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'Brady Bunch' star Susan Olsen knew Cindy was stupid: 'It was something I had to accept'

Susan Olson was only 7 when she realized that her 'Brady Bunch' character Cindy was not the sharpest tool in the shed: 'She doesn’t have a functioning brain, but she’s cute!'

He complimented her for being bright and then joked about her first gag in the pilot episode: Carol ( Florence Henderson) is prepping for her wedding that day to Mike ( Robert Reed) and says she has butterflies in her stomach, causing Cindy to ask, "Did you sleep with your mouth open, Mommy?" While Olsen added her mother always told her "it's cute," the actress said she was glad The Brady Bunch aired on Fridays "because at least the kids [at school] have a whole weekend to maybe forget about all the stupid things Cindy did while she was in my body on TV." Peacemaker Williams chimed in, "Well, it also takes intelligence to deliver a line to get the laugh,” a comment Olsen appreciated until... Lookinland had to mess things up by saying that in that early scene "it seems like Carol's actually in on it.

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