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TMC · 12-08-2018, 09:41 PM

If you could add a new plot/story to any of the eight seasons of Three's Company (or any of its spin offs), what would it be?

JackJanetChrissy · 12-09-2018, 12:02 AM

- A holiday episode that involved Jack cooking dinner

- A party somewhere other than the apartment building where hijinks ensue

- A beach episode

- A Flowers for Algernon type thing with Chrissy (where she'd become super smart for an episode)

In the final season, instead of it ending with a wedding it would have been interesting to see the building being sold and everyone evicted, forcing the trio, Larry, and Furley to move on with their lives.

JSP · 12-10-2018, 04:20 PM

I’m thinking they should have had a Halloween episode where Jack and Larry try to prank the girls, but it backfires spectacularly.

SitcomsHeydayfan · 12-21-2018, 08:55 PM

Imagine ALL 3 roommates with cell phones! You can see a lot of mix-ups and misunderstandings happening with all the back & forth communication via text/voice!

MikeLutton · 12-31-2018, 03:46 AM

imagine them with facebook pages furley or roper seeing pics of jack with girls n threating to throw them out and stuff

SitcomsHeydayfan · 01-01-2019, 04:00 AM

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imagine them with facebook pages furley or roper seeing pics of jack with girls n threating to throw them out and stuff

Jack simply couldn't put things like that on Facebook. It would be better if he didn't have a Facebook page.

I think it's better for ALL of us to not have a Facebarf page!

oldschool59 · 01-09-2019, 06:00 PM

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Jack simply couldn't put things like that on Facebook. It would be better if he didn't have a Facebook page.

I think it's better for ALL of us to not have a Facebarf page!

Why wasn't there a black character in the story? They could have introduced a gay black guy who thought Jack was really gay and constantly tried to out him to the Ropers or Furley so he could be who he truly was, but he wasn't so hilarity ensues ....

TMC · 07-02-2019, 11:04 PM

Three's Company is probably one of those shows that would have an extremely difficult time translating to a modern world. The basis of the show was that a guy has to pretend to be gay (and a swishy gay at that) to live in a small apartment with two women. Meanwhile, we in the process get endless gay “jokes”, endless mistaken circumstances and a premise that didn’t even make sense THEN. Given the radical changes in the perceptions and treatment of the LGBTQ community since then, even proposing such a program now would likely get the creators laughed out of any pitch meeting.

SitcomsHeydayfan · 07-03-2019, 04:45 AM

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Three's Company is probably one of those shows that would have an extremely difficult time translating to a modern world. The basis of the show was that a guy has to pretend to be gay (and a swishy gay at that) to live in a small apartment with two women. Meanwhile, we in the process get endless gay “jokes”, endless mistaken circumstances and a premise that didn’t even make sense THEN. Given the radical changes in the perceptions and treatment of the LGBTQ community since then, even proposing such a program now would likely get the creators laughed out of any pitch meeting.

What you're saying is the country has become TOO politically correct! You realize DOZENS of TV shows before 1980 couldn't exist today based on the DERANGED liberal lunacy that currently dominates pop culture & Hollywood?

cbikle · 07-10-2019, 01:29 PM

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I’m thinking they should have had a Halloween episode where Jack and Larry try to prank the girls, but it backfires spectacularly.

Did TC even ever do a Halloween episode?

Seems like it would've been a natural fit of having hot chicks in skimpy costumes in the era of T&A themed ABC programming.

Could've had some funny bits w/ Mr Roper being pissed at the trick-or-treaters and trying to catch them before they TP his apartment complex (or gone the opposite angle of him REALLY being into Halloween).

cbikle · 07-10-2019, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by SitcomsHeydayfan

What you're saying is the country has become TOO politically correct! You realize DOZENS of TV shows before 1980 couldn't exist today based on the DERANGED liberal lunacy that currently dominates pop culture & Hollywood?

