In class, we watched the 1972 episodes of "The Brady Bunch" Hawaii Bound. Growing up, I had heard a lot about the famous Brady Bunch from my parents but I myself had never actually watched it so this was a first time for me to see what the Brady Bunch was all about. I found that I enjoyed watching the episodes even though the plot was sort of ridiculous. However, it was a clean show and the humor of it all was quite the entertainment.
The episodes begin in the home of the Brady Bunch. Mike Brady, the husband and father of the family, is needed in Hawaii to check on a construction firm. Due to this, he declares to the family that they will all get to join him in his trip to Hawaii. While in Hawaii, the Brady family gets to participate in many activities on the islands. The episodes focus on the boys of the Brady bunch who stumble upon a so-called "tiki" necklace which ends up being a cultural curse placed upon the boys for messing around with it. Distraught by the continued series of unfortunate events and mishaps that befall the boys, they set out to break the curse and seek the wisdom of the islanders. When the Brady boys adventure to the burial grounds where they are required to abandon the tiki necklace properly, they encounter a "mad" professor who accuses the boys of wanting to claim the burial grounds as their own findings. Completely innocent, the boys are trapped for a space of time with this professor. In the end, Mike Brady comes to the rescue and finds the boys. It is then that he reassures the professor that his boys meant no harm and that the burial grounds would be credited to the professor himself and that Mike and his family would be witnesses of it. Satisfied, the professor lets them go, the tiki curse is lifted, and the Brady Bunch returns home from their Hawaii vacation happy.
It is a cute show, and I thought it was entertaining. A majority of it is pretty predictable. I'm not one who believes in curses or superstitions but it was a fun show over all and it did open my eyes more to the tiki culture that is around me of which I never really observed so much in my life before! All in all, cool! :)
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I find the tiki culture interesting and amusing at the same time. I didn't realize it until it was brought to my attention, but now I hear the dangerous drum sounds everytime I see a tiki in a show. I always saw the tiki as something that signified to respect the area or keep out of an area, but never really feared specific danger because of it, until now. The Brady Bunch tiki episode was cute and I agree that it was predictable as many Brady Bunch shows are, but it was one of the few shows in the tv series that had a sense of mystery to it. Rather than trying to get out of the usual child/adolescent problems that they usually spend the show figuring out, they actually had the viewer intrigued with idea that either this tiki was legitimately causing all the trouble, or our minds were getting the best of us.
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