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Last Laugh! Patrick Townsend, Food/Restaurant Critic

Patrick Townson (ptownson@telecom-digest.org)
Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST

One of my favorite actor/comedians was John Ritter, who passed away
about a year ago at a relatively young age. My favorite role of
Mr. Ritter was in his role as 'Jack Tripper' in the 1980's comedy
called "Three's Company". Poor Jack was always getting into odd
situations and mixups, both with his two female roomates and with
his landlord and others. TV-Land replays "Three's Company" a couple
times each night and it is always fun to watch.

I had forgotten about this incident, but in the late 1970's I once
went to a dinner at a relatively fancy place in Chicago called 'Top of
the Rock', a Stouffer's restaurant on the top floor of the Prudential
Building in downtown Chicago with three friends, one of whom was a
television sit-com director from California. I must have said
something funny at the dinner or drinks before dinner, because this
fellow thought it was quite funny and said "I am going to include that
joke in a show I am working on." I thought no more about it at that
time, but a couple years later (when "Three's Company" was first
coming out) he did just what he said and wrote up an episode where a
'noted food critic for the newspapers, etc' by the name of Patrick
Townsend had an encounter with Jack Tripper. There was the usual
misunderstanding (the trademark of Three's Company) where Jack was
fearful that Mr. Townsend was going to write a very bad review of
Tripper's new restaurant, 'Jacks Botique'. Jack and his two female
roomates had to break into and burglarize Mr. Townsend's office to
retrieve a letter of complaint that had accidentally gotten mailed to
the food critic. I always did like that man, and am sorry he passed
away a year or so ago. I was reminded of it when TV-Land decided to
re-run that episode Thursday night. PAT]

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