Miss the old days when I was a kid and my parents watching this…. Miss them❤

It's amazing how at a young age I watched "Happy Days" to watch The Fonz; this very short, skinny man with a baby face who I believed epitomized what is was to be masculine. Henry Winkler did an awesome job showing the audience what a real man was through The Fonz noble character who defended the weak and innocent. Thank you for giving me a role model to follow

@Synistercrayon

29 күн бұрын

The streets cleared out when happy days came on

@hotatp

29 күн бұрын

The show wouldn’t have survived without the Fonz, they even wanted to change the name to Fonzie’s happy days, but he said “no, Richie’s the star of the show”

@animaldawg

29 күн бұрын

Yea, really noble. A grown man that went around picking up high school girls😊

@notapplicable-zn9us

29 күн бұрын

@@animaldawg I guess the Fonz was around 19 or 20; 21 the most. Still, you made the point.

@lunch2102

28 күн бұрын

Yah know, I've never noticed how short he was until you said something, Happy Days was a little before my time but I've still seen a fair few reruns over the years, just never picked up on it

Funny how this show was set in the fifties, A couple seasons in everybody had long hair like it was a 70s.

@trueknowledgeispower

29 күн бұрын

....it transitioned to the 1960's if you had watched the series when it originally aired.

@JimCutler

29 күн бұрын

Same thing happened with MASH. Loretta Swit had a very modern haircut in the final 2 years :)

@rockyracoon3233

28 күн бұрын

@@JimCutler . Even in the beginning, the hair styles of the men were way too long for the early 1950s.

@williamjarrell8475

28 күн бұрын

Hairstyles, usually women's, tend to give away the time when an historical film or program was actually made. Julie Christie's bangs in Doctor Zhivago.

@rockyracoon3233

28 күн бұрын

@williamjarrell8475 . You could say also, that the hair styles of the men in Gone with the Wind were too short for the Civil War period.

Whether it's on TV or IRL, there will NEVER be anybody as cool as The Fonz!

Jenny and Joanie were so cute here.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the will to overcome it. I believe the quote goes

@snoglydox

15 күн бұрын

*It took courage to post that when you weren't sure how it went.*

@MrPAULONEAL

4 күн бұрын

Sounds like something Fonzie would say...

this show started a year before I was born and ran until my early teens and us kids loved the show.

@baronvonnembles

19 күн бұрын

It was only on for 10 years so what you claim is clearly in error.

@viperdemonz-jenkins

19 күн бұрын

@@baronvonnembles yes new episodes only ten years, but reruns still ran for some years after. you must be real bright.

Those who are Able to Bully the bully are Blessed...

I wonder how many episodes did this formula...a nemesis picking on a main character while the audience boos and hisses. Just when it seems like hope is lost, Fonzie makes an entrance and saves the day.

The bully is a mix of John Goodman and Jack black

@deansapp4635

22 күн бұрын

Agreed

@hillbillyhitman8506

12 күн бұрын

He also played John Cusack's College roommate in The Sure Thing.

@BonasticFantastic

11 күн бұрын

Came here to say "Jack Black been around since Happy Days?"

@martinworld7214

8 күн бұрын

nah , they can both act

@tobietera

6 күн бұрын

His name is Joshua Cadman.

Eugene and Melvin Belvin were my two favorite "Happy Days" characters.

@martinpye549

Ай бұрын

My fave was The Fonz, but then it was Mrs Cunningham. I was 10, and fancied her so much.

The first 2 seasons were the best

@Jim_L

29 күн бұрын

I completely agree with you! When the episodes mainly centered around Ritchie and Potsie, those were the best. Fonzie was only a minor character and often didn't even appear in the show. But when the producers turned Fonzie into a superhero, it went downhill for me.

@sexobscura

29 күн бұрын

like *any* series

@sexobscura

29 күн бұрын

@@Jim_L MASH was good until it went all preachy and sentimental, too

@rockyracoon3233

29 күн бұрын

​@Jim_L . It was going to filming before a live audience format that ruined the whole 1950s feel of the show.

