Joyce DeWitt looks back without anger

NO, she didn't have a nose job!

Her neck looks great.

I'm an '80s baby, and though I'd heard of the show all of my life, I never actually watched THREE's COMPANY until recently. Within the past year. And I really enjoy it. Janet is my favorite.

But, boy, was John Ritter eye candy!

John Ritter was never eye candy.

"Namaste" is California white girl for "I'm ok, you're fucked up".

She aged better than Suzanne Somers.

[quote] She aged better than Suzanne Somers.

Duh, I'm dead! Too many vitamins...

She always looks like she quit her psychotropic drugs cold turkey 3 days ago.

She’s a drunk. She’s already been in jail.

R5 I think he was really cute during Three's Company.

Handsome face in the close-ups.

And a nice ass!

Joyce looks good.

Joyce DeWitt: "I'm not angry, DAMMIT!"

John Ritter was adorable with warm eyes.

As a kid I enjoyed the character of Janet but found her to be physically unappealing in a way I didn't normally with women on TV. I think it was the bug eyes and the haircut.

On the flip side, Chrissy was interesting to watch but I resented her stupidity.

It's funny, I never picked up on the "Jack faking homosexuality" bit. I was too young to understand, but not too young to understand that Jack was the most watchable of all.

She and Tina Louise should do a tour of Chicago.

r15 The city or the musical?

Looks great

Cock-a-doodle Bitch stole Three's company from me.

Wow I don’t think she mentioned farce once. Good job, Joyce!

R5 - I agree - I never understood why he was considered 'the star' - he did nothing for me and I thought he was average in the role. There were 3 people in that apartment - it wasn't all about him.

But I feel for her - it must have been hard being the overlooked 3rd person behind Ritter and Somers.

I’m surprised she never got even one regular role on another show.

Why is she wearing one of Estelle Getty's cheap old white wigs from "The Golden Girls"?

R20 Well, I'm the last of the original three still alive, so who got the last laugh?

Why be angry? Surely, she's receiving residuals after all this time still? Even though she was the "third wheel," she did a good job in her role.

I, too, am surprised she never really got much after that.

There was no 'She's the Sheriff" for Joyce, R74.

[quote]I’m surprised she never got even one regular role on another show.

She left Hollywood for over a decade after the show ended. By the time she came back in the mid 90's, the TV landscape had changed drastically.

If you read the Three's Company Book (which is one of the best backstage accounts of a TV show ever done) Joyce admits she didn't have the stomach to deal with the internal politics surrounding Three's Company and TV shows in general. She loathed the producers (she even admits Suzanne had valid concerns concerning the show she just dealt with it poorly) and was deeply hurt that they didn't tell Priscilla and her until the last minute that the finale would be a backdoor pilot for John Ritter's spinoff. She was much more comfortable doing theater.

[quote]”…the many, many adults who have told me that Three’s Company was a safe haven they could count on during their teen years — for some, the only safe haven.”

(somewhat confounded by this) (it’s not like it was the ABC After School Special!)

She should do a comeback series called “Gramma’s House.” She plays Lolo, a former showgirl turned madam who runs a cozy brothel out of her home in Las Vegas.

(The reason she was a showgirl is it leaves room for occasional dance numbers)

The Joyce DeWitt troll is on the loose

She can tour in The Roommate with Morgan Fairchild.

Can't L'eggs© throw her a bone and let her appear in a commercial?

R26, did Joyce do much theater? There's nothing listed on her Wiki page.

Should have allowed Carson to schtup her. But no, dingbat had to go chasing after BBC instead.

She let a fart

Has Susan Dey commented yet about her own anger?

She did lots of stock and regional theatre including Gypsy in Bucks County and Chapter Two with Tab Hunter.

Bitch got me fired...

[quote]Can't L'eggs© throw her a bone and let her appear in a commercial?

When was the last time you saw a L'Eggs commercial?

Spoiler alert: No one wears pantyhose anymore.

Pantyhose is now used to hold in the little bulges on touring superstars.

[quote][R5] - I agree - I never understood why he was considered 'the star' - he did nothing for me and I thought he was average in the role. There were 3 people in that apartment - it wasn't all about him.

He's the main protagonist, and in almost every episode, the "A" plot revolves around him.

He was also the only cast member to be Emmy-nominated (3 nods, 1 win).

John was handsome but rather sexless. The Ropers were the reason I watched. Don Knotts was ok during the replacement Chrissey years

The producers were cheapskates and just hired the cheapest actors available. Suzanne was already in her 30s.

She said in the article "friends and cast members" at one point.

Why say that?

Was it a subtle dig at deceased Somers?

Ritter was rather charming and handsome when THREE'S COMPANY competed against SOAP on FAMILY FEUD.

Joyce looked pretty, too.

They certainly could have gotten more than one season of the spinoff if they had paired Jack and Janet as the leads.

