That one episode when Ritter played two twins at the same time to fool the landlord was one of the best acted senes on TV ever, I think. He'd go into his bedroom, put on a cowboy hat quick and come out with a different accent in 2 seconds as the twin, the go back in and send out his brother, pretend to argue with each other behind the door, etc.
Being that show continued for another 3-4 seasons without her is the reason she didn't deserve the same income as Ritter. Had he left the show, it would've fallen apart immediately. He WAS the show!
@chetarmlin1196 It was way better when she was there ill agree with that. But the issue is not if it was way better because that's hind sight. They couldn't know at the time that they show would be much better with her. Also Joyce had a contract that said that she would get what Suzanne got in terms of a contract. The real issue was that John was the star of the show. Joyce and Suzanne together were a great combo. But neither Joyce nor Suzanne were the star of the show. That was John. Hence the reason it continued. I love Mr Furley but one could argue that keeping the Ropers would been better for the show.
@@MrOctober44Exactly 💯... JUST the fact that it made it another couple PLUS seasons with the goofy (but gorgeous) Jenni Lee Harrison and Priscilla Barnes, as it DID....WAS something 😎🤘.
The writing on Three's Company was average at best. It was John Ritter who made that show what it was. The chemistry he had with Joyce DeWitt helped too but John's physical comedy was unmatched in the industry at that time. He took barely funny scripts and somehow squeezed comedy out of them.
Agreed. John Ritter was the reason for that shows success. The fact that they just replaced her and the show went on like nothing happened makes it pretty clear that she wasn't that necessary for the show. They couldn't have done that with Ritter.
Several people talking ignorantly in the posts. After Somers' Alpha Beta Supermarket commercials-acting hubby took over as her agent, Somers' contract ask wasn't just to get a raise to equal Lead Star Ritter's salary... she also demanded a percentage of the show's profits. Even Ritter wasn't getting a percentage. Somers always conveniently avoided mentioning that fact publicly. Somers also was a no-show to a couple of tapings, costing the production loads of money. She also had to go to court because she was doing a Vegas revue when she was supposed to be taping the show, when she had claimed she couldn't do the tapings due to an injury. That was brought out in court. Many suck-up fans of hers try to make excuses for her, suggesting that her firing was only about gender.
I agree completely. And to be fair she wasn't the star of the show. Its that simple. John was. And it wasn't gender based. It was resume and talent based. And yes I read somewhere she wanted a piece of the back end. I mean that show made her career she didn't make the show. Theres a difference. Now I agree that the show was better with Suzanne but the show could ot survive without John. And as u said even he wasn't getting part of the back end.
That's the dumb Hollywood woke thing to do, always say it was about gender. The tv networks never want to hand out money and they didn't feel they needed to pay her more and they were probably right. Actors get paid low when these shows start, and when the actors start asking for money, the networks start thinking about canceling. Many shows were ended after 5 years when the original contract ran out even though it was still successful. The networks just didn't want to pay big raises for successful shows. They only cared about the profits. I don't blame Somers and her husband for trying. Many in Hollywood don't try and end up with little money. They went on to make a lot more money doing other things and ended up richer than anyone else on the show. They did a pretty good job for themselves. They turned success from that one show into huge riches. Good for them.
The three of them should have stuck together and hired an agent to cut three identical deals, same money, same perks, same length, same points, same across the board. I think the cast of Friends did just that and they raked lottery cash for years.
Friends was much later and to be fair this really was Suzanne's first gig. And they had to show her how to act. She was completely green. All egos aside Suzanne was great but every show has a front runner. And John was it. The next show Suzanne did would have been worth a lot more had she not pulled that. John was an experienced actor and was literally the most important on the show.
Why would John Ritter do this, especially five years in? Friends was unique in that their was no true star/focus. John Ritter was clearly the star. So John should protest and battle with the network to help Suzzane out? Both him and Joyce Dewitt thought she was being greedy.
I still watch this show on Pluto a lot. The chemistry between Chrissy, Jack and Janet was unmatched to me. Once they got Cindy and Terry, it wasn’t the same.
They offered the Ropers their own show and promised to put them back on Threes Company if the spinoff flopped. It flopped and they kept Don Knotts instead. The producers were assholes
Norman Fell always had work (he was in The Graduate and the last movie Ronald Reagan made), but it was never steady. The supporting role on Three's Company was his dream job. After he got blanked over, I don't think he got that much work because everyone just saw him as Mr. Roper. He wasn't able to do what Jerry Stiller did and basically play the same character on two shows.
Same thing happened to Steve Allen and the Tonight Show. They took him off the successful Tonight Show and put him in primetime saying he could go back if primetime failed. The primetime failed, but they wouldn't put him back on the Tonight Show. Carson is very thankful for that decision.
Don Knotts knocked it out of the park as Mr. Furley, and he gave the show a different feel that kept it from getting stale. Taking him off the show would have been a terrible move.
Sad no producer could manage to get Farrah and Suzanne on the same sitcom. The show would have been number 1 in it's time slot every week even if they just read the phone book while sitting by a swimming pool.
Farrah didn’t leave over money. She left because she didn’t like the schedule. She wanted out to do films and other projects. Plus, she and her husband, Lee Majors, weren’t able to spend enough time together with their schedules. She was trying to fix that at the time. He couldn’t get out of ‘The Six Million Dollar Man.’
