"Father and Son"



I like the more serious moments in this episode, like when Ralph, Richie, and even Potsie talk about their relationships with their fathers.  But I'm marking this down a notch because Richie is tempted by a stewardess and kisses a cake-girl, with no mention of or presumably thought about Lori Beth.

Notes:
  • As I suspected, Grandma Nussbaum is Chachi's grandmother, too.  (So she was Mrs. Fonzarelli earlier?)
  • In the episode where Howard was up for "father of the year," he was not the present Grand Poo Bah, although he'd attained the title in a previous episode, and now he's definitely GPB, lending support to the idea that these episodes air in somewhat random order.
  • Potsie has been waiting eight years to talk over a problem with his father, awww.
  • Richie mentions the time his father comforted him after a basketball game, including the Lifesaver.
  • Joanie sits at the sewing machine briefly but nothing comes of this in the syndicated version I watched today.
  • This time Ron Howard's brother Clint plays the obnoxious Donald "Junior" Hedges.
  • And this time David Ketchum plays Donald Hedges, Sr., for the first of three times.

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