Comments on YouTube seem to indicate that this still does show up on some syndicated versions.. which makes it odd that it's not better known.

Speaking of tossing off...

yeah, they didn't seem surprised at all that she was opening those robes. That is really creepy to think about. Thanks Rum, I now think of The Brady Bunch as one of the creepiest things on TV.

Equally creepy is the fact that after establishing that Bobby is in fact nude under his robe, Alice goes right ahead and checks to see if Cindy is as well. You know, just to be safe.

Maybe I'm just tired after a long day at work. Maybe I'm just not in the right mood. Maybe it's because I'm all alone in my new apartment and the emptiness and isolation is making me bitter. But for some reason... Jesus fuck... that was the creepiest thing I've seen in a long time. I'm going to have nightmares.

In her defense, she DID say they could go to Mr. Pedo's swimming pool with their parents' permission. I'd say that's fairly progressive housekeeping.

Alice always rocked.

This is pretty much why she rocks.

The subdued shades of repressed lesbianism. The pseudo maternal aunt-like role where she was like family but not really. The way she makes meatloaf every week because she probably lacks the ability to read, thus is able to not learn new recipes.

Not to mention most roles with the white maid up until this time usually involved mentally unstable psychosis over not bearing her own children. Alice was always one meat cleaver away from infamy.

So what you're saying is, Alice was the last of the indentured servants? Lacking yDNA, in other words. Explains a lot, that.

You're right though. Alice was fucking horrifying, no matter what she did, no matter how she did it. Every word out of her mouth seethed with double-meanings. Even as a wee little kid I knew that if your personal slave was THAT jolly, was THAT happy to run ragged for your every whim, something was off in the equation. I seem to remember in one episode we actually see Alice's room, and there's an ash-tray by her bedside.

An ash-tray by her bedside. I think that sums everything up.