@Jim_L

29 күн бұрын

@@rockyracoon3233 Yes, that too. 👍The sets in the live audience format had more of a play-type feel to them, whereas those early ones had more realistic props and sets (I always liked Richie's bedroom, with all the knick knacks on the walls, for instance). Like you said, those early seasons were able to better capture the feel of what it might have been like during the '50s.

Whoever wrote this scene just made me love Fonzie even more !

One of my top favorites with Three's Company, Welcome Back Kotter and Sanford and Son to name a few

@gabrieldiaz7236

28 күн бұрын

Great television.

@chocoalien

27 күн бұрын

I also liked the show Charles in Charge

@DocMicrowave

26 күн бұрын

Ah yes! Three's Company. Loved that show.

@Chorkaloopa

26 күн бұрын

And All in the Family.

@trhansen3244

23 күн бұрын

Well, I haven't seen Welcome Back Kotter or Sanford and Son but I really have grown to like Three's Company. Even with all the cast changes.

at least Chachi was man enough to TRY to fight the guy in place of the nerd

@daydoe40s

15 күн бұрын

It's too bad he isn't one in real life.

JENNNYYYYYY!!!!!!!!

As the show went on, it looked less 50s and 60s.

@bac6253

Ай бұрын

After the first couple of seasons, they didn't even make any effort to try and look like whatever period they were supposed to be portraying. Producing a historic period is not easy, plus it can be very expensive. As successful as this show was, I believe they could have done more, but they just gave up.

@carlpeterson8182

Ай бұрын

To be fair by this point it was the 60's but still.

@daverhoden445

4 күн бұрын

You mean that it looked like time was passing? Weird.

The Arm Wrestle Finishing Move was hilarious 😂

After a while , All the shows were revolving around the fonze.

@tommiejonsson8952

29 күн бұрын

A similar thing happened in "Family matters". The show was supposed to be about the Winslows and the neighbour Steve Urkel was only supposed to be in one episode. Instead, the show became all about Steve and his quest for Laura.

@auteurfiddler8706

28 күн бұрын

That was when I stopped watching.

@sebastianblack6506

28 күн бұрын

Once Richie left, the show declined. Happy Days jumped the shark two season earlier when The Fonz literally water skied over a shark.

@auteurfiddler8706

28 күн бұрын

TV was mostly so terrible in the 70's. Especially sit coms.

@goodnamesareallgone1

21 күн бұрын

I read, at one time, they were going to change the name of the show to The Fonze. Henry Winkler argued against it.

Fonzie's Blindness, now that was an episode

This was Phil silver daughter

I began to lose interest in this show when they torched Arnolds drive in,and stopped watching altogether when Ron Howard and Donny Most quit

@jrogersdal

29 күн бұрын

I called when the farm girls with pantyhose under their daisy dukes phase.

@walterbrunswick

24 күн бұрын

Seems like it was always stupid

@AndrewT-hb8we

23 күн бұрын

Then after this season Joanie Chachi and Al leave the show and we're stuck with a cast of mostly newbies

@larrystroh233

14 күн бұрын

Also, the show changed when they dropped "Rock around the clock "

@theblackflame4002

5 күн бұрын

I found it interesting that the actor who took Richie's spot 'Roger" was the same actor who took over as Marcie's husband when Steve left in married with children, guy is a show wrecker LOL

The fonz is the best

I remember watching the very first episode of Happy Days with my parents (I was like 7 or 8) on our black and white TV. American Graffiti had recently been a box office smash and this show was designed to capitalize on the new popular interest. Creative writing kept it going for years until it quite literally jumped the shark. Popular characters were given their own, very well-received spin-offs: Laverne & Shirley, Joanie Loves Chachi, and Mork & Mindy.

Wow did this show ever get bad!!

I liked Jenny better when she was just a story that Joanie told.

@sPaCe_NiNjA187

29 күн бұрын

😂 Same. Real Jenny was a let down

@maximusprime3459

28 күн бұрын

They brought her to physical life to replace Ralph.

I never noticed how diminutive Fonz was.

Fonz was the best.

@paulpolpiboon9535

28 күн бұрын

Dam straight!!