Of course they could pay the female lead much less than Joyce at that point and they thought they had a sure thing at a much cheaper price. But it did cost them in the end for the loss of those extra seasons

I loved Joyce DeWitt in the first and second season of Three’s Company. It was a fun, sometimes touching, well-balanced cast of types: level-headed Janet, naive Chrissy, and comedic Jack. Then around season three, DeWitt made Janet cutesy and silly, with a horrible baby voice, and huge, bug-eyed double takes, which sort of clashed with the dumbed downed Chrissy. It was as though she was desperately trying to compete with her co-stars for laughs, and the balance was gone. By the time the wretched Priscilla Barnes came along, Janet and Terri sounded like hyperactive chipmunks, playing to the cheap seats, like Ritter did from the beginning. Add the desperation of Don Knotts, and it was a predictable, horrible mess.

R46 Level-headed is boring on a sit-com.

Guest stars can play that role.

She always looks like an exasperated or hysterical Muppet. The jerky movements, the big eyes, the mouth often gaped open….

I think we can all picture Jim Henson’s fist up her ass, can’t we?

Later in the run Joyce did a photo session with glamour photographer Harry Langdon, and the results are so… mmmmm, what ARE they?

They’re kind of pin-upy, but she’s not the pin-up type!

Bitch stole my look.

R46 nevertheless, the show remained very popular for most of its 8-season run:

SEASON 1 = #11

SEASON 2 = #3

SEASON 3 = #2

SEASON 4 = #2

SEASON 5: #8

SEASON 6 = #4

SEASON 7 = #6

SEASON 8 = #33

A lot of people got shafted on that show - including the Ropers, who were pushed to have their own series and then never allowed back.

Then they did the same to Joyce and Priscilla when they decided to move John to his own horrible show.

Like her or not, Suzanne Somers was HUGE - she was at the peak of her beauty and you waited for her to come on camera. She was everywhere - extremely popular. She SHOULD have been paid the same as John.

Joyce - unfortunately - was a bit forgettable in between those two. But people who play the 'straight man' always get overlooked.

L’eggs!

[quote]Like her or not, Suzanne Somers was HUGE - she was at the peak of her beauty and you waited for her to come on camera. She was everywhere - extremely popular. She SHOULD have been paid the same as John.

They all should have been paid equally. Threes was very much an ensemble show even though John Ritter got the same plaudits. Suzanne was not as indispensable as she made out for all the years after. The ratings were still solid during three of the four years afterwards.

Suzanne was also popular because she had a great PR agent, who was also handling Farrah Fawcett at the same time during the height of her Charlie's Angels fame. Ritter was popular because he was charming and talented. There's a huge difference.

Joyce outlived all of the original cast.

[quote]I’m surprised she never got even one regular role on another show.

I've also thought that was odd. She was on a huge hit show for years and never got another offer? There were never stories of her being difficult to work with.

It's hard to believe now but Three's Company was controversial during its original run, particularly in the first few seasons. It was considered quite raunchy for the times.

R56 - chopped liver checking in here. I'm more overlooked than ALL OF YOU COMBINED!

For fucks sake this poor lady doesn't have anything to say.

R58 - first, it was considered highly unusual for unmarried men and women to be living together - actually immoral. That line of thinking was still around in the 80's.

Then you have a gay man - but not ACTUALLY a gay man - which was also not done before.

I don't think there was THAT much sexuality - but a lot of single bars, picking up chicks kind of jokes.

I remember there was a butterfly pic on the back wall and in the middle of the butterfly was a naked woman - THAT was talked about endlessly in school. LOL

Priscilla Barnes was robbed of a spinoff...

Was Priscilla Barnes supposed to be the next big thing at one point?

Here she is at the 1978 oscars alongside someone else I've never heard of and a bunch of other big name actresses of that time modeling best costume design creations.

At 1:45

Joyce DeWitt was about as unsexy as one could get - she was pretty, but a bit strange looking.

R59 Richard Kline also had a nice ass on the show!

Incidentally, "Problem Child" starring John Ritter is currently free to watch on YouTube, which I recently did for the first time in like decades, and I was surprised to learn (after looking up the cast) that the bitchy girl whose birthday party Junior ruins was played by Kline's own daughter.

R63. I think that was a couple of years before she started Three's Company.

They should do a remake based in an over 55 manufactured home park and call it. " Golden Company". Joyce can be the owner of the park ! Endless episodes about shuffleboard court fights , lost cats, trips to Golden Corral and dealing with a Syphilis outbreak traced back to one of the landscape staff!

R67. Can we add in a Jenilee Harrison guest arc?

[quote] Can't L'eggs© throw her a bone and let her appear in a commercial?

Has L'eggs had a commercial in the last 30 years?

Troll

Is Joyce a whole mood?

Is she "serving cunt?"

