Suzanne Somers

Why do we need the Space Shuttle? To blast the cast of Three's Company into the sun.

Who the hell cares? This was 40 years ago stop living in the past!

I remember wiping my ass with that issue

She’s annoying.

Deplorable muppet face!

GET OVER IT, JOYCE!!!

What fucking career, Joyce, you fucking annoying whinger. Jack T.

People r still obsessed with her

Suzanne Somers is still successful 40 yrs later.

John is dead and Joyce is ?

She’s a national treasure 🤡

Joyce is nothin

She actually looks pretty there. I will never understand that "look" she pulled on TC with the side pony and rabid raccoon eyes. Made her completely unattractive.

R12 prior she looked great. And then she started doing that hairstyle, the hair even more bleached and made the character even more dumb

Agreed, R12.

Suzanne never looked more beautiful than at that point. She's not doing the tortured "Chrissy hair" with ponytail/pigtails et al. Her platinum blonde hair is in a much softer, more natural shape (reminiscent of Ann Jillian, that other TV siren from that era). The makeup is a bit loud, but it suits her rather sharp features.

She would have been around 34-35 at that time.

^R13, not R12

Talent free Republicunt

I remember when she was hawking a weight loss book and products, and then, was busted getting liposuction. She ran to Larry King's show and dramatically claimed she had cancer and was only at the "cosmetic center" because she was receiving a new cancer treatment!

Beautiful woman

RATTY KOREAN WIG!!!

[quote]And then she started doing that hairstyle, the hair even more bleached and made the character even more dumb

She was the Barbie version of Urkel.

Can the "I finger fucked SS in the Bellagio fountains" make an appearance? Those stories were highly entertaining and I'm too lazy to search for them.

She has really grown into her looks

She's a Trump-loving cunt.

Doesn't she live in Palm Springs? I wonder if she has any eldergay to pal around with?

Lousy actress and hardly anything close to beautiful. Teenage boys though, couldn’t get enough of her.

She was blonde and had big tits. That's enough for most straight men.

Little talent, but made the most of with what little she did have. Very lucky she landed another successful show (Step by Step) after getting overly greedy with her pay raise demands on Three's Company.

Her real talent (along with husband's) if self-promotion and coming out with a line of questionable products to an audience that is easy to bilk (fraus, especially fat ones).

Does the Thigh Master really work?

I like Suzanne Summers and her character Chrissy, but I definitely preferred Terri. She was a beautiful, intelligent, and talented nurse who didn't take anyone's bullshit. Then, in the finale she got to live her dream of moving to Hawaii. Christmas Snow wasn't so special: just a dumb blond #TeamTeri

[quote]I like Suzanne Summers and her character Chrissy

OH DEAR!!! Summers?

R29 It was a test! You passed.

R27

I assume it works your adductors, but I doubt it does much fitness wise. Adductor/abductor training is only really useful for serious athletes and is wasted on the unathletic women buying the Thighmaster.

R29 Plus, I'm an eldergay. I've been drinking gin martinis in my caftan since 9am. You're lucky I can type at all.

R28 What, no love for me?

R33 I don't acknowledge her clumsy existence. A disgrace!

R34 Next you'll be telling me Mr. Furley was an inferior replacement for the Ropers!

R35 The way Mrs. Roper worked that caftan!? Unbeatable!

I wish I'd gone to see Blonde in the Thunderbird when it was on Broadway - it must`ve been a laff-filled camp classic!

She’s actually quite talented and is a shrewd business woman

R36 But Mr. Furley sure could rock a polyester leisure suit.

They were all delightful and hilarious in their own way.

R36 Agreed! As a more serious aside, Three's Company is one of my all time favorite shows, and will always remain as such. Being based on the British show "Man About the House," it brought the classic style of the British Farce to American television. As a result, for me at least, it instilled a love for that style of humor that is still with me to this day. I can't imagine life without every episode being ingrained on my brain cells.