They were not pulling anything. They rightly wanted compensated for the work they did. They were bringing in the money, and deserved their cut. Do you realize how much money the production company was making on posters alone? Farrah alone had the best selling poster and most famous poster ever from a TV series, and got paid nothing. The production company of Three's Company literally had her on multiple posters, had her on lunch boxes, calendars etc, and gave her none of the profits. So she 'pulled' nothing, she wanted compensated for the money they were making off of her. The company was making millions from her name, and she rightfully wanted her cut. Acting lie they did something wrong for asking for what they deserved, is comical. She was why people were watching, and she was why they were making millions from merchandise sales. In the end, she changed the entire industry, and the way contracts were done, and the way actors were paid from merchandise sales, so she won. But to prove the point of why they deserved the money, just look at the shows after they left, enough said. Both companies now say they made a mistake not paying them. When half the men in America have a poster of your star hanging on the wall. pay the star, period. The production companies were a fool to let either go. Simple economics.
There is NO question Three's Company got better after Suzanne left. Look at the Season 5 to 8 episodes with Cindy then Terri & they were clearly better! Of course John Ritter(Jack Tripper) was the star!
@@stickman1742 The physical comedy between Jenilee & John when the Cindy character first started was absolutely HILARIOUS! They just ran out of things for Cindy to do so they replaced her with Terri. Chrissy's dumb blonde act was getting old, stale, & redundant! Cindy & then Terri were a breath of fresh air! Why else do you think the Queen of comedy herself, Lucille Ball, chose Three's Company as her favorite show? It's because she saw how Jack Tripper & Lucy Ricardo were similar characters in their comedy we saw onscreen!
Suzanne Sommers was a beautiful person but she did a bad job with that character. When the show started she was just a pretty blonde who didn’t really think about things. Kinda like Penny from Big Bang but more feminine. Was a good likable character. By the time her character ended she was an absolute moron to the point she wasn’t really that attractive anymore just annoying. Was a strange thing.
Her husband was also her manager and he pitched a spin off where Jack Tripper married Chrissy Snow! Hamill and Somers pissed off ABC with their salary dispute and lawsuit. What were they smoking? In the catchphrase of Redd Foxx aka Fred Sanford: " You big dummy! "
People try to criticize them, but Somers went on to make far more money with thighmaster etc. She ended up with over 100 million net worth, far more than John Ritter. They worked the business avenue hard and it paid off. Many in Hollywood don't and no matter what success their show may have, they end up broke.
Very classy! using their proper non offensive name….context: the E word is as offensive to the Inuit as the N word is to other people, just nobody knows because their a small remote group.
John Ritter was the only irreplaceable person, which is why he earned more money. The show was based on a British comedy called Man About the House. Ritter was the only original cast member who stayed from the first pilot until the end. They even spun off the Ropers to bring Don Knotts onto the show.
Suzanne tried to renegotiate her contract during the middle of the season. That was her biggest mistake. She also later developed cancer but refused chemo, using alternative methods and lived many healthy years after that. She wrote a book about it that should have been much more widespread.
Norman Fell (who was on the show) was approached about doing a spin off of "Threes Company" called "The Ropers" - which he didn't want to do. Eventually, the show was created, and aired on TV - with assurances from the network that Fell and his costars would be able to return if the new show was unsuccessful. The show was not a hit, and was canceled soon after....but the network decided that the Ropers would not return nonetheless. Just a little side story for y'all.
@BB-iw4qd That could very well be true.....but I don't know for sure. I do know that Don Knots had become very popular in their absence - and I think that was the reason the network never brought them back. So it's quite possible that they did keep the show going for contractual reasons in order to avoid bringing them back.
I read somewhere that Courtney Cox was a big part of that. They wanted her to be the 'star', and she suggested something along the lines of that they're all the stars and should be paid equally.
It's sort of true with Seinfeld. Of course Jerry got paid the most, but the three supporting actors stuck together and made sure they all got paid the same.
So, I am alone in the comments thinking Suzanne deserved every penny? It was Three's Company, not the John Ritter show. Also Don Knotts was sorely undervalued, and probably the funniest member of the cast, yet was only a side character.
They all deserved more and equal pay…. TV paid less then and her asking for more (and even a percentage of the show) was pushing the envelope in an appropriate way. Same thing happened to Dukes of Hazzard, they fired the two leads and replaced them with those two other guys who were so bland. The execs were probably greedy, and definitely shortsighted.
@@jeffreyturcotte420- Evidently, it didn't though. Not in this case. The show moved on. John Ritter was silly and funny. Watching the show was escapism and clean. That's why people tuned in.🤷♀️
The producers were correct. She was a big star but the show didn’t need her to survive. She was better off trying to get her own show or movies. Unfortunately that didn’t work for her
Joyce Dewitt (Janet) always seemed grateful to have received a break,knowing after this show,it was over,and enjoyed every minute while she could. I loved her,seemed very genuine.
