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11x14 - The Spirit Is Willing

Episode transcripts for the TV show "Happy Days". Aired: January 15, 1974 – July 19, 1984.*
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Set during the 1950's, the series revolves around teenager Richie and his family who owns a hardware store and Fonzie, who would eventually become Richie's best friend.

11x14 - The Spirit Is Willing

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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 ♪

[organ solo plays over rhythmic hand claps]

♪ 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!

Come on, Fonz.

You can't just drag us out of here.

You can't just drag us out of the movie.

Yeah.

Now, where are we going to tell our dates?

You tell them there's a long line at the candy counter.

Fonz, you don't understand.

You see, men are at their sexual prime
between the ages of 18 and 20.

I've only got three weeks left.

Yeah, we shouldn't have even gone for popcorn.

That's right.

You know, I can't believe it.

I want to spend a monumental moment with
you guys, and all you do is whine.

That's what we're doing with our dates.

We kind of got used to it.

All right, maybe I was a little harsh on you, all right?

All right, but this is going to make up for it.

Are you guys ready?

Yeah.

It's junk.

It's garbage.

It's mine.

It's beautiful.

Let me tell you something.

This is a 1955 Chevy, the greatest car
made in the greatest year in history.

Fonz, can I ask you a little question here?

Oh, yeah, go ahead.

All right.

What is so great about 1955?

Come on.

Come on, Josh.



That was the year that, uh...

Oh, yeah, that's the year, um... That was the
year that Bill Haley did Rock Around the Clock.

That was the year that cruising became a part of life.

That was the year that James Dean did
Rebel Without a Cause.

If it was up to me, it would be 1955 forever.

What's wrong with the present?

The present is too fraught with decision-making.

Fraught?

How do you spell that?

I can't spell it.

I can just pronounce it.

I mean, right now, in the present, I
gotta worry about, am I gonna stay single?

Am I gonna get married?

Am I gonna be a mechanic?

Am I gonna be a teacher?

In 1955, you know what my biggest problem was?

What?

Can I get another day out of my T-shirt?

I had to buy this car.

When I saw this baby, it spoke to me.

It said, buy me.

Buy me.

Hey, wait a minute.

This car does talk.

See?

I can hear it.

It's... It's saying, suck a!

Why'd you like me to fix it so you never
get popcorn stuck in your teeth again?

You know, showing you this car is like
putting pigs before the swine.

You know, one day when I get this car all together, you're

gonna crawl, you're gonna cry,
you're gonna beg me for a ride.

Yeah, Fonz, look.

The coke's a flat.

The butter's dripped all the way through the box.

Can we go now?

We want to see the end of Citizen g*ng.

Yeah, go.

Sure, go.

Go see your highfalutin move.

Thank you.

Let me just tell you one thing, one thing.

Rosebud's the name of a sled.

Well, something works.

The radio, that's good.

Hey, this is the Duke at WKS, and it's coming up on 1 A.M.

Now, here's a request for the night owls
in Mount Minnie Falls, an oldie from 19...



That's great.

Hi.

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to scare you.

Oh, that's good, that's good.

Something else works, the horn.

Well, um, I just missed the last bus and I
need to call a cab.

Could I use your phone?

Can you use my phone?

Oh, yeah, yeah, it's right over here.

Oh, thanks.

Oh, I love that song.

Are you listening to the Big Bob Little Show?

No, that's Duke Farouk.

Big Bob Little, you know, quit like eight
years ago and started the run for Congress.

Hey, did this used to be a 55 Chevy Bel Air?

Yeah, how do you know so much about cars?

Well, I don't really.

It's just that I used to own a car like that once.

Yeah, when I get this restored, it's going to be cherry.

Oh, I'd love to take a ride in there when you're finished.

That can be arranged.

Why don't you sit in it and I'll build around you?

I better call that cab.

Uh, yeah, you know what?

Uh, I'm all lubed out myself.

Why don't I just give you a ride home on
my motorcycle, all right?

Oh, that's so nice, but I wouldn't want
you to go out of your way for me.

