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  • SEQUINS EVERYWHERE!

  • Ay carumba!

  • I always thought Bobby was the best dancer!

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  • On one hand, the show going from a middle class family to a broadway family is pretty creepy... The one in pink is the fake one... Cindy's aged nicely but she's still jailbait at the time this was made... and to bring back Cousin Oliver as disco duck has to take the cake... and yet this still feels more original than anything Britney or Bieber would put out. Oh well, at least 4:19 we find out where MC Hammer "borrowed" one of his songs from...

  • I think Florence Henderson was drunk on Wessonality.

  • This is like a baby that's so ugly it's kinda cute.

  • When life was simple and fun...

  • @BeeGees78 - considering inflation, the media HAD to be more fun than real life. (And today everybody says television is a 'want' and not a 'need' and think about it...)

  • It would've been fine had they not been so..."Lawrence Welk-ish"...

  • Love how they stay in character. Ha.

  • I had such a crush on 'Peter Brady' back in the 70's. Between him and David Cassidy of 'The Partridge Family'.

  • no greg u cant try to cover a j5 cut.. cant dance no soul

  • The amazing power of this music influenced the whole world... to stop creating it.

  • 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.

  • Rip Taylor — is there no beginning to his talents?

  • I'm really surprised that Bob Reed wanted to do this. He thought that The Brady Bunch was stupid and he especially hated, and refused to do the final episode with Greg's orange hair. I'm surprised he wanted to do this, with the chickens and all the dancing and singing.

  • lol I dunno why but I like it XD

  • This is the lamest show I've ever seen. It's the epitome of CORNY. OMG. I'm actually EMBARRASSED watching this...lmao.

  • Actually the "fake Jan" had a really good voice

  • I lovee it!!!!!!

  • I guess the "applause " is to convince you this is good. For anyone caught up in nostalgia from their past, it wasn't all good. And the poor bastards who watched this " live ", had no fast forward or pvr....ouch.

  • I'd actually rather watch this than some of what's on tv now.

  • @JohnWilkesBooth70 yeah but this was back when tv didn't such, so they stuck out like a sore thumb

  • @JohnWilkesBooth70 YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT! TV SUCKS NOWADAYS! 

  • @JohnWilkesBooth70 Agreed!

  • what in the hell did i just watch?

  • Wow. Watching that just triggered an acid flashback....lol!

  • Once again....to understand it,you hadda be there

  • I feel like the 1970's just vomited all over my head.

  • how come all the shows in the 70s the lights glare against the camera like that.?

  • now i can see why it barely survived 9 episodes before ABC said get lost and dont come back....PLZ!!!!!!!!

  • Fake Jan sings pretty well

  • @cellosareawesome she really does

  • Mr. Brady is a DILF

  • @RazorNY more like a son-of-a-bitchin fruitcake

  • Painful. But Florence is hot.

  • huzzah for form-fitting polyester!

  • This is really sad, even for the 70s. Why would they cancel the regular show and replace it with this?

  • @ReligiousZombie let's try ratings and the fact that reed grew to loathe the show. then absence made the proverbial heart grow fonder...

  • Me he quedao muerta.

  • 2:08 - No, Mr Brady's not gay...

  • Wow, Rerun is incredibly limber and athletic for a fat guy.

  • Who's the guy in the red shirt who sings Disco Duck with the little kid?

  • I would fuck Fake Jan hard!!!!!

  • @BorisBarak

    That's the "fake" Jan. The real one skipped this show...

  • I read Susan's book on my Kindle. It was good,really informative.

  • @beckigreen OMG Susan wrote a book, too?!?! That's it, I'm off to Amazon now.

  • So the Apocalypse already happened. Well that sucks.

  • Such fun times! A pure treasure!

  • I wish I had a big sparkly pink Afro :(

  • Hit that beat, Jan.

  • RIP, Robert Reed. An entire generation of kids still think of you as Dad.

