The Brady Bunch : Mike and Carol's hometown

Mike and Carol's hometown

Was it ever mentioned where Mike & Carol grew up?

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Carol mentioned Swampscott Massachusetts in one episode and having relatives in Seattle.

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Carol said in the lisping episode ("A Fistful of Reasons") that she grew up in Swampscott, Massachusetts.

TV Land should put a statue of her there, not far from the statue of Samantha Stephens in Salem.

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I am form massachusetts and brady bunch is one of the all time greatest shows. Is it true that carol is from massachusetts?

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In the episode "A Fistful of Reasons," Carol says that she grew up in Swampscott, Massachusetts. However, I wonder if this was a writer's gag, because when her grandmother Connie Hutchins came to visit, she was from Kentucky.

Of course, there's no reason Carol's mother couldn't have grown up in Kentucky and then met and married Mr. Tyler and moved to Massachusetts and raised Carol there, and then relocated to Southern California.

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IIRC, Carol said she was born in Swampscott, MA - not that she grew up there. She also went to Westdale High in Southern California, because she dated Tank Gates then (they specifically said that Tank was betting "against his own alma mater" - Westdale - in the Quarterback Sneak episode). Since her parents, the Tylers, lived 20 minutes from the Bradys, my guess is that the Tylers moved from Massachusetts to California not long after Carol was born (or at the very least, before high school).

Since Mike's grandfather - Judge Henry Brady - also lived relatively close by to the Bradys, then I have to assume that Mike also grew up in So. California.

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Hey I'm a fellow Massachusetts person also. Nice to meet others on here from Mass.

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I lived in Boston for a summer. Right on the corner of Boylston and Mass Ave. Does that count?

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Where was Alice's hometown?

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Seattle, WA

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Or as Greg's teacher would say, 'See-AH-tle'

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Or Linda from SE-AT-TLE.

Yo, she-bitch! Let's go !

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Carol went to Westdale, the kids' high school, with Tank. Mike didn't know her then so he must have attended another school. She was staying with her parents before she and Mike married so they must have lived nearby, perhaps in the home in which she grew up.

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Carol also went to the same elementary school as the kids. She had the same 5th grade teacher as them.

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Yes, I too remembered the comment about her also being Carol's favorite teacher during the Snow White episode.

Mike may have moved in the area for business. It didn't seem like either the boys or the girls had changed schools after the wedding. The kids may have went to the same school and that is how Mike and Carol met. Maybe Carol even knew Mike's first wife.
I remember that Cindy mentioned her classmates knowing Mike is her new daddy during the school play issue. She though may have meant that he was her daddy and not just knowing he was one of the parents.

I'll miss this speculation with you and the others who enjoyed this good-natured ol' TV program.

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