The mighty Fonzie strikes again .

When this show was filmed without a studio audience it was a good show and legit. When the format changed and included a live audience it got way over the top and lame....the first episode, pilot was really and episode of"Love American Style"....still to this day watching that episode with my mom....R.I.P.

@rockyracoon3233

28 күн бұрын

The live audience took the whole 50s feel away from the show.

@halseyknox

26 күн бұрын

Your absolutely right....the show became ridiculous

@sPaCe_NiNjA187

25 күн бұрын

Yea. Style of show went from “Love American Style” to “Cheesy American Sitcom”. Was much better without the audience.

@STho205

7 күн бұрын

It was what it was, and it was one of the most successful sitcoms of US TV. It was seriously retooled 4 times and after the 2nd season was mostly giving a nod to the 50s. By mid series it barely gave a nod to the 60s it was in. Laverne and Shirley did a better job on that front. Love and the Television (later Love and the Happy Days) was produced a year before American Graffiti. AG was set in 1962. That short really took effort to look right for 1952 (original setting), using sets left over by Twilight Zone such as the diner from Walking Distance and later BTTF. Retooled after pickup to 1955, the 1st episode was one of the best looking and scored productions of the series.

@fezzparka

6 күн бұрын

Love American Style got its content from rejected pilots. If an "episode" was received well by the audience, it was given a second chance.

I'm like everyone else here. I loved Happy Days when it first came out, I was 6 years old, and I accidentally discovered it when I was flipping through channels, and Fonzie and Ralp Malph were my crushes. Later it just started getting so bad, so stupid, that I refused to watch it anymore more. My Momma and Daddy use to say that I acted like Joanie and all the girls thought that my cousin looked like Scott Biao, and I had a poster of The Fonz in my room, but to bad the show went to pot in later years.

Dude really sold that fall through the door tho lol

Fonzie is their leader

I like the ending. Guys who lift mounted tires onto cars all day get really strong.

Fonzie was such a badass! But I wish you put closed captioning in the videos.

Jack Black after taking the super soldier serum

@danicegewiss862

29 күн бұрын

Jack is younger than that actor, but I thought the same thing.

Man, this show got so bad after Fonz jumped that shark

@lawr43

Ай бұрын

It got bad when Cheesy Chachi joined the show.

@UncleMikeNJ

Ай бұрын

Actually, no. The real "hinge moment" was when Ron Howard and Donny Most left. They had to change it, so instead of being about Richie and his friends, it became about Joanie and her friends. And Joanie's friends, not counting Fonzie but including Chachi, just weren't that interesting. It wasn't quite "Happy Days: The Next Generation," but it did feel like a very different show.

@richardgrein6508

Ай бұрын

Fonz was coolest in the white jacket

@budmangt2

Ай бұрын

No, it was when Richie left and the Fonz grew a beard and lost his cool!

@trueknowledgeispower

29 күн бұрын

It got really bad when they brought in Ted McGinley,......they didn't call him the 'sitcom killer' for nothing. Think of all the shows he was on that ending up lowering the shows ratings after he joined the cast.

I so miss great tv 😞

Ah the good ole " happy Days , "

Don’t remember Jenny looking so much like Baby from Dirty Dancing.

So good 😂😂😂

I’m pretty sure I can take the fonz

@Joe-oo3xv

29 күн бұрын

No way. 😂

😂😂😂 the best show

Fonzie had a good heart.

After this he was inspired to become an acting coach. He eventually would become the teacher of a certain hitman named Barry

2.50, looks like a "dutch rudder" in progress :):):)

Look at those crazy 50's kids!

That’s a gentleman. He took his glasses off first

"Enter the Fonz" LOL

Hey that’s Weird Al!

jack black-wow thats the oldest video of him ive seen

Happy days got to the point where no one wanted to cut their hair like the fifties because it was the middle of the 70s and long hair was the style, Scott’s hair looks nothing like the fifties

@trhansen3244

23 күн бұрын

Tom Bosley's glasses looked 70s, too.

Go Fonzie

What episode?

Ralph's father should've got more scenes.

