Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Threesome Fun

Props go out to television network TV Land for their "Three's Company" marathon over the weekend. More than 48 hours of threesome fun definitely brightened my rainy days. I had forgotten how much I loved the antics of Mr. Furley and Larry. Although I watched this show in reruns as a youngster, viewing it as an adult brought about many questions, such as:

1. Why would two women in their 20's (if not their 30's) want to share a bedroom and sleep in a twin bed?
2. Did people really pretend in the years 1977 -1984 that women never had sex in their bedroom?
3. Did Janet go to college? (We know Jack was in the Navy and then went to cooking school.)
4. Can three people really share a bathroom ALL the time?
5. Why didn't the gang ever get drunk at the Regal Beagle? They always went, but there was no drunkenness.
6. How old was this gang really supposed to be? They seem older than 27.
7. Where was the TV? Their living room had no TV, and that seems sad.
8. Why didn't we ever see them go to the beach? They lived in southern Cali, but we only saw the gang in very few locations.

1 comment:

Bruiser Woods said...

Ahhh, yes...such a fine program this was. Though I appreciated the comedic stylings of Don Knotts in his turn as the wanna-be swinger Mr. Furley, my heart always belonged to Norman Fell's Mr. Roper. I am perhaps biased, as Mr. Fell is a fellow alum of my high school (my locker of 4 years was located immediately below Norman Fell's "Central High Hall of Fame" photo).

And now, on to Elle's questions:

1) Janet and Chrissy/Cindy/Terri (oh, how I adored Terri) shared a room and slept in twin beds because...heck, I don't know. That is weird.

2) Nobody said the girls of Three's Company didn't get wild in their twin beds. College dorm dwellers with roommates do it all the time.

3) In Volume 4 of my Three's Company fan-fiction anthology, I explain that Janet intended to finish her college career, but eventually succumbed to a life of crime growing hydroponic cannabis in the back of the flower store she managed. Jack would then bake the ganja into delicious french pastries, which he sold to kids on the street. Tragic.

4) No. Three people cannot share a bathroom. The absurdity of such a concept ultimately undermined the audience's suspension of disbelief in the show's premise, and resulted in the program being cancelled.

5) The Regal Beagle only served Corrs Cutter. Go figure.

6) How can you question the age of the characters on this show when you so easily buy into the ages played by the characters on 90210 and Dawson's Creek? C'mon!

7) Who needs a TV when you have a nifty framed picture of a butterfly on the wall?

8) They went to the beach in the opening sequence, didn't they? I think the producers were just too cheap to splurge on more sets or outdoor shots. At least we were treated to Jack's Bistro in later episodes.