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04:03Çünkü bu kadar çok
04:08Bu bir şey var.
04:11Evet.
04:13Evet.
04:15O zamanlar bu bir şey var.
04:17Bu bir şey var.
04:19Bu ne?
04:20O zaman bu bir şey var.
04:24O zaman bu filmi çalışma,
04:25bu filmi yorulmuştu.
04:29Today is a big day.
04:31We are going to be the first family on the block to get a television set.
04:35And neighbors and friends are trying to invite themselves
04:38to this unveiling of the television set.
04:41And Richie has a decision to make.
04:43My mom didn't like you climbing through there.
04:45Invite his good friend Patsy Webber
04:47or a girl that he's trying to impress.
04:51Tell her you got a television and you're in like Flynn.
04:54And Richie chooses the girl.
04:57Round one from Madison Square Garden.
04:59There's the fighters.
05:00For the middleweight championship.
05:01It was a beautiful pilot for a TV show.
05:04I then took it to the program board and the head of research was there.
05:10And he convinced the program board that the 50s wouldn't work.
05:14Now all I have to do is stand here all night.
05:17They couldn't sell it because period shows were frowned upon by and large by the networks.
05:24One of the things I think about Happy Days is that it wasn't of its time as opposed to a Norman Lear show like All in the Family.
05:31But they did air it in 1972 as an episode of its anthology series Love American Style on ABC.
05:40And then George Lucas would watch that failed pilot and it became the springboard for Ron Howard to appear in American Graffiti.
05:59Happy Days owed its existence to the popularity of American Graffiti, a hugely popular sleeper hit in the early 1970s.
06:10And then ABC, in looking at how successful American Graffiti was, got more interested in turning Happy Days into a series.
06:18And there was a new Happy Days pilot written by Gary Marshall along with Rob Reiner, who was his then brother-in-law married to Penny Marshall.
06:27And Harold Gould, who played the father in the original pilot, wasn't available.
06:33And so they kind of seduced Tom Bosley.
06:38He was well known. He was the professional actor.
06:44So he was very reluctant to get on board.
06:48When an actor is waiting for the new TV season and he's hoping for a series, he's somewhat reluctant to take the first one that comes along.
06:59But they talked him into it and they added Aaron Moran as Joni.
07:06Aaron Moran was a sweet kid that you just fell in love with.
07:12Aaron was perfect for that show.
07:17And then Don Most had originally auditioned to play Patsy.
07:22I was auditioning for Patsy and then my agent called me a few days later, said that you didn't get the role of Patsy, but the producers, they really loved your screen test.
07:35They liked him so much that they decided to create a role for him and Ralph Malfe was born.
07:41He's a guy that he's into cars and he's kind of a wisecracking guy.
07:45You know, we had Richie and I just had a ball doing it, so.
07:50And they cast Gavin O'Herlihy as Chuck is the very mysterious older brother of Richie and Joni Cunningham.
07:58But there was still no Fonzie, Arthur the Fonz Fonzarelli.
08:04The character was envisioned to be a big, tall, tough Italian guy from the East Coast.
08:09But instead this nice young Jewish man, this graduate of Yale Drama School, Henry Winkler, very much unlike Fonzie, got the role.
08:22They were looking for a big Italian kid, you know, and they got a short German Jew.
08:27Tom Miller brought me in and had my eyebrows plucked.
08:32And they cut my hair and they combed it into a ducktail.
08:36They got me a t-shirt and a jacket and I auditioned in character.
08:39When he put that comb in his hand and slicked his hair back, he became this bigger than life character.
08:47But ABC was a little concerned about the look of the Arthur Fonzarelli character.
08:55With his leather jacket and pompadour and motorcycle, he looked like a hoodlum.
09:01I was the showrunner of Happy Days for the first two seasons.
09:05And the network had the idea that Fonzie would be perceived as a bad person.
09:13And so, to make him look less like a hoodlum, they dressed him a little bit more respectably.
09:19They gave him a windbreaker.
09:21Yeah, well that was kind of dumb.
09:23The network wanted us to deliver one camera show, which means it's shot like a movie.
09:31Not in front of an audience.
09:33So, it was a different show than what it became.
