Why Was Fonzie Considered Hot?

Lol this bitch pretends she wouldn't

When Happy Days was the only show on TV, I guess it was his bad boy sex appeal for the year 1976 with nothing else on TV. There were only 6 channels on TV.

Believe it or not at the time yes he was considered hot.

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His fans were prepubescents who didn't care whether he was sexy anyway.

He was fug. I think people just repeated what other people said. The character was also ridiculous.

White T-Shirt Fonzie was hot, black T-Shirt Fonzie was not.

Today a 30 year old man hanging out with high school students is creepy

Considering that the 70s was all repressed smelly hippies, flower children and long hair disco guys in polyester suits - yeah, he was pretty hot. Otherwise, it was "Don't Give Up on Us Baby", Buck Rogers in the 21st Century, Flash Gordon, and Fonzie.

So. It wasn't an awesome time for male virility. Thank God for Bruce Springsteen.

I put an end to his 'hotness' when he dared to jump over me.

Fonzie was much more interesting in the early episodes. He wore a white jacket and was very economical with words. More of a mystery then. Of course this was when there was still an older brother named Chuck and Joanie had Mickey Mouse ears and era appropriate hair.

Fonzie was definitely a supporting character in the beginning as R10 described, but then took off in popularity so became one of the central characters. Wonder how that made the others feel on set.

I LOVED Happy Days as a kid. Looking back, however, it was so fucking HOKEY, particularly the later episodes / after Richie left.

cause hes got tha good stuff with his fat Italian cock! just like dice clay!

The greasy hair and big teeth were horrible

But his jeans looked stuffed,so you gurls went for him.Personally,Arthur never did a thing for me.

An i side-eye his love for Ritchie.I think they were lovers.An Potsie was jealous.

Show of hands ... is anyone else a member of Team Ritchie?

"is anyone else a member of Team Ritchie?"

I assume OPee is.

I was Team Potsie.

R11: When Gary Marshall retooled the show during the second season he wanted to re-title it as "Fonzie's Happy Days", but the cast unanimously refused. Winkler was said to be agreeable to that.

R12: Henry Winkler has stated in interviews that his portrayal of Arthur Fonzarelli was based on his friend, Sylvester Stallone.

And Winkler was not Gary Marshall's first choice to play Fonzie; it was Micky Dolenz.

The show was BETTER with Fonzie as a supporting player. It was funny. The minute they stated filming in front of a studio audience and changed the sets to reflect that, it became a screaming math from the actors to get their lines heard over the lame laugh track. Fonzie and 'JJ" from Good Times should have been a warning to sitcoms of the future when you put all your eggs in one basket. The horrendous Michael J. Fox (or as I call him Speedy Alka Selzer) fits this too.

Fonzie ain't no Duke boy!

Didn't one of them die recently?

str8 boys thought he was SUPER-COOOL.

It was nauseating.

Fonzie was considered very good-looking in the 70's. Every decade seems to have a different take on what is attractive. Maybe it was the 50's look that seemed exotic to 70's feather- haired types. But yes, his posters were everywhere, right next to Farrah and Jaclyns.

Michael Cohen looks like a younger (not Fonzie days) Henry Winkler

R2 You got that right! I only saw this on occasion to check out Fonzie's ass.

By comparison with Ralph, Potsie and Richie he was the pick of the litter. Of course if Chuck didn’t go MIA he could have been the stud of the bunch.

Actually, I thought Ritchie was hotter than everyone else except maybe Potsie.

Potsie throwing the baseball in the opening credits was very sexy.

I like Gingers so I thought Ralph was cute.

Seriously, it was Fonzie’s attitude that attracted women. He seemed dangerous to teenie boppers because of it.

Yes but was considered a bad boy and had an attitude.

Another member of Team Potsie here.

I was crazy for Potsie, though I did also like Fonzie.

In 1976 Fonzie seemed edgy, dangerous and had a bad boy rep and persona which is exciting and forbidden. Add that his look worked back then, he became a sex symbol.

PS his ass looked great in those skin tight blue jeans.

I thought he was very sexy at the time; a sort of nice Marlon Brando/"Wild Ones" caricature.

R33 he was in love with James Dean who was in love with Marlon Brando who was in love with Elvis... it’s a long line.

R22 No he wasn’t.

