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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  1. Chachi is introduced
  2. Richie and friends meet an alien named Mork
  3. The Cunninghams head to Colorado to rescue a dude ranch
  4. Fonzie attempts to jump 14 garbage cans
  5. The gang persuades Fonzie to play the lead in Hamlet
  6. Fonzie declares his support for Dwight Eisenhower
  7. Fonzie gets shot
  8. Joanie turns 16
  9. Al Delvecchio debuts
  10. The final appearance of Suzi Quatro as Leather Tuscadero

Do these events happen before or after Fonzie jumps the shark?

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47 Comments

LarryMMM 2 months ago
I find the "Disappearance Of Chuck Cunningham Incident" disturbing that it was not mentioned in the quiz...
cperrynaples LarryMMM 2 months ago
There wasn't really a date on that, but it was BEFORE!
AndyHillis LarryMMM 1 month ago
Disturbing
MikefromJersey 2 months ago
"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.
ClassicTVRocks 2 months ago
9/10 I got the Al Delvecchio question wrong... I got confused 🤔😕
Snickers 2 months ago
6/10. Guess I'll have to sit on it.
jd4862 2 months ago
8/10 Liked the show when it was new, but it has become another old show I don't rewatch.
Bapa1 2 months ago
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.
cperrynaples Bapa1 2 months ago
Are you sure? I always thought that was a stuntman! And I'm sure Winkler said he NEVER waterskied before that episode!
Bapa1 cperrynaples 2 months ago
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.)
frenchman71 2 months ago
7/10. And I stopped watching after the second season because it just became the Fonzie show.
cperrynaples 2 months ago
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!
Bapa1 cperrynaples 2 months ago
1.before. 2.Adalai Stevenson. 3. MASH's Mclean Stevenson.
cperrynaples Bapa1 2 months ago
You left out why Richie supported Stevenson! Obviously it was to get a girlfriend!
Bapa1 cperrynaples 2 months ago
Well, who hasn't done that? I read that Adalai and Mclean lived next to each other and Adalai would babysit him.
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