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Long-lived iconic 1970s slapstick sex farce/comedy of errors. Frequently dismissed as the archetypal [[Jiggle Show]], it's also [[Better Than It Sounds|marked by clever writing, strong performances and fantastic physical humor]]. Based on the [[Britcom]] series ''[[Man About the House]]'', it originally aired on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] from 1977-1984.
In order to share an affordable apartment with two lovely young ladies, [[Brainy Brunette|Janet Wood]] (Joyce DeWitt) and [[The Ditz|Chrissy]] [[Dumb Blond|Snow]] (Suzanne Somers), cooking student [[Handsome Lech|Jack Tripper]] ([[John Ritter]]) must pretend to be gay around Stanley Roper (Norman Fell), the repressed, bigoted [[Landlord]] (and not [[Invisible to Gaydar|an average homosexual male]], but rather [[Camp Gay|an over-the-top stereotype]], because that's the only kind of "gay" Mr. Roper - and the average viewer in [[The Seventies]] - knows). Roper, in turn, frequently finds himself fending off the advances of his good-natured but sexually repressed wife Helen (Audra Lindley), who knows Jack's secret but likes him and the girls enough to keep mum. Complications are introduced through a variety of misunderstandings and mishaps, often caused by the thinking-impaired apartment mates or their cumbersome friends. Everyone in this series suffers from [[Genre Blindness]] at one point or another, which is expected considering the show is essentially a comedy of errors. The show launched the careers of Ritter and Somers, and revived that of Don Knotts (who joined the cast as new landlord and wannabe-swinger Ralph Furley after the Ropers left for [[The Ropers|their own series]] following the third season).
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