#Joanie Cunningham

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#erin moran #joanie Cunningham #happy days

[big-star-x]

Happy Days (1974) Cast: Then and Now [48 Years After]

#youtube #Happy Days #Cast #Then and Now #Joanie Cunningham #Erin Moran #actors

[retropopcult]

Happy Days trading card, 1976

#The Cunninghams #kitchen #Joanie #Howard #Marion #Richie Cunningham #Mrs C #sitcom #trading card #Topps #1970s #retro #Erin Moran #Tom Bosley #Marion Ross #Ron Howard

[retrogoldenmemories]

#Fonzie #Ralph and Potsie #richie cunningham #Lenny and Squiggy #laverne and shirley #joanie loves chachi #happy days

[20th-century-scrapbook]

On Tuesday night, Jan. 15, 1974, Fonzie, Ralph, Richie and Potsie entered our living rooms for a visit that would end up lasting more than a decade.

Created by Garry Marshall, “Happy Days” arrived as a comic but earnest chronicle of adolescence in 1950s Milwaukee. It revolved around Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard) and his equally hormonal pals — Warren “Potsie” Weber (Anson Williams) and Ralph Malph (Donny Most) — along with the rest of the Cunninghams: Richie’s younger sister, Joanie (Erin Moran); mother, Marion (Marion Ross); and father, Howard (Tom Bosley).

In the 1976-77 season, “Happy Days” became the most-watched show on television, supplanting “All in the Family.” It ran until the summer of 1984, a total of 11 seasons, while generating multiple spinoffs — “Laverne & Shirley,” “Mork & Mindy,” “Joanie Loves Chachi” — and untold tons of Fonzie merchandise.

#happy days #1970s #television #ABC #fonz #fonzie

[vintage-tech]

Happy Days glasses featuring terrible renditions of Richie Cunningham, Arthur Fonzerelli, Ralph Malph, Warren ‘Potsie’ Webber, and Joanie Cunningham. Bonus Hamburgler. :)

#vintage #1970s #glassware #happy days #technology

[fancoloredglasses]

The animated Happy Days spinoffs (who knew there were so many talking animals in the 50s?)

(Thanks to wikipedia)

[All images are owned by Hannah-Barbara or Paramount. Please don’t sue me]

(Thanks to the New York Times)

For those who do not know, Happy Days was a sitcom from the mid-70s through the mid-80s about the Cunningham family and their lives in the 50s and early 60s in the city of Milwaukee. The star of the show is the oldest son Richie (played by Ron Howard) He and his friends Ralph Malph and Warren “Potsie” Webber had all sorts of mundane adventures until they encountered...

(Thanks to The Times)

...Arthur “The Fonz” (or “Fonzie”) Fonzerelli (played by Henry Winkler), who would become Richie’s best friend. Fonzie was the epitome of “cool”, able to do supernatural things with just his "coolness”.

(Thanks to Ant Man)

But this isn’t about Happy Days per se. You see, when a show is successful, producers want to cash in on the show’s success by making new shows in the same “universe” (There were four shows “spun off” from Happy Days) Some are based on existing characters (such as Joanie Loves Chachi, which was about Richie’s sister and her boyfriend) or about characters who were introduced for the express purpose of spinning them off (such as Mork & Mindy)

The former is the case for the first subject of this review (the latter I’ll discuss later)

(Thanks to generic0001)

(Yes, that’s legendary “oldies” DJ Wolfman Jack narrating the intro. Sadly, that’s his only involvement)

The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang followed...

...Fonzie, Richie, and Ralph (voiced by Winkler, Howard, and Donny Most, whom longtime will remember also voiced Eric the Cavalier) as they are dragged into a “Gilligan’s Island, time travel edition” style show.

For whatever reason, the writers added a talking dog named “Mr. Cool” as comic relief. Most fans of the show were very confused as Fonzie had a dog on the show named Spunky.

...who looks nothing like Mr. Cool.

Mr. Cool thought that, since he was the Fonz’s dog, he had Cool Powers too, but far from it. Nearly every time he tries using them it spelled disaster.

Piloting the time machine is Cupcake (they have weird names in the future. Are her parents named Bundt and Cheese?) who has no clue how the damn thing works.

If you would like to watch this show, it’s available on KissCartoon.

