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♪ Sunday, Monday, happy days ♪

♪ Tuesday, Wednesday, happy days ♪

♪ Thursday, Friday, happy days ♪

♪ The weekend comes, my cycle hums ♪

♪ Ready to race to you ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪

- ♪ Happy and free ♪ - ♪ Oh, happy days ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪

- ♪ Share them with me ♪ - ♪ Oh, baby ♪

♪ Good-bye, gray sky, hello, blue ♪

♪ There's nothing can hold me when I hold you ♪

♪ It feels so right it can't be wrong ♪

♪ Rocking and rolling all week long ♪

♪ Sunday, Monday, happy days ♪

♪ Tuesday, Wednesday, happy days ♪

♪ Thursday, Friday, happy days ♪

♪ Saturday, what a day ♪

♪ Groovin' all week with you ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪

- ♪ Share them with me ♪ - ♪ Oh, happy days ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪

- ♪ Happy and free ♪ - ♪ Oh, baby ♪

♪ These happy days are yours and mine ♪

♪ These happy days are yours ♪

♪ And mine, Happy Days! ♪

RICHIE, POTSIE & RALPH: ♪ Glorious, victorious ♪

♪ One keg of suds for the four of us ♪

♪ Singing glory be to God that there are no more of us ♪

♪ As we could drink it all alone! ♪

♪ All alone. ♪

I love college life.

Drinking songs, climbing greased poles, panty raids.

I love being a man.

What are you guys so happy about?

You're starting Hell Week.

I get the woolies just thinking

of all the terrible things they're gonna make you do.

Al, we're joining the best frat on campus, Phi Kappa Nu.

Yeah, it's got the-the highest grade standing.

It's got the best athletes.

It's got the best fraternity house.

You don't just goof around.

Like, all afternoon, we've been out collecting toys

for underprivileged children.

Ah, fraternities.

I wish I was... ten years younger.

Yeah.

Hey.

Let me tell you something, my little gladiola.

Don't you brood, 'cause once I touch your car,

I'm gonna get it in as good of shape as... you are.

- Fonz! - Hey, Fonzie, how you doing?

Hey, look who's over there.

- If it ain't Potsie and Ralph and Richie. - Yeah.

See, there's my friends.

Listen, you remember Boom Boom?

Yeah, she was, uh, last month's, uh, centerfold

in All About Roller Derby.

Oh, yeah.

I saw her on television.

These are my buddies. They're college men.

Very intellectual fraternity boys...

dressed like... bowling pins.

Well, Fonz...

Fonz, we got to wear the beanies, because it's Hell Week.

Oh, right. See that?

The whole week, they're gonna eat goldfish,

get paddled upside one down their body, down the other.

- Yeah. - Eating goldfish. Fun stuff, Fonz.

Yeah, but once we get through Hell Week,

then we're fraternity brothers for life.

- Brothers! -Brothers! - Right, right.

Well, I got no time for college frolicking.

You know, see, her '51 MG got vandalized on the street,

stripped to the bone.

Aw!

So to speak. Yeah.

Do me a favor, okay?

Here's a dime.

Go right over there... That a girl...

And call Happy Harry's Garage.

You got that? Right?

Ask him for a carburetor.

Here you go.

I'm gonna get her a new chassis.

Not that she needs one.

There's the president of PKN. More fun, guys.

Got any good pledges this year?

Uh, well, there's Myers. He's not bad. Johnson.

Cunningham I like.

I'm not so sure about Malph and Weber, though, uh...

Malph and Weber, huh?

Hey, and the pledge master, Terrible Tom.

He's all right. Come on, let's go.

- Hey, guys. - Hi, fellas.

- Hi. - All right, hi.

We got to get back to the frat house,

set things up for the dance tonight.

- Yes, sir. - All right.

Where are the other pledges?

Uh, they're not here yet, Brad.

Let me have some fun with the ones we got, huh?

You know, sort of whip 'em into shape.

They're all yours.

All right, now, pledges,

all I want you to do is deliver these party invitations

to the Iota girls.

Yes, sir, sir!

- Uh... - No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Those are airmail.

Man your planes, pledges!

Malph, there's an Iota at 6:00.

Weber, hit the air.

Cunningham, you're sputtering.

Refuel!

Oh!

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

- Whoa! Whoa! - Zih.

