the list of 9 for november 2, 2005:
THE NINE DREAMS OF BOBBY BRADY
This list isn't entirely meant as a joke. Truth is, I've been a fan of "The Brady Bunch" eversince I was a kid, subjected to at least three episodes a day on San Francisco's KBHK, channel 44.I can safely say I've seen every single episode of this goofily charming - if stupid - sitcom atleast five times apiece. (What a waste of a good childhood.) And it was over "The Brady Bunch"that my wife Miki and I first bonded. So in one of our many wandering conversations abouttelevision trivia, the question "How many dream sequences did [chronic nocturnal fantasist] BobbyBrady actually have?" The answer, interpreted loosely, is nine.
- JOE NAMATH. (Episode 97, "Mail Order Hero") At thebeginning of this episode, Bobby has a vivid dream in which he is playing football with his hero,Joe Namath. He leaps 20 feet in the air to catch Namath's pass. (Later on, thanks to his sisterCindy's act of deception, he winds up playing with Namath for reals.)
- POOL SHARK. (Episode 114, "The Hustler") Bobby likes his family's new pool table so much that he dreams about becoming the greatest pool player in the world.
- JESSE JAMES. (Episode 87, "Bobby's Hero") After writing an essay about how cool legendary outlaw Jesse James was, Bobby has a nightmare about James murdering all the Bradys aboard a train. Easily the darkest "Brady Bunch" episode ever.
- PLAYING BASEBALL. (Episode 46, "The Winner") In thisepisode, Bobby's all sad because he's the only Brady kid without a trophy. So he has a series ofdreams in which he's winning all kinds of things. It kicks off with him hitting a home run for theLos Angeles Dodgers.
- SKI JUMPING. (Episode 46, "The Winner") The second in thisextended dream sequence, where Bobby flies high and scores Olympic gold.
- SPEEDBOAT RACING. (Episode 46, "The Winner") The finaldream in this episode. There's been some confusion over whether Bobby was racing a car or a boat,but I have it on good authority that it was a boat.
- KAPLUTIANS. (Episode 110, "Out of This World") Arguablythe most famous "Brady Bunch" dream sequence, here Bobby meets two little silver-suited aliens called"Kaplutians" after believing, in waking life, brother Greg's practical joke that a UFO has beenvisiting the Brady household.
- MILLICENT. (Episode 99, "Never Too Young") This is wherethe "interpreted loosely" comes in, as this time Bobby has a daydream - inspired by "Romeo& Juliet" - about running in a field and embracing a girl named Millicent, who had recently kissed him in real life.
- A DREAM/FLASHBACK MARATHON. I was really bummed that Icouldn't name a ninth dream from "The Brady Bunch," but Wendy Winans, a woman who knows everything there is to know about thisfictional family, assured me that in the short-lived 80's series "The Bradys," a now-adultBobby, lying in the hospital after a car crash (he's become a race car driver!), dreams aboutnumerous events from his childhood (i.e. the original "Brady Bunch" episodes) as well as re-livingthe crash. Even though I've never seen this show, I'll take Wendy's word for it.
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