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[Kurdel]

That's just the tank though. Unless there's another episode where the boys prank each other with a series of escalating upper deckers.

Jesus christ that would be great!

 

[Powdered Toastman]

))<>((

 

[bjork]

I just spent way more time reading about Brady Bunch spinoffs than I ever should have. I had no idea there were so many.

 

[Dead Man]

Most US/Canadian houses have 2-4 bathrooms/toilets. Even small houses have a full bathroom and a separate toilet (or half bathroom).

Yeah, I know all about the crazy American decadence!!

 

[rpmurphy]

With that many kids sharing one bathroom, did they take baths together?

 

[Herpes Reasons]

With that many kids sharing one bathroom, did they take baths together?

They did more than that...offscreen at least.

 

[otapnam]

Isn't the yellow flowery area the most likely place for a toilet?

The bradys were baller. Definitely a seperate toilet room right there

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

they probably shit into each other's mouths

lmao

 

[The Technomancer]

A detached toilet is very practical in a household. You don't have to smell your parents'/siblings' dumps when going to take a shower in the morning.

What? I grew up sharing a bathroom with two siblings and that...was never a problem

 

[Eidan]

they probably shit into each other's mouths

No, just Jan's.

 

[Escape Goat]

The bradys were baller. Definitely a seperate toilet room right there

It's the girls bedroom. There is another door to the boys room on the other side.

Yeah, I'm posting blueprints of the bradys house.

 

[Akahige]

Why is it frowned upon? If you have the space why wouldn't you have it separate?

I was joking, yeah if designed my house I would have the toilet in an enclosed space of its own so I don't get shit particles where I brush my teeth and wash my body.

 

[The Technomancer]

It's the girls bedroom. There is another door to the boys room on the other side.

Yeah, I'm posting blueprints of the bradys house.

I feel like if we knew what was in the contents of the mystery room almost five decades of global history would make more sense

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

It's the girls bedroom. There is another door to the boys room on the other side.

Yeah, I'm posting blueprints of the bradys house.

Don't you hate how the outside never matched up with the interior?

 

[The Technomancer]

I was joking, yeah if designed my house I would have the toilet in an enclosed space of its own so I don't get shit particles where I brush my teeth and wash my body.

What the fuck do your shits look like? Do they explode out of your ass in a cloudy spray like smoke from a cannon?

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

What the fuck do your shits look like? Do they explode out of your ass in a cloudy spray like smoke from a cannon?

When I think of particles, I'm not thinking smoke.

 

[Akahige]

What the fuck do your shits look like? Do they explode out of your ass in a cloudy spray like smoke from a cannon?

Yeah like this

 

[Venture]

Mike Brady was an architect. They probably had some kind of clever hide-away toilet under the sinks. He was way ahead of his time.

 

[Ezalc]

Clearly people on Star Trek beam the urine and feces out of their body so they don't need toilets. But whats the Brady's explanation?

It's probably in that little door there on the left. There are a few bathrooms that have that little, mini room or closet or whatever with just the toilet.

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

What really happened here?

 

[Blargonaut]

They stomped their shits down the drain.

 

[Venture]

I feel like if we knew what was in the contents of the mystery room almost five decades of global history would make more sense

Mike and Carol's S&M dungeon. I'm sure of it.

 

[PS3GamerKyle]

ya'll are ruining one of my favorite nick at night shows growing up

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

ya'll are ruining one of my favorite nick at night shows growing up

You obviously haven't gotten to the cousin Oliver episodes.

 

[LeeRoyBrown]

They stomped their shits down the drain.

There is a thread for this.

At one point a believe a guy with a beegees avatar talks about "I turbo my asshole"

 

[freddy]

Someone put all the shit together here:


http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/firsttoilet.asp

Standards and Practices groups insisted they be excised before broadcast. So squeamish were networks about such matters that in 1960 Tonight Show host Jack Paar famously quit the program (albeit temporarily), incensed that NBC had cut one of his jokes merely because it referenced the abbreviation "W.C." (i.e., "water closet," a term referring to a room with a flush toilet). Even as late as the mid-1970s, the six kids in The Brady Bunch (which ran from 1969 to 1974) all shared a single bathroom that didn't even contain a toilet, and audiences chortled with glee when All in the Family episodes from that same era included the mere sound of a toilet's being flushed off-stage in an unseen bathroom.

