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Real things you learned from The Brady Bunch


I'm not looking for the typical, "All I ever need to know I learned..." things like "Astroturf is a perfectly viable surface for your back yard." I'm looking for actual facts you picked up by watching the show.

The first two that come to mind for me are:

1. The left side is port ("Law and Disorder").

2. Forks on the left, knives and spoons on the right ("Kelly's Kids").

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Two girls pretending to hit on a guy with a fake moustache in a pizza parlor was considered "X - Rated " behavior in the 1970's.


I wonder what Senor Calderone would think of twerking?

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Butchers get jealous when you hug a mailman.

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"Day is Done" was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

(Also, indirectly: the "strains of martial music" played at the end of the reading are not by John Phillip Sousa. That's "National Emblem" by E. E. Bagley, otherwise known as "The monkey wrapped his tail around the flagpole," and don't you forget it!)

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38. Meat lockers need to be more "modern" so that you can't get stuck inside

39. Dropping popcorn is a great way to leave a trail if you ever get kidnapped inside a cave

40. "someone can get hurt" if you let a mother and her three young girls build a treehouse.

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