Yeah, ziz, ziz, zih, right.

Cunningham, let me ask you a question.

Is this the way that college is preparing you for life?

Oh, Fonz, I realize this looks a little silly.

Yeah. -Oh.

It may be silly...

but-but we got to prove that we're worthy of being PKNs.

That's the whole point of all this stuff.

And, yeah, it is very important to us.

Yeah, I'll tell you something.

I didn't realize how important it was.

Go back to being a bumblebee.

I'm a plane.

No, you're not. I know planes.

I've got a twin-engine model over here.

That's enough.

- Okay, all right. - We got to get 'em back to the house.

We'll take care of the other pledges later.

- Let's go, pledges. - Yes, sir.

Ah... let's go as ducks.

More fun, right?

Get quacking, pledgers.

First one back gets a bowl of bird seed.

Wow, a prize!

Hi, Dad.

Hi, Richard.

Richard?!

Hey, the molasses and feather bit, huh?

You started Hell Week.

Terrific.

Dad, I just... I wish you could've seen it.

- I mean, it was fantastic. - Yeah?

- First, they paddled us. Oh, it's... - Uh-huh.

Then they hit us in the face with raw eggs.

Uh-huh.

They made us roll peanuts around the floor with our noses.

It was... It was just great.

Yeah, yeah, I know.

I loved it, too.

Ah, good old PKN.

Those were the days. Congratulations again, Richard.

Thank you, Dad.

- What memories. - Yeah.

I better take this, uh, sack of feathers on upstairs.

Sack of feathers?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

They-they let me keep the leftovers.

See, there was this one very short pledge, you know.

Boy, college is helping him already.

Oh, hi.

Hi, sweetheart.

Hi, dear.

Oh, uh, Howard, dear, would you give Chachi a quarter?

- He was such a help. - Hmm.

Wait. What is this? I carry groceries in

all the time, and I don't get paid for it.

Well, Chachi didn't get a new dress on Saturday.

Thanks, Mrs. C, but I'll settle for the quarter.

Yeah, well, Chachi, now, look,

I'm going to have to give it to you later.

I got nothing smaller than a dollar bill.

Well, I can make change.

Want to try double or nothing?

Just give me the change, huh?

Hey, Mom, do you know where my other good white shirt is?

Oh, Richard, what on...

Oh, Richard, Richard, you're just tracking feathers

all over my clean house.

Come on, I'll vacuum you.

My wonderful son here just happened

to join the best fraternity on campus.

Which one?

Kappa Kappa Cluck?

Oh, Joanie, that's not nice.

Oh.

Can you lay an egg?

If I do, will you sit on it?

Joanie, why don't you and Chachi put the groceries away, huh?

- Oh. - Oh, okay, Dad.

Hey, blue eyes,

how'd you like to get initiated into my club?

I'd rather get tarred and feathered.

You know, Marion, he didn't just join a frat.

He joined PKN, just like his old dad.

Don't remind me.

All that silly fraternity nonsense.

When they poured whitewash over your head,

and all the girls teased me.

"Oh, Marion, who's the chubby little snowman?"

I was not chubby then.

Besides, fraternities are not silly.

Fraternity ties can be very important in later years.

They made him sew "Chubby" on his fraternity sweater.

Kept his hand over it all the time, but I knew it was there.

Must have looked like he was pledging allegiance.

Oh, Richie, that's a good one.

Do you mind? Can we drop this "Chubby" business?

Oh, this has been such a fun day.

Dad, you must have looked pretty cute

with the "Chubby" and the snow... Yeah.

Well, I think I'll... I'll get cleaned up now.

We're having a dance for our sister sorority.

You know, the-the Iota girls.

Oh, yeah, but wait, Richard, before you go.

Uh, the old PKN chant, huh? Come on, let's do it.

Oh, I-I don't know, Dad.

I'm not sure that I really know it yet.

- I just started learning it. - Well, all right, come on!

We'll give it the college try, all right?

- Okay. - You ready?

Yeah.

Come on, brother, don't be blue.

We're the tops, Phi Kappa Nu.

PKN, PKN.

We did it before, and we can do it again! Hey!

Oh. Fonzie, Dad and I were just...

No, no, uh, uh, uh, ho, ho, ho.

It's all right, Richie.

I'll make up my own story. Whoa!

