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The Brady Bunch is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC. The series revolves around a large blended family with six children.

References to The Brady Bunch in The Simpsons[edit]

Episodes[edit]

Season	Episode number	Episode name	Reference
7	131	"Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily"	Couch gag: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Grampa, Santa's Little Helper, and Snowball II are in a nine-square grid as seen in the opening credits of The Brady Bunch.
7	144	"Lisa the Iconoclast"	Couch gag: repeat of 3F01's gag.
8	177	"The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase"	The show is a parody of The Brady Bunch Hour, which was cancelled after nine episodes in 1976. Lisa refusing to participate and being replace with a new actress was a reference to Geri Reischl who replaced Eve Plumb as Jan Brady in The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, earning her the nickname "Fake Jan" because Plumb, focused on a serious acting career, had declined to participate in the show's longer commitment.
12	249	"Treehouse of Horror XI"	The witch in the "Scary Tales Can Come True" segment claims to have a boyfriend named George Cauldron. This is a reference to the episode "The Not-So-Ugly Duckling" (1970), where Jan Brady has a make-believe boyfriend named George Glass. However George Cauldron, unlike George Glass, turns out to be a real person and not just a made-up name.
13	286	"Gump Roast"	Joe Namath shows up in the Simpsons' backyard to talk to Bart about football; he did the same thing with Bobby in a "Brady Bunch" episode.
15	249	"The Regina Monologues"	The first act plot — where Bart happens upon a $1,000 bill and Marge subsequently tells him to advertise for its rightful owner — is inspired by the 1970 episode "The Treasure of Sierra Avenue."
19	412	"Love, Springfieldian Style"	The third segment, when introducing the story, Bart mentions The Brady Bunch.
20	431	"How the Test Was Won"	Couch gag: The Simpsons as the Bradys. Lisa gets hit in the nose by a football, a reference to one of the sitcom's most iconic scenes in which Marcia Brady gets hit by a football and eventually loses a date with a boy.
20	441	"Coming to Homerica"	Couch gag: repeat of LABF02's couch gag.
23	498	"Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"	Couch gag: repeat of LABF02's couch gag.
27	591	"The Burns Cage"	Milhouse names Miss Brady and Greg in a list of co-star couples who fell in love.
30	660	"D'oh Canada"	Couch gag: repeat of LABF02's couch gag.
36	769	"Bart's Birthday"	According to host Conan O'Brien, one of the shows an artificial intelligence device used to write this entire episode was The Brady Bunch.

Comics[edit]

Picture	Comic issue	Story name	Reference
	Simpsons Comics #15	A Trip to Simpsons Mountain	Bart is correct in that Abe's story incorporated multiple TV references, including The Brady Bunch: At one point, the characters sans Young Abe are dressed in a late 60s-early 70s style ala the Bradys, Young Abe is called Greg, a woman resembling the Bradys' housekeeper Alice appears with a tray of fishsticks and jello, and Lisa-Marie gets hit in the nose by a football ala Marcia Brady.
	Simpsons Comics #130	Marge the Sellout	Homer claimed to be keeping his old TV Guide issues for the crosswords. Marge then looked at one and said that the only clue Homer had filled in was "The Brady (Blank)", and he had filled in the spaces with a drawing of a race car.

Books[edit]

Picture	Book	Reference
	The Ralph Wiggum Book	The Bundy Bunch on "Ralph's Gotta-See TV Line-Up" is a parody of The Brady Bunch.

Common cast and crew[edit]

Cast[edit]

Name	Role in The Brady Bunch	Role on The Simpsons
June Foray	Played Sandra in "A Clubhouse Is Not a Home".	Voiced the receptionist for the Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers Babysitting Service in the Season 1 episode "Some Enchanted Evening".
Joe Namath	Played himself in "Mail Order Hero".	Voiced himself in "Bart Star" and "Four Regrettings and a Funeral".
Marcia Wallace	Played Mrs. Robbins "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" and "Getting Davy Jones".	Voice of Edna Krabappel.

External links[edit]

The Brady Bunch at Wikipedia

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