Gary Cole’s Brown-and-Green Leisure Suit in A Very Brady Sequel

Gary Cole as Mike Brady in A Very Brady Sequel (1996) Vitals Gary Cole as Mike Brady, architect and family man Los Angeles, Summer 1996 Film: A Very Brady Sequel Release Date: August 23, 1996 Director: Arlene Sanford Costume Designer: Rosanna Norton WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Earlier this summer, my corner of Twitter was briefly ablaze with people celebrating the adaptations of The Brady Bunch that hit big screens back to back in the ’90s, specifically the breakfast scene in A Very Brady Sequel where the insecure middle-child Jan (Jennifer Elise Cox) conceptualizes her made-up boyfriend over blueberry pancakes, only for her older sister Marcia (Christine Taylor) to shut it down with “that’s funny, I’ve never heard of a George Glass at our schœl,” as parents Mike (Gary Cole) and Carol (Shelley Long) look on—the latter pouring an approximate gallon of sugar into her coffee. The conceit of both The Brady Bunch Movie and the subsequent A Very Brady Sequel maintains the family’s…