Three's Company After Chrissie / The Ropers.

Nothing worse than a thread controlling bottom

I'm in the minority, but, I liked Priscilla Barnes and preferred her episodes to Suzanne's or Jenilee's. I liked Mrs. Roper a lot and she cancelled out leather-face Norman Fell's irritation-factor. Though I too thought Knotts a one trick pony, his Mr. Furley didn't bother me.

I liked them all except Larry. When I watched it as a kid. ..... Middle School. It was unwatchable. Even worse were the couple of episodes of Three's a Crowd. Uh Oh. I brought up another show. OcdP is going to have to start another thread.

Here's Jenilee in a DL Classic

Here's Priscilla Barnes-Monte's website, OP. She'd love to hear your praise, R2. Why don't you write her at her website? She's always loved talking about THREE'S COMPANY.

Oh wait she has a website with a contact page, but when you go to the page, there's no way to actually contact her. Is that supposed to mean something?

Poor Prissy, I followed her contact link and it finally led me to a "page not found" reference. It's kind of like her career

Actually she's worked pretty consistently. So fuck you Joyce. You and your gangbang bugeyes.

The episodes with Lana were the best.

[quote]Actually she's worked pretty consistently

Yes her career as a "speaker" is consistent, of course in my day we called them "whores."

I liked the shows more after Summers left.

I like the earlier shows better although I did think Lana brought a fun twist when the show needed something. Neither DeWitt nor Somers was a particularly good actress but I think it worked for a slapsticky, silly sitcom. Jenilee Harrison wasn't very good and noticeably younger than Ritter & DeWitt (even to my 13 year old eyes) so the dynamic didn’t work. I was mostly done watching by the time Barnes joined & I didn't think she had much of a flair for comedy either. Someone else mentioned she seemed to be more a secondary character than a member of the trio and I think that's a good assessment.

No love for Larry? He married Barrie Youngfellow.

[quote]No love for Larry? He married Barrie Youngfellow.

No, he didn't.

I loved Mr. Furley! Thought he was much better than the one-note Ropers (though I'll admit everyone on that show only had one note.) Even though Lana's run on the show was very brief, her scenes with Furley were hilarious.

Larry was repulsive. Did that actor have any other roles?

Larry was gross. How anyone believed he was some kind of ladies man. His polyester suits and brillo hair.

I'm with R11.

I've been watching the 3 reruns a day that TVLD has been showing in the morning. The character of Felipe had a bigger role than I remembered. I preferred the Cindy episodes the best. She could keep up with the others with her physical comedy. I bet they all had bruises from some of the scenes that they had to do. Sure Jenilee was a little green with her acting but she was improving as her time on the show went on. The Terri years were the second best era for me. I think both of the later roommates added new ideas & dynamics that wouldn't have been possible if Chrissy was there from start to finish. Terri's nursing background really helping in more episodes than I remembered as well. I couldn't imagine what the show would have turned into if they hadn't dumped Suzanne Somers when they did. My favorite episode was when the Ropers returned & interacted with Mr. Furley. Second was the camping episode with Lana & Chrissy being present.

But how many times could you watch the ironing board eat Cindy?

R19 Plenty since I've seen each episode too many times to count.

Why cant I remember Lana? Was she funny?

It's because you're older than both the Ropers combined R21! She was funny to old people so check her out on YouTube.

[R22] sweetie, I was born in 1980 so my memories of the show are based on reruns.

Calm down R21. It was just an obvious joke. Besides you should be able to remember her if you only saw the show in reruns. I'M CALLING YOUR BLUFF HERE & NOW!

But we're not allowed to have a puppy!

[R22] sorry.

Mr. Furley was awesome. Lana was great.

Knowing what I know now about Suzanne's behind the scenes antics makes me like her less in the show.

Also, why did Chrissy and Cindy's father look like Ricardo Montalban? He was hot, but looked nothing like them.

r27

cindy was chrissy's cousin not sister

Chrissy's dad looked like hot rough trade

I always had a thing for Mr Angelino. Gotta luv those corporate bossy bottom types!

