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06-05-2001, 10:55 PM

First of all, who would be the Jack and Janet's third roommate? Chrissy, Cindy, or Terri?

Secondly, what would happen in the episode? What would the surprises be? Where did everyone end up?

This would be my plot:
Jack, a divorcee (having been divorced since 1985--as soon as that Three's a Crowd series ended) returns from a ten-year stint as a chef in Paris. Having lost touch with his old friends, he visits the Regal Beagle, which has since become a gay bar (that nude painting of him is back, and it's hanging on the wall!!!). As a sad Jack exits the gay bar, who should pass by but Mr. Furley!
"Vicki wasn't able to cure you after all," Mr. Furley muses. The long-lost friends hug excitedly, until Mr. Furley realizes that they're standing outside a gay bar, and he quickly breaks off the hug! Mr. Furley has updated his look...he no longer wears those earth-toned 60's vests. Instead he wears a more modern Michael Jackson red zipper jacket.
Jack moves into one of Mr. Furley's remodeled condos. Loneliness sets in, he begins visiting internet chat rooms with a fake name...and eventually he meets a woman he has a lot in common with. They arrange to meet, and the woman turns out to be...Janet. Just like in that computer dating episode, but this time this time the date doesn't end with "good night." They go back to Janet's place and do what they should have done 20 years ago.
A few hours later, Philip (Janet's husband) comes home and is very unhappy. Jack wraps a sheet around himself and runs down the street, with Philip chasing behind him in a bathrobe. Philip catches up to Jack and grabs him from behind. Of course Mr. Furley drives by right at this instant. He slams on the breaks of his Cadillac and scolds Jack for being so indiscreet. This distracts Philip, and Jack is able to sprint away. Furley reluctantly lets Jack in his Cadillac and they start pulling away with Philip in pursuit on foot. At an intersection, Furley runs a red light, and Philip, running closely behind, gets struck by an oncoming car. Cindy Snow is the driver. Philip raises his head to see what hit him, and Cindy opens the car to get out, accidentally slamming Philip in the head with the car door.
Suddenly the police are behind Furley and Jack, with the sirens blaring. Furley pulls over, fearing they will be charged with assaulting Philip. However they escape with a citation for running a red light. Jack also gets a citation for indecent exposure, and Furley nearly gets written up when the cop thinks he was soliciting a prostitute (Jack)!!!
Jack, Janet, Cindy and Furley go to the hospital to check on Philip, who is now dead. They get the bad (good?)news from Dr. Terry Alden, who decided to go to medical school in Hawaii.
Soon everyone is planning Jack and Janet's wedding. Furley counsels Jack on his husbandly duties. On the trip up the aisle, flowermaid Cindy trips, taking out the priest. The gang desperately tries to get a new priest, and turns to the yellow pages. Soon the church doorbell rings, and in walks a distinguished gray-haired gentleman dressed in black. "Larry!" everyone yells in unison.
After performing the ceremony, Larry explains that he originally joined the priesthood because he felt that more people would buy used cars from a priest. But soon he felt a calling and became dedicated to a life of religion. Terry, who catches Janet's bouquet, is impressed with the new mature Larry but is wary of starting anything because he's now a man of the cloth. Larry spies on Terry swimming in the Melrose-Place-like pool of Furley's condos, and gets a different calling. He decides to shed the religious cloth...literally! He rips off his clothes and jumps in the pool with Terry. Now its Furley holding the binoculars.
Jack and Janet go on their honeymoon to Disneyland. They had planned to go to the Grand Canyon, but the car they bought from Larry breaks down in Anaheim. When they return, Janet buys that painting back from the Regal Beagle and she has a painting made of herself. They hang both paintings in the bedroom...next to Jack's Beatles poster.

Then what?

FOLrocks1 · 06-06-2001, 10:16 AM

This is super good!!!!!!!!!!
Are you gunna make an episode with this plot? I would be glad to use this idea for my own story, if you would let me.

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Mrs. G: Jo, only twice in my life have i spoke in an arbitrary manner, once when my ex-husband morgaged our home to pay the bookee, and now, GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE, OR I'LL BEAT YOU WITH MY FRYING PAN.