Op sure is a troll

The fact that Joyce never got a series after Three's Company is as baffling to me as the fact that neither did Bonnie Franklin. Joyce was a member of an ensemble and from what I understand left Hollywood and went to India to address her demons. Bonnie stayed in L.A. and yet was still not offered anything. I could see either Joyce or Bonnie as the mom on The Wonder Years, Alf, or Mr. Belvedere but for some reason it didn't happen...

Fuck you, R73!

[quote]R67 They should do a remake set in an over 55 manufactured home park and call it “Golden Company". Joyce can be the owner of the park! Endless episodes about shuffleboard court fights, lost cats, trips to Golden Corral and dealing with a Syphilis outbreak traced back to one of the landscape staff! —DiscoEldergayat60 (I really should be a script writer)

This sounds fantastic. It could be funded jointly by the Screen Actors Guild and the Motion Picture & Television Fund Retirement Home, to generate income (and visibility) for elderly members.

I see Nancy Dussault as Joyce’s arch enemy, a much married mantrap named Dahlia “Doll” Wentworth.

R75 Priscilla Barnes will make some guest appearances. As a nurse, she can run the trailer park vaccination clinics, giving Janet a sounding board.

Bonnie Franklin and Joyce DeWitt were both sexless hammy Muppets prone to rage issues.

They were both deeply unpleasant and uncharismatic, and the only reasonable explanation for their inexplicable stardom is they shared the same agent, who was blackmailing Fred Silverman.

Redd Foxx in a wig and a muumuu had a better chance playing the mother on Alf, Wonder Years and Mr. Belvedere than those two hambones.

I'd like to buy her for what she's worth and sell her for what she thinks she's worth. She always seemed to think she was a THESPIAN and not just some hack on a sitcom. At least Suzanne knew who she was. The shows without Chrissy suck.

Oh I loved Mr. Belvedere.

Joyce's lack of a career is especially egregious since Bonnie had fried egg titties, while Joyce was a full-breasted woman in her prime.

r77 Brilliant summary

r73 "The fact that Joyce never got a series after Three's Company is as baffling to me as the fact that neither did Bonnie Franklin"

Please tell me you're kidding - they were terrible actresses with zero charm. I'm surprised they had as much success as they did - totally lucked out on that one show.

Man, you people are so negative.

I think everyone on THREE'S COMPANY was great.

It was a slapstick situational comedy, for God's sakes!

But you could tell that everyone was a good actor.

[quote] I could see either Joyce or Bonnie as the mom on The Wonder Years

The mom on Wonder Years really didn't look like the mom of Kevin and the brother.

Bonnie Franklin: no way could she have been the mom on Wonder Years.

Joyce De Witt: possibly, physically, could have been the mom.

[quote]It's hard to believe now but Three's Company was controversial during its original run, particularly in the first few seasons. It was considered quite raunchy for the times.

And Lucille Ball loved the show - go figure. She hated all the Norman Lear comedies because she felt they were too 'raunchy' (especially 'Maude') , but loved 'Three's Company' and its humor. Then again, maybe she hated the Lear comedies because they were on CBS, and the way of the 'future' in the 70s - pushing her tired slapstick ("Here's Lucy") off the air ?

Now is the time for Joyce to remake "Stone Pillow."

Was it a farce?

I don't find John Ritter attractive like some DLers do.

However, he was good at physical comedy. That's maybe why Lucille Ball enjoyed 3's Company.

Lucille Ball liked John Ritter and his slapstick comedy. Obviously, she was familiar with it.

90 responses and no one's mentioned the other half of the '80s power couple--Ray Buktenica?

r90 Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night

She was great.

Joyce looks back without anger as much as Eve looks back without bitterness.

Funny show

She was so boring

She's just a ridiculous person. She had a great job for seven years then just gave up on the business. Now she's just so bitter and tiresome. Get a new hairdo bitch and stop crying.

Joyce DeWitt IS Emily Dickenson

[quote]no one's mentioned the other half of the '80s power couple--Ray Buktenica?

He made many an 80s lady's pussy moist.

Joyce making the bad decision of standing next to Susan Anton

[quote] No one wears pantyhose anymore.

I do. How else can I hold in those noxious farts?

I never thought Susan Anton was good-looking.

Joyce needs to get on Hacks with Judith Light as a Vegas act that rivals Deborah’s.

She also needs Judith’s manager.

[quote]R84 The mom on Wonder Years really didn't look like the mom of Kevin and the brother.

My mom LOVED this show, so I found where to stream it for her. I was surprised that the actress who played the mom, Alley Mills, is excellent in that part. At one point she takes a pottery class and, I swear to god, it’s surprisingly emotional.

r103 "a pottery class and, I swear to god, it’s surprisingly emotional. "

They often are.

So while we’re on the subject why did Alley Mills disappear after The Wonder Years?

