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Happy Fake Jan Day 2010! How Will You Celebrate?
by David Hofstede, posted Jan 2nd 2010 9:00AM
While Festivus remains the most widely acknowledged holiday to be created by a TV series, thousands of 'Brady Bunch' fans worldwide are closing the gap. On January 2, they will once again gather to celebrate Fake Jan Day, and to honor actress Geri Reischl, who played Jan Brady on 'The Brady Bunch Hour.'As most schoolchildren recall from their American history classes, 'The Brady Bunch Hour' was a musical spin-off of 'The Brady Bunch' that aired briefly in 1977, and is now recalled as one of the worst television shows in the history of the medium.
The only Brady cast member to recognize this trainwreck before it left the station was Eve Plumb, who played Jan on the original series. Geri Reischl was cast as her replacement, and became forever immortalized as Fake Jan.
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