Happy Days

Tired of driving around in Howards DeSoto, Richie and Potsie buy a car of their own. The car has several problems including an engine that wont run consistently. This causes problems when they try to impress two girls.

Potsie is staying with the Cunninghams, and he and Richie sneak out to watch a drag race in which Fonzie is involved.

Richie and Potsie, in their never-ending effort to get girls, decide that they want to join a gang called the Demons. However, in order to be accepted, they have to perform several dares.

Richie and Potsie obtain fake identification cards in order to attend a burlesque show where Ralph says Bubbles McCall takes it all off.

To make some money, Richie, Potsie, Ralph, and Bag form a band. They secure a gig, but Richie and Potsie lose the money (including that of Ralph and Bag) playing poker.

Cindy, a new girl in school, asks Richie to tutor her. Richie is interested in more than just studying and makes several attempts to win her over.

Howards old army buddy, a black man, asks Howard to be the best man at his wedding. Howard and Marion consider holding the wedding at their home when the man cant find anyone else willing to do it.

Howard wants to buy a bomb shelter to protect his family. Problems quickly arise when several of Richies friends ask if they can use it.

Richie buys a car from Fonzie and finds out that it is stolen.

Richie reads a book about abnormal psychology and begins to think that theres something wrong with him.

After experiencing a few strange happenings, Richie begins to buy into the legend that the place where their Halloween party is to be held, the old Simpson house, is haunted.

Spike, Fonzies little cousin, takes Joanie out on her first date. Richie and his date act as Joanie and Spikes chaperones and discover them missing at the movie theater.

Richie, Potsie, and Ralph need new uniforms for their baseball team and want to get a big celebrity to play the title role in their upcomming fundraiser production of Hamlet. When they cant get a big name to play the part, Fonzie agrees to do it.

Richie and Potsie plan to host a poker night at the Cunningham house as Howard and Marion will be out of town. However, their plans change when three young women stop by after their car breaks down, and Potsie invites them to stay the night.

An ill Richie is home alone after the rest of the family go to see Cinerama. When he goes to see what is causing noises downstairs, he finds a burglar.

Richie, Postie, and Ralph are forced to go cruising for girls in Howards DeSoto after Marion dents Richies car at the supermarket. They find three girls but, later, find their boyfriends who are members of a gang called the Dragons.

Looking for work, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph agree to fix the fence of an attractive divorcee. When the woman leaves for awhile, Potsie and Ralph decide to take off, as well, leaving Richie to finish the job by himself.

To hide from overzealous fans, a popular rock group (one of the members was Richies childhood friend) is staying at the Cunningham house, but Richie cant tell anyone that theyre there. This poses a problem for Richie because nobody believes he actually knows them.

Fonzie asks Richie to watch after his girl, Denise, while hes out of town at a demolition derby. Denise, upon hearing what Fonzies asked Richie to do, decides to test Richies trustworthiness. Richie succumbs to temptation and makes out with Denise at Inspiriation Point, but he later finds out that she has mononucleosis.

With Howards hardware store about to face new competition, the Cunninghams decide they need to rent the room above their garage to generate extra income. Howard is shocked when Richie rents it to Fonzie.

Worried that hes losing his cool, Fonzie attempts to jump 14 garbage cans on his motorcycle. The stunt will be televised on You Wanted to See It.

Needing to make a good impression for a prospective business deal, Howard asks Richie to take the ""Prince of Porcelains"" daughter out on a date. Richie, however, already has big plans and asks Potsie to take his place and pretend to be him.

Because the high school was vandalized, Officer Kirk imposes a curfew. Richie suggests that they demonstrate against the curfew, get arrested, and fight it in the courts. While Richie, Potsie, and Ralph are in the restroom at Arnolds discussing their plans, the lights go out, and they discover they are locked inside after Arnold closes up for the night.

Fonzie poses as a police officer in order to stop a rumble between two rival gangs.

With nothing to do for the Easter holiday, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph decide to rent a cabin at Lake Whitefish. They pretend to be adult businessmen in order to secure the cabin and get girls.

Joanie develops a crush on Potsie after he sings to her at Arnolds.

Marion, tired of the monotony of everyday house chores, decides to enter a televised dance contest. When Howard wont participate with her, she secretly enlists the help of Fonzie. Arnold unwittingly tells Howard that Marion has been at Arnolds early in the morning with another man, and Howard becomes suspicious.

