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The Loan Shark is the tenth episode of season four of Three's Company and the 63rd overall episode of the series. Written by Mark Tuttle and directed by Dave Powers, it first aired 20 November 1979 on ABC.

Summary[]

Chrissy misplaces the mail which included a G.I. Bill check addressed to Jack that he needs to pay his cooking school tuition. Jack is angry so Chrissy borrows the money from someone at work told her about who's a loan shark named Bernie Bustamente (Harold J. Stone). Jack tries to return the money but Mr. Bustamente tells him he'll have to pay the interest anyway. After the "shark" learns that Jack is a chef, he offers to trade the interest owed for cooking lessons for his wife.

The wife, Lucia Bustamente, is a young, beautiful, woman who, as Janet, who knows some Italian, interprets, wants Jack more than she wants to learn to cook. Jack runs to Furley's apartment to prepare the food and leaves the wife in Chrissy's care. The "shark" arrives just in tine to see his wife kissing Jack. The wife saves the day by telling her husband that she was only kissing Jack to congratulate him because he and Chrissy are expecting a baby.

Trivia[]

  • Richard Kline (Larry) is credited, but does not appear.

Quotes[]

  • Jack: What about the cooking? What about Mister Bustamente?
    Lucia Bustamente: Mister Bustamente's a big doomb toorkey!
    Jack: Isn't that interesting how some Italian words sound exactly like English.

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