Here's what happened During the show the cast was allowed to do projects in the off season except Susan After season 4 she wanted 100,000 per episode That would have made her the top paid star in the business ABC said no What they offered her in return in her mind was not enough She had an injury at some point while she was doing her Vegas gig that she got ABC did not like the fact that she had a side gig and because of the political issues between the networks the took it out on her She did not show up for 3 tapings of the show and not knowing the future they quickly had to find a replacement for the rest of season 5 She came back but she was deliberately mistreated by have her do these scenes where chrissy would Janet She fought back with a lawsuit eventually settling out of court But by that time the damage was done The show tanked and the last 2 seasons sucked ABC tried to stop her from working after that and that failed and plugging products is actually where she really made money
Somers went on to do Step by Step, an ABC family sitcom. Somehow she managed to stay for the entire run, unlike one of the kids who left the show and show business altogether in the last season. His absence was never mentioned.
Sommers and Dewitt made the same. That was the contract but John was always supposed to make more. He was the star. Anyone who didn't think so didn't watch the show.
The nail that really sealed the coffin was when her manager went to CBS and made a deal for her to appear in made for tv movies on that network, while she was appearing on ABC in Three’s Company. That had never been done before and did not go over well with ABC to say the least.
My favorite Ritter piece was REAL MEN with Jim Belushi. Hilarious. Absolutely hilariously strange movie. So goofy. The big gun or a glass of water!😅 iykyk
Reminds me of the Will Smith "Fresh Prince" negotiations that led to the original Aunt Viv leaving the show. He refused to go to bat for anyone but himself and allegedly said to her, "Y'all deal is y'all deal."
Suzanne's husband negotiated for her. his name is Alan Hamel. he screwed it up for her. the bosses were sexist so that didnt help. Suzanne made about 10 appearances where her she just called them on the phone from a different location. Suzanne deserved a raise because she was the top female on tv at the time along with laverne and shirley.
Back in the day, John Ritter received top billing for Three's Company. Suzanne Sommers wanted parity with John Ritter. Needless to say, that didn't go well. The show struggled somewhat afterwards without her. After Three's Company, Sommers eventually capitalized on her fame by doing infomercials.
She was on a huge hit show that lasted nearly a decade, ‘Step by Step.’ The ‘90s version of ‘The Brady Bunch.’ ‘She’s the Sheriff’ was in between ‘Three’s Company’ and ‘Step by Step.’
@@TheBOG3 She did a lot of things, but the money came mostly by pushing products. Nothing wrong with that, that's where the money was. Many in Hollywood make most of their money by doing some kind of commercial work. Being a spokesperson for a big company pays a lot more than most acting gigs.
Ritter was the star. They didn't need her. Also, I'm suprised Joe hasn't heard of Noises Off since he's a comic. I've never seen the movie but the production I saw of the play was very funny. Three's Company reruns came on after old Star Trek reruns, which in turn came on after The X Files on Friday night when I was 11 or 12.
Yeah, he seems to think that television shows aren't on television. He's babbling about brain surgeons and plumbers and no one even asks him what the hell he's talking about. Very strange.
Suzanne saw the light that the show would live forever in syndication not to mention sales of the seasons on VHS/dvd’s and wanted a part of the profit. I don’t blame her. However she was blessed with the sitcoms She’s the sheriff and Step by Step plus being an entrepreneur.
Three Company Trivia; In the opening theme song, Jack sees a hot chick walk past while riding his bike and nearly crashes. That hot chick is Suzanne wearing a brunette wig.
Similar with Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels. She wanted same money as Carrol O'Conner (Archie Bunker). Idk the details, but that's why she was only cast on the show for one season, though she did make a few guest appearances later.
3:27 NOISES OFF! is a hit play featuring lots of broad physical humor. 😅😅😅 The "deaf movie" Joe Rogan is thinking of is called CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD, which was made into a movie with William Hurt and Marlee Matlin.🎬😅😅😅😅
Favored nations clause is a contract that stats once you sign if someone gets more during the life of your contract your automatically bumped to their level of financial compensation Joe!
never bid yourself out of a job, that is for sports too. people will do it cheaper to get in, i stole jobs all the time, people demanding 30.00 an hr, i will do it for 15.00, then earn the raise, and i would complain that i am paid too much,,
In exchange for taking Romania's gymnastic coaches in an op using the FBI and the Catholic church, the US gave them favored nation trading status. This was the inception that led to many US gold medals and the Larry Nassar scandal, who was also a catechist.
John Ritter was the whole show. He was the star and the show revolved around him. She didn't deserve the same salary as him. Sommers was easily replaced and the show went on for many years after she was fired. Same thing happened to Shelly Long on Cheers when she left. Their egos get too big.
@@jacksilver930 This stuff is all about money, has nothing to do with ego. Her and her husband wanted to cash in. They did eventually cash in because they tried and she ended up far richer than anyone else on the show.
@@stickman1742 That's not true. Sommers thought she was "irreplaceable" and that the show couldn't go on without her. That is ego. Yes, money played a part. But, her ego was what caused her to think she was "irreplaceable." Her ego also told her she was a "bigger" star than John Ritter as well.
Most favored nation contract is an offshoot of the opium wars where Europe was carving up area of interest with China after they had been defeated. The US negotiated last and just said, whatever is the best condition/terms you've given to anyone else, you'll give to us.
Ironically, I liked more the others who substituted Suzanne in the show! I think Suzanne's character was very exaggerated. Idk but it looked as if SS never wanted to be just another character but THE character, because, you know, she was THE STAR. However, I have seen Sommer in some interviews and looked as a friendly person. I absolutely loved the show!
