Brady Girl said she was 'never really into the disco scene anyway and it seems avoided these mish mashes at all costs
Thank God for video tape and youtube, Whenever I hear people under the age of 40 talk about how cool the 70's were I only need to point them to this and gong show links.
The shows were cheesy, but the 70s was a great decade. I look at this and laugh mainly because i realize how much things have changed and i can,t believe i watched this stuff.
I was born in 1968, and from a '70s kid's POV, I'd say we didn't take these things seriously, but it was understood that life and pop culture were crazy and colorful, and that was "normal." (I was at the taping of the "Gong Show" episode where everyone sang "Feelings," and I saw more than my share of bad '70s TV shows.) That said, those wigs frighten me!
They're always in motion as they do the songs, but this is a cakewalk compared to what The Brady Kids had to do when they toured the U.S.. They were doing acrobatics, flips, and playing at least 4 different instruments and feature solos. That's showbiz. Hard Work!!
I watched the Brady Bunch as a kid, Fat Albert too. I even remember the cartoon commercial to buy the tape with Donald Duck singing Disco Duck. Somehow I don't remember the Brady Bunch Variety Hour though. I'm thrilled I found this though.
This is so bad, it's actually great. I love it. Cindy really grow up to be beautiful -- Wow! I kept looking at her thinking "Cindy? Is that really you? You've changed." Marcia always beautiful. And Jan-Geri had a great voice but whenever I see her I still miss Jan-Eve. I grew up watching the Bradys but never knew Greg could actually sing and dance. Bobby could also dance. And Peter hung in there but clearly dancing and singing is not his thing but he still looked like he was having fun. The Bradys were our favorite family so I could never hate them or pan anything they did but clearly this was not the best idea for the Bradys. However overall, I actually love this. It horribly fantastic and it makes me smile especially today when television is disgusting. The Bradys smile and look happy and I can let my grandson watch it. I'm ordering the DVD. No joking. I'm serious. I love the Bradys.
If theres life out there on another planet, I dont think it could possibly be any stranger than some of the stuff you see right here on Earth. My God just look at this.
it just gets more surreal by the minute! rick dees, alice and rip torn singing tangerine(an old '50's johny mercer song which has nothing to do with disco)and the cast of whats happening. Now there are treatment centers for people who create shows like this.
This looks like its 1975 and your local small-town church tried to put on a show that would be "cool enough" to attract the local juvenile delinquents and get them to accept Jesus as their savior. A few kids wandered in, grabbed the snacks, watched for a few stunned minutes, and then headed for the exits.
Oh, my, the madness of the 1970s. I watched The Brady Bunch, but never saw this phenomenon. I wasn't a fan of disco. More into Roxy Music, The Ramones, David Bowie, Sex Pistols, Lou Reed, Rolling Stones, etc. Now, I can look at, and listen to, this insanity with fond nostaligia. The clip provides a bit of enjoyment, and hysterical laughter --- the 1970s worked on so many levels.
+kumada84 BTW - how much you want to bet they didn't have to pay Wilson Place Street Band since they said "Lucy Disco" instead of "Dance Dance Disco Lucy"? Clever clever. (If you don't know what I'm referring to then you should not be watching this video.)
I can only say , I played team,sports as a child - so, I probably never even heard of the Brady variety hour. However, I loved the variety shows of the 70s because, to me, they were basically the end of vaudeville. And, for the only time in my life during these shows did Rip Taylor actually act normal - well, more than I ever seen.
I was born in 1979, so I missed all the 'so terrible it's good' TV shows. I would have loved to have lived through that decade to see just how bad was and to understand that people did take these things seriously.
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This would have made a fabulous Super Bowl halftime show!!
Hooray for Everything
I 👍 with you.
In Hell, this clip plays 24/7. With everyone’s eyeballs pryed open, Clockwork Orange style.
STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!
PLEASE, I BEG YOU!
This should be torture in Guantanamo
"Disco Duck" was a kick-ass song and I don't care what other people say.
@@jeffw1267 I also loved "Disco Duck" and I enjoyed this video.