Didn't beloved thespian Joyce DeWitt trash Jenilee "Cindy" Harrison (as "not an actress") in some interview? I know she got along well with Priscilla Barnes, who played Terri the nurse.

Jenilee was only in 44 eps vs Priscilla's 72. Somers did 102.

Joyce DeWitt did 173 eps over (gulp!) 8 SEASONS. Anyone know what kind of residuals Joyce gets?

I read some article back in the day that Jennifer Harrison was a financial wiz that was secure for life even before she got the job.

Was that just puffery?

[quote] Jennifer Harrison

OH DEAR!

GODDAMN AUTOCORRECT!!

The name “Jennilee “ should be emblazoned on every mind and device on EARTH!!!

Behold the bodacious charms of Jenilee.

(Gurl may want to rethink that lipgloss, though.)

Harrison was dating Reggie Jackson for a while...what happened with that?

Like "Charlie's Angels!" But, erm, not.

I always thought Priscilla was the beauty on the show.

Pussy Willow

Priscilla Barnes was very beautiful. Too bad she says her time on the show made it the unhappiest period of her life.

I guess the producers were pigs.

One of the whores in You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again - was that the book's title? - said that John Ritter threw the meanest fuck in town and could last for hours!

It's "You'll Never Make Love in this Town Again" - the former was Julia Phillips' autobiography about the film biz & cocaine.

Suzanne was never a great beauty..she has a nice body but the face not so much.

R48 Funnily enough, Priscilla apparently went pretty far (semi-finals at least) in the casting hunt for the role of Julie for the 5th season of Charlie's Angels per a newspaper article at the time. Tanya Roberts ultimately got the part. I think Priscilla would've been an interesting choice, but Charlie's Angels was on it's last leg at that point, so it was good for her that she didn't get it.

I suppose st8 guys and teens never looked above her breasts to see what an ugly face she had.

She was right, though, about them trying to kill her career, but she helped them do it. Her demands were outrageous.

R56 she was very popular

Interesting interview

I never understood why Suzanne was considered the hot one. Joyce was much prettier and had nice legs. Jenilee had a better body and face. And Priscilla was very beautiful.

I’m Team Suzanne

MULTIPLE threads linked to the same Twitter Account....Is someone trying to promote their twitter feed?...Feels like it.

Damn she really wasn’t pretty, was she. I think she look best on Step by Step, actually.

I’ve always wanted to watch the full Donahue show she did around this time - they always show clips of it on the THS type shows but would love to see the whole thing.

It was after that interview that supposedly she was shitcanned for good.

She basically sabotaged her own career by trying to hold the producers hostage to her outrageous demands.

In that photo she looks like a call girl.

Suzanne and her husband should've seen how well things went for Farrah Fawcett when she bailed on Charlie's Angels. Farrah just wanted out and wasn't going for a unreasonable money grab like Suzanne was - she just wanted to do movies. And she at least had the courtesy to wait until filming wrapped for the first season before bailing so they didn't have scramble to redo scripts and stuff like they had to with Suzanne who started no-showing early in the season. So she not only came across as greedy, but unprofessional as well.

She failed to realize that just about anyone is ultimately replaceable and the show did just fine without her for several more seasons.

Wow this is very interesting on what happened with the producers of Three’s Company and Suzanne!

“Why we need the space shuttle, by Neil Armstrong.”

A program I watched come to fruition as a teen, saw started, saw its triumphs and adversities, then saw ended, and is now in the distant past. I feel old.

Remember when vcrs, now obsolete and almost never used anymore, were this amazing new invention that transformed watching tv?

Suzanne has reframed her shenanigans as a feminist standing up to the patriarchy to demand equal pay. No bitch, you got blind to your own greed and royally fucked yourself.

These people who state that Suzanne wasnt beautiful need to shut up. During the first season she was quite stunning in that healthy sun kissed California way. Then came that bleached side pony mop and freshly punched eyes and that's when she completely dogged out.

She stuns!

Not her best look.

Hello, dollface.