She married Orson Bean and I think took care of him throughout the years. I mean, he was mobile (until getting run over by two cars while jaywalking in Venice Beach) by he was quite elderly. She also had a contract role on Bold and the Beautiful for many, many years.

Mills is currently hamming it up on General Hospital (Weekdays! Check your local listings!)

Alley Mills on GH!? Assured to be number one in the ratings!

Did she work afterwards?

Alley Mills and Nancy Lee Grahn = eldergay heaven!

Orson Bean seemed gay.

Alley Mills didn't believe Fred's sexual harrassment accuser and called it bullshit, said the show ended because of that.

Mills had one of the best roles in soaps when she was on Bold & Beautiful. She was so nutty she tied up some girl in a cabin, covered her in honey, and let a bear in.

The thing about sexual harassment is you can’t look at it through the lense of how the treatment would make YOU feel - that’s irrelevant.

The wardrobe lady was asked out again and again by the two teen actors (Fred Savage and Jason Hervey) after she made it clear her answer was no… and the dad actor even told her she should let Savage lose his virginity to her.

Some people don’t like sexual pressure like this at work. It’s odd some people (like Ms. Mills) can’t grasp that. She also might not know what it’s like for a wardrobe person to be pressured by the star of a show who (practically speaking) has power over their job and makes a hundred times (?) more than them.

[quote]Monique Long responded to Mills in an e-mail to Yahoo!, saying that she still stands by her claims of harassment. “What I will say at this time is that, back then, claiming sexual harassment was NOT popular nor acceptable in Hollywood,” Long wrote. “Now, all these years later, the truth about the dark side of Hollywood and the rampant prevalence of sexual harassment in the industry is out. It’s an issue of power and control and continues to be! People can say what they want, but the truth has always been public record in the complaint and all the documents and depositions filed with the courts. If anyone wants the truth of what happened, they can read it there. To this day, I stand by the truth in those documents. . . My only response to Ms. Mills’s slander is that it proves exactly why women in the industry are forced to remain silent about sexual harassment.”

WE ARE TALKING ABOUT JOYCE DEWITT, NOT ALLEY MILLS!!!

START YOUR OWN THREAD!

R115-Joyce. deWitt, drinking boxed wine in her car in the Vons parking lot

Joyce Fuckwitt

Joyce is hella pissed Alley is stealing this thread out from under her, just like Suzanne did the show.

Alley would have been flattered if some young asshole sexually harassed her.

She must have been driven around the bend, watching Suzanne earn her Thighmaster billions and get a second hit show while John Ritter worked constantly until the day he died.

[quote]She must have been driven around the bend, watching Suzanne earn her Thighmaster billions and get a second hit show while John Ritter worked constantly until the day he died.

Not to mention Stephanie Cozart getting LeVar's BBC on a nightly basis!

R116. It's a Stater Bros.

The Joyce vs. Alley feud could become a DL classic.

Suzanne earned a shit load of money on Step by Step. How humiliating for the worthless, talentless cunt Joyce.

[quote]She must have been driven around the bend, watching Suzanne earn her Thighmaster billions and get a second hit show while John Ritter worked constantly until the day he died.

And where did all that hard work get them today ? Six feet under while DeWitt is still alive.

I don't see Joyce's shows winning any Emmys for Best Comedy Series....just sayin'

Even her fancy Ivy League degree wasn't enough to get Alley on "Love Boat."

Alley was working in Hollywood in the 1970s - The Waltons, Barefoot in the Park (the series), The Leslie Uggams Show.

She probably turned down the role of Janet on Three’s Company.

And Joyce can never forgive her for that.

Such a sad thread

She lit a bag of dog shit on my door steps when she found out I got Dallas.

I love when The Wonder Years won Best Comedy Series at the Emmys, and Alley went barreling to the stage, before the producers who actually won the award.

r129 Yes, poor Joyce would be humiliated

After first voicing encouragement, Joyce did everything she could to get me booted from STEPFATHER III.

I still don’t understand the venom I witnessed. She was like one possessed.

The Art of the Ad: Nothing Beats Joyce Dewitt’s L’eggs

Up until a few years ago, Joyce was doing theatre almost non-stop, three or four productions a year in regional theatres around the US. Not sure whether she's done shows post-pandemic or not.

No matter what her body may look like she always has the face of a fat woman.

ALW should have cast her in "Sunset Boulevard" back in the 1990s on Broadway. John RItter could have been her Joe Gillis and Norman Fell could've been Max. What a sensation !

And for an added treat - Suzanne Sommers for the West End production, replacing Ms Lupone !

[quote]Up until a few years ago, Joyce was doing theatre almost non-stop, three or four productions a year in regional theatres around the US. Not sure whether she's done shows post-pandemic or not.

It just hasn't been the same since the demise of the Mr. Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater. Where else could you have seen Joyce's "Medea"?

