I hate sitcoms with lots "ooohing" and screaming when a character comes on the scene

I listen to old time radio and on "Burn and Allen," when they had the celebrity come one, you'd hear a good amount of clapping and once in awhile, if it was a pretty guest star like Marie MacDonald or Rita Heyworth, a couple of wolf whistles.

But when they had Alan Ladd on, the entire audience went crazy. It was worse that when Fonzie or Chachi came on Happy Days.

I had no idea who the guy was.

Slap him, Willona!

It's an American thing. You're an excitable people.

Steady...Steady now

Nothing about 'Fonzie' ever made me ooh and scream....and I was at the age when I was supposed to be impressed.

That whole Fonzie thing was bizarro.

The audience is TOLD to do that. The few times when the audience really got crazy were edited out, like when Sammy Davis Jr. kissed Archie or Rhoda told Phyllis her brother was gay.

Most of the "oohing" or the "gasp" noise the audience makes sounds like it's canned half the time.

Don't feel bad, r5, the show was for dumbos.

Did anyone else want to sink down on their knees and worship the Fonz's cok inside a stall in the men's room at Arnold's?

That white t-shirt and the tight jeans caused me to ooh and ahh.

[quote]Did anyone else want to sink down on their knees and worship the Fonz's cok inside a stall in the men's room at Arnold's?

No.

Thank you, R7...I feel better now. Reassured.

The Fonz, and the entire series, were so much better the first two seasons before they went to a live audience and changed the sets. Suddenly, everybody was playing to the rafters, Howard became really, really loud and the show became much more family friendly.

Fonzie developed in the first two seasons but he was also funny and sarcastic. It wasn't as much fun when it became all about him.

This has been going on since the extraordinary invention of television. It is called history. Look it up and you'll be amazed at the information they hide in books. Vacuous cunt.

Fonzie was such a cool dude.

The guest stars on Here's Lucy always paused for an extended applause.

Married With Children had the worst studio audience.

[quote] Vacuous cunt.

Little Ms. Mary's got her knickers in a twist.

She needs to learn to get upset about more important things than this and to stop lashing out at strangers on the internet.

ABC Family's Baby Daddy still employs that when one of the leads is shirtless ala Saved By The Bell. I remember the first time I saw that reaction was when Scott Baio was shirtless on Happy Days. I appreciate the shirtless ness but the reaction annoys me....

And I supposed you would also like to get rid of catch phrases, laugh tracks, sad music when something sad happens and character-related merchandising too OP? You're just not an artist OP.

OP is 600 pounds and never leaves his mother's basement.

You people going off about "Happy Days" being for idiots...keep in mind the shit that passes for entertainment today.

[quote]You people going off about "Happy Days" being for idiots...keep in mind the shit that passes for entertainment today.

Doesn't make this cult shiftfest less shitty.

R20, I'm just saying that when I see crap like "Real Housewives" or "The Kardashians," I only wish "Happy Days" was on instead. I hate this culture of people being famous solely for being a spectacle.

It's worse when the audience boos and heckles when a character comes on the scene. Well, at least I think it would be. It's not like I would know or anything.

Truth is that Happy Days didn't begin life as shitty as it became later on. The television series that caused people to coin the phrase "jump the shark" was a whole lot better in the first two or three seasons, when there was still some attempt to control the characters , and when they tried to keep the details in the show accurate to period in which the show was set, it wasn't so bad.

HOWEVER - once Gerry Marshall smelled money in the repetition of a certain formula to the simpleton masses who were/are Muddle America, any nope of quality left the show forever. The same strategy ruined Good Times, even as both shows retained viewers.

Later on, as Happy Days became worse and worse, and less authentic-feeling, suddenly the young female leads began showing up with distinctly 1970s style feathered haircuts and awful perms.

I thought they eventually had to tell the audience to hold back when Kramer came on because it was making the show take longer.

Doing this every time Kramer appeared ruined Seinfeld for me.

I read once that Seinfeld actually told the audience to cool it because they kept doing that when Kramer would come in.

I audiences don't "oooh", "aaaahh" and scream at a character how are we all supposed to know which characters are cool, sexy and popular and which ones aren't?

R#16 you beat me too it...

baby daddy every episode has this, then again pretty much every episode they show tall built hunky derek theler in some matter of undress! his character is such a hunky but dumb himbo.. i wonder if he gets tired of being displayed so blatantly every week? then again, probably not, it's a paycheck right?!

