Can we discuss the Fonz?

Flip and Chachi would have make some OnlyFans content together in the present day.

Op see Blanche Deveraux.

There is a statue in Milwaukee called The Bronze Fonz that looks nothing like Henry Winkler. It’s like the abortion that was that Lucille Ball statue.

The Fonz had confidence and was kid to people. He also had a wiry little body that looked like he'd be very bendy in bed.

R3 that’s terrifying.

Fonzie was actually pretty handsome but it was is aura of mysterious power that made him a poussin aimant.

And he was a nebbishy Jew they tried to pass off as Italian.

I have posted with Henry Winkler and his wife (?) before. He has a very good sense of humor and is a very nice man.

Nope, never liked “The Fonz”.

Sexual magnetism is about a lot more than just looks.

The Fonz had confidence, and wisdom, and he was cool. He owned himself. And, most historically of all, he freed the squares.

What does that mean, r7? You posted with him?

What were you sitting with him and the wife at an iPad posting on DL?

Charisma, OP. Bad boy charisma.

R10- Post, as on a thread such as we doing now.

I know that Henry Winkler is considered the nicest man in Hollywood.

He had a 13" meat stick that would make grown men cry and women cum from the first inch of penetration ===EHHHHHHHHHHH!

I have to say, the standard for “good-looking” or “attractive” on DL seems ridiculously high—especially given the probability that such posters more likely resemble Janna the Hut than Henry Winkler. It feels neurotic and even sick.

Janna the Hutt

Even Mrs. Cunningham's dry old pussy would get wet when the Fonz was around.

I loved the episode where the Fonz taught Richie how to jerk off.

He made me moist like a snack cake!

I remember how surprised some Happy Days viewers were when they learned that the actor playing him, Henry Winkler, was Jewish rather than Italian. To me that is testament to Winkler's stellar acting skills.

I always thought Henry Winkler was so hit and handsome. Also, he’s a superb actor and a gentleman. I’ve never read a bad word about him. He was perfect in the film “Night Shift.” (It’s a great movie.)

I always thought Potsie was fucking HOT

r22 he was a total DREN

You fucking cunt. I was coming here to post a DREN line.

"SIT ON IT!"

Henry Winkler had a great little ass in the 70s.

I never watched this show, but based on the few clips I’ve seen it did not seem like it was set in the 1950s.

In the later seasons it was full on 70s/80s fashions, feathered hair and all.

It's first two seasons it was OK. Then it got like MASH. They didn't give a shit about it being a period piece. It's the Hotlips perm syndrome.

Confidence is key.

The guy can act. He didn't walk away from a hit show out of pride, as did some actors we still ridicule.

You all better be careful, what if the Malachi Brothers don’t show up. The Fonz is a legend, he found those two chicks from the Shotz Brewery.

When Fonz said "sit on it" I did!

^^So did I!

He was no Carmine!

I was always so relieved when the Fonz would stop himself from combing his hair in front of the bathroom mirror, because — why mess with perfection?

Nanoo nanoo

The Fonz was sexy, charming, confident, and sentimental. He was meant to be the kind of man whose appeal, sexual and otherwise, transcended his looks. He had a good body and a not-ugly face with "character." As someone upthread noted, he was kind. He always led with this tough guy act with a lot of swagger, but then he was sweet and soft at times, unfailingly polite and respectful when the situation called for it, and displayed consistently strong moral character.

If he was played by a conventionally handsome or "hot" guy (a "fox" in those days), I think a lot of that appeal would actually be lost. He wouldn't be as sympathetic to the audience, and his swagger and bravado schtick would just come across as another hot guy who's full of himself and thinks he's god's gift to the world. That sweet sentimentality that Henry Winkler nailed every time would have come off as insincere or inauthentic. The character just wouldn't work the same. He was perfectly cast.

finally a voice of reason at r37

I’m still trying to figure out how to operate and/or fix things by punching them hard with the side of my fist, but still no luck. Fonz made it look so easy. I feel betrayed, to be honest.

Btw, hi, Henry. I loved you in “The One And Only.” It was an underrated gem of a film.

