to go as crazy as you want to go. uncle charlie: i think that shirt's done. robbie: oh my gosh my shirt! steven: well, robbie you'll just have to wear your pants higher. patrick gomez: in the 60s, you see the sitcom move away from telling stories that are solely focussed on the nuclear, suburban family. jim colucci: divorce had become more prevalent in the 60s, it had become more part of normal american life, but it took a while for it to be reflected in sitcoms. ♪ the brady brunch. the brady brunch. ♪ ♪ that's the way we all became ... ♪ christopher knight: the brady bunch is the story of two separate families being glued together. lloyd schwartz: a man with three boys, a woman with three girls. the man was going to be a widower. the woman, divorced, but divorce was a taboo topic on television. so they said, let's just leave it so you don't know. [yelling] mike: what's all the yelling about, huh? bobby: she stole our ball. marcia: i'm just trying to find out what they did with my school awards.