I'll give you the information Herr Sicko
Pure horror. I once moved a couch with Barry Williams cause our neighbor was his personal manager. The couch wouldn't fit, and Greg Brady was yelling at me.."TILT! PIVOT! NO!" all mad. I just had to remember this show and all was suddenly right with the universe.
uh.. yeah. Sure you did. Awesome crib from Friends, though.
@@apt2223Barry Williams actually said to me “nice shades” in the late 80s . He was at university book store in East Lansing signing his “Growing Up Brady” book (I think).
I used to live off Hollywood Blvd and Yucca (El Cerrito dive Apt.) and I saw 👀 Barry Williams CONSTANTLY on Hollywood. He seemed to be looking 👀 for people to recognize him: this was mid-80’s when he was begging anybody for work!!
The choreography and backup dancers with multicolored Afro wigs were just stunningly hilarious.
Nowadays performing in blackface would be career suicide, but in 1977 nobody was offended by dancers in neon-colored Afros. The times certainly have changed.
@@zanti4132
You are absolutely right and things haven't changed for the better.
@@zanti4132 I’m offended by how awful it is
A very well-paid grown-up human being came up with the idea for this TV show, and other well-paid grown ups approved it and got it made.
This was the type of thing that hammered another nail into the disco coffin.
Disco duck, dancing machine...by the brady bunch. If there is anything better in life I don't want to know what it is.
Greg is all like, “I’m looking good! I sound fantastic! My career is going stratospheric!Let the good times roll!”
🤣🤣🤣
Launching the career of Johnny Bravo!
He didn't realize... he just fit the suit.
Believe it or not- Barry Williams went on to do several Broadway tours and headlined in resort areas like Myrtle Beach and Branson, Mo.
Within a year Greg will be doing Shasta commercials.
I am mesmerized by this, I can't believe this kind of stuff was shown on TV. It's like a car crash, you don't want to look but you can't help yourself. And look at how bad Robert Reed looks trying to dance at 4:43 🤣😅😆😂
True he couldn't sing or dance to save his life but he was a good actor.
@@maidahaltrecht6577He was also upset they didn’t take the show more seriously. All while being in that 70s closet.
I had a great laugh reading these comments. All I'll add is was worth watching to see Rerun and his amazing dance moves. Haven't thought about him in years.
WTF? Wait.... Did I just see Rick Dees singing Disco Duck? Ann B. Davis in a duck outfit? The glitteriest stage I have EVER seen?! I'm stunned. I've never seen this before, and I absolutely fucking LOVED IT!
OH ALICE!!!!!!!!!!!
I had seen it before, and I saw it again because I loved it, too!
the cast of What's Happening gave this performance class. Go Rerun!
The comments are priceless. Best laughs I've had in awhile!
Same here lol 😂
I agree! I am crying, laughing so hard!
The fake applause track was working triple time during this dreck.
I like fake Jan's voice
Since "real" Jan declined, they at least cast someone who could actually sing.
is that really susan olsen? and were is the Real Jan at?
@@Royelsworth Even Cindy grows up. What did you expect her to look like?
I agree! That girl really had some "soul" in her voice. :)
Fake Jan was still in high school at this time. A junior I believe. I always loved her beautiful thick long hair.
Just when you think this can't get any worse... it keeps topping itself. That intrusive fake applause was such a seventies thing, too.
They still overdo the applause on daytime TV: "when it comes out of the oven it looks like this" cue applause.
@@dannycarrington1601 The more things change... 😄
I noticed the fake applause as well when every new song was introduced. Why?
@@BallparkHunter Who knows? Maybe it was to induce excitement? All it really turned out to be was intrusive and cringeworthy.
@@thebigorangecouch6261 I remember watching for the first time in 1995 when I was a teenager. My mom even said this was bad, and she lived through the era of variety shows.
I'm a bona fide child of the 1970s, so I've never had a problem liking the insane pop culture from that decade. The 1970s featured mockery of "good taste" and seriousness in the form of crazy alienation and guiltless extravagance. I have lots of fun watching things like this crazy "disco" segment on the Brady Bunch's variety show. 1970's pop wasn't made for the weak or the self-conscious, but for those who had (and still have) a very active sense of humor and a guilt-free love for camp.