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Sean Snow · 06-06-2001, 10:29 AM

Hey, Writrblock, remember me from te PB Fourom? I posted this in response to his plot there:

...they go to Fresno to visit one of Jack's old navy buddies, when they ran into Chrissy. She had run away from a Hospital of the Mentally Insane, that really was a con thing, because she wasn't. Her father, Reverand Snow, had joined the mob, sheding his religious clothes. Chrissy was a trap to get men to enroll in the mental hospital. Janet and Jack take her in, and have Rev. Snow arrested.
They then go visit the Ropers at their house (the one we see in the Ropers TV Show). They are still the same. Mr. Roper can't beleive Janet married "tinkerbell". That night, the ghost of Phillip returns, mistakes Roper for Jack, and kills him. Mrs Roper is so happy, but she finds out he's just in a coma, and he comes out of it in two (2) days.
And then....

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Jack: I'm surprised at you. Where would all the great women of history be if they thought like that!? Look at Joan of Ark and wht she accomplished. And, and Florence Nightengale and Madam Curry.
Chrissy: And Lucretia Borzok.
Janet: She posioned people.
Chrissy: Yeah, but she was very goo at it.

06-06-2001, 09:54 PM

Jacob, feel free to use this storyline however you like. Thank you for the compliment.

Sean, I like your ideas. Who would you hire to play the Ropers now? And I still think Helen would take advantage of Stanley during those two days he's in a coma.

FOLrocks1 · 06-06-2001, 09:56 PM

Thank you soooooooooo much. I love this idea and will start really soon

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Jo: Here's to all who wish me well, all the rest can go to...Jersey.

Mrs. G: Jo, only twice in my life have i spoke in an arbitrary manner, once when my ex-husband morgaged our home to pay the bookee, and now, GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE, OR I'LL BEAT YOU WITH MY FRYING PAN.

Check out all my fan fictions: It's A Warner Thing, A New Face In Peekskill, Back In Town
and Those Dreadful Double Dates.
WEB SITE:
www.geocities.com/stooge321/T.html

Joyce DeWitt, if you are reading these things that i post, i want to say that i love you and i hope to meet you
*Jacob*

Sean Snow · 06-07-2001, 02:06 PM

I really don't know who would play them. I have just never seen anyone as good as the parts as Audra and Norman. Anyway, I'll continue:
Terri and Larry (catching, isn't it?) get married. Janet is the maid of honor and Jack is the best man. During the ceramony, Vicky comes in the room and attacks Jack.
It takes Larry, Terri, Cindy, Chrissy, Janet, Mr. Furley, Mr and Mrs Roper, a priest, and an altar boy to take Vicky off him.
"What was that for?" Jack asks.
"I want you back, Jack, please!" says Vicky
She starts sobbing.
"Well, frankly Victoria, I don't give a BEEP!" says Jack.
Vicky then runs out of the church.
So they continue, but are interrupted when Rev. Snow comes in, policemen following, running behind him.
"Chrissy, get me away from those bad people, please!" says the Rev.
Chrissy looks at the group, and then bites the reverands hand.
So they continue, when Mr. Angelino comes in.
"Trippppper!"
"SHUT UP!" everyone shouts. They wedding continues and is finished. And then...

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Jack: I'm surprised at you. Where would all the great women of history be if they thought like that!? Look at Joan of Ark and what she accomplished. And, and Florence Nightengale and Madam Curry.
Chrissy: And Lucretia Borzok.
Janet: She posioned people.
Chrissy: Yeah, but she was very good at it.

Krisalicious · 06-07-2001, 04:05 PM

this is soooooo good! i really like the whole "jack marries janet" thing. i seriously think that should have happened....they r a cute couple!

Sean Snow · 06-07-2001, 05:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Writrblock:

And I still think Helen would take advantage of Stanley during those two days he's in a coma.

Yep she would...if only that darn nurse and Docter Alden would leave the room for an hour.

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Jack: I'm surprised at you. Where would all the great women of history be if they thought like that!? Look at Joan of Ark and what she accomplished. And, and Florence Nightengale and Madam Curry.
Chrissy: And Lucretia Borzok.
Janet: She posioned people.
Chrissy: Yeah, but she was very good at it.

