Three's Company: Opening Night

Three's Company: Opening Night
ABC
November 16, 1982
Sitcom
DVD
B-

Notable things about this Shelley Zellman story where Jack's Bistro officially opens:

• It's likely set in August, since it mentions Saturday the 14th, and that's the only month in 1982 with one.  (The next would be May 1983.)
• There are many shades of red, pink, and rose, from the wallpaper to wardrobe, including Furley's "pimp suit."
• We find out that Larry's family is Greek and his last name of Dallas (here mentioned for the first time) is short for Dalliapolis.
• Larry both messes up the flyers and saves the day by bringing in roughly fifteen relatives.
• One of them, a fat middle-aged woman, chases Mr. Furley into the kitchen, and he runs away, but the tag reveals that he's stayed in there with her willingly for what must be at least half an hour.
• The episode is set entirely in and just outside the restaurant, a definite change of pace.
• A man thinks the girls are campaigning for various causes, from saving the whales to the ERA.  (Bosom Buddies had mentioned the ERA a few months earlier, and the deadline had expired in June, but it wasn't entirely dead as an issue.)  He also tells the girls to "go back where they came from."

Kopi Sotiropulos, who was the New York Senator on Soap, plays Larry's Uncle.  Stanley Kamel, who was Charlie on Mork & Mindy, is the Clean Cut Man here (I think the vice cop).  Glen Ash was Sgt. Maxwell on M*A*S*H, is Hearty Man here, and would be just Man on a later episode.