09:38When it became the most popular show on earth.
09:41There was a hope that the show might succeed.
09:45But nobody thought it would work.
09:48None of the million years did anybody think it would stay on the air.
09:53Happy Days premiered in 1974, two years after the original pilot for the show aired.
10:07A lot of them were about growing up in your first drink, your first bachelor party.
10:14Your first car, your first prom, your first tragic breakup.
10:19Good night Richard Cunningham.
10:22But not so much about Fonzie.
10:24Fonzie started out as very much a supporting character.
10:28He was this cool but mysterious guy that Richie sort of knew.
10:36And the first episode they did, he doesn't speak for the first 22 minutes.
10:43Hey Fonzie, can I talk to you for a minute?
10:45Well, remember the other day I was telling you about me and Mary Lou Milligan?
10:51He speaks in one little scene at the end.
10:53The fact is, I play chess.
10:59You play with her chest?
11:00But we're standing to see, oh, maybe there's more to this guy who rides around on a motorcycle.
11:05Maybe there's something more to him.
11:07But the windbreaker kind of made him look like a dork.
11:10So, reluctantly, the network allowed Fonzie to wear the leather jacket.
11:16That's his superhero costume.
11:17And you can instantly see why this character at this time resonated with so many people.
11:24And why that character still resonates today.
11:27In my opinion, the very first year of Happy Days was the best year.
11:33I thought it was fantastic.
11:36My brother.
11:38The episode where Richie has to dress up as a girl with Patsy for the fraternity.
11:45It was so funny.
11:47That's an excellent one where Fonzie plucks Richie by the hand, pulls him onto the dance floor, going, hey, wallflower.
11:55Wallflower, let's dance.
11:58I could look at that scene and laugh every time.
12:03And then Osa and Fonzie starts blowing into Richie's ear.
12:11And then Richie finally can't take it. He says,
12:14It's me, Richie.
12:16See, this is all part of the demon's initiation.
12:19I knew that.
12:21And then Richie's walking around looking for Patsy and he looks over and Ralph is dancing with Patsy.
12:27It was a classic. That was a classic.
12:33Happy Days did very well in its first season.
12:36It came in 16th for ABC Third Place Network.
12:40A blessing at that time.
12:42And we were picked up before the wrap party at the end of the first season for the next season.
12:48But Gary Marshall wanted to change the theme song.
12:52Well, originally the theme song was Rock Around the Clock.
12:54And so Happy Days, the song, became the theme song for the entire sitcom.
13:00Which is really what we remember now.
13:02Sunday, Monday, Happy Days.
13:05Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days.
13:08And it was a hit record.
13:10The weekend comes, my cycle hums.
13:13Ready to race to you.
13:14But what really changed, especially as the series progresses, some of the more involving episodes actually happened to revolve around Fonzie.
13:23Guess Who's Coming to Christmas is one of the most classic Christmas episodes of not just Happy Days, but of any American television series.
13:31What does it look like, Marian?
13:33It's like you're being mugged by Santa Claus.
13:35Oh!
13:37Richie is the only one that can see that when Fonzie says he doesn't need to go share Christmas with any family, well, he's lying.
13:44He has no place. He has no one. And Richie is the only one that can perceive that.
13:49And then it's about Fonzie being able to accept the help from the Cunninghams because he's a proud person.
13:58Hey, God.
14:02Thanks.
14:06Henry made Fonzie come alive in such a powerful way that, well, you've got to do stories about that character.
14:16And Linda Pearl had a recurring role as Richie's girlfriend in a few episodes.
14:23Donnie Most was a dear friend and he called and said, I'm doing this show called Happy Days and there's a role that you might be right for.
14:32I introduced her to the casting director and I said, you know, she'd be great on the show. So she got the part.
14:41And it was for Gloria. She was Ron Howard's girlfriend.
14:44Is this your new car?
14:47Yeah, this is it. Do you like it?
14:49Oh, I love it.
14:51And I remember Jerry Paris, who was the director, who was so wonderful.
14:57He had me chewing gum all the time. And when I would go to kiss Richie, I would have to take the gum out, kiss and then put the gum back.
15:04Well, okay.
15:07Okay.
15:09And any time he even got close to getting a kiss.
