BEER Ch. 4 Brady Bunch

[Dave Monroe]

"'Hope you don't mind if we run a little short today, Brady Bunch
marathon, you understand ... ?'" (BE, Ch. 4, p. 31)


TAG Heuer

http://us.tagheuer.com/


"Brady Bunch marathon"

"It seems that Pynchon's sister Judith once taught at Suffolk
Community College and a colleague of [John Krafft, editor of Pynchon
Notes]'s actually dated her, and actually asked her, one time, 'What's
your brother likely to be doing right now?' and she said 'Watching The
Brady Bunch.' This, I learn, is a wholesome family sitcom which was
run and rerun throughout the Seventies, and it's Pynchon's favourite
show. So, Tom is just like you and me! He watches cruddy TV!"

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/bio/influences.html


"the three-part family trip to Hawaii"

The Brady Bunch: Season 4, Episode 1
Hawaii Bound (22 Sep. 1972)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0531098/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1JZpWweMQs

The Brady Bunch: Season 4, Episode 2
Pass the Tabu (29 Sep. 1972)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0531119/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ3y3KFfoaE

The Brady Bunch: Season 4, Episode 3
The Tiki Caves (6 Oct. 1972)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0531151/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN19P5XO8dQ

"Vincent Price's cameo"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bq5oOaaYRc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y0Yf2MpCuA


"more of a Jan-gets-a-wig person"

The Brady Bunch: Season 2, Episode 15
Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up? (15 Jan. 1971)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0531167/

Cf. ...

something about Jan gets a wig [IV, Cg. 17, p. 310]

This accurately describes an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "Will
the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" The episode first aired on
January 15, 197

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_17#Page_310

    "What kind of wig?"
    "Brunette, I think. She gets tired of being a blonde?"
    "Tell me about that. Still not the same as changing your politics,
I guess."

Here's the clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lg3OVrytOM

http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_4#Page_31

    Wig seller (Guest star Marcia Wallace): Ah, that’s our ‘Midnight
Temptress’ wig.
    Jan: ‘Midnight Temptress’, huh? Well, I don’t think I’ll be out that late.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Brady_Bunch#Will_the_Real_Jan_Brady_Please_Stand_Up.3F_.5B2.15.5D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOcDZaCeMAA

"'Interesting, Maxine. You want to, like, talk about it?'"
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