“He jumped shark and then the show went off the air,” Williams said. “And Robbie did six shows and the show went off the air.”
“It was a kind of a stunt,” Williams acknowledged of Rist’s casting. “And what that was, is in simple terms, I think the writers had run out of ideas. Or they weren't going to let the kids grow up. … I should have been going off to college. But we were all grown up. So they brought in somebody young to tag along with Cindy and with Bobby (Susan Olsen, Mike Lookinland). But the humor and the way they wrote for them was not Brady-like at all. I mean, they're giving him da da da. They're giving him, you know, one, two, three punchlines. It didn't fit in at all. It was not well received, and he kind of had to suffer that. But good guy.”
According to People, at a 2025 fan convention at The Chocolate Expo at Hofstra University, Williams admitted he already had one foot out the door when Rist was added to the cast. “I was looking for the exit when we saw Oliver walking through the front door,” the actor shared.
Rist, now 61, reflected on becoming one of TV’s most hated characters in a 2023 interview with Cracked. The actor and musician noted that he already had a "ton” of experience when he was cast on the ABC series.
“For the people who say I killed the show, well, Oliver killing The Brady Bunch is as ridiculous as Yoko killing the Beatles,” Rist added. “But the truth of it doesn’t matter to some people — it’s ‘print the legend.’ If you really think that a 9-year-old child had the capability to bring down a popular American television show, then I say, ‘Believe that and enjoy.’”
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