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Do these events happen before or after Fonzie jumps the shark?
"Eyyyy" for "After."
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The Happy Days episode "Hollywood: Part Three" features one of the most legendary moments in television history.
In what has since become short-hand for "The moment a show becomes bad," Arthur Fonzarelli water skis over a shark. Yes, that's right. Milwaukee-based leather orphan The Fonz somehow finds his way airborne over a great white. It's amazing. It's ridiculous. It's probably a lot worse than you remember.
So, because it's such a watershed moment, and has become a part of the lexicon, we want to zoom in and see how well you know the rest of Happy Days. See if you can tell us whether these events happened before or after that fateful jump!
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Chachi is introduced
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Richie and friends meet an alien named Mork
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The Cunninghams head to Colorado to rescue a dude ranch
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Fonzie attempts to jump 14 garbage cans
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The gang persuades Fonzie to play the lead in Hamlet
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Fonzie declares his support for Dwight Eisenhower
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Fonzie gets shot
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Joanie turns 16
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Al Delvecchio debuts
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The final appearance of Suzi Quatro as Leather Tuscadero
Do these events happen before or after Fonzie jumps the shark?
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I find the "Disappearance Of Chuck Cunningham Incident" disturbing that it was not mentioned in the quiz...
9/10. AAAYYY!!!
8 of 10.
"You got 8 out of 10. You did it!"
The "Jumping the Shark" theory really does apply to a moment when a show doesn't maintain
standards as it once did.
I think a solid argument could be made that the series changed after season 4, it was no longer true
to it's original vision. I always wondered if Marshall handed over the day to day show running to
someone else, I would bet on it, it just didn't feel the same.
Does anyone know if Marshall concentrated on other projects instead?
Sure it still produced good episodes in the later seasons, some very good, with the characters
we came to like so, but it just wasn't as good.
Chachi was a mistake, he didn't so much evolve as get more irritating. Scott Biao even
more so, nobody was more impressed with him than himself, he pure lucked out getting on
a hit show, as a kid actor he should never be mentioned in the same breathe as Ron Howard.
I guess it's hard not to get a clinker with a large cast, even TAGS had grumpy Miss Crump,
a real misfire when they could have had Joanna Moore instead.
At least in my opinion.
The "Jumping the Shark" theory really does apply to a moment when a show doesn't maintain
standards as it once did.
I think a solid argument could be made that the series changed after season 4, it was no longer true
to it's original vision. I always wondered if Marshall handed over the day to day show running to
someone else, I would bet on it, it just didn't feel the same.
Does anyone know if Marshall concentrated on other projects instead?
Sure it still produced good episodes in the later seasons, some very good, with the characters
we came to like so, but it just wasn't as good.
Chachi was a mistake, he didn't so much evolve as get more irritating. Scott Biao even
more so, nobody was more impressed with him than himself, he pure lucked out getting on
a hit show, as a kid actor he should never be mentioned in the same breathe as Ron Howard.
I guess it's hard not to get a clinker with a large cast, even TAGS had grumpy Miss Crump,
a real misfire when they could have had Joanna Moore instead.
At least in my opinion.
9/10 I got the Al Delvecchio question wrong... I got confused 🤔😕
9/10.
7/10. Never much of a fan.
6/10. Guess I'll have to sit on it.
8/10 Liked the show when it was new, but it has become another old show I don't rewatch.
9/10, and guessed. I remember watching that episode a while back, out of curiosity. The cardboard fin swimming in a hula-hoop, the stock footage, the guy in the bathrobe doing a bad Jack Benny impression. So bad. It's like Garry Marshall locked the writers in a room with drugs and alcohol for a week, and this is what they came up with. Kudos for Winkler doing his own water-sking, in a leather jacket.
Are you sure? I always thought that was a stuntman! And I'm sure Winkler said he NEVER waterskied before that episode!
Yes! I read his auto-biography (good read) and he used to water ski at summer camp. It is him. (and he jumped over a cardboard fin, so the worst that could happen was a paper-cut.)
7/10. And I stopped watching after the second season because it just became the Fonzie show.
2 bonus questions: [1] Was Pinky Tuscadero BEFORE or AFTER? [2] In 6, who did Richie support for President and why? Hint: He's related to ANOTHER MeTV performer!
1.before. 2.Adalai Stevenson. 3. MASH's Mclean Stevenson.
You left out why Richie supported Stevenson! Obviously it was to get a girlfriend!
Well, who hasn't done that? I read that Adalai and Mclean lived next to each other and Adalai would babysit him.
8/10
8 out of 10.
7/10..
6 out of 10. Eyyyy!
8/10. Missed 3 and 10.
10 - 10! AAAYYY!
7/10
Sit on it, MeTV.