Everyone looks back with rose colored glasses, but the crazy volume of commercials makes me wonder how we accepted it.
That’s not even mentioning how awful variety shows were , in general. Although there are certainly modern equivalents.
I was around then as a teenager, and we always thought the 70s were a bit of a musical black hole, but honestly, it was better than everything since or maybe even before. Not this, but... there was damn good music back then.
It's painful to watch, but I do it, because I love Robert Reed...he's The Brady Dad forever, and he really did look at those kids as "his kids."
He sadly was a closeted homosexual living with HIV. I miss seeing him when he was healthy and handsome.
I have tears in my eyes. This was so moving. An artistic masterpiece. They don't make TV like this anymore.
Robert Reed used to get into arguments on the set about the storylines of The Brady Bunch being too ridiculous. Then he appears in this?
Proof that money can change anybody
Yes it’s odd (because of his attitude to the original show) but according the tell all book about the BB hour Robert absolutely LOVED doing the Variety show for some reason 🤔
Reed was also in Bloodlust. His views on ridiculous storylines is therefore irrelevant 😂
He had such a love for the family and just wanted to work w/ them, that pull was stronger. 🙂
What was ridiculous was that gawd-awful poodle perm!!!
This was so damn bad, but it's like a car wreck. You just can't look away.
Dude you read my mind...
I think this must be what killed disco
@@owenb8636 the duck yeah
The Bradys doing disco with Rip Taylor, Rick Dees and Rerun thrown in. I got my 1970s culture fix.
Haha yes
kill it with fire.
For those you who weren't there to watch this trainwreck (I was), this show made about as much sense as a Married With Children Variety Show or a Two Broke Girls Variety Show.
But variety shows were popular back then.
@@christownsend7552
Just about everyone had a variety hour.
Sonny and Cher, Donny and Marie, Flip Wilson, Etc. EVERYONE had a variety hour. It's what they did.
Being a kid in the 70's was great. Everything was so stupid. We just laughed our asses off!
H.R. PufnStuff would fit in here perfectly!
People had a sense of humor!
Still so awesome, hypnotically good. Who needs drugs when you can trip out on bright costumes, lights and disco?
This is literally probably the most random moment of television I have EVER seen!!!
This is very hard to watch - yet I can't take my eyes off it!
This is so cheesy and corny . . . but I still like to watch it! LOL!!!
RIP, Robert Reed. An entire generation of kids still think of you as Dad.
This was one of the last variety shows on TV. Now.. I know WHY there are NO shows of this type anymore. Phewwwwwww.
the smart one was Eve Plumb
Eve is also wealthy.
She bought a house back in the 70s, kept it for decades , recently sold it and made tens of millions. She
Fake Jan was the only kid who was a professional singer. The rest were amateurs with varrying degrees of ability
That person who originally coined the term "Disco Sucks" certainly was on to something! (Ok I'll admit it! I've watched this 3x's!)
The greatest performance of all time
Troy McClure: one family member refused to take part, but thanks to some creative re-casting you'll never notice the difference.
waterfieldV I recall seeing an interview somewhere on RUclips where a Brady Girl said she was 'never really into the disco scene anyway and it seems avoided these mish mashes at all costs
XD
Lol..noticed immediately that Eve wasn't included!
Fake Jan What’s a good singer and she was very pretty so I guess she was OK I like her a lot
As a 70's kid: Something to watch
Now, at 51: 70's bad dancing, etc
Even with the fullness of time, this was still solid gold crap back then.
Thank God for video tape and youtube, Whenever I hear people under the age of 40 talk about how cool the 70's were I only need to point them to this and gong show links.
The 1970s were cool years - if you just forget this bad dream. This is one of those "whatever happens in the 1970s should stay there" atrocities.
The shows were cheesy, but the 70s was a great decade. I look at this and laugh mainly because i realize how much things have changed and i can,t believe i watched this stuff.
+carolina girl Don't get me wrong, but I love the 1970s myself. It's just this show makes me wonder about the real ingredients in a box of Trix.
Irene Markoja hehe! I know what you mean.
