Even at age 7, the actress realized her character was not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Maybe those curls were a little too tight.

“You’re saying the most idiotic thing imaginable,” Williams remarked.

Susan Olsen as Cindy Brady in the BRADY BUNCH episode, “The Subject Was Noses."

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Knight asked, “Did it start there, Susan?

Do you remember having an issue with that line?”

“Oh yeah!”

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Lookinland then presumed to speak what Olsen was thinking back then: “Why is Cindy so stupid?”

“I was 7, but thats just how my career was,” Olsen sighed.

“It was something I had to accept.”

‘The Brady Bunch’ character of Cindy was played by Susan Olsen

My brother in the movie says ‘because hes English,’ and I say, ‘What’s English?’

My son said, ‘So you always play the stupid child!'”

Your face is to be sculpted."

Susan Olsen as Cindy Brady in THE BRADY BUNCH episode, “Grand Canyon or Bust."

Cindy Brady, looking perplexed as usual.CBS via Getty

Olsen replied, “Aw, she doesnt have a functioning brain, but shes cute!”

She gives Cindy a look like, ‘Oh, poor [girl] there she goes again.

Oh, my my.'”

‘Brady Bunch’ star Susan Olsen at the 2025 Chocolate Expo in Edison, N.J.

‘Brady Bunch’ star Susan Olsen at the 2025 Chocolate Expo in Edison, N.J.Bobby Bank/Getty