I loved the scenes he had with "Mrs. C" they had their little crush and it was so sweet. OK fuck you, Mary! Feel better?

Wasn’t “Happy Days” Born out of young adults longing for the era they grew up in back, aka the 50s? The nostalgia of it is what made it a huge hit.

Kind of how Millenials obsess over the 90s?

PS I’m 31. A Millenial that grew up in the 90s also.

Fonzie was never hot. Never. That was just Hollywood bs forced upon us. We more discerning ‘70s folks followed David Soul from Here Come the Brides to Starsky and Hutch.

Oh my R38! It wasn't David Soul that made my knees butter but his partner Paul.

^^^ Don’t give up on us, baby

[R39]

Me too....

Henry has birther hips and a wide ass that looked good in those jeans.

"Fonzie's" whole schtick was so nauseating. It was retarded, in fact.

I often wonder what Winkler dredged up in his mind to get to a place so emotionally raw for this scene where Fonz makes a deal with God to let Richie live after his accident. He should’ve won an Emmy for this...

R45 well they gave him an Emmy this year. Good for him.

An Emmy for "Heyyyyyyyyyy"....how groundbreaking

Hello!

Didn’t the little sister die Erin Moran?

R49, that sentence should be on an English grammar test.

Why did they all (except Marion) have 1970s hair? Couldn't the styling department at least get that right?

Cutie-pie Chuck was obviously gay. That's why the family threw him out and never spoke of him again.

As a young gayling when Happy Days was on - I did not see the attraction to Henry Winkler. He seemed "old." But as I grew older, I found Henry Winkler to be hot.

Never found Fonzie to be hot

[quote]Why did they all (except Marion) have 1970s hair? Couldn't the styling department at least get that right?

It was such a weird interpretation of the 50s in general.

& it was only 16 years after the event.

Gross

The show was loosely based on American Graffiti wasnt it or was it just made after the movie made a splash? Both starred Opie.

[quote]When Gary Marshall retooled the show during the second season he wanted to re-title it as "Fonzie's Happy Days", but the cast unanimously refused. Winkler was said to be agreeable to that.

Actually it wasn't Garry Marshall, it was the executives at the ABC Network that wanted the title change.

Loved Happy Days as a kid. Thought Fonzie was super-cool, but my gayling eyes were trained on Richie and Potsie. Always liked the all-American type guy. Even though I had no idea what it meant at the time, Willie Ames drove me insane with lust

What happened to Henry Winkler post Fonzie? I seem to recall a few small roles but nothing major. From all reports a very nice, quiet sort of guy.

Has anyone read WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN? The moron father submits his weirdo son to HAPPY DAYS marathons. Son latter commits a school massacre.

Silly. Fonzie wasn't hot. He was cool.

It’s hard to look at the Fonz and see a sex symbol today after seeing the older Henry play goofy characters like Barry Zuckercorn and Gene Cousineau (both much funnier than Fonzie).

ZuckerKorn, excuse me.

Eddie Mekka from Laverne and Shirley was another huge crush of mine. That cute face! That muscular body! yum

Yes, he was considered hot.

Male beauty now is all about chiseled abs and looking "swole" and great hair. Aesethics for men were different back in the '70s. A guy didn't have to live in the gym and use expensive products on his hair to be considered hot.

He only needed a horse face and gigantic teeth!

I was a kid in the 1970s and Fonzie was considered cool. He was the bad boy turned good. When I got older and watched the show again in syndication, I really only like the first year or two of the show. It survived after that due to Richie's and Fonzie's friendship. When Ron Howard left, the show tanked. Henry Winkler has said in interviews that the "love story" of the show was Fonzie's friendship with Richie.

I couldn't stand Potsie and Ralph. The cast go along really well, though. Every interview I've ever seen with cast members, they always say it was one of the best working atmospheres they'd ever been in.

Potsie only had eyes for Ritchie or Fronzie....or both in some sick threesome.Fonzie wanted Richie's mom......

So sick,but apparently this isn't new information for caucasian households.

The Joanie Love Penis theme.

He was kind of hot in Night Shift.

Yes McGinley outshone then ALL

That’s TED

McGinley was beautiful when he was on Happy Days, but was a bland replacement for Ron Howard.

Fonzie ate the show.

It was his big thick thumb. You know what they say about the size of a man's thumbs, don't you?

Why did that Marshall family insist on creating shows set in Milwaukee that featured fugs outta Brooklyn?

