Fonzie

This article covers the character of the American television series Happy Days . For the Portuguese pop-punk band, see Fonzie (band) .

Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli was a character in the American comedy series Happy Days (1974-1984) and was played by Henry Winkler .

About the figure

"Fonzie" was a motorcycle rider and mechanic wearing a leather jacket. Although he graduated from high school early, he appears to have almost supernatural skills, knowledge, sexual attractiveness, and diversity. In the America of the 1950s and in Milwaukee in particular, where the plot of the series was set, these attributes made him a very popular person. During the series, Fonz graduated from high school through evening classes and became an auto mechanic instructor. Although he never married, he adopted a son last season, marking the end of the rebel-to-family transition.

In the first season of Happy Days , Fonz was a rather sporadic fringe character. But he soon became a regular performer thanks to his continued popularity. His fame and admiration among the American population quickly rose, and Fonzie eventually became a pop culture icon of the late 1970s. He was hugely popular with viewers because of his stylish personality and his ability to achieve things seemingly effortlessly. For example, Fonzie could only get a jukebox running with a tap on it, or it got things with a snap of his fingers. His way of speaking too, especially his distinctive exclamation “ Ayyy! “Contributed to its popularity. These characteristics made Fonz almost synonymous with the American term " cool ". His leather jacket is now in the Smithsonian Institution .

By the way, according to ABC , Fonz was originally supposed to wear sweaters, except when he was near his motorcycle . That's why the producers of Happy Days simply used Fonzie near his motorcycle. So he could wear his leather jacket at any time.

Allusions in other films and series

• In Miloš Forman's film The Moon Man , Fonzie is referred to as the one that all children imitate and whose image they stick on their food boxes.
• Further: Jumping the shark , a metaphor, sprung from a scene with Fonzie in Happy Days .
• In Tarantino's Pulp Fiction , Fonzie is also alluded to in the restaurant scene: Jules Winnfield ( Samuel L. Jackson ) calls on Pumpkin and Yolanda ("Honeybunny") to be "cool, like Fonzies".
• In the Futurama episode Like the father so the clone , the "Cool-o-meter" invented by Prof. Farnsworth shows the coolness of people in the fictional unit "Fonzies" or "Mega-Fonzies". (Compare Pulp Fiction above.)
• The simpsons
  • As a result, the security service "Springshield" (DABF17) the city suffers from a heat wave. The primary school has a new air conditioning system. Misses Krabappel and Headmaster Skinner are talking about the fact that students are coming back to school they haven't seen in years. Including Fonzie.
  • In the episode Sorry, Lisa (AABF12), Fonzie's jacket is on display at a fair and guarded by two security guards and a laser system, while Abraham Lincoln's hat on a simple bust and the Bill of Rights are displayed with no significant security measures next to it.
  • In the episode Homer and Moe St. Cool , Homer hits the jukebox like Fonzie, cuts his hand on the jukebox glass, and then snaps “ Ayyy! “With the thumb.
  • In the episodes "Homer with the Finger Hands" (S22E20) and "The Thing That Came from Ohio" (S23E04) Fonzie's jacket can be seen in a couch gag.
  • The Fonzie saying "Sit on it" is referenced several times, e.g. For example, in "The Springfield Files" (3G01), in which Homer wears a T-shirt with this inscription, or in "Wir vom Trickfilm" (9F16), in which the saying in a review of the "1974 class" on a Banner can be seen.
• In the Friends episode Hurray, the triplets are here (The One Hundreth), season 5, the treating gynecologist comes out as a big "Fonzie" fan and thus upsets Phoebe and the rest of the friends.
• Family guy
  • In the episode No More Boy Scouts , Fonzie Peter appears in a vision as a spiritual guide and reveals that he had herpes twice and gonorrhea once .
  • As a result, The Church of Fonz , Peter founds the "Church of the Fonz", a religious community that follows the teachings of Fonzie.
• South Park
  • In the episode Griff in Die Geschichte (season 2, episode 7): Cartman and his class are sitting in the school bus and he remembers how "Fonzie" was before Arnold's jumped over the school bus and Fonzie said his legendary word: "Heavy".
  • In the episode Probably (German: Will probably ... Season 4, episode 11) he is in the intro on a water scooter and wants to jump over sharks, but then falls into the water and is eaten.
• In Jim , as a result Jim, the educator , Andy has dressed up for Halloween as Fonzie. He and Jim each imitate Fonzie's distinctive “ Ayyy! ".
• In the eleventh Scrubs episode of the first season, My Christmas Miracle (orig. My Own Personal Jesus ), JD fantasizes how he, dressed in a leather jacket and with his hair combed back, helps a coma patient to wake up with a slap on the chest. While the patient and his relatives dance to "Rock Around the Clock", JD snaps his finger and an attractive nurse appears and kisses him.
• the wild seventies
  • In episode 32. The magic three words (orig. I Love Cake , episode 7 of the 2nd season), Kelso appears in a leather jacket and is then called Fonzie by his friends.
  • In episode 48. Damn for all eternity (original Holy Crap , episode 23 of the 2nd season) compare Eric and Steven in a discussion with the youth pastor Jesus with Fonzie.
  • In episode 75. Small border traffic (original Canadian Road Trip , episode 23 of season 3), Kelso Fonzie introduces himself as a Canadian Mounty .
• In Boy Meets World episode 12 of season 3, The Grass is Always Greener , Cory slips into the role of Shawn wearing a leather jacket and tries to speak to girls. On the first try, however, he looks rather awkward and Shawn tells him he's more like Fonzie.
• In the film 2 Fast 2 Furious , one of the drivers of Roman Pierce (Tyrese Gibson )’s two muscle cars is nicknamed "Fonzie".
• In the series Roseanne in the episode The Back Story , Becky's friend Mark is compared to Fonzie by Roseanne's mother, as he also wears a leather jacket, has combed back hair and loves motorcycles.
• In the TV series The L Word in the 7th episode of season 5, Molly tells Shane that she is something like "the fonz for lesbians".
• In the series Supernatural , the owner of the wax museum wears the original jacket of the "Fonz" in the 5th season in episode 5 and assumes his pose.
• In Andy Weir's book Der Martianer (originally: The Martian ), astronaut Mark Watney, stranded on Mars, assumes the typical thumbs-up pose and holds a sheet of paper into the Sojourner camera with the word "Ayyyyyy!" stands. In the 2015 film version, the scene was taken with the typical pose.
• In the television series Gossip Girl, there are several allusions to the character "Fonzie" when the character Rufus Humphrey is wearing a black leather jacket. In the fifth season, Rufus explains about the leather jacket that it might soon be hanging next to the jacket of the original in the museum.
• In the movie Captain Marvel , Carol ( Brie Larson ) hides the tesseract in a "The Fonz" lunch box .

"Bronze Fonz"

On August 18, 2008, Henry Winkler unveiled a bronze statue of the character Arthur Fonzarelli in Milwaukee, which was the location of the Happy Days series (which was filmed in California). The statue is located near the Rock Bottom Brewery at 740 North Plankinton Avenue. The $ 75,000 cost for the statue was raised by two Milwaukee community groups through private donations and the sale of t-shirts and cookies.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Henry Winkler unveiled bronze Fonz . BBC News, August 20, 2008.
2. ↑ The Bronze Fonz ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 620 WTMJ Newsradio, January 25, 2008