"Smokin' Ain't Cool"

The title gives the message of the episode and of Fonzie.  I really enjoyed seeing more of Richie playing big brother with Joanie, and the reactions of their parents when they think he's the smoker, so B-.

Notes:

• Joanie has joined the Magnets, who were fairly prominent in the first two or three seasons of the show.
• This episode (the first of 1979) is presumably set in early '61, before the famous surgeon general's report, although the dangers of smoking were already becoming better known than they were in the '50s.
• Mother Kelp smokes, cigars.
• We see Joanie's room again, and Fonzie sees it for the first time.
• Is it a little weird that he describes Joanie as "his Number One chick"?  Or that Richie calls her "a shapely child"?  It doesn't quite come off as creepy.
• Potsie is very naïve (especially for a 19-year-old) about reproduction, of not only chinchillas but of Cunninghams.
• Joanie gets Richie's "18-year-old speech" although she's only a high school junior, because girls mature faster.
• Michael Dudikoff is Jim here and would later play Jason.
• Michael Loman had three more HD scripts in him that season, and then that would be it.