Guest spots by Bob Mandan & Jeffrey Tambor were the best moments of any era in this fiasco masquerading as classic TV

John Ritter got his karmic comeuppance for this abomination: death!

Nice try R32. I respect John Ritter as a wonderful physical comedian. However, that show was mindless trash. He deserved much better than being stuck in yoga poses and tired innuendo about 'Greedy Getchen'

Don't start knocking Greedy Gretchen or the DL will lose it!

Greedy Gretchen was only seen in one episode and Teresa Ganzel is a genius who never really got her due in terms of landing an iconic role in a long-running sitcom--someone smart in LA looking for a still sexy older lady to really make their series funny should snap her up and put her on a show. Surprised she didn't do a HOT IN CLEVELAND. She'd have actually been a much more interesting replacement for Harrison than Barnes. Certainly a warmer, funnier one.

R12 - Barrie Youngfellow troll here. I've wondered about that. Some places online say Kline and Youngfellow were married in real life; but it's not on his or her Wikipedia. Did someone just get confused because he played her husband on the iconic sitcom IT'S A LIVING? Or were they dating/married at the time and Barrie, being star of the show and all, threw her weight around and got him the job?

Come and knock on my door. The kisses are hers and hers and his three's company to. Boo bop be do do.

Someone on another thread claimed Lucille Ball was the original choice to play the cougar in heat Lana

Lucy was rejected because all she wanted to do was crush John's ball like they were grapes.

I thought it was because Gary Morton talked her out of it.

Too bad the producers decided to screw over Norman Fell and Audra Lindley instead of finding a way to fit them back on the show when their spinoff failed. The one episode that had the Ropers interacting with Mr. Furley showed real potential. It could have been fun to watch Helen flirt with Mr. Furley just to get a rise out of Stanley.

R35, that is a great thought about Teresa Ganzel. She would have been a fantastic replacement for Somers and, I think, a much better fit than Barnes was for the show. Lost opportunity there for sure.

R36, as I recall, Richard Kline was always married to someone else; he only played BY's husband in the syndicated run of "It's a Living" after TC went off the air.

R41, I agree that was lousy of the producers to do that to Fell and Lindley (even though I think they had promised to bring them back). It was also another great lost opportunity for the show as they could have very well ALL fit in just fine -- i.e., just because the Ropers were back didn't mean Furley couldn't have still been in the show, too. It would have made for a very nice ensemble.

The Ropers spinoff was about as bad as tv can get.

In the final two seasons, something odd happened to Joyce DeWitt. At the start of the show, Janet was wordly-wise and had a certain toughness. By the time the final season came around, she'd become bubbly and wide eyed. I think, on some level, she was attempting to create a "character" the way Suzanne Sommers had. Go watch an episode form season 2 and then one from season 8. It's like two completely different characters.

Also, DeWitt was very hurt and upset when she wasn't considered to become Jack's wife in the spin-off. She'd convinced herself they were going to ask her, and had a break-down when they didn't. She was very resentful that the final episode of Three's Company basically served as the pilot for Three's a Crowd.

Interesting, R44. Don't remember where I heard it (or maybe it was something Suzanne Somers said in an interview once) but supposedly, had Chrissy stayed in the show till the end, she and Jack would have ended up together. Again, don't remember where I heard it but there you go.

By the way, during the run of the show (I think before Suzanne left), I remember reading that the producers were considering moving Jack out of the apartment and into his own place upstairs as a way of giving John Ritter, who was getting lots of offers to make films, more time off from the show. If true, they obviously thought better of the idea because Jack never went anywhere (and neither did Ritter's film career).

That wedding they had in the apartment to start the spinoff....cheap ass fucks.

I loved the E! THS they did on Three's Company.

DeWitt was so jealous and bitter but relished the failure of Three's A Crowd.

