15 Surprising Facts About the Brady Bunch

4. Cindy’s Lisp Was Real

The actress who played Cindy, Susan Olsen, really has a lisp so they wrote it into the show. She took speech therapy until the age of 19 and eventually had minor surgery to correct it.

5. They Initially Cast a Different Mrs. Brady

The first Mrs. Brady was to be played by the comedic actress Joyce Bulifant, but when Ann B. Davis signed on to play Alice there was too much wacky comedy going on. They then hired Florence Henderson to play a more straight maternal character instead. Joyce went on to play Murray’s wife on the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

6. But She Wasn’t In the First Six Episodes

When Florence got the call and the news that she had been cast in the show, she was filming a movie in Denmark. So they started shooting scenes without her and then she jumped in once she returned.