Aaaayyyyyyy!

I've always loved the story about how Winkler ad-libd his own hair combing scene. Paraphrased: "I told them that I wouldn't comb my hair on camera." Aaaaaaaay.

/rides a Triumph
//modern, tho - she runs every day

To calrify, I meant that the character was so cool that when he looked in the mirror, everything was perfect and no hair-combing was needed. Aaaaaaay.

/hardly the reality for motorcyclists, but still, it was a good call.

/aaaaaaay

log_jammin: Ghastly: the network suits didn't like the Fonzi character at first because they were worried about complaints from angry parents over a delinquent being depicted as cool

shiat like that never fails to amuse me.

I can't even watch an old episode of three's company with thinking "...this was risqué when I was 3 years old. roommates.."

Preach. I was a very young kid in those days. So now when I watch the show on Nick@Nite or whatever I think, "I was alive when that seemed unusual."

I've had dual female roommates, and as much as I'd like to tell you that I had a threesome by drunken proxy, it didn't happen. Godammitsomuch.

Ghastly: Actually the Harley Davidson "Knucklehead" which was Fonzi's first bike in the show before it was replaced with the smaller, more manageable Triumph still exists and is in a museum. Fun fact, Henry Winkler was terrified of motorcycles and couldn't ride. Stage hands would push him off camera on the bike and he would coast into shot. He found it too difficult to control the Harley so they ended up replacing it with the Triumph which he found easy to control.

To be fair, another way of putting it is that the Triumph simply had better ergos and handling. "Easier" can be construed to mean "designed to perform." I'm a raging motorcycle veteran and even I don't want to deal with a Knucklehead while working.

/in your internets, fanboyin' ;)

How many sharks can it jump over?

I submitted this a few days ago with a link to the original DM article this article links to, but I'm not bitter. Much.....


And if anyone looks at the original article, is it not obvious that they are not the same bike? The Triumph at the top has the exhausts leaving the block at 45 degrees. The pictures below from the auction show the exhaust facing forward. There a few other details that are different as well, but they could have been modified.

/Handlebars look different as well.

It should be noted that "sitting on it" will give you the clap. Twice. Aaaay!

Sybarite: The tricky part of the repairs that need to be done on the bike is that you have to do them by feel alone while temporarily blind.

Gold right there! good memories...

Old Fonz hawking One Reverse Mortgage
Link (Eyyyy!)

ayyyyyyyyyyyy++++++ would ride again

1949 Triumph?! No wonder he was a mechanic.

Those were the days ... you had a total of three television stations plus PBS so everyone watched the same shows and the next day at school everyone would talk about them.

Jake Havechek: I think it was a combination of the California episodes and the introduction of Chachi that killed the show.

This.

Everybody blames Ted McGinley but Scott Baio ruined it before he got there. Chachi is where Happy Days really jumped the shark. I remember thinking as soon as they brought him on, "it's Cousin Oliver with greased hair."

/not the last time he had to step in to replace Henry Winkler
//he skews younger

Jake Havechek: Three's Company

my fave episode of three's company is the one with the misunderstanding that led to hilarity.

Bravo to subby for not using the obvious shark jump reference, and getting clever with it.

dickfreckle: I've always loved the story about how Winkler ad-libd his own hair combing scene. Paraphrased: "I told them that I wouldn't comb my hair on camera." Aaaaaaaay.

/rides a Triumph
//modern, tho - she runs every day

I loved how he did it as the lawyer on Arrested Development. F'in brilliant piece of television that was.

Andrew Wiggin: Jake Havechek: Three's Company

my fave episode of three's company is the one with the misunderstanding that led to hilarity.

Or that one where Mr Roper made a joke and then turned and smiled at the camera.

Flint Ironstag: I submitted this a few days ago with a link to the original DM article this article links to, but I'm not bitter. Much.....


And if anyone looks at the original article, is it not obvious that they are not the same bike? The Triumph at the top has the exhausts leaving the block at 45 degrees. The pictures below from the auction show the exhaust facing forward. There a few other details that are different as well, but they could have been modified.

/Handlebars look different as well.

The top picture could be a 650cc engine? Or a two carb head vs the single carb head.

/prefer the BSA Gold Star of that era.

