Three's Company: Lee Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother

Three's Company: Lee Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
ABC
February 26, 1980
Sitcom
DVD
B-

By this point in the series, Americanizations of Man About the House episodes were becoming rarer, and unlike in MatH, Chrissy does not permanently fall for her roommate's brother, leading to their marriage.  (That would've been one solution to the Suzanne salary demands the next season, had they but known.)  Chrissy realizes in fact that, if they were cakes, Lee would be all frosting, while Jack would have a lot of layers.  Baser & Weiskopf wrote this episode, and I consider it equivalent to the original, despite the differences.

Jack having a brother contradicts or at least complicates both Jack being the only nephew of Uncle Fremont and the fact that, although Lee is firstborn, Jack was named after their father.  Since Fremont seems to be Jack Sr.'s brother, my guess is that Jack's mother was married before and then widowed, so Lee was adopted.

Albert Carrier, who plays Maurice, was a Waiter and another Frenchman on That Girl, and he seems to have been pretty much typecast.  I don't have John Getz (Lee) in anything else but he's still working steadily at almost 70.