HAPPY DAYS: Season 11 (1983-84) Clip (Richie Cunningham Returns) 

Yeah, but I’m glad Henry’s excitement balanced everything out

whatever

@nonrepublicrat great insight. Anything else you want to add?

His and Joanie’s similar reaction really get to me. 💗

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Yes if you do not feel that than you have no soul . Hell I watch it over and I still well up.

Shows the power if it all. Happy Days Indeed.

It’s impossible

That emotion from Joanie, and the beaming smile from Fonzie, when seeing Richie, looked so authentic, like it genuinely was NOT acting. ❤🥰

IT is great and that you cannot get today in any show .

It bores me every time.

I've always loved that!😊

The emotion on Joanie’s face, too! 🥰

… Fonzie saying “My boys are back” too. 🥰

Way too soon

@Brix Broox She had cancer

Yes to young and to soon. She led a sad life as well

@@kellymckelvie361 She sure did. I don't think she'd want people feeling sorry for her, but she was reduced to living in a mobile home. I don't know all the details, but the last years of her life were quite bad.

Never thought she was cute at all.

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Shut up

Knucklehead

RH tried to help Erin later in life - but she wasn’t in a mental state to accept it.

Yep, Fonzie though of Howard and Marion as his parents, Richie as a brother, Joanie as a sister.

I watched that and swore that didn’t look like acting… True emotion IMHO.

​@@noirjacques3274 You're right it wasn't acting. That's how they all felt about each other

you build a time machine ill pay you good money for a ride

Like her tv mom joaney had spirit, i liked her part here and on the show

yeah that afro of hers really looked great! the wet poodle look sure is amazing

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😂😂😂❤so cute

And it's still a beautiful scene!

I wonder if she made a similar face when she OD'd in that trailer park

Yes so sad she died of cancer and alone.

And you know this, how?

@@BrianScottHarris news anson williams talked about her stage 4 cancer her mother in law kicked her out of the trailer home.

SMH.

Wtf?! Lol how's he shitting on America?! I was in the army, also currently in and spent 10 years in the uso,and am a former deputy sheriff! I'm trying to find ANYTHING in his comments, about shitting on America! Lol

Too bad that she said really bad lies about them and they never ever spoke to her again.......

Very well said. That is why this show will always be great no matter what year. Also why shows now are not even close to this quality.

@@TheodoreDonaldKarabatsos I'd tell you to stop shitting but since your so full of shit that's impossible. Dumbass.

@@TheodoreDonaldKarabatsos, who are you talking to?

I agree. She's a great actress.

Yes she did even I have hard time controlling the emotion . It was an amazing show and the just blew people away.

Michael Marshall full house the final season

This was one of the greatest shows of all time and today not one network has a show worthy of beating it. Fun for all and that is hard thing to do.

Erin Moran Died today at the age of 56, I don't know why

WHERE IS POTSIE ?

@@Sony-yv2rf WATCH THE WHOLE EPISODE, YOU SEE POTSIE WHEN THEY ALL GO TO ARNOLD'S.

Happy Days was an abomination for its last 6 seasons.

@@davidpetersen6456 Sadly like many shows that have huge success it gets milked of all it has and they struggle for content . The show was huge but the stories grew tired . But it was fun for the most part .

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That was an hysterical moment!!!! 😆 I always look forward to watching this one.

How did Richie hear the set up line from outside the house?

I know... I can't BELIEVE they didn't do that!

I am just glad they did come back for this and Richie was there at the finale.

Ron Howard kept running off to direct movies

Well sadly Ron Howard had moved on. But he still cared about ending the show on a positive note. Yes had they been back for the entire season it would have been ideal but Ron Howard had projects he was doing. I know it sucked but his busy schedule was too much.

@@EdsterIII This was just enough because back then I was a child and there was no social media to spoil this surprise! The only thing that I didn't like about this was changing the opening theme LOL it just didn't match

Nothing wrong with that.

Called being human!

She, Joanie, was genuinely emotional during these episodes because she knew it was ending and she truly loved all of her castmates or as she called them her 2nd family. These clips have brought tears to my eyes as well. I grew up in Milwaukee and I loved this show so much. As a little kid my Dad was the Fonz...he had the hair, but no cycle. We used to go to the place that they based Arnolds off of. It's called Leon's. It's a ice cream drive-in type very similar to Arnold's but no indoor seating. But back to the original point, when these last episodes were being done it truly was hard on these people. They grew up together. Erin Moran was a kid when she started. We watched her grow into a amazing woman. This show did everything right.

Wow...i cried too watching this.. Her tears..when Marion was hugging Ritchie..genuine tears..not acting..

Me too

The emotion in that hug is how I hugged my mother . God what I would not give to do it again .

You always belong to your mother no matter how old you are .

patrick mcglone - this show was about the fifties you do know that right? The 70's were turmoil, Nixon, Manson, Watts riots, Vietnam, Watergate, Drugs....what the hell world did you live in?

To be continued next week episode

@@heavenstomurgatroyd7033 But what world do we live in now...Covid 19, rioting in our major cities I would love to go back to the seventies

DON'T blame the 80s FOOL...shit started falling apart in the 70s REALLY the 60s.

What is an EP ?

It means episode silly.

Is that what is says in the dictionary ?@@williamwaldrip9987

@@michaelmarshall1713 .. Dickhead.

