Bosom Buddies: There's No Business...

If I remember correctly, Amy's T-shirt
is from the Joey Midnight episode.

Bosom Buddies: There's No Business...
ABC
October 15, 1981
Sitcom
DVD
B-

Chris Thompson wrote this story, which is another series-shifter.  Henry's Uncle Mort (John C. Becher, who would be Mr. Gretski on Three's Company) sells him a commercial production studio for the $2000 that Henry was going to buy a treasury bill with.  (Half of it was Kip's, minus $40 Amy contributed.)  Kip is unhappy with this news but it's too late by the time he finds out.  And then they find out that Mort owes a sleazy man named Victor (32-year-old Joe Regalbuto, later of Murphy Brown) $17,000.  The guys can't come up with the money but Ruth can, which she does out of friendship and out of a desire to humiliate Victor, who in so many words calls her a hooker.  She'll be the silent partner, with Amy still retaining 2% rather than 1%.  (This will matter in a later episode.)

We are settling in to the Eighties, or at least the Early Eighties here, with cocaine jokes ("Snorting money, Kip?"/ "It cuts out the middleman") and the line that I still remember vividly from the time: "Our future?!  We now have the same future as disco!"