11x05 - Welcome Home: Part 2

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Monday, Monday, happy days.

Tuesday, Wednesday, happy days.

Tuesday, Friday, happy days.

The weekend comes, my cycle hums, ready to race to you.

These days are ours, happy and free.

These days are ours, share them with me.

Goodbye, gray sky, hello, blue.

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

You're so right, it can't be wrong.

Rockin' and rollin' all week long.

Monday, Monday, happy days.

Tuesday, Wednesday, happy days.

Tuesday, Friday, happy days.

Saturday, happy days.

What a day, proving I'll meet with you.

These days are ours, share them with me.

These days are ours, happy and free.

These happy days are yours and mine.

These happy days are yours and mine.

Happy days.

Last week on Happy Days.

Happy Days Do you remember Bill Selkirk?

Good work, my old lodge brother.

Bill is an editor now for the Milwaukee Journal,
and he's always known how you wanted to write there.

What do you say I try and get you an interview, huh?

Fonz, there's something that I want to do
even more than work on a newspaper.

I want to write movies.

If you want to move family away from everybody
that loves you, that's no sweat off my back.

Monday morning, you start work as a staff reporter.

We're both doing the same thing.

Exactly what our dads want us to.

And now, Welcome Home, Part 2.

Hi, everybody.

Oh,

Marion, will you cut that out?

He's been home almost a week.

Oh, was it wet?

Oh, sit down, darling.

Well, Richard, anything exciting happen today, huh?

Oh, well, yeah.

It was a very interesting day.

I had to cover the cat fancier's banquet
at the Pfister Hotel.

Boy, those people really love cats.

Pour yourself some milk here and try to unwind.

Oh, Mom, don't you have anything besides milk?

Soda pop?

Oh, we don't drink soda pop with dinner.

I spent three years defending my country,
and I can't have soda with dinner.

Yeah.

Oh, I'm sorry to bother you, but,
uh, is there somebody here who could cash

a check for me so I can get something
decent to you for a change?

Oh, don't be silly, Chachi.

We have plenty of food.

Oh, no, I couldn't do that.

Then don't.

But I will.

No, uh-uh.

Lori Beth is sitting there.

Oh, all right.

Uh-uh-uh.

Mom is sitting there, and Richie Jr. is sitting there.

And I'm not moving.

Well, I'll just go and sit in the kitchen.

No, I ain't moving.

I insist.

Hi, everybody.

Ah!

Hi, Lori Beth.

Hi, Chachi.

Honey, I think I found the perfect house to rent.

It's just four blocks away.

Honey, there was another couple there, and if
we don't take it tonight, tomorrow they'll grab it.

Don't you think it'd be nice to find out how much
this perfect house is gonna cost us before we move in?

It's only $200 a month.

I don't know.

That's a lot of money.

Oh, honey, I know.

Oh, if you see it, you're just gonna love it.

It's fully furnished, a garage, a big backyard.

We could get a dog.

We need a dog, Banjo.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, listen, tomorrow we're gonna go shopping.

We're gonna get dishes and linens and curtains.

Oh, that's right.

Wait a minute.

We're not getting curtains.

We're not getting a dog, and we're not
moving into a house for $200 a month.

I just got back from work.

It was kind of a hard day.

I'd like to unwind and eat my dinner.

Tomorrow night with dinner, I want soda pop.

Can I have a roll, please?

Thanks.

I'll get my own gravy.

Dad, why were you yelling tonight?

Sometimes daddies get angry because they
have to do things that they don't want to.

It's kind of like, uh, sometimes we ask you
to pick up your toys and you don't want to.

But you do.

You do, because you know it's the right thing.

You understand?

No.

Well, you will.

Go to sleep.

Dad.

Yeah?

What's better, a penny or a quarter?

A quarter.

Grandpa, thin.

Yeah.

Cheers!

I love that, too.

Hi, Rich!

Rich, on behalf of the entire team, I'd
like to present you with this, the game ball.

Oh, that's great.

That's nice.

But what are we going to play with next week?

All right, hey, hey, guys, guys, what happened?

What happened?

This guy led us to victory.

He got four hits and he faked a heart
attack so I could steal home.

My play!

My play!

All right, everybody, drinks are on the house.

That's okay with you, Fonz.

What am I going to say now?

Hey, Rich.

Can I talk to you?

Yeah, go ahead.

What do you want to say?

I want you to quit the team.

What?

Look, Rich, since you joined, I'm riding the bench.

I'm not like you.

I don't have a great job, a wife, a kid.

This is everything I got in life.

Look, Potts, you're overreacting.

We'll figure something out.

We'll trade off or something.

You'll play.

No, I won't.

They already told me to give you my pants.

I don't want to wear Potsies.

Potsies pants?

Hey, Rich.

