Eve Plumb Says “Saturday Night Live” Parodies of Infamous 'Marcia, Marcia, Marcia' Line Felt Like 'a Taunt'

Virginia ChamleeThu, May 14, 2026 at 4:03 PM UTC

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Eve Plumb; Eve Plumb as Jan Brady and Maureen McCormick as Marcia Brady in The Brady Bunch episode, "The Tiki Caves." Original air date October 6, 1972.
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Eve Plumb is sharing how it felt seeing people mock her now infamous "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia" line on The Brady Bunch

In a new interview, the actress — who played Jan Brady on the show — said watching parodies of the line felt like "a taunt"

While the show aired from 1969 to 1974, the syndicated reruns meant it gained a new audience and got new life on platforms like Saturday Night Live

Eve Plumb is opening up about her infamous "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia" line — and how it really didn't "become a thing" until she was an adult.

The line first appeared in a season 3 episode of the show, in which now 68-year-old Plumb's character — middle sister Jan — struggles with being compared to her older sister Marcia (played by Maureen McCormick).

Jan eventually gets frustrated and puts all of Marcia's awards in a closet and, when confronted by their parents, tells them: “Well, all I hear all day long at school is how great Marcia is at this, or how wonderful Marcia did that. Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!”

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Melanie Hutsell As Jan Brady
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While the episode first aired in the 1970s, the show later went into syndication, and the scene was parodied on Saturday Night Live in the early '90s, with SNL cast member Melanie Hutsell mimicking Plumb's “Marcia” line.

In an interview with Joann Butler In Studio, Plumb, 68, was asked why the line "bothered" her.

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"It feels like somebody was making, you know, like making fun," Plumb said. "Like it was a taunt — making fun of my acting, making fun of me as a little girl. I'm sure everybody [who's been] in a schoolyard has had somebody make up some nasty rhyme about their name, and pointed at you, and chanted at you. That's what it feels like."

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Plumb went on to say the "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia" joke "happened as an adult. It wasn't until it was on Saturday Night Live that it became a thing."

Plumb also spoke about the line in a recent interview with CBS Mornings.

“It took me back to being that age, and it felt as if someone was making fun of my performance,” Plumb admitted of seeing the SNL spoof. “But this was an adult actor on a comedy show, and I was an adult. So it was a very odd reaction to have, but that's sort of how I felt.”

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