Now on to the final spinoff...

Laverne & Shirley was a sitcom followed best friends...

...Laverne DiFazio (played by Penny Marshall. For whatever reason, Laverne needed to have a giant L embroidered on everything she wore) and Shirley Feeney (played by Cindy Williams) as they went through life in another part of Milwaukee (and later, for some reason, Los Angeles)

However, what I’m here to cover is the spinoff of the spinoff (which was paired with The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang, naturally)

Yes, for whatever reason, the girls decide to join the army. Thing is, there was an episode of the main series where they did that very thing.

Meet Sgt. Plout (played by Carol Burnett Show alum Vicki Lawrence), who would’ve made a better foil in the animated series than...

...their Commanding Pig, Sgt. Squealy (though I’m not sure why he has Private stripes). Hell, they could’ve made Plout a frog (since Shirley commented Plout resembled one) if they REALLY wanted a talking animal.

The episodes involved Laverne, Shirley, and Squealy dealing with all sorts on nonsense that had almost nothing to do with Army life.

If you would like to watch this train wreck, it’s also available on KissCartoon

If you would like to see an episode from either series reviewed, let me know!

#happy days #laverne & shirley #animation #henry winkler #ron howard #donny most #penny marshall #cindy williams #Fan Colored Glasses

[gungieblog]

Erin Marie Moran-Fleischmann [Joanie Cunningham] October 18, 1960 - April 22, 2017

#erin moran #birthday #photography

[glowing-disciple]

A somewhat recurring dream I have has me giving a lengthy lecture about some topic. These are easily some of most fun things I dream about.

Last night I dreamt I gave a massive presentation about the different adaptations of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to Henry Cunningham.

This included which adaptations were the most faithful to the original story, which ones had the best Ghost of Christmas Past/Present/Future, a lengthy aside about how certain adaptations (eg, Mickey Mouse’s version) broke certain unwritten rules, and which ones would probably not be appropriate for Joanie to watch.

#weird dreams #that was fun

[itwas50yearsagotoday]

1/15/24: It was 50 years ago today, January 15th, 1974, Happy Days would premiere on the ABC television network. This intro has the original theme song which was a re-recorded 'Rock Around the Clock' by Bill Haley & the Comets... this would be supplanted by the more familiar 'Happy Days Theme' in the show's 3rd season (reaching Billboard #5 in '76!). The ultimate in Boooooomer nostalgia this show was, and the early seasons were pretty loyal to the '50s theme, although throughout the 11 seasons it got harder and harder to mask that this was somehow a throwback. The show was immensely popular, fueling several successful spin-offs including Laverne & Shirley and Mork & Mindy (and less successful like Joanie Loves Chachi... p.u.!!). Now famous director Ron Howard was the center of the show's story as Richie Cunningham, along with his family and his friend Potsie (Anson Williams); however, he would be largely supplanted by Henry Winkler's iconic character the Fonz, or Fonzie, who would eventually be the top billed star after Howard left the show after season seven (1980). Another by-product of the show for the internet age was the 'Jump the Shark' moment when Fonzie literally jumps over a shark in water skis in season five-- this phrase later came to represent when a television show (or really, I guess anything) hit its peak and then began falling. I watched a shitload of this show in both new shows and reruns when I was a kid... eleven fucking seasons worth. It even had a horrible Saturday morning cartoon churned out by Hanna-Barbera in the early 1980s. Definitely a cultural touchstone for Boomer (and some Gen X) nostalgia.

#Youtube

[westofwonder]

Did we all just hallucinate Joanie? Why is she never mentioned?

Chuck Cunningham wishes!

[ledenews]

'The Rachel & Steve Show' – Does Television Still Tell the American Story?