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06-05-2001, 10:55 PM	#1
Writrblock Guest Posts: n/a	How I would write the reunion episode First of all, who would be the Jack and Janet's third roommate? Chrissy, Cindy, or Terri? Secondly, what would happen in the episode? What would the surprises be? Where did everyone end up? This would be my plot: Jack, a divorcee (having been divorced since 1985--as soon as that Three's a Crowd series ended) returns from a ten-year stint as a chef in Paris. Having lost touch with his old friends, he visits the Regal Beagle, which has since become a gay bar (that nude painting of him is back, and it's hanging on the wall!!!). As a sad Jack exits the gay bar, who should pass by but Mr. Furley! "Vicki wasn't able to cure you after all," Mr. Furley muses. The long-lost friends hug excitedly, until Mr. Furley realizes that they're standing outside a gay bar, and he quickly breaks off the hug! Mr. Furley has updated his look...he no longer wears those earth-toned 60's vests. Instead he wears a more modern Michael Jackson red zipper jacket. Jack moves into one of Mr. Furley's remodeled condos. Loneliness sets in, he begins visiting internet chat rooms with a fake name...and eventually he meets a woman he has a lot in common with. They arrange to meet, and the woman turns out to be...Janet. Just like in that computer dating episode, but this time this time the date doesn't end with "good night." They go back to Janet's place and do what they should have done 20 years ago. A few hours later, Philip (Janet's husband) comes home and is very unhappy. Jack wraps a sheet around himself and runs down the street, with Philip chasing behind him in a bathrobe. Philip catches up to Jack and grabs him from behind. Of course Mr. Furley drives by right at this instant. He slams on the breaks of his Cadillac and scolds Jack for being so indiscreet. This distracts Philip, and Jack is able to sprint away. Furley reluctantly lets Jack in his Cadillac and they start pulling away with Philip in pursuit on foot. At an intersection, Furley runs a red light, and Philip, running closely behind, gets struck by an oncoming car. Cindy Snow is the driver. Philip raises his head to see what hit him, and Cindy opens the car to get out, accidentally slamming Philip in the head with the car door. Suddenly the police are behind Furley and Jack, with the sirens blaring. Furley pulls over, fearing they will be charged with assaulting Philip. However they escape with a citation for running a red light. Jack also gets a citation for indecent exposure, and Furley nearly gets written up when the cop thinks he was soliciting a prostitute (Jack)!!! Jack, Janet, Cindy and Furley go to the hospital to check on Philip, who is now dead. They get the bad (good?)news from Dr. Terry Alden, who decided to go to medical school in Hawaii. Soon everyone is planning Jack and Janet's wedding. Furley counsels Jack on his husbandly duties. On the trip up the aisle, flowermaid Cindy trips, taking out the priest. The gang desperately tries to get a new priest, and turns to the yellow pages. Soon the church doorbell rings, and in walks a distinguished gray-haired gentleman dressed in black. "Larry!" everyone yells in unison. After performing the ceremony, Larry explains that he originally joined the priesthood because he felt that more people would buy used cars from a priest. But soon he felt a calling and became dedicated to a life of religion. Terry, who catches Janet's bouquet, is impressed with the new mature Larry but is wary of starting anything because he's now a man of the cloth. Larry spies on Terry swimming in the Melrose-Place-like pool of Furley's condos, and gets a different calling. He decides to shed the religious cloth...literally! He rips off his clothes and jumps in the pool with Terry. Now its Furley holding the binoculars. Jack and Janet go on their honeymoon to Disneyland. They had planned to go to the Grand Canyon, but the car they bought from Larry breaks down in Anaheim. When they return, Janet buys that painting back from the Regal Beagle and she has a painting made of herself. They hang both paintings in the bedroom...next to Jack's Beatles poster. Then what?
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06-06-2001, 09:54 PM	#4
Writrblock Guest Posts: n/a	Jacob, feel free to use this storyline however you like. Thank you for the compliment. Sean, I like your ideas. Who would you hire to play the Ropers now? And I still think Helen would take advantage of Stanley during those two days he's in a coma.
Writrblock Guest Posts: n/a