+Irene Markoja In the 70s people actually believed that cocaine was not addictive
This makes Can’t Stop the Music movie look like an iconic classic.
Geri Is An Excellent Singer !!!
...and on the 8th day God said "Let the Brady's sing and dance". Then he saw this, and that's why we only have 7 days in a week.
Chisty A LMAO
And then God saw that it was NOT good.
Haha nice one 😂
Awe ... there's Rerun from " what's happening " RIP.. :( Fred Berry
I feel so bad for Eve Plumb. There is probably not a day that goes by where she doesn't regret turning down this show.
Geri was superlative casting as Fake Jan!
Geri Reichel did a Beautiful job replacing Eve.
Actually Eve doesn’t regret not being in the show and the other’s regret being in it
Now that was a funny comment. I suspect its scathing sarcasm has been lost on many people.
@@eduardo_corrochio What makes you sure that Gregory was not sincere? I enjoyed this. I love disco.
There was one high point with Re-Run but other than that this was painful. Yet I couldn't look away.
Oh, wow, this must be the best television show ever. Disco Brady kids, how do you top that?
I was born in 1968, and from a '70s kid's POV, I'd say we didn't take these things seriously, but it was understood that life and pop culture were crazy and colorful, and that was "normal." (I was at the taping of the "Gong Show" episode where everyone sang "Feelings," and I saw more than my share of bad '70s TV shows.) That said, those wigs frighten me!
I love the Brady Bunch ... but, wow there are no words for this! lol.
Rip Taylor and Ann B. Davis in duck costumes singing "Tangerine". My. God. I can die now.
They're always in motion as they do the songs, but this is a cakewalk compared to what The Brady Kids had to do when they toured the U.S.. They were doing acrobatics, flips, and playing at least 4 different instruments and feature solos.
That's showbiz. Hard Work!!
That’s it, I’m convinced everyone in the 70’s was doing cocaine.
Queen Charity You would be correct! 😉👍
I watched the Brady Bunch as a kid, Fat Albert too. I even remember the cartoon commercial to buy the tape with Donald Duck singing Disco Duck. Somehow I don't remember the Brady Bunch Variety Hour though. I'm thrilled I found this though.
It looks like they had so much fun. :)
This is so bad, it's actually great. I love it. Cindy really grow up to be beautiful -- Wow! I kept looking at her thinking "Cindy? Is that really you? You've changed." Marcia always beautiful. And Jan-Geri had a great voice but whenever I see her I still miss Jan-Eve. I grew up watching the Bradys but never knew Greg could actually sing and dance. Bobby could also dance. And Peter hung in there but clearly dancing and singing is not his thing but he still looked like he was having fun. The Bradys were our favorite family so I could never hate them or pan anything they did but clearly this was not the best idea for the Bradys. However overall, I actually love this. It horribly fantastic and it makes me smile especially today when television is disgusting. The Bradys smile and look happy and I can let my grandson watch it. I'm ordering the DVD. No joking. I'm serious. I love the Bradys.
Eve said there are times when I wish all this would just go away, And by the looks of this , she was right.
Rerun, Greg aka Johnny Bravo and groovy disco threads! It was happening!🤣😂
Greg thought that he was going to be the next David Cassidy.
I read Susan's book on my Kindle. It was good,really informative.
The amazing power of this music influenced the whole world... to stop creating it.
If theres life out there on another planet, I dont think it could possibly be any stranger than some of the stuff you see right here on Earth. My God just look at this.
This is AWESOME! OMG best variety show EVER!!!!!!! I gotta get more of this show....
Johnny Bravo knocking it out if the park. 😂
Barry Williams actually had a decent singing voice.
it just gets more surreal by the minute! rick dees, alice and rip torn singing tangerine(an old '50's johny mercer song which has nothing to do with disco)and the cast of whats happening. Now there are treatment centers for people who create shows like this.
Pop lockin Brady kids with horrible timing. still love it.
I can't believe I used to watch this. It was entertaining! Brings back memories.
I loved watching Rerun dance!
Ok! This has hit rock bottom to see Alice in a chicken suit!