I think Janet became more attractive over the course of the show. She was modest in the first few seasons but blossomed into a hottie by the final seasons. Chrissy was considered hotter because she was blonde. Cindy and Terri were both better looking.

As relevant as ever!

R68 if that had really been the case then she would have enlisted Joyce to go to the negotiating table with her. But alas...

Thanks for the clip, #66. She gambled and lost. Damaged her reputation. Never achieved the stardom she hoped for.

But she reinvented herself as a home shopping maven and made lots of money.

Wish the producers had replaced her with someone other than Jennilee Harrison. But she was probably cheap.

It never even occurred to me that Mrs. Roper would have been young once, until I saw this pic the other day.

She looked nice on this cover (though I don’t know why she’s dressed like K Hepburn in The African Queen!)

Join the club, honey!

This cover is good, too. Though I agree her face most often was just average looking. There was something blunt about it.

Anyone remember She's the Sheriff?

[quote] I wish I'd gone to see Blonde in the Thunderbird when it was on Broadway - it must`ve been a laff-filled camp classic!

Why didn't she receive a Tony nomination? Why was the OBC album never released? Why was she not considered for the London production? What about the movie version? She could still pull it off. Suzanne is a star with superstar quality on the big screen.

Well, we have the searing TV movie where she plays herself, anyway.

I imagine her father slaps her face and calls her a whore at some point... what more do you want?

[quote]R83 Why didn't she receive a Tony nomination?

Hopefully she’ll remount it (she mounts everything) and it will qualify as Best Revival?

The play was obviously ahead of it’s time.

Merman, Martin, Verdon, Somers. With six letters in her surname just like the other three Suzanne was the natural and obvious successor to those Broadway legends.

I guess you could consider Peters too but Lu Pony doesn't count.

Jay Bernstein must have built these bimbos (Farrah, Suzanne, etc.) up til they thought they were Marilyn. But they were more like Mamie van Doren.

Three's Company looked amazingly cheapie. They rarely left that ugly apartment. The producers are lying that they weren't making tons of money from the show. They could have shared it with the talent.

Suzanne should be grateful to Patrick Duffy because Step by Step only happened as a contractual obligation by Lorimar to give Duffy a show after Dallas ended. Like The Brady Bunch, Duffy and Somers played a very attractive middle-aged couple implied to have an active sex life. They brought their children from previous marriages together. Sasha Mitchell from Dallas got in that too and Duffy probably got him the role as Cody. Plus they needed a young attractive guy to raise female viewership. Duffy was a hot DILF but the young girls needed a pretty boy to pine for.

John Ritter also ended up doing a family sitcom called 8 Simple Rules and brought in Katey Sagal from Married...with Children to play his wife and she ended up becoming the lead after Ritter's untimely death. They brought in David Spade to help carry the show but he was just dead weight

Filth and debauchery!

Let’s not forget she was terrible on the show. Ritter and the Ropers were pros and Joyce tried but Suz was clueless.

8 SIMPLE RULES and STEP BY STEP were both successful for Ritters and Somers. STEP ran for 7 seasons!

Online gossip is that the STEP hunk, Sasha Mitchell, was a sexual predator who harassed underage girls, including cast members. He was eventually fired. He's worked as an actor since, but mostly in C- and D-levels projects, and never had the same level of prominence. There have been further allegations that younger cast members were being abused by other adults --and that neither Somers nor Duffy took any steps to intervene even though they were both aware of it.

I have no idea how much of this last part is true. Just repeating what I've read online.

R87.. don't forget jay bernstein tried as well to build up TERI COPLEY as the "modern age marilyn" ! i think he actually stated that publicly...

never amounted to much after that 1 tv show she did, COPLEY left hollywood and became a religious spokesperson i believe...

EVEN BETTER THAN FAME? she got to marry both chip mayer and then charles walheim! thee epitome of dark haired and blond gorgeousness in men! lucky lucky lucky girl!...

[quote]r93 don't forget jay bernstein tried as well to build up TERI COPLEY as the "modern age marilyn"

Well, there could be worse candidates.

Legendary.