They also interviewed Barnes and she seemed equally bitter. Harrison, too but she seemed cool with it stating that her character was not exactly one you would crack sex jokes to. I guess jumping to the #1 show Dallas helped make her happier in the end.

Can't remember if they interviewed Somers or not. I have heard say she has no ill will and couldn't understand why Ritter and DeWitt were so bitter since if she had gotten a pay raise then so would they.

Janet became a shrill harpie once teamed up with the nurse. Let us not forget the awful nose job too.

Once Chrissy left & the ropers spinoff bombed, Janet should have been flushed, the ropers reinstalled as landlords, and jack takes in Larry & furley as his new roommates.

The cheesecake could have come from a revolving door of lady friends hooking up with the fellas.

The love triangle between furley, Lana, & Helen mentioned up thread could have been comedy gold!

We had this in the UK, I was at University and fell into a state of melancholy when the series fell apart. I think it was a combination of my coming out and the series fumble that caused me to drop out at my third year.

Harrison's casting on Dallas was one of the oddest castings ever. I never understood it. Joyce must have come apart at the seams when that happened.

R50 The producers basically had no choice at this point. Somers was hijacking the show at the beginning of the 1980 season and they never knew if she was gonna show up or not. The E ths is fascinating on this this subject. Somers was interviewed and she said she cracked her ribs during her Vegas show and of course the producers didn't buy it, had enough and cast Harrison. Her greedy husband wanted too much money. But they would've had to give Ritter and DeWitt more too so if it was just Somers alone she may have negotiated for close to what she wanted. She also wanted part ownership of the show which was quite insane too. That's something she never would've got.

And then she tortured us with She's The Sheriff.

That's when I first noticed her Russian weightlifter's neck.

I said Harrison's casting on Dallas. She was fine for Three's Company. No one tripped over a floor better than Jennilee Harrison. But battling for oil rights on Dallas? It was just odd casting.

Cindy arrives at Southfork. Looking amazingly pretty with her grown out hair, a tan, and jeans. Patrick Duffy knows how to pack a speedo.

I liked her on Dallas even though her character was a bit of a rube. Isn't she a savvy real estate investor now?

Even though I was a little gayling I was fascinated by Jenilee Harrison's breasts. They were so firm and didn't jiggle at all, even though the producers tried to get her bouncing around as much as possible. Were they fake? Or was she just really young and firm?

On Hollywood Squares, Jenilee Harrison made a very innocent joke about Joan Rivers love life. This happened to be maybe after a year after the death of her husband Edgar, and Joan screamed and yelled and walked off the set, at the supposed insensitivity of someone making such a joke. Jennilee Harrison was crying in her square.

This had been reported in the Post, so who knew if it was true, but John Davidson came on Howard Stern and Howard asked him about it. Davidson got pretty serious and said it that what Joan did was inexcusable and unprofessional. LOL.

Found the original item. God I love the internet.

Before a taping of Hollywood Squares, Joan Rivers had the cast and crew screaming with laughter when she jokingly claimed to have spent the night with fellow Square Jm J. Bullock. But when Dallas' Jennilee Harrison tried to mine the same Rivers comedy vein with the cameras rolling, Joan exploded. Asked by host John Davidson what it was that Howard Hughes once did for 7½ hours, Harrison cracked, "I don't know what it was, but it probably made Joan happy." Rivers screamed, "Stop tape!" and said that in view of her recent widowhood the joke was inappropriate. A Squares aide says, "Jennilee made every effort to apologize for her questionable joke." Rivers says, "She got upset because I was upset, and then that got me more upset. We stood in the hall and cried." (Turns out that Hughes was testifying at a Senate hearing for those 7½ hours.)

[quote] The kisses are hers and hers and his three's company to

When I was little, I thought they were singing "the kisses are herzin, herzin in. Three's Company, too. I figured it was a word I didn't know.

