This week on Filmation Spotlight, we bravely subject ourselves to The Brady Kids, the animated Saturday morning cartoon that asked the terrifying question: “What if The Brady Bunch had magic birds, talking animals, time travel, secret treasure, superhero nonsense, and absolutely no reason to exist?”
And somehow… it’s even stranger than that sounds.
We went into this expecting some harmless 1970s cartoon weirdness. What we got was a bizarre, exhausting, aggressively odd animated spin-off where the Brady children wander through plots that feel like they were written during a lunch break by someone who had only vaguely heard of television. There’s a talking bird. There are random adventures. There are songs. There are baffling choices. And there is the slow, dawning realization that this show was going to make us earn every minute.
Was The Brady Kids charmingly weird? Accidentally surreal? Painfully bad? A historical curiosity? A cry for help in cartoon form?
Yes.
Join us as we dig into one of Filmation’s strangest creations, discuss why this show is so hard to sit through, and try to understand how America looked at The Brady Bunch and said, “Great, now make them animated and give them a wizard bird.”
🔥 In this episode:
🎬 The bizarre world of The Brady Kids
📺 How The Brady Bunch became a Saturday morning cartoon
🦜 The deeply strange addition of talking animals
🎶 Songs, nonsense, and cartoon chaos
😵 Why this one was so hard to get through
🤔 Whether this is bad… or just aggressively weird
If you love retro cartoons, Filmation weirdness, bad TV, Saturday morning nostalgia, or watching us slowly lose our will to continue, this episode is for you.
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