Here's Joyce starring in, well, I just don't know what.

[quote]Suzanne earned a shit load of money on Step by Step. How humiliating for the worthless, talentless cunt Joyce.

Yeah, in the '90s, Suzanne was rolling it in with the bestselling Thighmaster and STEP BY STEP, which ran for 7 seasons (160 episodes) and was popular around the world.

R139. Is Joyce a three pack a day smoker? Did the booze kill her vocal cords?

If Joyce DeWitt finds this thread she’s going to fly to New York City and firebomb Mediapolis’ office with Muriel inside.

Come and knock on my door.

Joyce has been in New York for a week, patiently waiting for Patti and Marsha to catch COVID.

[quote]No matter what her body may look like she always has the face of a fat woman.

Back in the 2000s, my brother, his then girlfriend, and I went to see Rob Zombie's remake of John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN, which gives Michael Myers a backstory.

The boy that played him in his youth had a slim body but a fat face.

I remember my bro's GF exclaiming aloud when they showed him in full shot, "I don't get it, he's got a chubby face, but he's not a fat kid." 😂

Joyce is a West Virginian! Raised in Indiana!

Joyce should write her own Hillbilly Elegy.

She better do it before she gets her eulogy

R147 you mean at her funeral?

R148. No. At her Bat Mitzvah, Rose!

Joyce is alive and kicking, you cunts!

Suck on that, Suzanne!

I don't think people can realize now what a huge deal Joyce and Ray Buktenica were back in the day. Think Brangelina,but on steoids! The papparazzi were merciless and wouldn't leave them alone. Everyone was waiting to find out when they would tie the knot and I think the publicity just became too much of a strain on their relationship and they broke it off. But for a while there in 1979, the world could not get enough of "Joytenica" as they were referred to in the tabloids!

I discovered Threes Company in the late 80s. The look of it already seemed more dated than old black and white movies for some reason...but it really made me and my sister roll around laughing. We loved it. We adored Chrissy and Jack and Janet was seen as a bit sensible..but the mix was gold. Only decades later did we learn of the controversies with Suzanne and I dont know how they couldnt sort it out..I still actually feel cheated by that. And as for Audra Lindly and Norman Fell as The Ropers, they were exquisite. I also feel annoyed at how they were mistreated. Mr Furley was fun but I wished he had been an addition and not a replacement for Stanley and Helen.

R11- Watching the early episodes John Ritter looks like a cute gay male one would see in a Castro gay ca. 1977.

R151- He was so slim and cute 🥰 when he appeared on Rhoda ca. 1977/78 as Brenda’s boyfriend.

Fred Savage looks like an insatiable bottom. I can totally imagine him grabbing his ankles and begging, "Harder!".

Joyce has gotten the last laugh as the last remaining living original cast member.

She can say anything she wants and NO ONE can dispute it.

[quote]I still don’t understand the venom I witnessed. She was like one possessed.

Go play with your third nipple, Prissy

I'll never understand ABC shelving The Joyce DeWitt Special with Guest Stars Ben Vereen and Abe Vigoda.

better than Lind Ronstadt.

She should have done an arc on Falcon Crest as an escapee from the Tuscany Valley loony bin, out for revenge against Angela for putting her there for some reason.

She should have had an arc on Cops. Well, she kind of did.

[quote]R152 Mr Furley was fun but I wished he had been an addition and not a replacement for Stanley and Helen.

He was annoying - plus physically repulsive.

I laugh about it but what they did to the Ropers was pretty shady.

Op that pic….

The expression she has on her face looks like she just shit her pants.

Joyce DeWitt always seemed like she wasn't comfortable in her own skin - even when acting.

I remember an interview in which it was discussed that there was always isolated cameras on John and Suzanne, which infuriated Joyce.

Op is your family aware of your Three’s Company / Joyce DeWitt preoccupation? I’m serious.

[quote] I remember my bro's GF exclaiming aloud when they showed him in full shot, "I don't get it, he's got a chubby face, but he's not a fat kid." 😂

I hate when people exclaim stuff aloud in the movie theater.

r167 Thank you for that laugh

When Joyce and Suzanne reconciled years ago on a talk show Suzanne was hosting, Suzanne said that Joyce had to explain to her what "subtext" was in the early days of Three's Company.

If one is still interested, you can go to the 10:30 mark in this video for an interesting interview

I thought Ray was so hot and handsome.

R172- What ethnicity is Buktenica?

HI RAY!

I always called Ray and Joyce the Bukwitts.

Ray’s last name is Croatian. I don’t know his height; he seems tall. He definitely has high cheekbones. My great grandfather was Serbian-Croatian.

[quote]If Joyce DeWitt finds this thread she’s going to fly to New York City and firebomb Mediapolis’ office with Muriel inside.