15:12Do you want something, Richard?
15:13Something terrible would happen.
15:14And she played it brilliantly.
15:18No, Mom.
15:22Unfortunately, the second season of Happy Days, the ratings crashed.
15:26The nostalgia angle is really what sold the show at the beginning.
15:31But the novelty appeal of Happy Days started to wear off.
15:36And we were in danger of not getting picked up.
15:39So Gary Marshall tried a last ditch effort to save the show.
15:44He turned it into a three camera show in front of an audience.
15:47Gary felt that that would give it the boost it needed.
15:49But I had never done a multi-camera show in front of an audience.
15:53I had no experience in that.
15:55We were pretty experienced in that format.
15:58So we were supposed to help Gary transition the show from the single camera format to the live audience format.
16:07So we did that experimental episode at the end of season two in front of an audience.
16:16Tonight's Happy Days was filmed before a live audience.
16:19Everybody quiet!
16:20That was an episode called Fonzie's Getting Married.
16:24He met a librarian, so he thought, who was really a stripper.
16:28The one and only lone stripper!
16:33So Fonzie had his heart broken.
16:38I went well.
16:40It was a great emotional ride, and it gave a new dimension to Fonzie's character.
16:45Fonzie!
16:48Fonzie!
16:51The audience told everybody that Fonzie was the, quote, breakout character.
16:57We could see how the character of Fonzie was really catching on.
17:02He was very sexy and funny, and I think that's what people hooked into in his character.
17:11So for the next season, it changed to a multi-camera in front of an audience, which was when Lowell took over the show.
17:20And when the big transition from it being a show about Richie to a show about Fonzie began.
17:28But when it became clear that Fonzie was the most popular aspect of the show, ABC wanted to change the name of the show to Fonzie's Happy Days.
17:39And they approached Ron Howard, who was still the nominal star of the show, and he said, I just can't do it.
17:48Henry's popularity had been growing massively.
17:59On the boys' first publicity tour, they discovered 25,000 people waiting for them to see Henry, not so much the other guys.
18:08And it was a little bit like we were a boy band.
18:12Henry was the lead singer.
18:15But it was that kind of NSYNC, sort of Edelmania kind of thing.
18:19It was kind of wild.
18:21There was a point where you almost left the show, right?
18:23They did come to me and say, well, the network would kind of like to change the name of the show to Fonzie's Happy Days.
18:30And I said, well, I don't think I want to be in that show.
18:34The one producer who wasn't there was Gary Marshall. And he said, it's not going to happen then. And that was that.
18:43Gary, I think he just felt he wasn't going to disrespect Ron.
18:49One of the stipulations for renewing the show was that it be filmed in front of a live studio audience.
18:55This required the main sets, like the Cunningham's living room, to be totally redesigned.
19:01The other big thing that they did at ABC was having Fonzie move into the guest apartment that was above the Cunningham's garage.
19:10That was logical that I moved in with the Cunningham's and I lived over the garage.
19:16And, you know, then I could be closer to the action.
19:20Okay, I'll tell you what. I'll stay here for a week. And if I don't like it, I'll leave.
19:24Ali!
19:26And Chuck was written out.
19:28In season two, they tried recasting the role with an actor named Randolph Roberts.
19:34And it just didn't take.
19:36We started doing the show, but we didn't write Chuck into the first few episodes.
19:41And nobody said anything.
19:45Nobody called us on it.
19:46And from there on out, Chuck is never mentioned again.
19:51Poor Chuck.
19:53But that season of Happy Days was the most exciting work season of my life.
20:01It was exciting. It was fresh.
20:03And the audience discovered the show in a whole new way.
20:07Fearless Fonzarelli was a two-part episode in season three.
20:13And in it, Fonzie appeared on a TV show.
20:17And he was to break the record by jumping over 14 garbage cans with his motorcycle.
20:31And he smashed into a chicken stand.
20:34Am I dead?
20:35But my personal favorite episode is called A Date with Fonzie.
20:41It's about Fonzie and Richie going on a double date with a couple of working-class girls named Laverne Shirley.
20:51And they would become played by Gary Marshall's sister, Penny, and Ron Howard's castmate from American Graffiti, Cindy Williams.
