History Series / ThreesCompany

* AlcoholHic: Jack drinks enough enough beer to give himself the [[HiccupHijinks hiccups]], causing him to blow his cover while hiding from Chrissy's mother.

* BlatantLies: When Jack convinces Lana to have dinner with Mr. Furley to avoid the trio being evicted, Lana only agrees to the plan on the condition that she won't be left alone with Mr. Furley. When Mr. Furley complains about Jack's prescence, Jack claims that chefs in Romania sit with their guests to ensure their food is consumed properly. After the girls accidentally throw the entree out the kitchen window, Jack tells them that in Romania it's customary to skip the entree and serve dessert first.

** After Mrs. Roper receives multiple gifts from a secret admirier, he tips the delivery person a quarter to reveal who the sender of the gifts is.

** When Jack attempts to fix the telephone instead of waiting for a technician from the phone company, the phone continues to ring even after he receiver is lifted to answer the call.
* DoItYourselfPlumbingProject: When Mr. Roper attempts to unclog the drain pipe of the sink in his apartment, he takes advantage of the opportunity to eavesdrop on the upstairs tenants through the open drain pipe. When Mrs. Roper forgets that a section of the pipe has been removed, she unplugs the sink and drenches as he is working underneath it. When Mr. Roper finishes replacing the pipe and hits it with a wrench to test its integrity, water sprays out on him.

** This is Jack's method of sneaking into a food critic's office to retrieve an IrrevocableMessage. Janet is recruited pose as an adoring fan and aspiring restaraunt owner to distract the critic so he looks away from the window.

* ExplodingCloset: When the group goes on a camping trip to a cabin. Jack opens a door expecting it to be the bedroom and is bombarded by a pile of firewood. Janet opens the closet and the contents fall on her..
* ExpospeakGag: When Jack [[MinorInjuryOverreaction overreacts]] to the injury that happens while cooking at Mr. Angelino's restaraunt.

* FawltyTowersPlot: Terri tells a doctor at the hospital that she can't go out for dinner with him because he needs to take care of her "husband" Jack who has a broken ankle, and because their friends who only speak French are in town. When the doctor suggests having dinner altogether at their apartment, Jack needs to wear a cast and Janet and Larry pretend to be a couple. The doctor's wife turns out to speak fluent French and doesn't understand why Janet and Larry won't talk at all, and one of Jack's girlfriends shows up which calls his "marraige" with Terri into question.

** Jack does this to a man who he wrongly believes is sleeping with Chrissy. It turns out to be a friend of the bartender's who was going to consider hiring Jack for his restauraunt.

** Jack has this sort of relationship with Mr. Angelino, he AngryChef MeanBoss.

* HandbagOfHurt: When Mr. Roper believes a prospective tenant is a cross-dresser, she whallops Mr. Roper with her purse for poking her in the chest.

* IdiotBall: When Mr. Roper realizes he can [[EasilyOverheardConversation clearly hear]] the tenants' conversations through the bathroom drain pipe, he goes upstairs and makes obvious references to what he heard. It's not long before Jack and Chrissy get suspicious and set up a [[BluffTheEavesdropper sting]] to prove his misconduct.

** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Chrissy's boss, J.C Braddock, who is very kind and pleasant and has a positive relationship with Chrissy. The same cannot be said for ''her'' boss, a nasty high ranking executive who attempts to fire Chrissy for resisting his efforts to get frisky.

* MissConception: When Stanley mistakenly belives Chrissy is pregnant as a result of OutOfContextEavesdropping, he tells Helen that "one of her boyfriends must have had something to do with this." The [[SarcasticDevotee exasperated Helen]] quips that he "knows more (about conception) than [she] thought."

* MistakenForGay: Invoked by Janet in the pilot episode to manipulate Mr. Roper into letting Jack stay with them. Jack continues to exploit the trope throuought the series to maintain the ruse.
* MistakenForPregnant: At one point, Mr. Roper is convinced that Chrissy is pregrant due to a case of OutOfContextEavesdropping (through the building's plumbing.)

