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Mental Retardation

posted 10 years ago by bill3-1
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I love this show but I swear Jody is mentally retarded! He does and says the stupidest things, the writers obviously tailor wrote these idiot lines for Johnnie, they sure didn't give them to Anissa. It's not only what Jody says, it's how he says it, with such a blank expression, then starts beaming, it's like there's nobody home. And OMG what an awful mop of hair on that kids head, it's even worse than Brian Keith's. Johnnie Whitaker had a pretty dim bulb, and obviously still does to this day, he almost seems brainwashed.

[–] bobbyp1966 10 years ago

Nobody seems to care.

[–] coreycitn63 9 years ago

The Brady Bunch had Cindy. There is always a dumb sibling.

[–] SweaterCannons 9 years ago

I can't remember where I saw her talking about it, but I heard Susan Olsen, who played Cindy Brady, say that her mother would read lines with her, and she asked her mom once: "Is Cindy retarded?"

(When I just tried to find the quote on Google, there were a ton of instances where Olsen supposedly said something like that, to the producers, etc.)

[–] gcarras 9 years ago

The youngest kids always seem to get that from some fans and of course many trolls [counterpart examples-on Brady-Cindy; Partridge-Tracy--In those cases the little girls get the least attention...those at least as a musician, Tracy Partridge gets o the shake that thang.)

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[–] amyghost 9 years ago

Then in the Eighties, it seemed as if they did the paradigm shift, where the youngest is always preternaturally bright and smart-mouthed, at least as clever as the adults, like Wesley on Mr. Belvidere. In neither extreme were these kids ever all that believable.

[–] gcarras 9 years ago

"Then in the Eighties, it seemed as if they did the paradigm shift, where the youngest is always preternaturally bright and smart-mouthed, at least as clever as the adults, like Wesley on Mr. Belvidere. In neither extreme were these kids ever all that believable."

Yech! Don't remind me....!!!

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[–] amyghost 9 years ago

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[–] crlnrgbrght5 9 years ago

FA was the most realistic in how kids were portrayed, not overly precocious, or cutesy.

[–] crlnrgbrght5 9 years ago

There's also comments made about Carrie from Little House on the Prairie, too.

[–] captskidmarkgoatcabin 8 years ago

He probably reminds you of yourself as a child and he's so dumb he's been in TV and movies while you slave away at a 9 to 5...and make idiot remarks on IMDB threads

[–] amyghost 8 years ago

Or, as you do, sit in your parents' basement and troll threads with inane comments like the above.

[–] captskidmarkgoatcabin 8 years ago

yeah you got me oh wise one...does your Mama know you're on her PC and into her Vodka and Valium again?

[–] amyghost 8 years ago

Beats me, does your mama know she spawned a troll?

[–] captskidmarkgoatcabin 8 years ago

Making valid comments does not = troll...butting into a reply I made to another poster might qualify you as one however. Now go away before someone drops a house on you like they did your sister...Oz can be a dangerous place.

[–] josephturner1975 8 years ago

nice one amyghost

[–] caligirlbr323 7 years ago

I thought Jody was an adorable little boy! Very sweet and happy!