[quote] Before a taping of Hollywood Squares, Joan Rivers had the cast and crew screaming with laughter when she jokingly claimed to have spent the night with fellow Square Jm J. Bullock. But when Dallas' Jennilee Harrison tried to mine the same Rivers comedy vein with the cameras rolling, Joan exploded. Asked by host John Davidson what it was that Howard Hughes once did for 7½ hours, Harrison cracked, "I don't know what it was, but it probably made Joan happy." Rivers screamed, "Stop tape!" and said that in view of her recent widowhood the joke was inappropriate. A Squares aide says, "Jennilee made every effort to apologize for her questionable joke." Rivers says, "She got upset because I was upset, and then that got me more upset. We stood in the hall and cried." (Turns out that Hughes was testifying at a Senate hearing for those 7½ hours.)

Rivers was a loathesome cunt who could dish it out but could never take it. Humorless twat.

R59: when I was an 8yo watching, I didn't know the word 'rendezvous'

As a result, I thought the end was saying:

Shala Dom be de doo

Instead of:

Down at our rendezvous

I am waiting for the knock at the door to confiscate my gay card since I was ignorant to the existence of the word and concept of rendezvous as an 8yo gayling

I always thought that guy was singing "naughty naughty nayvoo."

Jenilee wore a cowboy hat for her first scenes in both 3's Company and Dallas.

If I were Jamie Ewing, I would have hooked my thumbs into the waistband of Bobby's speedos, yanked those suckers down, and gone to town on his thick, veiny shaft, Jenna Wade be damned. But that's just me.

Considering that Three's Company was a remake of "Man About The House," and "The Ropers" was a remake of "George and Milded," it was absurd for deWitt to think she'd be part of "Three's A Crowd," which was a remake of the British series, "Robin's Nest."

The Janet of "Man About The House," had no place in "Robin's Nest," so how could the "American Janet" expect to?

I actually liked The Ropers spinoff. Three's a Crowd just had no real purpose.

I loved Anne the neighbor, she was such a good child actress....

Give me those shoes.....

Patrick Duffy in those black speedos - wow.

Jenilee must have known or blown someone to get Dallas. I mean of all the people to cast for a pivotal role for two seasons on a top rated show. Who said "Let's get that girl who replaced Suzanne Somers on that show....what do you call it ...Three's Company. You know the one who trips over everything?" It was just odd.

Richard Kline played Martha's dad on The Americans.

Joyce DeWitt and Richard Kline meet fans of the show:

[quote] [R59]: when I was an 8yo watching, I didn't know the word 'rendezvous' As a result, I thought the end was saying: Shala Dom be de doo Instead of: Down at our rendezvous

That is hilarious. After I'd shut down my laptop for the night, I remembered I'd also misheard that lyric, too, and thought they were singing "something, something Dormez-vous," probably because I was much closer to Frere-Jacques age than rendezvousing age.

I used to stand up and do Priscilla Barne's flamingo move. You know you did too.

[quote]I used to stand up and do Priscilla Barne's flamingo move. You know you did too.

I only tried the one time, then toppled over like a Weeble.

Pris was the only one (principal cast, supporting/guest actors, crew, executives) who wouldn't talk to Chris Mann for his exhaustive book on the show, COME AND KNOCK ON OUR DOOR.

So what were Joyce and Priscilla so bitter about? That the show ruined their careers?

"Three's Company"? I never heard of it. I recall a hilarious John Ritter sitcom, but that wasn't the name of it.

The girl they got to play Ritter's wife in Three's a Crowd was really awful. Even worse than Jennilee Harrison. They actually would have been better off going with Joyce DeWitt.

I hope R79 was posting on his phone while driving, and after he hit "send" he hit the jersey barrier, went spinning off the road, down an embankment, rolled over four times, and is currently caught in his car that's engulfed in flames.

