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The Brady Bunch Season 4 Episode 8

Jan, the Only Child

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AIRED: 11/10/72

Jan is fed up with the number of people in the household and voices her want to be an only child. So the other kids oblige and give her all the space she wants and she finds that she has more space than she needs or even wants when she begins to be excluded from the other kids' activities.moreless

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Jan's problems

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By apytko, Apr 05, 2012

At the beginning of this episode, I can see Jan's side of things. Her brothers and sisters were being very inconsiderate. I mean Peter was taking too long in the bathroom and when Jan was about to go in, Cindy just ran right past her into the bathroom! Marcia borrows Jan's bike WITHOUT asking first. While Jan was watching a movie, Greg and Bobby both walk in and turn on the baseball game without asking. Peter, Cindy, Marcia, Greg and Bobby were all being very rude to Jan. Mike says that you have to share a little when you live in a big family, which is true, but you also have to have to consideration for others. I'd like to tell Mike that if they lived in a bigger house with more bedrooms and bathrooms, perhaps Jan wouldn't be complaining. I mean 3 kids in 1 bedroom and 6 kids with only 1 bathroom? Not exactly easy living.moreless
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Another Typical Jan Episode

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By PinkBellBottoms, Jan 03, 2012

I was surprised that I actually enjoyed this episode. I'll put it this way: Jan is by no means my favorite Brady. Her episodes get on my nerves for her over emotional problems, but this one is pretty good. She makes a point by saying she has no privacy with five other brothers and sisters. Who would? One of my favorite parts in the episode is where Cindy tells Jan the truth about why everyone is being a little too nice to her. Jan becomes livid and orders all the kids into the boys' room. I prefer the episodes when the kids get mad at each other, instead of an adult, like the parents, Alice, or a teacher. The kids' reaction to her anger is pretty funny, though a little over the top with their screaming at her, telling her that they'll pretend to be invisible. That isn't going to backfire on Jan, is it? Well, of course it does. At the end Jan ruins their potato sack races and makes the other Brady kids let her join and not be invisible any more. Everyone learns their lesson and is so happy that they all decide to get in on the potato sack races. It never showed, but I think Peter won. He left everyone else far behind as soon they started. And of course, the episode ends as they come home from the rodeo and Carol makes another bad joke.moreless
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Robert Reed	Mike Brady
Florence Henderson	Carol Brady
Ann B. Davis	Alice Nelson
Maureen McCormick	Marcia Brady
Eve Plumb	Jan Brady
Susan Olsen	Cynthia "Cindy" Brady

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- This is the famous episode where all the Bradys, including Alice, line up in the backyard for a sack race. This scene is also parodied in "The Brady Bunch Movie."
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- Filmed on July 12, 1972.
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