Clip: THREE'S COMPANY - 12/5/1978 - ''The Party's Over'' - Jack and Roper wake up in the same bed
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- 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.
There will never be another show like this, Jack was always the funniest 😂😂
Sad, but right you are!
R.I.P. John Ritter and Norman Fell, two great men!
This was my favorite show when I was a little girl. Still is. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, John! You are missed! 1948-2003❤️
I remember being a kid in the 90's watching this on nick at nite lol. Loved threes company
I remember being a kid in the 70s and seeing these episodes as they came out.
I never noticed the cool Beatles poster Jack has
Me too!!!
Weird to think about that John Lennon was alive when this was filmed
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.
John Ritter is a legend.
Yes he was!!!
Agree, John Ritter RIP.
Just like his Father Tex Ritter.
@@sherryhook9066 You’re right about that!!!
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER JOHN RITTER
Such an incredible and amazing and wonderful person. John Ritter = Legendary
You’re right about that!!!
just discovering threes company what a great show!
True!!!
It’s the all time bestest!
One of my favorite sitcoms ever! ☮️🖖🏽
True!!!
John Ritter will always be a legend.
Yes indeed!!!!
John Ritter and Norman Fell are a riot and they will be missed. RIP to them.
Yes indeed!!!!
Such a great era of TV 📺.
True!!!!
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER JOHN RITTER
You’re right about that!!
I totally agree.
I still say he should have gotten an Oscar for Sling Blade, he was so fucking robbed
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.
Good to know!!!!
John Ritter played his part so damn well! Tinkerbell!
Agreed!!!!
I like how Jack sells being gay so well in this scene. At this point, Mr. Roper definitely thinks that Jack is gay. 😆
Decades later, this is still funny as hell.
0:04 his face 😂
I know Right!!!!
Lol. Classic!
"Helen. You wouldn't believe what a nightnare I just had?"
😂😂
This show continues to make me happy and laughing
Miss you John Ritter 😢 ❤️ 😘 rip ⚘️ 🌷 🙏
Awesome we need more of this
Two legends
Yes indeed!!!!
Last part made me laugh lol
“Thank you for a lovely evening” 🤌😂😂😂😂😂😭
I want that Beatles poster.
It’s a great Poster!!!!!
Awesome!
Rip to both 🥀🥀
(Yesssss! And the sock 😂
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.
You need to give that word back, queer is supposed to be OUR word for making fun of you.
He's insulting the show.
^Oh look... someone who actually "got it." That's refreshing.
That show is legendary
Agreed!!!!
Tinkerbell. Lol. Was that the term back then.
Fairy was common and then Tinkberbell came from that.
It's funny how progressive they were back then.
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.
No they had it right the first time
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
@@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."
LOL - "progressive."
Right.... And thank you for a lovely evening 😏 (blinks fast like a girl)
It was too funny!!!!😂😂😂😂
And Jack only did that to Mr. Roper. LOL
@@enriqueiii9209 It was too funny!!!😂😂😂😂😂
I never met a girl who 'bats' her eyelashes!
@@writerforlifeify So I take it you have met EVERY female ever
Good show.💯R.I.P.John Ritter.🤟😁🙃🌟
good show
I'm Super! Tanks for asking!!!
This clip actually comes from S2.E4 Strange Bedfellows
That was a very long time ago.
Yes so sad about Suzanne Somers passing away
Just heard about it recently!!!!
This wouldn't air today due to cancel culture ! Rip both guys
Originally aired October 4 1977 on ABC
And thank you for a lovely evening lol
It was a very funny scene!!!
That was funny 😄
On three's company, John Ritter was the Jim Carrey before Jim Carrey.
Please do not insult John Ritter. I can not stand Jim Carrey. Carrey isn’t even in the same league as Ritter.
@@renejustice886 Both funny! Both physical comedians too.
@@renejustice886Agreed!!!
Give me the long version please
😂😂😂
It was too funny!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂
I guess that's one way to pay the rent.
It was supposed to be named’ A man about the house ‘
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.
I think they actually did a version of this episode first.
And still is
Yes he was
John Ritter is the GOAT
Asuuuuu van a ser 45 años q se grabó
0:04 - 😆
i always knew roper was a flamer
At this time this kind of comedy would be censured for the 🏳️🌈
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!
@@Puglitz True, too many attention junkies in this world. Words have only as much power as you CHOOSE to invest them with.
I'm a gay guy, and I thought the gay jokes on this show were hilarious. I can laugh at myself.
Lol wil and grace said way worse stuff than this
People should stop being fairys
This has the wrong title
True!!!!
❤RIPP❤
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.
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).
Welcome to the Obama estate........
Obama was like a teenager in Hawaii during this so wtf this gotta do with him lol
Probably so!!!
This is so stupid why cant jack have a woman stay over they have their own room
Because he has to be gay in order to stay there, Mr Roper thinks he's gay.
Talk about a show that didn't stand the test of time. Dreadfully wrong on so many levels.
What?! This is classic tv! We can watch it daily on channel 38 here. And it's my all-time fave sitcom.
@@writerforlifeify Classic comedy for cishets. For queer people, shows like this showed America that they were a punchline.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
forget the situation ------- *just look at those posters*
😆😆
John Ritter was so funny.
Agreed!!!!