The worst episodes of Happy Days
Ranked by viewer rating, lows first. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
Richie gets a call from Fonzie to see him at his garage. When Richie arrives he finds Fonzie finishing up repairs on a hearse - in whose casket is contained thousands of dollars in counterfeit money. Fonzie recognizes the funeral home that owns the hearse is a front for illegal movement of counterfeit money, and Richie tells him to call the police.
- 02
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.
- 03
To make some money, Richie, Potsie, Ralph, and Bag form a band. They secure a gig, but Richie and Potsie lose the money (including that of Ralph and Bag) playing poker.
- 04
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.
- 05
Richie and Potsie, in their never-ending effort to get girls, decide that they want to join a gang called the Demons. However, in order to be accepted, they have to perform several dares.
- 06
Cindy, a new girl in school, asks Richie to tutor her. Richie is interested in more than just studying and makes several attempts to win her over.
- 07
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.
- 08
Richie and his girlfriend, Arlene, break up after two weeks of dating. Neither of them have dates for the prom, so they end up going together as friends.
- 09
Richie meets a beatnik named Diedre at the movies and gets caught up in her type of lifestyle.
- 10
Richie feels that he doesn't have enough privacy, so he decides to move in with Chuck. He quickly discovers, though, that bachelor life isn't quite what he expected it to be.
- 11
After taking a look at a B+ Potsie got on an exam, Fonzie decides to drop back into school. He asks Richie to do his homework and cheat for him.
- 12
Richie and Potsie obtain fake identification cards in order to attend a burlesque show where Ralph says Bubbles McCall takes it all off.
- 13
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.
- 14
Richie and Potsie talk Mr. C into letting them buy a car so Richie won't always have to borrow the family car. However, with the amount of money that the boys have pooled together, they can only afford a lemon.
- 15
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.
- 16
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.
- 17
Richie is put in an awkward situation when he is set up with a girl much taller than he is. Meanwhile, Howard is frustrated by Marion's ineptness at playing bridge.
- 18
Howard's old army buddy, a black man, asks Howard to be the best man at his wedding. Howard and Marion consider holding the wedding at their home when the man can't find anyone else willing to do it.
- 19
Richie gets on the good side of a local gang, the Dukes, when he protects the leader's sister from being picked on. However, things change when the Dukes steal Potsie's bike, and Richie tries to get it back.
- 20
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.
- 21
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.
- 22
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.
- 23
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.
- 24
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.
- 25
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.
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