"Fearless Malph"
The writing is a little weak on this episode, so a C. It is notable that Joanie has her driver's license and that, when a tornado threatens Milwaukee, Potsie wants to warn everyone at the Pizza Bowl, but doesn't.
"The Other Richie Cunningham"
Easily the worst episode so far, a D in fact, and that's only because I liked "the Potsie Club" part and the episode starts out with a standard plot, used on The Brady Bunch and Three's Company among others, where someone can't go on a blind date and he (it's usually a guy) gets a friend to pretend to be him. Potsie hits it off with the girl, who of course (another trope here) is not the expected "dog," but then (offscreen) he attacks her and rips her dress as she tries to escape! Then she has to hitchhike back to the hotel where she and her parents are staying. And there are lots of jokes about men being "animals," as if attempted date rape is funny. Even Joanie being voyeuristic, which is weird enough with Richie pranking her by telling an imaginary date that his sister would want to watch, gets even more twisted. And to top it off, Fonzie, the "expert on women," says women aren't real people and they expect a guy to ...
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