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[edit] Fix Some Things

Whoever wrote "Three's company in other media" is ebonics or something. Read the one about Blade, geez. We need to fix that. I would do it myself but im far to busy so HA! -User:IronChef

Wow, slow down with the racism, tiger. Not everything that sounds weird to you is black-people-speak. You could say it's "awkward" or "sounds wrong". :/ --Utopianfiat (talk) 23:14, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
err... that was written 8 months ago. I think you're a bit too late to reply :P -- Lyverbe (talk) 11:11, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on 3 October 2005. The result of the discussion was speedy keep.

whats up with the images??? --JonMoore 11:26, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Questions

If I remember right, Jack's sexuality became a non-issue as the series progressed, that he didn't need to pertend he was gay any longer?

Nope, all the way through the last episode the current landlord always demanded that Jack be gay. In the final episode there is even a scene where Jack announces he will be moving in with his girlfriend and he says "This is a big step for me Mr. Furley!" and Furley is shocked by the news.

Also, didn't Suzanne Sommers have a reconciliation with John Ritter shortly before John's death? JesseG 03:36, Aug 28, 2004 (UTC)

Robin's sexuality became a non-issue in the original British series, Man About the House. However, Furley believed Jack was gay up to the end of the series. Also, I believe Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Sommers, and John Ritter did all reconcile before Ritter's death. Redfarmer 02:03, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Flower

Someone changed it to "florist shop" when mentioning Janet's occupation. They always called it the flower shop on the show. I'm changing it back. Mike H 18:32, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Roperts

Anyone know why the Ropers left so early? Roman Soldier 20:54, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

They got a spinoff show, The Ropers, which quickly failed. Mike H. That's hot 19:09, 7 February 2006 (UTC)


[edit] First Paragraph

I didn't watch the show much, and I don't know what's meant by the word persuade in the sentence "Ralph, who tried on several occasions to "persuade" him, didn't find out Jack wasn't gay until the last episode..." Does it mean Ralph try to convince Jack to be straight? solargroovy 07:24, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it means Ralph Furley tried to change Jack into a heterosexual throughout the run of the show, only to find out in the last episode that he had really been heterosexual all along. -- Gerkinstock 04:05, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pilots

Oddly, there is no mention of the two rejected pilots, or that fact that three actresses prior to Suzanne Somers were hired to play the "blonde girl" and one actress prior to Joyce DeWitt was hired to play the "brunette girl." -- Gerkinstock 04:05, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Change Main Picture

If no one is against this i think maybe a cast photo would be better. If anyone could find one that is not copyrighted, expired etc. etc. --TrevorLSciAct 22:23, 12 June 2006 (UTC) I am going to move the cast photo Image:Ssommers2.jpg to the main picture; and remove Image:TCLogo2.jpg if their are no objections. --TrevorLSciAct 21:04, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, I've given you lots of time, and no one has objected so I'm going to move it.TrevorLSciAct 00:54, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Apparently some people do have a problem with it. I left this in the talk page forever; you'd think anyone who cares would have read it by now. TrevorLSciAct 23:29, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cast Changes

Maybe there could be some more info on the cast changes, and the explanations given in the series. For example, Chrissy was said to be caring for her sick mother, but was any explanation given for her complete disappearance after Suzanne Somers left the show, as well as a reason for her cousin to suddenly be in the house? Likewise, was there an explanation for the Cindy character leaving (and why did the actress herself leave?)

[edit] Mark Redd trip-up

I'm sorry, guys. I saw something I thought was vandalism... reverted it... unreverted it... someone made a change in the interim... I think it's all straightened out now. Sorry for the mix-up. -- Ben (talk) 18:58, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Revertions

I have reverted the edits by 63.118.56.110 and Tvqueen1969 because they removed significant sections of the article without giving a reason or any visible reason. This can be changed if necessary. Ian Goggin 21:53, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] San Diego Zoo?