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John Ritter was such a cool dude.
That one episode when Ritter played two twins at the same time to fool the landlord was one of the best acted senes on TV ever, I think.
He'd go into his bedroom, put on a cowboy hat quick and come out with a different accent in 2 seconds as the twin, the go back in and send out his brother, pretend to argue with each other behind the door, etc.
@StephenDoty84 stay tuned is a fun movie
Just watched his last movie, Bad Santa, on Christmas Eve. Funny until the end.
R.I.P. ☮️
@@markfish8403 I gave Bad Santa a try -- poor acting, poor script; way too inauthentic emotionally, even in its own universe, for me.
Being that show continued for another 3-4 seasons without her is the reason she didn't deserve the same income as Ritter. Had he left the show, it would've fallen apart immediately. He WAS the show!
Yeah I hear ya. But it was way better when summers was there.
@chetarmlin1196 It was way better when she was there ill agree with that. But the issue is not if it was way better because that's hind sight. They couldn't know at the time that they show would be much better with her. Also Joyce had a contract that said that she would get what Suzanne got in terms of a contract. The real issue was that John was the star of the show. Joyce and Suzanne together were a great combo. But neither Joyce nor Suzanne were the star of the show. That was John. Hence the reason it continued. I love Mr Furley but one could argue that keeping the Ropers would been better for the show.
@@chetarmlin1196True, but she left after the fifth season. Usually most shows, have peaked by then.
No Summers tits were the show. Ritter was a bonus.
@@MrOctober44Exactly 💯... JUST the fact that it made it another couple PLUS seasons with the goofy (but gorgeous) Jenni Lee Harrison and Priscilla Barnes, as it DID....WAS something 😎🤘.
The writing on Three's Company was average at best. It was John Ritter who made that show what it was. The chemistry he had with Joyce DeWitt helped too but John's physical comedy was unmatched in the industry at that time. He took barely funny scripts and somehow squeezed comedy out of them.
What writing? It was verbatim copy of a British show. US studios are notorious for doing that.
Agreed. John Ritter was the reason for that shows success.
The fact that they just replaced her and the show went on like nothing happened makes it pretty clear that she wasn't that necessary for the show. They couldn't have done that with Ritter.
He was a terrible actor. His silly kind of humor died in the 60s. Another of many untalented Hollywood nepotists.
Joyce's pantyhose legs had me glued to every episode
@@HolidayRambler.Admiralare kidding me he was a great actor you just jealous you can't be actor 😂
ThighMaster made her more money than 3's company ever did.
Suzanne didn't need the Thighmaster. She could've used my head.
yes it did
Thank you, ThighMasTER (that commercial).
Suzanne still gets a percentage of every ThighMaster sold. It is still available for purchase.
I heard she NEVER even trained & was a chain smoker.
Susan was great but John Ritter was the show and I really like Joyce DeWitt
Joyce was my crush on the show
Joyce was the hot one.
Don't forget Larry , man he was hilarious
Larry was funny
She wasn't fired. They made an offer and she refused.
Leave the gun take the cannoli?
Several people talking ignorantly in the posts. After Somers' Alpha Beta Supermarket commercials-acting hubby took over as her agent, Somers' contract ask wasn't just to get a raise to equal Lead Star Ritter's salary... she also demanded a percentage of the show's profits. Even Ritter wasn't getting a percentage. Somers always conveniently avoided mentioning that fact publicly. Somers also was a no-show to a couple of tapings, costing the production loads of money. She also had to go to court because she was doing a Vegas revue when she was supposed to be taping the show, when she had claimed she couldn't do the tapings due to an injury. That was brought out in court. Many suck-up fans of hers try to make excuses for her, suggesting that her firing was only about gender.
I agree completely. And to be fair she wasn't the star of the show. Its that simple. John was. And it wasn't gender based. It was resume and talent based. And yes I read somewhere she wanted a piece of the back end. I mean that show made her career she didn't make the show. Theres a difference. Now I agree that the show was better with Suzanne but the show could ot survive without John. And as u said even he wasn't getting part of the back end.
Thank you for sharing the truth
@cassandrareedy7369 welcome 🙏
Interesting comment
That's the dumb Hollywood woke thing to do, always say it was about gender. The tv networks never want to hand out money and they didn't feel they needed to pay her more and they were probably right. Actors get paid low when these shows start, and when the actors start asking for money, the networks start thinking about canceling. Many shows were ended after 5 years when the original contract ran out even though it was still successful. The networks just didn't want to pay big raises for successful shows. They only cared about the profits.
I don't blame Somers and her husband for trying. Many in Hollywood don't try and end up with little money. They went on to make a lot more money doing other things and ended up richer than anyone else on the show. They did a pretty good job for themselves. They turned success from that one show into huge riches. Good for them.
Suzanne Somers died in October, 2023.
Lol, these repost channels getting loose
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Thanks
Heard she left everything to her thighs.
The three of them should have stuck together and hired an agent to cut three identical deals, same money, same perks, same length, same points, same across the board. I think the cast of Friends did just that and they raked lottery cash for years.
Friends was much later and to be fair this really was Suzanne's first gig. And they had to show her how to act. She was completely green. All egos aside Suzanne was great but every show has a front runner. And John was it. The next show Suzanne did would have been worth a lot more had she not pulled that. John was an experienced actor and was literally the most important on the show.
