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Submitted by katsak
Ahhh, the good ol’ days when Suzanne Somers was smokin’ hot, John Ritter was still alive, and a sitcom about three swingers living together, thinly veiled as platonic roommates and neighbors, was totally acceptable for afternoon and prime time television.
And who could forget the theme song? “Come and knock on our door….. We’ve been waiting for you……”
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Loved this show
aww man, we used to stay up late at night and watch this on nick at night when i was little
we even figured out the lyrics to it
i loved that show when i was little, it was not untill i was older that i figured out that jack was suposted to play a gay guy so he could live with two women! ha!
This is my favorite. show. ever.
Love it so much–Jack is awesome.
I think I liked it more when I was a kid than I do now. It’s still full of win.
Jack Tripper FTW!! I loved him when I was little, all the tripping and falling he did. It always made me laugh. I cried the day he died. I just loved this show, and still do.
Am I the only one wondering about the boobies in that picture?
Ms. Sommer’s tata is kinda …. sideways. Bleah…
No bra. It was the seventies, and it was acceptable not to wear one no matter how big your tatas were.
It’s because the fabric on her shirt is being pulled a little by Jack’s (too close) hand… and the no-bra helps too.
This wasn’t as good as the British version that it was taken from…
‘Man about the house’ was the original and the best!!!!
Oh I totally disagree with this one. Sexist, homophobic, just plain stupid – this show was epic fail (although Ritter did go on to do some awesome things before he died sadly young).
In other words, pretty much perfect for American television.
I Disagree.
Homophobic? Maybe a little. Mr. Roper and Mr. Ferly (sp?) treated Jack as a normal guy with respect, with the exception of a few slurs. I don’t think too many gay people today would be offended by this show.
Sexist? The sitcom portrayed the main characters as real women with real feelings and jobs and not mindless sex-machines.
Either you’re kidding or have never actually seen this show. The gay character was treated like he had a disease, and as for women, maybe Janet was ok but Chrissy was a completely mindless airhead – the uberbimbo of the 70s.
there is a bar slated to open this month in virgina beach called the regal beagle. win or fail .. time will tell
They must popping up in various places. There already is one in Chicago…
http://www.reaglebeaglechicago.com/
Anyway, this show sucked. Also, this entire franchise was taken from British shows, including the spin-offs “The Ropers” and “Three’s a Crowd”.
The late John Ritter was a fraternity brother of mine. Great guy.
Lucky.
The original British show was better – why can’t Americans just import the original shows, instead of making almost inevitably inferior remakes?
‘Til Death Do Us Part – All In The Family (not bad)
Steptoe & Son – Sanfor & Son (never seen it, so can’t say)
Man About The House – Three’s Company (vastly inferior)
Fawlty Towers – Numerous remakes, including with Bea Arthur wtf!
The IT Crowd – US version never went to air
Men Behaving Badly – Same name, but much, much worse show
Even Australian shows haven’t escaped the treatment. I don’t care much for the original Kath & Kim, but the American version was an outright abomination. I haven’t seen the US version of Thank God You’re Here.
Finally, it wasn’t till I was much older and saw the series on repeat, that I got the joke in the opening sequence of juxtaposing two stuffed kittens and a porcelain rooster.
Somebody call the WAAAAAAAmbulance.
Honestly, I’ll agree with your sentiments, but your whining is inexcusable. If you don’t like American remakes, stop watching them.
We Yanks have taken so many things from the UK, including the language, and mutilated them all beyond recognition. Likewise, the rest of the world has taken so much from us and screwed it up royally (production line manufacturing, the electric light, the telephone, the phonograph, and countless other things). So, until you’re going to apologize for everything the Brits and Aussies have taken from us, stop pissing and moaning about what we’ve taken from you and screwed up.
Thank you for reading.
Incidentally, you missed one: Coupling. Man, did the US ever screw that show up.
Who’s whining? Just observing that Americans insist on remaking overseas tv shows, because they’re intrinsically culturally insular. So much so, that even the Australian movie “Mad Max” (ironically, starring an expatriate American) was dubbed with American accents, and the film reversed so the cars drove on the other side of the road.
Mate, I’m not whining, just shaking my head in bemused disbelief that Americans will so consistently deny themselves a superior product because of their insularity.
It’s your problem, mate, not ours.
Coupling===>>Friends.
I’ve wondered about “Keeping Up Appearances,” how it would be Americanized.
I’ve thought of Carol Burnett and Eunice and Bob Newhart as Richard. Carol could recycle some of the effects from ‘Eunice’, and Bob is so good as ‘the only sane man in the asylum.’
If Carol Burnett weren’t interested, Doris Roberts (Ray Romano’s mother from ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’) as the Hyacinth character.
Dude, Carol Burnett would have been the best Eunice…
Hello, have you SEEN the Office???
but agreed – Kath and Kim, WFT?!?!
Most will disagree about the American upgrades like All in the Family, Sanford and Son, and Three’s Company (and The Office, obviously). The other clunkers only lasted a few episodes anyways so I don’t think you can count those. And you weren’t the only one to not see “Thank God You’re Here”. America collectively turned that stupidity off after the first 2 minutes. WTF was that anyways?
Wow, could that pic be ANY creepier?
Creepy how? Not seeing it.
Let me correct myself. I would never categorize John Ritter as creepy, (see my above comment) but Janet’s (Joyce DeWitt) makeup? Yikes!
HELL YES! I love this show sooo much. What a tragic when Ritter died….
Loved the show, but yeah they did make Chrissy Snow to be as smart as a sack of hammers. Don’t think homophobia was too much of an issue as they made out Roper and Furley to be somewhat ignorant.
However, I disagree with the ‘thinly veiled platonic’ comment. As I remember it, the show made it fairly clear that Jack wasn’t gettin’ any from his roommates.
With no disrespect for Mr Ritter (who was a good actor elsewhere), the premiss of this used to make me cringe when I was a teenager (and still fairly naive. ) If a naive teenager can see how bad it is….well….
When I was a kid, I thought the “down at our rendezvous” part of the theme was “dom-a-nominay-vooo.” I still sing it that way
I agree that the UK original was vastly more entertaining, although the gap was closer than many of the US local remakes, mostly because of the charm of John Ritter (Hooperman deserves a play here too!)
Paula Wilcox, the brunette in the UK show, had the most amazing come-to-bed eyes and completely stole the limelight from her blonde bombshell co-star.
Yes, that closing graphic of the rooster between two cats, following a series of football boots between two pairs of ballet shoes, shaving gear between cosmetics, etc., took me a long time to understand.
Obviously, it went over the head of the TV censors, too!
(For the ones in the back: it was a cock between two pussies, alright?)
joyce de witt…yummmmmmm!! way hotter than any blond that was on the show…plus the only gay jokes were mr roeper and his uneasyness about jack being “gay” which probably meant he was closeted…but mrs roeper was a trooper…
also lets not forget ugly betty from mexico (feyo (sp?) betty) and the office from the uk as well…and all in the family was a complete win as like the original it showed the fallacy of archie’s line of thinking but we still loved him…and his “suicides” haha…archies place sucked
I loved John Ritter but I always hated this television show!
This show was great, right up until the last episode.
John Ritter and Joyce Dewitt’s character relationship over the entire tenure of the show (I feel) demanded that they get together.
Instead, by the end, Susan Somers was replaced multiple times by characters not as funny, and John and Joyce both ended up with myserious coming out of left field partners that they seem to have shotgunned through the relationship process. Ridiculous… as if the writers didn’t realize that the tension they had created all of those years couldn’t easily translate into what should have happened years before.
Otherwise, show is epic win.