{"id":14678,"date":"2016-11-28T15:09:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T15:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=14678"},"modified":"2016-11-28T15:15:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T15:15:35","slug":"revisiting-the-creepy-and-brilliant-brady-bunch-episode-of-the-x-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/11\/28\/revisiting-the-creepy-and-brilliant-brady-bunch-episode-of-the-x-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting the Creepy and Brilliant “Brady Bunch” Episode of “The X-Files”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nostalgia can be a real killer.<\/p>\n

The sad passing of legendary actress Florence Henderson has surely compelled many fans of her work to spend today revisiting episodes of \u201cThe Brady Bunch.\u201d Henderson of course played the always cheerful Carol Brady in the series, then and forever dubbed \u201cAmerica\u2019s mom\u201d due to the fact that, well, pretty much everyone wanted Carol Brady to be their mom. The moniker was a testament to Henderson\u2019s likability and talents as an actress, to say the very least.<\/p>\n

Thinking back on \u201cThe Brady Bunch\u201d today, I was reminded of one of my absolute favorite episodes of \u201cThe X-Files\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 though Florence Henderson did not appear in it, the episode was a love letter to the show that made her a household name. That episode, titled \u201cSunshine Days,\u201d was the penultimate one in the final season of the original \u201cX-Files\u201d series \u2013 the show of course returned for a limited revival earlier this year \u2013 and it seemed only fitting to revisit today.<\/p>\n

\u201cSunshine Days\u201d kicks off with two young friends sneaking into a house that they believe to be the fictional Brady house \u2013 Blake insists it\u2019s where the television series was filmed, but Mike (\u201cMarried With Children\u201d star David Faustino) isn\u2019t convinced. The two friends enter the house and not only is it laid out exactly like the Brady home, but the Brady family seems to be living in it. In a creepy moment inspired by The Shining<\/em>, Blake encounters Bobby and Cindy in the upstairs hallway, and it\u2019s not long before he\u2019s hurled through the roof by a supernatural force.<\/p>\n

In the wake of Blake\u2019s bizarre murder, FBI agents Doggett, Reyes, and Scully are called onto the scene, and they find that the alleged Brady house doesn\u2019t actually look like the Brady house at all. It\u2019s a normal home that bears no resemblance to the one from the show, despite Mike\u2019s insistence that he\u2019s sure of what he saw. In the episode\u2019s most chilling sequence, Mike returns to the house on his own and finds that he didn\u2019t hallucinate the previous night\u2019s events: peering through the windows, Mike sees the entire Brady family eating dinner in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the explanation? The house is owned by a man (played by Michael Emerson, who you may remember as Zep from the first Saw movie!) who has psychokinetic abilities. Though he goes by the name Oliver Martin, a reference to Cousin Oliver from the final season of \u201cThe Brady Bunch,\u201d his real name is Anthony Fogelman, and he uses his incredible abilities to quite literally turn his home into the Brady home and manifest the characters from the show…<\/p>\n

Source: Revisiting the Creepy and Brilliant “Brady Bunch” Episode of “The X-Files” – Bloody Disgusting!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n