History Series / ThreesCompany

'''Chrissy:''' [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow I've never heard them called]] ''[[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow that]]'' [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow before!]]\\

* JiggleShow: Probably one of the TropeCodifier examples. Chrissy is frequently shown jumping up and down in celebration, for no apparent reason. Jack likes watching her and even comments that she cheers better than anyone he knows.

* CourtroomAntic: Mr. Furley engages in this when Jack takes his former employer to court for [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity wrongful termination]], causing him to lose the case.

-->'''Jack:''' [[CourtroomAntic Well, I can be sad sometimes, too]].

* 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]].

* SqueamishAboutSlaughter When the group visits Cindy's relatives' farm, Mr. Furley is tasked with killing a chicken for their dinner. He isn't able to work up the courage to do it and encourages the mostly flightless bird to [[CluckingFunny fly away to freedom]].

* SweaterGirl: Jack was often distracted by sweater girls on this show, resulting in {{Freudian Slip}}s on several occasions: "You need to separate the yolk from the sweater." "I just came to button up my coffee."

* SocietyMarchesOn: The premise of the show (a man pretending to be gay to live with two women) would no longer be necessary in most US cities, especially Los Angeles. Also, most of society (again, in cities) would not make an issue of Jack's supposed orientation. In addition, the landlords' repeated invasion of the threesome's private life would not be accepted. This also extends to smaller things. For example, in one episode, Chrissy falls and hits her head, with Janet suggesting she go to bed. Modern medicine would recommend that she at least stay awake, or perhaps even go to an emergency room to ensure she did not have a concussion.

* SocietyMarchesOn: The premise of the show (a man pretending to be gay to live with two women) would no longer be necessary in most US cities, especially Los Angeles. Also, most of society (again, in cities) would not make an issue of Jack's supposed orientation. This also extends to smaller things. For example, in one episode, Chrissy falls and hits her head, with Janet suggesting she go to bed. Modern medicine would recommend that she at least stay awake, or perhaps even go to an emergency room to ensure she did not have a concussion.

* ''Series/VeronicaMars'' has an example where Logan tells Veronica to "annoy, tiny blonde one, annoy like the wind" in reference to her being short.

* ChivalrousPervert: Jack has a new girlfriend every other episode and has flirted with his roommates numerous times, but he never goes beyond that, and shows numerous that he's there when the girls need him. [[spoiler:He also gets a seemingly permanent girlfriend in the series finale.]]

** Chrissy wouldn't mentioned at all after Cindy moved in, and Cindy likewise disappeared the following season.

** When the the Ropers plan a SurpriseParty for Jack's birthday, Chrissy's plan to get him to attend involves bringing him to various places around town, where they eventually run into someone who invite him to Ropers' apartment. Janet suggests taking Jack to the Reagle Beagle for a drink and letting Mrs. Roper invite him directly.

* AbsenteeActor:
** Chrissy was largely missing from the fifth season, due to contract fights with Suzanne Somers. They squeezed around it by having her appear in the last two minutes of every episode on the telephone so that her roommates could recap the day's events. Somers was made to film these scenes several hours removed from the rest of the cast in a completely empty studio with a crew that was visibly angry at having to work late. When the season was over, Somers' contract was quietly let go and Chrissy was PutOnABus forever.
** Janet doesn't appear in the Season 3 episode "Stanley's Hotline," leaving Jack as the only character to appear in every episode.

* IAteWhat:
** One episode had Mr. Roper [[DogFoodDiet eat some dog food]] he mistook for a stew Jack had whipped up. He reported it was much better than his wife's cooking and asked Jack to give her the recipe.
** In a later episode Jack bakes a sawdust cake for what he thinks is a party for Eleanor, the former roommate (it's actually for him). He tries to get back the fake cake from the guests, but Roper has already eaten some. He asks his wife why she can't bake something that good.
** In a Season 6 episode, Cindy is mixing something in a bowl when Jack comes along and scoops up a bite of it before she can tell him it's glue.
** When a competitor sabotages his secret ingredient during a CookingDuel, Jack improvises using the candy that Janet was carrying before she can tell him they were cough drops. Jack still wins the competition, and the host praises him as a judge who was feeling under the weather felt better after trying his cookies.

%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * {{Cougar}}: Lana definitely fits this description.

* TeamChef: Jack. The rest of the cast turns out to be {{LethalChef}}s.

* HiddenWire: Jack attempts to [[HiddenWire secretly record]] a corrupt [[TheInspectorIsComing health inspector]] who wants to shut down his bistro unless he receives a bribe, but the microphone comes loose and falls down Jack's pant leg during the interaction. When he hands the recording over to the authorities, the tape is cued to a previous conversation where Jack asks with Mr. Furley to buy a cooking pot for him, and the detectives think Jack is trying to bust Mr. Furley for trafficking cannabis.

* HangoverSensitivity: Happens to everyone the pilot episode, after Chrissy's punch concoction at Eleanor's moving away party gets the guests more drunk than they would like to be.

* CrankyLandlord: Mr. Roper. Downplayed with Mr. Furley, who tries much harder to be friendly to the tenants, but still has gets grumpy when the plot requires.

* TheDentistEpisode: When Jack gets a toothache, he recluctantly decides to have it treated by the dentist Janet is dating. However, when Janet breaks up with the dentist and he discovers they live in the same apartment, he assumes that it must be because she is having an affair with him. Janet and Terri fear that the dentist might harm Jack out of anger, but fortunately he takes care of the cavity without issues.

* HeresJohnnyHomage: Larry delivers one at the start of Jack's rehersal of his televised cooking demonstration, to Jack's annoyance.

