Happy Days: Difference between revisions

 

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* [[The Ace]]: Fonzie turned into this around season 4, when the increasingly outlandish plots required him to be the best in the world at things that would have been impossible for any human, let alone a high school dropout mechanic.

** Among other things, Fonzie successfully rode a killer bull, out-dueled a world champion fencer, fought a superpowered alien to a draw (though that may or may not have been [[All Just a Dream]]) and, most famously, beat a champion water-skiier at [[Jumping the Shark]].

** Pat Morita's Arnold returned in season 10, after having been gone since season 3... then vanished again almost as promptly.

* [[Career-Building Blunder]]: Chachi accidentally burns down Arnold's. Al (the owner) is upset about the fire but doesn't blame Chachi because it was an accident. Fonzie chews Chachi out about it; then appoints Chachi as his representative at the new Arnold's (in which Fonzie's partner with Al), because Fonz knows Chachi will make sure not to screw up again.

* [[The Cast Showoff]]: Anson Williams as Potsie. One episode even stops in its tracks so Potsie can sing "Deeply," an original song Williams recorded, even though it's a '70s pop song out of place in the '50s setting.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "'AAAAAAAYYYYY!" "Sit on it!" "I still got it!" "Howard, are you feeling frisky?" "Yep...Yep, yep, yep, yep." Also popularized the term "nerd", to which the entire TV Tropes audience owes it a tremendous debt in Opposite Land.

* [[Christmas Episode]]: Several.

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: [[Trope Namer|The original]]. After being played by three different actors, the third quitter led to Garry Marshall just axing the concept entirely, and one day he ran up the stairs to his room and never returned. A very famous TV example, often subject to [[Lampshade Hanging]] in other media about the show.

* [[Title Drop]]: By Howard, at the end of the last episode.

** In the episode in which Mork "spins on to pay for his spin-off", he reports to Orson about human relationship problems (the framing device for the clip show). At one point Orson remarks "So they are not all happy days." Mork responds that there were sad days too and mentions that humans tend to forget things like McCarthy and the Korean War.

* [[Took a Level In Dumbass]]: Potsie was originally ''more'' savvy and worldly-wise than Richie. That didn't last long.

** Also, in the earlier episodes, Ralph was depicted as one of the more popular kids at Jefferson High (although less so than Fonzie), and a ladies' man at that. That didn't last long, either.

* [[Under New Management]]: Hangout Arnold's was run by Arnold and then by Al.

** An "Under New Management" sign inexplicably appears in some first season episodes.