I hadn't hit "full screen" until I read your comment. holy shit YES. (and I only watched past first 5 seconds to look for your point - ended up watching the whole thing - and this was far funnier than I thought it would be. so thanks for that.)
Crispin Glover is probably a method actor and more than likely looked at James Dean (who actually was a method actor) as an inspiration for this scene,... especially since this office scene nearly matches the office scene between James (as Jimmy Stark) with Edward Platt (as Inspector Ray Fremick) in the police station scene at the opening of "Rebel Without A Cause". Not to mention the fact that Rebel Without a Cause was made in the mid 50s and Happy Days (which uses RWAC as a template) is set between the mid 50s to mid 60's.
CG is the salt, pepper and garlic of anything he is cast in. I cook for my friends and family a lot and when they ask, "wow, what did you put in this?", I just say, " Crispin Glover". They say well that's just weird and I say yes it is.
Henry Winkler was actually made to look much younger than he was. Ironic that the Crispin Glover character has no idea Fonzie himself was a high school dropout. 😮😂
Why would you say he's a douchebag in real life? I've had the privilege of meeting him twice, and on both occasions he has been the most gracious "celebrity" I've ever encountered. After screening one of his new films at our small theater, he stayed until 3AM until he made sure he had spoken personally with each fan that wanted to meet him.
Glover doesn’t care about becoming a mainstream star. He cares about the messages his performances/films deliver. What’s amazing is much of his hang ups and stuff from his past that have him labeled as eccentric are turning out to be accepted as obvious by the mainstream now. For example the concept that corporations are pulling strings behind the scenes while feeding us endless streams of propaganda to keep us complicit and compliant with their agenda to rule our lives and thoughts.
@SIMPLE SPIN, I think after you challenge guys like Robert Zemekis and Steven Spielberg early in your career, you're pretty much taking yourself out of contention for mainstream status, which is exactly what happened with Glover.
Glover probably never cared how famous he was or wasn't. I've had fame and been mentioned on the front pages of the NY Times and Wall Street Journal but no one would really care today.
Great seeing the 1970's car at the beginning of the clip. And the 1980's hairdos. Their attention to detail for a show set in the late 50's early 60's was woeful
@@69Mucci Agreed, the first season was very good, they had 50's haircuts and the cars, furniture was of that period, but by the time Chachi came on board it was, eh who cares
@@leejam5268 of course Fonzie always stayed the same and looked like he was still in the 50s even when the show was supposed to be in like 1967 towards the end. Isn't it ironic that he was supposed to be the epitome of cool, but he would have been considered totally anachronistic a decade later.
Later season, I'm thinking when Fonzie and Roger got jobs at the local vo-tech high school for troubled teenagers. Fonzie was the auto shop teacher, Roger was principal.
@@jennifer_m.8613 Fonzie was the Dean of Boys and Roger was the Principal at the George S. Patton Vocational High School. Fonzie wanted to be Principal but they turned him down because he was a High School dropout, which makes no sense to me because he did go to night school to get his diploma. Those later episodes had a darker edge to them and tackled more serious issues. Joanie became a teacher and one of her students tried to rape her and another student almost died from a drug overdose. And it was during this season that we actually saw Fonzie punch somebody onscreen.
Crispin is BRILLIANT! I'm truly blown away by his talent - facial expressions, comical physicality, timing, gambit of emotions seen through his eyes (I saw everything from fear, comedy, sadness, happiness, intimidating glare, confidence, insecurity - I found myself reacting emotionally to all of them!). It's bewildering why he wasn't offered more roles after this OR Back to the Future! He's so highly skilled at both comical & dramatic acting!!! ... and THAT accomplished at 19! WOW!
That was a result of him wanting more pay and also wanting to be involved with the plot. I am not one to say if he deserved more or not but he was getting the least. Fox made 5M for the sequels while they only wanted to give Glover 125K. He asked for 1Million to be in the sequels and they didn't ask him back. Fox, Wilson, Thompson, Loyd all made considerably more than Glover.
Yeah, Ron Howard said he kept his hair short out of respect for the setting, but by a few seasons in, most everyone else in the cast was growing theirs out, and it was simply tolerated as a matter of course. Looking back at the first season, they really were trying much harder initially.
@Harry Engel I thought the show jumped the shark...Haha...after a few seasons. I haven't watched it in decades. I was a kid when it first came out and loved everything 50/early 60's. The music, muscle cars and baseball cards from then. American Graffiti started it all for me. The times seemed so innocent.
