Three's Company (TV Series) My Sister's Keeper (1978) User Reviews

"You'd make a great Perry Mason."

[Hey_Sweden · 6/10 · 18 August 2023]

Janets' younger sister Jenny (the lovely Devon Ericson, "Night of the Comet") is currently visiting. Since Janet & Chrissy both have to work, Jack spends part of a day showing her around. Then, later that night, a medicated Jack (he'd earlier taken some antihistamines) groggily gets up from his sleep on the couch to get a drink of water. You can see where this is going: out of force of habit, Jack gets into his own bed - which Jenny is occupying. Janet soon sees them in bed together and hits the roof.

This episode amounts to a classic 'Three's Company' misunderstanding, which leads this viewer to think about how it's so often human nature to leap to the worst possible conclusion. A fiercely over-protective Janet, well aware of Jacks' multitude of girlfriends, was determined that he *behave* himself around her "baby" sister (who tries in vain to tell Janet that she's grown-up and can make her own decisions). And Jack has his work cut out for him trying to convince Janet that he didn't really *do* anything with her sister.

Stanleys' inability to get a good nights' sleep forms a B plot that joins the main plot in a logical enough way: he comes up to complain after hearing all the door-slamming in the kids' apartment.

'My Sisters' Keeper' certainly delivers some good laughs, mostly thanks to Mr. Ritter, but isn't as falling-down funny as the best episodes. Ericsons' bright presence does help.

Six out of 10.

Far from the best

[nickb-22813 · 5/10 · 20 October 2022]

There were several episodes in season 3 that were mellow and mediocre in their comedic appeal. This is one of them. In this episode, Janet's sister, Jenny, visits. She sleeps in Jack's room during her stay (forcing Jack to take the couch). Naturally, while under the effects of antihistamine, Jack accidentally wanders back into his bed - with Jenny in it. Janet finds them in bed together and, being the overprotective big sister that she is, thinks Jack has made moves on Jenny.

My least favorite episodes of Three's Company tend to be ones like this. Due to some misunderstanding, Janet results to thinking the most outlandish and insane thing. She continually displays an absolute lack of trust in her roommates, especially Jack. You would think after living with someone for over a year, there would be more trust between two individuals but no.

I didn't like the transformation of Janet that we see on display here. She goes from a very sweet, reliable, and goodhearted brunette in the first two seasons to an extremely suspicious and worst case scenario thinking individual by the end of the series. That's not funny.