03/10/2005
What Michael Jackson Learned from The Brady Bunch
I'm not saying anything about the guilt or innocence of the gloved one, but does today's Santa Maria Court incident, in which Michael Jackson arrived in his pajamas with a bad back remind anyone of a certain episode of The Brady Bunch where Mr. Duggan faked a neck injury in court to get out of the damages he caused to Carol Brady's car, and Mike Brady heroically tossed his briefcase on the floor to prove the neck brace was a fake?
Posted 3:28 PM EST by Andy Towle in Film & TV | Permalink
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I wouldn't say "heroically" as much as I'd say "contrivantly".
But I thought of that episode just yesterday in law school class for some reason.
Posted by: Schroeder | Mar 10, 2005 3:37:51 PM
Hahahaha! You're so right!
Posted by: trent | Mar 10, 2005 3:52:36 PM
The amazing thing is not that you remembered the episode, but that you could recall that the character's name was Mr. Duggan. I'm impressed, and a little scared.
Posted by: aaron | Mar 10, 2005 4:10:42 PM
Not to mention the episode of Ally McBeal where she runs into a cute guy on purpose, but he has a hyena-like laugh, so she dumps him and in retaliation he (briefly) turns up in a fake neck brace ready to sue her.
Posted by: Toby | Mar 10, 2005 6:10:47 PM
One of my favorite episodes. I thought Mr. Brady was just so cool in this one.
Michael Jackson's demonstration of cowardice today has made my already enormous loathing of him even deeper.
Posted by: WeHo Mark | Mar 10, 2005 7:13:32 PM
The hell with casual Fridays! Bloggers unite! Lets push Michael Jackson fridays and we all go to work in our pajamas (most of us will have buy pajamas but it's worth it.) I'm posting notice of the campaign on my blog right now.
Posted by: Richard | Mar 10, 2005 7:19:47 PM
Andy, You are old!!! Hehehe!!
Posted by: Michael | Mar 10, 2005 7:43:46 PM
"Mr. Brady died of AIDS" -- Ben Stiller's Reality Bites
Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Mar 10, 2005 8:16:29 PM
I keep wondering where is Michaels PR team? Once again he proves to be out of his mind. How hard is it to go get someone to bring a change of attire. I mean to show up at a child molestation case wearing PJs, yikes.
Posted by: Michael | Mar 11, 2005 12:31:11 AM
andy, do you write for the daily show? jon stewart made the same brady comparison last night! spooky!
Posted by: billy | Mar 11, 2005 6:04:19 AM
no, but I'd love to write for him....maybe he reads the site billy. :-) Actually, it seems like a pretty obvious parallel to me...
Posted by: andy | Mar 11, 2005 7:29:20 AM
did anyone else catch a glimpse of the video of michael coming into court after going to the hospital for his back and he turns rather to glance at his admirers
that turn looked difficult for someone to do with "back pain"
Posted by: kuros | Mar 11, 2005 4:49:13 PM
These delaying tactics are not helping Michael any. He is looking guiltier everyday.
Posted by: gabe | Mar 12, 2005 7:59:26 PM