What was wrong with Fonzie and Chiachi?

Why do you ask, OP?

Erin Moran’s 80s perm is honestly the most troubling thing about Happy Days.

The problem with Fonzie is that he never really knew how to sell a joke and the wocka-wocka bit did nothing to hide the fact.

Sit on it, Kermie!

That awful Fonzie business.

Low point of the 70s.

Cunningham sounds more Irish than WASP.

R3 Not to mention that hat and weird bow around his neck.

The Fonz was a somebody in a neighborhood that was full of nobodies. He wasn’t like anybody else. I mean, he did whatever he wanted. He double-parked his motorcycle in front of a hydrant and nobody ever gave him a ticket. When he punched the jukebox for free songs or kicked the pinball machine and yelled “AYYY!” nobody ever called the cops.

Today, everything is different. There's no action. I have to wait around like everyone else. Can't even get decent food at Arnold’s. Right after I got here I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, Al gives me egg noodles and ketchup. I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook. I really miss my friend, The Fonz.

Chichi,

that was really very very touching & sad. Maybe yous would like to move to Burbank wit me, Lenny, Shirley & Laverne.

Squiggy

Poor Chichi. Come on over and I'll teach you to cook.

According to Wikipedia, Fonzie was abandoned by deadbeat parents and dropped out of high school. He later went to night school for his dipolma. He was an auto mechanic.

R8 Chachi and Fonzie were cousins

R2- It was supposed to be ca. 1960 and Chachi looked like he was ready to go to the DISCO.

Remember when Fonzie jumped the shark.

I always thought of both of them as having Down's syndrome, which made Happy Days a lot more moving and complex.

Harry Hamlin cooks?!

Such a stupid show. Was Fonzie their boarder? I remember something about an apartment over the garage. Was that Fonzie’s apartment?

I also remember the father was such a dick.

I’ve never met an Italian/Italian-American names “Charles”. Carlo, yes.

Because sitcoms are so realistic.

It was so peculiar that Fonzie business. He was an old man, hanging around with a bunch of kids like a total loser.

Isn’t it disturbing that Fonzie would spend Thanksgiving and Christmas with the Cunninghams, but brother Chuck never showed up again after the second season.

Brother Chuck was KIA in Korea.

No, he stiffed a hooker in Downtown Milwaukee & her pimp cut him up so bad, they could only identify the body by his toe prints.

[quote]Was Fonzie their boarder? I remember something about an apartment over the garage. Was that Fonzie’s apartment?

Yes. He started out as the early 20s high school dropout delinquent, and then they cleaned the character up a bit and made him basically part of the family. Winkler looked older than his age, especially in that pompadour, so they couldn't keep up the delinquent angle for very long and had to do something else to keep him on the show.

Henry Winkler is 75 now. Wow.

Remember Fonzie would with snap his fingers, and the girl would always arrive. I look at this show now and I think to myself did I really watch this stupid crap and think it was cool. I guess to 11 year old kid it was. I couldn't miss them. And then Laverne & Shirley would come on. Mork and Mindy. Being a kid in the 70s.

Pasquale is the Italian for Charles.