Andrew Wiggin: Jake Havechek: Three's Company

my fave episode of three's company is the one with the misunderstanding that led to hilarity.

My favorite misunderstanding was when Mr Roper/Mr Furley was listening in while Jack and Chrissy were in the bathroom trying to put up a shower curtain.

"Jack, it's not going to fit."
"Well, Chrissy. You have to unfold it first."

To this day, I still can't believe that away with that back then. These days, I can't believe Arrested Development got away with:

"Get rid of the Seaward."
"I'll leave when I'm good and ready."

Andrew Wiggin: Jake Havechek: Three's Company

my fave episode of three's company is the one with the misunderstanding that led to hilarity.

My favorite Happy Days episode is the one where the nerds get themselves into a jam and Fonzie has to get them out of it.

Oh, wait..wasn't that just about every one after the second season?

Jake Havechek: zappaisfrank: Andrew Wiggin: Jake Havechek: Three's Company

my fave episode of three's company is the one with the misunderstanding that led to hilarity.

My favorite Happy Days episode is the one where the nerds get themselves into a jam and Fonzie has to get them out of it.

Oh, wait..wasn't that just about every one after the second season?

Or when Laverne sets herself and Shirley up on a date with two questionable men who happen to be date rapists so Shirley garrotes them and Laverne dismembers the bodies and pays Lenny and Squiggy to sink the body parts in Lake Michigan?

I think I saw that one...doesn't Shirley blue-ball Carmine at the end, too?

zappaisfrank: Jake Havechek: zappaisfrank: Andrew Wiggin: Jake Havechek: Three's Company

my fave episode of three's company is the one with the misunderstanding that led to hilarity.

My favorite Happy Days episode is the one where the nerds get themselves into a jam and Fonzie has to get them out of it.

Oh, wait..wasn't that just about every one after the second season?

Or when Laverne sets herself and Shirley up on a date with two questionable men who happen to be date rapists so Shirley garrotes them and Laverne dismembers the bodies and pays Lenny and Squiggy to sink the body parts in Lake Michigan?

I think I saw that one...doesn't Shirley blue-ball Carmine at the end, too?

I always wondered what Carmine saw in her

Flint Ironstag: And if anyone looks at the original article, is it not obvious that they are not the same bike? The Triumph at the top has the exhausts leaving the block at 45 degrees. The pictures below from the auction show the exhaust facing forward. There a few other details that are different as well, but they could have been modified.

/Handlebars look different as well.

The bike in the top picture is a different bike. High exhausts on a Triumph are usually present on "C"ompetition models, like the T100C and the T120C. I don't know what the pictured bike actually is, though.

I know a guy who collects vintage Triumphs, I'll see if I can get him to identify it if you're really curious.

TravisBickle62: zappaisfrank: Jake Havechek: zappaisfrank: Andrew Wiggin: Jake Havechek: Three's Company

my fave episode of three's company is the one with the misunderstanding that led to hilarity.

My favorite Happy Days episode is the one where the nerds get themselves into a jam and Fonzie has to get them out of it.

Oh, wait..wasn't that just about every one after the second season?

Or when Laverne sets herself and Shirley up on a date with two questionable men who happen to be date rapists so Shirley garrotes them and Laverne dismembers the bodies and pays Lenny and Squiggy to sink the body parts in Lake Michigan?

I think I saw that one...doesn't Shirley blue-ball Carmine at the end, too?

I always wondered what Carmine saw in her

His big ragu?

VimFuego: TravisBickle62: zappaisfrank: Jake Havechek: zappaisfrank: Andrew Wiggin: Jake Havechek: Three's Company

my fave episode of three's company is the one with the misunderstanding that led to hilarity.

My favorite Happy Days episode is the one where the nerds get themselves into a jam and Fonzie has to get them out of it.

Oh, wait..wasn't that just about every one after the second season?

Or when Laverne sets herself and Shirley up on a date with two questionable men who happen to be date rapists so Shirley garrotes them and Laverne dismembers the bodies and pays Lenny and Squiggy to sink the body parts in Lake Michigan?

I think I saw that one...doesn't Shirley blue-ball Carmine at the end, too?

I always wondered what Carmine saw in her

His big ragu?

There's probably a lost episode where Carmine finally snaps, throws Shirley down on the bed, crams it up her butt and then wipes it off on Boo Boo Kitty.

