I don’t understand what happened to Chachi.

I mean, he started out so cool. Little brother to the Fonz!

This was a guy that jumped over sharks on waterskis, fer chrissakes.

So how was it that he went on to the ill-fated romance with Joanie. WTF?!?!!!

(I wish I had this copy of Teen Beat… Van Halen, Styx, Rick Springfield, the Go-Go’s, Joan Jett, and Journey! That is like a wet dream for me.)

Anyway, he coulda got with Leather Tuscadero instead!

But maybe his heyday was Charles in Charge.

Does everybody remember the oldest daughter, Jamie Powell?

Here he is looking like he’s about to take charge of her!

Okay, I have to admit that my perverted adolescent mind wanted to be in charge of her, too. She was played by Nicole Eggert, who later went on to tear up the surf on Baywatch.

Nice shorts, babe. I should buy a pair of those for the wife!

Of course, this show saw him paired up with Eight is Enough’s own Willie Ames — possibly one of the greatest and short-lived comedy duos in history.

Who can forget that jokester Buddy Lembeck?

(Nice feathered hair on the babe on the right, huh?)

These two also starred together in one of the best 80s teenage boner flicks ever, Zapped!

Chachi played teenage whiz kid Barney Springboro.

By the way, Zapped! also featured one of the all-time greatest geeks in movie history, Eddie Deezen. He is one of my true heroes.

Chachi had this science accident that gave him amazing Jedi-powers, which he used to make Heather Thomas’ sweater pop open.

Now that was AWESOME!

And that was before Heather went on to star in the classic TV hit The Fall Guy, along side the Bionic Man (who played badass Colt Seavers).

She is not to be confused with the other hot Heather of the 80s, Heather Locklear, who kicked butt with Captain Kirk in TJ Hooker.

Now if anyone is offended by all of this you have to remember what I was talking about, which is Barney using his super-powers to make the buttons on Heather’s sweater pop open.

You see, you need to understand that the sight of cleavage immediately renders all teenage boys and men TOTALLY WEAK AND HELPLESS.

This is a fact as old as time itself.

Anyway, I’m afraid Chachi wound up on one of those VH1 “Where Are They Now?” specials with some other washed up deadbeat celebrity from my childhood. Chachi, what happened to you, man?

Now how ’bout some music? I got a strange mix for you today…

RIAA, Birds

Willie Nelson, Devil In A Sleepin’ Bag

Madeline Peyroux, Careless Love

Tommy Guerrero (of the Bones Brigade!), War No More

Aretha Franklin, Drown In My Own Tears

Johnny Cash, Tennessee Flat Top Box

The Minutemen, History Lesson, Pt. 2

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