Huh? Huh?

Oh, boy, oh, boy.

Imagine us at a fraternity dance.

Yeah, and they didn't stamp our hand or nothing.

- Yeah. - Nothing.

Ooh, I love it.

Smells just like my soap.

Did I lie, girls?

Isn't this everything I said it would be?

Better.

- Oh, look, a piano. - Oh.

Yeah, yeah, I play.

Oh, so do we, but not on the first date.

That sounds great.

Hey.

- Hi, guys. -Hey. - Hey, Rich.

- Buddy boy, how you doing? - I'm fine.

Look, uh, we-we got to talk, maybe over at the punch bowl...

Wait a minute, Rich. I want you to meet Claudia and Darlene.

Hi.

- Hello. - Hi.

Yeah, they work at the Blue Bird Diner.

Some dishes, huh?

Dishes, diner. Get it?

- Yeah. - I still got it.

We work the steam table.

Yeah, that's how come we got frizzy hair. See?

Oh, yeah, frizzy.

I see. It's-it's nice.

Oh, thanks.

Uh, look, would you mind

if we left you girls alone for just a minute?

Oh, sure. We'll, uh... hold the order?

Hold the order. That's great.

- Come on, guys. - Be back in a minute.

Over at the punch table here.

- See you later, yeah. - See you later, right.

Aren't they great?

- Aren't they terrific? - Don't worry.

Uh, guys,

- why in the world did you bring dates? - Thanks, Ralph.

Well, we owe 'em, Rich. They gave us extra flapjacks.

Yes, so we told 'em we'd bring them to our first frat dance.

Right, what's two girls more or less?

It's got the fraternity guys very upset.

They think it's an insult to the Iota girls.

It's supposed to be a closed party.

Oh, yeah, I forgot.

Well, what are we gonna do?

We can't toss the girls out.

No kidding. Darlene's the bouncer at the diner.

Hello, pledges.

POTSIE, RALPH & RICHIE: Hello, brother Donnelly, sir.

I notice you don't have your pledge books with you.

Oh, Tom, no pledge books here.

No books?

Oh, you guys must think you know everything, huh?

Most of it, sir.

The Greek alphabet, Cunningham.

Oh. Alpha, beta, gamma, delta...

All right, all right, Cunningham.

You, Malph.

- Alpha, beta, gamma... - Uh...

- Backwards. - Backwards?

Backwards, Malph.

Alpha, beta, gamma, delta...

Enough, Malph, enough.

Get it? Get it? Backwards. I thought that was pretty good.

You're gonna have a funny guy here.

You guys must really like parties.

- Oh, yeah. - Oh, have I got

- a party for you. - Great, great! -Oh, great!

A work party.

- More fun! - You'll see.

- And now you, Weber. - Y-Yes, sir.

Have you learned the fraternity song?

Oh, yes, sir.

Everyone, gather round!

Pledge Weber is going to entertain us

with his rendition of our fraternity song.

And, uh, Weber, it better be perfect.

Uh, yes, sir. Come on, Malph.

Hey, guys, look, sideways.

Alpha, beta, gamma...

What a prize you guys are getting, fun and music.

Come on, girls.

Somebody get the lights.

♪ Dream girl, my girl ♪

♪ Of Phi Kappa Nu ♪

♪ Brings every day ♪

♪ A moment or two ♪

♪ Of caring, sharing ♪

♪ A love that is true ♪

♪ My dream girl ♪

♪ Of Phi Kappa Nu ♪

♪ Dream girl ♪

♪ My girl of Phi Kappa Nu ♪

♪ Brings every day ♪

♪ A moment or two ♪

♪ Of caring, sharing ♪

♪ A love that is true ♪

♪ My dream girl ♪ Of Phi Kappa Nu. ♪

Boy, what laughs we're having, huh?

Yeah, scrubbing floors with a toothbrush.

- And I thought I'd miss high school. - Yeah.

I'm just glad we don't have to brush after each meal.

Ah, it's worth it, Rich.

I wonder how long we get to do this.

Oh, probably till they're done with their meeting.

I wonder what they're meeting about.

No doubt deciding what to give me

- for being the funniest pledge. - Yeah, right?

Good work, pledges.

- You can stop scrubbing now. - Oh, good.

- I was wrecking my new toothbrush. - Yeah.

