Vince Vaughn Rebooting the Brady Bunch for the Twenty-First Century

The Brady Bunch is one of those shows whose appeal is lost to me. I mean, I get it. It just wasn't of my generation. I caught the reruns, played on Nick-at-Nite, TV Land, even VH1 (with an accompanying Pop-Up-Video version of every episode). But it always played too syrupy-sweet for me, and I liked a lot of crap as a kid!

The Brady Bunch Movie, on the other hand, is pretty ingenious. Plays up the cornball out-dated 70s-ness of the series in the mid-90s when grunge was hanging by its last, flannel thread. It's a comedy made by people in on the joke. Then they did a couple of sequels but damned if I watched him.

Well Vince Vaughn, his feet wet off Sullivan & Son, the TBS sitcom that looks like it was pulled straight out of the 80s (not a compliment), and CBS are gearing up for TV reboot. Mike Mariano (writer/producer on My Name is Earl and Raising Hope) is writing the pilot and there are some tweaks planned to update the Bradys, like having Mike and Carol Brady's exes around and them having a child together.

You all know the theme-song so I won't embed it below. What I will do however is a half-assed defense of the idea – in other words the "It could have been worse!" defense. In the early 90s after a couple of TV reunion movies did big numbers, CBS got the idea with baby-boomers entering their 40s and shows like Thirtysomething hot, why not a dramatic series about the Bradys called, wait for it, The Bradys?

Just watch the below (The opening credits but it perfectly sums up the wrongness of it all), and be amazed that people in authority, and paid millions of dollars annually, thought a drama about the Brady Bunch, featuring a laugh-track...for some reason, was a swell idea.