@@ThrifterGuy Really? I had no idea when Friends came on much later, thanks for the info.
@@robertkees6048 When you compare Seinfeld to Leave It To Beaver, Seinfeld came much, much later.
Why would John Ritter do this, especially five years in? Friends was unique in that their was no true star/focus. John Ritter was clearly the star. So John should protest and battle with the network to help Suzzane out? Both him and Joyce Dewitt thought she was being greedy.
@MrOctober44 100%. And short sighted. Theres ways to actually "negotiate" without demanding. Thats not negotiating.
News Radio was one of the BEST shows ever. Amazing cast. Amazing writing. One of my absolute favorites
Wrong show bruh 😆
@ joe Rohan mentioned NewsRadio in this clip. He was an original cast member on NewsRadio
I still watch this show on Pluto a lot. The chemistry between Chrissy, Jack and Janet was unmatched to me. Once they got Cindy and Terry, it wasn’t the same.
"Oh, this must have been one of those episode of Three's a Company where's there's somekind of misunderstanding..."
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LOL, yup, dang near every one of them.
That joke was around in the 70s
From The one where they all sit around in a coffee shop.
They offered the Ropers their own show and promised to put them back on Threes Company if the spinoff flopped.
It flopped and they kept Don Knotts instead.
The producers were assholes
Norman Fell always had work (he was in The Graduate and the last movie Ronald Reagan made), but it was never steady. The supporting role on Three's Company was his dream job. After he got blanked over, I don't think he got that much work because everyone just saw him as Mr. Roper. He wasn't able to do what Jerry Stiller did and basically play the same character on two shows.
Same thing happened to Steve Allen and the Tonight Show. They took him off the successful Tonight Show and put him in primetime saying he could go back if primetime failed. The primetime failed, but they wouldn't put him back on the Tonight Show. Carson is very thankful for that decision.
Don Knotts knocked it out of the park as Mr. Furley, and he gave the show a different feel that kept it from getting stale. Taking him off the show would have been a terrible move.
Don Knott's GOAT
She wanted same pay as Ritter; even with her popularity there is no show w/o Ritter & she couldn’t understand that.
Farrah pulled the same shit on Charlie's Angels. Adios Farrah.
Sad no producer could manage to get Farrah and Suzanne on the same sitcom. The show would have been number 1 in it's time slot every week even if they just read the phone book while sitting by a swimming pool.
Still the first name people think of, when they think of that show, and the show went down the tubes after she left.
A friend of mine dated her in college. Weird factoid.
Farrah didn’t leave over money. She left because she didn’t like the schedule. She wanted out to do films and other projects. Plus, she and her husband, Lee Majors, weren’t able to spend enough time together with their schedules. She was trying to fix that at the time. He couldn’t get out of ‘The Six Million Dollar Man.’
They were not pulling anything. They rightly wanted compensated for the work they did. They were bringing in the money, and deserved their cut. Do you realize how much money the production company was making on posters alone? Farrah alone had the best selling poster and most famous poster ever from a TV series, and got paid nothing. The production company of Three's Company literally had her on multiple posters, had her on lunch boxes, calendars etc, and gave her none of the profits. So she 'pulled' nothing, she wanted compensated for the money they were making off of her. The company was making millions from her name, and she rightfully wanted her cut. Acting lie they did something wrong for asking for what they deserved, is comical. She was why people were watching, and she was why they were making millions from merchandise sales. In the end, she changed the entire industry, and the way contracts were done, and the way actors were paid from merchandise sales, so she won. But to prove the point of why they deserved the money, just look at the shows after they left, enough said. Both companies now say they made a mistake not paying them. When half the men in America have a poster of your star hanging on the wall. pay the star, period. The production companies were a fool to let either go. Simple economics.
There is NO question Three's Company got better after Suzanne left. Look at the Season 5 to 8 episodes with Cindy then Terri & they were clearly better! Of course John Ritter(Jack Tripper) was the star!
The fact you even observed that is hilarious
@@christophernaples1315 Everybody's got to have a hobby
Some people never watched it after Suzanne left.
That's ridiculous. Jenilee Harrison was awful, but she did look good. Priscilla Barnes did ok, but Somers was better.
@@stickman1742 The physical comedy between Jenilee & John when the Cindy character first started was absolutely HILARIOUS! They just ran out of things for Cindy to do so they replaced her with Terri. Chrissy's dumb blonde act was getting old, stale, & redundant! Cindy & then Terri were a breath of fresh air!
Why else do you think the Queen of comedy herself, Lucille Ball, chose Three's Company as her favorite show? It's because she saw how Jack Tripper & Lucy Ricardo were similar characters in their comedy we saw onscreen!
Great show. Couldn’t pull that comedy off now. Cheers see y’all at the Regal Begal. IYKYK.
Couldn't pull off "Cheers" now a days either...
Or All in the Family, The Jeffersons, etc..ah, television was so much better "back in the day" (oops...my old is showing 😅)
@@jarleron4788 Why couldn't you make Cheers today? Not a sitcom, but I can see why you couldn't make Airplane! these days.
