Brady Bunch Reunion at Chocolate Expo (What Brady Kid Made Puppy Poop Candy?)

Barb Oates March 14, 4:22 pm

Brady Kids Susan Olsen, Barry Williams, Mike Lookinland — Everett Collection

Several of the Brady Bunch kids will reunite at the end of this month at New Jersey’s The Chocolate Expo. Barry Williams (Greg Brady), Mike Lookinland (Bobby Brady) and Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady) will all be in attendance and participate in a panel discussion open to the public, where they are sure to discuss some of their favorite memories about growing up on one of TV’s most iconic series, The Brady Bunch.

The Chocolate Expo takes place on Saturday, March 29, and Sunday, March 30, from 10am to 6pm EST at the New Jersey Expo Center in Edison, New Jersey. The Brady panel discussion will take place at 10:30am both days and attendance to the panel is included with admission to The Chocolate Expo.

It’s somewhat rare these days to have three of the six Brady kids in attendance, but all three — Barry Williams, Michael Lookinland and Susan Olsen — will be signing autographs and taking selfies with attendees for much of the weekend. Prices for autographs are $40 and selfies are $40 per cast member. Remember, as with most fan conventions, it’s cash only.

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“My fellow Bradymates are my favorite people in the world, over the years – and there have been a lot of them, more than 50– it’s almost hard to tell where the fictional family ends and real-life relationships and familial relationships begin because that’s what it feels like,” Williams shared to Dr. Oz, when discussing reuniting with his TV family in the 2021 Lifetime original movie Blending Christmas. That film featured Williams, Lookinland, Olsen and Christopher Knight.

The Brady kids made major news in 2019 when they all gathered for the four-part HGTV series A Very Brady Renovation, transforming the house seen in the exterior shots of The Brady Bunch into an exact duplicate of the set where the sitcom was filmed. The last time some of the cast reunited was last year on the Today Show when Williams, Christopher Knight and Eve Plumb gathered to commemorate The Brady Bunch‘s 55^th anniversary and to discuss a new charity called The Brady Experience, which benefits No Kid Hungry.

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What Brady Kid Made Puppy Poop Candy?

Now, speaking of chocolate and candy, Olsen at one time actually had a line of candy herself, which she made to help raise funds for an animal rescue. She won’t be selling it at the Expo, but shares her story with us.

“I made candy — kitten crap and puppy poop. And I lovingly designed each of the turds myself,” Olsen laughs, telling us about how her idea was born. “I was a sculpting major in college and it started, obviously, as a joke, but I was doing a lot of hands-on rescue. I rescued like 64 kittens over the years. We had volunteers with the rescue that I was working with, and my house was full of kittens, as usual, and it wasn’t smelling good [despite being diligent with their litter boxes].”

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“So I’m like, where’s that smell coming from? Finally, I pulled the couch away from the wall. And oh god, there it was, just like the conveyor belt in the candy episode of I Love Lucy — all these little kitten turds all in a row looking like candies. An idea was born. I thought, ‘That’s it. I’m an artist. I will create candy poop and put it in candy boxes and give it to our volunteers, and I’ll make some really nice labels for them. And so that’s what I did for Christmas that year, and I made them myself. I put fudge in a pastry bag and extruded these little poopies. And everybody loved them so much. They said, ‘You really should do this commercially.’”

Olsen actually found a candy manufacturer, created molds and fillings for the candies and gave it a short go. “For special occasions, I had fiesta poop, which had hot chili in it. Our Easter poo had a carrot cake filling, so you had more things that you could do with it,” she shared.

It was short-lived, but perhaps the Chocolate Expo will spark some new ideas for her.