i had to make up a story. fonzi is running out of adversaries. that s right, fonzi never lost a hall attacker yet. we got the home planet advantage. then we ve got him on his own show. and mork & mindy was the hit show of the 70s. the audience, talk about a willing suspension of disbelief, is willing to buy the premise. mind if i do? just so they can watch robin williams. nanu-nanu. well, excuse me! that was an interesting part of the balance, i think, of the television diet. that there was an attempt to explore deeper into the psyche of what makes us tick. but there was also, you know, a need to escape. i m going to a beach barbecue. uh-huh. i can see what s going to heat up the coals. if there s any single phenomenon that has tilted the ratings books in abc s direction, it s t & a.
now that dinner is over, let s try out the piano. oh, good. i am taking requests. sunday monday happy days i created happy days not what a family really was. i thought it would be good if there were some families that didn t get divorced. you guys are really it wasn t by accident everybody on happy days hugged each other. it wasn t by accident that everybody in the family ate at the same time at the same table. it was a sweet, tender show. in the vein of american graffiti. looking back on the era of the 50s with a certain affection. haaay! abc wanted fonzi s haaay to compete directly with jimmy j.j. walker s dynomite. cause i m the fonz! haaay! catch phrases were big. sit on it, marvin! sit on out howard. does any one say, thank you,
arnold? no. you know what they say? sit on it, arnold. that s what they say. you watch fonzi and you just want to be fonzi. oh. hey, girls. knock yourselves out. i m really sorry, it was a slip of the fingers, slip of the fingers. it s a fantasy of what teen life could be. hey, dafazio. they re here. all right. laverne. this is laverne dafazio. she s mine. this is shirley feeney. she s yours. as you can see. nice to meet you, ritchie. my pleasure. when laverne & shirley made a guest appearance, one of the cameramen said, look at this two shot. that s a series. shamele, shamozle hossenfere incorporated. tuesday night between 8:00 and 9:00 is called the death spot, death to any program that dares to go head-on against abc s happy days and laverne & shirley. laverne & shirley was one of the few sitcoms that debuted as number one. the absolute top number one show this season is laverne &
shake, shake, shake, shake up the - you re in these people s homes for years. you re a part of the family. one good thing about moving here, is i have no friends, and no distractions. that s why i got a - grandma, what does fonzi say? ayyy! the family sitcom brings people together in a really unexpected way. there s so many different dynamics at work in families. i want you here, it will give us a chance to get re-acquainted. that implies we were acquainted at one point. there s a lot of pain, there s a lot of laughter. you sort of recognize your dynamic in there. and you go, well their family is just as crazy as mine. i don t care who kissed who and who s got a pimple on her head, and who is wearing an outrageously inappropriate dress. we are going to get together and act like a normal family for one tenth of a freaking second and we re going to do it right now. it s amazing to sort of track the history of the family sitcom, because you can really see so much abo
you guys are really it wasn t by accident everybody on happy days hugged each other. it wasn t by accident that everybody in the family ate at the same time at the same table. it was a sweet, tender show. in the vein of american graffiti. looking back on the era of the 50s with a certain affection. abc wanted fonzi s haaay to compete directly with jimmy j.j. walker s dynomite. cause i m the fonz! haaay! catch phrases were big. sit on it! sit on out howard. does any one say, thank you, arnold? no. you know what they say? sit on it, arnold. that s what they say. you watch fonzi and you just want to be fonzi. oh. hey, girls. knock yourselves out. i m really sorry it was a slip of the fingers, slip of the fingers. it s a fantasy of what teen life could be.