Early Happy Days and L&S had an atmospheric sense of time and place that really helped to draw you in.

He was a greaser and I kinda liked that.

He was cute, and Winkler is supposed to be the nicest person in Hollywood.

No. Fonzi was aimed at the 3 yr old-12 year old set. The scars I g & clapping when he appeared on the set and said, “Ehhhh” was forced by “Applause” signs

Fonzie had a funnier 'cousin' maybe nephew named Spike - funnier than Chaci.

Don't forget about me -- Carmine Ragusa!

R36 I agree and yeah it was a hokey show but I’ve always really liked Henry Winkler (and the parents and Richie) so stfu.

He’s actually a pretty good actor believe it or not and yes r81 I’ve met him twice at events (one was with Marc Feurstein, who was a total dick) and he really was/is as nice as can be. And he did a great job with the material he was given.

Anyway in the 70s ethnic looking actors (and by ethnic I mean Italian and Jewish) so you had a Jew playing an Italian, it fit right in. Even actors who weren’t Italian or Jewish (ie RIchard Gere) tried to fit that mold of the time.

And actually Marion Ross eventually did get feathered 70s hair. I think it was around the time Richie left.

Happy Days was by no means a great show yet Howard and Marion were always one of my favorite TV parents (and still are).

R84 actually lets forget about him - how anyone could crush on him is beyond my comprehension .

Plus he was annoying as f.

Carmine was too hammy, yeah r84.

[R84]

I loved the Big Ragoo......until you became a priest

He was no Ricky Nelson

He was sort of cartoony, like Scooby Doo. It was a time when the media thought short legs and weak chins might work for some people. Turns out no but he had some funny moments!

BDF.

He was a guilty crush for me during my early teen years.

(Extremely guilty considering I wasn’t even out to myself).

He was cute back then, even out of character.

^Them thighs! Love the pornstache too.

He always grew out his hair during hiatus.

He was quite good playing against type in Night Shift.

He’s a good actor and an overall good guy. Don’t get all the hate. Glad he finally has an Emmy.

No hate just NEVER found him sexy. Neither did my friends.

The gang had to have a physical for ROTC and they were stripped down to their boxers so seeing Fonzie in his leather jacket and boxers was a turn on. The giant ant boxers weren’t.

Seeing Fonzies thighs when he jumped the shark was kinda hot too.

R93 Must be a RHCP fan

Because he was written that way.

People are programmable. Sex symbols are created. Before Kardashian, women were embarrassed about big asses. She sold herself as hot and people changed their opinions of what hot is. It has happened throughout history.

Black leather jacket has equaled sex appeal for a long time. So you put some dude in a sitcom about corny white suburbia in a black leather jacket, script other characters to telegraph that he is edgy and hot and that’s what they see.

All the fawning over pop stars that most of the guys here buy into is no different. Today’s boys with fluffy hair are average skinny guys in their teens/20s packaged as sex symbols and the public buys into it. There are probably 40 million Shawn Mendeses working at Targets and Petcos throughout the US, but he’s sold to us as a sex symbol and there ya go—guaranteed DL threads dedicated to him in a wet tee shirt. Madonna and Britney are not great beauties and without the styling and mass media promotions would be average at best, but we all buy into it.

"Wasn’t “Happy Days” Born out of young adults longing for the era they grew up in back, aka the 50s? The nostalgia of it is what made it a huge hit."

Yes.

I was a child in the 1970s when this show and Laverne & Shirley and Grease were all popular.

It was a time when we as children were force-fed the 1950s culture as a "wonderful time".

r61 the book and movie are devastating

Thanks R8. Tune is on repeat now.

Miss R99 knows what time it is.

[quote] It was a time when we as children were force-fed the 1950s culture as a "wonderful time".

It was the 70s when our lives as we knew it were collapsing - industry after industry going to dust. And it was less than 10 years after the civil rights movement took Ozzie and Harriet ideas and shook THEM to dust.

So the 50s became this huge nostalgia kick, starting with American Graffiti and eventually spreading to TV, movies (Grease) and music.

It may have been a yearning for a simpler time, but if you looked around, it was also a very WHITE scene, and the idea itself is definitely a bit of unspoken separatism if not racism: we liked it better when those other folks weren't around, see......

If Laverne could be considered hot, then so could Fonz.

