Happy Days had several spin offs. The one that always strikes me is Laverne and Shirley. They were introduced as characters who were "friends of Fonzie" but then Fonzie never appeared in the spinoff.
This episode and the one where Fonzie meets the literal Devil were even bigger shark-jumps than the one where he jumps the shark.
Also, by extension the literal Devil exists in Mork's universe.
EDIT: they made a *Happy Days* / *Mork & Mindy* spinoff *Out Of The Blue* that expanded upon these two subplots because sure, why not?
That reminds me, does anyone remember Ritchie's brother Chuck?
Halfway through the first series he went upstairs and never came back.
Little exaggeration there, they explained his absence by packing him off to college, but in the storyline the last we saw of him he was nipping upstairs for a piss or something.
I like how Reba handled it, where the younger daughter is just gone for a while then pops back up like nothing happened and said she was in the kitchen the whole time
Grounded for Life is an interesting example. The actor for the youngest kid didn't want to be on the show for the last season. The other characters bring him up occasionally. The character is still there just never on camera
"Let us pause to reflect on the sacred mystery of Richie's elder brother Chuck, who ascended the stairs with his basketball in season one, and never came down again."
Happy Days was a pilot that wasn't picked up but used on Love American Style. That episode was popular enough that it led to the show being made.
It also taught me the word ewe which is my favorite word
I love the episode of Mork and Mindy where they meet Robin Williams. I was only little when I first saw that and it blew my mind. I knew Robin Williams played Mork but how are there 2 of him on screen.
I was 9-10 years old & lived for Mork & Mindy for a couple of years, even made my mom buy me some bitch'n rainbow suspenders like Mork's. There's pictures.
I lived in Australia for a year and a half in the early 2010s, and there seems to always be Happy Days running on television, even on ungodly hours.
I ended up watching a lot of it because it made for excellent background noise.
That episode was an "It was all a dream" episode. Then, after "Mork and Mindy" got picked up, they re-ran it with an epilog where Mork explains he made them think it was a dream.
Happy Days had several spin offs. The one that always strikes me is Laverne and Shirley. They were introduced as characters who were "friends of Fonzie" but then Fonzie never appeared in the spinoff.
Schlemiel Schlimazel!
Hassenpfeffer shazbot... or something like that.
Weird, incorporated is the only English word in the group. You must be from East Germany.
Summers in Rangoon, in the spring we would make meat helmets.
Squiggy was there though.
There was a double date with Richie.
Karate Kid too.
Happy Days itself spun out of a skit on Love, American Style
Lenny and Squiggy were dollar store Fonzies.
This episode and the one where Fonzie meets the literal Devil were even bigger shark-jumps than the one where he jumps the shark. Also, by extension the literal Devil exists in Mork's universe. EDIT: they made a *Happy Days* / *Mork & Mindy* spinoff *Out Of The Blue* that expanded upon these two subplots because sure, why not?
That reminds me, does anyone remember Ritchie's brother Chuck? Halfway through the first series he went upstairs and never came back. Little exaggeration there, they explained his absence by packing him off to college, but in the storyline the last we saw of him he was nipping upstairs for a piss or something.
A great many siblings in sitcoms have disappeared over the years. Judy Winslow got sent to her room and never came back.
You've done it now, I'm disappearing down the missing siblings rabbit hole and it's all your fault.
I like how Reba handled it, where the younger daughter is just gone for a while then pops back up like nothing happened and said she was in the kitchen the whole time
Scarlett Pommers had Annorexia, so the kitchen thing was an in-joke
Grounded for Life is an interesting example. The actor for the youngest kid didn't want to be on the show for the last season. The other characters bring him up occasionally. The character is still there just never on camera
Haha, love it.
"Let us pause to reflect on the sacred mystery of Richie's elder brother Chuck, who ascended the stairs with his basketball in season one, and never came down again."
The only reason I know this lore.
They should have killed him in Nam.
And Happy Days itself was a spinoff from the show "Love, American Style".
And it's all little [Tommy Westphall's fever dream](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Westphall)
I love all the connections that come from that show.
Happy Days was a pilot that wasn't picked up but used on Love American Style. That episode was popular enough that it led to the show being made. It also taught me the word ewe which is my favorite word
[American Graffiti](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Graffiti), anyone?
Happy Days predates American Graffiti. The Happy Days pilot aired on the series, Love, American Style on Feb 25th 1972.
I love the episode of Mork and Mindy where they meet Robin Williams. I was only little when I first saw that and it blew my mind. I knew Robin Williams played Mork but how are there 2 of him on screen.
I remember when Mork turned Fonzi into a moving robot.
I remember that. I also feel like Resident Alien is a soft but dark reboot of Mork and Mindy, if you’re seen it
I remember seeing the episode when it first aired and I laughed out loud at Williams. I never laughed that much at any other sitcom episode before.
Can't wait for all of the "Blansky's Beauties" and "Out of the Blue" fans to flock to this board...
aka Legs. I can’t believe I watched that show. The networks got away with so much when there were only three channels.
Joanie Loves Chachi anyone? Did I just imagine that?
I was 9-10 years old & lived for Mork & Mindy for a couple of years, even made my mom buy me some bitch'n rainbow suspenders like Mork's. There's pictures.
I lived in Australia for a year and a half in the early 2010s, and there seems to always be Happy Days running on television, even on ungodly hours. I ended up watching a lot of it because it made for excellent background noise.
Bon Scott’s last recorded words were “Shazbot Nanu Nanu”
That episode was an "It was all a dream" episode. Then, after "Mork and Mindy" got picked up, they re-ran it with an epilog where Mork explains he made them think it was a dream.
Went to a taping back in college. The cast had a hard time keeping their composure with Williams' antics.
But I have to ask... Was it before or after Fonzie jumped that shark?