OP, Happy Days was a classic sitcom geared towards families and children while riding a post-Watergate wave of nostalgia for the 50s. It wasn't some 90s sitcom on the WB casting dime-a-dozen "hearthrobs," hunks and pretty boys to appeal to teen girls and gay men. The Fonz was a breakout character who was originally meant to be a minor tough guy bit for comic relief. Henry Winkler's performance elevated it to what it became and audiences came back week after week for more.

Winkler also has classic BDF.

Richard Belzer was Henry’s cousin. Go figure.

Yeah, I just had to assume that Fonzie had a really impressive cock.

I still thought Potsie was the cutest, and boy, Carmine... what a body. And as a dancer, he could MOVE.

It still amazes me that he was the biggest and most beloved US television character of the entire decade (maybe tied with Archie Bunker).

Ayyyiiiii!!!!!

I had a Happy Days metal lunchbox, and I was beat up with my Happy Days metal lunchbox.

R47, faaaaaaag!

Consider yourself lucky, r47. I was beaten up with my Joanie loves Chachi lunchbox.

Thanks, R49. Did you get beat up by a gay kid who was triggered by Erin Moran’s anachronistic perm?

[quote]Consider yourself lucky, [R47]. I was beaten up with my Joanie loves Chachi lunchbox.

This is even more pathetic, since the Joanie Loves Chachi kit was made of a soft vinyl. The Aladdin lunchbox company must have learned from their past mistakes.

No, r50: it was by a retarded child who completely identified with Dodi from "My Three Sons" and remembered Erin Moran being mean to her.

So my story gets even MORE pathetic, r51!

[quote]I was always so relieved when the Fonz would stop himself from combing his hair in front of the bathroom mirror, because — why mess with perfection?

That was all Winkler, r35. He hated the idea of the comb, so that was how he handled it.

Another fun fact. When Winkler arrived at his audition, he saw Mickey Dolenz and assumed Dolenz was going to get the part - and he almost did. The former Monkee was much taller than the rest of the cast. TPTB thought that would be distracting, so the shorter Henry got the part.

R52 Thank goodness the girl with the vinyl lunchbox complied. The gang of hoodlums were all armed with metal ones. They would have whacked her into a coma!

I'm totally used to older actors playing teens or 20-somethings. But it just didn't land with the Fonz, who always seemed like he was 45 to me. He wasn't cool to my young self, but seemed like a loser for not having his own house among other things.

[quote]Another fun fact. When Winkler arrived at his audition, he saw Mickey Dolenz and assumed Dolenz was going to get the part - and he almost did. The former Monkee was much taller than the rest of the cast.

Wow! That’s crazy. No disrespect to Dolenz — he was great on the Monkees, but Happy Days probably wouldn’t have made it past season one if he had been the Fonz instead of Winkler.

R55, he was 28 years old when he started playing The Fonz.

Also, didn’t Winkler clinch the Fonz role when he played a greaser in “Lords of Flatbush?” He was actually fairly convincing as a brooding tough guy. I can’t believe Happy Days almost cast Mickey Dolenz as the Fonz.

Winkler was also really good in the movie Heroes which co starred Sally Field.

I think that was his first starring role in a film and was supposed to propel him into movies, but around the same time John Travolta starred in the movie Saturday Night Fever.

As it turned out movie fans ended up preferring seeing Vinnie Barbarino over the Fonz on the big screen.

BTW Winkler is also good as Sissy Spacek's BF in the movie Katherine.

Well, well, well… look what’s in the Smithsonian. Did your brown paper bag get put in a museum? How do you like me now, KEVIN?

Chachi was pretty, but he had a useless baby dick.

Happy Days was a sanitized copy of American Graffiti, for sure.

Another vote for Potsie!

I'm an '80s baby, so I only watched HAPPY DAYS in reruns, but Potsie was the character I gravitated toward.

Richie was a distant second.

I think they were the only ones to pull off the '50s look, too.

They looked period and not '70s.

[quote] Happy Days probably wouldn’t have made it past season one if he had been the Fonz instead of Winkler.

HD was kinda still finding its footing in season one anyway. It didn't really click as quote, unquote "Happy Days" until Season 2.

I was a grad student at the Yale School of Drama in 1976 and Henry Winkler, who was an alumni, came to speak to the students there. I was never much of a fan of Happy Days but I think this was at the height of his Fonzie fame and the room was packed with students, teachers and staff. Until Meryl Streep's career took off a few years later (she had graduated in 1975), Winkler was by far the most famous of recent YSD graduates.