20:59Cindy Williams.
21:01Hey, Fonzie!
21:03Hey, the Fonzie-o! They're here!
21:04I remember having a lot of fun in that show because they were so great. I just remembered laughing a lot.
21:10So, Cheryl, what do you think of this kid? You been with worse?
21:13Oh, he's nice. And a tie, too.
21:16And a hanky. Is that for showing or for blowing?
21:19Well, it's been quite an evening. What do you say we go to Richie's house?
21:25Richie's seduction could not have gone worse with Shirley Feeney.
21:30So she curled up her chubby little hand and...
21:33And they start effectively making out on the floor.
21:38Oh, Richie, I'm so sorry! Oh, dear! Oh, here, let me kiss a poo-poo.
21:44Richie, we're home!
21:46Richie, we're home!
21:48And his mother, father, and sister come in.
21:50Oh, no, no, we hear something going on!
21:52And the audience went crazy.
21:54Oh, I missed it!
21:56And 114 days after A Date With Fonzie filmed, Laverne & Shirley debuted as the number one show in television.
22:06And eventually, Happy Days became the number one series in television.
22:12And the show became an international sensation.
22:15They all lost it for Fonzie.
22:18It's amazing to me that the show and the character was so important to so many people.
22:25One of the things that made Happy Days truly unique as an international powerhouse was they marketed it to the Hilt.
22:33There are over 2,000 licensed products from Happy Days.
22:37When I was going into first grade, I think everyone had that Happy Days lunchbox.
22:42It's almost unheard of, but it just showed how the show kept growing in popularity.
22:49And then, as the show matured, they added new characters that gave a new spark and purpose to the series.
22:56There's Pat Morita who would find fame during the Karate Kid.
23:01You write this stuff?
23:03Huh? I always thought the kids did it.
23:05Oh, the kids not funny. I write the good stuff.
23:08And Al Molinero.
23:09You know, my first date with Rosa Coletti was a picnic.
23:14Yeah!
23:18And Scott Bale came on as Chachi.
23:20I had done a movie called Bugsy Malone.
23:23And when the film was done, they screened it for all the executives of Paramount Studios.
23:28And one of the people in that room was Gary Marshall.
23:31And Gary said he looks like somebody that girls might like.
23:34So they brought me on to attract girls to the show.
23:38Well, I guess it worked.
23:40And he, of course, becomes a huge heartthrob.
23:44Now you all know my cousin Chachi.
23:46There's your little boyfriend.
23:47How you doing, blue eyes?
23:49What do you sound today, shrimp?
23:51Seeing those scenes with Erin, they were always a kick.
23:54It was always so much fun to watch the two of them together.
24:03And Richie would meet a woman who would eventually become his wife in the series.
24:10Linda Goodfriend.
24:12I got cast as Lori Beth.
24:14The doors are locked. She's stuck in here until five tomorrow.
24:17Oh, nuts.
24:19I think they wanted to give Ron more of a life outside of just his family now that he was growing up.
24:25I loved working with Ron. He called me Sweet Knees.
24:28You love it when I call you Sweet Knees!
24:30And that became a catchphrase for the rest of the series.
24:34There were so many catchphrases on the show.
24:37I created Sit On It.
24:38Sit On It definitely became part of the vernacular in my elementary school.
24:43Sit on it, Mal.
24:45Sit on it, Potts.
24:47Sit on it, Ponzi. Hey!
24:49Once they took a bite of that, sit on it, apple, they were trying every kind of catchphrase they could think of.
24:55Correct-a-maneu. You're stupid, bucko.
24:58Wah, wah, wah.
25:00I have no idea where it came from.
25:01Some of those originated from the actor, so I came up with, I still got it. I still got it. That became a big catchphrase.
25:13I still got it.
25:15But as the show progressed, one of the common complaints is that the writing gradually became more cartoonish.
25:25Ponzi got more and more powerful.
25:26The episode where it really started was when Ritchie, Pottsy, and Ralph...
25:32Hi, boys.
25:33...go to a cabin.
25:34Excuse us?
25:35...and they meet some girls.
25:37We'll take it.
25:38And it ends with one of the classic moments in Happy Days history.
