The Brady Bunch Movie

Episode 90: The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)

Theme: Good Movies Based on TV Shows
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis dust off their co-ed naked T-shirts, crank up the Goonies references, and step into the aggressively wholesome, innuendo-filled chaos of The Brady Bunch Movie — the film that asks, “What if the 70s never ended, the 90s were deeply confused about it, and Mike Brady’s libido powered the entire grid?”

Join your two favorite step-dad adjacent podcasters as they break down:

• The Brady Family, recreated with casting so perfect it feels like the original actors got stuck in a time loop.

• Jan, whose inner monologue ranges from insecure teen to full demonic possession, complete with Taxi Driver-style street scenes and RuPaul diagnosing her with “girl, you better work.”

• Cindy, the cutest tattletale in film history, weaponizing her lisp like a tiny blonde court stenographer.

• Greg & Marcia, whose 70s charm bounces off the 90s like a lava lamp hitting a Limp Bizkit concert.

• Alice & Sam, whose meat-delivery romance is somehow both PG-rated and absolutely not.

• The Villain, Larry Ditmeyer, played by Michael McKeon with the slimy energy of a man who’d bulldoze an orphanage if someone whispered “shopping mall.”

And of course, the legendary Search for the Stars talent show, where the Bradys win $20,000 by performing the grooviest Osmonds-meet-Jackson-5 number ever witnessed by three confused Monkees.

From flattened noses to psychic CB radios to the single greatest Afro wig escape attempt in cinema, this movie walks the impossible tightrope between nostalgia parody and genuine sweetness — and never once drops the ball. Or the pork chops. Or apple sauce.

Final Verdict:

Oz — 7 suspiciously specific CB handles
Curtis — 3 out of 4 Monkees
Both — A very Brady time.

Next week: The boys wrap up the month with The Addams Family (1991), a movie where Raul Julia cooks, Angelica Huston smolders, and nobody’s mentally well — on purpose this time.