** Jack pretends to be one to fit in with an ultra-rich girl he is dating. He doesn't realize the event they attend is a charity fundraiser featuring mock casino games, and believes he will have to pay for the $15,000 of chips that he receives.

* MortonsFork: Bart's refusal to provide his brother, Mr. Furley, with funds to maintain the building is a recurring trend in the series. When his solution to the tenants' complaints is to fire Mr. Furley, it's made clear that Mr. Furley is left with the dilemma of drawing his brother's ire by failing to please the tenants, or drawing his wrath by asking for more money.

* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: When Jack and Larry attend a charity fundraiser, they don't realize that that the casino games are only for fun and the chips represent play money. When Janet says that it would not be fun if someone lost a large sum of money at the event, the host says "Who would be stupid enough to think they were playing for real money?" AnswerCut to Jack and Larry, who think they are getting rich with winnings at the craps table.

** When the police recieve a noise complaint about the music the trio is dancing to, the responding officer mentions that he is on probation because he lost "something" once. He subsequently reveals the object he lost was his [[DudeWheresOurCar police car]].

* YouDoNOTWantToKnow: After Jack cuts his finger cooking, Felipe attempts to provoke a MinorInjuryOverreaction by telling Jack a story about his cousin who had a similiar injury which got infected. He refuses to tell Jack what happened, but when Jack demands to know, he reveals that his cousin passed away.

* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: In an attempt to prevent Felipe from losing his job, Jack sabotages a dish destined for a VIP diner with a ludicrous amount of pepper so that he Mr. Angelino will fire him. The VIP ends up loving the spicy dish and is delighted by how much pepper Jack used. HilarityEnsues when he befriends Janet and feeds her multiple mouthfuls of it.

* BigBrotherBully: According to Mr. Furley, his older brother Bart buried him in the sand head first when their family went to the beach as a child. He also pulled out his brother's teeth to get money from the ToothFairy.

* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: In an attempt to prevent Filipe from losing his job, Jack sabotages a dish destined for a VIP diner with a ludicrous amount of pepper so that he Mr. Angelino will fire him. The VIP ends up loving the spicy dish and is delighted by how much pepper Jack used. HilarityEnsues when he befriends Janet and feeds her multiple mouthfuls of it.

* AfterShow: ''Three's a Crowd'', not to be confused with the inexplicable and deplorable Creator/ChuckBarris GameShow of the same name.

* ChivalrousPervert: Jack Tripper

%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * TheCouch

* PieInTheFace: [[CookingDuel "The Bake-Off"]]

* PutOnABus: The Ropers, Chrissy, and Cindy.
** TheBusCameBack: The Ropers returned for one season 5 episode following the cancellation of [[Series/TheRopers their spinoff show]].

* TransAtlanticEquivalent: of the series ''and'' both {{spinoff}}s!

* DumbBlonde: Chrissy and Cindy; Janet when she got her blonde wig.

* ActionGirl: Terri, who is known to go hands on with doctors and patiens who hassle her at work.

* StripPoker: Jack, Larry, and Lana play a game of this in "Snow Job". Mr. Furley ends up loosing, with almost no clothes left on at all.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Janet delivers one to a dance instructor tries to take advantage of her.

* NotInTheFace: Larry impersonates Jack identity to impress a GirlOfTheWeek. After Jack learns Larry's ruse was the source of the grief he has been experiencing, Larry asks Jack to avoid his face when punching him.

* NoSuchThingAsHR: Jack finds a job at a sandwich shop and is sexually harassed by his female boss. When he tries to stand up to her and tell her to stop, she fires him. Jack [[HilaritySues sues her]] for [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity wrongful termination]], but loses the case due to Mr. Furley's [[CourtroomAntic Courtroom Antics]].

* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Felipe provokes one when Jack receives a minor cut on his finger by telling a story about his cousin who had a similar injury which got infected. When he reveals that his cousin died from the infection, Jack barges into the examination room while Terri is treating a more serious patient and demands to be seen first.
* MissConception: When Stanley mistakenly belives Chrissy is pregnant as a result of OutOfContextEavesdropping, he tells Helen that "one of her boyfriends must have had something to do with this." The [[SarcasticDevotee exasperated Helen]] quips that he "knows more (about conception) than [she] thought."

* LetThemDieHappy: When Jack's grandfather is terminally ill, Jack tells him he is a doctor to make him proud. But when his grandfather recovers and expects to tour Jack's office at the hospital, Jack needs Terri's help to MaintainTheLie.

* IWantMyMommy: Jack frequently screams "Mommy!" when startled or in pain.

* IdiotBall: When Mr. Roper realizes he can [[EasilyOverheardConversation clearly hear]] the tenants' conversations through the bathroom drain pipe, he goes upstairs and makes obvious references to what he heard. It's not long before Jack and Chrissy get suspicious and set up a [[BluffTheEavesdropper sting]] to prove his misconduct.

* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: Roper is incredibly freaked out when he and Jack wake up in bed together after a wild night of partying, so Jack confesses to him that he's straight.
-->'''Roper:''' If you're straight, then I'm the King of Siam!\\
'''Jack:''' Mr. Roper...\\
'''Roper:''' And you're the Queen!
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Larry and Mr. Furley, after they find out the main characters have found a nicer residence and will be [[TheMovingExperience moving away]] from them.

* FauxYay: Jack pretends to be gay so he can live with two female roommates.

* EyeTake: Mr. Furley is known to do this whenever he hears anything shocking.

* TheDoorSlamsYou: A RunningGag is characters constantly getting hit by the kitchen or bedroom doors being thrown open or slammed shut. Exaggerated with Cindy, who never seems to enter a scene without hitting someone with a door.

* AwfulWeddedLife: Helen and Mr. Roper.

* ASimplePlan: Whenever Jack hosts a formal gourmet dinner for a date (usually to patch things up after some previous mishap made the girl raging mad), it is always spoiled when one of his previous [[GirlOfTheWeek Girls Of The Week]] shows up either for an impromptu visit, or for a [[TwoTimerDate scheduled date he forgot about]]. Sometimes, the guest of honor is a pretigious food critic which Jack seeks to impress to advance his culinary career. In these cases, it is the guest who will act up and turn the event into a catastrophe. In both cases, the landlords have a habit of barging in at the worst possible moment and [[FromBadToWorse escalating the situation even further]].

* EarpieceConversation: When Larry goes on a date with Terri, he makes Jack feed him lines because he is nervous. Since they don't have an earpiece, Jack sits in the booth behind him and Larry arranges a date for him as cover. Larry eventually gets confused and starts repeating the dialog Jack is saying to his own date.

* ComicallySmallBribe: When Cindy goes missing, Mr. Furley goes to the Regal Beagle to look for her. He pays a blonde girl three dollars to tell him anything she knows, but the girl turns out to be an undercover cop and arrests Furley for solicitation of a prostitute.

In later years, it's almost more famous for the [[TroubledProduction behind-the-scenes issues]] with Suzanne Somers' contract dispute-- she demanded top billing for being MsFanservice despite John Ritter having always been the main character, and after Somers made shooting next to impossible, producers retaliated by showing her in no uncertain terms just how unwelcome she was. The series endured many cast changes, nasty backstage disputes and overall changing tastes in television to become one of the most fondly-remembered (and frequently emulated) shows of the era.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The Furley Fun Festival, Mr. Furley's set of ParlorGames that they play at Cindy's moving away party.

* MasterOfUnlocking: Mr. Furley claims to be one of these when Jack and Chrissy [[ChainedHeat accidentally handcuff themselves together]]. However, he can't help them because his toolbox is locked shut.

* StandardOfficeSetting: Chrissy, and later Terri, work as secretaries in this sort of environment. A few episodes center around the conflicts with their bosses.