"It Only Hurts When I Smile"

Fonzie's character development of the past seven years goes out the window, as he's infantilized and yet once again still a hood, calling in gang friends when he has to go to a dentist.  Yep, it's another D+ for this season, sigh.

Notes:

• Joanie and Chachi are both almost eighteen.
• Howard remembers Joanie's Junior Chipmunk uniform from when she was twelve.
• It doesn't quite qualify as a subplot, but I was of course more interested in the third (or more) wedding of Jenny's nameless older sister, whose already cheating on her new husband in the tag.
• Fonzie comments on Gilligan's Island, which would presumably put this into late '64 at the earliest, which is unlikely, especially since "It's Mashed Potato Time," by Dee Dee Sharp, from '62 is playing at Arnold's.
• Lori Beth is still working as a waitress at Arnold's, where her uniform earns a mild wolf whistle from the studio audience.  She mentions being engaged to Richie.
• Fonzie's shark-jump and some other stunts are mentioned, more than once, which sounds a bit desperate, although points for continuity I guess.
• Barbara Treutelaar is Lois here and would be Andrea later in the year.
• Warren Berlinger's final HD role is arguably his most sympathetic, as Dr. Logan, the pediatric dentist.