I was watching it with my boyfriend last night and he surprised me by saying "Potsie shouldve got more girls. He was cute. He was The Singer...."
I have always thought Potsie shouldve had better luck with the ladies (at least better than Richie and Ralph)
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It was Potsie's airhead personality that hindered him. Jennifer really cared for him. The actors were married in real life.
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Once Potsie and Jennifer hooked up as Happy Days' rendition of Donny and Marie, I know this sucker was in the shark tank.
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Lori Beth may not have looked as good as Jennifer but it was Jennifer who didn't last on the series.
As for Potsie....1950s girls
(or any for that matter) do not want to date a guy who :
1. Calls himself by an elementary school nick-name.
2. Has a dorkier personality than Pat Boone.
3. Went from being just a goofball to an absolute moron.
4. Over 5 years after graduating
High School,is still hanging around the local teen hangout.
5. Is in his mid-20s,out of college & still hasn't found a profession and yammers on & on about how his dad treats him.
(I thought James Darren should have played his dad.)
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I couldn't figure out why they made Potsie dumber as the show went on, it seemed like the actor deserved better. Plus Anson Williams seemed like a talented singer. Potsie actually seemed far more put together as a person in the early years then the later years. It made no sense and I would have rather seen Potsie mature and grow up as the show went on instead of being the show's permanent idiot character.
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While i don;t like favorite characters leaving a show,
I think he should have left in '80 with the guys or elese by the end of
the '80-'81 season. Maybe have Warren get married by reuniting with Jennifer.
He's a fair singer,nothing spectacular but he and Donny Most both did albums,neither of which scored them any hits. I do have a 45 picture sleeve of Anson's sigle,still looking for the actual record.
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Many sitcom stars of years passed received recording contracts. It helped to advertise the shows.
shareYep.
Like Shelley Fabres & Paul Peterson from "The Donna Reed Show" (1958-1965)
In 1962,Shelley had the big #1 hit
"Johnny Angel" (2 weeks and the follow up "Johnny Loves Me" #21,
1962 also,Paul had two top 40 hits
"She Can't Find Her Keys" #19 & "My Dad" #6 (in early 1963)
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Scott Baio, David Soul, Leif Garrett, David Cassidy, Shaun Cassidy, Jack Wganer, etc...
shareDavid Soul got very lucky with his one and only hit "Don't Give Up On Us" (#1 for one week in Spring of 1977).
I own the self-titled album it came from and it's like John Denver only not as deep or engaging.
As for Jack Wagner,my high school peers & I had no end of fun,making fun of that guy!
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To each their own, I don't believe either would win a Grammy but they weren't as bad as some of what's out there. Anyway, their TV status helped them to get recording contracts. It adds to the advertisement of their shows.
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Potsie 'mutated' for several reasons
Early on he was actually 'the cool one' of the 3 boys
-- as Fonzie took over the show he became Ralph's sidekick so he slowly became dumber than Ralph
Then when Richie and Ralph where gone they needed excuses to keep him around
-- so he was given a crappy home life to explain why he was still dropping in on the Cunninghams
above all of this you also have the issue of Williams apparently asking his Fans (or at least the ones who wrote him letters) to write the show and ask for Potsie to be allowed to sing more...
-- odds are more than a few writers saw this as kind of a d!(K move and once they figured it out they decided to punish him by making him less and less cool
Did Anson Williams really ask fans to write the show and request that Postie would sing more?
shareI think it was Ron Howard who said that Potsie, originally, was meant to be a sort of older and wiser character for Richie to look up to. Then, as Fonzie began to get more and more popular and take on that role, they had to do something with Potsie. Since his previous position no longer made sense, they appear to have decided to make him into more of a comic relief character (often paired with Ralph), which I always thought was a shame.
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Anson Williams did okay in real life. He was married and had a daughter with Lorrie Mahaffey, the actress who played Potsie's girlfriend Jennifer Jerome.
sharePotsie was pretty much Richie's sidekick. And sidekicks don't usually get as many dates as main characters. After a couple seasons the writers turned Potsie into a real dope. Maybe that was why he was not more popular with girls.
shareThat happens on TV. By the fifth season of "The Brady Bunch" Jan was prettier than Marcia, but Jan had no dates. It didn't make much sense. I guess the writers deemed Jan the homely sister, which was very far from the truth.
share And in the Hawaii episode you could see Jan had the better rack.
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Potsie also should have been in the final episode.
shareWhat if........ Potsie had hooked up with Joanie when she got older..... she did have a crush on him once.
shareThat was a good episode! And that could have been a nice ending to the show, although the Chachi and Joanie wedding was very nice too.
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