  • @BettinaBalser I would like to know whom you are referring to by the phrase 'entire generation'? Now that the truth is out I am sure that 'generation' is thinking of him as something else

  • @letsplaycards40 I know "the truth" to which you refer. I still think of Robert Reed as Dad. Then again, I am not a narrow-minded, homophobic nimrod, either.

  • @letsplaycards40 now that the truth is out? OMFG where have you been? That particular secret wasnt that much of a secret and it was verified way long ago. get with the times. if you are going to hate monger keep current. and yes an entire generation will not see Robert Reed as anyone but Dad Brady. He was in other stuff but that is who he will always be. If you try to explain who he was youll always say of the dad on Brady Bunch not anything about his other roles.

  • Fake Jan was the most talented kid of all.

  • @thebigfatadam she's not really Jan they called Jan to do this but she refused so they auditioned for a fake Jan

  • Alice and Rip Taylor? I wonder how Sam felt about that?

  • This makes me feel like I'm losing my mind. It is strange!

  • so jan got hot its almost she is another person lol

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  • Mrs. Brady is hot. Florence still looks hot for her age.

  • I love the Brady Bunch ... but, wow there are no words for this! lol.

  • Geri Reischl (fake Jan) was better looking than Eve Plumb, and she could sing too. Essentially, this was just one of several cookie-cutter Variety shows of the 70s. Still, it was enjoyable, in a sort of so-bad-it's-good way.

  • Mr and Mrs Brady sure were lookers.

  • Love it......better than all the crap on TV nowadays.....

  • geeesh, i never knew how good the kids could sing and dance!

  • Its amazing no ever looked embarrassed to be on this show.I wonder if they cringe over it now.

  • @Tempe1962 Couldn't say, but I cringe over it now.

  • There is honestly nothing about this clip that's good. It's all appalling. The "acting", the "dancing", the "singing", the "choreography", the "clothing" etc. Americans wonder why they are hated so much by other countries. It's because of shit like this and people like Mary Hart. That faux "enjoyment". Everyone's just having a swell time! Fuck me! I'd rather slide down a 50 razor blade using my balls as brakes than watch Mary Hart or some other fake entertainment reporter. But I digress...

  • Oh gosh...as much as I love the Brady Bunch...this is so bad...it's so bad it's good...at least for a laugh! LOL

  • the nerve of them to ruin a good song like that !!!

  • ROTFLMAO!! I lost it at the ducks!! WTF?!?!? LMFAO!!

  • what is the first song?!!

  • 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!!!

  • 'twas a sad age for style...

  • In Barry Williams' book he says Eve Plumb was smart not to do this show. I didn't know how right he was until now. Give them some credit though, they obviously spent a lot of time rehearsing these routines and that fake Jan can sing. 

  • That was definatly Cindy and Marsha, but I don't think that's Jane.

  • Fred Berry rules.

  • @ 0:59 you can see Cindy's camel toe.

  • @BorisBarak if you come to my place and bring another guy with you we can have a circle jerk to it....shouldn't these kids be hooked on by crack now and selling there bodies? What a dissapointment

  • I actually just threw up a little in my mouth !!

  • My heart stopped when the cast of "What's Happening" danced out-I thought it was the Brady Kids in black face.

  • @J2Dstar HAHAAAAA!! I'm sure the casting people tried to get the Jackson 5 to sing "Dancing Machine" here. When that attempt failed, I bet some exec thought it'd be great to have the Brady kids do the song in black face. Fortunately, wisdom prevailed and that idea was shot down. And it was the only time wisdom and good taste prevailed in any issue regarding "Brady Bunch Variety Hour". On another note: WHY did they think it was a good idea to sing the "I Love lucy" theme song?!!!!? Why?

  • @cbiswhite That's what I'd like to know. "Lucy Disco"? Wtf?! I guess they bought the rights as part of a package deal and figured "Just use the theme somewhere, we paid for it.".

  • What is the song Florence Henderson and Robert Reed sing at 1:42?

