The essential episodes of Happy Days
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Happy Days — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Potsie sets Richie up with a girl known to have a reputation. Richie doesn't get far with her but leads Fonzie and others to believe he did.
- 02
When Potsie is invited to his cousin who just came home from his service in the Marine's bachelor party, he invites Richie to go with him. While there, the boys get into trouble after participating in several drinking games.
- 03
With Potsie's parents out of town for the weekend, he's staying with the Cunningham's, much to Howard's displeasure. The first night he's there, the boys learn that a classmate challenged Fonzie to a drag race in Ralph's newly suped car. When Howard discovers what the boys are up to, he goes down to where the race is taking place, and is soon picked up with the kids by the cops.
- 04
Richie buys tickets to a rock and roll show from Fonzie but has to work at the hardware store when Howard needs to have his tonsils removed. Because he'll be working until 9:00 PM, he won't be able to go to the show, so he asks Fonzie for a refund. Later, Howard tells Richie that he can close the store at 5:00 PM leaving him free to go to the show. He, now, has to ask Fonzie for the tickets back.
- 05
Howard wants to buy a bomb shelter to protect his family. Problems quickly arise when several of Richie's friends ask if they can use it.
- 06
Howard Cunningham agrees to buy one of Fonzie's overhauled dragsters as a second family car but Richie soon discovers that its red color may not be the only reason that the hotrod's hot.
- 07
Richie is continually harassed by local hoodlums Frankie and Rocko. When they humiliate him in front of his girlfriend at Arnold's, he turns to Fonzie for advice in turning the tables on his foes and he ends up enrolling in a jujitsu class.
- 08
Big brother Richie rides to the rescue when little sister Joanie is asked for more than she's ready to give to become a gang-leader's girlfriend.
- 09
No one believes Richie's claims that he not only saw a flying saucer but personally interviewed its pilot, an alien named Mork, who tried to take him back to planet Ork as an example of an average, humdrum human.
- 10
Mischievous Mork from Ork takes a break from earth year 1979, where he has been assigned to observe humanity, to visit 1950's Richie Cunningham, get a dose of humdrum and learn about relationships.
- 11
The Fonz stands in for his best friend when the Cunninghams and the rest of the gang arrange a wedding by proxy for Lori Beth and Richie after Army red tape tangles the couple's efforts to get the bride-to-be to Greenland.
- 12
Joanie regrets agreeing to join a popular girls' club with friend Jenny Piccalo when the snobby club officers try to keep Jenny from passing the initiation ritual by altering it to include stealing a park statue.
- 13
The Fonz keeps his cool after a clerical error lands him and his 4-F knee in an Army reserves training camp just before little Heather's birthday; but he doesn't know that his commanding officer is someone he knows...and hates...all too well, and who believes that he finally has Fonzie right where he's always wanted him.
- 14
Fonzie gets a surprise visit from a half-brother he never knew he had; but, although the two share the same name, they soon find that they don't have much in common...or do they?
- 15
Fonzie, Roger and Chachi soon regret agreeing to help Howard Cunningham save his Grand Poobah position by becoming new Leopard Lodge recruits when they find out their pledge master is prankster Potsie "Sabu" Weber.
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