Mary you were good.......On the $10,000 Pyramid that is

On the ETHS, the producers admitted that there was a giant mistake not allowing Jack to marry Janet. The audiences had come to expect that absolutely, the Jack character would fall in love with the Janet character, and that's where the writing in the final season was unquestionably going. One episode has Jack reading an advice column where a girl says she's in love with her male roommate and Jack naturally thinks Janet wrote it. Their banter in the episode opened doors in that relationship that had been slammed slut before. Another had Jack and Janet sign up for computer dating and of course, the computer matches the two of them up. By just having him marry this stewardess who the audiences didn't even know, they created ill will and they never gave TAC a chance.

Ritter to his credit said that it wouldn't have worked because we've already met Janet's family and they all loved Jack so the tension wouldn't have been there.

Barnes and deWitt became best friends during the show and still are good friends. They both became bitter not at the show but at the producers and the whole way Hollywood treats people in general. I recall deWitt saying that Hollywood is allowed to treat the people that make them like garbage and when called on it, write it off to, "That's the nature of the business." She then add it wasn't the nature and it was just an excuse to allow people to be abused.

What deWitt failed to realize, is although she is correct, it's pretty much all business that sap their workers not just Hollywood.

[quote]we've already met Janet's family and they all loved Jack

So, the Golden Girls all met Rose's daughter who suddenly turned into a major bitch once her mother had a heart attack.

It would have been like Jack fucking his sister.

[quote]So, the Golden Girls all met Rose's daughter who suddenly turned into a major bitch once her mother had a heart attack.

My beer is Rheingold , the dry beer

Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer

It's not bitter, not sweet

It's the extra dry treat

Won't you try extra dry Rheingold beeeeeeer!

While the actors signed standard contracts for back then (residuals for a certain number of reruns and that's it), and one would assume those contracts, particularly for later seasons, were negotiated by seasoned agents, there is the fact that 3'S has yielded several huge pots of gold the actors/their estates don't share in. It was sold into syndication for $300M, the actors didn't get any of that. It's had several subsequent lives on home video, cable, streaming, etc.

So even though it follows the actors around (how many people do you think call Joyce "Janet" to her face or ask "come and knock on my door?" when they see her) and they pretty much have to be gracious about signing DVDs, etc. that they don't get a share in.

Yes, the contract was followed. But with the series being such an ongoing windfall, it might have been gracious to set aside, what, 5%? 10%? either as a one time gift or ongoing to go to the actors. Maybe split among the principal actors with opening title credits. Same with BRADY BUNCH, GILLIGAN'S ISLAND, so many series like that where the actors still have to work because they don't share in the series income. And the actors are the thing about the series that people love, not the producers or studio execs or others who are getting the entirety of the series income, so while it may be contractually what's on paper, it doesn't feel really right or fair when there's been such an abundance of money to go around.

And it's not like the actors had a huge windfall and squandered it. While they were paid well per episode for that time, the actors on these classic shows made NOTHING like what the principals on FRIENDS, FRASIER or HOME IMPROVEMENT made just a generation later.

Here's what we used to sing for the theme song:

Come and knock up our whore

She's been waiting to screw

Where the pisses are hers and hers and his

Three's hump-any too

Come and fuck on our floor

Try a position that's new

There's a lovable crotch that needs your face

Three's hump-any too

You'll see that you can get laid again

You can get balled again

Orgies are calling for you

Come on over to screw

Three's hump-any too

Yes Joyce DeWitt hates Hollywood so much that in interviews the old prune face bitch thinks it's funny when she calls it "Hollyweird"

Oh Joyce stick to getting drunk and appearing in the regional theatre production of Annie as Miss Hannigan, that's art imitating life if I ever saw it!

Joyce DeWitt in Annie coming to a high school gymnasium near you!

Do you think Joyce's L'eggs money is gone too?

Joyce and Ritter hated Chrissie, because they were afraid, she'd get the show cancelled or without her it would tank. Both knew it was the only "real" work they'd ever get. Ritters mediocre sitcom life, not withstanding.

