Phoning It In- Chrissy Gets Phased Out Of Three's Company

Not sure how accurate this is...

The show became nothing without her. She really was worth what Ritter was getting. But I have to admit I'm not a Ritter fan. He was such a silly jerk you really wanted to punch him out.

I never cared for Ritter, I always got a sleazy vibe from him.

Joyce DeWitt is so hammy and over the top that she makes Bonnie Franklin seem restrained.

This was so hard to get through.

Chrissy became increasingly stupid throughout the series, and by the time the character was relegated to brief phone calls, she exhibited such a level of mental retardation that she belonged in a group home where she could get help with basic needs like eating and toileting.

I watched it twice.

All three should have been equally. It's been said that Ritter had a clause in his contract where he would always make X% more than his two costars, so if they got a raise, then so would he. This show was very sexist, in front of the cameras and behind the cameras.

R2 the ratings were still solid until the very last season. And John won a Emmy for it after it ended. I think they did the best they could casting Priscilla to replace Suzanne, but the dynamic wasn’t the same. But to say the show was nothing without her is just not true. It didn’t completely collapse without Suzanne. Suzanne regretted the way it was handled the rest of her life. They were never going to give her what she wanted. Not even close. But she ended up laughing all the way to the bank in her future endeavors. Something none of the rest of them could do.

That show was complete shit without her.

[quote]That show was complete shit...period.

Fixed it for you, r7.

Suzanne and Joyce reunited after 30 years on Suzanne's talk show.

It was her first series, no?

She signed the contract she signed

r10 We don't end sentences in this manner, no?

You're not fond of reading/watching/comprehending, are you?

When a door closes a window opens... If she'd stayed on the show she would've just aged-out of showbiz, and become another broke, faded sitcom actor.

It was the late70s/early 80s - no woman was worth a man!

[quote] she exhibited such a level of mental retardation that she belonged in a group home where she could get help with basic needs like eating and toileting.

That would have made for a great spinoff. (OK, maybe not, but it still would have been better than "The Ropers.")

R11, I'm not?

Are you?

Who is?

I don't think the firing affected her career at all, other than maybe the embarrassment that comes with being publicly fired.

Her next sitcom after Three's Company was "She's the Sheriff". Though it didn't last very long, a few years later, she was cast on the long running sitcom "Step by Step", which was popular with kids. She remained close with her co-star Patrick Duffy until her death.

In the late 80s, she wrote an autobiographical book, Keeping Secrets, and then played herself in a TV movie based on the book. She went on to write about 25 books, mostly about health tips, Many of them were bestsellers.

What made her rich was the Thigh master gig in the 90s and then getting the rights to the device. Who would have guessed it would become as huge at it did. By then, Three's Company was over (for all the actors).