Ted McGinley, yes. Crispin Glover... well until now I would've had to find out on IMDb. FYI back then (in fact up until the late-1980's), if an employer doesn't know you're a high school dropout, you can have the same opportunities in life as any other high school graduate.
Ted McGinley... the cursed son of TV, whose casting draws the deep ire of the Old Gods, who then facilitate the end of the show daring enough hire him.
What a happy little coincidence... the Patron Saint of Jumping the Shark teams up with the guy who literally jumped the shark to make sure young George McFly would have a brighter future! It's just so... beautiful...
Crispin's dad was Mr. Wint in the 007 flick Diamonds Are Forever.... when you watch it you can totally see the family resemblance, right down to how they deliver their lines...
His subdued intensity (scene stealer) was prob a turn off to many casting agents; they couldn't "peg" him. Personally, I like him a lot - he has an energy that makes whatever he's in very memorable.
He didnt have the boy next door charm of Michael J Fox or Tom Cruise or mysterious, bad boy image of a young Johnny Depp or Kevin Bacon. Crispin was sort of off-kilter and bizarre.
The last season (11th) they totally abandoned the 60s looks for the current looks of the day. It started as a tribute to the fabulous 50s then after Ron and Don left it suddenly shifted to the 60s.
Wow, Glover is gorgeous here. Look at that hair. I've never ever thought of him as handsome. Also, he always comes across as weird-scary-dangerous, and here, he comes across as normal.
+Minho Minhendore You evidently, haven't seen one of the coolest cult films since REPO MAN, CG & Howard Hesseman in RUBIN & ED, where Glover has long hair, big-ass platform shoes & these bellbottom LOUD vertically striped pants!! (Funny as hell! -and available here, on You Tube, to see for free!!!)
Masamune Noir You have to see Rubin & Ed - it came out in 1992. It stars Crispin & Howard Hesseman. Hesseman plays this middle-aged man who's kind of a loser: his wife (played by Karen Black) had left him, he's just started this new venture: a real estate seminar which sets him on a path to try and get his life going, etc. Glover is this goofy slacker type who lives in this motel his mom owns: his "room" is one of the motel rooms. His favorite thing to do is to play Mahler for his cat, which, BTW, has died by the time we "meet" "Rubin" (Glover's character)...anyway, the 2 end up together by these one or 2 odd circumstances and then, for a lot of the movie, they're stranded in the Mojave desert somewhere, out of gas, I think, and a bunch of crazy shit happens. Not gonna describe the whole thing here - just remember this: GREAT film. Total "Cult-movie": one you'd wanna see over & over again. Funny as hell too.
There is a lamp on the desk that obviously goes to the floor when the desk gets kicked over. Twice they cut to Fonzie and the lamp is still in front of him.
"There will be no hot lunches until my wallet is returned"...considering what I remember about how awful my school lunches were, that's not exactly a bad thing.:) Crispin is really a very decent actor, and here, even this early, his performance is much stronger than most one-time Happy Days visitors.
I remember seeing this episode (I watched Happy Days to its bitter conclusion) but never realized that Glover was Roach! Back To The Future was still at least a year away from release so he wasn't too well known yet. I also didn't realize how funny this scene was! Glover really nailed it!
My God, this is incredible, I never knew Crispin Glover was on Happy Days! He's totally rocking one of my own mid-80's looks there as well, with the anti-gravity hair and the grey overcoat!
I wouldn't expect Crispin Glover to be able to pull off a troubled youth with an attitude (because he's so eccentric and has a very unique and measured rythym with his way of talking), but he's so great in this tiny little snippet of a role! it's absolutely hilarious! I know it's been a few decades, but if you're reading this Mr. Glover, great job! love it!
What's sad is...... I have a job and I'm a high school dropout. I got my GED which was confirmed to be way harder than a high school diploma. I went to college, got a job at Walmart and dropped out of college. Paid off my student loans ahead of time before they hassled me. I now have to save up and wait to get a new apartment. But life doesn't suck. I'm not homeless or anything. But this kid... he didn't think his shit out. He literally just wanted to be cool.
in latino america only that show was available for 2 seasons im surprised that only here I can see more and more seasons A LITTLE LATE BUT THANKS!!!!!!!!
This was a deleted scene from "Back To The Future" where George Mcfly found the Delorean that his future son brought to the 50's, and he traveled to the 70's. It was edited out for time... plus it added nothing to the plot. 😏
In a later episode Roger convinces Fonzie to go to a teachers convention after they crash their small plane Fonzie confides in him that he's not as smart as teachers and that he didn't belong Roger tells him that you don't need a fancy degree to understand kids and that he does belong and goes on to explain why fonzie actually is a teacher