Oh, you're not going out of my way.

I'm going in that direction.

That's the direction I'm going in.

What direction are we talking about?

South.

I'm going south.

Yes, I am.

There's only one problem.

What's that?

I was taught never to give a ride to a stranger.

Arthur Fonzarelli.

I'm Nancy Haley.

Yes, you are.

Well, great.

I'll show you the quickest way to my house.

And I'll make sure I don't take it.





Good thing it's not a school night.

You shouldn't be worried about something like that.

No?

No.

He seemed to be the kind of man that
shouldn't have any cares.

The kind of man that should do what he
wants to when he wants to do it.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

I wanted to do that now.

I wanted to do that now.

Yeah.

Well, I really should be getting in now.

Yeah, sure.

Okay.

Thanks.

I really do.

I need to get some sleep now.

Yeah, so do I.

Good night, Arthur.

I would really, really like to see you again.

Oh, we have a date.

As soon as you finish that car.

In the still of the night.

Thank goodness it's not Sunday.

You know what this is?

We've got the Burkhardt's mail again.

This time I'm not going to help you to
steam it open, Howard.

No, no.

Sweetheart, no, this is your dream come true.

We're going to Sweden.

Oh, are we flying?

Are we going to go by boat?

Oh, all that and more.

Sweetheart, you see, I found out you can
save a fortune by staying off the beaten path.

Well, Howard, just how far off the beaten path?

Yeah, well, first thing is, we drive to Newfoundland.

Well, Howard, that's Canada.

Yeah, that's our bonus country.

Now, this next part is a bit tricky, sweetheart.

Do you still have hiking boots?

Sure, you gave me a pair for Christmas.

Oh, good, because it's just a beautiful scenic walk along
the coast to where we catch the Norwegian herringbone.

Oh.

Howard.

Well, don't worry, we get to keep anything we catch.

From there, it's just a mail plane ride to
Oslo, a bicycle ride into Stockholm,

we pitch our tent, and we're there.

Well, for our two-week vacation,
how much are we going to spend in Sweden?

Two days!

But listen, at this time of year, the sun never sets, huh?

Now, what do you think?

Isn't that wonderful?

Well, it's simpler than our trip to Yosemite.

Hey, Joanie!

Guess what?

What?

I am taking your mother to Sweden.

Oh, that's great!

How long will you be there?

Two days and no nights.

Isn't that great?

That's great, Dad.

Listen, do we still have Richie's bicycle in the garage?

No, don't you remember?

He left in Yosemite.

Oh.

Do you go to the drugstore?

Anyone need anything?

Wait a minute, you're not going out with
your hair in curlers, are you?

Yeah, it's Saturday.

Well, so what?

You don't have a date.

Well, I know that's the point.

You see, everyone will think I do.

Get with it, Dad.

Oh, hi, Fonz.

Bye, Fonz.

No date, huh?

Yeah.

Mr. C, I need your opinion.

Oh, Arthur, you're going to need a dark
bag with that jacket.

This is not mine.

I don't carry a bag.

Fonzie, she's just joshing you.

Oh, Ray, of course you are.

Yeah, listen.

I met this girl.

She came into my garage.

She asked to use my phone because she needed a cab.

I took her on my motorcycle.

We went to Choo Choo Village.

And I bought a little engineer's cab seat.

Oh, so you really like this girl.

I do.

I do.

She's very old-fashioned.

You know, she makes me feel great.

There is something about her.

I don't know how to describe it.

I've never seen it in a girl before, you know.

But anyway, you know what she did?

She left her purse in my saddlebags.

You know what that means?

She wants me to bring them back again.

I did that to Howard.

When he brought my purse back, there was $8 missing.

I paid you back, Marion.

Well, anyway, look.

What I need to know is, when I give her
back the purse, I'd like to put a gift in here.

Is that a little too hokey or what?

Oh, Arthur, that would be so sweet.

Yeah?

Well, I'm gonna do it, because I'm a sweet guy.

Hey, all right.

I'll see you later.

Thanks a lot.

