"Live and Learn"

Sigh.  This episode doesn't work, and I suspect that it's not just a low point, as the D+s were last season, but a harbinger of the rest of this season.  On the one hand, Fonzie becoming the Auto Shop teacher is a neat idea, but it's executed poorly and I don't want to see any of these new characters again.

Notes:

• Harris Kal would be back as Bobby in eighteen more episodes, which, yeah, is probably more than all the Chuck Cunninghams put together.  I had absolutely no memory of him until today, when I thought Oh, this guy is coming back, isn't he?  The thing is, I don't know if the character even gets a last name.
• Denis Mandel as Eugene Belvin I do remember, and just the thought of him, and how the series portrays this nerd, has made me cringe for years.  He's actually only in ten episodes, but that's more than enough.
• I don't remember his name, but the extra who combs his crewcut in the early credits is somehow still in high school!  Unless this is his kid brother or something.
• Dan Spector was Burton Fitch before and is Danny here.
• Jenny and Lori Beth are listed as being in this episode, but I didn't see either one.
• Mother Kelp is sick upstairs but I don't know who does the voiceover.  She calls Howard "Herman."
• This feels like it should be the first episode of the season, sort of, even though it's so pathetic, simply because Fonzie has just come back from three weeks in Italy, where he was advising Ferrari and growing a beard.  Then, in the awkward, audience-less tag, he gets his beard shaved in the Cunningham living room, because reasons.