Be Not Deceived

Well that was bizarre! Being that the Brady Bunch was a fictitious family, it has me wondering what the metaphorical meaning behind these words is. Care to share?
JJ

When I was a child I watched them and thought how wonderful to be so perfect.... they seemed the most perfect of all perfect families... thus became a posterboard by which to compare my own family which seemed sadly lacking natually(or unnaturally) it actually made me unhappy until I realized just what you said... they are fictitious, as are all perfect families... and as is "perfect" in general... it was meant to be bizarre... 😊we can't all be Poet Laureates😁(What I tell myself when a poem flops)

I wouldn't call your poem a flop, lol. In fact it was closer to right on the nose considering that in real life Marsha was addicted to drugs and Greg was hoppin' in the sack with Mrs. Brady... the fact that Mr. Brady and Alice were gay would have been a scandal if people knew back in the 70's. Fortunately we are past that nonsense now. Although, sadly, he died of AIDES many years ago, which would have sent gay-bashers into a frenzy in the 80's. But yes, all that perfectness was just written in a script. Back then everything was sanitized. It obviously didn't help society at all... JJ

Yep... and even knowing all that .... it was and still is very difficult to burst that IDEAL from my mind... that's how powerful these unrealistic ideas are to many of us...  la la land aspirations have mislead many of us.... some to the point of losing all the REAL awesomeness that was there all along...