Monday, December 12, 2016

Three's Company: The Money Machine

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ABC
October 18, 1983
Sitcom
DVD
C+

I don't like the way Anne Throw Mama from the Train Ramsey's hostile-looking ugliness is used for humor, but otherwise Mike Weinberger's story about Jack accidentally getting $1000 from an ATM is of interest, both romantic and pop-historical.  Of the latter, besides the then timely mention of "an automatic cash machine" (or whatever they called it), I remember being sad when they replaced the couch, scene of so many shenanigans, if less sad than I was at how bland and Yuppie the Brady interior decorating got between 1981 and '88 (more about that when we get to A Very Brady Christmas).  As for romance, Jack (and every other man in the episode except Mr. Furley) ogles Terri in her bikini, and Jack enjoys putting suntan lotion on her; yet it's Janet who pretends to be married to Jack when they want their old couch, where he's hidden the money, back.

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