"Hardware Jungle"






Yeah, another B-.  Here, on the February 12th episode, we see more of Richie's integrity, and Potsie isn't just the Eddie-Haskell-like corrupter of the innocent.

Notes:
  • Howard seems awfully old to be getting his tonsils out, but OK.
  • On the other hand, Joanie seems really young for a (I'm guessing) twelve-year-old, the way she dresses and her reference to Show & Tell.
  • Richie is somehow going steady with Arlene Hofstedter (not to be confused with the using-him-for-his-television Arlene Nestrock), a girl we've never met or heard of before.
  • We get a glimpse of Howard's hardware store, which is smaller than I pictured.
  • So far, we know that Ralph's father has mannequins in his place of business, while Potsie's father won some sort of award for clean restrooms.  I'm pretty sure these will both be retconned.  (Wasn't Ralph's father a dentist later?)
  • Ralph is cracking jokes with fellow redheaded cutup Trudy (Tita Bell again).
  • Marion has an alcoholic Grandma Bruner (sp?).
  • Richie has borrowed on his allowance until 1959, making this '57?
  • Robert Casper is the Customer here and would be Orville later (as well as Max Gruber on Laverne & Shirley).
  • Richard Doran is Bert here and would be a nameless Kid later.
  • Michael Leeson would write three more episodes, Frank Buxton two more.

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