Needing money to get tickets to a big football game, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph decide to babysit 15 children on the night of Mardi Gras.

Fonzie takes Howard to court after Fonzies pigeon cage falls through the roof of his apartment during a blizzard. Fonzie claims the weight of the snow caused the roof to collapse while Howard claims it was the pigeon cage.

Spike is an accomplice during a burglary at Arnolds, and it is up to Fonzie to set him straight.

Arnold asks Fonzie to be the best man at his wedding, but Fonzie is resistant to the idea because of the "Fonzarelli curse." Arnolds fiance calls the wedding off when she thinks shed be holding back Arnolds career.

Fonzie reunites with an old flame, Pinky Tuscadero, who is in town to perform motorcycle stunts at a demolition derby.

After having been in several fights recently, on the advice of the Cunninghams, Fonzie agrees to see a psychologist.

Potsie saves Fonzie from a fire at the garage. Out of gratitude, Fonzie grants Potsie any one favor, and Potsie wants to pal around with the Fonz.

Joanie enlists Fonzie to be her partner for a marathon dance at Arnolds. She desperately wants to outlast cheerleading captain Jill Higgins who had cut Joanie from the squad earlier. Prior to the dance, however, Fonzies motorcycle breaks down, and he is forced to push it for 12 miles.

Kirk, the new acting sheriff, tries to exert his power by forcing Fonzie to leave town.

Fonzie meets an older woman whose car he fixed and agrees to meet her the next day for doubles tennis at a country club.

To get some publicity, Al tries to have someone break a world record at Arnolds. Meanwhile, Fonzies cousin, Angie, is in town for a visit and proves to be extremely clumsy.

Not having enough to do now that Richie and Joanie are growing up and because she feels as though shes a slave to Howard, Marion gets a job waitressing at Arnolds.

After passing make-up health exams and getting permission for Fonzie to participate, the guys arrange for aspects of the graduation ceremony to be sped up in order to accomodate the inclusion of Fonzies speech.

Thinking her life is dull and that shes always treated like a little kid, Joanie wants to join the Red Devils gang.

Fonzie gets a dog, and she escapes when Ralph and Potsie accidentally leave the gate open. Ralph tells Fonzie that the dog, Spunky, was stolen.

After crashing in a stock-car race, Fonzie begins to worry about what will happen when his number comes up. Al suggests Fonzie seek the guidance of his brother, Father Anthony Delvecchio.

A Hollywood talent scout, needing a mechanic for his limousine, sees Fonzie at Arnolds and thinks he could be the next James Dean. The Cunninghams, Potsie, and Ralph go to Hollywood with Fonzie for his screen test.

Fonzie faces jumping a caged shark on water skis, and Richie decides whether or not he wants to sign the Paramount Pictures contract he was offered.

After Chachi is caught by a truant officer, Fonzie and Richie arrange for Joanie to tutor him. He gets caught cheating on a test and, as a result, gets suspended from school and gets in hot water with Fonzie.

Richie, Potsie, and Ralph get an apartment of their own.

After Howard refuses to let Joanie go on tour with Leather, she follows through with her threat to run away from home.

Richie, Potsie, and Ralph want to join the best fraternity on campus, but they have to survive ""Hell Week"" first.

After getting a ""D"" on a paper for his investigative reporting class, Richie decides to do a story about the corrupt sanitation department that is forcing Howard to pay a weekly surcharge.

After one date with Jennifer Jerome, Potsie wants to ask her to marry him. Howard suggests that they get pinned instead, but, after asking her, Potsie suddenly backs out.

When Marions friend is dumped by her husband for a younger woman, Marion begins to think that Howard may do the same to her.

Fonzies dog, Spunky, appears depressed and distant. After a visit to the veterinarian, it is determined that Spunkys problem is mental.

Richie tells Chachi the story of how he met Fonzie in order to convince him that joining a gang is a mistake.

Fonzies girlfriend is a moderately successful ballet teacher, but Fonzie has trouble accepting that she may be happier as a professional performer in New York.

Richie and Lori Beth have a fight and break up before going on a weekend trip where the band is backing up Leather and the Suedes. Meanwhile, Howard and Marion argue about womens rights.

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The gang stages a rodeo in an attempt to raise money to pay off the note H. R. Buchanan holds on Marions Uncle Bens ranch.

Al accidentally hits Fonzie in the head with a serving tray, and he becomes blind as a result.

Fonzie and his girlfriends son are getting along together as if they were father and son, but his girlfriend reveals that she and her estranged husband are getting back together.

