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Social Dimensions, Dramatic Irony, and Fashion in Three's Company

Television -- particularly situation comedy television -- has been designated as everything from "the one-eyed idiot box" to "the scourge of mankind." Had these indignities been truly merited, television would have been relegated to the storage room of failed inventions, somewhere between the electric vegetable peeler and the countless flying contraptions that could never quite become air-borne. The fact remains, though, that television, especially the aforementioned sitcom format, has persisted. Today, all successful sitcoms owe their prosperity to one particularly astute and revolutionary program : Three's Company. Three's Company, which enjoyed a seven-year engagement from 1977 to 1984, boasted a premise which, despite being based on a previously existing British comedy, still managed a remarkable freshness and innovation. To the casual observers, Three's Company was a buoyant, insubstantial program, the sole purpose of which was to instill mirth. For the true observers, though...

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