Eight Is Enough Trivia

1. How did the vice president end up planning to visit the Bradfords?

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "All the Vice..."

Answer: Nicholas wrote a letter

Nicholas's class was instructed to write a letter to someone in the government to get an answer back as a class project. Nicholas decided to write to the vice president and asked if he could come to the Bradford house for Thanksgiving. (Nicholas said he thought that had a good chance of getting an answer.) Nicholas got a registered letter in response indicating the vice president would join the family for Thanksgiving. (The vice president would be in town for a conference.)

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Dear Ms. Dinah"

Answer: He was next on the list

The normal author was going on vacation and Tom ended up being next on the list (it was by rotation). Donna, Tom's secretary, told him to look at this as an opportunity, a phrase that Tom used to explain how he looked at it when telling the family.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - Mixture II

Answer: suggested he could be waiting for a baby to be born

Susan and Tom were sitting on the bench outside the master bedroom when Tom confided that he was quite worried about Abby. Susan tried to comfort him by saying things could be worse - he could be having a baby. In a future episode, "Oh No...Not Again! (aka Here We Go Again)" in season 3, Abby thinks she may be pregnant.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Pieces of Eight" Part IV

Answer: someone's pet

He also said that Nicholas stole his television set and Susan was 'health food-ing' him to death. He then said that they had made the decision that Joan would stay home by having eight children.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Pieces of Eight" Part III

Answer: runs daily

She tells the agent she's willing to learn, that she rides horses, plays tennis, is taking a drama class at school and that she would be willing to cut her hair. She also tells him that her age range is 16 - 25, which Joan didn't seem to approve of.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "The Return of..." Part II

Answer: hamburgers

Auntie V and Mary were preparing quiche lorraine on a Wednesday night. However, Wednesdays were generally Elizabeth's night to cook, and she usually made hamburgers. Tommy said that was the only thing Elizabeth knew how to cook.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "The Return of..."

Answer: garbage disposal

Joanie and Susan were making a salad when the garbage disposal wouldn't turn off. They started throwing in the rest of the salad to try and get it to stop. Luckily, David walked into the house and he was able to get the disposal working again by banging on the counter top.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Pieces of Eight" Part II

Answer: Mary

Joan had asked Susan and Joanie to make sure to take out something for dinner and to do the laundry. Susan said she would handle dinner, but Joanie said she couldn't do laundry. Luckily, Mary came into the foyer at just that time, so Joanie told Mary that Mary was on laundry duty.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Long Night's Journey..."

Answer: fell off a ladder

Mary saw Abby on a ladder on the stairs working on one of the lights. Mary joked that it was nice to have a man in the house. Abby told Mary that she had made a deal with Tom: He would make dinner and she would deal with the light. Mary replied that in that case, she was going to eat out. Abby thought Mary shouldn't miss Chili Con Bradford. Mary replied that she'd already had it and would be eating out.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Great Expectations"

Answer: Joanie

Nancy, Elizabeth, Tommy and Susan each bought equal shares in the car that they bought. However, the car barely ran. They had been told all the car needed was a new radiator, but David discovered everything needed to be fixed on the car. The worst problem was a cracked engine block. David mentioned that to fix that, the car would need a new engine.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Poor Little Rich Girl"

Answer: She took his parking spot

David was attempting to parallel park (properly) and was beginning to back up when Andrea swooped in with her Porsche and stole the spot. David yelled at her to say she'd taken his spot, but Andrea simply ran into the building saying she was sorry and she'd have to make it up to him. David eventually did find a spot and went into the building to deliver some architectural plans... He then saw Andrea, who it turned out was the owner of the company's daughter.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Yes Nicholas..." Part II

Answer: She wanted to get some snow

Susan came home, with Harold driving the sedan and she holding a pitcher of water with a little ice in it. She explained that she wanted to get some snow to bring back to everyone, so she and Harold drove to the mountains. She then asked why the station wagon was at the other end of town.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Yes Nicholas..." Part I

Answer: Monterey

David and his girlfriend, Noreen, planned on spending Christmas Eve with the Bradfords and then driving to Monterey during the night so they could spend all Christmas day with Noreen's family.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Much Ado About Garbage"

Answer: Garbage pick-up

Tom was apparently having a dispute with his garbage men, so he wrote a column about how some streets were reduced to having trash pickup once a week while other neighborhoods, like that of a city councilman, still had it picked up twice a week. Apparently a particular city councilman was under indictment for fixing the trash service, so Tom was subpoenaed so the Grand Jury could find out what he knew.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "The Lost Weekend"

Answer: Visit her parents

Abby's mother, Katherine, called asking Abby and Tom to come to Pasadena to see her exhibit of flowers at the Pasadena flower show. Tom didn't like the idea and came up with excuses not to go - but Abby had asked around before approaching Tom and found out he had no plans. Tom knew that Abby's father, Harry, would want to go play golf and Tom thought Harry was boring.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - Mixture

Answer: Under a tree

Tom had been writing the speech for Elizabeth's high school commencement, but found he needed some inspiration. (Apparently there was too much noise and too little inspiration at his office and at home.) Mary told Abby in this episode that Tom had gotten up early and said something about going to sit under a tree by the Sacramento River. Abby hadn't heard him go to bed as he worked so late and he got up before she did.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "The Graduates"

Answer: Elizabeth and Joanie

Joanie was graduating from college and Elizabeth was graduating from high school.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Is There a Doctor..."