Richie is writing a story about fears and phobias, and he finds out that Ralph is afraid of nearly everything. While Richie, Potsie, and Ralph are visiting a professor whose specialty is fear, lab mice become agitated. The professor concludes that it is a sign that a tornado is coming.

Al thinks about taking on an investment partner to create an Arnolds franchise. When Al suggests consulting an accountant and lawyer before they complete the deal, the man hes dealing with calls in his goons to threaten Al.

Upset that the rest of the family is watching a football game instead of helping her prepare the Thanksgiving dinner, Marion reminds them of the meaning of the holiday with the story of the first Thanksgiving.

Howard and Al are co-chairmen of a Leopard Lodge fund-raiser. When the magician/escape-artist they hired injures himself while attempting the milk-can escape, Fonzie suggests another magician, the Amazing Randi.

Fonzie receives a Christmas gift from his father but is reluctant about accepting and opening it. Meanwhile, Richie and Lori Beth argue about what theyve spent on each others gifts, and Joanie is upset at Howard for getting an artificial tree.

Richie temporarily takes over a local newspapers advice column but only tells Fonzie about it. Potsie and Ralph, in an attempt to solve their continuous bickering problem, write in to Richies column. Richie, via the column, suggests they literally draw a line down the center of the room and for Ralph to stay on one side and Potsie on the other.

Its their 23rd anniversary, and Howard and Marion are angry at each other over a rate-your-mate test they took in a magazine. Richie, Fonzie, and Joanie have arranged for them to take a second honeymoon. Marion angers Howard even further when she wants everything to be exactly the same as it was on their first honeymoon.

Fonzie discovers thousands of dollars in counterfeit money hidden in a casket inside of a hearse he is working on. When he doesnt return from the funeral parlor after bringing back the hearse, the guys fear the worst.

Mork returns to 1950s Milwaukee to learn about relationships in this fifth anniversary retrospective episode.

Needing extra money, Chachi begins selling Incredo-Wax, a miracle product that will shine anything. Unfortunately, it has disastrous side effects and ruins everything it touches.

The Cunninghams and Fonzie go on vacation to Lake Pinewood. Richie and Fonzie get together with two lonely milkmaids, and, when their father catches them in his barn with his daughters, he says they will have to get married. The crossover continues on Laverne & Shirley S05E01 Shotgun Wedding (II).

The merchant seamen are in town, and with them is Rico, a sworn enemy of Fonzie. Fonzie is primed to fight, but Father Delvecchio makes him promise not to.

Wanting to have some money of his own, Richie gets a job loading papers for The Milwaukee Journal. A man named Frank, who works in the same department, doesnt like Richie right from the start.

Marion is a star in a community theatre play, and her director/co-star begins to make unwelcome advances toward her.

In a somewhat rebellious move after Howard and Marion wont let her go to Chicago for a concert, Joanie decides to become a model. However, she is unaware that the studio shoots nudes.

Unknowingly, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph are invited to a party hosted by the She Devils gang in which the Devil who brings in the biggest nerd wins a $100 prize. After Richie discovers the purpose of the party, he and the guys head for the door. However, several Devils come in carrying a sack containing a guy who jilted the sister of the gangs leader. The guy is Chachi.

Milwaukees East Boulevard Business Association, led by Howard, wants to build an expressway off-ramp through Inspiration Point. Everyone does their best to stop the construction and save Inspiration Point.

The guys and their girls go on a camping trip for their Spring vacation. Under Richies leadership, everything seems to go wrong and nobody has a good time.

Chachi accidentally sets Arnolds on fire, and Fonzie, Potsie, and Ralph are trapped inside.

After hearing from a former employee about the wonders of television advertising, Howard thinks it will help his hardware store. He hires someone to handle the advertisement who guarantees a 40 percent increase in business in exchange for complete control of the project.

Joanie thinks Chachi is losing interest in her, and Chachi thinks Joanie isnt taking him seriously. On the advice of Lori Beth, Joanie invites Chachi over for dinner on a night where she is babysitting Potsies cousins. Chachi tells Al that hes finally going to make his move with Joanie.

Potsie secures an audition as a singer for a local club. The potential success goes to his head, and he treats those around him as inferiors.

Ralphs parents are getting a divorce, and Ralph becomes depressed. Meanwhile, Marion practices for her upcomming role as the witch in a Hansel & Gretel play.

