15 Surprising Facts About the Brady Bunch

7. Carol Brady Was Maybe a Divorcee

Divorce was still taboo when The Brady Bunch aired, so while it was clear that Mike was a widower it was a little more hazy what had happened to Carol’s ex. However Sherwood Schwartz has shared multiple times that she was in fact supposed to be a divorcee.

8. Love Was in the Air

Barry Williams and Maureen McCormick, who played Greg and Marcia, had their first kiss in Hawaii where the show was filming at the time. During one episode where they were sitting on a bed arguing they kept getting too close together and the director had to instruct them to keep their fists between them to force some distance. This step-sibling sexual tension was made fun of in The Brady Bunch Movie that came out in 1995.

9. There Was No Toilet in the Bathroom

There was only one bathroom in the Brady house, and it didn’t have a real toilet in it. There were some rules about showing toilets (or not) on air back then, so they figured they’d not put one in at all. Bet you never noticed!