Original subtitles

♪ Here's the story ♪

♪ Of a lovely lady ♪

♪ Who was bringing up ♪

♪ Three very lovely girls ♪

♪ All of them had hair of gold ♪

♪ Like their mother ♪

♪ The youngest one in curls ♪

♪ It's the story of a man named Brady ♪

♪ Who was busy with three boys of his own ♪

♪ They were four men living all together ♪

♪ Yet they were all alone ♪

♪ Till the one day when ♪

♪ The lady met this fellow ♪

♪ And they knew that it was ♪

♪ Much more than a hunch ♪

♪ That this group must ♪

♪ Somehow form a family ♪

♪ That's the way we all ♪

♪ Became the Brady Bunch ♪

♪ The Brady Bunch ♪

♪ The Brady Bunch ♪

♪ That's the way we became ♪

♪ The Brady Bunch. ♪

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Get it, get it!

Get that out of here.

GREG: Come on, Peter.

( shouting and laughing )

GREG: Come on, Peter. Go!

You know something?

Your kids were our inspiration.

Your inspiration?

Mm-hmm.

After those talks with you and Mike...

Well...

Look.

Oh, Mike, look.

Isn't he cute? Yeah.

WOMAN: That's Matt.

Matt?

He's eight years old and all ours.

After tomorrow, he's our son.

Your son? Yeah.

That's wonderful. Congratulations.

Thank you. Hey, that's why

you got the bigger house.

Yeah. We didn't want to say anything

until after all the adoption papers were final.

Oh, you're going to love being parents.

It is so much fun watching them grow,

seeing them learn, sharing their love.

( children shouting )

Hey! Hey, where's the...?

Bobby! Basket!

Basket, on the table!

( Jan shrieks amidst shouting )

Like I said,

they've given us nothing but delight...

And a little bit of high blood pressure.

( shouting continues )

No fair.

Kids! Hey!

Hey!

What?

Hold it down to a small roar, huh?

Oh.

( chuckling )

Oh, he is such a cute little boy.

Oh, he's sweet, he's bright, he's open.

He's adorable.

And he's housebroken-- which is more

than you can say for your kids

when you got them.

Wow!

Wow!

Wow!

This is the best room in the whole world.

Wow!

Not just toys--

you've got a lot more than that, son.

Yeah...

Racing cars.

Real racing cars.

A-and a real father and a real mother.

There are lots of crayons in the desk?

I love to draw.

I'm going to be an artist

and a baseball player

and a fireman

and a cowboy and an astronaut...

How about a nuclear scientist?

Okay.

Oh, okay.

( chuckles )

Oh, it's been a long, hard day.

For him or for us?

For all of us, I think.

He should be asleep in no time at all.

Do I have to go to sleep?

You guessed it.

Okay, off to bed now. Come on.

God bless Mr. and Mrs. Kelly...

I mean, Mom and Dad...

Miss Phillips...

that's the lady at the home...

Dwayne and Steve-- they're my two best pals...

and Joe and Julie and Hope...

and Wendy and Paul and Margaret and Randy

and Barbara and Jeannie

and Tommy...

Is that all the children?

No. I left out Karen Martin.

She bit me once.

Oh, well, that explains that.

Into bed.

Yeah. Come on. In you go.

( rings doorbell )

Well, good evening, Mr. Kelly.

Oh, Mrs. Payne.

Uh, Mr. Kelly, I'll come right to the point.

When you moved in next door

Mr. Payne and I didn't realize that you had children.

As a matter of fact, we didn't.

Matt just joined our family today.

Oh...

an adopted child.

Yes, an adopted child.

Oh. Well, be that as it may,

Mr. Payne and I don't have children

and we like to keep our home neat.

Boys trample flowers, break windows

and write on walls-- sometimes dreadful things.

I don't think you have anything

to worry about, Mrs. Payne.

Well, I hope not.

Our houses are rather close together.

Oh, by the way, Mr. Kelly,

I understand that you're in, uh...

show business.

I do a nightclub act.

Well...

I suppose someone must.

He finally fell asleep.

