TMC
11-01-2022, 05:04 AM
https://popculturereferences.com/how-threes-company-was-like-a-silver-age-comic-book/
Brian explains how Three's Company's plotlines were often very similar to Silver Age comic book plots, especially from the Superman group of titles.
Okay, so that’s basically the plot of every episode of Three’s Company, which was about a man, Jack Tripper, living with two female roommates (Janet Wood and three different women as the third roommate. Most famously Chrissy Snow, but also her cousin, Cindy Snow, and then Terri Alden). In every other episode, someone will hear only part of a conversation, and then come to the worst possible conclusion that they can come up with, and then never talk to each other and just act on the thing they think they overheard.
These people are ostensibly good friends, but they will assume the worst of each other at the drop of a hat. “Jack’s helping his boss’ wife? He must be having sex with her!” “I guess Chrissy just decided to become a prostitute.” “I guess Janet is having sex with a teenager.”
Their landlords (first Stanley Roper and later Ralph Furley) were also involved in the nonsense, but at least Roper didn’t really like them all that much, so him assuming the worst of them was fair enough, but Furley was friends with the roommates, so HIM always assuming the worst was more annoying, especially since his leaps of logic were always so, so stupid.
Brian explains how Three's Company's plotlines were often very similar to Silver Age comic book plots, especially from the Superman group of titles.
Okay, so that’s basically the plot of every episode of Three’s Company, which was about a man, Jack Tripper, living with two female roommates (Janet Wood and three different women as the third roommate. Most famously Chrissy Snow, but also her cousin, Cindy Snow, and then Terri Alden). In every other episode, someone will hear only part of a conversation, and then come to the worst possible conclusion that they can come up with, and then never talk to each other and just act on the thing they think they overheard.
These people are ostensibly good friends, but they will assume the worst of each other at the drop of a hat. “Jack’s helping his boss’ wife? He must be having sex with her!” “I guess Chrissy just decided to become a prostitute.” “I guess Janet is having sex with a teenager.”
Their landlords (first Stanley Roper and later Ralph Furley) were also involved in the nonsense, but at least Roper didn’t really like them all that much, so him assuming the worst of them was fair enough, but Furley was friends with the roommates, so HIM always assuming the worst was more annoying, especially since his leaps of logic were always so, so stupid.