  • @tvfan06 It's "Those Were the Days" originally sung by Mary Hopkins - not really a "disco" song - those crazy Bradys

  • @markcosborne There were plenty of old songs that singers "discofied' Babyface, Don't Let Me be Misunderstood, Theme From I Love Lucy, Have A Cigar, It was a very strange time.

  • WTF

  • Oh God.....nightmares from when I was a little kid in the late 70s.

  • Different Jan?

  • @directormexicano Eve Plumb who played Jan Brady in the Brady Bunch was smart enough to stay away from this disaster train wreck. So they hired another actress to play Jan in this "show".

    I guess Jan was smarter than Marcia after all.....LOL!!!!!

  • love the token black act 3:54

  • @courtney359 Thats the cast of What's Happening

  • @courtney359

    They all starred in a popular, late 70s sitcom called "What's Happening!!"

  • robert reed sounds like he just swallowed a gallon o jizz'who ever tought he could sing

  • good TV

  • Chris Knight is just HOT..

  • The clapping sounds so fake.

    I guess it is

  • @simonruane yes the applause was canned.

  • EEW tha afros

  • Mrs Brady is a MILF

  • @meavid DUde, she's like 80!

  • @meavid According to an interview with Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Mrs Brady was quite free about walking around naked and had an amazing rack (direct quote!)

  • Did that just really happen? Truly bizzare.

  • FAKE JAN !

  • The fake Jan looks awful she looks like a man Go eve plumb!!!

  • Why would they give the first vocal solo to Fake Jan?

  • Someone had to smoke a LOT of pot to come up with the idea for this.

  • Variety shows are cheesy especially when the cast has minimal talent. Eve Plumb was smart for avoiding this turkey. Fake Jan could actually sing and is very underrated. But her juggies were microscopic.

  • @Jefgg "But her juggies were microscopic" Yes, because all women exist for little boys with little penises like you to rate on their breast size. Sorry, "Juggies." See, I'm 10 years old, too!

  • @SlappyFrankenstein I am sorry if I offended the Itty Bitty Titty Committee. 

  • @Jefgg you didn't. You're just a jerk is all.

  • @SlappyFrankenstein Please forgive me. I have a really small penis. You see right through me.

  • oh wow... this is so bad... and yet i'm strangely unable to change the channel!

  • Dear GOD. This frightens me in ways I can't describe.

  • WTF? I remember when this was on prime time. I wish I didn't.

  • Good ol' crackly unconvincing audio track.

  • Listen up, Alice Echols, this is a prime example of how much Disco Sucks!!

  • They would have been far better off just getting the San Diego Chicken instead of Robbie Rist(Oliver) unconvincingly dressed as the Disco Duck.

  • cindy got a tight body!!!!

  • OMG, this is even worse than I remember. I didn't think that was possible.

  • Where the hell is the real Marcia???

  • @ronscott7

    ypu mean the real jan?

    marcia's there.

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  • Is that Cousin Oliver playing the duck?

  • Rick Dees segment of DISCO DUCK was excruciatingly bad. How did he have a hit single when he clearly couldn't carry a tune?

  • @MrPlum65 It was a novelty recored. Until the mid 80s, they were common enough to hit the top ten or in Dee's case, go all the way to #1. Remember Packman Fever from the 80s, or "Take Off"

  • This is horrible......the canned applause is bad too....

  • I remember this show but I don't remember it being this horrible!These people had no talent!!! This show would'nt make it on public access.

  • @1963TNT tell grewg crack is wack...get off it

  • Florence is HOT!

  • I love how fake Jan is the best singer out of all the Brady kids.

  • Is it just me or are they dancing like they're on cocaine? er...wait...it was the 70s nevermind.

  • lol I love how Rerun just showed them up. And then at the last bit, he says "Oh yeah White Fucka's.. Im dancing too, but i got alittle ball!"

  • the family with absolutely no talent.

  • @RangerRob2009 what th fuck,,,,

  • Turn the beat around, this show was fucking ridddicccculus

  • Horrid outfits.

  • I want to fuck Christopher Knight

  • What Brady girl had the tightest pussy?