Oh, Arthur?

Yeah?

Howard gave me a gift.

He's taking me to Sweden.

Oh, Mr. C, that's great.

She bought it.

And he'll tell you what happens if you
miss that herring boat.

Marion, how long can you hold your breath underwater?

Hello, can I help you?

Yeah, I'm Arthur Fonzarelli.

Nice handbag.

Oh, no, no, this isn't mine.

I came to deliver it to your daughter.

My daughter?

Yeah, right.

I took her out last night.

I don't know who you were out with last
night, but it wasn't my daughter.

I don't have a daughter.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a roast in the oven.

Uh, yeah, madam, I don't mean to
be pushy, but... Who is Nancy Haley?

Haley?

Yeah.

Wait a minute.

There were some Haleys who lived here,
and they had a daughter.

I don't remember her name.

But they moved.

That was ten years ago.

What are you talking about ten years ago?

I walked last night right up this path there.

What do you mean they moved?

They moved right after their daughter died
in an automobile accident.

Night now.

Thanks so much.

I'm so glad you're here.

Please sit down.

Sit down.

Yeah, listen.

Something happened to me, and you people
got to make it right and fast.

Now, listen.

Before I go on, you got to promise me,
each one, that I'm not crazy, okay?

Promise?

Promise?

You promise?

You promise?

Cross your heart?

Hope to die?

Curry on top?

Fonzie, will you get on with this?

Yeah.

I go out with this girl.

I go back to her house to deliver her purse.

The lady says, her parents moved 10 years
ago right after their daughter died.

That daughter was Nancy.

Apparently, last night, I went out with a girl who's dead.

Well, Fonzie, I'm sure there's a logical
explanation for all this.

sh**t.

Could have been the wrong house.

Okay, good.

I like that.

I like that.

Wrong house.

I got it written right down here.

See?

All right, I go to the wrong house,
but how can it be the wrong house if I'm

honest because it's on the same street,
it's the same color, it's on the same side

of the street, and there was the same Santa
Claus with a catcher's mask in the front yard.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Maybe there are two Nancy Haley's.

Two Nancy Haley's?

Yes, because there were three Charlie Chans.

There was Sidney Toler, and there was Warren Hurley, and J.

Carol Nash.

Two Nancy Haley's, right?

Except one is dead for 10 years and the other
takes me to a house that neither of them lived in.

That's not it, then.

Oh, no.

I got it.

I got it.

Okay, I'm listening.

Much as obvious as the nose on your face, Fonz.

This is just a girl that doesn't want to
go out with you again.

It's the donuts talking.

No, no, okay, Chachi.

I'll be fair with you.

I will be fair with you.

I'll put that right down here on the she was a Martian spy.

I'm just gonna guess that.

Does anybody have any other ideas?

I don't know.

I can't think of anything.

Say, Howard, can you think of anything?

No, that's great.

There's only one explanation.

What's that?

That I'm crazy.

We didn't think of that.

Oh, I didn't think of that.

That I'm making up people who don't exist, and
the worst part about it is I'm having fun with them.

Maybe you're not real.

Maybe I'm imagining you.

No, I don't think so.

I don't think so.

Maybe I'm not the Fonz.

Maybe I'm actually a kid from Toledo who's
got a sinus condition who actually likes math.

Fonzie, Fonzie, you are overworked.

Look, Fonzie, Fonzie, why don't you go
upstairs and get yourself a good night's sleep, huh?

That's what I'm going to do, Mr. C.

I'm going to get a good night's sleep,
you know, because I don't want to end up

as one of those people mumbling to myself on the street.

Thank you.

I take this girl, she's dead, and then I go to the house.

Now that it's come out, I've always
thought he was a little strange.

What do you have against us, huh?

Let me go back to the theater to see Citizen Kane again.

And you pull us out at the exact same spot.

I'm going to tell you what happens.

Kane does not become governor.

His wife can't sing.

He gets fat and he dies.

Thank you very, very much.

You bet.

Now, feast your optical nerves on this.

You did all this in just two weeks?