Right, yeah.

I can hardly wait to tell Ken about it.

Okay, bye-bye.

What? Tell me what?

That was Carol Brady on the phone,

and I was telling her about how lonesome Matt was,

and we came up with an absolutely terrific idea.

Yeah, what is it? It's really great.

I know it's great.

I also know it's terrific.

There's only one thing I don't know: What is it?

Oh, didn't I tell...?

Oh, sorry.

Carol said the reason

the Brady kids are never lonesome is

because there's always another kid around.

Oh, I think I know "What is it?".

Adopt another kid?

Right! Right!

It should be much easier this time.

I mean, we've been through all of that red tape with Matt.

We filled out all of those forms and everything.

Well, it'll cost more to raise two kids than one, you know.

Of course, we could put another bed in Matt's room.

Uh...

Yeah, honey, we can manage.

Oh! Fantastic!

Fantastic!

But I don't think we should do it right away.

Well, when?

Oh, not until tomorrow.

Mr. And Mrs. Kelly!

Hi, Miss Phillips. Hi, Miss Phillips.

How's Matthew?

Oh, he's just fine.

Yes, we left him with the Bradys,

some neighbors of ours, while we came down to see you.

Uh, sit down. Thank you.

Say, did I ever show you

this paperweight that Matt made for me?

I am ready for a hurricane.

( laughing )

He's quite a boy, Matt.

Yeah, he sure is.

Uh... do you have another one like him?

Another one like...?

See, we thought it would be a good idea

if Matthew had a brother.

Well.

Uh, he keeps talking about two boys

who seem to be special friends of his.

Dwayne and Steve.

Dwayne and Steve, this is Mr. and Mrs. Kelly.

Hi. Hi.

Hello, Dwayne. Hello, Steve.

Hi.

Well, uh, you're both

good friends of Matt's, aren't you?

Yeah. Matt's a real nice guy.

I see.

( children shouting )

I didn't do that.

Give it to me!

Uh, excuse me.

A definite war is about to begin.

Right.

Matt got adopted yesterday.

He was real lucky.

Most people like to adopt little babies.

It's harder for us big guys.

Yeah.

Well, we didn't mean

to interrupt your painting.

Well, we'll be running along now.

Bye. Bye.

Bye-bye. Let's go.

( shouting continues )

Then we came right over here to talk this over with you.

We thought that you'd be able

to give us advice better than anybody else.

MR. KELLY: Now, the fact that Dwayne

is black and Steve is Oriental

surprised us a little bit at first,

but what difference does that really make?

MRS. KELLY: After all, a boy is a boy is a boy,

whether he's white or black or yellow or blue.

Well, I... MR. KELLY: Oh, I know it'll

present certain problems, but everything

in life presents certain problems, right?

Oh, right. I think... That's for sure.

The biggest problem is trying to decide

between Dwayne and Steve. They're both such fine boys.

MR. KELLY: That's when we started

talking about adopting both of them.

Instead of putting two beds in the room, we'd just put

three beds in the room, that's all.

MRS. KELLY: Raising three boys can't be much more

difficult than raising two boys.

If anybody knows the answer to that one, you do.

Well, yeah, I guess...

I mean, in a way, you adopted three boys,

and you adopted three girls.

Yes, we did.

That's why we know

exactly what you would do

if you were in our place.

You'd adopt both Dwayne and Steve, right?

MRS. KELLY: Right. So we've decided

to follow your advice.

Thanks so much for talking this over with us.

Oh, I'm so glad we could be of help.

Oh. Oh, uh, may we leave Matt here

while we go over and make the arrangements

for the two boys?

Of course. Oh, sure.

Thanks again.

Oh, good luck. Thank you. Bye-bye.

Bye. It's really nothing. It's...

You suppose we were like that?

I guess, probably.

( Mrs. Kelly whistling )

( humming )

Oops, we have the fork on the left

and knives and spoons on the right.

I forgot.

Oh, well, you can't learn everything in a week.

Hey, there's too many plates, Mom.

Mm, five.

There's only three of us.

Uh, your dad's bringing home a couple of old friends today.