That was like a SCTV parody.

lol r96.

How could they be so cruel??

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Eric Grode in his Broadway.com Review: "One-woman musicals require more than sparkle and resiliency. They also require more than a little talent, which makes the shoddily constructed The Blonde in the Thunberbird the title comes from Somers' tiny role in American Graffiti a grim, at times excruciating evening. Only rarely, as during a childlike rendition of 'If I Only Had a Brain' punctuated with domestic-abuse sound effects, does The Blonde in the Thunderbird attain the sort of ill-conceived bathos that can lend such pieces exalted status among camp aficionados. More often than not, the fourth-rate Vegas orchestrations and banal script--TV veterans Mitzie and Ken Welch adapted two of Somers' books in addition to directing--bring to mind a kitschy infomercial."

Charles Isherwood of The New York Times: "Something is desperately needed, in any case, to dress up The Blonde in the Thunderbird, a drab and embarrassing display of emotional exhibitionism masquerading as entertainment. Attired in a cruelly clingy black tights-and-tunic ensemble, Ms. Somers re-enacts or describes triumphs and traumas from her personal and professional life for a grinding 95 minutes, on a stage adorned only by a pair of video screens, an armchair, a prop phone and a coat rack. It is curious, and telling, that Ms. Somers's magnified, two-dimensional presence on the video screens continually draws the focus away from the woman herself. Devoted fans may savor this no-frills, quasi-intimate audience with a favorite celebrity and professional dispenser of uplifting advice, but others may find their attention wandering to the coat rack. And resting there."

Clive Barnes of The New York Post: "The story is obviously courageous, but its telling is remorseless--with stridently sung Broadway show tunes inserted inside the upbeat, relentlessly perky monologue. I found the show smug, but she has guts, and I'm sure if you really, truly love Suzanne Somers, you'll like her show. But if you just like Suzanne Somers, maybe you should think about not going. Billy Crystal she's not."

Howard Kissel of The New York Daily News: "The style of Blonde--a reference to her brief appearance in American Graffiti, which, in fact, I had seen--is more like a Vegas act or a brassy TV special than a piece of theater. The stage, for example, is dominated by two large screens, which provide close-ups of Somers. In a gigantic sports arena or a huge casino showroom, such screens might be useful, but in a relatively small theater they only weaken our focus and diminish any sense of intimacy. Her voice is heavily amplified, which also dilutes the sense that she's sharing things with us. In effect, she's broadcasting."

David Rooney of Variety: "Self-absorption masquerading as self-exploration and self-irony, this so-called 'one-woman musical joyride' chronicles Somers' evolution from zero self-esteem to a level that's surely off the chart… Suzanne then promises, and delivers, the good, the bad and the ugly. The good is the short running time and pre-10 p.m. exit; the bad is everything between first entrance and final bows, except for an occasional climb into mediocrity. And the ugly? Those pants! Let's just say a certain expression pertaining to dromedary hooves can never be far from the minds of those sitting down front."

Michael Kuchwara of The Associated Press: "Infomercials explain but rarely entertain, and the same could be said for Blonde, which has the feel of an extended therapy session crossed with a tacky Las Vegas revue--minus the other show girls."

Linda Winer of Newsday: "Somers has a likeable, ebullient, up-for-anything quality, which serves her well in another repetition of her oft-told, best-selling saga… The show is slickly presented, with live images of Somers on two big screens above her enthusiastic self. The cameras love her. Perhaps, in this case, three does make better company… She has a bright, hyper-amplified singing voice, which she applies with breezy professionalism to standards and a few sappy new numbers by the Welches."

Suzanne was the best part of Threes Company, it went completely downhill after she left.

I chuckled to myself viewing that TV Guide cover and imagining her photo was juxtaposed as it was with Armstrong's article caption because that must have had to do with needing the shuttle to blast fucking Somers off the planet permanently into outer space.

Jailbird:

The irony is that she looks far prettier in her mugshot than in any of her amped-up, Chrissy Sex Kitten guises.

Well, she was younger.