@@jayc1676 WOW what a scathing retort . I am offended .

Agreed she was one of my first crushes as a teenage boy in the early 80's

Me too you can see his face and how much he actually love not just the character but the man. I have mate just like that he hugs me as though he was going to squeeze my bones out and that sight of Ritchie & Fonzie is brilliant.

Ron Howard and Henry Winkler is very close. Henry is the godfather of Ron's daughter Bryce Dallas Howard.

Yes and it really showed here. Hard to conceal the love for each other and you can Ritchie start to smile when he sees him as well.

Priceless .

Logan Ratley I think was like like the coolest intro Fonzie ever made.

Happy Days was basically dead and was being canceled. The Richie and Ralph farewells was closure to their characters.

Garry Marshall convinced ABC to renew Happy Days for one final season, just so Richie could get a proper homecoming, and farewell.

Could have been sit ins, just to get the lines right

I suspect it was done this way to keep the surprise element . How could you rehearse this and then do it and get that kind if reaction ?? I say a secret was well kept .

Chuck is only Zachary Levy...now.

Who?

And Potsie

@@roryotoole3279 In the first season or two the Howard & Marion had 3 kids & Chuck was the oldest. In one of the episodes he goes upstairs & is never seen or heard from again.

@@timobrien8809 No they didn't.Your making that all up.😁 Next you'll tell me the front door was on the other side of the house. Or the garage is on the wrong side of the house.

@Berry Harbour If it was good 'nuff for Stan Lee, it's good 'nuff for me!

worst Led Zeppelin lyrics ever.

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I heard they lost custody, and their 2 kids moved in with Uncle Chuck.

No

@@emptyhand777 ah yes the Chuck Cunningham lost character vortex

Laverne & Shirley was babysitting them.

The continuity was all over the place. Theres dialogue in one of the Joanie Loves Chachi episodes that mentions Richie had already returned and he and his family had already moved to California.

Ron is a director

"laughing my ass off I just cried laughing my ass off" ... bipolar, are you?

I read your comment and have watched it many times and yes they would have had sore hands but am sure they would have clapped as long as they could have. The power and emotion in this one part is very powerful and I am glad I have found it. Happy Days indeed the best days of my life.

ikr....shows how much the characters were luved and missed

You can say what you want but this cannot be topped by any so called sitcom today . The emotion on that set that day was incredible and that audience gave their all for them as well!

MrNice1966 absolutely thought the same thing. Seems the audience was genuinely excited and happy to see these characters back.

Was this one of the last episodes of Happy Days?

IT was very close and emotional , when he walks in and the look on Marion,s Face and the hug was genuine , you cannot fake that and it was just like a real good old fashioned family was and should be . The Fonz as well he and Ron Howard very very close and it showed. This always moves me and that says something about the powerful performance by these skilled people , that you fell it . Thats acting .

@@michaelmarshall1713 This went beyond acting. I agree ALL were phenomenal actors and actresses, when these scenes were done real tears were shed. Erin was so close to these people. She loved all of them. Heck she grew up with them as we all watched. The powerful performances as you said are the BEST I've seen. I've loved many great 70's sitcoms. They are so special to me. M*A*S*H, Mork and Mindy, and Happy Days are my favorites. These people showed true love and emotion for each other and yes that was VERY POWERFUL. GREAT COMMENT.

@@EdsterIII MASH lost me when I realised Alan Alda was using it as a Political Soap Box to make the USA look like the devil ? When in fact it was the United Nations behind it all with China ! Why do think Wayne Rogers left ? But Happy Days was cool all round .

Sad that Moran destroyed her relationship with Howard when she accused him and the entire cast of horrible things later in life.

@@michaelmarshall1713 USA needed no help from Alan Alda. It did it on its own.

only thing that could have made that scene better was to have Potsie come in as well.

Happy Days.

Wym Anson (Potsie) was in this episode.

@@jkingvevo2472 I know that, I was meaning in this scene.

@@TheMassacreFilmsnah he wasn’t missing lol he mainly hung out with Richie and Ralph at Arnold’s throughout the whole time Ron and Don was on the show. I remember his introduction in the Arnold’s scene they reunited at in this episode. Good timing 👌

Good theory...but it would have been nice to give some closure to his character being written off..

Yeah, but it's not really a theory.. It's in actual interviews during the earlier seasons as to why the Chuck character was taken away, and if you take a closer look at it now, they do actually explain his disappearance. Sometimes, when kids go off to college, even in wholesome families like this one, they still don't keep in contact with them, just because of distance or otherwise. I admit, they should have at least mentioned his name and what not, even during the finale and stuff. But, a lot of shows are like that. I know that there are interviews out there with Howard and Winkler about it, you can even wiki the Fonzie character and it'll say that he started off as a secondary character and moved into the primary role as the show went on. Interesting stuff, if you take the time to research it, you'll be able to find it.

I agree plus the Chuck character never worked out. They wisely phased him out.

Yes, look at what happened to Judy Winslow played by that "Other" Jaimee Foxworth Her mother wanted her to have more of a Storyline on Family Matters, she went upstairs into The Attic and was never heard from again. The Same thing happened on All My Children with Bobby Martin and Samantha Marler on Guiding Light.

Supposedly Fonzie was only going to be in a handful of eppys but he was so popular they made him one of the main.