While the first two seasons were not in front of an audience and that gives them a touch of authenticity, as well as the show was funny, the show was still delightful and funny when it ventured before the audience, as this episode clearly shows.
I have just now learned the second tough guy was the late Jeff Conaway, which I never knew. Doesn't matter. If he actually spoke, his lines were probably edited out now. But this is the alltime hilarious episode with Richie wanting Fonzie to teach him how to be tough and Richie testing it out on Marion at breakfast the next morning.
It's also the episode with the bit about Joannie flipping Richie all the way home, and Richie doing the 'bong, bong' at the pinball machine.
But above all else, it is the unnamed extra who gets one of the biggest laughs in the episode; when Richie is mad and punching at the restroom stall doors and Fonzie comes in, we see the fellow who was in the stall go racing by to get out of the restroom with the madman.
Who was he? Nobody knows. He made the episode a winner.
For 1970s comedy, I'd give this episode more than ten stars if I could.
I have just now learned the second tough guy was the late Jeff Conaway, which I never knew. Doesn't matter. If he actually spoke, his lines were probably edited out now. But this is the alltime hilarious episode with Richie wanting Fonzie to teach him how to be tough and Richie testing it out on Marion at breakfast the next morning.
It's also the episode with the bit about Joannie flipping Richie all the way home, and Richie doing the 'bong, bong' at the pinball machine.
But above all else, it is the unnamed extra who gets one of the biggest laughs in the episode; when Richie is mad and punching at the restroom stall doors and Fonzie comes in, we see the fellow who was in the stall go racing by to get out of the restroom with the madman.
Who was he? Nobody knows. He made the episode a winner.
For 1970s comedy, I'd give this episode more than ten stars if I could.