You played a heck of a game tonight.

Oh, thanks.

You played pretty well yourself.

Oh, thanks.

See, I wanted to ask you something.

Oh, yeah, about that line drive I stopped?

Oh, no, but how is your chin?

I think the swelling's gone down.

I don't know, you just seem real happy with your life.

Are you doing what you always wanted to do?

Well, no, Rich.

You know what I really wanted to do?

I wanted to play basketball.

I wanted to play basketball for the
Celtics, but they cut me.

Oh, too bad.

Yeah, if I'd just been a little taller.

One, maybe two feet.

You know, so much for dreams, huh?

Yeah.

But you know, Rich, if I hadn't at least
tried for the Celtics, I would have spent

the rest of my life wondering what if, wouldn't I?

Wouldn't I?

Huh?

Oh, yeah, yeah, sure.

Oh, thank goodness.

For a minute there, I thought my life had no meaning.

Oh, you know, I'm... I'm kind of out of shape.

I'm tired from that game.

Yeah?

I'm going to head on home.

Will you say goodbye to the other guys?

Oh, yeah.

I'll see you around.

Red.

Oh, would you do me one favor?

Sure, anything.

Don't let him take Potsie's pants.

I'll buy my own, all right?

Oh.

See you.

Hi, kiddo.

How about sh**ting a couple hoops with me, okay?

Mom, you're no good at basketball.

Are you kidding?

You ever hear of Will Chamberlain?

Yeah, sure, I've heard of him.

Well, it's all right.

Come on, come on.

Now, just to make the game interesting, if I win, you
shave off that thing that crawled up on your lip and died.

What's the matter?

You don't like my mustache?

Oh, no, Richard, you're such a handsome boy.

Why do you have to hide behind that awful thing?

No, no, I'm not going to play my mother a
one-on-one for my mustache.

What's the matter?

Afraid you can't whoop your old mom?

Oh, Richard, you just creamed your howdy-doody lamp.

Well, that's all right.

I still have my Clarabelle on the other side.

You used to be so crazy about howdy-doody.

You used to dress up just like him.

You used to walk just like him.

You know the way I used to feel about howdy?

It's exactly the way I feel about my mustache now.

Oh, Richard.

Well, listen, love.

If it means so much to you, that you were
willing to try to get me out on the court,

I guess I could shave it.

Oh, Richard, you're a wonderful boy.

Thanks.

Mom, if you would have played me a
one-on-one, I'd have beat you easy.

Well, maybe.

Maybe not.

I don't know.

It's howdy-doody.

It's howdy-doody time.

What the hell do you think you're doing?

You're going to shave off your mustache
just because your mommy told you to?

What are you, some kind of wimp?

Don't you yell at me.

Rich, forgot your game ball.

Joanie must have told him about that night
at the reservoir.

Well, what happened?

He just rushed right by me.

Well, what would make him act like that?

I don't know.

I felt that something's been bothering him
for the last couple weeks.

I was just hoping he would open up to me.

Well, he's gone.

Oh, Josh, how could you let him go?

He jumped in his car and he burned rubber
out of the driveway.

Oh, I just don't know what to do.

Ladies, ladies, I'm around.

You don't have to worry about a thing.

What can you do?

I can get Fonzie.

I can get Fonzie.

Well, what a coincidence.

Déjà vu, huh?

So what can I do for you?

Get you another beer?

Beat you in pool, take you home, huh?

Yeah, right, real coincidence.

Why don't you do us both a favor and just get out?

I don't mind if I do, thanks.

Beer here.

So, have you thought of a name for your next child?

Buzzoff.

Oh, you know it's a boy.

Look, I would really like to be alone right now.

No, you don't.

Let's get something straight, all right?

Yeah.

The days when the Fonz can come riding in and solve
all my problems with a few choice words are long gone.

So why don't you leave a mundo?

You're absolutely right.

This is not a frosh mixer.

I can't fix you up with a date, but you are my friend.

And we can talk about it.

And I haven't said a mundo in a long time.

Fine.

You don't want to say anything?

We won't talk.

Then we'll go home.

You know why?

Because there are a lot of people worried about you.

I'll leave when I damn well feel like leaving.

Good plan.

Good plan.

Except something in my soul tells me that
you want to leave right now.

So Richie, put the beer down.

Put it down, and let's go home, okay?

So we got that out of our systems, right?

Come on, Richie, let's go.

I said I'll leave when I feel like it.

What, are you crazy?

You think I'm going to let you do that a second time?

I'm not going to get rid of that font.

Right.

I'm not going to kick your butt.

Right.

Fonz.

Yeah?

What am I doing?

I'm going crazy.

It's okay.

You're okay.

You want to get out?

Yeah.

You're okay.

Oh, man.

I can't live like this.