Oh. MR. KELLY: Hello?

Oh, hi, honey.

Why don't you see who he has with him?

STEVE: Matt!

Dwayne! Steve!

( all cheering )

What are you guys doing here?

We're going to live here.

Mr. Kelly's adopting us, too.

We're going to be brothers.

Brothers?

Yeah!

( kids cheering )

You're back together again, the Three Musketeers.

( cheering, talking )

Hey, Musketeers-- anybody hungry?

Oh, boy!

Come on.

( boys talking and laughing )

Oh! Oh, yeah!

( indistinct voices )

( indistinct voices )

Hey! How come you get that bed?

You guys take the bunks. This one's mine.

How come this one is yours?

I've been sleeping in it all week.

We ought to take turns.

Yeah!

This bed is mine!

Let's get him.

Yeah.

Hey!

Take advantage, you know.

( shouting, laughing )

Hey, hey! Hey, what's going on?

Come on, somebody's going to get... hurt.

All right, so that's the way it is, huh?

I haven't...

I haven't got three little boys!

I've got four little boys!

( phone ringing ) Ooh, ooh!

I'll get the phone.

Put them to bed, okay?

Okay, okay. Oh....

( kids protesting )

No, no, no.

I'm sorry, guys. It's time for...

You're going back to bed.

BOYS: No!

Everything's fine, Carol.

Mrs. Phillips waived the usual waiting period

and the boys are with us now.

Oh, Cathy, I'm so glad.

Yeah. Oh, they've been absolute angels.

I can hardly wait for Monday

when I take those three to school to register them.

What an assortment.

( giggles )

Yeah, the Kelly rainbow.

Okay, troops, now I'm going to show you one more time

and then we'll all do it together, okay?

All right, now, it starts with a soft-shoe step.

( humming )

...and the paddle turn.

( humming )

Now you remember the cane trick I showed you?

Eh... the slide. Now, the big finish.

♪ Lump, thump, thump, thump... ♪

( rolls tongue )

...and the hat! Okay?

Okay. Want to try it together?

You ready? Okay.

This is easy. All right, here we go.

And the soft shoe, and...

( humming )

Now, paddle turn.

Good, good, good, good!

Now the cane trick.

Right. And the slide.

Now the big finish.

Okay, pick it up, Matt. Let's go for the big finish.

♪ Whomp, bomp... ♪

♪ Bomp, bomp, bomp ♪

And the hat! Boom!

Good, good! Hey!

You're doing great, doing great.

Let me get back here, where I can watch you.

Let's try it one more time.

Okay? And the soft-shoe.

And...

( humming )

And then to the right.

Now, the paddle turn...

Oh.

Hi.

We were just, uh...

getting ready for bed, right, guys?

Yeah. Uh-huh.

Yeah, Dad. Sure, Dad.

Good night.

Good night. Good night.

Uh, big finish, huh?

Well, I...

( rings bell )

Oh, hi.

Uh, Mr. Kelly, I see you now have several children.

Three altogether.

Of various colors, one might say.

You just did.

Mind you, I'm not a bigot.

I believe that blacks, yellows,

everybody has a place in our society.

Why, Mr. Payne and I even manage to be cordial

to the Shapiros on the next block.

That's various generous of you.

Well, we try.

Nevertheless, three small boys

are apt to be destructive...

especially the minorities.

Congratulations, Mrs. Payne.

You have my vote for Neighbor of the Year.

I consider that remark uncalled for.

If nobody calls for it in 30 days, it's all yours, baby.

Ken, you're right.

That woman is absolutely impossible.

Honey, you shouldn't have gone over there

to try to reason with her.

She makes Archie Bunker sound like a liberal.

I'm thirsty. I'm going to get some milk.

You better not, or you'll have

an accident during the night.

What do you care if I have an accident?

You sleep right up there.

Come on, you get a drink, too.

Okay.

Just be happy she isn't twins.

She could be living on both sides of us.

Ken, I just can't forget those terrible things she said

about Dwayne and Stevie.

Believe me, she's going to give us nothing but trouble

because of those two little boys.

