THREE’S COMPANY FANS: ASSEMBLEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I am actually writing about this. No, you don’t have to read it. But goddammit, you should!

When I was in high school, watching an episode of a sitcom was part of my morning breakfast routine. It just happened to be that Three’s Company was, at the time, airing on TBS at 6:30 a.m. My mom would peek around the corner: “Why are you watching this!?” she’d ask. I didn’t really have an answer, at first. Later, however, the answer became clear: Because it is fucking hysterical!

What’s better than a cutting-edge and groundbreaking sitcom about a man and two women living together in the 70’s? Nothing. It was scandalous and sexed up, and walked a fine line between obscenity and innocence for its time. Throw in a heaping spoonful of farce and plenty of John Ritter’s classic pratfalls and you have a Three’s Company in a nutshell.

My unconventional admiration for this program continued through college. For my Arts and Language of Television course, I wrote a 10-page term paper chronicling the show’s production and struggles throughout its eight-year run. Color my friend, Erin, surprised when she walked into my dorm room to find the book, “Come and Knock on Our Door: A Hers and Hers and His Guide to Three’s Company,” by Chris Mann, displayed on my desk. (Uhh…Nice to meet you, Erin?).

Over the years, I’ve collected all of the seasons on DVD and silently prayed that the day would come when Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt would bury the hatchet, be friends again, and sail off into the sunset together. And for the first time in 30 years, the two finally sat down together to chat about Three’s Company on the set of Somers’ new Web Series/show Suzanne Somers Breaking Through.  Here is their three-part encounter (try not to get too giddy!):