06-06-2001, 10:16 AM	#2
FOLrocks1 My favorite ladies! Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 09, 2001 Location: Ohio Posts: 4,103	This is super good!!!!!!!!!! Are you gunna make an episode with this plot? I would be glad to use this idea for my own story, if you would let me. ------------------ Jo: Here's to all who wish me well, all the rest can go to...Jersey. Mrs. G: Jo, only twice in my life have i spoke in an arbitrary manner, once when my ex-husband morgaged our home to pay the bookee, and now, GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE, OR I'LL BEAT YOU WITH MY FRYING PAN. Check out all my fan fictions: It's A Warner Thing, A New Face In Peekskill, Back In Town and Those Dreadful Double Dates. WEB SITE: www.geocities.com/stooge321/T.html Joyce DeWitt, if you are reading these things that i post, i want to say that i love you and i hope to meet you Jacob

06-06-2001, 10:29 AM	#3
Sean Snow moo Forum Fanatic Join Date: May 06, 2001 Location: Georgia Posts: 10,407	Hey, Writrblock, remember me from te PB Fourom? I posted this in response to his plot there: ...they go to Fresno to visit one of Jack's old navy buddies, when they ran into Chrissy. She had run away from a Hospital of the Mentally Insane, that really was a con thing, because she wasn't. Her father, Reverand Snow, had joined the mob, sheding his religious clothes. Chrissy was a trap to get men to enroll in the mental hospital. Janet and Jack take her in, and have Rev. Snow arrested. They then go visit the Ropers at their house (the one we see in the Ropers TV Show). They are still the same. Mr. Roper can't beleive Janet married "tinkerbell". That night, the ghost of Phillip returns, mistakes Roper for Jack, and kills him. Mrs Roper is so happy, but she finds out he's just in a coma, and he comes out of it in two (2) days. And then.... ------------------ Jack: I'm surprised at you. Where would all the great women of history be if they thought like that!? Look at Joan of Ark and wht she accomplished. And, and Florence Nightengale and Madam Curry. Chrissy: And Lucretia Borzok. Janet: She posioned people. Chrissy: Yeah, but she was very goo at it.

06-06-2001, 09:56 PM	#5
FOLrocks1 My favorite ladies! Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 09, 2001 Location: Ohio Posts: 4,103	Thank you soooooooooo much. I love this idea and will start really soon ------------------ Jo: Here's to all who wish me well, all the rest can go to...Jersey. Mrs. G: Jo, only twice in my life have i spoke in an arbitrary manner, once when my ex-husband morgaged our home to pay the bookee, and now, GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE, OR I'LL BEAT YOU WITH MY FRYING PAN. Check out all my fan fictions: It's A Warner Thing, A New Face In Peekskill, Back In Town and Those Dreadful Double Dates. WEB SITE: www.geocities.com/stooge321/T.html Joyce DeWitt, if you are reading these things that i post, i want to say that i love you and i hope to meet you Jacob

06-07-2001, 02:06 PM	#6
Sean Snow moo Forum Fanatic Join Date: May 06, 2001 Location: Georgia Posts: 10,407	I really don't know who would play them. I have just never seen anyone as good as the parts as Audra and Norman. Anyway, I'll continue: Terri and Larry (catching, isn't it?) get married. Janet is the maid of honor and Jack is the best man. During the ceramony, Vicky comes in the room and attacks Jack. It takes Larry, Terri, Cindy, Chrissy, Janet, Mr. Furley, Mr and Mrs Roper, a priest, and an altar boy to take Vicky off him. "What was that for?" Jack asks. "I want you back, Jack, please!" says Vicky She starts sobbing. "Well, frankly Victoria, I don't give a BEEP!" says Jack. Vicky then runs out of the church. So they continue, but are interrupted when Rev. Snow comes in, policemen following, running behind him. "Chrissy, get me away from those bad people, please!" says the Rev. Chrissy looks at the group, and then bites the reverands hand. So they continue, when Mr. Angelino comes in. "Trippppper!" "SHUT UP!" everyone shouts. They wedding continues and is finished. And then... ------------------ Jack: I'm surprised at you. Where would all the great women of history be if they thought like that!? Look at Joan of Ark and what she accomplished. And, and Florence Nightengale and Madam Curry. Chrissy: And Lucretia Borzok. Janet: She posioned people. Chrissy: Yeah, but she was very good at it.

06-07-2001, 04:05 PM	#7
Krisalicious Archie FTW! Forum Veteran Join Date: Jun 27, 2001 Location: NJ Posts: 5,775	this is soooooo good! i really like the whole "jack marries janet" thing. i seriously think that should have happened....they r a cute couple!