"They Call It Potsie Love"



This is one I sort of remember, if not from the time, when I was seven, then certainly from the early years of syndication.  It did make me a bit of a Potsie/Joanie shipper (I think of this as the "Dren" episode), although he's right that by the time she's 19 and he's 22 (or whatever), she'll be long over him.  I was leaning towards a B-, but the tag with Joanie and Marion (and briefly Howard) is a little gem, so I'm going with a B.

A few other notes:
  • It's now Winter and Joanie is fourteen and three-quarters, because the timeline wants to drive me mad.
  • Richie plays the drums and the saxophone, in one song!
  • It's just the core cast this week, but that allows the basic dynamic to play out more purely, including Richie proving himself (as he did on the episode where Howard had a midlife crisis) to be a good, supportive big brother to Joanie.
  • The wedding dream is possibly weirder than intended, although even in Joanie's dreams, Howard can't stand Potsie.

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