Pronto_Breakneck: Flint Ironstag: And if anyone looks at the original article, is it not obvious that they are not the same bike? The Triumph at the top has the exhausts leaving the block at 45 degrees. The pictures below from the auction show the exhaust facing forward. There a few other details that are different as well, but they could have been modified.

/Handlebars look different as well.

The bike in the top picture is a different bike. High exhausts on a Triumph are usually present on "C"ompetition models, like the T100C and the T120C. I don't know what the pictured bike actually is, though.

I know a guy who collects vintage Triumphs, I'll see if I can get him to identify it if you're really curious.

Sounds like the next thing you will say is: $90,000? MMMnno, that's not gonna happen. The most I can offer you is like $8,500 bucks.

zappaisfrank
There's probably a lost episode where Carmine finally snaps, throws Shirley down on the bed, crams it up her butt and then wipes it off on Boo Boo Kitty.

I laughed way harder at that than I should have....

The Triumph Trophy TR5 was also pivotal in a certain episode of Happy Days where the Fonz was accused of a crime he didn't commit. The key piece of testimony was that the victim claimed that the crook used his right hand to accelerate his bike while holding a gun in his left hand, but the Triumph Trophy TR5 has it's accelerator on the LEFT side of the handlebars. Ergo, Fonzie could not have done the crime.

Had Fonzie rode an American-made bike, he would have been getting his sweet ass pounded day & night in the Wisconsin Penal System.


BUY FOREIGN!!!

zappaisfrank: There's probably a lost episode where Carmine finally snaps, throws Shirley down on the bed, crams it up her butt and then wipes it off on Boo Boo Kitty.

And then to rub it in, he calls the sex act a "milk and Pepsi".

Merrill Howard Kalin approves.

/Not obscure.

Worst.Fark handle. ever.: The Triumph Trophy TR5 was also pivotal in a certain episode of Happy Days where the Fonz was accused of a crime he didn't commit. The key piece of testimony was that the victim claimed that the crook used his right hand to accelerate his bike while holding a gun in his left hand, but the Triumph Trophy TR5 has it's accelerator on the LEFT side of the handlebars. Ergo, Fonzie could not have done the crime.

Had Fonzie rode an American-made bike, he would have been getting his sweet ass pounded day & night in the Wisconsin Penal System.


I thought the Fonz was on the jury hearing the case and the accused was a black guy. The rest were eager to convict the guy but the Fonz kept resisting "for some reason". Then he had the epiphany about the bike controls.

spman: gunga galunga: Jake Havechek: I think it was a combination of the California episodes and the introduction of Chachi that killed the show.

This.

Everybody blames Ted McGinley but Scott Baio ruined it before he got there. Chachi is where Happy Days really jumped the shark. I remember thinking as soon as they brought him on, "it's Cousin Oliver with greased hair."

/not the last time he had to step in to replace Henry Winkler
//he skews younger

Scott Baio didn't run the show completely, but those last couple of seasons where they retooled everything and the only original characters left were Fonzie and Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham, were absolutely awful. I think Potsie was still around for the occasional walk on too during that era.

I had stopped watching long before then, but I know what you're talking about because I would occasionally be on when I was over at somebody else's house. It seemed like the new focus of the show was Fonzie playing surrogate father to the little girl from Poltergeist. I was like there was a new Cousin Oliver to replace the previous Cousin Oliver.

Being a child of the 70s, I grew up with The Brady Bunch. I'll never forget when they brought on Cousin Oliver. He was the focus of the few episodes he was on. He was a bland, annoying character that all the kids hated. So he's always been my benchmark for shows jumping the shark.

Ditto Scrappy Doo. As soon as they brought him on, I knew my Scooby Doo watching days were over.

Worst.Fark handle. ever.: zappaisfrank: There's probably a lost episode where Carmine finally snaps, throws Shirley down on the bed, crams it up her butt and then wipes it off on Boo Boo Kitty.

And then to rub it in, he calls the sex act a "milk and Pepsi".

You sick people delight me when I should be working.

Thanks.

gunga galunga: Everybody blames Ted McGinley but Scott Baio ruined it before he got there. Chachi is where Happy Days really jumped the shark.

Um, Happy Days jumped the shark when Fonzie actually jumped the shark.