Here , in these episodes, Happy Days had nothing more to say. The end of series had begun.

A pip-squeak like Henry Winkler pulling off the Fonz with a lot of flair is quite unique. The arm wrestling should have been handled differently though : Fonzie should have used his famous knock with the other hand.

@ziraprod6090

Ай бұрын

Size does not = strength.

@mortb9

Ай бұрын

Never seen The Lords Of Flatbush?

@willn8664

Ай бұрын

If you think about it Bruce Lee looked like a "pip-squeak" when he's covered up.

@janvanardoen9531

29 күн бұрын

@@willn8664 Bruce Lee was light but muscular and athletic. Henry Winkler was / is not. At all.

@sPaCe_NiNjA187

25 күн бұрын

@@janvanardoen9531 you talk like Henry was an overweight slob or something.

Definitely after the show jumped the shark.

“We.....are gunna die”😂😂

They jumped the shark long before they actually jumped the shark.

@trhansen3244

23 күн бұрын

I do think the decline in show quality appeared before the shark trilogy. But it was the shark episode when the show took a decidedly different turn. For good. There was no turning back.

@AndrewT-hb8we

23 күн бұрын

By this point Richie and Ralph were gone and there was a lot of new characters like Jenny piccolo Eugene, Roger, his brother Flip etc.The show pretty much became what I like to call "a spinoff in itself"

@KutWrite

22 күн бұрын

I thought the show was ridiculous and unoriginal..

@lonewolf1053

15 күн бұрын

🦈

Geez, guess this one during the writers' strike.

@robertmorris8997

Ай бұрын

Last seasons were mostly awful

“We are gonna die.”

To think he was offered the role of Danny Zuko in Grease and turned it down for fear of being typecast. Whoa!

Oh..I see. Pretty good act actually.

Coach Klein in his early years.

You know it's one of the shittier "Happy Days" episodes if you see Scott Baio is in it.

@donsab-xz4so

21 күн бұрын

Should've stuck with Spike.

@willchurch8376

12 күн бұрын

Charles in charge, of our days, and our nights.

I loved jennie piccolo ...

This episode was aired long after Happy Days had "jumped the shark".

If they only serve beer and chili, why are there ketchup and mustard bottles on the tables?

@bronco3653

Ай бұрын

To squirt at bullies.

@ziraprod6090

Ай бұрын

It was a joke.AND People put both in chili, btw.

@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen

Ай бұрын

@@ziraprod6090 People put both ketchup and mustard in chili?! You learn something new every day if you're not careful!

@truthh8322

Ай бұрын

​@@KZreadallowedmynametobestolenyea I've never heard of either

@ImThErEaLjimmYpAgE

Ай бұрын

For bar fights lol

That place looks alot like arnolds!!! Lol

Eugene called him "Scott"

I recognize one of the girls from Married with Children.

Sure was alot of bullying back in those days..

OMG Fonzie you could not make this shit up

Dude looks like Chris O'Donnell

Tank Abbott later went into UFC this was him before community college .

@johnh1932

Ай бұрын

And long before he fought Clint Eastwood.

@user-ed7um8no2d

28 күн бұрын

That was Tank Abbot? How about that😅

The actor playing Jenny Piccolo's boyfriend was 27 years old when the episode was filmed, yet his character wasn't old enough to have a beer. 😂

I grew up loving Happy Days the first few seasons but it just got so stupid & unrealistic by 1980 . I mean this is supposed to be the early 1960's here & most of these guys have obvious 1970's hair cuts. besides the story lines getting dumber every season. They beat this show deep into the ground.

@dowtingtomas.695

8 күн бұрын

The core of the show is the 50’s. The show has great ratings up until the mid 5th season when the Fonz “jumped the shark”. This is when the critics started to dig into the show. However the ratings stayed high enough for the show to go on for years more. Not many shows get 4 good seasons, let alone creating a catastrophe and remaining relevant for many more years. Not only that but also as being considered an all time classic show. Which it certainly was .

