Three's Company (TV Series) Handcuffed (1980) User Reviews

I was present when this episode was written

[mts43 · 7/10 · 4 October 2020]

Kim Weiskopf wrote this episode over the Christmas Break when he and his wife Jody spent the Holidays with her family in southern Illinois. There had been some kind of contest to suggest a pretext for an episode, and the winner suggested a situation where Chrissie and Jack somehow are handcuffed together. Kim was not happy about being assigned to do the script, but he persevered and wrote it while at his sister-in-law's house. The references in the script to Uncle Bud and Aunt Vi are the names of two of Jody's favorite relatives. I still remember Kim reading the script to Jody while they were seated at the kitchen table. That was then I realized that writing situation comedy was much more difficult than I realized. I never saw the episode until many years later, long after the series had ended.

I think this might be my favorite episode!

[audgeml · 10/10 · 4 May 2023]

I think this might be my favorite Three's Company episode!

I'm watching TV Land and this came on. I may have watched this at least 10x+ and never gets old. The jokes and hi jinx and physical comedy between John Ritter and Suzanne Somers makes this episode so damn hilarious. It's too bad this was Suzanne's Somer's last season before she was let go. The show was never the sane after that. It was OK, but Chrissy was just as hilarious as Jack. Also, the Ropers are gone Don Knotts/or Mr. Furley is on this episode. The Ropers are also another missing link to the best years / episodes of Three's Company.