Kind of like how Rhea Pearlman hated Shelly Long, for leaving Cheers. Rhea thought it would kill Cheers and her job. Oddly, Long leaving Cheers was the best thing in the world for the show and brought it back to life.

R90 that money is long gone! That old cunt drank it away years ago! You guys want to see something really scary? Then Google Joyce's recent DUI arrest picture, that'll keep you up at night!

But don't worry Joyce I hear Depends is looking for a new spokeperson.

Hooperman was Ritter's best work.

You were saying, R92?

I think Barnes was unhappy because her role was never really well-defined and she was always basically just 'third roommate.' Sometimes she was an intelligent nurse, other times she was goofy and scatterbrained like Chrissy. Most often she was just there so the title of the show was still accurate. I believe she tried several times to get out of her contract. I know she has said her time on the show was the unhappiest time of her life.

By the time she was on the show the producers weren't very subtle in considering "Three's Company" The John Ritter Show. As long as they kept him front and center the rest of the cast was replaceable. Obviously they were wrong since "Three's A Crowd" flopped pretty hard but at the time they were a bit justified in their thinking. So many cast shakeups on "Three's Company" and yet the show continued to be popular.

Jesus h surely that picture of Somers has been photoshopped.....Three's a Crowd might have worked with a better cast. Everyone they surrounded ritter with on that show was a dud. Every single fucking one. I hate that Robert Mandan or whatever the fuck his name was. it might have helped too if the sets weren't so cheap...and didn't look just like the set of Three's Company. It's like they didn't even try.

Come on, r96. Jessica Walter was never a dud in anything and she was well-cast as Mary Cadorette's mom. The problem was Jack Tripper, for all his alleged womanizing, was ultimately a very sexless character. At the most he was a dirty-minded little kid making obvious sex jokes. No one wanted to see him settle down with a woman and explore an adult relationship. Even Ritter didn't seem to know how to play it.

There's a crowd was doomed from the start. The wind was already out of the sails of the mothership. Perhaps it would have worked had they done it about 3 years earlier. Also, the jack tripper character wasn't compelling enough to be on TV that long. Ritter gave a great performance, but the character was actually rather boring.

In conclusion, TV's Bob Mandan was the best thing about the crowd fiasco.

It would have had a little more spark if it was Jessica he was fucking.

Yes.

The only problem with Three's a Crowd is that it was complete and utter shit that made the original series look like Frasier by comparison. It died a quick death because it deserved to, plain and simple.

Three's a Crowd was the equivalent of The Golden Palace and Archie Bunker's Place.

I liked the first couple of seasons bests when the show was actually raunchy. The things that I hated was every episode revolving around a stupid misunderstanding, the complete dumbing down of Chrissy and the excessive makeup that the girls wore at all times. I know the show from reruns, so I'm guessing that was the style of the times, but it was like clown mask.

The roomate's families were a complete disconnect. Like Janet's parents thinking Jack was her husband. How long have the been living together at that point?

I didn't mind Larry, Lana was annoying, Mr. Furley grew on me. However, I still preferred the Ropers, especially Mrs. Roper. I love the idea of bringing them back, even just Helen, with Mr. Furley. Shame they got screwed. I read Norman Fell didn't want to do the spin off for fear it would fail and he would be out of a job. That's exactly what happened.

I can understand why JD was pissed, the ending was terrible. It totally disregarded Janet. Even at her wedding, it was about Jack and the snooze love interested they paired him with. Janet and Terri were afterthoughts. By the end I was shocked how much they aged. It didn't seem realistic that they would still be living together, especially because Jack owned the restaurant, which had a room upstairs.

Joyce's mugshot

LOL 104. Was "Michael Jackson" an elaborate fiction created by Ms. DeWitt? One she chose to "kill off" so that she could revive her career as America's big sister? Think about it: you've never seen the two in the same room together!

Anyone catch this?

Thanks for linking that, r106. She gets so much shit here but I just can't help liking Joyce DeWitt. She just seems like a sweet person.