I will arrange for limousine service from and back to the airport.

R176. We still should probably avoid the Mortimer Club.

If only Joyce took over for Bette Midler in the 'Hello Dolly revival back in 2018, instead of Bernadette Peters. That show would still be running today - with Joyce in her sixth year. Pure magic ! And Buktenica as Horrace - can you imagine the chemistry ?

Joyce DeWitt walked so that Lea Michele could run.

Is her dad "Addison"?

r181 Big time

Joyce made Eve look like Little Mary Sunshine.

Joyce DeWitt IS Flora, the Red Menace!

One of the funniest moments on TV was when Eve was on the Jenny Jones show and an audience member confronted her about her bitterness.

r185 Eve who?

eve = Jan Brady.

r187 Oh, got it

Eve, I'm not bitter, Plumb

Well, Eve"s not bitter but she certainly needed that $1000 check from Jenny Jones.

[quote]I laugh about it but what they did to the Ropers was pretty shady.

Yeah, if I recall, they both did *not* want to do the spin-off. They were content being on THREE'S COMPANY, which was steady work at their age and was the #2 show in America.

But the powers that be made them do it and it flopped, but Audra Lindley and Norman Fell could not return to TC, because they had been replaced with Don Knotts. One is cheaper than two.

It's sort of funny because when something like that happens, it's usually the actor who *wants* to leave to pursue a film career, à la George Cooney ("ER"), and people usually take delight when they fail, à la Shelley Long ("Cheers") and David Caruso ("NYPD Blue") to list two classic examples.

But it's hard to have schadenfreude for Lindley and Fell, because they did not ask for it.

Joyce should have let Johnny Carson fuck her. She might have become the 4th Mrs.Carson and could have Johnny blackballl John and Suzanne from NBC; while spending Johnny’s millions unwisely producing questionable projects for herself.

Eve: The Other Side of Joyce's Three Faces

Louise Jefferson (Isabel Sanford) did not want to leave All in the Family. But then Norman Lear said he was doing a spin-off whether she liked it or not and said that he'd replace her in the spin-off.

Remember this NBC movie about the show from the early 2000s?

(Didn't "Three's Company" air on ABC?)

Joyce appears as herself to host the program, but in the actual movie she's portrayed by the lady who did all those Gladware commercials at the time.

R195. That was released in May 2003. John and Suzanne were still alive. Joyce needed a paycheck.

R196 oh, wow, I didn't realize Ritter died just four months after the TV movie aired.

I wonder what he thought of it?

[quote]R197 I didn't realize Ritter died just four months after the TV movie aired.

Coincidence?

r198 I think not

“ Joyce DeWitt looks back without anger”

Joyce doesn’t do anything without anger

Valerie harper did not want to spin-off into 'Rhoda' fifty years ago. It was veteran actress Nancy Walker (who went to the spin-off with her) who sat down with her and told her bluntly, "Are you crazy ? If you refuse this, you will never get an offer to headline your own sitcom again. You will have a reputation of being 'difficult' to work with, and your career will be over. Take the offer - but make sure you can come back here (TMTS) if the series fails."

And Harper took her advice, and had it written into her contract that if her series failed while TMTMS was still in production, she could return to TMTMS (and Mary herself wrote a letter saying the same). Harper had an instant hit series, and she always made sure Walker was used in as many episodes as Walker wanted as a thank you to her TV mother. And when Walker left in season 3 to try her own hand at a sitcom, Harper extended the same offer to her - if the show failed, she was always welcome back to 'Rhoda' (which she did return to in Season 4).

What did Joyce do to survive financially all these years?

You mean Blansky's Beauties wasn't a hit?

I didn't realize that she was a lesbian. She's been hiding in plain site all the years.

R194 thankfully, it worked out very well for her -- 11 seasons, 253 episodes, 1 Emmy win!

Eat a dick, R203

R203 Nor was 'The Nancy Walker Show' after it. She was very fortunate Harper and CBS wanted her back.

Once RHODA was canceled, I always thought Walker would've made a great 'Mrs Garret' on NBC's 'The Facts of Lesbians'....I mean, 'Life'.

Joyce DeWitt was the original "greedy bitch." She made a deal for the Three's Company movie and cut John and Suzanne out. Greedy....BITCH!

Nancy Walker was hilarious and she directed at least one episode of Mary Tyler Moore. She reminds me of Thelma Ritter.

Nancy walker was the funniest one on MTM and the only funny one on Rhoda. The MTM episode when she showed up in the same dress as Rhoda was so funny.

[quote]r202 What did Joyce do to survive financially all these years?

I just picture her living a drab, boring life where she doesn’t spend any money, or really do anything.

Funny how Rhoda and Ida Morgenstern were the biggest Jews in tv history, yet Valerie Harper and Nancy Walker were not Jewish.

What are we, R212? Chopped liver?