I think that, even today, there are shows that won't age well with future audiences.

Ru Paul used to be trotted out as a source of laughter, but now her reality show about drag-queens is currently being used as an example of diversity & tolerance, but I could see a future audience wincing at all the big-hair and crazy make-up & costumes worn by professional drag queens, who are DIVING head first into the drag-queen stereotype.

The 90's Kevin Kline movie, In And Out, has an overall message of accepting the gay lifestyle, but does so with a lot of Three's Company-esque gay jokes & stereotypes.

Will & Grace has a TON of gay jokes as well, but most of them are pretty funny and, more importantly, are delivered by a gay character being played by a talented gay actor, so there's no one in that scenario for anyone to get "outraged" over.

JackJanetChrissy · 07-11-2019, 09:15 AM

I agree, Halloween could have been really fun.

As for the inappropriateness of TV shows and "political correctness" now vs then...it's called the march of time. Time and culture are always progressing but people are always wanting to believe that we used to live in some kind of free-for-all paradise that never actually existed. In 1977 Three's Company was considered "liberal lunacy." Society has always had rules and the goalposts are always changing. People soaking in their own nostalgia need to get a grip.

SitcomsHeydayfan · 07-12-2019, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by cbikle

Did TC even ever do a Halloween episode?

Seems like it would've been a natural fit of having hot chicks in skimpy costumes in the era of T&A themed ABC programming.

Could've had some funny bits w/ Mr Roper being pissed at the trick-or-treaters and trying to catch them before they TP his apartment complex (or gone the opposite angle of him REALLY being into Halloween).

Yeah, the writers/producers really missed the boat on this one. Several potential storylines could come out of a Halloween episode.

Cindy could've been "kidnapped" on Halloween!

12-08-2018, 09:41 PM	#1
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12-09-2018, 12:02 AM	#2
JackJanetChrissy Member Forum Regular Join Date: Jun 18, 2014 Posts: 1,005	- A holiday episode that involved Jack cooking dinner - A party somewhere other than the apartment building where hijinks ensue - A beach episode - A Flowers for Algernon type thing with Chrissy (where she'd become super smart for an episode) In the final season, instead of it ending with a wedding it would have been interesting to see the building being sold and everyone evicted, forcing the trio, Larry, and Furley to move on with their lives.

12-10-2018, 04:20 PM	#3
JSP Member Senior Member Join Date: Aug 19, 2003 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 2,735	I’m thinking they should have had a Halloween episode where Jack and Larry try to prank the girls, but it backfires spectacularly.

12-21-2018, 08:55 PM	#4
SitcomsHeydayfan Member Senior Member Join Date: Apr 19, 2018 Location: The Show Me state Posts: 2,966	Imagine ALL 3 roommates with cell phones! You can see a lot of mix-ups and misunderstandings happening with all the back & forth communication via text/voice!

07-02-2019, 11:04 PM	#8
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 125,365	Three's Company is probably one of those shows that would have an extremely difficult time translating to a modern world. The basis of the show was that a guy has to pretend to be gay (and a swishy gay at that) to live in a small apartment with two women. Meanwhile, we in the process get endless gay “jokes”, endless mistaken circumstances and a premise that didn’t even make sense THEN. Given the radical changes in the perceptions and treatment of the LGBTQ community since then, even proposing such a program now would likely get the creators laughed out of any pitch meeting.

07-11-2019, 09:15 AM	#12
JackJanetChrissy Member Forum Regular Join Date: Jun 18, 2014 Posts: 1,005	I agree, Halloween could have been really fun. As for the inappropriateness of TV shows and "political correctness" now vs then...it's called the march of time. Time and culture are always progressing but people are always wanting to believe that we used to live in some kind of free-for-all paradise that never actually existed. In 1977 Three's Company was considered "liberal lunacy." Society has always had rules and the goalposts are always changing. People soaking in their own nostalgia need to get a grip.