Professor Jack is the fourth episode of Season 6 of Three's Company, and the 104th overall episode of the series. Written by Laura Levine and directed by Dave Powers, it first aired 27 October 1981 on ABC.
Summary[]
To help Jack earn some extra money, Janet arranges for him to teach the wife of someone she knows, a Mrs. Joanna Latham, how to cook. When Terri comes home from work at the hospital, she sees Mrs. Latham coming out of the bathroom, changing back into her clothes after "freshening up," as Mrs. Latham then tells her that Jack is "teaching her lessons," and she mistakenly assumes Jack is giving her sex lessons!
Terri, flabbergasted at the prospect that Jack is giving paid "love lessons," informs him and Janet that she's moving out. She then brings one of the doctors from the hospital, Dr. Anderson who wants to rent an apartment for his niece.
Jack and Janet assume that the man is going to "keep" Terri as as mistress at the newly vacant apartment! So, when the Dr. Anderson returns again the next day, after Jack finished giving another cooking lesson to Mrs. Latham, Jack and Janet try to come up with a plan to stop Terri from moving in what they thought was the doctor's "love nest!"
Meanwhile, when Mr. Latham shows up just to simply observe Jack's cooking lessons. Terri, still in the dark about the nature of the "lessons," talks to him and when he says he's there "to watch" she freaks out, and dumps on him a spaghetti-and-meatball dish that Jack helped Mrs. Latham prepare!
As for Dr. Anderson, when Janet, who along with Jack, is still in the dark as to why he would want to rent an apartment for whom they think is Terri, has a little talk with Terri, she, still thinking that she is having an affair with Dr. Anderson, whom she was trying to help decide which color paint was best to paint the new apartment, decides that "green is much better than blue" as she douses him with a can of green paint that he and Terri bought!
Finally, the whole misunderstanding about Jack's lessons and Dr. Anderson's renting an apartment for what turned out to be his niece is cleared up, as everyone laughs, except for Jack, now embarrassed that everyone was amused at the prospect of Jack being a paid gigolo!
Trivia[]
- When Terri introduces Dr. Anderson, Jack says, "What's up, doc?" the catchphrase of Bugs Bunny.