There were young boys pounding on every jukebox they could find in the 1970s because they were praying for a magic moment of super coolness. That’s what The Fonz did, after all, so young men from 7 to 17 years old attempted to flip their leather collars and impersonate the star of “Happy Days” on those Tuesday nights in front of their parents’ console TV. There were Ralph Malph, Potsie Weber, Joanie, Mr. and Mrs. C., and, of course, the all-knowing Richie Cunningham. But “Happy Days” provided a story about how America operated during the 1950s, and nines times out of 10 the endings were happy and filled with smiles. But were there other shows, like “Good Times,” All in the Family, and “The Jeffersons,” that were telling tales about a nation perpetually mourning the murders of the two men brave enough to promote and push for racial unity. Both shot. Both dead. And no one was sure how to frame the American Dream for some time, especially on TV. That’s why, in the 1980s, the dysfunctional family took TV’s center stage with “Growing Pains,” “Full House,” and “Married with Children” toyed with the notion of family fun, and only a few shows, like “M*A*S*H*, “Murphy Brown,” and “Family Ties,” turned political from time to time. These days it appears children – and their parents – have more choices than what I did so many years ago, and streaming, of course, is king. The topics of the shows appear to be more obvious, too, but that could be a product of the 40-plus years that have passed since I was Rachel's age and in eighth grade. Drugs, sex, relationships, and gender identification all topics, and those issues were handled with whispers when I was a kid. That's why, I believe, the conversation Rachel and I will have tomorrow afternoon will be most interesting because of the change that's taken place with the delivery of social messages, and why the hints I received have turned into over-the-head-and-obvious directives. Read the full article

[arizonaculture]

'Happy Days' Star Erin Moran's Cause of Death Revealed Plus the Cast Pays Tribute to Joanie Cunningham

‘Happy Days’ Star Erin Moran’s Cause of Death Revealed Plus the Cast Pays Tribute to Joanie Cunningham

Contents ‘Happy Days’ Star Erin Moran’s Cause of Death Confirmed Harriette Cole: My husband posted what I was keeping secret, and things got awkward at work Lifestyle Scott Baio Defends Comments About Erin Moran’s Death: ‘Please Stop Assuming the Worse in Me’ Erin Moran Dead at 56 Bernard Pomerance, the American playwright and poet who wrote the Tony-winning 1977 play “The Elephant Man,” died…

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TV Guidance Counselor Episode 547: Tim Harrod

December 4-10, 1982

This week Ken welcomes writer and creator/host of The Bastard Tapes Podcast, Tim Harrod.

Ken and Tim discuss the unique spite of people from New England, video games, Atari, walking to the arcade, Charlottesville, pinball companies trying to take on video games, how Nintendo temporarily killed arcades, Dragon's Lair, Saturday Supercade, Q*Bert, Steve Allen, stand up on TV, the influence of MTV, Solid Gold, Tim Thomerson, the weird MTV influenced syndicated sketch comedy show, Laugh Tracks, Gallagher, Gallagher II, Cinemax Comedy Experiment, Martin Mull, Rich Hall, Joe Piscapo and his mysterious Halloween Special, Dead Heat, Disney's Christmas Gift, Life's Most Embarrassing Moments, Foul Ups, Bleeps and Blunders, the influence of Letterman, Dennis Wolfberg, how you rarely saw Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck together, Fridays, being conscripted into Circus of the Stars, Charlie Brown Christmas, Doctor Who,  The Year Without a Santa Claus, Joanie Loves Chachi, the missing Cunningham, RapCity Kids Christmas, M*A*S*H, Three's Company, Dolly Parton's Sister, Jane Curtain's Cousin, Newhart, Real People, Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, Follow that Bird, Family Ties, Cheers, Facts of Life, Diff'rent Strokes, always going for comedy, fake bands on real TV shows, The Urkel, The Guys Next Door, Chip and Pepper's Comedy Madness, Meatballs and Spaghetti, the fame of Nelson, Taxi, Too Close for Comfort, Sneak Previews, Siskel and Ebert's dog vs skunk, The Toy, Richard Pryor, a good story about Jackie Gleason, Chris Elliot, Action Family, The Powers of Matthew Star, Yes Virginia There is a Santa Claus, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Special, Sledge Hammer, losing the car horn, Wonder Bug and Schlep car, and the changes of the Incredible Hulk. 

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[fictional-brides]

Joanie Cunningham from Happy Days - Passages (S01 E249 + 250)

#live action #paramount #sitcom

[unsertraumschiff]

if richie isn’t gay then why doesn’t he see anything in girls despite literally having a girlfriend

#checkmate atheists #no but seriously. why else #like I get it’s a misogynist angle but still? nothing? #not even a comment about like. bodies? #just nothing? #cmon man. cmon #happy days #hdcu #richie cunningham #joanie cunningham #westward ho