#ron the fonz

[rank-sentimentalist]

#TV #Happy Days #A Shot in the Dark #4x15 #Richie Cunningham #Ron Howard #The Fonz #Henry Winkler #Howard Cunningham #Tom Bosley #Have a Lifesaver. It'll make you feel better #Lifesaver at 3:44 #Youtube

[alwaysbepositive]

Happy Days is the best, especially with Richie & The Fonz ❤️😎👍🏻

#happy days #Greasers #1950s #ayyyyy #the fonz #fonzie #arthur fonzarelli #henry winkler #richie #richie Cunningham #ron howard #richie & fonzie #Fonzie & richie #best friends #bromance #family #friendships #howard Cunningham #tom bosley #marion Cunningham #Marion ross #joanie Cunningham #erin moran #potsie weber #anson williams #ralph malph #Don most

[retropopcult]

A classic scene from the Happy Days episode, “The Deadly Dares”, 1974:  Richie and Potsie get Fonzie's help to join the Demons (a social club for pranksters), but are on their own going through their initiations.  The dares culminate in this scene, where they have to dress up as girls and go to the dance.  

#Ron Howard #Anson Williams #Henry Winkler #The Fonz #Richie Cunningham #Potsie Webber #1970s #sitcom

[celebclippinz]

#happy days #henry winkler #ron howard #marion ross #anson williams #the fonz #fifties #50s #potsie

[machetelanding]

#henry winkler #ron howard #actors #celebrities #happy days #comedy #tv shows #the fonz #fonzie #arthur fonzarelli #richie cunningham #then and now

[chasing-dreams-since-1995]

I’m currently watching happy days on Pluto tv and why does Richie (Ron Howard) looks like he’s about to compete in the squid games! 😂

#happy days #ron howard #squid games #pluto tv #the fonz #fonzie

[davyrp100]

ok but Been read his fanfic for the past hour

#mike nesmith #micky dolenz #peter tork #davy jones #the monkees #1970s #edit #fanfic #cute #romance #good afternoooooon #goodm #gay #the fonz #happyday #henry winkler #ron howard

[lisamarie-vee]

#happy days #television #1970s #b&w #fonzie #the fonz #henry winkler #ron howard #actors

[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

[gregarnott]

Donnie Most (Ralph Malph), Ron Howard (Richie Cunningham), Henry Winkler (Arthur 'the Fonz' Fonzarelli), and Anson Williams (Potsie Weber)

[snopek]

happy days gay

happy days gay headcanons

happy days fonzie gay

fonzie homosexual

the fonz. gay?

eyyyy I like men

happy gays

ron howard pronouns

#jumping the shark more like....no I shant say

[michaelgabrill]

#NewYorkTimes #NYT

[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

[the-beautiful-prince]

“HEY, I’M RON THE FONZ!”

#ron levi #MIENTUS.COM #fonzie #happy days tv show #ron the fonz #hey i'm ron the fonz

[coolthingsguyslike]

#Happy Days #1974 #The Fonz #Tom Bosley #Ron Howard #Henry Winkler #TV