The Brady Bunch/Characters

The Parents

Tropes applying to both:

• Good Parents
• Happily Married

Michael Paul Brady

• Reasonable Authority Figure

Carol Ann Brady (nee Tyler)

• Hair of Gold

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.