[quote]Nancy Walker was hilarious and she directed at least one episode of Mary Tyler Moore. She reminds me of Thelma Ritter.

She also directed the gayest movie of all time.

R214. Valerie Perrine ALMOST made me straight...almost.

I can picture Joyce making the face she has in OP's while getting pounded...

As many of you know, Nancy Walker played Sophia's sister Angela on two episodes of THE GOLDEN GIRLS (1985-1992).

There's a misconception that Walker was replaced with Bill Dana (as Sophia's brother Angelo) because she had died.

In fact, what happened was, Susan Harris created a sitcom for her called MAMA's BOY (1987-1988) which had a troubled production and was unceremoniously canceled by NBC.

By then, Dana's Angelo had become a recurring character on GG.

So, Walker then went on to star on the Fox sitcom TRUE COLORS (1990-1992) which ended after 2 seasons, because two of its main stars (Walker and Cleavon Little) died within months of each other in 1992.

r217 Was Nancy Walker involved? some sort of black widow?

Nancy Walker died of lung cancer and Cleavon Little of colon cancer.

Joyce on Family Feud with John Ritter in the early days of Threes Company.

She doesn’t seem as strident and bitter and frenetic as she would become in later years.

R220. Oh that little minx likes to speak Spanish, eat pizza, and seduce her prey in her nylon lingerie. It explains so much...

She seems like a dry drunk white knuckling it through life.

R220 here's the full THREE'S COMPANY vs. SOAP episode.

(Also includes LOVE BOAT vs. EIGHT IS ENOUGH.)

Was Nancy Walker in those paper towel commercials?

Yeah, Bounty, I think.

I loved the Three's Company episode where Janet was dilating her pussy in front of the tv and then Jack walked in and then he was like "I don't want that dirty open pussy but I know Mrs. Roper does."

And then Jack called Mrs. Roper and Mrs. Roper came down to the apartment and lifted up her caftan and her red Jewfrow matched her red Jewfro pussy and she was like "Hey Janet do you want to lick this? And Janet was like "my two fingers are already wet with my pussy juice so how about it?"

And Mrs. Roper was like "can I be your mommy? You know I can."

And Janet was like "come and knock on my door! And by my door I mean my FUCKING CLIT! LICK IT YOU OLD CUNT, LICK IT!"

And then, after eating and licking Janet's red and engorged pussy, with a pussy juice mustache dripping down Mrs. Roper's chin and running down her tits, shen said "one month of free rent for you and that FAG you live with!"

And that is the end of this stupid fucking thread!!

Joyce was strong enough for a man, but made for a woman

As the saying goes, don't quit your day job, R226.

r226 You were hoping to be humorous. Big fail.

And then r228 and r229 had no sense of humor and were trapped in the year 1980 and they spent eternity smelling Joyce's CUNT

It's just a stupid sitcom from 50 years ago, lighten up fuckers!

r228 I don't have a day job anymore. Just keep working, like Joyce!

r230/231 Aw, you tried. I hope your day improves.

Yes, that depressingly awful attempt at "humor" wasn't the problem. The problem is that people need to lighten up.

Hi r232! getting ready to leave my Midtown apartment! FU!

r233 Incorrect - we're all pretty light in here looking at this thread

Pantyhose!

[quote]Yes, that depressingly awful attempt at "humor" wasn't the problem.

Hey cunt it's a bullshit 70s show. Just be glad you're still alive.

And cunting.

If Bonnie Franklin looks like she smells like dirty pantyhose, what do we think L’eggs spokeswoman Joyce DeWitt smells like?

Newport Light 100s and Jean Nate.

Dirty ass and pussy in pantyhose.

Remember the episode where Jack told Chrissy he wouldn't cum in her but he did anyway? Hilarious!

The MTM ep where Mary goes home with Rhoda for her sister's wedding (not Brenda) was classic. Brett Somers as Aunt Rose a riot.

Brett was drunk on her ass for the whole episode.

[quote] Suzanne Somers was HUGE - she was at the peak of her beauty

Suzanne was never beautiful.

She smells like that green foam florists and plant stores use.

[quote]I think he was really cute during Three's Company.

I think he was cute when he played the reverend on "The Waltons".

Suzanne was an object of lust for straight men because Chrissy was an idiot with big tits. She wasn’t particularly attractive but big udders will always make straight men hard.

She was a dumb MAGA cunt, but come on R247, Suzanne was attractive.

Attractive, but not beautiful.

I agree, not a classic beauty.

John Ritter was a goddamn nepo baby.

I never found her attractive, that ridiculous ponytail made her look mentally retarded.

[quote]R252 I never found her attractive

How dare you?!

She had blonde hair and big tits and was attractive to straight men.

[quote]John Ritter was a goddamn nepo baby.

Such a rare phenomenon in Hollywood, R251. Definitely worth foaming at the mouth over.

