to get the same sort of slapstick and physical comedy. i mean, we never thought about its importance, except that, you know, it was two girls trying, and the value of friendship. it must have something going for it. i don t vo-dee-oh-doe-doe. you vo-dee-oh-doe-doe. i don t vo-dee-oh-doe-doe. they couldn t say sex, so they said vo-dee-oh-doe. you voe-dee-oh. everybody knew what they were talking about. once. my son didn t watch laverne & shirley or happy days. i said, you don t like it? he says, i like it, but what s missing? spacemen! cause we were getting into space. and so that s when i created a spaceman. whoo-oo-oo! wait a minute. who are you? i am mork from ork. the writers all rolled their eyes. an alien? he wants an alien. i had to make up a story fonzie s running out of adversaries. that s right. fonzie s never lost a.yet. and we got the home-planet advantage.
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. oh, you guys are really m wow! it wasn t by accident everybody on happy days hugs each other. it wasn t by accident everybody in the family ate at the same time at the same table. shales: it was a sweet tender show in the vein of american graffiti. looking back on that era of the 50s with a certain affection. ay-y-y! abc wanted fonzie s ay-y-y to compete directly with jimmy j.j. walker s dy-no-mite! cause i m the fonz! ay-y-y! catchphrases were big. sit on it, marvin! sit on it, marvin! sit on it, howard. does anyone say, thank you, arnold ? no. you know what they say? sit on it, arnold. sit on it, arnold. that s what they say. you watch fonzie, and you just want to be fonzie. [ snaps fingers ] aww.