The Brady Bunch in the White House

The Brady Bunch in the White House
Directed by	Neal Israel
Starring	Shelley Long Gary Cole
Release date(s)	US November 29, 2002
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Brady Bunch in the White House is a 2002 TV movie. It is the second sequel to the The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), following A Very Brady Sequel (1996). It was directed by Neal Israel and written by Lloyd J. Schwartz and Hope Juber, based upon characters originally developed by Sherwood Schwartz for the 1970s television series The Brady Bunch.

It was produced by Paramount Television for the Fox television network and first aired in November 2002.

Cast

• Gary Cole .... President of the United States Mike Brady
• Shelley Long .... Vice President of the United States Carol Brady
• Tannis Burnett .... Alice Nelson
• Chad Doreck .... Greg Brady
• Autumn Reeser .... Marcia Brady
• Blake Foster .... Peter Brady
• Ashley Drane .... Jan Brady
• Max Morrow .... Bobby Brady
• Sofia Vassilieva .... Cindy Brady
• Alex Appel .... Summer
• Daniel Fathers .... Priest
• Timm Zemanek .... NASA Advisor
• Denis Akiyama ... Hopeful Man
• Don Allison ... Sen. Thurbright
• Jordy Benattar ... Annie (Girl with Cat)
• Marcia Bennett ... Secretary of H & H Services
• Patricia Carroll Brown ... Maid
• Noah Danby ... Secret Service Agent #2
• Oliver Dennis ... Secretary of Treasury
• Ferne Downey ... Press Secretary
• Dan Duran ... Martin
• John Evans ... Prisoner
• Barry Flatman ... News Reporter
• Victoria Fodor ... Lottery Woman
• Howard Hoover ... Agent Parker
• Jai Jai Jones ... Tour Leader
• Jef Mallory ... Graham
• Marty Moreau ... Walt - Military Guard
• Dave Nichols ... President Lawrence Ivor Randolph
• Reagan Pasternak .... Veronica Dotwebb
• Joshua Peace ... Secret Service Agent #1
• Arnold Pinnock ... Howard Katanga
• Tim Post ... Secretary of Defence

Plot

The film begins with Bobby finding a winning lottery ticket, that Mike (Bobby's Father) insists must be returned to its rightful owner. Mike invites people over to his house to determine the rightful owner by posting an add in the newspaper stating "lost & found winning lottery ticket for 67 million dollars." Naturally many people showed up but the original owner had wrote something on the back of the ticket giving Mr. Brady a way to tell who was telling the truth. With no one being able to come up with the phrase written, Mr. Brady starts to think of another way, and just as he says he doesn't know what to do, a local female news caster walks in, and Mr. Brady sees it as a way to reach more people. Multiple cut scenes ensue showing stations talking about the Bradys trying to find the original owner, while also showing a broadcast talking about the vice president resigning to work for the company Fox, where he'll make six times the amount he was making, in the background it shows the actual owner walking to his death by execution -this is implied by the man being in chains, escorted by law enforcement dressed people, and a clergy man speaking to him, while the man shouts, "Wait, I'm the real owner, I'm rich, take your hands off me." With not being able to find the original owner Mr. Brady donates the money to "homeless architects and their families", which garners the attention of the president. The president then invites him to a press conference where the president is asked about his dealings with an oil drilling company abusing the environment, the president responds by saying he has never heard of the company, has not dealt with them, nor has he been to the site, where he then states, "This is the truth or I shall resign my presidency." The press then goes on to ask if he has picked a new running mate for the upcoming election, and with the light of ongoing scandals can he find a honest man of high integrity. Carol, Mike Brady's wife, shouts out why not Mike, where then the press shouts, "Ya, why not Mike," and the president says, "Why not Mike Brady." It then cuts to a news station stating that the incumbent president and Mike Brady have won the election -with Mike Brady the vice president- due to boy scouts, disco music lovers, and polyester enthusiasts. The next scene in which the incumbent president and Mike are to be sworn in, a confidential document folder is passed to the incumbent president. The folder contains a picture of the incumbent president at the drilling site, with -what is inferred- the oil company's top executives, the president remembering his promise then walks out before being sworn in, thereby making Mike Brady president.

