11x02 - The Ballad of Joanie and Chachi

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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! ♪



That's it.

She is exactly one hour late.

Now I'm mad.

Yep, it's official.

Joanie's made a fool out of you again.

Yeah, well, I'll tell you, it's not going to happen again.

I am not going to let her take advantage of me anymore.

I hear you, Judge.

That's right.

This is where I draw the line.

Yeah, and it's about time.

That's right.

I don't let anybody step all over me.

Like a piece of gum on a ballroom floor.

I am fed up with this college stuff.

You know what I'm going to do?

When she gets here, I am going to lay down the law.

That's right.

You know, you've got to be firm.

That's right.

That's who's boss.

You bet I will.

Yeah.

You know, and I'd love to stay here and
see the kid in action.

All right.

But I've got to pick up my girl.

If I'm five minutes late, she'll change
her phone number again.

Frank, stay tough.

Why, you lose one.

No, see what happened.

What happened was I went to the eye doctor
to check my eyes, you know, and they put

them drops in it, you know, and you've got
to wear dark glasses.

I know why, too.

See, that's so that you don't, you
know, memorize the chart until afterwards.

That's why.

That's why.

Fonz.

What happened to Tommy?

He just left.

Can you see?

I can see fine.

My vision is perfect.

I can see things at 200 yards people
haven't even heard of yet.

Are you kidding me?

See, I...

What?

Hi.

No.

Hi, Chachi, was an hour ago.

Now it's, Chachi, forgive me, I was thoughtless.

All right, Chachi, listen, I'm sorry I'm
late, so don't start up with me, okay?

I waited forever to get my student ID, then
found out I was in line to touch the Maharishi.

No, I guess I should be honored that you showed up at all.

Come on, Chachi, do we have to have the
same argument over again?

All right, all right, forget it, okay?

Look, I'm late already, so let's go.

Where are we going?

What does it look like?

Joanie, it's Tuesday, I have a softball
game tonight, come on.

No, no, I start my new class tonight.

You're going to miss one of my games?

No, I'm going to miss all of your games.

My class is every Tuesday night.

Oh, great, great!

Why don't you yell a little louder?

They can't hear you in the parking lot.

I don't care.

Well, you should care.

Joanie, you never used to miss my softball.

I mean, you'd sit in the stands and keep my stats.

We would have a great time.

Chachi, it's just a ball game.

You know, you've changed.

I have not.

You have to.

You used to hate school, and now all you
think about is this college stuff.

Oh, so I'm a bad person because I don't hate school?

Is that what you're saying?

Oh, I see what you're doing now.

What?

Now you're taking what I say and you're
twisting it around, aren't you?

Is that what they teach you in college, huh?

Yeah, Chachi, you're obviously out of your mind right
now, so I think we should talk about this some other time.

No, I think we should talk about it right now.

No.

Yes.

You're no fun anymore, Joanie.

You don't come to my softball games.

You don't listen to me play my music.

You don't even come with me to buy my clothes anymore.

Now, I want the old Joanie back,
and I want her at my game tonight.

You're nuts.

And you haven't hit a home run in three months.

Oh, yeah?

So, I gotta work on my comebacks.

Yo, what a relief.

I think my vision is coming back, huh, Chachi?

Yeah, uh... So, what's been going on?

Fonz, I'm over here.

All right, so maybe not.

This is really hard for us.

I'm here.

Fonz, I got a problem with Joanie.

Do you know that she's not coming to my
softball game tonight?

No.

Yeah.

Well, I told her I wanted the old Joanie back.

You know what she told me?

She said I was nuts.

She's right, you know.

Yeah.

You're asking her to give up her whole life.

What do you give her?

Nothing.

Hey, hey, hey.

Last week, I gave her the game ball.

You gave her the game ball.

Where did it go?

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Let me ask you a question, huh?

Do you think that Joanie's maturing?

Huh?

Yeah, that's right, she is.

She's going to college now.

What do you do?

Huh?

She finds out that she loves me.

She likes college and you make fun of her.

You make, you put her down for going to classes, right?

Right, right.

You're not going to make points with her
by showing how much you hate her.

You got to show her how much you love her.

That's beautiful.

Yeah, isn't it?

I got to start keeping a journal.

Wait a minute.

