"You Go to My Head"

I have to give this episode a C because of how it handles mental illness and because Fonzie gives terrible advice and then Richie's parents wonder if he makes house calls.  Still there were things I liked, such as (something I remember from before) Richie experiencing Middle Child Syndrome, although it does feel odd that Howard is proud of absent Chuck #3's basketball skill, since he never was proud of Chuck #2 for anything.  If I recall correctly, this is the first time we see Ralph in Richie's bedroom and the two redheads have a semi-serious conversation, despite Ralph's jokes.

This time Christina Hart's Carole Actman character is an "intellectual" and Richie just weirds her out.  Note that James Dean is referred to in the present tense, but maybe this is set before his death on September 30, 1955.  Also, Richie is seventeen again.  This is the only episode Jerry London directed, although he'd done some for The Brady Bunch and The Bob Newhart Show, among others.