Every time Jennifer Coolidge walks on screen (no matter how many appearances in an episode) the "2 Broke Girls" audience goes ballistic.

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LOL @ R27

Happy Days became a children's show when the Fonz became the main character. My nephew was about 5 years old at the time and he and his friends adored the Fonz. They all went around sticking up their thumbs and saying, "Ay!"

R29, considering her reputation, she probably insisted on it.

Happy Days was a kind of spin off of American Graffiti wasn't it? It was good the first few seasons when Fonzie was just some mainly silent hood standing around in the burger joint that all the kids feared and were in awe of.

What the hell happened to Chuck? Guest characters like Leather Tuscadero later on were ridiculously dressed for the time period the show was set in, going along with the feathered hair comment.

I'll watch Happy Days before most of the crap that's on TV now.

Chuck vanished with the overhaul of Season 3. He only appeared twice in Season 2 anyhow and was played by a different actor than in Season One. The first Chuck really looked like a Cunningham, the second not so much but he was cute.

Also sacrificed for the new Happy Days- a lot of the wit, the Cunningham dining room, Marcia and the other waitresses at Arnold's, the location shoots (unless it was a very special vacation story), the Arnold's parking lot scenes (which were part of a lot of the charm plus the Cunningham home set felt less cozy and became more stagey.

Burger joint parking lots was where most of the HS socializing was done so that was really a dumb move.

We never would make the studio audience do that on "Mr. T and Tina"!

The audience reaction to guest stars on Friends was inconsistent. I assumed that the studio audience would have seen the guest star before they appeared on camera, so the idea that they were told to react that way seems valid. An example of the differences was the yahoos that Brad Pitt and Bruce Willis got compared to the silence that Alec Baldwin and some others got. But then maybe the Baldwin and others scenes were shot without the audience, as the company often did for complicated scenes.

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I remember an episode of Family Guy where they ridiculed audience reactions.

On "Good Times" there was a character called Sweet Daddy. He was a pimp; he always made an entrance dressed in Superfly finery, and was always flanked by two goons who were his "bodyguards", also decked out as outlandishly as Sweet Daddy. The studio audience was quite impressed with him; whenever he made an entrance they'd always go "wooooooooo!" He was a PIMP, for Christ's sake!

Henry Winkler couldn't even pass for a thirtysomething anymore when he played high school student Fonzie.

[quote]Happy Days was a kind of spin off of American Graffiti wasn't it

Uh, no. Movies have sequels. TV series have spin-offs. A movie that is made into a TV show has been "adapted;" the TV show is an adaptation of the movie. Recycled stories and characters with new casts and scripts in either medium are called reboots. None of these terms apply to Happy Days or American Graffiti. They just both sprung from the 50s nostalgia that saturated the boomer-driven zeitgeist post-Vietnam.

Happy Days bears no relationship to American Graffiti, except that both featured Ron Howard. A previously unaired Happy Days pilot that the networks passed one was absorbed into the Love American Style anthology series, which George Lucas saw and inspired him to cast Ron Howard in American Graffiti. The pilot was a hit on LAS, and prompted the production of the regular Happy Days series. They aren't related to one another beyond that.

Fonzie was never a "high school student." He had his own apartment and worked as a mechanic.

I love it when they come and yell and groan when it happens

Didn't Sean Cody start doing this for performers like Jamie at one point?

[quote]Henry Winkler couldn't even pass for a thirtysomething anymore when he played high school student Fonzie.

How old was MEGA-COOL-HILARIOUS FONZIE, in fact?

He made a little noise, didn't he? It's coming back to me (the horror of it).

Love American Style: Love and the Happy Days.

So much better than how the series finished it's run.

Henry Winkler has a reputation for being one of the nicest people in Hollywood and the only person he supposedly didn't get along with was Tom Hanks.

R48, don't know how old he was supposed to be in the show, but in reality, he was 28/29 when the show started.

R47, he did, that's why the videos sound the way that they do

Why hasn't Sean Cody or Corbin Fisher ever taped before a live studio audience?

[quote] Happy Days was a kind of spin off of American Graffiti wasn't it

There had been a Love, American Style segment in 1972 entitled Happy Days and after the success of American Graffiti in the cinema in 1973, there was a nostalgia movement for the late 50s, early 60s era. ABC decided to make a show out of the Happy Days segment in 1974, so technically, Happy Days was a spinoff of Love, American Style.

