Reliving Happy Days

The story has potential but the execution is weak.  Putting Fonzie on a God-like level is too much, and it irritated me that, one, it's so hard for anyone to see that he might be wrong, and two, they start the running joke that he can't even pronounce the words "I was wrong."  I did like Howard's continued annoyance with Potsie, and Richie telling Fonzie off.  So I'm going with a C. A few thoughts: Amy Irving again plays Olivia, who doesn't like Ralph's sense of humor and yet finds the new girl Sheila hilarious when doing similar gags. Suddenly, the timeline makes sense, with Fonzie doing Christmas cards, on an episode that aired on December 16th. According to IMDB, Arthur Godfrey was a pretty controversial figure by the late '50s, although maybe Ralph has been working on his impression for years. His remark that 14-year-old Joanie will be a grown woman when he returns from the Marines is a bit creepy, and it will have an extra spin when he returns...

This is more heavy-handed than the episode where Howard is best man to a Negro he's been friends with since The War, although they mean well here of course.  I'm going with C+. Other thoughts: I may be reading into this, but I think I glimpsed the beginnings of Joanie's crush on Potsie, when she asks him to limbo.  But, yeah, usually she makes fun of him and of course tells him to sit on it. The celebration of Hawaii's 1959 statehood of course further mucks up the timeline. This is Bag's last appearance until '77 and he turns out to be racist, or at least have racist parents. Arnold's parents live in Miami. Kathy O'Dare was Mary Lou Milligan before and is Lois here. John-Anthony Bailey AKA Jack Baker would return as Sticks, the new drummer, the next year, and I honestly thought he was in more episodes.  Sadly, he would die in 1994 at age 47, after an eclectic career that ranged from Wonderbug to what sounds like a lot of porn in middle age, e.g. Afro Ero...