This show is pretty funny, and does have its share of good and enjoyable episodes, but I just feel that in the show, Mr. Roper is such a jerk, and so mean to gay people that it just bothers me whenever he's onscreen. Also, in the later seasons, Jack lies all the time to his best friends, and Chrissy, Jack and Janet show a friendship where they're good friends, and yet they can't man up enough to tell their friends the cold hard truth and what's what sometimes. That's why this show sometimes bothers me, and that is also why I give it 6 out of 10. Good, not Great.

I will never understand how this show was so popular.Will people really watch anything?I guess so.How do they not see that there is only one joke/plot.In every single episode there is a miscommunication and somebody thinks something really bad is happening.How is that funny for eight seasons?It wasn't even funny for eight episodes.Pretending that Jack was gay for so long wasn't lame enough so they added a gay landlord and pretended he was straight.No one ever noticed that they live together because they are poor but their living room is bigger than my house.Not to mention that Jack ends up owning a bistro.I can see maybe watching this in the 70s when there was nothing else on TV but it's not a classic and should be forgotten.

Season One 73/100- Classic example on how to make a successful show based on a comedy of errors work. The first season was basically six pilot episodes due to the show being a spring mid season replacement. Although only a handful of episodes were produced, the successful formula that made the show popular was already set into place. The main five cast members work terrifically together. Susanne Somers gets a little more credit than she deserves for her work on the show, but she plays the bumbling "dumb blonde" stereotype. Joyce Dewitt does a good job as Janet, the brains of the little platonic trio. But its John Ritter who absolutely steals the show with his unmatched physical comedy, and innocent charm. Apartment owners The Ropers are so perfectly portrayed as a couple by Normen Fell and Audra Lindley that its uncanny. You can't help but smile each time Mrs.Roper's desperately sighs "Oh, Stanley." Richard Kline has a cameo appearance as Jack's friend Larry Dallas that really captures the energy out of all the precious few seconds he's on screen. Really looking forward to seeing him become a recurring character. On the downside this season had no other real secondary characters that had a large impact on me. Although the scenes with the Ropers are funny, even more hilarious once Stanley started to smile at his own jokes with the audience, I kind of hope they have more depth than simply complaining about not having sex. As for the main trio, some of the episodes hint that Janet might have a thing for Jack. I really hope this doesn't go anywhere, because I see the show working better with them just being close friends. Show also had some of its trademark heartwarming moments that helps to establish that the trio is a family, evidenced at the end of Janet's birthday party when Jack buys her back the jewelry she pawned earlier. Great intro and theme.

It had been a long, long time since I watched Three's Company on TV, so when I found the first-season DVD in a bin for $5, I scooped it up. The first thing I noticed was how comfortingly familiar, yet dated the whole look of the show is. Yes, this was actually 1977, not 200- trying to look like 1977. No cell phones, no Internet, and $300 rent! In a nutshell, the show revolves around two women and a man in their early 20s, who are living together to cut down on expenses. When I was a kid, watching it on TV, it didn't feel as relate-able as it does now, having been there as most people are in their early 20s. Each show revolves around how to solve their basic problems, while trying to keep their landlord from finding out that they're all heterosexual, yet nothing is happening between them. Why the landlord would care is beyond me, however...Much of the slapstick physical comedy holds up very well, and is a great homage to John Ritter's talent. Although there are probably more sophisticated styles, John Ritter's never-ending pratfalls and the entire cast's misunderstandings and double-entendres are still amusing after 30 years.The one thing I never noticed before, but notice in a big way now, is that the Three's Company universe doesn't have a problem with its own conflicted morality. Everyone seems completely accepting of homosexuality, in Jack's cover-up and in the couple next door, yet heterosexual sex between consenting adults is a BIIIG no-no! It's a comforting thought, and I'm very curious how it went over in the gay community of the time.Overall, watching Three's Company, and Jack, Janet, the blondes, and the others get up to their hijinks is satisfying and entertaining. Forget reality TV. Sitcoms were the reason we used to watch--what happened?