Three's Company - Playboy lifestyle glorified in 1980's TV!

[Winston]

Have any of you noticed that in the 1980's, TV shows usually had the male stars living a playboy lifestyle and dating different women on every episode? It was glorified and portrayed as a good normal thing for men to do. And it was depicted as fun and natural too.

For example, do you remember the TV sitcom "Three's Company" which went for many seasons? It was about a guy named Jack Tripper (John Ritter) living with two sexy girls in one apartment. The episodes were funny and contained a lot of sexual innuendo and off colored jokes, yet it was still clean wholesome fun. Not degenerate at all. I wonder how they were able to pull that off before. And Jack Tripper was clearly a playboy, dating different women in every episode. In fact, Jack Tripper OPENLY FLAUNTED his sexual desires for women on the show. Yet it was portrayed as clean wholesome FUN! Imagine that!. I wonder how was accepted back then, but not now. You don't see men on TV shows today doing that. They aren't allowed.

Likewise, many action TV shows had the main male character dating different women in every episode too. Such as Knight Rider, Magnum PI, Airwolf, Battlestar Galactica (Starbuck was a playboy), Cheers (Sam Malone was a playboy) Voyagers (Bogg kissed a different woman every episode and every woman was smitten with him), etc. How come that was glorified before but not now? Now the men on TV keep their desires to themselves, and if they try to seduce women, they are punished for it by cold masculine feminist women.

Here are some episodes of "Three's Company" so you can see what I mean. Man those blonde roommates Terry and Cindy were to hot and tall and had killer legs!

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Here are some TV intros for Three's Company from different seasons, when the blonde roommate was changed and portrayed by different sexy women.

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[innovatorsclub]

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[Winston]

Images from Three's Company. Notice that the characters look very warm, funny, and friendly. The humor had some class and wasn't as degenerate as today. And the girls were hot and sexy with friendly faces too. Definitely more human than today.

[Teal Lantern]

How did you feel Mr. Roper was treated? What role do you think he represented?

[Winston]

How did you feel Mr. Roper was treated? What role do you think he represented?

He had a loveless marriage with his wife Helen. Remember? They both cracked jokes at each other.

When Mr. Furley replaced them, played by Don Knotts, he was lonely and dateless. He should have gone to the Philippines.

Did you watch this series too?

[Teal Lantern]

Watched it often. To me, Terry (Priscilla Barnes) was the only likable regular.
The rest of the cast reminded me too much of the Three Stooges, with Janet as Moe.

What's funny is how Larry was amusing while Lana was just kind of gross.

[Winston]

Watched it often. To me, Terry (Priscilla Barnes) was the only likable regular.
The rest of the cast reminded me too much of the Three Stooges, with Janet as Moe.

What's funny is how Larry was amusing while Lana was just kind of gross.

Yeah Terry was hot as hell. Smoking hot. Great legs and face and white skin and blonde hair I fantasized about her a lot. But she wasn't as funny as Crissy and Cindy. Crissy (Suzanne Sommers) was the funniest because she played the dumb blonde stereotype very well, didn't she? And she seemed to enjoy it. Today a blonde couldn't do that on TV because it would be a negative stereotype against blondes. And Cindy was hot as a cheerleader, I think she was a cheerleader in fact, for the LA Rams football team.

Yeah they were like the three stooges, but the show was funny as hell, while maintaining some class too. Much better than today's TV shows for sure.

But the point is that the show glorified the playboy lifestyle as normal and ideal. Today's shows don't do that. And Jack Tripper often openly flaunted his sexual desires too. That is a big taboo in today's TV shows. Why doesn't anyone in the media talk about this? If they did, then everyone would know that America's values have become worse. Instead the media only talks about economic problems and preaches against racism. It doesn't talk about what I talk about in this thread.

[WorldTraveler]

Yes, Winston I remember it. It's a fantasy. Things really don't happen like this in the real world. Sissyfied men don't have super hot female roommates. Men have been offering beautiful women marriage since the beginning of time, but most won't women won't accept. Today even a man paying the bills won't find sexy roommates, because women want to work.

I liked Priscilla Barnes the best too.