I think I can see shapes.

My place, you and me, right now.

I knew that.

I got a sense of humor.

What do you think, huh?

I was just, you know, having fun.

That's all.

I'm cool.

Thanks for picking me up, Dad.

Why?

What is it, honey?

What's the matter?

Dad, it's me and Chachi.

Oh, again, huh?

It's just no good.

All we do is yell and scream and make each other miserable.

And I don't know what I'm going to do about it.

Idiot!

Get off my tail!

Dad, it seems I don't have time for Chachi anymore.

You know, we used to be inseparable.

You know, he was in the background of my
first driver's license photo.

You know?

The trouble is, he wants me to be what I was when I was 17.

That girl in the bleachers wearing Chachi's Jersey.

You know, listen, I know just how he feels.

Sometimes I still wish you were that
little girl I used to bring home from school.

You know, I thought Chachi and I would go on forever.

I never make this life.

Now, before I see him, I get this big knot in my stomach.

Because I know we're going to fight.

Everything that's good in my life is making him miserable.

I think the best thing that I could do for
both of us is to break up with him.

Dad, the light's green.

Well, look, maybe you ought to sleep on it for a while, eh?

Come on, Dad, that's not going to do any good.

I'm going to tell him tonight.

We're going to break up.

All right, all right, I'm moving over.

Sheesh, those firemen think they own the road.

There you are.

Mrs. Steele, I have to talk to your
husband right this second.

Well, he'll be right home, dear.

He went to drive Joanie home from her car.

Oh, uh, well, I guess I can wait.

Well, sit down, dear.

Would you like to talk to me?

Nothing personal, Mrs. Steele, but I
need to talk to the father of the daughter, Mr.

Steele.

I see.

Or is this his men's stuff?

Football, locker room talk, desonics.

Oh, no, not exactly.

Oh, okay.

Well, I won't pry.

You want to borrow Howard's car, is that it, dear?

No, that's not it, Mrs. Steele.

Of course that's not it.

It's none of my business.

Is it money?

It's money.

Mrs. Steele.

I need to talk to Mr. Steele.

Oh, well, I understand.

All right, I'll tell you.

Joanie and I have to get married.

Have to marry Joanie.

I want to marry Joanie.

I love her.

Oh, oh, Chachi.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Oh, a wedding.

Oh, that is such good news.

Oh, Joanie must be so happy.

Oh, happy.

Well, she doesn't exactly know yet.

You see, I came to ask Mr. C's blessing first.

Well, listen, dear, I'll take care of Howard.

You just take care of Joanie forever and ever.

I will.

Amen.

Joanie, I'm so glad you're finally home.

Oh, Mom, I've only been gone for two hours.

Well, two hours can sometimes be the
turning point in a young woman's life.

You've been making rum cake again, Marion?

Oh, Howard, I've been chatting with
Chachi, dear, dear Chachi.

Chachi, I'm glad you're here.

I wanted to talk to you.

And I want to talk to you, too.

Uh, Joanie?

Yeah?

You see, this is kind of personal.

Can we be alone for a minute, please?

Oh, yeah, Howard, they want to be alone.

Come on.

Come on, you can sit on my feet while I do sit-ups, huh?

Oh, Howard, this is the most exciting night of my life.

Great, you can do it again tomorrow.

Joanie, I, uh... So, how was your game tonight?

I went 0 for 4.

Oh.

But I don't care.

Joanie, will you sit down for a second?

I think it's, uh, pretty obvious to the both of
us that we can't go on the way we're going.

Absolutely.

Now, I've given this a lot of thought.

And even though we may, uh, have some
difficult times in the beginning,

I think it's time we made the big move.

Wow.

This is amazing.

I was saying the same thing to my dad on the way over here.

I'm so glad I didn't have to be the one to bring it up.

Yeah, well, I could see how it would be
kind of embarrassing for you to ask.

Chachi, are you sure about this?

Yes, yes, Joanie, trust me.

It's the only thing we can do.

Well, then this is it.

It's time we got married.

You gotta help me, Fonz.

You gotta get me back into her life.

How do I do that?

Maybe you don't.

Okay, okay.

All right, Chachi, look.

If anything is gonna work, it's gotta be big and romantic.

