The Show Must Go On??

Air date: 11/3/72

Greg and Marcia each enlist their parents to perform with them in the Westdale High School's talent revue, "Family Night Frolics". Carol and Marcia perform the featured song Together (Wherever We Go) from the musical Gypsy, and Greg and Mike do a reading of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Day is Done. Their reading, however, is a unique interpretation, complete with visual gags, bad puns, and a rubber chicken.

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Jan, the Only Child

Air date: 11/10/72

Jan complains about the lack of privacy and personal space, and declares she wants to become an only child. Eventually, her siblings become so annoyed that they grant her wish by ignoring her and staying out of her way. In the subplot the Bradys plan to square dance at a Hoedown party, while Alice and Carol both compete by making strawberry preserves for the dance.

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Career Fever

Air date: 11/17/72

Mike mistakenly believes Greg wants to follow in his father's footsteps to become an architect. Also, Peter and Jan want go into the medical profession and borrow large medical encyclopedias from the library. While reading one of the giant volumes, Peter mistakenly concludes that he has contracted a rare disease, no thanks to his failing to notice that two pages had become stuck together, Peter had only developed a rash.

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Goodbye, Alice, Hello

Air date: 11/24/72

A series of misunderstandings leads Alice to believe she has irreparably breached the Brady kids' trust, prompting her resignation. Alice's temporary replacement is Kay, a friend of Alice's, who, for herself, had a similar and unpleasant experience with another family, whom she had worked for. Although Kay is very nice, she has no intentions of bonding with the Bradys, instead she does her job. Eventually, the kids, with help from Kay, track down Alice at a restaurant she now works at and convince her to return home.

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Greg's Triangle

Air date: 12/8/72

At school, Greg falls in love with a classmate named Jennifer Nichols. At first, Greg takes Jennifer surfing, then he introduces her to Carol and Mike, then right after Greg and Jennifer leave the house to go watch a science fiction movie, both Carol and Mike each suspect Jennifer may be pulling a snow job for something more than just dating Greg, something which Greg hasn't already noticed. Just as Marcia does her student cheerleading practice for the upcoming Westdale High School student cheerleading tryouts to compete for student head cheerleader, Jennifer calls Greg to say she didn't know he was either student chairmember nor was he student head judge on the Westdale High School student cheerleading judging committee and lets him know she is competing. During the student cheerleading tryouts, as four school officials observe, another student cheerleader just gets done with her student cheerleading routine, then student cheerleader Pat Conway is up next, then next up is student cheerleader Marcia Brady, and the last one is student cheerleader Jennifer Nichols. After the student cheerleading tryouts are done with, three student judges, in addition to student chairmember and student head judge Greg, who are on the student cheerleading judging committee each cast only one vote: One vote for Jennifer Nichols, one vote for Marcia Brady, and one vote for Pat Conway. Because of a three-way tie, it means Greg, who is student chairmember and who is student head judge, must decide whether to vote for Pat Conway, his sister Marcia Brady, or his girlfriend Jennifer Nichols to be student head cheerleader. In the end, Greg voted for Pat Conway, who was the best over Marcia and who particularly was the best over Jennifer, to be student head cheerleader. Just as Marcia is gracious in defeat and acknowledges that Pat Conway was the best over her, Jennifer not only hangs up the phone on Greg when he calls her, she dumps him. Finally, Greg comes to realize that Jennifer Nichols was just using him, just so she could win his vote to be student head cheerleader.

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Everyone Can't be George Washington

Air date: 12/22/72

When Peter tries out for the role of George Washington in the school play, he is cast as Benedict Arnold instead. He decides to get himself kicked out after being unable to endure the ridicule of his friends, who are constantly calling him "traitor". Peter feigns laryngitis to lose his role, and Mike convinces him his behavior in letting everyone down was the same as the real Benedict Arnold. Peter agrees to be in the play and becomes the star due to his brilliant portrayal of Arnold.