However, Happy Days it wouldn't have been spun off without the success and influence of AG in 1973. That's why it was two years until it became a series.

Is it me or does R23 read like a cut and paste job?

[quote]don't know how old he was supposed to be in the show, but in reality, he was 28/29 when the show started.

What a joke!

Didn't he used go 'Heeeeey' or something like that?

God, it was for imbeciles.

[italic]Happy Days[/italic] weren't so happy for black folks.

R54 what are you implying, sugar?

I believe the biggest ovation I never heard for anyone one person (this excludes the Beatles) was for Liberace when he was a mystery guest on What's My Line?

I think it is lost to history how popular he was in the mid-50s.

Loved his signature, R58

[quote]I remember an episode of Family Guy where they ridiculed audience reactions.

More recently, Mrs. Brown's Boys had a scene where Mrs. Brown's feelings were hurt because her advice wasn't wanted.

MRS BROWN: But I'm your mother.

AUDIENCE: Aaaaawww.

MRS. BROWN (turning to face the audience): It's a man in a fuckin' dress!

[quote]The same strategy ruined Good Times, even as both shows retained viewers.

[italic]Good Times[/italic] was at the bottom of the ratings when it went off the air, but they pulled the plug on it. And it still never got as bad as any of Garry Marshall's shows did at their respective worst.

Good Times was on in the same time slot as Happy Days. At first, Good Times continued to win its time slot handily. But when Fonzie became such an (inexplicably) popular character, Good Times audience started to erode. Within a couple of years, they switched nights for Good Times, but it was too late.

What was the deal with Tom Hanks r50? I know he guested on the show toward the end of its run but nothing beyond that.

[quote]ABC Family's Baby Daddy still employs that when one of the leads is shirtless ala Saved By The Bell. I remember the first time I saw that reaction was when Scott Baio was shirtless on Happy Days.

When John Stamos appeared shirtless on "Full House," the entire audience screamed in horror and panicked. Three people were killed and 54 others were seriously injured in the trampled panic. Of course the episode was never air and the entire thing hushed up.

Sit on it! Was the Fonz talking about his cock?

Yes, that John Stamos shirtless episode is among the three infamous "lost" episodes of Full House, including the one where Mary Kate nearly killed Jodie Sweetin by strangling her with a blankie, and the episode where Bob Saget took his dick out in front of the studio audiences. Didn't even try to pretend it was some cold medicine mixed with alcohol snafu. Just flat out said "I'm a funny perv. It's my job."

And that's how he got to host America's number one family show: America's Funniest Home Videos.

Those were the days, am I right kids?

I went to a taping of a sitcom pilot which was so horrible that no one laughed. In the summer, network television would fill in spots with unsold pilots. The pilot was aired and the laugh track was added, making it seem that the " live" audience loved every minute. They even put in the applause for a guest who walked through the front door. Nothing like that really happened.

r67

Why don't you just say it was the pilot for Empty Nest?

because it was a pilot for a show that was so bad it wasn't picked up. Believe it or not, it was much worse than Empty Nest.

I was 12 or so when Happy Days first ran and I remember thinking it was weird the older Fonz would somehow be close friends with such a clean cut, nice, stable Richie C. Richie and his friends were getting street cred and protection but what was the Fonz getting?

r70

Fonze was a loner and he wanted a family.

The Fonz craved normalcy in his life, which is why he became so happy with the Cunninghams and adored Mrs. C so much. He had lost his parents and was basically a drifter who only connected with other people for sex and establishing dominance.

Didn’t Fonz live in a room above the Cunningham’s house? Or am I remembering crazy?

Fonzie lived above their garage

Over the garage, R73. And often at night he'd crawl into my bedroom window after lights out. So many mornings I could barely walk to school after Fonzie plowed the everliving hell out of me.

I felt the same way, Richie.

I hated it on the Honeymooners (the classic 39) whenever Ralph, Alice or Norton came in the audience would clap, but not Trixie.

When Ronnie Burns played some kind of "hipster dude" on the Honeymooners, the audience hooted and yelled.

Wouldn't the Fonz be considered street trade? Wonder what his rate will be?

I hated when people made the "aww " sounds for sad scenes.

So funny this was bumped because I was watching something the other night and thought the same thing. So are all these silly sitcoms filmed before a live audience?