Cum and knock out my whore we've been waiting 4 u. where the pisses are hers and hers and his, Three's company's through.

Why did the guy who played Larry on the show stopped acting?

Who the fuck would have wanted him?

Did dick Kline ever actually start acting?

Richard Kline is still acting. Mostly in theatre these days I believe.

I loved Mr. Furley and never liked Mr. Roper. He always came off as a homophobe. The episode where they introduced Terri was really disturbing to me. The horrible way Jack treated her just seemed so out of character for him.

Go ahead Jack. You know you want to. I insist.

We learned on the show that the best way to get Suzanne to do anything was by waving a hundred dollar bill in front of her face and leading her to the soundstage. That method has worked well as she's shilled everything from a cheaply made piece of fabric disguised as a poncho to cures for cancer.

She'd hump a dog if there was a thousand in it for her.

Bring on the Doberman bitch. I close my eyes and think of England. And the money!

R113, Jack could get really pissy. There was an episode, I think the one where he moved out, that he was very nasty to Chrissy.

LOL, r114.

[quote]She'd hump a dog if there was a thousand in it for her.

One-fifty.

Furley was a trip. Roper and his faces when Jack's supposed gayness came up became so tiresome. Not to mention Mrs Roper's insistence on getting laid all the time. Furley was so corny yet in a totally cool way.

I actually thought furley came off as more homophobic than roper. In a closet case self hating kind of way.

I love Roper's homophobia because the joke was always on him. He was lovable, but dumb.

And Normal Fell looking into the camera after zinging Mrs. Roper may be the funniest thing ever on TV.

This thread is useless without Norman Fell's dick pics.

Knotts was probably better hung than Fell . Knotts seemed like the unassuming rube who was packing an anaconda in his pants meanwhile he was a real life Mr Limpet when it came to the dirty deed.

John Ritter never could pull off an actual good looking guy. You know you're in trouble when the writers go out of their way to say in every other episode how "cute" Jack was. They had to write it in the script cause no one would by it. Ritter was always chubby and flabby and laughable when every single female couldn't keep their hands off him.

No woman would even give Jack Tripper a second glance in real life, nor Larry either.

[quote]I hate that Robert Mandan

Back off bitch

R125, While John Ritter's upper body in most episodes wasn't anything to write home about, his muscular defined legs, noticeable butt & hairy chest were enough for lots of male admirers to dream about. His chest was okay to me in a couple of shows where he was shirtless but I always wondered what he would have looked like if he exercised more often. The face was a 6 or 7 out of a possible 10 for me.

Tyler Ritter is a cutie and played the gay lead convincingly in "The McCarthys".

I thought Richard Kline was cute. He didn't age particularly well but he looked okay when he was on the show (despite the often horrid way they dressed him).

I hated Mr. Angelino and the kitchen rat- Pepe? Those episodes were so boring. Everything about Jack and his business was boring. Loved how that wallpaper ion the kitchen made it look Technicolor.

Was Lucille Ball that much of a fan or did they hold out a carton of cigarettes in front of her to make her do the special?

R129: my heart goes out to you! How long have you been institutionalized?

LOL, R132.

I turned off R106's video after approx 10 minutes. The Q&A was poorly paced and moderated, and Kline was too much of a talkover ham and mic hog. DeWitt and Barnes were extremely patient with, and tolerant, of him (did any of that change later in the video?). The little I did see and hear of DeWitt reinforced how decent she often came off on camera.

[quote]Everything about Jack and his business was boring.

So true. Never liked any of those episodes.

By the way, I often wondered if the first 5 or so episodes with Cindy were written for Chrissy and retooled for Cindy only because, in those episodes, she actually had a pretty substantial role. But from that point forward (and for the remainder of that season), she was basically made a smiling mannequin with a line here and a line there but placed squarely on the sidelines of the action while Jack and Janet (and even Larry) took center stage. Looking back at those episodes now, it should've been no surprise that she would be eventually kicked to the curb.