Of course, Scott Baio and Ted McGinley were actually good looking. I rememember the episode where Roger, Chachi, Fonzie and Potzie went to a resort and Roger and Chachi of course were shirtless and even Potsie was shirtless, but Fonzie had his T-shirt and Jacket.

That alone tells you "if he was hot?"

I thought Ralph Mouth was kind of cute.

[quote]That alone tells you "if he was hot?"

I’ll bet he was, on a resort wearing a leather jacket.

This commercial tells you why he was popular, he has "thumbs up action."

I was never attracted to him, but keep in mind that a lot of what people find attractive is subjective and driven by celebrity and popularity, not some objective standard of sexiness. There was a time when Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer were considered hot. Cute? Okay, sure, but hot? I never got it either. And you could say the same thing about different eras. Bogart? John Wayne? Even Rock Hudson and Cary Grant I admit are "handsome" but hot? No.

Look at the stars on TV in this era. Telly Savalas, Alan Alda, and David Groh were sex symbols. The Brady boys and David Cassidy were sex symbols. So were vaguely cute boys like Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson. I remember when Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill came along and grabbed everyone's attention. I still think Mark was cute post-accident and Harrison was sexy, but even in Empire you can see he looks a little "unpolished" compared to today when stars are getting their teeth done and work on their faces and trying to get ripped.

I'm not attracted to celebrities anyway. I constantly find myself crushing on people who don't take great pictures. I see them in person and then find something attractive about their personality.

Wait! Happy Days run from the 70s to the 80s?

All this time I thought it was a show from the 50s or 60s😳

So is the actor who played Fonzie still alive?

[quote]r20 Didn't one of them die recently?

Maybe you're thinking of Cha Cha from GREASE

Cheryl Ladd was on HAPPY DAYS.

But maybe because it had such a large cast, it didn't seem to draw many memorable guest stars.

Fonzie dated Rhoda, I mean before Rhoda was hot enough to get Joe.

Did he stuff his jeans?

[quote]I LOVED Happy Days as a kid. Looking back, however, it was so fucking HOKEY, particularly the later episodes / after Richie left.

The moment Ron Howard turned in his resignation, that should have been the end of it. Instead, they dragged it on for four more years. But even the worst of this show wasn't as bad as what replaced it on Tuesday night.

Henry Winkler was considered "hot" 1950's (supposedly Italian-American) stud since film Lords of Flatbush which opened same year Happy Days hit television.

Happy Days did a pilot episode on Love American Style.

Harold Gould played the father. Ritchie, Potsie and the mother were played by the same actors.

For reasons do not know two dominate themes in 1970's entertainment media were 1950's (Grease, Lords of Flatbush, etc...) and Italian-Americans in particular the "tough/bad boy men ( Saturday Night Fever, the Godfather, etc...)

Henry Winker despite being a kid from Manhattan, NYC conservative Jewish family could do grease-ball, gang, Joey Bag of Donuts rather well. Throw in a tight fitting t-shirt, jeans and leather jacket; slick back his dark hair, and there you are.

Henry Winkler had a great ass in the 1970s.

[quote] Why did they all (except Marion) have 1970s hair? Couldn't the styling department at least get that right?

Richie also had period hair, for the first few years, and so did Fonzie. But once the show was a big hit they wanted to capitalize on the characters' attractiveness, because that's what they thought people watched the show for--and so they gave them contemporary hair. And remember: people then did not see those as necessarily Seventies hair styles--they saw them as just neutral "in fashion" hairstyles for the time.

Henry Winkler graduated with an MFA from Yale School of Drama.

[quote] Henry Winkler graduated with an MFA from Yale School of Drama.

All that just to stick up your thumbs and go "ayyyyyyyyyyy"?

All that just to stick up your thumbs and go "ayyyyyyyyyyy"?

Bronson Pinchot from Perfect Strangers also went to Yale. Not everyone who graduated Yale can be a Meryl.

[quote]Not everyone who graduated Yale can be a Meryl.

Thank God for that! She put the "Boo" back in "Boolah Boolah!"

R121

Much also depends upon actors in question, how long series runs and few other factors.

At start of "That 70's Show" Debra Jo Rupp (Kitty Foreman) had her own hair styled into 70's fashion. But by second season she stopped and began wearing wigs because the styling was killing her hair.

