The Lowest-Rated Episode Of Three's Company According To IMDb
By Christopher Ramos
The Season 4 episode "Jack's Bad Boy" doesn't have a truly terrible IMDb rating, coming in at 6.3 out of 10 as rated by 165 users, but it's still the lowest-rated episode of "Three's Company" on IMDb. The plot involves the trio arriving at home only to discover a 12-year-old boy, Billy (Shane Sinutko), is already there. The boy claims he's a homeless orphan just waiting for a friend of his in a different apartment. Jack finds that Billy stole a track trophy from him and rightly perceives him as a liar and a thief. The only trouble is Billy already has Janet and Chrissy wrapped around his finger.
One reason "Jack's Bad Boy" is rated so poorly may be, as pointed out by TV fansite Nostalic Logic, that it appears to be a reworking of an earlier Season 3 episode, "The Crush," which also featured a child manipulating the women against Jack. Either way, it seems like bringing kids and teens into the show didn't work well. Nostalgic Logic similarly rated the episode at the bottom of Season 4. In their review, they wrote, "I'm not sure which kid ends up being more annoying, but this boy (who reveals he's actually filthy rich and just bored) definitely doesn't help this episode's ranking."