He was mostly very forthcoming and charming but the two things I remember most about that event were not so pleasant. Like many others in the room, he smoked a lot of cigarettes. And he went out of his way to disparage Anson Williams as an unprofessional and ego-driven twat. As no one had asked about Potsie, it seemed unnecessarily mean-spirited.

Wow, Potsie was a diva cunt. Now it can be told!

Richie was a cute twink in the early seasons. I hope Fonzie used him.

Fonzie liked Ike and his bike liked Ike

The Fonz looks like he had a fat cock.

Not huge in length. But thick and solid.

Winkler and The Fonz were VERY sexy in the first season of Happy Days when he was a supporting character. But it all got tiresome quickly. A little of The Fonz went a long way.

I've been watching an old game show from the 70s that Anson Williams is on frequently, and I've found him to be very unlikable. Also, I understand he goes around bad-mouthing Bette Davis.

I'm with Henry. He can fuck right off.

I remember my affection for the Fonz being briefly distracted by Vinnie Barbarino. I think I eventually settled on a shared affection between the two.

And if we’re keeping track, I got smacked in the face with my Charlie Brown lunch box.

Why Bette Davis? That's so random.

He hired Bette for a movie he produced and got butt-hurt when she didn't take his shit. Like one of the most legendary film actors to ever live is supposed to kiss Potsie's ass.

Here he is telling the story to fellow cunt Andy Cohen.

R64, yeah, season one was a bit rough... it was the only season where Richie had an older brother. Come season two, he had vanished and nobody ever mentioned him again.

Wasn’t he like 40 when he was on Happy Days?

R75 it's already been stated that he was 28 when he began playing the Fonz.

That’s a hard 28

Fascinating insight, R77. You're really breaking new ground there.

I think Season 1 was single-camera dramedy with a laugh track, à la M*A*S*H.

Season 2 onward was shot like a typical multicamera sitcom with a studio audience.

Him and Estelle Getty were the two most over-hyped actors/characters in American TV history, Henry was marginally better then the cardboard Estelle. Why the hype? I have no fucking idea.

Everyone loved Sophia Petrillo.

I believe she was the #1 Golden Girl.

Get up to your room Joanie!

Fonzie was irresistible to women, so I wondered if there were lots of illegitimate children around Milwaukie who would one day want to know who their father was.

Here comes Pinky Tuscadero.

Somehow Leather Tuscadero was immune to Fonzie's manly sexual appeal. No one could explain why!

He looks like something that escaped the Planet of the Apes in that bronze statue. How embarassing.

I don’t care if he was 27, he came across as a middle aged man creeping on teenaged girls.

As a kid I did not think Winkler was too old for the role. Fonzie was obviously an adult and older, relative to the other young characters. He also didn't "creep" on teenagers. Sounds like some Gen Z hysteria you'd see on TikTok.

I’m 50, not Gen Z. Thought he was gross when I watched as a kid.

In the 1950s, teenagers looked a whole lot younger!

[quote] Milwaukie

Milwaukee.

R89 that may be more a reflection of you than of him (the character or the actor).

Henry Winkler was fantastic in one of my favorite Law and Order SVU episodes - it was of the early seasons. He was a charming con man who married a rich con man who married a rich widow. He set it up to have her raped and murdered but she survived and he had to keep taking care of her. It was twisty and good.

It looks like I stroked out writing that message but you get the gist ^

I thought he was sexy as hell and he filled out those jeans and that tight tee so nicely.

He was great as the lawyer on Arrested Development. Impeccable comic line delivery and timing. I actually like that character more than the Fonz.

Henry Winkler turned into a good character actor.

He was also great as the indulgent father of Jean-Ralphio and Mona-Lisa Saperstein

[quote]Henry Winkler turned into a good character actor.

I think he’s always been one, but he was typecast after Happy Days, which derailed his career as a serious actor and turned him into a pop icon. I wonder what direction his career would have gone if he didn’t get the Fonz role. At least he recovered from it later in life.

An eldergay make up artist I met in the early 90s swears that he was at a party in the 70s where Winkler and Robin Williams were jerking each other off.

Winkler is much much better in “Barry”. The dark comedy is hysterical.