You know, like the man who comes in on a
horse in those movies and sweeps the girl

off her feet, you know, before she turns into a pumpkin.

You're right.

I'm gonna sweep Joanie off her feet like
Tarzan did to Jane.

Yeah.

I'm gonna take her to the top of the Empire State Building.

King Kong get the Fay Wray, huh?

Right.

We are gonna live happily ever after,
just like Romeo and Juliet.

See, this is embarrassing.

I mean, my cousin don't even know that
Juliet died from eating a poison apple.

If you mind, I'm very upset.

Okay, listen, I, uh, I only have time for
one more question.

Yes, uh, Miss, uh... Cunningham.

Cunningham.

Uh, it didn't say in the catalog, but will this
class help us prepare to teach in high school?

Nothing will prepare you to teach in high school.

However, I will say that we've had a very
good first day of class.

When we meet next time, I'd like
you to turn to page 176 and... Tony!

Tony!

Okay, you saucy wench!

I'll take you away from all this!

Please, this isn't happening.

Come, my darling, have it or not!

No, Chachi!

Young man, the tryouts for Peter Pan are
right down the hall.

I'm gonna have to call the campus police.

Class dismissed.

This man's a lunatic.

Everybody out.

Away we go, my darling!

No, we're not!

Chachi, if you put me down, Charles Arcola...

I am shocked this just isn't like you.

Oh, what you mean is, this isn't like the
Chachi you broke up with yesterday?

Well, forget that guy.

And say hello to the new Chachi who's
gonna make every day a romantic adventure.

Oh, I have to admit, what you're doing is very sweet.

I'm glad you think so.

Because I got one heck of a rope burn.

Chachi, this isn't gonna change anything.

Wait.

Ah!

Ah!

I can't dance!

No!

But how can you tear me down now?

Oh, Chachi.

It's over, isn't it?

Wait, I got another costume underneath this one.

Chachi, today you want to swing me off on a rope.

But tomorrow you're just gonna be angry with me again.

Why?

What are you gonna do?

The things I've been doing, the things that make you angry,

you reinfrustrate it, make me
feel guilty and make us fight.

Chachi, I'm not the girl for you.

Well, you look a hell of a lot like her.

Joanie, what happened?

It was so perfect, you know, and we thought
that nothing would ever come between us.

We were 17 then.

And now we're not.

We can still be friends.

No!

Don't say it.

This is the part where you tell me how
much you want to be my friend.

I would, I like that very much.

Well, I hate that part.

I can't be your friend now.

Because I still love you.

I still love you, too.

That's what makes it so hard.

I gotta go.

Judge.

Listen, I don't know if this will make it better or worse.

But the time we spent together was the best time.

My whole life.

Well,

I took care of everything, Fonz.

I let it down nice and easy.

Great.

Yeah.

She begged me to do it.

She begged me to stay.

But I said, look, you know, I gotta move on.

I understand.

It was horrible.

Fonz, how did you let me go out there and
make a fool of myself?

If I said it wouldn't work, would you have believed me?

No.

I can help you in so many ways.

Chachi, I'm telling you, there's some
things you gotta learn on your own.

I learned, all right.

All I gotta show for today is a rope burn
and a court order telling me to stay off campus.

Fonz, I need those words now more than
I've ever needed them in my life.

Will you please get me on my feet again?

Chachi?

Yes?

Life is funny.

That's all you gotta say?

Oh, come on.

Anything I say now is gonna sound like diddly, right?

Try it anyway.

Okay.

You got a terrible hurt.

It's like a knife right here.

Every song that you played on the way over
here reminds you of her.

Yes.

Every girl you see looks like her.

Yes, but not as pretty.

And you are convinced that the miserable
feeling you got now is gonna stay with you

for every day of your life until you are dead.

I hope the part where you help me is coming soon.

Yeah.

Chachi, believe it or not, you're gonna get over this.

Yes, you will.

Yes, you will.

I don't know how, I don't know when, but it will pass.

I mean, yes, all right, right now,
the pain is bigger than you are.

But every day, it's gonna hurt a little bit less.

And then you are gonna be bigger than the pain.

Until then, will you come to my softball games?

Yes.

Goodbye, gray sky, hello, blue.

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

Hello, blue.

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

Welcome in a room, oh, we've gone.

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.

Happy days.