Happy Days (TV Series) Richie Moves Out (1974) User Reviews

True To Life

[sambase-38773 · 8/10 · 14 January 2022]

This is one of the better Happy Days episodes and is very true to life. Got plans? Guess what! Your plans are going to get screwed up by everybody else! Welcome to life, baby!

Richie wants his own place so he can make-out with his girlfriend. Sounds like an all-American teenager to me! His Mom is against it. His dad thinks it's a good idea, that it will likely teach him an important lesson. Right you are, Dad! Then his brother, Chuck, invites him to move in with him. Yay! A place to live! Hold on there, young man. Wait until you see what it looks like.

So Richie movies in with his brother a small, messy, depressing place, and everything is totally screwed up. Richie goes to bed to try and get some sleep, but Chuck has to practice bouncing a basketball because he's a basketball player. Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce. Ever try to sleep when somebody is bouncing a basketball just a few feet away from your head? Yeah. Good luck.

And of course Richie's friends all want in on the action. THEY want to use his place, too. What?! Yep. And that's the way it goes, round and round she goes, where she stops nobody knows....

This is a very good episode. Very true to life as I said and very funny.

QUOTE: "A good night's sleep will fix you right up." -Chuck, speaking to Richie.

QUOTE: "I do not want my son picking up stranger's dirty dishes." Mrs. Cunningham, hearing that Richie might get a job as a bus boy.

QUOTE: "The story of my life is kissing at the door." -Richie.

Bye Bye Chuck

[zsenorsock · 4/10 · 23 June 2015]

This is a fairly painful episode to watch and gives you a pretty good idea why they decided to lose the "Chuck" character.

Richie keeps getting interrupted in his necking sessions with his girlfriend, the gum chewing yet very sexy Linda Purl. So he decides to move out of the house and in a garage apartment with his unfunny basketball playing brother Chuck (or Chuck #2 if you prefer). Richie has to take a job at Arnold's to pay his half of the rent, he has to sleep on a sofa bed and in echos of "The Apartment" he has to lend his place to Ralph, Potsie, even the Fonz. He never seems to have time for his own girlfriend! Everything seems very forced in this episode and the new Chuck is no better than the old Chuck. Never is the issue of a high school kid moving out into his own place ever discussed. Fonzie needing a place to make out seems completely wrong and it becomes obvious that the producers switched the order of the episodes when the very next one features Richie's first date and first kiss with the Linda Purl character.

A big misfire to the start of season two.