25:43Where Fonzi, sleeping outside, can't get to sleep because the owls, the birds, the squirrels, everybody's making noise.
25:55And then Fonzi, his eyes kind of open up slowly, he's looking around, and he sits up, and then he goes...
26:02Do it!
26:04And the forest goes quiet.
26:06A great step in his expanding powers.
26:12Let's see Tarzan do that.
26:15And because he seems to have, especially as the series progresses, more and more magic powers, he can romance women by snapping his finger.
26:25He could pop a jukebox in a certain way that would bring it to life.
26:32He seems to be able to do anything.
26:36And then it just got, you know, it just started getting crazy.
26:41Like, all of a sudden, now Fonzi's like Superman.
26:44And of course, the most infamous example of that is a three-parter from the beginning of season five called Hollywood, leading to the catchphrase that will not die.
26:53The fact that we're still talking about jumping the shark 45 years later is unbelievable to me.
27:08The catchphrase, jumping the shark, is the point at which something in popular culture is less good than it used to be.
27:16This is the breaking point where the show starts to go downhill.
27:20Happy Days did a three-parter called Hollywood's parts one, two, and three.
27:25Pozzarelli.
27:26Yeah.
27:27Now here's the script for your screen test now.
27:28The Cunninghams and Fonzie travel out to Hollywood so that Fonzie can do a screen test to be in the movie.
27:35I ended up writing that episode.
27:37And all of us tease Fred Fox mercilessly about his involvement with it.
27:44So they go out to Hollywood for a screen test for Fonzie, and the family goes with them.
27:49And there was this very cocky California kid on the beach.
27:53He and Fonzie are at odds. They don't like one another at all.
27:57You up for a real challenge?
27:59Vons never ignores a challenge.
28:02We both make one jump.
28:04Well, let's make it something big.
28:06Oh, it's big all right.
28:08And the California kid taunts him into performing a risky stunt.
28:14Water skiing over a shark.
28:16Henry was really a pretty good water skier.
28:23And now jumping the shark has become its own thing.
28:26It's a great metaphor. Supposedly that's when the show started going downhill.
28:31We were number one for like six years after that.
28:34So nobody else thought we jumped the shark.
28:37Talk about jumping the shark.
28:39There was an episode where an alien comes and meets Richie and what?
28:43Up in the sky. It was fantastic. It's a flying saucer.
28:46Come on, you gotta see it.
28:47When we read that script, we were like, we would think this is like the worst script that we've had.
28:54This is like, what the hell is going on here?
28:57Fonz, I just saw a flying saucer.
29:00Hey, what are you, messo?
29:01But that episode became the launch pad for Robin Williams' career playing Mork from Orc.
29:07Wait a minute, who are you?
29:08I am Mork from Orc.
29:09I didn't know who he was. And went to the set and I saw Robin Williams. And you went, oh man. What is going on here? You know, this is remarkable.
29:26It's Robin Williams.
29:28He made it a lot, hell of a lot better than what it was. He was just coming up with all the stuff that wasn't in the script, improvising, and it started becoming really funny.
29:42Look, would you mind if I just ask you a few questions?
29:44Find away, buckle.
29:45That's great. Okay, would you just mind having a seat?
29:48The episode is so popular that it spins off onto its own show, Mork and Mindy, which made it star of Robin Williams.
30:02I get choked up thinking about Robin, who was an absolute genius and a really lovely human being.
30:13But the cast was expressing some level of dissatisfaction with the show.
30:21At a certain point, the show just became, and I'm sorry, the show became silly.
30:25It started getting a little too, you know, I thought far-fetched, ridiculous, whatever you want to call it.
30:31And I think that hurt the show.
30:33Not only do you get Westward Ho, which is a three-part Western episode.
30:39Help!
30:40With Joanie having to be rescued from a runaway stagecoach and Fonzie riding a bull.
30:47What's this rope for?
30:48You hold on to that!
30:49I knew that, I knew that.
30:50You get episodes like The Claw Meets the Fonz, in which gangsters are moving in on Arnold's territory.
30:58One of whom has a mechanical claw hand, like a James Bond villain.
31:05Was...
31:08Weird!
