Thread by @cjscalia

Mr. Roper, the landlord on Three’s Company, doesn’t get enough credit for breaking down the fourth wall. Oh sure, he was the show’s heavy, but how his secret smiles endeared him to us!

Here he performs the move that inspired Peter Strozk’s creepy vamping during a congressional hearing.

You’d be smiling, too, if you had a jacket like that.

TFW you subvert generic conventions like a postmodernist with a laugh-track:

“Good news—you’re getting a spin-off!”