Mike Brady then needs to select a new vice president, which he decides it should be his wife. He goes before congress asking for a vote, where the speaker of the house says, "You cannot just call for a vote, the vice president has very real responsibilities and cannot vote unless he sees something to prove she can do it." Carol then breaks out in song along with the rest of the family, convincing congress to vote for her. As Mike Brady is walking to the oval office different departments come to him with negative scores asking for more money or negligible increases asking for money, with which he replies, "Not good enough" including when his youngest daughter asks for him to sign her report card, although approving the congress's new budget plan. Veronica, the liaison to the American public pulls the speaker of the house into a separate room, saying, "Can you believe him, he just approved your budget, he's not taking any credit, and he's of to much integrity, how did he get to the highest office, you should be president." A side plot is Peter breaking a priceless Ming vase, and trying to get out of it by gluing it back together. Peter really wants to go to a camp, but feels if he tells the truth he won't be able to go. The vase is used during a diner party with dignitaries across the world, but ends up leaking all over them. Peter's siblings come up with the plan of all of them confessing, hoping to fool/confuse Mike Brady into not knowing who actually broke it. Mike thinking about it logically though realized Peter was the only one not to confess thereby showing his own guilt. Mike coming up with the consequence of punishing the other children forcing Peter into a guilt trip to confess his own guilt, ultimately succeeding.

Veronica, Greg's crush is later to be found as an agent of an elitist organization who's mission is seizing power for herself and the speaker of the house. They both devise a plan to ruin the presidents image, and therefore presidency The first plan consisting of Veronica seducing Greg into divulging crude or malevolent information, on Mike or the family, fails, but the youngest daughter does give information regarding a questionable relationship between Mike Brady and a woman from his past; Carol is accused of rebellious behavior from protesting to keep a park; Marcia is accused of being promiscuous because of a fictional erotic encounter with Desi Arnaz Jr. written in her diary; Greg accused of under age smoking because of a cigaret container found in his coat, he had switched with another boy; Peter accused of bribery for getting a better grade after calling his teacher great; Jan accused of cheating for getting a better grade on an essay than she was supposed to; and Alice accused of drugging the food so the Bradys stay happy all the time. Although this plan garners significant news coverage its is by no means to impeach a president, in which they devise a second plan in order to seize power. The second plan is to trick the president into addressing the public that a world ending asteroid is about to hit earth. They succeed by switching a report from NASA regarding data from the Trailblazer 1 space probe -a fictional space probe- with Peter's science project about the asteroid that hit earth causing the largest scale extinction on earth.

This plan also succeeds and Mike address the public telling them he received a report from NASA that confirms a massive meteor is on an intersect course and will cause global devastation. The Bradys are then transported to a secret bunker underneath the White House that will protect them from the ensuing danger. The Speaker of the House then seizes the opportunity by to take power by calling an official press conference as acting president and saying, "There is no danger, or emergency. The president is incompetent, and couldn't tell the difference between a high school science project, and a sophisticated aeronautical diagram." Then asks the public to ask for an impeachment of the president. Meanwhile the Bradys find out from the Cindy -the youngest daughter- that she overheard the Speaker of the House and Veronica taking about their plan while underneath a table in the room Veronica pulled the Speaker of the House into. Mike realizes what happened and breaks out of the vault just as the Speaker of the House is encouraging the public to call for vote. Mike then asks Cindy to tell the press what she heard the Speaker of the House say, to which she somehow tells the story of her seeing the Speaker of the House switching the homework and the report. Mike then address the public saying they deserve to know the truth, and goes on to start telling the story of the lottery ticket and how he got to be president.

Recurring events from the show

• Peter breaks a vase while playing ball in the house - "Confessions, Confessions"

Reception and aftermath

The film was negatively received as some critics felt that this television movie lacked the creative wit and humor of the two feature films.

Several more TV-movies were planned, including A Very Brady Shipwreck in which the Bradys land on Gilligan's Island (it was suggested in the first sequel that Carol's first husband was the Professor), among others. Due to low ratings, all future plans were scrapped.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• The Brady Bunch in the White House at the Internet Movie Database