The Brady Bunch Actors Reunite on the Chocolate Expo, Share Set Reminiscences

The Brady Bunch’s Barry Williams, Mike Lookinland and Susan Olsen had a candy reunion this weekend at The Chocolate Expo in New Jersey. As a part of the occasion’s leisure lineup, the actors reunited throughout panel discussions on Saturday, March 29, and Sunday, March 30, on the New Jersey Expo Middle in Edison. 

Williams, Lookinland and Olsen performed Greg, Bobby and Cindy Brady, respectively. Their present ran for 5 seasons from 1969 to 1974. Though the final authentic episode of the sequence aired greater than 50 years in the past, audiences of all generations proceed to attach with the Brady household. 

In an Instagram video from the occasion shared by @thejerseymomma and @njparenting, Williams spoke to the “function” that sequence creator Sherwood Schwartz had with the sequence.

“That’s, how do folks get together with each other? How can we resolve points collectively?” he stated. “And we stated it in form of trite methods, ‘All for one, one for all,’ and that is actually what we meant. As I take a look at the physique of 5 years of exhibits, we see that with our siblings — who we by no means check with as steps, it was by no means my stepsister or stepmom, instantly it was sister — we have been all in it collectively. Every time we completed an episode I felt higher than once I began. And that was the purpose. That’s what the present is meant to be, that’s what the model of the present was, as a mannequin.”

Butch Patrick, 71, who performed Eddie Munster on The Munsters, was additionally available to share reminiscences and greet followers by the weekend.

“We get to say ‘howdy’ to a lot of our viewers from through the years,” Williams, 70, instructed My Central Jersey earlier than the occasion. “And now we’ve dad and mom and grandparents bringing their youngsters and grandkids.” 

“Being a Brady child is a badge of honor,” Williams added. “It’s been an exquisite trip, and continues to be so.” 

Because the present wrapped, the celebrities have maintained their relationships off-camera. 

“We’re all nonetheless pleasant and get collectively − I feel it is enjoyable for us to all get collectively, which we do,” Williams stated of his TV siblings. “A few of them I like higher than my family … The chemistry — which you’ll’t pretend — is real.” 

That chemistry is ever-present on The Actual Brady Bros podcast. The present, hosted by Williams and Christopher Knight who performed Peter, is an episodic breakdown of the enduring sequence. Throughout the March 25 episode, the hosts answered listener questions, together with one concerning the “scenes with the milk and cookies.”

A listener requested: “Was any of that even edible? Additionally, with the quantity of milk poured in every glass, what number of vats of milk was within the fridge at one time?”

Williams defined that the kitchen’s fridge on set labored, however they didn’t retailer the milk there. As an alternative, solely a half or full gallon can be positioned within the fridge throughout shoots. Knight, 67, defined the prop grasp saved “vats of milk” in one other fridge off-camera. 

As for the cookies, Williams stated, “They have been contemporary, or at the least they began out that manner. The meals was okay, however the calls for of the capturing schedule, typically it would be out too lengthy. Typically it will get scorching. Typically there can be mud round. So it was not probably the most fascinating atmosphere inside which to eat, however the meals was good.”

And Knight stated as youngsters, “You are probably not desirous about filth and germs and stuff. And should you’re hungry, like me, you were not discerning in any respect. You simply ate every part … I did not care a lot that they sprayed it with bug spray or dulling spray or whatnot. I would nonetheless eat it.”

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The final time a bunch of Brady youngsters acquired collectively in public was final November on NBC’s Immediately present. Williams and Knight have been joined by Eve Plumb — who performed Jan — to advertise a Brady Bunch sweepstakes to profit No Child Hungry. The Brady Expertise takes winners by the house used for exterior pictures on the present. Inside, the home was renovated to copy the Bradys’ dwelling throughout a 2019 HGTV actuality present starring the Brady Bunch forged.

The unique sequence additionally starred Maureen McCormick as eldest sister Marcia, plus the late Florence Henderson and Robert Reed as dad and mom Carol and Mike Brady, plus the late Ann B. Davis as beloved household housekeeper Alice.

Williams, Olsen and Lookinland will subsequent seem at The Chocolate Expo in Lengthy Island, N.Y., on Might 4, the place they will be joined by Knight.