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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 438242" data-attributes="member: 23">Most of the first season episodes appear to be adaptions of the original Cooke/Mortimer storylines, so I&#039;d guess this might be a significant factor.While I&#039;ve never watched Three&#039;s Company,&nbsp; I have viewed a couple of videos directly comparing early episodes. Most of the original Man About The House script made it across intact. At that point, the US writers&#039; main role seemed to be changing a word, phrase or name here and there and softening a couple of risqué or coarse lines to make it more identifiable for the different audience.Here&#039;s one comparing In Praise Of Older Men/Chrissy&#039;s Date:
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It&#039;s notable that the girls&#039; roles are switched in the episode. In the British version, blonde Jo is the ditzy one, but she&#039;s still smart enough for the roles to be switched in translation, with Janet getting Jo&#039;s lines, and US-Chrissy getting the lines of British-Chrissy (the smart, brunette).MATH&nbsp; was never art, but the series and its characters did remain endearing and watchable to the end (and - to a degree - beyond, including the spinoffs).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 438242, member: 23"] Most of the first season episodes appear to be adaptions of the original Cooke/Mortimer storylines, so I'd guess this might be a significant factor. While I've never watched [I]Three's Company,[/I] I have viewed a couple of videos directly comparing early episodes. Most of the original[I] Man About The House[/I] script made it across intact. At that point, the US writers' main role seemed to be changing a word, phrase or name here and there and softening a couple of risqué or coarse lines to make it more identifiable for the different audience. Here's one comparing[I] In Praise Of Older Men/Chrissy's Date:[/I] [CENTER] [MEDIA=youtube]dHGm6dJGQ8Y[/MEDIA] [/CENTER] It's notable that the girls' roles are switched in the episode. In the British version, blonde Jo is the ditzy one, but she's still smart enough for the roles to be switched in translation, with Janet getting Jo's lines, and US-Chrissy getting the lines of British-Chrissy (the smart, brunette). [I]MATH[/I] was never art, but the series and its characters did remain endearing and watchable to the end (and - to a degree - beyond, including the spinoffs). [/QUOTE]

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