- Uh, Cunningham. - Yes, sir.

We ran out of stamps.

Would you deliver this letter for us, please?

Oh, yes, sir.

Oh, this goes to Oshkosh. That's 40 miles away.

I know. So you'd better take it airmail.

Uh...

You got one for me? I fly in fog.

No letter, Malph.

Oh, you want to break eggs on our heads again.

That was great.

That's not it.

We've decided to let you join another fraternity.

Thanks, but this one's fine.

You fraternity guys crack me up. You're just like me.

- They're such kidders, Pots. - I know. -No kidding, Malph.

You and Weber are not PKN material.

You've been blackballed.

Don't worry, Boom Boom.

Fonzie will be out of his office in a minute.

Uh... hi, guys.

- Hey, Rich. - Hi.

So, uh, what's new?

Uh, no, uh...

Hey, guys, uh, want to go out and, uh,

play a little blackball?

Uh, basketball. You know, I meant

maybe we could shoot a few baskets. We could...

- I'm not in the mood. - Uh, no basketball, Rich.

Okay, could you, uh... could you excuse us for just a minute?

Hey, Rich, ask her again.

Just for a minute.

Thanks.

Okay, I heard about what happened.

They dumped us, Rich. Can you beat that?

And we really worked hard. It's just not fair.

I think it's terrible.

And that's why, uh...

I'm-I'm thinking about quitting.

- Quitting? - Yeah.

W-Wait a minute, Rich, no, why should you quit?

We broke the rules, not you.

Yeah, PKN is good for you.

Look, we'll find another fraternity.

Oh, man, that's-that's really nice of you guys.

Besides, Fonzie thinks all PKNs are nerds.

Yeah... Fonzie said what?

You know, nerds.

He called the PKNs nerds?

I'm a PKN.

That's frat biz.

If he's calling PKNs nerds, then he's calling me a nerd.

You might say that.

Well, he can't go around calling PKNs nerds!

Well, don't yell at us. Yell at him.

Well, he's just lucky that he's not here.

He's in his office.

Oh, you probably think I'm afraid.

You think I'm scared to go in there, huh?

Ha!

The PKNs are not nerds!

Why, you've read the bylaws. It says you must defend

your fraternity brothers against all interlopers!

Well, I'll tell you something, buckos,

I'm defending my fraternity brothers!

Except this time, will you send me a clean one?

You know what happened the last time I tried to put it in?

All right, Fonzarelli, will you get off the phone?

You and I have something to talk about!

Look, all right, I'm gonna send somebody over there.

I know it's on Main and Elm. Thank you very much.

I'm off the phone. You see that? I'm off the phone!

All right, now, what are you yelling at?

I'm yelling because... What are you doing on skates?

I don't know! I get nutso sometimes.

I mean, Boom Boom's on skates. I'm trying to keep up with her.

Now, what are you yelling about? What is all this?

I'm yelling because you called me a nerd.

I have known you all these years, Fonz.

You have never, ever called me that.

Well, I'm not calling you a nerd now.

I called PKNs nerds.

If the shoe fits.

- Heyyy. - What? If the shoe fits?

- Yeah, that's what I said. - Oh!

I'm telling you something, Fonzie.

You don't know anything about fraternities.

Oh, yeah?

- I know something... Where are you now? - I'm in here.

Well, then get out here! I can't skate in there.

- I'm out! I'm out. - All right.

Now, look, what is your problem?

Who are you yelling at?

I am not yelling!

It's an echo.

Whoa.

There's no echo in here.

Now, what's your problem?

Fonzie, you do not understand the way a fraternity works.

I might not understand fraternities,

but I understand dumping friends.

I didn't dump anybody.

Ralph and Potsie are still my friends.

Th-They're behind me.

Oh, sure, as long as they don't get in your frat way.

Whoa.

Fonzie, I don't have to spend every minute with them.

We are not joined at the hips.

All I wanted to find out, Red,

was whether you were dumping Ralph and Potsie.

That is all.

That's all?

That's it.

Oh, well, then I-I'm sorry I yelled. I...

It's all right.

I guess I'm kind of upset about this, too.

Ralph and Potsie and... PKN's nerds...

Fonzie, see, I-I really don't want to quit PKNs.

Why? 'Cause PKN are... they're cool?

