"Kiss Me Sickly"

The basic premise is problematic from a sex-pol perspective and just in terms of character, but I did laugh (especially at Joanie) and there are some interesting character moments nonetheless.  If we buy that very non-monogamous Fonzie would ask Richie to look after his "girl" (Laurette Spang, this time as Denise Hudson) while he's away for a week, and Richie for once doesn't do the honorable thing but instead necks repeatedly with said girl at Inspiration Point, thus risking getting mono, then, yeah, OK, it's interesting to see how it plays out.

Notes:

• This is probably the true debut of voyeuristic!Joanie, as she would rather watch Richie and Denise kissing than My Little Margie (which left the air in 1955).  She's not even disgusted by her parents kissing in the kitchen, like you'd expect from a 12-year-old, of any era.
  
• Richard Kuller is a nameless Kid (presumably the guy who has to use the men's room) and previously played Charlie.
• Didi Conn, here as Denise's friend Joyce, would of course look very '50s as Frenchie in Grease, and for that matter in Grease 2.  (And she'd do the voice of Cupcake on the cartoon The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang in the early '80s.)
• Howard Storm would later direct Laverne & Shirley and Mork & Mindy, among other shows, but this is the last of only four writing credits, all from the mid-'70s, while his writing partner Paul Lichtman would do one more.  Perhaps that explains the oddities of this script.