MR. KELLY: That's for sure.

If she could, she'd buy this house

and kick us out of here.

She already told me that she was going to try

and keep me out of the PTA.

And I know she's going to have Mr. Payne

try and keep you out of the Optimist's Club

and any other organization.

MR. KELLY: Well,

I hated to be rude to a lady,

but on the other hand...

BOTH: She's no lady... right.

Well, I already told her what I thought of her.

Nobody is going to interfere

with Dwayne and Steve if I can help it.

Attagirl.

Right.

Mrs. Payne or no Mrs. Payne

we're going to make those boys happy.

Right.

Did you write how much we like it here?

I wrote it.

Did you write how much

we hate to cause them trouble?

I wrote it.

Did you write how much...

I wrote it. I wrote everything.

I'm just signing my name now.

Okay, then I'll sign mine.

Shh.

( lid thumps )

BOTH: Shh.

Hey, where are you guys going?

Away.

Shh.

How come?

We're too much trouble.

Mrs. Payne is going to get Mr. Kelly kicked out of here.

STEVE: And she's going to get Mrs. Kelly

kicked out of the PTA.

And Mr. Payne won't let Dad become an optometrist.

If you guys are going, I'm going with you.

You're not causing any trouble.

They said Dwayne and Steve.

We're the Three Musketeers.

"One for all and all for one."

Hey.

Hey.

Who are you guys?

I'm Matt.

I'm Dwayne.

I'm Steve.

We're brothers.

Brothers?

Since 5:00.

Oh, you must be the Kelly kids.

Hey, what are you doing here?

We're running away.

And we didn't know where to go.

I was here before.

You've got so many kids

I figured maybe nobody'd notice us.

Well, don't you like Mr. and Mrs. Kelly?

We like them a lot.

We love them.

That's why Dwayne and me are running away.

And I'm helping them.

Hey, it's getting kind of late.

Why don't you come in the house with me?

More hot chocolate?

Yeah, I'd like some more.

Boy, he drinks all the time.

So what? You've got nothing to worry about now.

You guys don't, by any chance, sleep in bunk beds, do you?

Yeah.

( chuckling )

Where you guys heading?

Oh, I don't know.

Maybe out West.

We are out West.

Maybe out East.

Wherever you go, you better send an address.

I think Mr. and Mrs. Kelly would like to keep in touch.

I know they're quite interested

in knowing where you are.

( sighing )

Thank you.

Do you know how worried we were about you guys?

Don't you ever do it again.

BOYS: No.

Well, plenty, that's how much.

We had no idea...

How'd do you find us?

That's not important.

What is important is for us to stick together.

But, Mrs. Payne said...

We don't care what Mrs. Payne said.

We care about you.

You're our family.

We want you boys to grow up with parents.

And we want to grow up with children.

We'd love that, but we didn't want to cause any more trouble.

That's why Dwayne and me left.

And I went with them, 'cause we're the Three Musketeers.

Well, you're wrong about that. You're not the Three Musketeers.

Huh?

We're not?

No, you're not.

We are the Five Musketeers.

Right?

Yeah, yeah.

Excuse me, folks, I thought I heard...

a noi...

Now, you two may be Mr. and Mrs. Brady,

but you three are definitely not Greg, Peter and Bobby.

( chuckles ) Hi, Alice.

( chuckles )

Matthew, Dwayne and Stevie.

Hi, Alice.

Hi. Hi.

Hi, kids.

We're sorry we woke you.

Yeah, we were just passing through.

Passing through?

Right, on our way home.

Yeah. Come on, boys.

Bye, Alice. Bye, Alice.

We're going home.

Get some sleep.

The boys get such a big kick

out of visiting here.

Well, that's what neighbors are for.

Oh, by the way, we want to thank you

for sending the kids this book.

I guess you knew The Three Musketeers

would make a very big hit.

Well, it wasn't hard to figure out.

How come you brought it back?

Oh, we wanted to show you

what they've done with it.

What do you mean?

They said they had to fix it.

( all chuckle )

Hey, that's great.

( laughing )

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