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The Catered Affair: Directed by Dave Powers. With John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers, Audra Lindley. Jack caters an office party for Chrissy but gets in trouble when some of his chocolate mousse ends up all over the sleazy president's clothes.
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- Dave Powers
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- John Ritter, Joyce Dewitt, Suzanne Somers
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Episode Summary. Chrissy's boss, J.C. Braddock, hires Jack to cater a buffet for the company's Board of Directors. Everything is going well, with the help of the girls and the Ropers, until Jack spots Mr. Penrose the president of the company making a pass at Chrissy.
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The Catered Affair is the sixteenth episode of Season 3 of Three's Company, and the 47th overall episode of the series. Co-written by Al Gordon and Jack Mendelsohn and directed by Dave Powers, it first aired 6 February 1979 on ABC.
When Chrissy's boss, J.C. Braddock asks her to look for a caterer for a party she is throwing at the office, and she recommends Jack. When she tells Jack, he is elated except for the fact he doesn't have enough money. The girls suggest he use the rent money and he can use the money that he will get paid with to pay the rent. So they agree to it.
At the party, Chrissy is being hit on by by a lecherous man. Jack tries to step in and do something as he accidentally slips and the chocolate mousse cake he made winds up on the man's suit! He then learns that the "lecherous man" is Mr. Penrose the President of the firm, also Braddock's senior partner and boss. He refuses to pay Jack and demands Chrissy be fired.
With Chrissy about to lose her job for Jack's accident, J.C. who well knows that Penrose is a creep who regularly makes advances at beautiful women behind his wife's back, she wishes, for Chrissy's sake, that his wife would catch him in the act. So, along with J.C., Jack and Janet decide to set him up.
Mr. Penrose, in promising to allow her to keep her job if she complied, then tries to make a romantic advance towards Chrissy in his backroom office. When she refused, he tries to order J.C. to fire her as she refuses, as it's then revealed the roommates and J.C. worked out the plan to get Chrissy's job back by using Chrissy to lure him by accepting his proposition only to get Mrs. Penrose to catch him red-handed!
•Mr. Penrose is played by Macon McCalman, who in later episodes appears as Roland Wood, Janet's father.
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Feb 6, 1979 · The Catered Affair. Available on Pluto TV. S3 E16: Jack tries to save Chrissy from the advances of her employer. Comedy Feb 6, 1979 19 min. TV-PG. Starring Emmaline Henry, Macon McCalman, Bibi Osterwald.
The Catered Affair. Chrissy nearly loses her job when Jack tries to save her from the lecherous advances of the firm's president. S3E47 20 min