Answer: $327

David played poker with some coworkers and ended up losing $327. We learn he wrote a check to cover the loss and his coworker was going to cash it on Monday. His coworkers also mentioned that they'd had another guy play with them before. This other person wrote a bad check and eventually had to leave town.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "All's Fair in Love and War"

Answer: ROTC

Mary was upset that the college was allowing an ROTC office on campus. She believed it was the government's war machine trying to raise the next soldiers for the next 'futile' war. Abby was doling out chores when Mary came home with news of the office's opening. When Abby didn't summon enough emotion against the ROTC, Mary confronted her. Abby seemed to be neutral on the subject. (After all, her first husband had died in Vietnam.) In the end, Mary confessed to Richard (the son of Tom's friend) that she was so anti-ROTC because her high school friend had died as the Americans were pulling out of Vietnam.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Fast and Loose"

Answer: Brian

Brian was a coworker/friend of David's. One morning, Brian pulled up to the construction site on his motorcycle and was talking with David. David turned his back on Brian and when he turned around, saw Brian laying face-down in the dirt. David later explains that Brian died of a heart attack, but they had a fancy name for it when it happens to someone so young.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Fathers and..."

Answer: Hawaii

Vivian found out her long-lost father was living in Hawaii. She arranged for the entire Bradford clan to go out there so Tom could see his father for the first time since he was ten. However, Vivian didn't tell anyone (except Abby, and then David and Janet when they said they couldn't go on the trip). Vivian told the family that because she wasn't able to make it to the weddings of David and Janet and Susan and Merle, that she was taking everyone to Hawaii on a honeymoon. (Everyone else would be chaperones.)

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "And Baby Makes Nine"

Answer: Boy Scouts

Nicholas was joining the Boy Scouts and Tom went with him for the first meeting. At this meeting, the leader tries to get one of the fathers to volunteer to be assistant scout master while Tom kept talking under his breath. Nicholas volunteered Tom for the job. The first task as assistant scout master: go on a backpacking trip into the woods.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Jeremy"

Answer: San Francisco

The sister of Abby's late husband, Frank, had died, leaving her teenage son Jeremy. Abby and Tom believed Jeremy was going to go live with his grandfather, but it turned out the grandfather was in a rest home, so Abby brought Jeremy back to Sacramento to stay with the Bradfords. Abby claimed that Jeremy's mother wore a bright yellow dress to a funeral, until her brother (Frank) told her to change... She did - into a bright red dress. His mother ended up wearing black to Abby and Frank's wedding. The part about the grandfather may contradict information form "The Bard and the Bod" where Abby brings Frank's father to meet Tom. In that episode, Abby claims to be very close to Frank's father and to be the only family he had. In this episode, Frank's "supposed" little sister dies - so how could Frank's father not have had any further family? In addition, Jeremy's grandfather is in a rest home and Abby didn't know. Frank's father should have told Abby if he was in a rest home, so is this the grandfather on Jeremy's father's side? We know Jeremy's father paid for Jeremy, but hadn't had contact since Jeremy was little.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "The Gripper Caper"

Answer: Dr. Hammer caused Tom's high school girlfriend to break up with him

Back when he was in high school, Tom was dating a girl. They made a bet that if Tom's team won, the girl would kiss him. Well, Dr. Hammer was on the opposing team and blocked a kick, causing Tom's team to lose. And the girlfriend not only didn't kiss Tom, but broke up with him as well. Dr. Hammer was also very arrogant - he thought that the 'Sacramento' version of touch football was too loose.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "The Bard and the Bod"

Answer: Titania

Joanie was auditioning for the part of Titania in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." She got the part - it was her first 'professional' role. The show would be performed on only one night - October 4th.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Hit and Run"

Answer: broke a window

Tommy and a friend were playing with slingshots trying to knock a can off the top of a street sign. Tommy's shot ended up hitting the church window instead. No one would have known about it, but the ice cream man saw Tommy running from the church and saw the broken glass.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Turnabout"

Answer: The Maxwells

It is the Maxwells' 25th anniversary, so the Bradfords decide to throw a surprise party for them. (Joan tells the Maxwells they have four tickets in a box to see "Mame.")

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Triangles"

Answer: He was on strike and wasn't working

David wasn't working as he was joining another union in striking. As they weren't earning money, David's coworker Greg moved in together to share expenses. Joanie was the first one to meet the roommate and originally thought Greg was a thief because David didn't believe in roommates of the opposite sex. Joanie thought Greg was cute and invited him to dinner.

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Women, Ducks..."

Answer: She broke curfew

Elizabeth was 48 minutes late coming in, so she was grounded for 2 weeks (without any time off for good behaviour).

From Quiz "Eight is Enough" - "Pieces of Eight"

Answer: printers go on strike

Mary ended up being pro-labor and David, who was a member of a union at his work, felt funny crossing a picket line to have lunch with his father.

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