Fonzie is given the job as teacher of auto mechanics at Jefferson High School. He gets frustrated when his students dont pick everything up as quickly as he did when he was a kid.

Roger Phillips, Marions nephew, comes to Milwaukee to become an English teacher and the basketball coach at Jefferson High School. He gets off on the wrong foot with Fonzie after he inadvertently empties his locker, insults him, and crashes into his motorcycle.

On Christmas Eve, a terrible blizzard traps Howard and Joanie at the hardware store and Fonzie, Potsie, Chachi, Jenny, and Roger at Arnolds.

Al announces that hes given up his search for Rosa Coletti, a woman with whom he was involved 20 years ago. However, he receives a letter from his mother saying that shes found Rosa and that shell be coming to Arnolds next Saturday night.

Fonzie comes down with a terrible toothache but refuses to see a dentist. Meanwhile, Howard is upset about Joanies choice of attire for a wedding shes attending.

Chachi becomes jealous after seeing a kissing scene involving Joanie and another actor during rehearsals for a school musical. Fonzie also considers quitting as director.

Because shes never been to his house or met his mother, Joanie thinks that Chachi is ashamed of her. Fonzie invites the Cunninghams over to the Arcolas for dinner on Chachis behalf. Fonzie surmizes that Chachi is embarrassed of his mother and uncle and of the fact that theyre poor.

Potsie falls behind on his rent and is forced to move back in with his parents. However, after learning that Lori Beths roommate likes men who live alone, Potsie has to stay in his apartment. He tells Fonzie that he can get quick cash but wont say how.

Desperate to get Chachi on the schools basketball team, a scout for Eastern Florida University offers him a scholarship and several other superfluous perks - including a cheerleading scholarship for Joanie. Fonzie is extrememly excited for Chachi, but Howard and Roger think the scholarships are too good to be true.

Marion hurts her back before a big bowling game, but Howard finds a new partner in the lovely Fern Flagg. He had told Marion that she was an old spinster woman. Marion and Fern meet each other, and Marion is furious at Howard for lying to her about Ferns appearance. Meanwhile, Jenny receives a product in the mail called the Ajax Bust Builder.

Chachi struggles with an essay on the causes, hardships, and influences of immigration until Fonzie tells him several stories in a series of musical vignettes.

Fonzies Falcons and their rival gang, the War Mongers, attempt to settle their old scores with a game of softball. The outcome is disputed, so they end up rumbling. Marion confronts Howard about his anxiety over becomming a grandfather, and Chachi continues to try to make up with Joanie.

Chachi tells Joanie that he wants to date other girls and soon realizes that hes made a big mistake. He tries to straighten things out with her, but she goes out on a dinner date with another guy.

Fonzie and Roger are dating the same girl but dont know it. Meanwhile, Joanie is upset that she and Chachi dont go out as much as they used to, and Howard and Marion argue about love letters he wrote to her.

In order for Jenny to join the Rondells, a popular club, she has to steal a statue from Pfister Park and bring it to their clubhouse. Joanie is there to help, and they are both caught by Officer Kirk.

Joanie takes care of Richie Jr. for the weekend while Lori Beth visits Richie in Greenland, Howard and Marion go to New York on business, and Fonzie is away at a teachers convention. Jenny invites several people over for a party against Joanies wishes. On top of that, the boiler breaks down.

Joanie has to decide where she wants to go to college: UCLA or the local UWM. She wants to go to UCLA, but Howard very much wants her to go to UWM, even offering her a new car as incentive. After much deliberation, Joanie announces that shes not going to college at all.

Fonzie and Chachis grandmother becomes very upset at them for suggesting that she move into a retirement home after they observe some signs of senility.

Initially furious that the music teacher, Cynthia Brannigan, hires the Boston Conservatory Orchestra for the annual Jefferson High concert, Fonzie changes his tune when he realizes that famous composer Tchaikovsky was very much like himself. Fonzie decides to get the entire Jefferson High gang to like classical music.

Roger seeks Fonzies advice regarding his love life, Joanie and Chachi write a song for their band, Potsie tries to get into the Leopard Lodge, and Marion is the lead in her theater groups musical.

After a day of fishing with Howard, Chachi gets to thinking about his future when he realizes that being a success in the music business is a long shot. He leaves the house determined not to come back until he finds a career that would be sufficient to support Joanie should they get married one day. He tries his luck at being a salesman.

