Three's Company: And Justice for Jack

Three's Company: And Justice for Jack
ABC
November 11, 1980
Sitcom
DVD
C-

This George Burditt story is a mess and I would've given it a D+, but I bumped it up for a great Furley outfit that understandably makes a judge say she can't believe her eyes.  Jack gets a job working in a diner for Mrs. Marconi (Ellen Travolta).  She keeps grabbing and pinching him.  He tells Janet, who suggests he complain to his boss, but Mrs. Marconi fires him.  Then Janet thinks Jack should sue for sexual harassment.  The show could make a truly feminist point that harassment is just as awful when it happens to men, but everyone (including at times Janet) seems amused and/or titillated by his case, and then the judge blames the victim for dressing provocatively.  This could still make a point, that male victims are humiliated equally, although sometimes in different ways, but then in the tag Jack jokes about harassing his new boss's daughter.  I guess we can be glad that 3'sC didn't do more "very special episodes" because they're even worse at it than Mork & Mindy.

David Tress, who plays Virgil, previously was a Desk Sergeant.  Steven Anderson, who's Higgins, played a Young Man on The Bob Newhart Show.  But the most notable cast note is that Suzanne Somers was absent that week and the script had to be revised.  Chrissy is visiting her parents for "a couple days," so I guess this could fit into the timeline after the next episode, though since this is set in June, perhaps she visited them again in the Fall.