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A commercial producer discovers the Brady family while they are grocery shopping and wants them to be in a laundry soap commercial. But the family doesn't use the product, leading to a classic Brady dilemma.

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The Bradys are hired by a hip director, Skip Farnum ( Paul Winchell ), to star in a television commercial for laundry detergent, due to their unaffected manner. The detergent is not the family's current brand, but a comparison test shows the new detergent as superior so the family agrees to do the commercial. They take advice from acting teacher Myrna Carter (Bonnie Boland), but as a result their acting is forced. Skip is appalled and fires the Bradys, remarking that the acting methods remind him of a "terrible" actress they worked with: Myrna Carter. As compensation the family receives 2,000 boxes of laundry detergent. Note: Robert Reed wrote a four-page memo complaining to Sherwood Schwartz about the episode's premise and the character of Skip Farnum, but he did think it was a good choice to cast Paul Winchell, praising Winchell's acting.

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