The answer to both those questions is that Leave It to Beaver didn't actually show a toilet in any of its episodes, although there is a kernel of truth to the claim that it did.

Therein lay the problem. In 1957 the networks were loath about displaying a bathroom on television, let alone an actual toilet, and the "Captain Jack" episode as filmed required the showing of both. CBS refused to approve the episode in its original form, but it couldn't reasonably be redone with the bathroom scenes omitted since there was nowhere else in the house the boys could plausibly hide an alligator. After several rounds of wrangling between the network and the production company, a compromise was reached: The episode could include shots of a toilet tank, but not the toilet itself. So, in one very brief scene, viewers saw the boys feeding their baby alligator in the middle of the bathroom floor, whereupon Wally walked over to the toilet tank, put Captain Jack inside it, and placed the lid back on the tank. The toilet itself was never seen, only the very top portion of its tank:

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

Someone put all the shit together here:


http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/firsttoilet.asp

That "kernel of truth". I imagined it.

 

[freddy]

That "kernel of truth". I imagined it.

I would've gone with nugget.

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

I would've gone with nugget.

Much better. I agree freddy.

 

[Aaron Strife]

Yeah, in the US we shit where we brush our teeth.

We clap after we're done too

 

[crimzonflame]

Leave It to Beaver had a toilet and it aired before Brady Bunch. Its important we figure this out.

this was actually the first toilet shown on American television. Leave it to Beaver was ahead of its time.

 

[Log4Girlz]

What? I grew up sharing a bathroom with two siblings and that...was never a problem

You were ok with the smell?

 

[freddy]

You were ok with the smell?

He used to ask them not to flush.

 

[Log4Girlz]

He used to ask them not to flush.

Oh so he was really ok then.

 

[Bulk_Rate]

I don't know, but at least we've advanced far beyond such primitive concerns as banning commodes from TV.

 

[Guerrillas in the Mist]

Fun fact: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was the first major Hollywood release to show a toilet being flushed.

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

Fun fact: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was the first major Hollywood release to show a toilet being flushed.

Great. Now I'm picturing Hitchcock on the toilet.

 

[Sch1sm]

they probably shit into each other's mouths

Beautiful.

 

[kingwingin]

Didn't they make fun of this on the brady movie? I remember at the end a neighbor asked to use the toilet and the dad responded "what's a toilet?"

I'm pretty sure uncle phil was the neighbour too

 

[joeyjoejoeshabadoo]

We clap after we're done too

Only after tipping the bathroom attendant.

 

[FaintDeftone]

They stomped their shits down the drain.

I LOL'd very hard.

 

[Kamek]

they probably shit into each other's mouths

This caught me so off guard lmao

 

[Scorpion Soldier]

they probably shit into each other's mouths

GAF, never change...

 

[braves01]

I bet Alice was on her hands and knees all day scrubbing the smears of shit off the inside of that toilet bowl.

 

[More_Badass]

Don't you hate how the outside never matched up with the interior?

So Stanley Kubrick designed their house?

 

[Escape Goat]

So Stanley Kubrick designed their house?

Actually, Mike Brady did. His mastery over the space time continuum was unmatched in the industry.

 

[sketchsanchez]

Didn't they make fun of this on the brady movie? I remember at the end a neighbor asked to use the toilet and the dad responded "what's a toilet?"

I'm pretty sure uncle phil was the neighbour too

This gives me the opportunity to say I love both movies, especially the second one.

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

Actually, Mike Brady did. His mastery over the space time continuum was unmatched in the industry.

Yet, he chose Alice as his live in maid. Tell us what he was thinking

 

[The Real Abed]

Toilets weren't allowed on TV. That's also why all the parents slept in separate beds.

Separate beds were only up until like the late '50s when I Love Lucy changed the rules. (Also got them to allow an actual pregnant woman on TV for the first time)

And toilets started being heard and shown in the '60s I believe with All in the Family. Am I remembering that right? You'd hear a flush occasionally? I know they did it again in the '90s on Married... With Children.

Also, the Brady Bunch movie already lampshaded this problem. The question was posed by Philip Banks himself.

 

[PhantomZone]

What madman designed your house?

No idea it wa actually built in the 70's, perhaps whomever built it was watching The Brady Bunch at the time ? :-D

Pretty common in Australia, but in the US almost every house I have been in has the toilet in the bathroom.

A genius.

A lot of the modern Australian houses make the bathroom super large these days, so the toilet, shower and bath are commonly in the same room.