Looks like the same room Cheers was filmed in

Sad thing is that’s how real bars are anyplace have alcohol always expect trouble if there’s accident

70s haircuts in the early 60s

Watched Happy Days every Tuesday night (at least I think it was on Tuesday nights) and it was funny. I was about 12 or so when it started, so the memory is a little fuzzy. Now, in my early 60’s, I wonder how viewers believed Fonzie was this omnipotent being…that could doom anything, everyone or energize any chick or jukebox with a little old snap of the fingers. Godlike persona living in Milwaukee, WI of all places. 🥴🙈🙉🙊

@auteurfiddler8706

28 күн бұрын

Well, you have to remember most of the fans were the same kids that loved Power Rangers in the afternoon.

@mikey7189

20 күн бұрын

It was on Tuesday nights, along with Laverne & Shirly andThree's Company

@auteurfiddler8706

9 күн бұрын

I would have said I outgrew the show after the first season, but the truth is I stayed the same but the show became infantile.

Oh he thought chachi was a wimp same with all the guys that richie hang out with including him

Before there was an urkel, we had Eugene.

Hey FUSCO!!1 WTF is wrong with the audio?

Man they don’t make TV shows like this anymore today shows are garbage!

He would never be able to beat that guy in arm wrestling lol.

Geez, I forgot how corny this was...

Today this will be considered a salt

@theblackflame4002

5 күн бұрын

Also today this would be considered amazing writing

I didn't particularly care for this show when it was on everyday but having 3 channels really didn't have much of a choice

The late 1950s lasted 5 years. Happy days was on like 10 years. And was filmed 10 to 15 years later ! So 1970s to 1980s imagining what 1950s was like. Now its 30 years+ even later. Man, everything is out of sync.

The “Fonzie “ was 5 7 140 . How did anyone ever buy he was a tough guy? Lol

@TheThomasmoon

4 күн бұрын

Size doesn't mean anything

This show reall went downhill in the later seasons.

@trhansen3244

23 күн бұрын

It lasted 11 seasons. I would say the last quality season was season 4. Amazingly, it held on for 7 seasons! People think the jump the shark was bad they should check on the three parter set on a ranch! The cringe factor was off the charts. It was roughly the same as watching Joe Biden trying to eat ice cream.

@higurashianduminekoconnect1702

18 күн бұрын

I would say that this series went out being great. Compared to show us today at least

where was the Fonzi?

Hair is pretty long for 1963!

@bobma6342

Ай бұрын

His hair was longer than The Beatles

@UncleMikeNJ

Ай бұрын

Wait until you see the hair on those 1952 Army doctors on MASH.

@jodielangford.6401

Ай бұрын

you must not have been around in the 60s

@bobma6342

Ай бұрын

@@jodielangford.6401 it was long for 1963. It was common in 1969

Never blame a cast for how bad a TV show gets. This is classic Hollywood bosses. Keep everyone employed for as long as possible. Keep putting out anything as long as 'some' people watch it. Money is what it all comes down to for some people. Even if that means dragging a show you claim to 'love' - through the mud. No respect for your own work.

I was in the 5th grade of middle school when “Happy Days” first debuted on ABC. To me and my friends back then, we all considered the show funny and unique. That was then. Over the seasons that show remained on prime time, it got more stupid and really had no longer relevance to the 1950s. Instead, the show became an average mishmash of your average celebrities, and it sucked.

@Youngguns42303

3 күн бұрын

I seriously doubt as a 11 year old in 1974 you would know much if anything about the 50s. Why are you reflecting on your thoughts today and projecting it back to then?

I remember Jenny was like a "misfit" character, but she was actually really good-looking along with being funny.

@sPaCe_NiNjA187

29 күн бұрын

Good looking? Joanie was a little kid when she would mention Jenny. Never heard her say she was good looking. She was always a bad influence.

@willchurch8376

12 күн бұрын

@@sPaCe_NiNjA187 Bad influences usually are good looking. Most of mine have been, anyways.

@sPaCe_NiNjA187

12 күн бұрын

@@willchurch8376 maybe she was good looking by that time period’s standards. I mean she looked better than Joanie.

looked like jack black in the thumbnail, of course he was a child back then

Hate to see good chili go to waste.