The Brady Bunch (TV Series)

Bobby's Hero (1973)

Robert Reed: Mike Brady

Photos 

Quotes 

• Jethroe Collins : I'm glad someone read my book, I thought I was the only one who bought a copy.

  Mike Brady : No, it was a very interesting book, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. No I think you're gonna be able to help us with our son, Bob.

  Jethroe Collins : I've been thinking over what you told me on the telephone. I feel sure I can straighten out that boy of yours.

• Mike Brady : I think you're going to find this gentleman very interesting, did you know that his father actually knew Jesse James?

  Bobby Brady : He did? Wow am I glad to meet you!

  Jethroe Collins : I hear Jesse's a hero of yours.

  Bobby Brady : I wrote a whole composition about him for school.

  Jethroe Collins : I wrote a whole book about Jesse James, only he wasn't a hero to me.

  Bobby Brady : He wasn't?

  Jethroe Collins : Nope, Jesse James killed my father.

• Jethroe Collins : Son, you know the legends, I know the facts.

  Mike Brady : Mr. Collins, why don't you tell Bob about how it was with your father?

  Jethroe Collins : Well, I was just a little boy at the time. My father was riding a train to California, Jesse James held it up.

  Bobby Brady : Did they have a shootout?

  Jethroe Collins : Well, wasn't much of a shootout, my father had his face to the wall, his hands in the air, and not wearing a gun.

  Bobby Brady : Then why'd Jesse James shoot him?

  Jethroe Collins : Because that's the kind of man that Jesse James was, a mean dirty killer. My mother used to cry about it in her sleep. When I was old enough to understand, I used to have nightmares about it myself. Awful nightmares, about that train robbery.

• Mr. Hillary : 'My Hero by Robert Brady: My hero is a very famous man, just like Robin Hood and the 3 Musketeers. He was a great American, and his name is Jesse James.

  Mike Brady : Jesse James?

  Carol Brady : The outlaw?

  Mr. Hillary : It disturbs me when impressionable children like Bobby read books and see movies that glorify men like Jesse James, turn them into folk heroes. Jesse James was a cruel and vicious killer.

  Carol Brady : I'm really surprised at Bobby.

  Mr. Hillary : Well don't be, Mrs. Brady, look at what's happening today. The press writes stories about gangsters and skyjackers, they make them seem very glamorous in the eyes of the children.

  Mike Brady : Today's criminals will probably be tomorrow's folk heroes.

• Mike Brady : Bad news?

  Carol Brady : He didn't say, but when the principal calls, is it ever good news?

• Alice Nelson : Salt, pepper...

  [reaches in cookie jar] 

  Alice Nelson : cookies... cookies?

  [takes empty cookie box out of cupboard] 

  Alice Nelson : Cookies! Salt, pepper, cookies, cookies, cookies!

  [writes down grocery list] 

  Carol Brady : Alice, Mr. Brady and I have to go see the principal.

  Mike Brady : And we won't be gone long.

  Alice Nelson : Okay, Mr. Brady.

  [pause] 

  Alice Nelson : Principal? Which principal? Elementary school, junior high, senior high? I wonder which kid has done what to who and where?