[Adama]

Clearly you've forgotten that the man was supposed to be homosexual. It is the perfect inversion of reality in order to promote their agenda under the radar. Back then you couldnt have a straight man living with two single women, as if that was anybody's business. However, two fag hags and a homosexual? Totally cool. Just don't bring any women around, because then everyone will find out you're straight. Hide your heterosexuality instead of hide being a homo.

[Teal Lantern]

Clearly you've forgotten that the man was supposed to be homosexual. It is the perfect inversion of reality in order to promote their agenda under the radar. Back then you couldnt have a straight man living with two single women, as if that was anybody's business. However, two fag hags and a homosexual? Totally cool. Just don't bring any women around, because then everyone will find out you're straight. Hide your heterosexuality instead of hide being a homo.

I'm guessing you weren't a Bosom Buddies fan, either?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORKyyHBy6JQ[/youtube]

[Winston]

Adama,
I can't imagine you enjoying a show like "Three's Company". You are too serious and judgmental to enjoy a good funny show like that. The "landlord thinking Jack was gay" thing wasn't necessarily an agenda. It was more like a plot device to create more comedy, jokes and misunderstandings. It added a lot of content for sure. A lot of episodes were based on misunderstandings, so that just brought more misunderstandings for the script writers to work with. At least the characters were nice people and looked good natured. Nothing like the characters on TV today. The acting was far better too.

[Rock]

Adama,
I can't imagine you enjoying a show like "Three's Company". You are too serious and judgmental to enjoy a good funny show like that. The "landlord thinking Jack was gay" thing wasn't necessarily an agenda. It was more like a plot device to create more comedy, jokes and misunderstandings. It added a lot of content for sure. A lot of episodes were based on misunderstandings, so that just brought more misunderstandings for the script writers to work with. At least the characters were nice people and looked good natured. Nothing like the characters on TV today. The acting was far better too.

I know you like to glorify the 70s and 80s but from what I read, one of the blonds (Suzanne Somers) was such an entitled bitch that in later episodes that she was on, they had to film her separately from her co-stars cus she couldn't get along with any of them. Perhaps those who ran Hollywood made people appear more wholesome on screen back then then they do today, but behind the scenes, I think they're all the same. People are people and when they get that kind of money, power, and fame, a high percentage become very corrupted one way or another.

[cdnFA]

I never understood why Suzanne Summers was hot, her face was kinda meh once you looked past the blond hair. Joyce Dewit, I am partial to short hair but not her. The other two were better but not exactly 10s.

I watched the show when it came out. Yes Jack was always on the tear but what I remember from the show, and it has been decades is that his female roommates would slut shame him over it. His efforts were also played more as comical than anything.

About the only difference between Jack and Herb Tarlic hitting on Jennifer Marlow was that Jack was successful. Neither of them really came across well in the process.

Now Sam Malone was a different story, but that was also a bit latter.

[Adama]

Adama,
I can't imagine you enjoying a show like "Three's Company". You are too serious and judgmental to enjoy a good funny show like that. The "landlord thinking Jack was gay" thing wasn't necessarily an agenda. It was more like a plot device to create more comedy, jokes and misunderstandings. It added a lot of content for sure. A lot of episodes were based on misunderstandings, so that just brought more misunderstandings for the script writers to work with. At least the characters were nice people and looked good natured. Nothing like the characters on TV today. The acting was far better too.

People laughed. Therefore they found it funny. That is not in dispute, Winston. Don't blame me when I point out that TV entertainment is a vehicle for their programming and mind control. You'd prefer not to know?

[Adama]

Clearly you've forgotten that the man was supposed to be homosexual. It is the perfect inversion of reality in order to promote their agenda under the radar. Back then you couldnt have a straight man living with two single women, as if that was anybody's business. However, two fag hags and a homosexual? Totally cool. Just don't bring any women around, because then everyone will find out you're straight. Hide your heterosexuality instead of hide being a homo.

I'm guessing you weren't a Bosom Buddies fan, either?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORKyyHBy6JQ[/youtube]

I think I watched it as a young kid. But they had 3scompany on reruns on for years and years and years on TV even before they brought out cable TV. I don't remember Bosom Buddies being as ubiquitous as Threes Company.