  • Back when things were light hearted quirky corny and yes even dorky

    but they were all having a blast and in the end that is all that really matters

  • 1970s cheesiness, ugly costumes, mediocre to bad dancing and vocals at their very best!!!

  • Dear God, do you really hate us so much that you'd allow this show???

  • Mr Brady is gay

  • Fucking disco. Fucking Brady Bunch. What am I doing on this page?

  • fake jan just pisses me off...imagine how succulent and in her prime jan would be if she was in this

  • Look at fake Jan work her arms at 1:12

  • man Barry is Amazing <3 <3 ,<3 < 3

  • this is great i wish the shows they have today were this amazing :) they all suck!

  • @BarryWilliamsChick YEP THEY SUCK ... AND WHY DID GREG TRY TO DANCE AND SING A J5 CUT .. HE SOOO STIFF

  • @sierria64 Cuz He's so groovy anything he does is sexy!

  • 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.

  • @megafunk88 Maybe you should learn how to move a sofa, then you wouldn't have to worry about former child actors yelling at you. Your probably did need to pivot.

  • little Cindy is way hotter than Marcia by this point IMO.

  • @Hydrocram thats not Maureen McCormick as Marsha

  • what is the first song?!!

  • @soloconcoco3 Turn the Beat Around. Vicki Sue Robinson and Gloria Estafan have sung it. :)

  • OMG! And we used to watch this in the 70's!!!!

  • What in the world is this? This is not I repeat not funny. What in the world were those ducks doing and the cast of What;s Happening. This is just plain awful.

  • Re-Run is the best dancer in the world!

  • pure ,raw ,greasy...baby shit.....awful. i feel dirty after watching this,..

  • yeah, rocketman...I need a shower! YUCK! LOL

  • Thank you for sharing this! I haven't seen it since the time. In the new book on the show, it says that they toned down the glitter after the pilot, but you'd never guess it from this clip.

  • I quote Jerry Garcia: "Disco a disgusting form of music that white people can dance to".

  • 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!!

  • Wow. Just......wow.

  • Great video, 70s was the best!

  • wheres jan

  • Fantastic! Truly entertaining on so many levels.

  • I can't even... I can't....I...I...putrid on every f'ing level.

  • Rip Torn as a duck. GOLD. I have this on DVD and it's truly a kitch goldmine.

  • Rip...Taylor. Not Torn. Please don't insult lovable ol' Rip Taylor.

  • ooh why did I put torn.. speaking of Rip Taylor, him ripping of his toupee on super password was gold.

  • I had this show until the duck costumes.....there were people in those things! And they were in public! :O

  • You how how threre's that whole urban legend around the song Gloomy Sunday where someone commits suicide everytime it's played, well I'd believe that about this.

  • I feel so bad for the guy who played Mr. Brady. Throught the years on the show he was getting more and more miserable and now seeing him in this gay ass variety hour makes me feel really bad for him and all of the cast members (Including Eve, who had the guts to quit)

  • This was written by Bruce Vilanch, very GAY!

  • oh jesus. *cringe* oh my sweet jesus...What kind of Hell hath God wrought?

  • I read that the original lyrics of "Turn the Beat Around" were "Pairs of her slacks seem nice, love to hear percussion," but Vicky Sue Robinson said it was sexist and wouldn't sing it that way. She apologized, though, and everyone on the production team really warmed to her. Likewise the original lyrics of the Jacksons' "Enjoy Yourself" were "Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself with Lee," but they were afraid their cousin Lee Jackson might be offended.

  • gregg should have just tried to do the temptation step its fool proof .. get it fool proof .. boy he really thought that he was jamming......

    rerun was on point

  • This is perhaps the apex achievement of Western culture. I am obsessed with this clip. This was filmed at the Osmond Studio in Orem, UT, where the Donnie and Marie show was filmed. There is no live audience. The singing (or what passes for it) was recorded in advance and the performers just lip synch. Greg really seems to try hard to break out as a major performer, which is kind of cool in a way, but also sad. It's surprising, though, that Mr. Brady (in real life a gay man) can't sing or dance.