Suzanne Sommers was a beautiful person but she did a bad job with that character. When the show started she was just a pretty blonde who didn’t really think about things. Kinda like Penny from Big Bang but more feminine. Was a good likable character. By the time her character ended she was an absolute moron to the point she wasn’t really that attractive anymore just annoying. Was a strange thing.
I disagree, I think she played an air head perfectly, the girl they replaced her with they called Cindy wasn't convincing as a dumbbell at all.
@ Cindy wasn’t playing a dumbbell.
@@waynedurning8717 Yeah, she was clumsy and clueless.
Penny's character got worse over time. Lazy writing. The promiscuous alcoholism jokes got stale.
@@deanoost9599 yep. Still was within character though as far as the acting went.
Her husband was also her manager and he pitched a spin off where Jack Tripper married Chrissy Snow!
Hamill and Somers pissed off ABC with their salary dispute and lawsuit. What were they smoking?
In the catchphrase of Redd Foxx aka Fred Sanford: " You big dummy! "
People try to criticize them, but Somers went on to make far more money with thighmaster etc. She ended up with over 100 million net worth, far more than John Ritter. They worked the business avenue hard and it paid off. Many in Hollywood don't and no matter what success their show may have, they end up broke.
Joe Rogan finally got a real star on his show here. The real Butthead. Where’s Beavis though?
2:07 “I think it’s a Inuit thng.
LOL, yes, I'm sure their contract had an Inuit clause in it, I lost it when he said that.
Theoism
Very classy! using their proper non offensive name….context: the E word is as offensive to the Inuit as the N word is to other people, just nobody knows because their a small remote group.
We'll know she wanted more money but actor John Ritter was the highest paid actor on the show
John Ritter was the only irreplaceable person, which is why he earned more money. The show was based on a British comedy called Man About the House. Ritter was the only original cast member who stayed from the first pilot until the end. They even spun off the Ropers to bring Don Knotts onto the show.
Suzanne tried to renegotiate her contract during the middle of the season. That was her biggest mistake. She also later developed cancer but refused chemo, using alternative methods and lived many healthy years after that. She wrote a book about it that should have been much more widespread.
Theo mentioning "Noises off" is mind blowing. That is a great movie with an amazing cast. It's one you can watch more than once.
Norman Fell (who was on the show) was approached about doing a spin off of "Threes Company" called "The Ropers" - which he didn't want to do. Eventually, the show was created, and aired on TV - with assurances from the network that Fell and his costars would be able to return if the new show was unsuccessful. The show was not a hit, and was canceled soon after....but the network decided that the Ropers would not return nonetheless. Just a little side story for y'all.
Didn’t they even order just enough episodes so they legally could avoid bringing them back?
@BB-iw4qd That could very well be true.....but I don't know for sure. I do know that Don Knots had become very popular in their absence - and I think that was the reason the network never brought them back. So it's quite possible that they did keep the show going for contractual reasons in order to avoid bringing them back.
It wasn’t one episode. She called Janet or Jack on the phone at the end of nearly every episode of S5 after this happened.
Yes, John Ritter was in the movie Noises Off. One of the best stage farces ever! So funny.😂🤣
His role in Sling Blade was good too.
Michael Caine, Christopher Reeves ... thanks for turning me on to this movie!
Skin deep was great
It wasn’t until the ‘Friends’ cast boycotted in solidarity that TV sitcom actors started to get paid equally.
I read somewhere that Courtney Cox was a big part of that. They wanted her to be the 'star', and she suggested something along the lines of that they're all the stars and should be paid equally.
@@vincebrogan2878 Yeah and at one time during the show each cast member was getting $ 1 million dollars-EACH-per episode.
It's sort of true with Seinfeld. Of course Jerry got paid the most, but the three supporting actors stuck together and made sure they all got paid the same.
So, I am alone in the comments thinking Suzanne deserved every penny? It was Three's Company, not the John Ritter show. Also Don Knotts was sorely undervalued, and probably the funniest member of the cast, yet was only a side character.
Yes... you're alone ... probably got a sh.t ton of cats as well
Some people stopped watching after Suzanne left.
They all deserved more and equal pay….
TV paid less then and her asking for more (and even a percentage of the show) was pushing the envelope in an appropriate way.
Same thing happened to Dukes of Hazzard, they fired the two leads and replaced them with those two other guys who were so bland.
The execs were probably greedy, and definitely shortsighted.
@@jamesspalten5977 that's the main role of SIMPs.
She left, the show went on.
If he left, the show would not last another half season.
See the difference
1:54 Theo is gonna do a Theo-ism with that one. 2:07 He did it! 2:27 He did it again!!!!😂😂😂
Favored nations means if they hire somebody at your pay level, yours will go up. You stay higher paid than the others.
Interesting. Thank you.
I thought it could still be equal.
Sitcoms ruled right up until the smartphone.
My drama school teacher back in the day said Three’s Company is nothing but ‘T & A’.
And yet these others think Ritter carried the show, LOL !! Maybe Ritter was their T and A.
I don't understand was your drama teacher so important he eclipses your own opinion?
@@Youreplywasalie 61. straight. show was not just t and a. show was good silly entertainment. ritter was key in my opinion
A famous quote " sex sells"
@@jeffreyturcotte420- Evidently, it didn't though. Not in this case. The show moved on. John Ritter was silly and funny. Watching the show was escapism and clean. That's why people tuned in.🤷♀️
The producers were correct. She was a big star but the show didn’t need her to survive. She was better off trying to get her own show or movies. Unfortunately that didn’t work for her
"Noises off? What is that a deaf movie?" 😅😅😅
The "I don't know" got me.
