The Brady Bunch/Characters
The Parents
Tropes applying to both:
Michael Paul Brady
Carol Ann Brady (nee Tyler)
The Brady Boys
Tropes applying to all the boys
- Nice Guy: Sure, they could be rough around the edges and prone to mean tricks and smart-aleck remarks, but they were all good guys. Especially Peter.
- Missing Mom: Even mentioned in the pilot when Bobby is afraid Carol will be sad to see his birth mother's picture still sitting out.
Greg Brady
- Casanova
- Hot for Teacher: In the season 1 episode "The Undergraduate"
- Team Dad: When it was just the kids in a situation
Peter Brady
- Adorkable
- I Just Want to Be Special: "The Personality Kid".
- Middle Child Syndrome: In "Cyrano de Brady".
- Wholesome Crossdresser: In "The Liberation of Marcia Brady" when his brothers talked him into being a Sunflower Girl. He was less than pleased.
Bobby Brady
- Alliterative Name
- The Celebrity Lie: Claimed he was close friends with Joe Namath.
- Cheerful Child
- Mr. Imagination: Bobby had a lot of daydream sequences in the series
The Brady Girls
Tropes applying to all the girls
- Hair Decorations
- Hair of Gold: Even mentioned in the theme song
- Disappeared Dad: It's implied their mother was TV's first divorcee, but the network left it purposely ambiguous. At least one fan theory states he left Carol, then died.
- Girl Next Door
- Magic Skirt: Some of the skirts the girls wore in the later years were pretty tiny.
Marcia Brady
- The Ace
- Girlish Pigtails: In the first season
- Smitten Teenage Girl: Quite often
- Team Mom: When it was just the kids in a situation
- You Go, Girl!: When she tried to join Greg's Frontier Scouts. She succeeded.
Jan Brady
- Boyfriend In Canada: Her made-up boyfriend George Glass
- I Just Want to Be Special: Most of her spotlight episodes were this trope
- Meganekko
- Middle Child Syndrome: Practically the poster girl for this trope
- Heroic Self-Deprecation
Cindy Brady
- Cheerful Child
- Companion Cube: Kitty Karry-All in season 1
- The Cutie
- Girlish Pigtails
- Panty Shot: Had a few innocent ones in season 1
Others
Alice Nelson
- Self-Deprecation: Played for laughs with the character herself.
- Team Mom: When Carol wasn't there.
Sam Franklin
- The Butcher: Sam is a notable aversion of the trope's usual sinister connotations.
- Love Interest: To Alice
- Nice Guy: Always a good friend to the family.
- Recurring Character
Oliver Tyler
- Cousin Oliver: The Trope Namer.
Tiger
- Heroes Love Dogs
- Tropey Come Home: The episode "Tiger! Tiger!"
- What Happened to the Mouse?: His "wife" and puppies from the episode "Tiger! Tiger!". Later fell victim to this himself.
Fluffy
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The girls' pet cat, he/she disappeared after the pilot episode.