Felipe, R130. And ugh I hated him too!

He was the stuff of nightmares.

Felipe was disgusting looking. It was distracting. At least Furley was funny.

Do they still show the episode where John Ritter's balls fall out of his shorts?

Behind the Camera The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company. It's a surprisingly good and entertaining movie. The girls are spot on but the guy play John Ritter is a fucking mess with moobs. It was co-produced by Joyce. Maybe it was a little payback in getting such a hack to play John. If you like this show you will really like this movie.

R113, that episode is on Antenna tv right now.

I think Christmas became too broad a character by the end.

I loved Don Knotts. Mr Furley fit in quite well with the rest of the cast. The whole Ropers bit about Mrs Roper being horny and wanting Stanley became too tiresome too quickly.

Every actor in it was terrible. Plots were tedious. The original Robins Nest was better.

Yet I loved Threes Company. What was with its appeal.

Audra Lindley was actually a pretty woman out of character.

I can't believe no one has mentioned Dean Travers. "TrIIIIIIIIIII-per!"

I honestly forgot Larry was even a character on the series until this thread

Ritter was an amazing physical actor. He deserved his Emmy

By the time Barnes joined the show, John Ritter was in his best physical shape. He lost baby fat, his face looked better, his hair grew out, and his newly toned and tanned upperarms and chest were highlighted in tight pastel polo shirts that marked the end of the 70s and the advent of the 80s. This new body didn't last long. He'd mostly lost it by the Robert Mandan vehicle Three's a Crowd, and after that it was pudge city well into the grave. Nonetheless, he had a couple good, lean years there where his upper and lower halves matched.

Do you think Ann Wedgeworth, Audra Lindley, and Jordan Charney ever sat around and discussed their old Another World days?

John Ritter looked great on Three's Company. A few times during the show's run he had a bit of a potbelly, but otherwise he was in good shape and was really handsome. Jack wasn't supposed to be this massive hunk--for all his posturing as a horny ladies' man, he's really a sweet and awkward guy underneath. That's what made the character so popular.

DL fave Dorian Lopinto played Dean Travers' niece in one episode. Where's the Three's Company episode that Julia Montgomery ever did?

He fills out those bikini briefs very well.

He should of married Lana.

Mary Cadorette got better with time.

R88 , your version of the song had me cracking the fuck up. Because I'm still in fifth grade, mentally.

I found Richard Kline to be way hotter than John Ritter. Loved his ass in those super tight pants.

Kline's ass looks terrible in that pic! Was he clenching?

Here's a fun gif for Kline AND Ritter fans:

The producers of Threes Company were ignorant, stingy assholes.

Yes R158, he was about to comb his hair and was doing that slouch down thing guys do when they're grooming in the mirror.

I thought Three's A Crowd had its moments.

I was a kd in the 1970s when this show was first aired. We all hated Mr. Furley and preferred the Ropers. Jenilee Harrison was ok, but then she was sidelined rather quickly. Priscilla Barnes was fine, too. But nothing matched the original cast with Suzanne Somers and the Ropers. We didn't like Lana, either, for whatever reason.

I don't know how things could have evolved had Chrissy stayed on. They wrote her into a corner.

Chrissy and the Ropers both were pretty one note. The show's problem was that it really had nowhere to go, comedically w/o them. there was n't much room for character development and Ritter was the only one with real talent.

I liked Chrissy before she had what I can only assume was a massive stroke.

Three's a Crowd is a great example of a show that has interesting ingredients but never comes together to amount to anything. The formula for Three's Company was slapstick, innuendo, and bedroom farce, while the formula for Three's a Crowd was ... I'm not sure what. There is no chemistry between Ritter and the woman who plays his wife, and the only premise for comedic tension is that Jack Tripper doesn't get along with his father-in-law, Robert Mandan -- who for some reason in this show comes off as super gay. I do have to say, the show is worth watching to the extent that it is fascinatingly bad, and leaves you wondering "what were they thinking?"