I can't go around living my life
pretending that I'm happy all the time.

It's no good, Fonz.

It's no good.

I get the picture.

You've been living your life for everybody else, right?

You've been the perfect son, the perfect
student, the perfect father, the perfect husband.

Perfect soldier.

Perfect friend.

It's now time to take responsibility for your own life.

You've got to do what you want to do, Richie.

No, it's not that simple.

No?

See, my dad got me that job with the newspaper.

So what?

My wife, Lori Beth, has her heart set on
living in Milwaukee.

Your wife, Lori Beth, has her heart set on
spending the rest of her life with you.

Don't sell her short, Richie.

She'll back you in anything you want to do.

We all will.

Look, you're single.

You don't know what it's like to have
people depending on you each and every day.

Are you delirious?

All right, I'll be filled.

I'll be filled with you, okay?

I don't have a wife and kids, but if I had
yours, I would let nothing stop me.

Why am I making all this up?

Maybe it's just because, uh, because I'm scary.

I understand scary.

But you've already done the scariest thing
you'll ever do in your life.

You hit me.

You know what?

You know what?

You know what?

You know what?

You know, if I decide to go out there,
I know I can make it.

There is no doubt in my mind.

I'm already behind the movie theater
waiting to sneak in to see your first film.

Hitting.

Hugging.

Hugging, hugging.

Okay, Lori Beth, this is your last chance.

Are you sure you want to go through with this?

Yes.

Honey, you keep asking me that.

I'm behind you 100%.

Just that until last night, I didn't know
what I was behind.

Oh, thanks.

Since you feel that way, would you mind telling my dad?

Richie!

I'm kidding.

I'm just kidding.

Hey, where's, where's little Rich?

Oh, he's in the backyard.

I'll get him.

Oh, he's not eating dirt again, is he?

He wouldn't do that.

Richie!

You spit that out right now!

That's my son.

That's my son.

Yoo-hoo!

We're home!

Look what we got for little Richie.

Marion loves it.

Same color nose as her mother's.

I'll start dinner.

I'll help you, Mom.

Wait, Mom, Mom, Joanie, Dad, would you all
mind sitting down, please?

All right.

Thanks.

Uh, I just have something to tell you.

You see, Lori Beth and I won't be here for
dinner or breakfast.

Or winter.

Howard, he's moving to California.

Listen to me.

Everything you said made a lot of sense.

It was good advice.

But I talked it over with Lori Beth, and we've
decided that we have to give this a chance.

Look, when we get to California,
I might have to get an odd job or

something, but it's what I really, really want to do.

And the only regret that I have is that I
have to say goodbye.

Marion, give me that famous pre-signed
checkbook of yours, will you?

Dad, Dad, no, wait a minute.

I really don't want to take any of your money.

Richard, you remember before when I was
telling you about the sacrifices I made for my father?

For my family.

Well, for a little while, I forgot why.

But it's because I wanted my children to
go as far as their gifts could take them.

Now, you take this, and you fill in
whatever amount you think you need.

You know something?

I don't know when I've ever been so proud of both of you.

And now you're going to leave just when
I'm getting used to your mustache.

It's going to look very nice on a screenwriter.

Thanks, Mom.

Rich, I'm so happy for you.

Hey, cut it out.

You're going to make me start crying.

You grew up so pretty.

I love you.

I love you so much.

Where is my grandchild?

He's out back eating dirt.

Well, come on.

Now, we're all going to go to the airport with you.

I'll just, we'll all meet you in the car.

You know, I, I knew that this moment would
come someday, and I always thought I'd be

prepared for it, but I guess a father never really is.

I'll lend you a hand with the bags.

Thanks.

Dad?

Yeah?

I love you.

Oh, listen.

If, if you find out, you don't need that.

Just, for God's sake, tear it up.

Hey, Richie.

I got him.

Two first-class tickets to Tinseltown.

Oh, first class.

Fonz, I can't afford first class.

Of course you can.

I got them from Yolanda down at the travel agency.

One more date, you're going to Europe.

Well, I guess this is it, huh?

Yeah.

Fonz, listen, um, I'm a writer, or at least I hope so.

Yet sometimes it's, uh, it's a little easier
for me to express myself with words.

I wrote this to you this morning because I
knew that when we were face-to-face like

this that, uh, well, I might not be able
to, to find the words.

How do you thank somebody who's been everything to you?

Your brother?

Your protector?

You delivered my own child.

I, I just don't know how I could ever say that.

I think you just did.

I just want to tell you that I love you.

Very much.

Goodbye gray sky, hello blue.

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

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

We're rockin' in a row.

Oh, we're going.

These days are ours.

Share them with me.

These days are ours.

Happy and free.

These happy days are yours and mine.

These happy days are yours and mine.

Happy days.