Hey there and welcome. My name is Dan, and in this whole video we're going to be looking at
a program called Three's Company that ran on ABC from 1977 to 1984.
we'll be looking at some of my favorite aspects about the show some of the characters
and uh really basically why I like the show so let's give it a go you and I come on
our story starts back in 1976 at the ABC executive office where they're looking
for something that's a bit more racy and sexy than little house in the prairie or
the Walton's and they found it in a sitcom being aired in the UK named
Man About the House. Now the creativity at ABC being... ABC ... They just decided to copy the script the scenes
as we see in this one scene where we're introduced to the character Jack Tripper
Maybe he's a burglar?? Oh yeah! He crept in to steal the bathtub and fell asleep on the job!
Maybe he's a burglar?? Oh sure! He came in to steal the bathtub and fell asleep on the job!
But I can appreciate that! And even the wardrobe was copied over... and so was born Three's Company!
so was Three's Company just a copycat of Man About the House? No.. Not at all! The chemistry that
we find at the stage of Three's Company was nothing short of being magical! These characters
really cared for each other and the audience was drawn in by that mutual caring
and with each episode the characters grew in depth and in span so that the audience actually was
drawn to them sympathized for them cared for them
and that's how three's company became a sensational hit and of course the thing that
really sets three's company apart from anything else is the physical comedy now here in this scene
we see John Ritter playing Jack Tripper and he just does an awesome job at physical comedy
and now we're getting into the cast now since the show ran from 1977 to 1984 it saw at least 10 main
characters and a number of other characters too such as the bartender and the bards made
only John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt can be found in every episode from beginning to end. Other actors
and actresses seen here would be Suzanne Somers, Don Knotts, Richard Klein, Priscilla Barnes, Jenilee Harrison
Norman Fell, Audrey Lindley, and Ann Wedgeworth and the one character that I identified
most with was with Jack Tripper played by John Ritter. I often looked up to him as a big brother
now the reason why I really like the show is because I really fell in love with all the
characters and really this is the situation and the story that was going along there
and um the reality is I actually watch it to this day in 2020 I
at night uh before I go to bed I'll watch one or two of the episodes and just really enjoy that
and I always get a good laugh of everything that's going on there I love the physical comedy
and the dialogue and everything else that takes place in there now one of the questions
that usually comes up about Three's Company is really what happened to Suzanne M. Somers
why did ABC fire her well what happened was she stopped going to the rehearsals stop going to
the tapings and all that and when one of the main actors doesn't go to the taping um it really cost
the network a large amount of money so they were losing money every time she would not go to the
rehearsals or to the shows and this was going on for a while and the reason being is because
she wanted a large pay raise above everyone else i mean it was something like five times more
money and the networks basically said no we're not going to do that and so well she stopped going and
the network finally found someone else and they finally replaced her
another question that comes up is at the end of the shows right at the last year the last episode
you have Joyce DeWitt playing Janet Woods and you have John Ritter playing Jack Tripper
and they marry other people it just seems like a match made in heaven for Janet Wood to marry
Jack Tripper I mean it just seems like that would have been the way to go but um what they wanted
to do is they were actually following the script from man about house from the UK show and that's
what happened in the UK show so ABC just did the same thing and it was kind of sad really because I
think a lot of fans lost interest in the show once you didn't have Janet Wood in the story any longer
she was out and you just had Jack Tripper with this new girl and this just didn't have the
chemistry there it didn't have the same fizzazz that it did uh in the earlier show so a lot of
people lost interest and the show was eventually canceled there not too very long after that hey
you may be also wondering why am I doing a show about three's company on my technology channel
well that's because right after this video i'm going to take my class and we're actually creating
a PowerPoint presentation or a google slides presentation there on the topic of three's company
and much of the elements or the material that you've just seen here in this show will actually
be used in the one coming up there in the actual presentation so I'm going to take my students and
let them create a presentation step by step and i usually call that one how to make a presentation
like a pro so it's gonna be a lot of fun there if you want to join us for that one there
I gotta do is it will be a link at the end here and you click on that and you'll be lesson number
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