"We've got a wonderful bunch of kids, I mean really marvelous. They don't play hookey, they don't lie, they're not fresh. But they just won't stay off of that phone."- Mike Brady to Carol, "Sorry Right Number" (#9)
August 13, 2006
August 11, 2006
Calm, cool reasoning
What the world needs now is not a Democrat or Republican agenda. We don't need wars in the Middle East or airports depriving passengers of toothpaste in London. We need the level-headed peacemaker that is Mike Brady.
When Peter falls prey to unspeakable acts of violence after standing up to the evil Buddy Hinton on behalf of Cindy (#33), the Brady men are shaken to their very core.
Greg and Bobby advise Peter to beat Buddy into a bloody pulp, rip out his eyes and make him sniff his way around. Peter is torn between his pacifist nature and his brooding masculinity. Enter Mike, who informs the Brady boys that all problems with an enemy can be solved with "Calm, cool reasoning."
If Mike Brady were alive today (and, moreover, if he were a real person), I'd fight tooth and nail to put him into office. President Brady would end these seemingly ceaseless conflicts over land, oil and Mel Gibson. He'd be loving yet stern, strict but pleasant. And after Sadaam and George shared a hug and some of Alice's cookies, President Brady would design a groovy house for the world to live in together.
Calm, cool reasoning people. Calm, cool reasoning.
Note: when push came to shove, Mike advised Peter to make Buddy unrecognizable to his own mother. This was, of course, after Mike's painstaking efforts to beseech Mr. and Mrs. Hinton for an end to war. Fighting was a solution Mike chose only after fruitlessly exhausting every possible avenue toward peace and harmony.
