That’s exactly why I love it so much! Mindless cartoon fun.
I didn’t get the appeal of Suzanne Somers – kind of a butterface, and her hairstyles were ugh.
Two reasons, which largely went unrestrained after the second season.
Ha!
Same here! She had a nice body, but it was no better than any other attractive woman on TV. Face was just okay, didn’t like her hairstyle, or her dumb personality.
I agree. I was starting to notice girls around the time “Three’s Company” originally aired and I thought Somers’ nose was too big. In retrospect, I can see why Playboy decided not to publish her photos when she originally posed for them years before; she wasn’t pretty enough to be Playmate material. Also, no matter how beautiful they are, dumb women are an immediate turn-off for me. Somer’s Chrissy Snow was such an airhead she soon got to be grating.
You know, don’t you, that she was the gorgeous blonde in the white T-Bird in American Graffiti?
I disagree about Somers. I’d only seen her when she was in her 40s, and her face didn’t do much for me. However her face in her early 30s when 3s company was on was pretty good. She is almost unrecognizable compared to the Somers I knew from shows like Step by Step (which was 15+ years after threes company).
Either way, I watched it on antenna tv. It has been on for ages but this was the first time I actually bothered to sit down and watch an episode.
I did not – my only memory of that movie is going to see it and leaving because it had already started and my father wouldn’t go into a movie that has already started. Anyway I took a look at the clip and I still don’t see “gorgeous”.
Not many Americans know this but Three’s Company was based on a UK show called Man About The House. Also, The Ropers was based on George and Mildred, and Three’s A Crowd was based on Robin’s Nest. It has to be unique to have the show and the spin-offs all match up like that.
It’s a pity you didn’t get to see it. It’s one of my favorite movies, and I’d say George Lucas’s best ever. Since I lived through that era (albeit as a child), I can totally immerse myself in the action of the story once the lights go out and the film starts.
If I may, I’d heartily recommend you set aside a couple of hours and watch the movie sometime (preferably in a cinema with a large screen).
As for Suzanne Somers, she looked pretty darned good to me in that white T-bird, and apparently floated a lot of other guys’ boats too. :o
Bumped.
This may interest you, too:
Lucille Ball was a big fan of Threes Company and even hosted a special about it and spoke with the cast if I recall correctly.
It does seem like the type of show that could exist in the Lucy universe.
Let me know when/if someone ever posts a thread titled “Three’s Company reruns are NOT on”. 
This was in syndication in the afternoons when I was a kid and I watched it a lot. Even when I was eleven, though, I saw that the show had precisely two alternating plots:
Plot 1: Someone tells a lie and enlists the other roommates to play along to pull one over on the landlords, and it spins out of control.
Plot 2: Something is overheard and misunderstood, and the rest of the show is double-entendres as characters talk at cross-purposes about it.
Those together made up easily 96% of the episodes. It was one of those shows that I would watch while unwinding from a school day, my jaw surely slack in catatonia. The very definition of mindless teevee.
I’ve told my sons that one of the best pickup lines they can use is, “I like to cook.” Maybe 10% joking.
Sometime in the 1980s, some station (or was it a cable channel?) where I lived broadcast Man About The House and Robin’s Nest; it was interesting to see how it compared.
Nah, no joke, I’ve used that to great success in my single days. Not as an initial pickup line, necessarily, but after a couple dates, “come on over and I’ll make us a nice dinner” (and following through) is a solid relationship next step.
Odd that you mention it. Oconomowoc was mentioned once on Law & Order. The detectives are looking through some hotel records for someone visiting from a place with an Indian-sounding name. Lennie can’t pronounce it, but Rey does.
It was a fun show, it was a farce but didn’t claim not to be. Ritter was a great physical comedian and the girls were great physical specimens. Norman Fell and later Don Knotts were a lot of fun.
Pedantic: it’s “Robyn,” isn’t it? “Robin” spelled with an I is almost always a female name.
I doubt that it was coincidental that Three’s Company ended almost exactly in the same way that Man About the House did, given that they both led into spinoff series with the same premise - in fact, I definitely remember quite a few lines from the Three’s a Crowd premiere being in the Robyn’s Nest premiere, which shouldn’t be surprising as a number (I want to say four) of the earliest Three’s Company episodes were more or less word-for-word copies of Man About the House episodes.
(Not to be confused with 3’s a Crowd, a Chuck Barris game show where they asked questions to three men about themselves, and then had their wives and their secretaries each try to guess how they answered them.)
I remember one of my local PBS stations airing all three series at one point. I think it was around 1990.