If legal documents were signed, the kids were all out back on the teeter-totter or something.
But is that so?
“We never had an episode about it,” Williams concluded.

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Lookinland, however, wondered about the legalities.
“No,” Williams, who has been married three times, replied.
“It’s a whole process with legal entanglements.”

“They forgot?”
Williams questioned, to which Olsen replied, “Yes, they did!”
And Eve and Chris went to the producers and said, ‘We’re not related.’

They’re like, ‘Oh, nobody remembers.'"
Knight recalled that incident, too.
“I took offense to it,” he said.

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“I thought that was the part of the show that really failed us as kids.
And I was just 12 years old thinking at that time, they’re not really my sisters.
I know growing up, I would have said, ‘You’re not really my sister.'”
But then Knight got a little more philosophical.
It was all about getting along.
So it was completely put aside."
Or maybe they just wanted the pesky kids offering script notes to leave their office.
Perhaps the best approach is to follow the Brady method and just “get along.”