Another Brady Bunch Life Lesson

Soon I'll be providing details about the new, expanded edition of my book When Television Brought Us Together, which has an official publication date of September 1. For the uninitiated, the book is about the classic TV era and how the country has changed since then, as well as the lessons the shows from this era taught us about living our best life in the real world.Every so often I see something that reminds me of how much our culture has changed since these shows first aired, and that happened again when I saw a Facebook post about the Brady Bunch episode “And Now a Word from Our Sponsor.” In this episode, as you may recall, the Brady family is grocery shopping when they are approached to appear in a commercial for Safe Detergent.It’s not one of my favorite episodes – the character of Skip Farnum (Paul Winchell), the beatnik director who stalks the family in a parking lot before inviting them to appear in the commercial, is an exaggerated eccentric that disrupts what is usually a…