Clip: THREE'S COMPANY - 12/5/1978 - ''The Party's Over'' - Jack and Roper wake up in the same bed

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Clip: THREE'S COMPANY - 12/5/1978 - ''The Party's Over'' - Jack and Roper wake up in the same bed

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3 жыл бұрын

Before TV was willing to portray ongoing believable LGBTQ characters, it was willing to use queerness as a cheap joke. In the late 1970s, there was a hit sitcom about a straight guy who had to pretend to be gay so his conservative landlord would let him share an apartment with two women friends.
In the THREE'S COMPANY episode that aired on today's date in 1978: After a drunken party, the tenant and landlord wake up in the same bed, and the landlord worries what they might have done while drunk. Wackiness ensues.
THREE'S COMPANY was based on the classic UK series MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE, which soft-pedaled the pretending-to-be-gay angle after a while.

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@kingporter67 2 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. John Ritter and Norman Fell, two great men!

@Maknaeboy Жыл бұрын

There will never be another show like this, Jack was always the funniest 😂😂

@Kajehart 4 ай бұрын

Sad, but right you are!

@tojo4 3 жыл бұрын

I never noticed the cool Beatles poster Jack has

@adamdorgant9454 3 жыл бұрын

Me too!!!

@monmothma3358 2 жыл бұрын

Weird to think about that John Lennon was alive when this was filmed

@Jim-lu9pw Жыл бұрын

Ritter was a huge Beatles fan. Mr. Ritter pretty much insisted the Beatles poster become a part of his room on the set of Three's company. It is unclear exactly when the poster appeared. My best guess is sometime late 1979 or early 1980. it didn't seem to be there before then. When you become a star of a show, you have a certain influence.

@renejustice886 Жыл бұрын

This was my favorite show when I was a little girl. Still is. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, John! You are missed! 1948-2003❤️

@codis5722 3 жыл бұрын

I remember being a kid in the 90's watching this on nick at nite lol. Loved threes company

@user-zr6pl6nb6z Жыл бұрын

I remember being a kid in the 70s and seeing these episodes as they came out.

@maxigol1977 3 жыл бұрын

John Ritter is a legend.

@adamdorgant9454 3 жыл бұрын

Yes he was!!!

@enriqueiii9209 3 жыл бұрын

Agree, John Ritter RIP.

@sherryhook9066 3 жыл бұрын

Just like his Father Tex Ritter.

@adamdorgant9454 3 жыл бұрын

@@sherryhook9066 You’re right about that!!!

@JuanRodriguez-dq5tc 2 жыл бұрын

THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER JOHN RITTER

@wendymarie7151 3 жыл бұрын

Such an incredible and amazing and wonderful person. John Ritter = Legendary

@adamdorgant9454 3 жыл бұрын

You’re right about that!!!

@mariehernandez6929 2 жыл бұрын

John Ritter will always be a legend.

@adamdorgant9454 Жыл бұрын

Yes indeed!!!!

@ralphfurley123 2 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite sitcoms ever! ☮️🖖🏽

@adamdorgant9454 Жыл бұрын

True!!!

@Crazymike1975 2 жыл бұрын

John Ritter and Norman Fell are a riot and they will be missed. RIP to them.

@adamdorgant9454 9 ай бұрын

Yes indeed!!!!

@kanata_guy7689 Жыл бұрын

just discovering threes company what a great show!

@adamdorgant9454 9 ай бұрын

True!!!

@jaengen 4 ай бұрын

It’s the all time bestest!

@JuanRodriguez-dq5tc 3 жыл бұрын

THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER JOHN RITTER

@adamdorgant9454 3 жыл бұрын

You’re right about that!!

@veronicamamiful 2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree.

@homelesshannah50 2 жыл бұрын

I still say he should have gotten an Oscar for Sling Blade, he was so fucking robbed

@dougfredricks2017 2 жыл бұрын

Such a great era of TV 📺.

@adamdorgant9454 10 ай бұрын

True!!!!

@michaelbrantley.8628 3 жыл бұрын

This episode strange fellows air in October 77, when Janet, and chrissy when away for the weekend a wild party was throwing a classic episode.

@adamdorgant9454 3 жыл бұрын

Good to know!!!!

@ceilconstante640 Жыл бұрын

John Ritter played his part so damn well! Tinkerbell!

@adamdorgant9454 10 ай бұрын

Agreed!!!!

@Scorch1028 6 ай бұрын

I like how Jack sells being gay so well in this scene. At this point, Mr. Roper definitely thinks that Jack is gay. 😆

@NascarNick2488 3 жыл бұрын

0:04 his face 😂

@adamdorgant9454 3 жыл бұрын

I know Right!!!!

@hamsclass Жыл бұрын

Lol. Classic!

@canadianscratcher7834 Жыл бұрын

"Helen. You wouldn't believe what a nightnare I just had?"