Back in the day, many of us were really excited about this show until we watched it once.
"Disco-Lucy", a disco remix version of the "I Love Lucy" theme song was actually a Top 40 single in 1976.
The 70’s were far-out!
Right, I loved the Wilton Place Street Band.
This is my most favorite thing ever.
Naked Eye Studios nonsense, 70’s was the best decade ever!!
You need sunglasses to watch this but you cant look away either lmao
Choreographer said, "The chorus line needs bright afros, don't ask me why."
If we showed this to the entire planet this would longer be a crowded planet.
Rip Torn as a duck. GOLD. I have this on DVD and it's truly a kitch goldmine.
This looks like its 1975 and your local small-town church tried to put on a show that would be "cool enough" to attract the local juvenile delinquents and get them to accept Jesus as their savior. A few kids wandered in, grabbed the snacks, watched for a few stunned minutes, and then headed for the exits.
Oh, my, the madness of the 1970s. I watched The Brady Bunch, but never saw this phenomenon. I wasn't a fan of disco. More into Roxy Music, The Ramones, David Bowie, Sex Pistols, Lou Reed, Rolling Stones, etc. Now, I can look at, and listen to, this insanity with fond nostaligia. The clip provides a bit of enjoyment, and hysterical laughter --- the 1970s worked on so many levels.
Johnny Bravo would have never done disco. You sold out , Greg.
I think I have a crush on fake Jan.......... This is some of the best bad dancing ever!
It’s like a bad car wreck, you don’t want to see it, but for some reason, you can’t look away.....
Yeah.. whenever I get nostalgic for the 70s.. videos like this slap me upside the head with a reality check.
Didn't read the summary. Didn't think it could get worse and then...out comes the cast of What's Happening. Lord have mercy.
+kumada84 Spoke too soon. "Disco Lucy".
+kumada84 BTW - how much you want to bet they didn't have to pay Wilson Place Street Band since they said "Lucy Disco" instead of "Dance Dance Disco Lucy"? Clever clever.
(If you don't know what I'm referring to then you should not be watching this video.)
I forgot how bad this was when it first aired. I wish I was drunk.
Calm down hoss
Or coked out of our minds.
Imagine what it must have been like for Eve Plum to watch this. She must have felt like she had just dodged an oncoming train.
If you've had a bad day and want to escape with something completely ridiculous that will make you feel better about yourself---this is IT!!!
poor Rerun - he must have felt he was in his worst nightmare
I can only say , I played team,sports as a child - so, I probably never even heard of the Brady variety hour. However, I loved the variety shows of the 70s because, to me, they were basically the end of vaudeville.
And, for the only time in my life during these shows did Rip Taylor actually act normal - well, more than I ever seen.
The "you make me feel like dancing" part was good. 🤷🏾♀️
I was born in 1979, so I missed all the 'so terrible it's good' TV shows. I would have loved to have lived through that decade to see just how bad was and to understand that people did take these things seriously.
R I P
Florence Henderson 1934-2016
Robert Redd 1932-1992
Thankfully, Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious wiped this right off the map - for good!
It was strange seeing the cast of What's Happening appear. That was a GREAT SHOW.
ABC was promoting their show.
Wow! I needed that.... as bad as that was, I love everything Brady.
Oh God! What were they thinking? The 70s was a strange decade indeed.
Oh God! Oh God!! OH GOD!!!! The best is the DISCO DUCK sequence. AMAZING!
Jan and Alice were the only sane ones of the Bunch in not wanting any part of this, lol.
Mike and Susan are really good dancers.
ROTFLMAO!! I lost it at the ducks!! WTF?!?!? LMFAO!!
This is still better than anything on television 📺 now. It's all cursing, drugs and booze.
No words. I wish this number would have kept on, kept on, kept on but I guess something suddley came up.
How did the cast from What's Happening get mixed in this? Go Re-Run!
Most people don't know that the last episode of the Brady variety hour aired the same day Star Wars was first released: May 25, 1977
Holy crap, that day lives in both glory and infamy.
There is balance in the Force.
This is the greatest thing I have ever seen ever.
This was the 70's all about peace