- Yeah, PKN is cool. - Let me tell you something, Red.

Organizations aren't cool.

People are cool.

Well... right, I-I realize that, Fonz.

But th-this could be so good for me.

I don't understand what you're talking about there,

but you got to do what you got to do, so go do it.

- Uh... - Do me a favor, all right?

- Yeah, sure. - Now, look,

tell Boom Boom to go down to Main and Elm

to Greasy Glen's Garage and pick me up a carburetor.

- Greasy Glen's. I got it. - Yeah.

And I'll just tell her. You know, I won't yell.

I'm not yelling anymore.

- PKNs don't yell, Fonz. - Whoa!

All right.

Kids.

Whoa!

What?

"Número, por favor"?

I must have hit it too hard. I got long distance.

- Okay... - Cunningham.

Uh, you all set to decorate for the initiation party tonight?

Oh, yes, sir. I've, uh, got the crepe paper in my car.

I'll see you guys later, all right?

- Richie. - Huh?

We have a problem here.

Oh, is there something wrong?

- Tell him, Tom. - It's...

it's those guys, Cunningham. We blackballed 'em.

And-and here you are sitting with them.

It doesn't look good for us if you're hanging around

with pledges we dumped.

Well, th-they're my friends, though.

Oh, Rich, we're your friends now.

Maybe it's time you outgrew your high school buddies.

Outgrew?

Oh, look, uh...

Tom, Brad, I-I really want to be in PKN,

but I want to be able to keep my old friends.

It shouldn't have to totally dominate my life.

Other fraternities don't do that.

Rich, that's exactly why we're number one and they're not.

Rich, you're still a freshman, immature.

You're like a piece of clay,

but we'll mold and shape you into a real PKN.

Come on, Cunningham.

Hold it just a minute!

Telling me who I can have for friends?

Th-That's supposed to be shaping me?

Rich...

Next thing you're gonna do, you're gonna tell me

I can't talk to my friend Fonzie here?

Or my sister Joanie

- because she's not an Iota? - Cunningham...

Maybe I don't want to be number one.

Maybe not at those prices.

Cunningham, do you know what you're doing?

Yes, sir.

I'm dumping you, sir.

Phi Kappa Nu. People-shaping.

The whole duck-quacking, feathered peanut-pushing thing.

I am Richie Cunningham,

and these are my friends.

So you can just put that in your Phi Kappa and...

Nu on it!

♪ Glorious, victorious ♪

RALPH, RICHIE & POTSIE: ♪ One keg of suds ♪

♪ For the four of us ♪

♪ Singing glory be to God that there are ♪

♪ No more of us ♪

♪ As we could drink it all alone ♪

Take it, Fonz!

♪ Singing glory ♪

RALPH, RICHIE & POTSIE: ♪ Be to God ♪

♪ That there are no more of us ♪

♪ As we could drink it all alone. ♪

Heyyy!

Well, Richard, it's still early.

Want to go out and throw the old football around?

Oh, yeah, sure.

Dad, you know that I-I am sorry about not getting in the PKNs.

Well, I think you made the right choice, Richard.

From what you told me, the old PKN is not what it used to be.

No. I-I hope I can get into another fraternity, though.

It doesn't really matter, you know.

I didn't become a PKN till I was a junior.

It's really up to you. But just...

don't join a fraternity to become part of the crowd, huh?

Yeah. Thanks, Dad.

- Let's go throw around the pigskin. - Right.

Rich, great news.

We've been asked to join Alpha Tau Omega!

All three of us!

- The three of us? - Uh-huh! -Yeah!

Well, let's get down there.

Oh, Dad,

I-I'm not trying to be part of the crowd.

I'm just gonna go down there and check it out, you know.

Quack, quack, Richie.

♪ These happy days are yours and mine ♪

♪ These happy days are yours and mine, Happy Days! ♪

♪ Good-bye, gray sky, hello, blue ♪

♪ There's nothing can hold me when I hold you ♪

♪ It feels so right, it can't be wrong ♪

♪ Rockin' and rollin' all week long ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪

- ♪ Happy and free ♪ - ♪ Oh, happy days ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪

- ♪ Share them with me ♪ - ♪ Oh, baby ♪

♪ These happy days are yours and mine ♪

♪ These happy days are yours and mine, Happy Days! ♪