# Three's Company - the Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2016, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754 "2016-04-20T20:25:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/1 "2016-04-20T20:25:03Z")
Not sarcastic conjecture. Not a joke. Not a bad dream. There is a [Three’s Company](http://variety.com/2016/film/news/threes-company-movie-new-line-1201757451/) movie in the works. :eek: Why??? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/2 "2016-04-20T20:41:58Z")
It must be a very short movie. Jack Tripper: “I’m a guy, and I want to move in with these two unmarried young women and we’ll be roommates.” Pretty much any landlord anywhere: “Okay. I need a deposit and a credit check. Thanks, here’s the key.” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/3 "2016-04-20T21:02:44Z")
There’s one for [CHiPs](http://movieweb.com/chips-movie-photos-dax-shepard-michael-pena/) as well. ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/4 "2016-04-20T21:09:22Z")
Well, [the UK version](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071804/) got it’s own movie 42 years ago, so it’s only fair. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/5 "2016-04-20T21:27:49Z")
Huh. Well, my only guess here is that it would be ABOUT Three’s Company. You know, the stars rocket to fame, backstage rivalry and John Ritter’s secret love affair with Don Knotts. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/6 "2016-04-20T21:37:44Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Huh. Well, my only guess here is that it would be ABOUT Three’s Company. You know, the stars rocket to fame, backstage rivalry and John Ritter’s secret love affair with Don Knotts. [It’s been done.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_the_Camera:_The_Unauthorized_Story_of_Three%27s_Company) ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/7 "2016-04-20T21:41:50Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > [It’s been done.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_the_Camera:_The_Unauthorized_Story_of_Three%27s_Company) Sure but they didn’t have the CGI to do it justice back then. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/8 "2016-04-20T21:45:01Z")
\<\\> I smell OSCAR!! ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/9 "2016-04-20T21:46:03Z")
I’ve been saying for years that eventually 227: the movie is going to happen, and make a billion dollars, and the world will weep. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/10 "2016-04-20T22:08:35Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I’ve been saying for years that eventually 227: the movie is going to happen, and make a billion dollars, and the world will weep. I was confused for a moment and thought you meant [Room 222](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063948/?ref_=nv_sr_1): the Movie. That might not be the worst idea in the world, given how topical race relations and education are now: a movie about a black intellectual teacher working at a primarily white high school full of Evangelical kids who deny evolution (make it a charter school and it’s even better.) That’s a remake that could be worth seeing. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/11 "2016-04-20T22:22:51Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > It must be a very short movie. > > Jack Tripper: “I’m a guy, and I want to move in with these two unmarried young women and we’ll be roommates.” > > Pretty much any landlord anywhere: “Okay. I need a deposit and a credit check. Thanks, here’s the key.” Except as the article says, the movie will be set in the 1970s, a time when it might have been a problem. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/12 "2016-04-21T01:18:50Z")
Well if we’re digging deep, how about Amen the Movie and Webster the Movie? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/13 "2016-04-21T01:30:51Z")
What about _Mr Merlin_ the movie, or _The Gemini Man_ the movie? Or _Whiz Kids_. Or _Square Pegs_. Or _It’s A Living_. Or _Jake and the Fatman_. Or _Scarecrow and Mrs King_. Or _Love Sidney_. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/14 "2016-04-21T01:39:43Z")
Not until I get my goddam ‘The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr’ movie. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/15 "2016-04-21T01:42:32Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > What about _Mr Merlin_ the movie, or _The Gemini Man_ the movie? Or _Whiz Kids_. Or _Square Pegs_. Or _It’s A Living_. Or _Jake and the Fatman_. Or _Scarecrow and Mrs King_. Or _Love Sidney_. _What’s My Line?:The Movie_ _Vitameatavegamin:The Next Generation_ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/16 "2016-04-21T01:57:39Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Except as the article says, the movie will be set in the 1970s, a time when it might have been a problem. I really can’t imagine how there could be a movie in this premise. It only worked as a TV show when they ignored the “pretending to be gay” thing and just had standard sitcom adventures and klutzy slapstick. The UK version, _Man About The House_, barely addressed the deception, it was just the occasional punchline. Most of it was Robin Tripp carousing with Larry and trying to seduce Chrissy (the brunette). It suddenly occurs to me that the set-up of fooling the landlord to get a flat was reused in _Spaced_. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/17 "2016-04-21T02:04:34Z")
Maybe the movie will be a parody, like The Brady Bunch Movie. Perhaps Jack, Chrissy and Janet have traveled back in time to the 1970s and for some reason have to live together. And Janet and Chrissy really are married in the present day, but pretend to be straight in the past? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/18 "2016-04-21T02:05:27Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I really can’t imagine how there could be a movie in this premise. It only worked as a TV show when they ignored the “pretending to be gay” thing and just had standard sitcom adventures and klutzy slapstick. > > The UK version, _Man About The House_, barely addressed the deception, it was just the occasional punchline. Most of it was Robin Tripp carousing with Larry and trying to seduce Chrissy (the brunette). > > It suddenly occurs to me that the set-up of fooling the landlord to get a flat was reused in _Spaced_. I would kill to see a _Spaced: The Movie_. But I think it could only be pulled off with the original cast and I’m sure they’re all too old. ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/19 "2016-04-21T02:20:48Z")
My Mother the Car: the movie ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754/20 "2016-04-21T02:32:22Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > There’s one for [CHiPs](http://movieweb.com/chips-movie-photos-dax-shepard-michael-pena/) as well. That is terrific news! 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threes-company-the-movie/752754.md?page=2)