** [[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.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Double subverted. When Mr. Furley falls in love with a woman under the pretense of being a MockMillionaire, the heros implement a ZanyScheme to break them up before she finds out he doesn't really own the building. After Mr. Furley becomes incredibly depressed by the breakup, the trio regrets interfering with his relationship and Jack convinces her to reconnect with Mr. Furley. But when Larry discovers the woman is a real estate tycoon who intends to purchase the building and evict the residents, they concoct another ZanyScheme to break them up again.

** One episode featured Mr. Furley secretly taking in a cat, which a little girl lost that the roommates have been trying to help find for her. At the end of the episode all that happens is the girl sees Mr Furley holding the cat, and then cue credits.

* 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]].

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Mr. Furley, when he moves in with the trio after he losing his job as the building manager, leaving him with no where to stay as his residence came with the job.

* AwfulWeddedLife: Helen and Mr. Roper.

** In the episode where Mr. Furley is introduced, the girls do this to him at the Regal Beagle, mistakenly believing he is a StalkerWithACrush and not realizing he is their new landlord.[[note]]Combined with the fact Jack threw away all of the furniture he moves in with, this [[RealityEnsues nearly gets the trio evicted]][[/note]].

In order to share an affordable apartment with two lovely young ladies, [[BrainyBrunette Janet Wood]] (Joyce [=DeWitt=]) and [[TheDitz Chrissy]] [[DumbBlonde Snow]] (Creator/SuzanneSomers), cooking student [[HandsomeLech Jack Tripper]] (Creator/JohnRitter) must pretend to be gay around Stanley Roper (Creator/NormanFell), the repressed, bigoted landlord. Roper, in turn, frequently finds himself fending off the advances of his good-natured but sexually frustrated wife Helen (Creator/AudraLindley), who knows Jack's secret but likes him and the girls enough to keep mum. Complications are introduced through a variety of misunderstandings and mishaps, often caused by the thinking-impaired apartment mates or their cumbersome friends.

In order to share an affordable apartment with two lovely young ladies, [[BrainyBrunette Janet Wood]] (Joyce [=DeWitt=]) and [[TheDitz Chrissy]] [[DumbBlonde Snow]] (Suzanne Somers), cooking student [[HandsomeLech Jack Tripper]] (Creator/JohnRitter) must pretend to be gay around Stanley Roper (Norman Fell), the repressed, bigoted landlord. Roper, in turn, frequently finds himself fending off the advances of his good-natured but sexually frustrated wife Helen (Audra Lindley), who knows Jack's secret but likes him and the girls enough to keep mum. Complications are introduced through a variety of misunderstandings and mishaps, often caused by the thinking-impaired apartment mates or their cumbersome friends.

* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Larry says this when he interrupts the rehearsal of Jack's TV cooking demonstration by jumping up at the start and saying "Heeeeeeeeere's Jacky!"

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Double subverted. When Mr. Furley falls in love with a woman under the pretense of being a MockMillionaire, the heros implement a ZanyScheme to break them up before she finds out he doesn't really own the building. After Mr. Furley becomes incredibly depressed by the breakup, the trio regrets interferring with his relationship and Jack convinces her to reconnect with Mr. Furley. But when Larry discovers the woman is a real estate tycoon who intends to purchase the building and evict the residents, they concoct another ZanyScheme to break them up again.

** MassOhCrap: This incident leaves all three members of the group speechless and unreponsive to Mr. Furley's statements, causing him to believe that all of them have "a hearing problem".

* PluckyOfficeGirl: At one point, Chrissy asks her boss for a promotion in an effort to advance above this role to a more significant position in the company, but becomes despondent when she is turned down. Jack teaches her to be assertive ''and'' jokingly adds that she should "wear a low-cut dress". The SarcasmBlind Chrissy does ''both'' and is immediately granted the promotion, causing Jack and Chrissy to mistakenly assume the dress was the source of her success (not realizing Chrissy's boss is female.)

** In season 5, Chrissy went back to Fresno to take care of her mother, and most of her appearances were relegated to offscreen conversations on the telephone. Her cousin Cindy was brought in to take her role until she went college at the end of the season (though she continued to appear until the end of season 6) and was replaced by Terri, who stayed until the end of the show.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: In one episode, Jack becomes worried for Janet when he sees her seemingly friendly dance instructor coercing a married woman to go to his house, and assumes that he will do the same to Janet. Later it's revealed that the young woman was the instructor's sister who was being convinced to practice her dancing at home. Jack feels bad for painting the guy as a sexual predator, and shows up one night to the dance studio to apologize for the mistake, only for him to see Janet's dance instructor hitting on her [Janet] for real.

* ShesGotLegs: Joyce [=DeWitt=] had a ''gorgeous'' set of gams and always wore pantyhose on the show, refusing to appear bare-legged even when her character Janet was supposedly [[ModestyTowel naked under a towel]]. She even appeared in several commercials for L'eggs.

* TheShowMustGoWrong: When Jack is invited to cook on [[BroadcastLive live TV]], a combination of [[invoked]] ExecutiveMeddling and PerformanceAnxiety turns the show into a DisastrousDemonstration that results in the loss of his job at Angelino's restaraunt. Mr. Angelino [[ResetButton rehires]] Jack after realizing that the SoBadItsGood debacle actually attracted more business to the restaurant, and Jack uses his celebrity status to negotiate a pay raise and time off benefits.

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: When Mr. Furley asks Janet for help with his dried out fern.

* TVTelephoneEtiquette: Played for laughs. Whenever something startling happened in the apartment when a character was on the phone, they would tend to hang the phone up in shock. Often they would pick the reciever up again (after the call was disconnected) and apologize to the other party for RudelyHangingUp.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: There were multiple episodes throughout the series giving off hints that Janet and Jack might have a thing for each other, but nothing ever really came of it, and in the finale Janet gets married to another man while Jack moves in with Vicki.