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12-01-2024, 06:58 AM
This episode was on Antenna TV yesterday. I noticed a few things about this episode. It was the third from last episode that aired in early May 1980. The show was not announced cancelled by ABC yet.
The plot is a rather stale one where both Stanley and Helen try to make the other jealous of a fling they are not having. Jenny has only a few lines and is hardly seen.
However we get a little Threes Company magic or at least they tried to create some because there were a few TC trademarks.
Norman makes an insult joke and then pans to the camera in the episode. He rarely ever did this on The Ropers. It looked like Threes Company. We also get some "gay panic". Stanely puts his arm around Jeffery (the neighbor) and tells him he is through with women. Its all a misunderstanding but Jeffrey panics. It was another Threes Company trademark.
Helen even gets a sexual frustration joke in. Jenny tells Helen that its frustrating to draw fruit because it just lays there and does nothing. Helen says something like "I know how you feel."
Maybe it was just me but it felt like maybe because the ratings were declining they tried to insert some Threes Company stuff in. But it was a little too late.
On another note, I read that Audra said in someone's book in 1997 they were surprised ABC cancelled the Ropers because there was a late season surge in ratings in 1980. Any truth to that? Its hard to get ratings because ABC kept changing timeslots. It was on Saturday nights mostly in season 2. But the last 3 episodes aired another night. This was one of them.
The plot is a rather stale one where both Stanley and Helen try to make the other jealous of a fling they are not having. Jenny has only a few lines and is hardly seen.
However we get a little Threes Company magic or at least they tried to create some because there were a few TC trademarks.
Norman makes an insult joke and then pans to the camera in the episode. He rarely ever did this on The Ropers. It looked like Threes Company. We also get some "gay panic". Stanely puts his arm around Jeffery (the neighbor) and tells him he is through with women. Its all a misunderstanding but Jeffrey panics. It was another Threes Company trademark.
Helen even gets a sexual frustration joke in. Jenny tells Helen that its frustrating to draw fruit because it just lays there and does nothing. Helen says something like "I know how you feel."
Maybe it was just me but it felt like maybe because the ratings were declining they tried to insert some Threes Company stuff in. But it was a little too late.
On another note, I read that Audra said in someone's book in 1997 they were surprised ABC cancelled the Ropers because there was a late season surge in ratings in 1980. Any truth to that? Its hard to get ratings because ABC kept changing timeslots. It was on Saturday nights mostly in season 2. But the last 3 episodes aired another night. This was one of them.