"The Sixth Sense"




I'm not really sure what the point of this episode, where Fonzie suspects the right guy for the wrong reasons, is, but I sort of like the "teenage break-in" scene, so C.

Notes:
  • Apparently nobody remembers from (I think) the second anniversary show that Fonzie's birthday is in January, so Marion has to get Grandma Nussbaum drunk, offscreen, to get the info.
  • I don't know if Jenny has a crush on Fonzie or if he's more of an abstract stud to her.
  • They don't address what Chachi overheard while stuck in Fonzie's closet while Fonzie had a date in his apartment all night, but the mind boggles.
  • There's a moment when Fonzie seems to want Roger to be his conscience, as Richie used to be, but then he doesn't, and Roger ends up having to admit he was wrong about Fonzie being wrong.  The dynamic here is different and less interesting than that between the two friends.
  • Speaking of absent redheads, Lori Beth refers to Ralph's trick birthday candles, which are indeed used on the cake.  Did he leave them to his roomie Potsie after he got drafted?
  • This is definitely not the first time that Fonzie's bike has been damaged (offscreen as always), but this time Chachi wants to get him a new one, since it was showing its age anyway.

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