Quick question for connoisseurs of bad late-in-the-run television intros. Which Garry Marshall/Paramount/Miller-Boyett sitcom had the more depressing intro in the 1982-83 season?
Quick question for connoisseurs of bad late-in-the-run television intros. Which Garry Marshall/Paramount/Miller-Boyett sitcom had the more depressing intro in the 1982-83 season?
Was it Happy Days, the show that literally invented shark-jumping, with its intro for the season when Joanie and Chachi had left for their short-lived spinoff (Richie and Ralph, of course, had been gone for years) and a bunch of new characters had been introduced including: A spunky single mother for Fonzie to date, her cute daughter played by the late Heather O’Rourke, a guy named Flip with ’80s hair and a bare midriff, and a teenage girl played by a young Crystal Bernard, not to mention the already-there Ted McGinley? The cast was so bad that year that Anson Williams got third billing just by default.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDKC_reGEBw
Or was it Laverne and Shirley, with the same title but without Shirley, and — in most episodes, and in the credits — without Lenny? (Is there a sadder shot than Squiggy at the jukebox alone?)
Tough choice. Tough, tough choice.