31:09It was, it was dumb.
31:11So Ronnie Howard came out to my house and he felt like he had lost the show that he had in.
31:19It was pushing too hard.
31:21He understood why it was happening, but he just felt bad that it was.
31:26And Donnie always felt that it was also restricting what he could do.
31:30And I think that's why when both his and Ron Howard's initial contract was up, Ron and Don chose to leave the show.
31:38At the end of season seven, Ron Howard and Don Most decided not to go on with the show.
31:55We kind of knew that Ron Howard was going to leave. Ron always wanted to direct.
31:59My contract was up and I wanted to become a director and it was very hard.
32:02How did that work out?
32:04You're still working on it.
32:05You're still working on it.
32:06You're still working on it.
32:07You might make it.
32:08Don leaving the show was a bit of a shock.
32:13I'd done seven seasons and I felt like it was changing and it wasn't to me growing anymore.
32:19It was, so I wasn't real happy.
32:22And so it is explained that Richie and Ralph joined the army and they are stationed in Greenland.
32:33And we only get occasional updates about what they are doing up in Greenland.
32:38I want you to perk up your ears because you're going to have an audio party here. Richie wrote me a letter.
32:44I wasn't worried about the show failing after Don and Ron left at all.
32:49Because at that point, I was about as big as you could get on television.
32:52I don't want to say I was carrying the show, but Henry and I were the show.
32:56Henry and I and Aaron. That was the show.
32:59Happy Days got very lucky because they brought in a young man to play Marian's nephew, Roger.
33:08He was played by Ted McGinley, who fit in really well.
33:13It's good to see. It's been so long.
33:17Boy, have you grown.
33:19But not even he is the greatest addition to the show.
33:22That title goes to Cathy Silver's daughter of legendary comedian Phil Silvers,
33:28who plays Jenny Piccolo, the boy-crazy, wild-acting friend of Joni Cunningham.
33:35I'll be right outside the door if you want to get married or anything.
33:38And I'm talking anything.
33:40And then we looked at Fonzie's life and said that he's never had a serious relationship.
33:46And so, when they're looking for a regular girlfriend for Fonzie,
33:51they think, we need a Linda Pearl type.
33:55My agent called and said they're looking for a Linda Pearl type.
34:00So, we called and said, well, can Linda audition for a Linda Pearl type?
34:06So, it was so much fun to come back to that show
34:09because it allowed me to come back in as a different character,
34:13entirely different character.
34:15Look, I don't know who you are or why you are following me,
34:17but if you don't stop, I will have the owner throw you out.
34:20That's going to be a little difficult to do because I am the owner.
34:23And we really did get to see a different part of Fonzie.
34:27Call me Fonzie.
34:29Fonzie?
34:30Yeah.
34:31Let go of my hand.
34:34There is an episode guest starring a young man named Mr. Tom Hanks
34:40called A Little Case of Revenge.
34:44He has hated the Fonz for decades.
34:46And it all comes to a head with a spectacular martial arts battle.
34:51Are you ready to face oblivion?
34:53Between Henry Winkler.
34:55I'm ready for you and him.
34:57And Tom Hanks at Arnold's.
35:00Tom Hanks was fantastic.
35:02Gary Marshall was very good at finding people that became very popular.
35:08And Gary Marshall wanted to continue to capitalize on that.
35:13So Aaron Moran and Scott Baio were moved over to their own show, Joni Loves Chachi.
35:23We went on to do Joni Loves Chachi, which was a mistake because she and I didn't like each other.
35:30We started dating, and I don't recommend anybody to ever do that on a TV show.
35:35Ever.
35:36Because it always ends up badly.
35:42And it did.
35:45And the premise was no good.
35:48It just wasn't a good idea.
35:50And it just fizzled.
35:52So Joni and Chachi did not get picked up.
35:55And they returned to the show.
35:57And we were fortunate that Ron Howard and Don Most wanted to come home for a visit.
36:03Joni?
36:04Wow!
36:06Wow!
36:07Give me a break.
36:08I just got out of the army.
36:10It had been four years since we had done the show.
36:13And it was really great coming back and reuniting with everybody.
36:18And they came back for probably one of the most impactful shows we ever did.