I love how Theo just goes along like he knows what the topic is and ads things to the conversation that have nothing to do with anything.
Your right. It was a great show.
Joyce Dewitt (Janet) always seemed grateful to have received a break,knowing after this show,it was over,and enjoyed every minute while she could. I loved her,seemed very genuine.
Excellent reference from Theo here! Noises Off is hilarious and full of hilarious people. ✌️
We all know who the star was,, Mr Furley
Here's what happened
During the show the cast was allowed to do projects in the off season except Susan
After season 4 she wanted 100,000 per episode
That would have made her the top paid star in the business
ABC said no
What they offered her in return in her mind was not enough
She had an injury at some point while she was doing her Vegas gig that she got
ABC did not like the fact that she had a side gig and because of the political issues between the networks the took it out on her
She did not show up for 3 tapings of the show and not knowing the future they quickly had to find a replacement for the rest of season 5
She came back but she was deliberately mistreated by have her do these scenes where chrissy would Janet
She fought back with a lawsuit eventually settling out of court
But by that time the damage was done
The show tanked and the last 2 seasons sucked
ABC tried to stop her from working after that and that failed and plugging products is actually where she really made money
Somers went on to do Step by Step, an ABC family sitcom. Somehow she managed to stay for the entire run, unlike one of the kids who left the show and show business altogether in the last season. His absence was never mentioned.
Dear Theo: Favored nations clause is a provision that requires a country or business to treat all parties equally...it's not Inuit!😂😅😂
Sommers and Dewitt made the same. That was the contract but John was always supposed to make more. He was the star. Anyone who didn't think so didn't watch the show.
Theo always seems like he is having a different conversation.
in a contract, 'favored nations' means if someone gets better terms in their contract, you automatically get that also
The nail that really sealed the coffin was when her manager went to CBS and made a deal for her to appear in made for tv movies on that network, while she was appearing on ABC in Three’s Company. That had never been done before and did not go over well with ABC to say the least.
My favorite Ritter piece was REAL MEN with Jim Belushi. Hilarious. Absolutely hilariously strange movie. So goofy.
The big gun or a glass of water!😅 iykyk
Rip Suzanne Somers seemed like a sweet lady but I was always team Janet!!!
Janet was smoking hot in season 4.
Suzanne starred in Step by Step with Patrick Duffy. It ran 7 Seasons and she made millions on that show.
That's What happened to Larry Mondello on Leave it to Beaver
Same with Sarah Purcell and “Real People”.
Reminds me of the Will Smith "Fresh Prince" negotiations that led to the original Aunt Viv leaving the show. He refused to go to bat for anyone but himself and allegedly said to her, "Y'all deal is y'all deal."
Hes such trash. Lol
I think George Costanza should be getting paid the same as Ted Danson.
Favored Nations is basically you make a certain amount if somebody else gets hired at a higher rate you automatically get bumped up to that rate.
John Ritter was in Sling blade too.
If I remember correctly, Shelley Long played power play with Cheers and they said no thanks and hired Kirsty Alley. The rest is history as they say.
"Noises Off" is a great comedy.
I remember that NewsRadio with John Ritter. Everyone loved him except Dave
Suzanne's husband negotiated for her. his name is Alan Hamel. he screwed it up for her. the bosses were sexist so that didnt help. Suzanne made about 10 appearances where her she just called them on the phone from a different location. Suzanne deserved a raise because she was the top female on tv at the time along with laverne and shirley.
Joe wearing the Jack Carr series shirt.....sweet crossover.
Joyce DeWitt was funnier and hotter, the same way Dawn Wells was hotter than Tina Louise on Gilligan’s Island.
Back in the day, John Ritter received top billing for Three's Company. Suzanne Sommers wanted parity with John Ritter. Needless to say, that didn't go well. The show struggled somewhat afterwards without her. After Three's Company, Sommers eventually capitalized on her fame by doing infomercials.
She was on a huge hit show that lasted nearly a decade, ‘Step by Step.’ The ‘90s version of ‘The Brady Bunch.’ ‘She’s the Sheriff’ was in between ‘Three’s Company’ and ‘Step by Step.’
She also demanded a percentage of the show's profits. Even Ritter wasn't getting that.
@@TheBOG3 She did a lot of things, but the money came mostly by pushing products. Nothing wrong with that, that's where the money was. Many in Hollywood make most of their money by doing some kind of commercial work. Being a spokesperson for a big company pays a lot more than most acting gigs.
Ritter was the star. They didn't need her. Also, I'm suprised Joe hasn't heard of Noises Off since he's a comic. I've never seen the movie but the production I saw of the play was very funny. Three's Company reruns came on after old Star Trek reruns, which in turn came on after The X Files on Friday night when I was 11 or 12.
Really you're surprised Joe hasn't heard of something?
@Paul-ew5st lol yes fair enough
Real men movie watch it!
Jon ritter Jim Belushi
CLOWN ATTACK 😅😅😅
Let's be honest, Cocaine was the real star of that show
John--he was the show.. he really was the main star. She was blonde eye candy😅😊
Seems like Joe is a little confused here.
