2 things about happy days: I always thought happy days blew a great opportunity in the finale to bring back Chuck. The show ended with a wedding , (I believe Joanie and Chachi got married?). I thought Chuck (both of them would have been even better!) should have appeared as one of the guests at the wedding, with Howard or Marion yelling over to him "hey Chuck where have you been?" That'd have been a Newhart-lite finale moment. As I was watching that episode when it first aired, I had convinced myself he was gonna show up. I still think that would have been great.
And the other thing I would point out is that I am a huge fan of the Odd Couple, the best sitcom of all time in my humble opinion, and if you search for inconsistencies on that show, it would fill out a week of your substacks! However, I once saw an interview with Gary Marshall where he said "consistency is for suckers." He didn't care about that at all, he just wanted things to be funny. So, the inconsistencies in the Odd Couple--there are at least 4 origin stories for how Felix and Oscar first met-- have never ruined the show for me.
Funny you bring up The Odd Couple. I was considering bringing up exactly those multiple Felix/Oscar stories, but it was running long so I decided to leave that out. And I agree, Odd Couple was funny enough that it never bothered me.
2 things about happy days: I always thought happy days blew a great opportunity in the finale to bring back Chuck. The show ended with a wedding , (I believe Joanie and Chachi got married?). I thought Chuck (both of them would have been even better!) should have appeared as one of the guests at the wedding, with Howard or Marion yelling over to him "hey Chuck where have you been?" That'd have been a Newhart-lite finale moment. As I was watching that episode when it first aired, I had convinced myself he was gonna show up. I still think that would have been great.
And the other thing I would point out is that I am a huge fan of the Odd Couple, the best sitcom of all time in my humble opinion, and if you search for inconsistencies on that show, it would fill out a week of your substacks! However, I once saw an interview with Gary Marshall where he said "consistency is for suckers." He didn't care about that at all, he just wanted things to be funny. So, the inconsistencies in the Odd Couple--there are at least 4 origin stories for how Felix and Oscar first met-- have never ruined the show for me.
Funny you bring up The Odd Couple. I was considering bringing up exactly those multiple Felix/Oscar stories, but it was running long so I decided to leave that out. And I agree, Odd Couple was funny enough that it never bothered me.