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You know that famous saying: if there’s anyone you want in your corner during an unplanned pregnancy, it’s Shirley Partridge…

I just love these characters’ close platonic relationship, and with Shirley having a definitive leg up on Reuben when it comes to experience having and raising children (not that life with a young musical troupe under your roof doesn’t still present its fresh challenges on the daily 😞), of course she would be a dependable source of advice and consolation. 

Here’s something tangentially related I made up: I like imagining that shortly after Reuben divulged the big news (long before the happening in the above pic), Shirley gave a sort of earnest, kind “pep talk” to the kids at breakfast (Shirley: “Now, as our manager, Reuben is going to continue to do everything he has been doing for us up until the baby is almost ready to be born. But as our friend, he’s going to need our support. I mean, the pregnancy, caring for a newborn… he’s never done anything like this before.”). “You don’t say. Here I was thinking he was a natural,” Keith retorted, earning some giggles and a reluctant, unimpressed smirk from his mother. Laurie, ever the serious-minded idealist, suggested they could start by pitching in supplies like diapers and bottles, necessities that would contribute to the soon-to-be-baby’s wellbeing. (I think she’d take an interest in this, and even in challenges facing parents. Her other modus operandi throughout this pregnancy stint would be pointing out anything erring on the side of selfish or sexist that Reuben came out with.) And then, Danny piped up - “Well, I think we should make sure we put Mr. Kincaid in touch with a good tailor.” When Shirley innocently asked him why, he immediately reasoned that it was so he could get all those expensive suits taken out. 😂

#my art #fanart #mpreg

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I'm literally shaking someone buy him brown contacts please!!1!11!1

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I have an inexplicable vision of the Partridge Family covering this song 🤔

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*Keith is desperately scrounging around town for a fake date to make his crush jealous and runs into a high school classmate*

Keith: Gee, it's been a long time. What's new?

Acquaintance Claire: Oh, nothing much.

Acquaintance Claire in the next shot:

#sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words #and sometimes the picture is the most artificial looking baby bump primetime tv has ever seen!

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This is one of my top favorite songs from this show, maybe even my favorite. It may be an unusual choice seeing as it's one of those early season 1 anomalies where David Cassidy isn't even providing the vocals, but the lyrics are beautiful 🥲

#the partridge family #music

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#the partridge family #reuben kincaid

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#the partridge family #reblog #gif #my fave #it always seems like reuben has been waiting his entire life to make these incredibly specific remarks to danny #this was so violent and for what #mr. kincaid is never seeing the pearly gates 😤

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Not many people know this, but the protagonist of The Partridge Family was actually Reuben Kincaid’s sleep mask. Reuben wears his mask to sleep in a perfectly dark bedroom, the man is such a legend.

#my art #fanart #illustration #the partridge family #reuben kincaid

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Merry Christmas 😊

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My keyboard-ing feminist queen! Love her.

EVERY teenage female in the 70s wanted what she had. I am actually the definitive authority on this subject and am uniquely qualified to talk about it, being that I was in no way, shape, or form alive in the 1970s. 

#my art #fanart #illustration #the partridge family #laurie #laurie partridge

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Help! I’ve fallen and I’m a “child-hating” talent agent weathering a (medical-termed) geriatric pregnancy in the fictitious town of San Pueblo, California! 

Word on the street (me) would have it that Reuben Kincaid was faced with distressing news at his doctor’s office (and nearly passed out as a result, alarming and evoking sympathy from an elderly patient hobbling down the hallway with her cane… well, it wouldn’t surprise me. Lest we forget we learned in the “Soul Club” episode that he apparently carries “smelling salts” on his person?) in the fall of 1974…. But anyway, months later, he was preparing to depart from the Partridge residence for a business trip. “Reuben, don’t you look nice,” Shirley told him before he left. “Yeah. You’re glowing!” Danny crowed loudly, taking long opportunistic strides to catch up to his mother and manager. Reuben smiled at them, looking a bit incredulous. “You know, you guys don’t have to flatter me.” “Oh, phew,” Danny breathed, pretending to wipe sweat off his brow. “That one comment took a lot out of me.” Shirley glanced in displeasure at her son before asking, “What do you mean, Reuben?” “Come on, Shirley. I wasn’t born yesterday,” Reuben said. “I know what you’re saying is because of… “ he trailed off, flailing his hands vaguely around his torso. “This.” “Because of what?” Shirley asked, eyes widening and voice getting higher in mock bewilderment. “You mean because you’re pregnant? Oh, wait, or has your mother not discussed the ‘birds and bees’ with you yet?” she teased. And there occurred the exchange pictured above. “Reuben,” Shirley said then, focusing kind eyes back on him. “I didn’t mean anything by what I said. I can’t give a friend a compliment?” “Shirley…!” he started to protest, raising a hand. “I really do think that you look nice,” Shirley went on. “And healthy!” “A-ha!” Reuben exclaimed, leaning in and pointing a finger at the two Partridges, startling them both. “There it is! That’s the kicker!” Shirley’s expression wavered between concerned and amused. “Now, I could’ve flown across the entirety of Nevada and the better part of Utah by now if you had just said I look like a bloated tick ready to burst!” “Reuben!” Shirley chastised him, quick on his heels as he headed for the door before exiting. Danny watched on, smirking. Seconds later, the door partially creaked back open, revealing just a sliver of him. “And don’t say that you wouldn’t have noticed if I never said anything, because I won’t believe it.” The door slammed and opened once more. “Goodbye,” came a mellower voice sans eye contact, followed by a final proper close of the door.  Shirley let out a sigh and shook her head. Even young Chris looked up from his cereal and chimed in, “That was a really weird way to say thank you!”

Well, wacky hijinks ensue.

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Probably how Alex felt with Goat in "Hotel Bar".

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When we as a society discuss the Partridge Family Christmas Episode, we need to focus more on how the "Mean Sidney™️" getup was an absolute look for him

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*I catch your ear at a social gathering* Did you see that episode of The Partridge Family with the hamsters?! It was chock-full of pregnancy, labor, and delivery references as the hamster Dean Martin gave live birth on prime-time TV, Reuben was randomly in severe distress from lifting his 2 suitcases containing car-sick pills aboard the bus, he was later sweating bullets driving around with the heat blasting in the wee hours of the morning to keep the hamster community alive, and in the end it was all but revealed that Reuben's reluctant new pet hamster named after himself by Chris was in fact going to give birth!

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On September 25, 1970, in the 8:30 p.m. time slot immediately following “The Brady Bunch,” ABC premiered “The Partridge Family.” #OnThisDay

#oh my GOD happy 53rd 😭 #the partridge family #reblog

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actually important

Downtown, ep 9

#mtv downtown #reblog