Yeah, he seems to think that television shows aren't on television. He's babbling about brain surgeons and plumbers and no one even asks him what the hell he's talking about. Very strange.
@@taskmaster65that’s because he’s surrounded by yes man. No one ever disagrees with him or questions what he says lol
I know I wonder if he's drunk he acts like he has brain damage
Wow, never in a million years did i think I would hear a "Noises Off" reference on Joe Rogan. Yes Ritter was in that movie and he was great.
Yes, he did Noises Off with Carol Burnett, among others. Good call, Theo.
Suzanne saw the light that the show would live forever in syndication not to mention sales of the seasons on VHS/dvd’s and wanted a part of the profit. I don’t blame her. However she was blessed with the sitcoms She’s the sheriff and Step by Step plus being an entrepreneur.
It’s not favored nations, it’s no favored nations.
I remember reading at the time her learning what Alan Alda was making on MASH and determined she should be making more.
Three Company Trivia;
In the opening theme song, Jack sees a hot chick walk past while riding his bike and nearly crashes. That hot chick is Suzanne wearing a brunette wig.
And during the end credits when they're feeding the birds, that's not Suzanne Somers.
Noises Off is great. Worth the watch for any theater fan. All star ensemble cast.
Similar with Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels. She wanted same money as Carrol O'Conner (Archie Bunker). Idk the details, but that's why she was only cast on the show for one season, though she did make a few guest appearances later.
3:27 NOISES OFF! is a hit play featuring lots of broad physical humor. 😅😅😅
The "deaf movie" Joe Rogan is thinking of is called CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD, which was made into a movie with William Hurt and Marlee Matlin.🎬😅😅😅😅
John Ritter had a great role in 1 episode of Buffy.
It was all Lucille Ball.
Favored nations clause is a contract that stats once you sign if someone gets more during the life of your contract your automatically bumped to their level of financial compensation Joe!
never bid yourself out of a job, that is for sports too. people will do it cheaper to get in, i stole jobs all the time, people demanding 30.00 an hr, i will do it for 15.00, then earn the raise, and i would complain that i am paid too much,,
Smart. Mexicans do that all the time, H.A.M., in Texas, just hire a Mexican, lol 😊
That's dumb AF and you only benefit the leeching money men.
She went on to make hundreds of millions, much more than anyone else on that show.
Bad(der) Santa for more John Ritter cool stuff. (Cloris Leachman in a nice role, too, for fans of that era.)
In exchange for taking Romania's gymnastic coaches in an op using the FBI and the Catholic church, the US gave them favored nation trading status.
This was the inception that led to many US gold medals and the Larry Nassar scandal, who was also a catechist.
She was asking for what ritter got and was booted.
I heard ritter was only making 50 and she wanted 150
John Ritter was the whole show. He was the star and the show revolved around him. She didn't deserve the same salary as him. Sommers was easily replaced and the show went on for many years after she was fired. Same thing happened to Shelly Long on Cheers when she left. Their egos get too big.
@@jacksilver930well they had a clause in their contracts that said they should be making equal pay... but weren't living up to it
@@jacksilver930 This stuff is all about money, has nothing to do with ego. Her and her husband wanted to cash in. They did eventually cash in because they tried and she ended up far richer than anyone else on the show.
@@stickman1742 That's not true. Sommers thought she was "irreplaceable" and that the show couldn't go on without her. That is ego. Yes, money played a part. But, her ego was what caused her to think she was "irreplaceable." Her ego also told her she was a "bigger" star than John Ritter as well.
Most favored nation contract is an offshoot of the opium wars where Europe was carving up area of interest with China after they had been defeated. The US negotiated last and just said, whatever is the best condition/terms you've given to anyone else, you'll give to us.
Noises off is a great comedy movie based on a play
Glad you brought up this subject..one of my favorite shows ..dnt get it twisted...jack tripper was the star
Noises off was amazing!
engineers get pissed when they hear what a good plumber makes with out a degree...
Who would actually want to be a plumber though?
@@stickman1742 not me but I know some engineers that are balding and going grey from stress...
One of the funniest shows in ever. It was just as good after she left. Priscilla Barnes was funny and hot.
If you can find a live theatre version of Noises Off, it’s hilarious. The movie is great, but it’s meant to be theatre.
The real reason - she thought she was the show
meanwhile John Ritter carried the show and everyone knows it.
Ironically, I liked more the others who substituted Suzanne in the show!
I think Suzanne's character was very exaggerated. Idk but it looked as if SS never wanted to be just another character but THE character, because, you know, she was THE STAR.
However, I have seen Sommer in some interviews and looked as a friendly person.
I absolutely loved the show!
Suzanne developed a severe shopping addiction. Her dad was an alcoholic, so she never drank - but the illness manifested in another way.
Apparently her hundreds of millions was enough to cover it.
@@stickman1742 According to her biography, she was and remained deeply in debt for years before she got into a program.
Joe was a little confused. It was TV, it's about Somers, not the pod chick.
Noises Off is a play made into a movie with Christopher Reeves. The play i saw was better then the movie.
She was such an important big star draw that she never in her career was able to carry a show
She made hundreds of millions being a spokeperson and doing other things. I guess the facts don't go along with your theory.