36:24The scene where Richie and Fonz, they say goodbye to one another, just blows me away.
36:29Tears.
36:30Tears.
36:31I just want to tell you that I love you.
36:36Very much.
36:39But, unfortunately, the ratings were down.
36:43The A-Team with Mr. T became the biggest thing on TV since Fonzie.
36:50The powers that be certainly thought that this was going to be the end.
36:55Happy Days was in definite peril at the end of its 11th season.
37:07The ratings were down, and Gary Marshall was fearful that the show would be canceled.
37:14And, unfortunately, Happy Days is canceled in the summer of 1984.
37:20And there were some people on the show who felt that it was kind of timed.
37:25That this engine that had brought so much to so many for so long had kind of run out of gas.
37:33But some of the cast was absolutely stricken that the show was not going to continue.
37:41But there was nothing, ultimately, really to be sad about because what a ride.
37:47Very few shows actually need to do a final episode.
37:51But I thought the audience was owed that.
37:54I thought it was really the kind of thing a show that meant that much to that many people for that long needed to do.
38:02Happy Days, the final two-parter, was titled Passages, which ends with Joni and Chachi getting married.
38:08We are gathered here to join together Joni and Louise Cunningham and Charles Chachi Chachi Chachi.
38:18We wanted to do something really special.
38:21And we were fortunate to have Ron back in Passages, our hour-long finale.
38:27At the end, when Tom Bosley breaks the fourth wall, talks to the audience and thanks everyone, and we kind of lost it.
38:34So, thank you all for being part of our family.
38:39To Happy Days.
38:41I don't think anybody up until that moment realized what was happening.
38:44I watched the final episode at home, just sitting there with my wife, and the end credits ended, and the instant it went to black, I broke out in tears, the likes of which I had never shed.
38:58And it was very hard, very tough to say goodbye. It had been my life for eight years.
39:05Working on the show was the most exciting time of my life still to this day. It was a tremendous experience.
39:13That cast was probably the single best cast overall I've ever worked with.
39:19It was just an amazing, amazing time.
39:23For me, it was sad because I felt like that was a big chunk of my life.
39:29It was tough, but it was great because I had another show to go to.
39:32I got offered Charles in Charge right in the last season of Happy Days. I was like, okay, see ya. I got this gig to go to.
39:40I had mixed feelings because I had such an unbelievably wonderful experience doing the show.
39:47I wouldn't have traded it for anything. I mean, working with these people behind the scenes and in front of the camera, working with Jerry Paris and Gary Marshall and Bill Bickley and Lowell Gans and Brian and Freddie.
40:02You know, wonderful, wonderful experiences.
40:05And people are still watching it. People are talking about it.
40:09We get references to Happy Days turning up in movies and television shows all the time.
40:15We're all gonna be like three little Fonzies here. And what's Fonzie like?
40:20Come on, Yolanda, what's Fonzie like?
40:22Cool.
40:23What?
40:24Cool.
40:25Correctamundo.
40:26There's so many references in shows like The Simpsons.
40:30It'll be great to see the old gang again.
40:33Hertsy.
40:35Ralph Mouth.
40:36The Ferns.
40:37Family Guy.
40:38Please rise.
40:40Now sit on it.
40:42And if you look at television and film history, you'll see how it's dominated by the people who worked on and acted in and directed Happy Days.
40:56You look at the 200 films and television shows that Ron Howard has produced and directed.
41:03You look at Henry Winkler's career, and Anson has directed over 150 episodes of television.
41:11We recently had a reunion. The four guys back together again for the first time.
41:17The Happy Days Core Four, Rod Howard, Henry Winkler, Anson Williams, and Donny Mose came together for Steel City Con in Pittsburgh over the weekend.
41:26My gosh, it was a little surreal, but at the same time it was like we had just gone back in time and all those years hadn't passed.
41:34And I was so surprised at so many people coming up to me, getting emotional and telling, you have no idea how much that, what that show meant to me.
41:43It was incredibly rewarding, fulfilling to hear people say that, and so surprising, you know, really surprising.
41:50It was, um, quite amazing.
41:52It just shows you the power of that show. It's powerful.
41:58Hey!
42:13Hey!