Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Completely Conspicuous 277: Take Me to the Pilot

Part 2 of my conversation with guest Ric Dube as we dissect a not-so-classic episode of The Brady Bunch. Listen to the episode below or download it directly (right click and "save as").

Show notes:
- Recorded at More Lost Time world HQ
- Watch the episode along with us at the CompCon YouTube channel
- Season 5 of the Brady Bunch, episode aired in January 1974
- Brady Bunch producer uses the show to air a pilot for a spinoff
- Ken Berry is the "star"
- Berry was in Disney movies, F Troop, failed pilots, later Mama's Family
- Show's kind of a bummer
- Brady Bunch audience must have been annoyed by lack of Bradys
- Gotta love the racial platitudes
- Where are the blue kids?
- The mini-Warriors
- Berry teaches the kids the ol' soft shoe
- Snobby racist neighbor character
- Groovy Greg Brady makes an appearance
- Dube makes gratuitous Arkancilliopoulos reference
- Pilot was never picked up
- Norman Lear was doing cutting edge racial humor; this show, not so much
- Bonehead of the Week


Music:
The Gories - On the Run

King Khan - Strange Ways
Mind Spiders - They Lie

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The songs from the Gories, King Khan and the Mind Spiders are on the Adult Swim compilation Garage Swim. Download the entire compilation for free at AdultSwim.com.
 
The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

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