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| Cathy Silvers and Crystal Bernard on Happy Days. |
"I got up the other day," said comic Steven Wright, "and everything in my apartment had been stolen and replaced with an exact replica."
Viewers might experience that same unsettling feeling of déjà vu while watching Season 10 of Happy Days. By that point in the sitcom's long history, several of its major characters had departed and been replaced by eerie doppelgangers. Let's see now. We had a fake Richie (Ted McGinley as Roger), a fake Chachi (Billy Warlock as Flip), and, starting with the episode "A Night at the Circus" in October 1982, a fake Joanie (Crystal Bernard as K.C. Cunningham). That last switcheroo was especially disorienting, since actress Crystal Bernard had already played another, quite similar character named Mikki just a few episodes previously. Maybe the show was giving her a trial run and she passed.
This week on These Days Are Ours: A Happy Days Podcast, we're reviewing "A Night at the Circus," the episode that introduces us to K.C. Cunningham, Howard's plucky niece. Does she live up to the high standards set by Erin Moran? Listen and find out! (Oh, and Fonzie gets into a fight with some clowns. It's a whole thing.)