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Living with the Bradys, stuck in 1972

posted 8 years ago by Phil_Packer_1973
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If you could somehow magically go back in time and get transported to Brady World circa 1972 as a permanent guest in the Brady home would you? You would be treated as part of the family but would have access only to things that existed in 1972--so no cell phones, computers, internet, video games, etc. Time would never advance so it would forever be 1972. I would do it in a second!

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[–] Htos_Drol 8 years ago

ABSOLUTELY!!!!!

(they had booze in 1972, right?)

[–] hyperjet 8 years ago

Yes. And funny... I made an animated cartoon band that takes place in the 'groovy era' which is 1966-72. Wouldn't go a month beyond that loL.

[–] toycoon-too 8 years ago

I would be Cindy and Bobby's age so I wouldn't be able to drink. I think I pass on return to 1972.

[–] andersen_sister 8 years ago

I'd go too! Simpler times but happier ones.

[–] pd3145 8 years ago

I would hang out till 1974, skip the rest of the bad parts of the '70s, jump ahead and hang around for 1983-90 then to 1995-2000.

[–] metrocub 8 years ago

I would bring my iPad tablet, and I'd be wearing my Red Sox 2013 World Series Champions t-shirt.

[–] Jennie_Portrait 8 years ago

So-- I get to go back in time and be the age I am now, but living in the Brady House? Would I have my own room? Or would I get the attic? Would I be a freeloader or would I have a job?

I've already lived through 1972 and it wasn't that great. Really. Every single night was Vietnam. Everyone hated Nixon. The Munich Olympics were a bloody horror show. Women were treated like sh!t. We only had seven (!) TV channels.

Now if you amended your suggestion so time did not stand still and I could buy stock with the advance knowledge of which sectors would be successful --- and then return to 2016, well then I would do that. Also I could tell John Lennon to watch out on 12/8/80 so he wouldn't be shot. I could tell John Paul II to stay home on 5/13/81, so he wouldn't get shot. I could tell James Brady to keep Ronald Reagan home on 3/30/81 so they both wouldn't get shot.

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[–] Darren (1387) 4 years ago

Yep. People tend to remember the past with rose colored glasses, at least as regards their childhood (if they had a happy one). I was born at the very end of 1968, so was just a little too young to remember much of the year 1972. But I have very happy memories of the years shortly following that. But I was a kid, and had the innocence of kids -- and this was before helicopter parents became a thing, so my friends and I spent a lot of time out and about in our neighborhood. It was a happy time.

I'm sure for my parents it was different. Bills, work, the gas crisis of the 1970s, the malaise era, stagflation, etc. etc. As a kid, naturally most of that wasn't even on my radar. Yeah, if I had to go back and be a kid a again, 1972 would be fine. As an adult, I'm not so sure.

[–] chilidoggg (14439) 3 years ago

As the saying goes, "The Good Old Days... weren't."

I think the good old days sentiment comes from just wanting to be young again. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to be 28 again, but most things are better today.

[–] raymondoz2007 (2098) 2 years ago

Beaver in 59

[–] liscarkat (19031) 7 months ago

No time is perfect, but compared to 1972, most things today suck.

[–] marktayloruk (2558) 2 years ago

Nixon was reelected by a.landslide.

[–] marktayloruk (2558) a year ago

Nixon was reelected by a landslide. I wouldn't have liked to live in that household- too clean cut.

[–] Catnip86 8 years ago

Could I pick an age to be? If I lived with them, I'd love to be a teen, 16 - 17, junior or senior in high school.

[–] Owlnut73 8 years ago

Since I was actually born in late 1973, I would go back, wanting to be younger then Cindy, so I would get the baby of the family treatment.

[–] pioneergrrrl (2411) 3 years ago

No 3 kids in one room.