I loved Suzanne's test photos for Playboy from back in the day, where she was nothing but a mural of enormous tan lines and bush!

Plus Suzanne had awful legs. Worse than Kristen Stewart’s or CZJ’s.

Hi Joyce @ R257

Here’s her side of it (though I wouldn’t trust her as far as I could throw her)

They Edith Bunkered Chrissy. At the start she looked completely different and her voice was much lower. Wasn't even dumb. She was much, much prettier in a classic sense.

Joyce never lowered herself to getting finger fucked in the Bellagio fountains like that trashy Suzanne!

R261. No, Joyce just got anal behind the Mirage volcano. When that erupted, so did she...

Joyce dropped by Suzanne’s house unannounced to borrow $50.

R263. Suzanne wasn't looking good there. Emmett Kelly applied his makeup with more finesse.

Anyone own this record as a young galling?

OMG - what’s THAT ? ?

r265 That's a comic book, not a record. Records never cost 12 cents.

What is it about her that's so 'off' looking - she's not ugly at all

Joyce was dating an actor named Ray Butkenica (sp?) who allegedly abused her verbally and physically…he was on some lousy CBS sitcom.

R268. I'd say it's her tits.

If Joyce was an assassin, Suzanne would've been dead decades ago R265.

Joyce had hoped to stage a comeback as Bond girl Elektra King in "The World is Not Enough," but in the end the producers opted for Sophie Marceau instead. She said she was devastated when she got the news, but, being a pro and a trouper, still went on to perform in the matinee of "A Streetcar Named Desire," with Ray as Stanley, at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater.

Joyce will host a morning show this Fall called, "Joyce To The World" on the MySpace Network.

r273 Bless her heart

R273. Joyce is starting to look like Lizsha!

Joyce was decidedly more attractive than any of the blond roommates.

But in this pic, she has that weird look on her face. And I prefer her with the raven hair.

I never liked John Ritter, and found him annoying and overrated.

r277 Same

[quote]R276 Joyce was decidedly more attractive than any of the blond roommates.

In her [italic]dreams.[/italic]

Joyce was the one guys would settle for - not anyone’s first choice.

John Ritter looks like he had a lot of makeup on in that photo (R279).

Joyce always reminds me of a yappy dog. Her nervous energy is very offputting.

Imagine having the same hairstyle for 60 years.

Same hairstyle works for me.

R282 I can't type Liza so I'll leave it to the Liza troll to come on and comment.

Schame hairschtyle!

Three'sh Company wash marveloush. I ushed to get high and watch it with Halshton before we went to Shtudio!

I absolutely hated John Ritter until Hooperman. He wasn't bad when he acted like an adult and he had a great supporting cast. Hooperman was a great, underrated show.

Hooperman was a great show that never got the audience it deserved.

I remember when I first saw Barbara Bosson show up as Hooperman's boss, I thought to myself, those lips have tasted pussy.

[quote]Imagine having the same hairstyle for 60 years.

Got a problem with it?

[quote]Imagine having the same hairstyle for 60 years.

Fuck off you piece of shit.

R279 remember the episode where Janet bought a blonde wig and it went to her head, because all the guys began noticing her, so she started acting like a bitch to everyone?

she did look better.

John's hair looks fantastic there--it has much more body and styling than usual! Sorry, blondie, but your ratty wig can't compete.

John just spoke with the voice of a gay 14 year old. That's what was annoying about him.

Joyce realizes now that she still bears a grudge

R289 & r280, hold my beer, cunts…

Amazed this thread gets so many replies!!!

Joyce was a horrible actress - so very schooled and technique-oriented, but couldn't act her way out of a paper bag, as they say.

R298. Fuck you! You obviously never saw my 1995 vehicle "Spring Fling!"! The plot taken from Wikipedia:

Teacher, has taken her class on an excursion in Los Angeles. Problems begin when they get lost and the hotel they were supposed to stay at loses their reservations. After driving around they end up in an empty hotel.

The End, Bitch!

she has surprised Pikachu face.

R298 I disagree.

I stated above that I watched the series for the firs time this year, and I think she's great.

Everyone in the cast was great.

Much better acting than what we see these days, IMO.

Janet's flower shop was a mafia front. She ran hookers and blow out of that place. It's why Chrissy hated her, because Chrissy was too dumb and virginal to work as one of Janet's whores.

Does anybody think that Janet's manic energy of later seasons might have been the consequence of some "performance enhancing drugs"?

That show really must have been an awfully stupid environment to be trapped in all those years. Maybe Joyce disappeared after it ended because her brain rotted.

[quote]Does anybody think that Janet's manic energy of later seasons might have been the consequence of some "performance enhancing drugs"?

Booze and dope!

It was the ‘80s and I am sure she and Ritter were doing coke at least occasionally.