Three's Company: Jack Goes to the Dentist

Three's Company: Jack Goes to the Dentist
ABC
October 12, 1982
Sitcom
DVD
C+

In this Grossman & Burditt story, Terri is dating a dentist, Dr. Phillip Greene (Tambor, this time in a brunet toupee), whom she finds herself unable to break up, with despite Janet's encouragement.  Finally, Janet has to tell him, and he assumes Terri is leaving him for another man, specifically Jack.  And meanwhile, Jack has recently become his patient.  For a Tambor episode, it's not bad, but I actually would've preferred that we not get the scene setting the audience up to expect Phil to torture Jack.  (He even straps him down to the chair!)  It's cheap and unfunny, and I wonder if there would've been a better way to go about this.  Note, I think Terri's hair, now with curls in it, looks much better in this episode than last season.