Topher Grace either from start of by later seasons began wearing wigs as well because was doing other work where a 1970's hair cut wouldn't work.

It's surprising that this show isn't more popular today considering how HUGE it was back in the day.

Same with Laverne and Shirley which was the number one show for several seasons. Though it seems to have developed a bit of renaissance recently thanks to Logo airing reruns.

I tend to be attracted to Jewish men, so I always found him attractive and charismatic.

[quote] Same with Laverne and Shirley which was the number one show for several seasons. Though it seems to have developed a bit of renaissance recently thanks to Logo airing reruns.

They didn't have Chachi.

Most of the Garry Marshall shows don't hold up well at all. Horrible writing with thin plots.

laverne and shirley still holds up, whereas happy days is RIDICULOUSLY cheezy and stupid...

ted mcginley with his blonde feathered hair was beyond pretty when he was on happy days i'll give everyone that!

gorgeous he was in his prime, although even HE was outshone by the one and only jon erik hexum on "the making of a male model" tv movie..

Ted was hottest on [italic]Married With Children[/italic] and without the hair dye.

R132.. i'll have to respectfully disagree with you.. when ted was with his natural brown hair on married with children he was of course handsome, still handsome, but generic.. whereas with his blonde feathered hair he was breathlessly PRETTY... i'll take that any day over his brown hair suburban handsome look on MWC...

Nobody aged worse than Henry Winkler.

He went from hunk to bumbling, pot-bellied doofus in about 5 years.

Team Richie (younger Richie, anyway)

Ted McGinley has gotten religion and does lots of faith based work now.

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He lost fans when he tried to go trans.

[quote]Nobody aged worse than Henry Winkler. He went from hunk to bumbling, pot-bellied doofus in about 5 years.

What the hell was in the food at Arnold's?

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That does seem more or less to be the curse of Jewish men. Many are incredibly hot when young, but it doesn't last; even the most goregous "shaggy Jew" ends up a hot mess (on average) by late middle age if not sooner.

Steve Guttenberg is a case in point. Though he has held up slightly better than Henry Winkler.

Jimmie Walker got fat without ever having been hot to begin with.

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He was cool not hot.

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I was attracted to him in the 70s. He looks fine as an old man. Just not sexy anymore.

It was all in the aura of the character.

Henry Winkler as himself was not hot.

Similar to the contrast between Don Draper and Jon Hamm.

The 50s were a different. This was what the audience considered hot back then, not Pete Davidson.

Marion Ross loved to show her snatch on set.

Why else do you think Chuck Cunningham disappeared?

Tab Hunter, Rock Hudson, Gordon MacRae, Troy Donahue, Van Williams, Roger Moore and scores of other 1950's actors were hot then and would be consider so today.

The 50s were a different time. This was what the audience considered hot back then, not Pete Davidson.

Winkler has always reminded me of George Washington in this portrait:

[Quote]Marion Ross loved to show her snatch on set.

She played a horny MILF in a show with Jay Mohr.

Marion Ross followed Happy Days with a brilliant performance as a Yiddish grandmother in Brooklyn Bridge, a series which was cancelled too soon.

Brilliant? Ha!

At least it lasted twice as long as your sitcom, Shirl.

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Van Williams and possible Tab Hunter would be hot today. The others not a chance.

That Fonzie was considered hot is a perfect example of how far up their own asses Hollywood Jews are.

Henry Winkler was a cool guy. He was Everyone on the show says he was nothing like his character. Married with children.

Is it true that Tom Hanks was able to have him fired as director of [italic]Turner and Hooch [/italic]?

Yes.

Ron Howard is friendly with both so I am sure he had to talk them both off of a ledge.

[italic]Cop and a Half[/italic], which he actually directed and didn’t get fired from, was an attempt at an homage to [italic]Spartacus[/italic]. And by “attempt,” I mean “lifted the I’m Spartacus scene wholesale and replaced slaves with children.”

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This query could be broadened out to many shows with a supposed "hot" male or female star.

Ashton Kutcher (Micheal on That 70's Show) isn't my idea of "hot", but that was his role on show. Dumb and hot was done better by Fez, but that's just me.

I find Jon Cryer to be hot though he isn't written that way.

Speaking of actors sexually enhanced by their roles, Kit Harrington as Jon Snow is a good example.

In real life, he's rather a midget wienie, isn't he?