I didn't know people jerked off back then.

He was fantastic in Night Shift, which was right after his Fonzie gig. I think it really helped him break his stereotype.

I don't see anything negative about Bette Davis in Anson Williams' story. She sounded totally professional, and went out of her way to help the production when she didn't have to.

[quote]An eldergay make up artist I met in the early 90s swears that he was at a party in the 70s where Winkler and Robin Williams were jerking each other off

Considering the amount of coke being snorted, it’s unlikely either one was able to get it up, let alone jerk off. Maybe he used the term figuratively.

I was a young child in the 70’s, but I vividly remember HD and Fonzie. I remember thinking he looked so old compared to Cunningham and friends. Jarringly old, like Luke Perry in 90210. I can’t believe the character was approved for TV. He shoulda been looking for chicks closer to his own age. Blech

I loved Heroes. But the final scene is what made the movie. And then when the movie was put on DVD they changed the very thing that made the scene so great (the song).

I also thought Night Shift was hilarious. Barney Rubble - what an actor!

R107 - what song did they use on the DVD? I can't imagine it without the Kansas song.

[quote] he went out of his way to disparage Anson Williams as an unprofessional and ego-driven twat. As no one had asked about Potsie, it seemed unnecessarily mean-spirited.

R65, good anecdote and I'm impressed that you were a grad student at the Yale School of Drama.

I'm going to give Henry Winkler a pass for his potshot on Potsie.

HW just seems like a mensch, to me. He's a huge fan of New Haven (CT) style pizza.

I was a teenager when Happy Days arrived on TV. I had an immediate crush on Fonzie. I love Mediterranean and Jewish men. I mentally undressed him. Hairy chest, spongy purple-brown nipples, treasure trail to a large, thick bush surrounding a wide cock with a helmet head. I imagined myself giving him a blow job.

I recently met him at a conference for educators of people with disabilities. He was a very nice man. Those thoughts on him came right back to me.

He once brought a group of kids to the movies in Century City in L.A. (1994) and asked me to move my seat so they could all sit together. I thought he was nice about it. I think I responded with something like, "Sure, Mr. Winkler".

Another time I saw him walking down one of the hilly side streets in Weho and he really looked like he wanted to be noticed.

At 9 years old, I thought Fonzie was sexy and often thought of his pubic bush.

I thought a lot about male actors' bushes back then, when men still had them.

I recall Fonzie slicking back his pubic bush, gave it two thumbs up then punched Al’s jukebox in the third season blooper reel on one of Dick Clark’s old specials.

Well, I also thought that Florence Jean Castleberry was a hot piece of ass the way they portrayed her. Of course, I was young - but she was sex on a stick!

She was played by Polly Holliday, not Henry Winkler r115.

What season did the show get ridiculous and turn into the Fonzie show? The first few seasons were era appropriate and then they transported to the poodle perm era.

EXACTAMUNDO

Did he voh dee oh doh?

Listen Bucko

My dad was not a TV watcher. Recall him walking through the family room while were were watching Happy Days. At the height of the Fonz "Sit on It" craze Dad glances at the set "Who the hell is the 50 yo ?"

I don't remember thinking he looked that old. Yes, he did seem older than Richie, Ralph Malph, and Potsie.

Luke Perry did look old, though, compared to the others on 90210. He had those horizontal lines on his forehead that teens just don't have.

Is Luke Perry dead? I thought one of those 90210 actors died.

^^May he rest in peace.

Luke Perry died from a stroke at age 52 in 2019. He was a lifelong heavy smoker.

I worked in a daycare centerl during part of Happy Days. Preschoolers ADORED The Fonz and dressed as him for Halloween.

R108 — it was Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas.

Remember when Joanie almost got gangbanged in the classroom?

[quote]Can we discuss the Fonz?

NO

I'd rather discuss Big Rosie Greenbaum. The funniest character ever created by Gary Marshall.

R137 - that song was in the theatrical version, which I mentioned @ R108.

But I was asking what song replaced it in the DVD version that was mentioned @ R107.

Nutmeg in a pound cake? What a peculiar recipe.

R73 I may have mentioned something about him being generally sub-pair and having a baby penis.

R131 it was some generic song with zero emotional resonace. No idea what it was.