@JenniferRusso5 Жыл бұрын

😂😂

@mick40jb 3 жыл бұрын

I want that Beatles poster.

@adamdorgant9454 3 жыл бұрын

It’s a great Poster!!!!!

@user-bh5el2cf1e 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@hasup9958 Жыл бұрын

This show continues to make me happy and laughing Miss you John Ritter 😢 ❤️ 😘 rip ⚘️ 🌷 🙏

@larrygarcia6356 2 ай бұрын

Decades later, this is still funny as hell.

@BrownEyePinch Жыл бұрын

Two legends

@adamdorgant9454 9 ай бұрын

Yes indeed!!!!

@greglaplante7593 2 жыл бұрын

(Yesssss! And the sock 😂

@LDU1982 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome we need more of this

@DamnAwesome 2 жыл бұрын

Last part made me laugh lol

@cfan6716 Жыл бұрын

“Thank you for a lovely evening” 🤌😂😂😂😂😂😭

@radbikeadventure Жыл бұрын

This episode is actually called "Strange Bedfellows" and it's one of my favorites. I'm queer and LOVE this show. I feel like it was making at nod at queer culture the only way it could at that time. It doesn't feel like a cheap joke to me, but a little added spark to the show. No one cares if someone is gay except Mr. Roper and he's the buffoon of the show.

@kanodogg 10 ай бұрын

You need to give that word back, queer is supposed to be OUR word for making fun of you.

@TapesNstuffS 8 ай бұрын

He's insulting the show.

@DoktorRotwang 7 ай бұрын

^Oh look... someone who actually "got it." That's refreshing.

@getreadytotube 3 жыл бұрын

It's funny how progressive they were back then.

@codis5722 3 жыл бұрын

Yea but it also wasn't so in your face and forced down your throat. I remember being a kid and my mom told me he was pretending to be gay so he could have women as his roommates lol.

@PotterPossum1989 3 жыл бұрын

No they had it right the first time

@SXI96 3 жыл бұрын

This show is still globally loved, younger generations are discovering it because it's timeless comedy, the entire cast is legendary, especially John Ritter, R Thankfully the Christian nut jobs who protested the show during it's run didn't succeed in getting it canceled back then There was a lot of animosity towards this shows because of it's subject matter, which is tame these days

@writerforlifeify 2 жыл бұрын

@@SXI96 Speaking of nut (jobs), check out the video in which Jack accidentally exposes his right testicle in a 1983 episode while wearing blue boxer shorts. No one caught the nanosecond of an intimate 'fallout' until someone with a VHS player paused it in 2001; it was brought to Mr Ritter's attention. He was so cool about it, encouraging peeps to view both the edited & unedited scenes because "sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't."

@troykelso Жыл бұрын

LOL - "progressive."

@feliciajenkins5041 2 жыл бұрын

Rip to both 🥀🥀

@ConsidertheCrows 3 жыл бұрын

Tinkerbell. Lol. Was that the term back then.

@hutch1197 3 жыл бұрын

Fairy was common and then Tinkberbell came from that.

@williamwaldrip9987 3 жыл бұрын

Right.... And thank you for a lovely evening 😏 (blinks fast like a girl)

@adamdorgant9454 3 жыл бұрын

It was too funny!!!!😂😂😂😂

@enriqueiii9209 3 жыл бұрын

And Jack only did that to Mr. Roper. LOL

@adamdorgant9454 3 жыл бұрын

@@enriqueiii9209 It was too funny!!!😂😂😂😂😂

@writerforlifeify 2 жыл бұрын

I never met a girl who 'bats' her eyelashes!

@homelesshannah50 2 жыл бұрын

@@writerforlifeify So I take it you have met EVERY female ever

@WartyFlute 2 жыл бұрын

That show is legendary

@adamdorgant9454 10 ай бұрын

Agreed!!!!

@jasonpinson8755 Жыл бұрын

Good show.💯R.I.P.John Ritter.🤟😁🙃🌟

@ryanmccormick9 4 ай бұрын

good show

@goldenone640 Жыл бұрын

This wouldn't air today due to cancel culture ! Rip both guys

@diannalightbody1486 10 ай бұрын

Yes so sad about Suzanne Somers passing away

@adamdorgant9454 10 ай бұрын

Just heard about it recently!!!!

@czykczyk3131 2 жыл бұрын

That was a very long time ago.

@sCulturefan 25 күн бұрын

Originally aired October 4 1977 on ABC

@spencermatthews5942 9 ай бұрын

I'm Super! Tanks for asking!!!

@turtleblazer3310 2 жыл бұрын

On three's company, John Ritter was the Jim Carrey before Jim Carrey.

@renejustice886 Жыл бұрын

Please do not insult John Ritter. I can not stand Jim Carrey. Carrey isn’t even in the same league as Ritter.

@ricomajestic 11 ай бұрын

@@renejustice886 Both funny! Both physical comedians too.