Come on, Fonz.

Where's the other car?

I take it all back.

I should have known.

If anybody could make that car look like this, you could.

That's right.

And what else?

We were wrong and you were right.

Come on, Andy.

Give us a ride in this baby or what?

No.

Why'd you bring us down here?

To humiliate you.

Let's go back to the movies, Tommy.

What for?

We already know how it's going to end.

What about our dates?

We know how that's going to end, too.

Come on.

Nancy?

I see you've really been working.

The car looks beautiful.

All right, look, we've got to have a talk here, young lady.

You got me in a lot of trouble.

I mean, there are people around here who think I'm crazy.

You got me thinking I'm crazy.

I had to go out of town.

You had to go out of town?

Well, feast your ears on this sentence.

I went to your house to return your purse.

And the lady told me that you were dead.

Arthur, come here.

Do I look like I'm dead?

No, no, no, no.

I'm sorry.

One night you're here, one night you're not.

I don't know what's going on.

Arthur, I thought that you wanted to be
that wild and carefree guy from 1955.

That's the guy I'm crazy about.

That's the guy I am.

Well, then let's go.

Well, all right.

Get me in this car.

Get me in this car.

I want to go for this ride.

Boy, they don't make them like this anymore.

No, they don't.

Oh, no.

You better roll up your window.

What are you talking about?

This is a beautiful night.

Where did that come from?

Look at that.

The one thing I have to get to fix, right?

The windshield wipers.

How did you do that?

I just had to jiggle it a little bit.

I used to own this car.

Oh, you mean you used to own a car like this, right?

Right?

Don't you just love the rain?

I'll tell you something, Nancy.

You are so beautiful.

I've never met anybody like you before.

You know that?

It's just that I can't put my hand on it, you know?

I don't know what it is.

There's something so different.

I don't know what I want to buy you.

Come on.

Come on.

Don't you think that?

Maybe it's the water and distributed cap.

I'll just go out there and check.

Don't.

You stay with me.

Uh, you know, listen, we are in the middle
of a railroad track.

I'm going out there and checking it, okay?

Nancy, something very weird is going on here.

Um, listen, we got to get out of here.

That's all there is to it.

No, you don't, Arthur.

No, you can stay with me now.

Do you remember when you said if you had
it, you were wet, we'd be 1955 forever?

Well, it can be for us.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

You weren't even there when I said that.

Yes, I was, Arthur.

See, I came with a car.

Please.

No.

Don't leave me.

I want to live.

You're not mine.

I want to live.

Will you let me out of here?

I want to live.

No.

No.

No.

No.

Let me out of here.

No.

No.

No.

Get away from me.

Fonz, I want to live.

Fonz, no.

Fonz, I want to live.

Fonz, whoa, whoa.

Wake up, Fonz.

Who are you?

Oh, Tommy.

What are you doing here?

It's morning.

I work here.

I do work here, don't I?

Yes, you do.

Tom?

Yeah?

You know what this car is?

What?

This car is a piece of junk.

Fonz, hold it.

Hey, we tried to tell you that last night, remember?

And you got mad at us, right?

Last night.

Right.

Last night.

Last night, there was a dream coming at me.

White light.

Woo, woo.

I thought I was a goner.

Man, that must have been one wild dream
you were having, huh?

It was a dream, wasn't it?

Yeah.

There was this girl.

Oh, was she beautiful?

It was my dream, wasn't it?

See, I know it was a dream because Mrs. C
wouldn't say I was strange.

And then, you know what?

I wasn't even in the room when she said that.

Of course, it was a dream.

Yeah.

It was a dream.

Yeah.

Did you have breakfast?

No.

Let's go.

All right.

Buy a treat.

Just when I finished my coffee.

You come here by yourself?

And you take this to the junkyard.

But, Fonz, it's 1955.

Your favorite year.

Was.

Was.

If we learn nothing from history, Tom, we learn
that people who live in the past are mostly dead.

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These days are ours.

These happy days are yours and mine.

These happy days are yours and mine.

Happy days.