DTF955
07-11-2008, 10:50 AM
I dont' recall (wow, it's been a long time) about Howard's military career, except he had a buddy who was black in one episode. But, I was just thinking about character ages, and wondering if Joanie's is a blooper.
Checked her Sweet 16 episode...okay, October 1978, so if we assume the show takes place 20 years earlier, as it always tried to do, that means she was conceived in late January of 1942, over a month after Pearl harbor. (Yes, given my Full House Chronology, I will readily accept the episode could "take place* earlier" and thus have her conceived in mid-December and born in mid-September. That's probably the best explanation.
I know Mr. C. could have just taken longer to be drafted, or not enlisted right away, but you'd think they'd have made mention of that somewhere. Or maybe they did, and I just enver saw it or don't remember it. All I remember is Howard saying Joanie's first word was "hardware" and he couldn't have heard her say that if he was at a mlitary base somewhere. (Though Mrs. C. could have told him that to make him feel better not being there.)
Speaking of which...
The kind of backstory I'm thinking of is like how my grandparents conceived my mom on their wedding night or soon after; my grandma took a train down to where my grandpa was stationed, they had their wedding, and she stayed near there a couple weeks.
That, by the way, brings up another funny story that would have been a cool story or even flashback for "Happy Days." See, my grandpa never went overseas since he got pleurisy, but he did get stationed in Georgia for a while before he was discharged. Soon after my mother was born, he wanted to go up and see his wife and new daughter...so he went AWOL for a week and a buddy covered for him. When he got back nobody had noticed he was gone; he was just like all the other recruits to the guys in charge. His buddy hadn't even had to make any excuses about where he was, then. (He wound up being honorably discharged a few months later.)
That would have made a great story for Howard; showing a little bit of "wild side" in him, yet how he, like Richie, is kind of "hum drum" at times, so nobody notices him.
Of course, a more logical backstory, with Joanie being conceived after America went into war, would have been Howard and Marion sharing one last romantic night before he goes off to enlist...and a few months later Marion calls and says what the result of that one last night was. ;)
Feel free to use either of those in fanfiction, anyone. :)
Checked her Sweet 16 episode...okay, October 1978, so if we assume the show takes place 20 years earlier, as it always tried to do, that means she was conceived in late January of 1942, over a month after Pearl harbor. (Yes, given my Full House Chronology, I will readily accept the episode could "take place* earlier" and thus have her conceived in mid-December and born in mid-September. That's probably the best explanation.
I know Mr. C. could have just taken longer to be drafted, or not enlisted right away, but you'd think they'd have made mention of that somewhere. Or maybe they did, and I just enver saw it or don't remember it. All I remember is Howard saying Joanie's first word was "hardware" and he couldn't have heard her say that if he was at a mlitary base somewhere. (Though Mrs. C. could have told him that to make him feel better not being there.)
Speaking of which...
The kind of backstory I'm thinking of is like how my grandparents conceived my mom on their wedding night or soon after; my grandma took a train down to where my grandpa was stationed, they had their wedding, and she stayed near there a couple weeks.
That, by the way, brings up another funny story that would have been a cool story or even flashback for "Happy Days." See, my grandpa never went overseas since he got pleurisy, but he did get stationed in Georgia for a while before he was discharged. Soon after my mother was born, he wanted to go up and see his wife and new daughter...so he went AWOL for a week and a buddy covered for him. When he got back nobody had noticed he was gone; he was just like all the other recruits to the guys in charge. His buddy hadn't even had to make any excuses about where he was, then. (He wound up being honorably discharged a few months later.)
That would have made a great story for Howard; showing a little bit of "wild side" in him, yet how he, like Richie, is kind of "hum drum" at times, so nobody notices him.
Of course, a more logical backstory, with Joanie being conceived after America went into war, would have been Howard and Marion sharing one last romantic night before he goes off to enlist...and a few months later Marion calls and says what the result of that one last night was. ;)
Feel free to use either of those in fanfiction, anyone. :)