After a month of dating, Al wants to ask Chachis mom to marry him. Being an old fashioned guy, Al asks Chachis permission. He grants it but doesnt think shell want to marry Al.

Joanie and Chachi come back to Milwaukee after spending the summer in Chicago. Joanie wants to move there to be with Chachi and to continue their music career. After telling Howard and Marion her plans, which include attending Northwestern University, Howard refuses to let her go.

In an attempt to get Ashleys young daughter, Heather, to warm up to him, Fonzie takes her to the circus. Meanwhile, K. C., Howards niece, moves in with Howard and Marion while her parents look for a new boarding school. Marion asks Howard to consider letting her stay permanently.

Joanie and Chachi have the opportunity to appear on a television music show but learn that their format is folk. Meanwhile, Fonzie is upset that folk music seems to be replacing rock and roll.

Marion encourages K. C. to date, so she accepts an invitation to Arnolds Gala Costume Ball from Melvin Belvin.

When Heather asks Santa to patch up the rift between her mother and grandparents, Fonzie decides to make her wish come true. Meanwhile, K. C.s parents visit for Christmas, and a rivalry between Howard and his brother reignites.

Ashley receives an invitation to her estranged parents wedding anniversary party. She doesnt want to go, but Fonzie insists.

Fonzie hires a convict, via a work-release program, to be a mechanic at his garage. After the convict, Jim, sees K. C. perform a song at Arnolds, she invites him to dinner. Howard stops K. C. from seeing Jim after Fonzie informs him and Marion of Jims felonious past.

During a celebration of Fonzie and Ashleys six-month anniversary of their first date, they recall the events of that evening.

Fonzie and Roger miss their flight to Minneapolis for a teachers convention, so they agree to go with Potsies uncle, Omar, who has a small plane he uses for crop dusting and spreading ashes. Omar jumps out when there is trouble with the engine leaving Fonzie and Roger by themselves with no parachutes.

Fonzie babysits Heather when Ashley leaves for a tax seminar, but his attention is drawn away by a televised heavyweight title fight leaving Heather resentful toward him. Meanwhile, Joanie and Chachi return to Milwaukee after Joanie says shes sick.

Jenny dumps a nice guy to be with a former Olympic swimmer, but K. C. learns that the swimmer doesnt feel the same way about Jenny as she feels about him. Meanwhile, Fonzie wants to have a swimming pool put in the Cunninghams backyard.

New events in Joanies life cause Chachi to resent her for not having enough time for him. Each has their own solution: Joanie wants to break up, and Chachi wants to get married.

Richie (with Lori Beth and Richie Jr.) and Ralph return from the army. Howard is able to get Richie an interview with The Milwaukee Journal, but Richie doesnt appear to be interested.

After being nothing more than a coatrack for Fonzies scarf during a rumble, Chachi enters the city boxing championship tournament to earn his respect. Fonzie is elated when Chachi wins his first fight.

Fonzies long-lost brother from San Francisco, whom Fonzie didnt know existed, tracks Fonzie down in Milwaukee. Fonzie is, initially, happy to have a brother but soon comes to hate him.

Joanie accepts an assistant teaching position at Patton High and immediately encounters trouble when a student has a crush on her.

Howard is jealous and upset when Marions high-school boyfriend, Frederick, comes to visit. He becomes enraged when Frederick takes Joanie out on a date.

Fonzie meets a beautiful woman, Nancy Haley, at his garage while listening to the radio in a beat-up 1955 Chevy. He takes the woman home, but when he goes back to return her purse, an older woman tells him that the Haleys moved out ten years ago when their daughter was killed in an automobile accident.

After realizing theyre dating people that look like each other, Joanie and Chachi decide to meet in order to explore the option of getting back together. Meanwhile, Fonzie wants to adopt an orphaned boy to whom hes been a Big Brother.

Marion and Joanie take a trip to Mother Kelps to help her move. From the time they arrive, Mother Kelp does nothing but critcize Marion. Meanwhile, Howard, Fonzie, Chachi, and Roger spend the weekend playing poker.

Joanie brings home one of her students in an attempt to help her with her drug problem. The student promises Joanie that shell make changes in her life, but she immediately takes several pills after everyone has gone to bed.

With the recent death of a fellow Leopard Lodge member, Howard fears that he may be ousted as Grand Poohbah for not attracting any new members other than Potsie during his five-year reign. He gets Fonzie, Chachi, and Roger to join as pledges, and they have to follow the orders of Potsie during their initiation.