Is the zoo in the opening the San Diego Zoo? I had always thought this show was set in SD. What is the background on it being in Santa Monica? Thanks. EdRooney 15:38, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

As mentionned on top of this page, the talk page is not a forum or a place to discuss subjects that wouldn't help the article. Try asking in http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=46 -- Lyverbe 16:44, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This article needs work

honestly, one of the worst on wikipedia. this was the #1 sitcom for a while, and was on reruns into the 90's (and is still on TV land) it needs some serious work. TrevorLSciAct 22:48, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree for stuff under "References in other media" (inclusively), but the rest is ok. I wouldn't go as far as saying that it's "shit" and one of the worst. Had a bad day Trev? :). -- Lyverbe 00:57, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
Haha, yeah, wasn't in the best of moods when I wrote that :-S but it does need some work. TrevorLSciAct 01:03, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Considering of completely removing the "References in other media" section. I wouldn't see this in an encyclopedia because it doesn't describe anything of the article. Looks more like fan stuff. Objections? -- Lyverbe 14:02, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I wanna know this, how in the world could Three's Company be a show distributed by Lorimar-Telepictures or Warner Bros. Television if I haven't seen any Lorimar-Telepictures logos or WBTV logos on Nick @ Nite or TBS? Eventually in2TV's site doesn't even have any episodes on their website and IMDB doesn't even have the Lorimar-Telepictures or Warner Bros. Television names in the distributor secton!! Does WBTV handle ad-sales or what?? King Shadeed 23:28, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

The tense is wrong for a wiki article. I'd take the time to fix it, but I've never seen the show... I'm sure there must be some editor that can fix this? 72.87.47.251 (talk) 06:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Revert war on ratings

Guys, discuss about this. Get your fact straight and stop this revert war. -- Lyverbe (talk) 11:49, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Looking for help writing an article about the spin-offs and crossovers of this series

I am writing an article about all of the series which are in the same shared reality as this one through spin-offs and crossovers. I could use a little help expanding the article since it is currently extremely dense and a bit jumbled with some sentence structures being extremely repetitive. I would like to be able to put this article into article space soon. Any and all help in writing the article would be appreciated, even a comment or two on the talk page would help. Please give it a read through, also please do not comment here since I do not have all of the series on my watch list. - LA @ 17:49, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm extremely skeptical about your article right now as it just appears to be a huge mess of WP:OR. Are there actually any secondary sources which document this phenomenon? Redfarmer (talk) 12:13, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
What other sources are needed? I have all of my sources referenced in the article. Also, there is conversation about this on its talk page which is linked above. As far as I am concerned, the episodes themselves in which the crossovers occurred should be a good enough reference. Anything further about this should be posted on its talk page, please. - LA @ 00:39, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Related shows

Lady Aleena, I don't think you understand the purpose of the "related shows" fields (please read Template:Infobox_Television). The idea is not to write "Man about the house" in all different languages it was translated into, but to write the original related show. If a show was translated into 34 languages, you'd write 34 show names in there?! -- Lyverbe (talk) 13:04, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

The other series are siblings, thereby related, due to the fact that they share the same parent. That is my opinion anyway. - LA @ 00:41, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
If they are totally different shows than Three's Company and directly connected to it (ie. spin-offs), then yes, they can be mentionned there. If they're a mere voice translation, they shouldn't. -- Lyverbe (talk) 11:29, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merging Three's Company in popular culture

Against it. A popculture section brings no information to the subject of the article and end up being twice as big as the main section itself. When you see such a section, it's usually a huge block of badly formatted text that looks like fan stuff and just ruins the quality of the article. Honestly, who cares that some dude of some show said one single line that makes reference to TC?! I have no idea why Wikipedia is allowing such useless junk. So you guys want it, fine, it's available, but not in the main article please. -- Lyverbe (talk) 13:04, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

The article is only about three paragraphs right now. I'm against it having its own article on that basis. Such articles should start in the main article and branch off when they have too much information or not at all. Redfarmer (talk) 13:34, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
We once had such a section and I asked for objections to remove it in the talk page (see above inside "This article needs work"). After 1 week without any objection, I removed it. You're saying it shouldn't be inside the main article when it gets too big - Would you like to undo this 8 months old delete into the new popculture page? I don't care about having one, but not in the main article. -- Lyverbe (talk) 14:24, 5 June 2008 (UTC)