@adamdorgant9454 10 ай бұрын

@@renejustice886Agreed!!!

@juanitaright7360 2 жыл бұрын

That was funny 😄

@pejuangdunia3431 2 жыл бұрын

And thank you for a lovely evening lol

@adamdorgant9454 10 ай бұрын

It was a very funny scene!!!

@ivanqp4850 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@adamdorgant9454 3 жыл бұрын

It was too funny!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂

@lilsim3937 Жыл бұрын

Give me the long version please

@ivanqp4850 3 жыл бұрын

At this time this kind of comedy would be censured for the 🏳️‍🌈

@hutch1197 3 жыл бұрын

It was still acceptable back then to drop homphobic slurs. We learned from our past mistakes and shouldn't call gay people those words anymore. So, good!

@writerforlifeify 2 жыл бұрын

@@Puglitz True, too many attention junkies in this world. Words have only as much power as you CHOOSE to invest them with.

@swtv1754 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a gay guy, and I thought the gay jokes on this show were hilarious. I can laugh at myself.

@mordakie3805 Жыл бұрын

Lol wil and grace said way worse stuff than this

@Kk_1100 Жыл бұрын

People should stop being fairys

@PebblesWeeks-iw2sv 5 ай бұрын

John Ritter is the GOAT

@heidivert830 Жыл бұрын

And still is

@Anders010 2 жыл бұрын

I guess that's one way to pay the rent.

@heidivert830 Жыл бұрын

Yes he was

@DP-hy4vh 10 ай бұрын

0:04 - 😆

@greglaplante7593 2 жыл бұрын

It was supposed to be named’ A man about the house ‘

@stevencapsuto873 2 жыл бұрын

MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE was the 1973-76 British sitcom that THREE'S COMPANY was based on, and presumably was also the temporary working title for the American remake.

@loanaoftheshellpeople5627 2 жыл бұрын

I think they actually did a version of this episode first.

@YoutuberaPeru Жыл бұрын

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@cameronpickard7456 Жыл бұрын

i always knew roper was a flamer

@DrewSavo 5 ай бұрын

The sad reality is that if this show were to be renewed today, it would draw 2 distinct kinds of idiots out. The first kind would say it’s insensitive having a straight actor playing Jack, questioning why they can’t have a gay actor playing the role. The second kind would demand that to ‘appeal to a modern demographic’, the show becomes a gay man pretending to be straight. Which would cause all sorts of issues. So for crying out loud, please leave this one alone. You will never get better than John Ritter.

@stevencapsuto873 5 ай бұрын

I'm always amused when someone comes along and says "Ohmigod, no one should ever remake this sacredly good show" when the sacredly good show was, itself, a remake of another very good show ("Man About the House," in this case).

@lflagr 3 жыл бұрын

This has the wrong title

@adamdorgant9454 3 жыл бұрын

True!!!!

@bowlasunshine1802 2 жыл бұрын

❤RIPP❤

@biffsmith8188 2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the Obama estate........

@ABisexualGod Жыл бұрын

Obama was like a teenager in Hawaii during this so wtf this gotta do with him lol

@adamdorgant9454 9 ай бұрын

Probably so!!!

@latoshaadams3828 Жыл бұрын

This is so stupid why cant jack have a woman stay over they have their own room

@epic103 Жыл бұрын

Because he has to be gay in order to stay there, Mr Roper thinks he's gay.

@simon5005 3 жыл бұрын

Talk about a show that didn't stand the test of time. Dreadfully wrong on so many levels.

@writerforlifeify 2 жыл бұрын

What?! This is classic tv! We can watch it daily on channel 38 here. And it's my all-time fave sitcom.

@cb9575 2 жыл бұрын

@@writerforlifeify Classic comedy for cishets. For queer people, shows like this showed America that they were a punchline.

@RS-tm2qe 2 жыл бұрын

@@cb9575 I always thought this show was ridiculing Mr. Furley's bigotry; it exposed homophobia as an absurd attitude. The premise of Jack pretending to be gay also poked fun at traditional gender norms; none of the landlords believed straight men and women could be roommates.

@cb9575 2 жыл бұрын

@@RS-tm2qe Jack pretending to be gay served to further the notion that gay men are caricatures...silly, sassy, saucy people who sought to make straight men uncomfortable. Stereotypes suck.

@RS-tm2qe 2 жыл бұрын

@@cb9575 But is the stereotype Jack presents something the writers want the audience to believe is true of gay men, or are they making a point about the stereotypes a homophobic character like Mr. Furley would expect to see in a gay man? The caricature Jack presents IS offensive, but I think the gay trope probably made 70's audiences feel sympathy towards gay men. The audience roots for Jack and sees Mr. Furley's behavior for what it is. I think these early, clumsy attempts to deal with gender norms and LGBTQ issues on TV likely had a positive influence in their time.