R58 I actually like her in this interview. I remember when she left the show and the tabloids made her out to be some demanding cunt, but she basically wanted to get equal pay to the men on the show.

Here's the clip of Suzanne and Joyce reuniting after 30 years. I don't know if this was unrehearsed or not. Does seem a bit awkward.

^ Now THAT'S acting, bitches.

Theatrical training and instincts. Some of us have it, at least.

[quote]R105 the tabloids made her out to be some demanding cunt, but she basically wanted to get equal pay to the men on the show.

On the one hand, there was an inherent sexism in paying John Ritter so much more when it was an ensemble show entitled “THREE’S Company.” At the same time, he was marginally better known/experienced than the two actresses.

Ritter was eager to take the role of Jack, so it would have been better to just lock them all into the same salary from the get go.

PS: this is kind of a dismal show and I never liked it.

To be fair, Joyce had major theatrical chops having essayed all the great female roles: Madea, Clytamenstra, the Country Wife, the country girl, Ms. Hannigan, Ophelia, etc.

John and Joyce got a teeny weeny bit of media attention in comparison to Suzanne. She was popular and should have been paid much more than the $5,000 extra per episode that the producers were willing to re-negotiate with her husband/manager Alan Hamel. The show was consistently in the top 10 for ABC. It wasn’t shot on location so I don’t know why they were being so fucking conservative with Suzy.

Thanks to this thread I have started binge watching Three's Company and I am loving every second of it.

I'm not new to the show by any means, but it has been a few years.

I can feel my blood pressure going down by the minute as I laugh and laugh and laugh...

Americans don't really understand farce and almost never give it its due, on TV or in film and theatre.

THREE'S COMPANY could be idiotic but at least initially, it was a welcome respite from Norman Lear and his earnest, dreary social-issue sitcoms. The original cast synched because they understood farce and how to put it across.

R112 Three's Company introduced the concept of the "British Farce" to me when I was a young child. My love of that style of humor has stuck with me to this day.

Really r112 that’s so uninteresting.

Is Suzanne a trans icon?

I don't think Three's Company would have lasted as long as it did with the predictable antics of Chrissy and The Ropers. Priscilla Barnes and Don Knotts were a refreshing change.

Suzanne leaving was probably when the show should have ended. Jenilee and Priscilla were brought in as replacements for Suzanne and the writers tried too hard to fit their characters in. They dragged the show on too long.

I agree, R117. The best years were with Chrissy and the Ropers. I actually did like the episodes with Cindy because I felt she was a more comedic character than Teri, who they wrote, at least initially, as this prudish type who, in real life, never would've agreed to live in the same apartment as Jack Tripper. Priscilla Barnes did the best she could with what she had to work with (and, to be fair, did have a few funny moments here and there) but you're right, after the Ropers left, the show really could have just ended.

Suzanne Somers posed nude at 73.

R119 She looks like she's trying to force out a shit there. Only scat lovers would find this sexy.

R120 do u love scat?

119 She's gained a few pounds but is still pretty.

I hated her original tits that appeared in the early 70s.

Do u remember her playboy nudes where her tits were long and wide spaced?

Hiiiiiiiii!

Those tits would be around her knees by now if she didn't have the surgeon tighten them up every so often, R125.

R124 From what I remember it was Stella Stevens who had the long and wide spaced boobs.

She will NEVER stop talking about it!!!!

Around Season 1 or 2. Before the Snow White Peroxide & Side Ponytail.

Why is this old hag constantly talking about her sex life with grandpa? Why doesn't she just do a live stream of her alleged sex "marathon" and be done with it? The Tracey Ullman skit was so accurate. This talentless cunt would even hawk her bowel movements on QVC or HSN.

Suzanne is like Jell-o while having sex.

What could Suzanne do to stay relevant and get attention? Is they too old to hop on the trans or NB bandwagon and declare xir personal pronouns? Suzanne does share the same initials as Sam Smith after all.

R132 Considering the response to this thread, whatever that is, she's already doing it :-)