Happy Days (ABC tv show)

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  1. jason88cubs

    jason88cubs Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Around season 5 the Fonzie character just kinda grew sad, kinda like the kid who leaves high school but never grows up and only talks about the past
     
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  2. BlackStrat_Fan

    BlackStrat_Fan That's like your opinion, man!

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    I do like watching the first two seasons from time to time - they really hold up. As a kid in the '70s this was must-see TV. Another great memory was watching it in syndication during summer vacation around 10am.
     
  3. boyjohn

    boyjohn Senior Member

    Maybe Happy Days changed so it would fit in with all the other ABC sitcoms of the late 70s. In order words, extremely silly and mostly terrible.
     
  4. Vidiot

    Vidiot Now in 4K HDR!

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    One thing I thought was awful is the almost complete disregard for anachronisms. They totally gave up on Laverne & Shirley, and constantly had characters with late-1970s/early-1980s hair styles. And don't get me started on Joanie Loves Chachi. I was told by a Paramount exec that Scott Baio steadfastly refused to change his hair style, so they just let it go. At least Fonzie greased his hair and Ron Howard kept his hair in somewhat of a '50s style (as much hair as he was holding on to). I used to laugh and say the best special effects on the show was the work done to conceal Howard's impending baldness -- they did a fantastic job.
     
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  5. KevinP

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    MASH wasn't any better in terms of historical accuracy, though at least that dates back to the movie where parallels with current events were intentionally drawn. Still, the 70s and 80s weren't a time when American TV and its consumers were particularly concerned with such matters. I think Roots is an example of trying but still not being sticklers. And really, it's only in the era of the internet and binge viewing that historical accuracy became something worth taking notice of.
     
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  6. aoxomoxoa

    aoxomoxoa I'm an ear sitting in the sky

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    What happened to Chuck anyway?
     
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  7. KevinP

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    Actually I should revise that. The Wonder Years, while maybe not absolutely perfect in regards to history, sustained the effort. I think it slipped a little in later seasons but it was never abandoned it. (I haven't seen all the episodes, especially the later ones, so feel free to correct me.)
     
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  8. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    love this on Blu...
     
  9. Jay_Z

    Jay_Z Forum Resident

    Fonzie was a little ridiculous. If you're that much of a Lothario, why aren't you busy screwing women instead of hanging around high school kids?

    Milner was the Fonzie character in Graffiti. I think that angle would have been less durable in a long running show than what they did with Fonzie.
     
  10. The Fonz had to teach the lesson of the episode.
     
  11. DaleClark

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    Was there any connection to Lords of Flatbush and Winkler getting the Fonzie role?
     
  12. musicfan37

    musicfan37 Senior Member

    He looked just like The Fonz in both. :)
     
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  13. goodiesguy

    goodiesguy Confide In Me

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    I personally think Season 3 is the best of the whole lot, great gags and it had Pat Morita who I prefer to Al.
     
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  14. MikeInFla

    MikeInFla Glad to be out of Florida

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    I really loved it as a kid. I never missed an episode. However much like The Dukes Of Hazard I struggle to watch it any more. As stated, first 2 seasons are the best. Later on the kind of abandoned that 50's look and clearly had 70's hairstyles with the exception of the Fonz.
     
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  15. Wombat Reynolds

    Wombat Reynolds Jimmy Page stole all my best riffs.

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    I was in junior high and high school when this show was hugely popular.

    I never saw a single episode. Just seeing The Fonz, in commercials for the show, on posters, t shirts, anything you can imagine.. it was more than enough.

    Finally many years later, I was home sick one day and finally saw a complete episode.

    Yawn. I guess it was alright, taken out of historical (or maybe hysterical) context.
     
  16. The Slug Man

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    Chachi's "style" just killed me. Even as a 6 year old I knew that no one wore puka shells in the '50s.
     
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  17. The Panda

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    I remember watching one ep with some guys in college. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but the part that stands out was Ritchie wants to go out with this new girl, meets her and without any preludes, sits down with her and starts making out with her. We all looked at each other and said 'Oh yea, that really works.'
    Even James at 15 had to work a little harder and nobody got more than he did.
     
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  18. MikeInFla

    MikeInFla Glad to be out of Florida

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    James at 15/16 was awesome! I had not seen it in years and noticed that most of the episodes are on YouTube so I went back and watched what is on there. That was a good show.
     
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  19. mongo

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    Ron Howard's overacting from Season 3 on really stumped me.
    He was perfect as Opie and equally good in American Graffitti.
    In the first 2 seasons of HD, he was great as a confused\sincere teenager.
    After that it was embarrassing and only got more so.

    The audience would give an ovation to the most mediocre of lines like they were watching Olivier.
     
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  20. Jimmy B.

    Jimmy B. isolation can harm you terribly

    He became quite different looking before he never existed
     
  21. Jack Lord

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    LOL! Some years ago they had a Happy Days reunion on TV. Towards the end, Gary Marshall brought out both guys who had played Chuck.
     
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  22. Jimmy B.

    Jimmy B. isolation can harm you terribly

    I liked the show very much as a kid; always watched it. But I didn't like it when Chachi was introduced, I could never stand him or his "wah-wah-wah"s ugh just thinking about it...
    I hated Ace, was that his name, or was that McGinley on the Love Boat? I can't remember....couldn't stand him...
    yeah the show was on waaaaaay too long.

    I remember liking, in an early season, when the fat guy who is made fun of by Ralph and such has that dance with that girl....that was nice.

    I also remember I liked, in a much later season, when Richie punched Fonzie! :D

    I....cannot print Punk Magazine's parody review of the show, ha ha
     
  23. Jimmy B.

    Jimmy B. isolation can harm you terribly

    *Ah, to clarify, I just enjoyed seeing Richie do it the first time I saw it (because "no one touches The FONZ") and I was only 16 when it aired;
    I just saw it now on you tube and even if Fonzie became the dictator of their little crowd (by season 3 or 4?),
    in this scene (season 11), Richie is a drunk grown man, and there's nothing funny about it at all.
    Pardon.

    :hide:
     
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  24. seed_drill

    seed_drill Senior Member

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    I'd stopped watching long before the nephew episodes, so I'd always wrongly assumed they brought him back when Richie left.
     
  25. seed_drill

    seed_drill Senior Member

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    He gets older, they stay the same.
     
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