The Brady Bunch (TV Series) The Subject Was Noses (1973) User Reviews

Charley's cuter and nicer

[kellielulu · 8/10 · 25 September 2022]

Good episode. The famous Marcia gets hit in the nose with a football. It all comes when she is set to go on a date with Doug Simpson on the school football team and big man on campus. To go with Doug however she must break a date with sweet Charley . Greg gives Marcia the famous something suddenly came up excuse to break her date with Charley . Then comes the accident and Marcia's nose swells up. She still goes to school to take some important exams. Doug see what happens and uses the same excuse to break their date! That was some quick karma!

Charley is still willing to take her out the next night. He doesn't care about her appearance. " I want to take out you not just your nose ! What an extraordinary young man! Marcia can't face going anywhere.

Finally her nose is back to normal and Doug so called excuse goes away! Marcia has seen the light and no longer cares about Doug . She apologizes to Charley and he accepts. He also accepts it when she asks him out.

She gets home and tells her parents about the fight Charley and Doug had and Charley gets the best of him ! Doug runs off with a swollen nose! Marcia mocks his reaction and Mike reminds her of her recent vanity issues. She pretends to not know what he's talking about but with a smile. I don't know why but I really loved that reaction from Marcia probably because she wasn't arrogant or smug just having a bit of fun at her own expense.

I am not an animal

[safenoe · 8/10 · 7 May 2022]

Before The Elephant Man, we have Marcia's nose which gets a major focus in this episode of The Brady Bunch that's very famous for sure about Marcia's nose. The discrimination that Marcia faces makes one's blood boil, and hopefully it serves as a reminder to those not to make of people with deformed noses.

Something Suddenly Came Up

[Jimmy_the_Gent4 · 17 August 2020]

Marcia has a date with Doug Simpson the school football hero but breaks a date with Charlie, another boy.

One of the best episode, it has become a classic. Doug Simpson is played by Nicholas Hammond who appeared in "The Sound Of Music" and later played the title role in the TV "Spiderman" series. Marsh uses the excuse "something suddenly came up" when breaking the date with Charlie (she got it from Greg). Then she gets hit in the nose when Peter overthrows Bobby while playing football. The nose gets swollen and when Doug sees it he breaks the date using the same excuse Marcia had given Charlie. It has a good ending when Marcia comes home describes what happened when Doug sees Charlie with Marcia.

Marcia gets what's coming to her

[gregorycanfield · 10/10 · 30 March 2021]

What do I like most about this episode? Is it Marcia's short, short dress, or getting to hear the line "Something suddenly came up" repeated at least five times? I guess Doug Simpson didn't like her legs as much as I did. He was turned off by her swollen nose. Marcia learns her lesson the hard way. She also learns that poor Charlie likes all of her, not just her nose. Good episode (except for the painting stuff). Marcia's short skirt makes up for it, however.

I DON'T WANT TO DATE YOUR NOSE!

[tcchelsey · 10/10 · 1 December 2023]

CLASSIC BRADY BUNCH. 10 plus stars.

You have to admit, Marcia learns a hard lesson. That said, we all felt sooooo sorry for her, and what terrible luck... Marcia has the teen dream to date Doug Simpson (handsome Nicholas Hammond), the high school hunk and football hero of the century.

But what does she tell her regular guy pal, Charley (played by Stuart Goetz). "Something suddenly came up...."

The guys are playing football in the backyard and ---here it comes--- the ball smacks Marcia in the nose and what a nose job! You have to give the makeup folks credit for really re-designing Marcia's schnoz. A little bit of the fakeup makeup is showing, though.

Al Schwartz wrote this OUTSTANDING episode, one of the great comedy writers, who wrote for Lucy, Jackie Gleason and Red Skelton. But this ain't no comedy as you will see.

Poor Marcia has to go to school, doing her best to hide her embarrassment and guess who she meets nose to nose? Plastic man Doug shows his real deal self and drops Marcia like a rock! OMG.

And what about Charley? Charley comes through and steals the show. He's crazy about Marcia, no matter what condition her nose is in. Wow.

It's a shame Charley did not turn up in later episodes, because he really was such a cool guy who all of us guys back in the day could relate to.

Stuart Goetz appeared in many 70s sitcoms at the time, later to become a well known music editor for such series as the VAMPIRE DIARIES. But we will always remember him for this episode.

Nicholas Hammond, who was one of the famous children (Friedrich) in the SOUND OF MUSIC, of course went on to star as tv's SPIDERMAN, and later the 70s movie sequels.

A story all us kids of the 70s will never forget, especially that one morning when Marcia wakes up and her real nose is back!

From SEASON 4 ABC/Paramount dvd box set.