Joyce DeWitt

Joyce DeWitt plays Janet Wood on Three’s Company, the roommate who keeps the apartment from being only a slammed door. John Ritter’s Jack Tripper pretends what the landlord needs to hear so he can room with Janet and Chrissy; British Man About the House farce Americanized into ABC innuendo. Olympic slapstick, dated wiring, jiggle-era multi-cam craft. DeWitt is the adult in the room, a florist as the floor plan’s conscience. The ABC window is 1977–1984.

DeWitt should be met as Janet Wood at s01e01. A Man About the House imports the British farce title. Ritter already pretends what the landlord needs; Janet and Chrissy complete the roommate math ABC would merchandize as innuendo. Later weather is s05e01: Upstairs, Downstairs, Upstairs is the landlord-tenant building doing vertical farce. Title as floor plan: the series still living on staircase timing more than plot invention. The 1977–1984 ABC window is enough. Here the angle is adult in the room, florist as the farce’s spine.

The wiring dated; Janet did not become a prop. On TV Flash DeWitt is 1970s sitcom craft: a performance that treats the roommate as the hour’s spine, the Wood who made the farce photograph as a household with a job.

Joyce DeWitt will be missed if you chase only the famous bit. DeWitt as Janet Wood keeps Three's Company staffed, filed as 1970s roommate craft, the florist who made the lie a floor plan. Hold s02e01 when the hour still has to turn. Ground Rules is the apartment as a contract. Jiggle-era multi-cam stating its own physics: slammed doors, dated wiring, Olympic slapstick already the actual craft under the leer.