Punky Power: An Unofficial Punky Brewster Podcast

Happy Sunday Night Everyone, Angela Bowen here, the host of Together, We're Gonna Find Our Way: An Unofficial Silver Spoons Podcast. Today, I'm covering S2E9: Sounds Of Silence, which aired on December 17, 1983. In this episode, Ricky is frustrated by his lack of improvement as a musician in the school orchestra, and after a disastrous humiliation at their concert, he turns to Edward for advice on how to reach his goals. I learned in this episode that: Ricky has been playing the bassoon for a year and still hasn't improved. Derek makes a reading of Peter and the Wolf all about him. Ricky apparently plays football? Since when? Why are we just now learning this and have had no prior evidence supporting Ricky's interest in sports. Edward talks about a time in high school when he was playing quarterback number 4 his coach put him in because the other two back-ups were injured (what are the odds of that?)putting Edward in the game with less than 30 seconds left, he failed to take simple direction from hi