The BEST episodes of Happy Days
Every episode of Happy Days ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Happy Days!
A nostalgic comedy set in 1950s Milwaukee centered on the squeaky-clean Cunningham family and their relationship with Fonzie, a motorcycle-riding Casanova who became a pop-culture phenomenon during the show's heyday in the 1970s.
#1 - Hi Yo Fonzie, Away
Season 9 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/9/1982
The gang tries to get the Lone Ranger, Fonzie's idol, to appear at his birthday party. Meanwhile, Fonzie thinks about becoming a one-woman man.
#2 - Fonzie Versus the She Devils
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1979
Unknowingly, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph are invited to a party hosted by the She Devils gang in which the Devil who brings in the biggest nerd wins a $100 prize. After Richie discovers the purpose of the party, he and the guys head for the door. However, several Devils come in carrying a sack containing a guy who jilted the sister of the gang's leader. The guy is Chachi.
#3 - Welcome Home (2)
Season 11 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1983
Still upset about having given up on his dream as a screenwriter and having to pretend to be happy all of the time, Richie takes out his frustrations on everyone around him - including punching Fonzie in a bar.
#4 - The Other Richie Cunningham
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1975
Needing to make a good impression for a prospective business deal, Howard asks Richie to take the "Prince of Porcelain's" daughter out on a date. Richie, however, already has big plans and asks Potsie to take his place and pretend to be him.
#5 - Get a Job
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/25/1975
Looking for work, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph agree to fix the fence of an attractive divorcee. When the woman leaves for awhile, Potsie and Ralph decide to take off, as well, leaving Richie to finish the job by himself.
#6 - Football Frolics
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1976
Needing money to get tickets to a big football game, Richie, Potsie, and Ralph decide to babysit 15 children on the night of Mardi Gras.
#7 - Beauty Contest
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1976
Richie, Potsie, and Ralph stage a beauty contest at Arnold's in order to meet girls. They plan to enter a plant into the contest who won't accept the prizes when chosen as the winner. Richie is uneasy about this but reconsiders when a cheerleader he's interested in enters.
#8 - Fonzie's Getting Married
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1975
Fonzie announces that he's getting married and brings his bride-to-be to the Cunningham house for dinner. There, Howard recognizes her as stripper he saw at a hardware convention in Chicago.
#9 - Great Expectations
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/16/1974
Richie meets a beatnik named Diedre at the movies and gets caught up in her type of lifestyle.
#10 - Jailhouse Rock
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1975
Because the high school was vandalized, Officer Kirk imposes a curfew. Richie suggests that they demonstrate against the curfew, get arrested, and fight it in the courts. While Richie, Potsie, and Ralph are in the restroom at Arnold's discussing their plans, the lights go out, and they discover they are locked inside after Arnold closes up for the night.
#11 - Howard's 45th Fiasco
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1975
At his 45th birthday, Howard realizes that his life has been very dull up to this point, and he attempts to run away to Tahiti.
#12 - Kiss Me Sickly
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/29/1975
Fonzie asks Richie to watch after his girl, Denise, while he's out of town at a demolition derby. Denise, upon hearing what Fonzie's asked Richie to do, decides to test Richie's trustworthiness. Richie succumbs to temptation and makes out with Denise at Inspiriation Point, but he later finds out that she has mononucleosis.
#13 - Cruisin'
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/11/1975
Richie, Postie, and Ralph are forced to go cruising for girls in Howard's DeSoto after Marion dents Richie's car at the supermarket. They find three girls but, later, find their boyfriends who are members of a gang called the Dragons.
#14 - A Date with Fonzie
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1975
With Richie in a dating slump, Fonzie sets Richie and himself up on a double date with two of his girls, Laverne and Shirley.
#15 - Fearless Malph
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/1978
Richie is writing a story about fears and phobias, and he finds out that Ralph is afraid of nearly everything. While Richie, Potsie, and Ralph are visiting a professor whose specialty is fear, lab mice become agitated. The professor concludes that it is a sign that a tornado is coming.
#16 - R. C. & L. B. Forever
Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/5/1981
Richie and Lori Beth want to get married, but Lori Beth cannot go to Richie's base until they're already married. Roger suggests that they have a ceremony in which a proxy stands in for Richie because he can't be there in person. Fonzie volunteers to be the proxy.
#17 - Fonzie Meets Kat
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1979
The merchant seamen are in town, and with them is Rico, a sworn enemy of Fonzie. Fonzie is primed to fight, but Father Delvecchio makes him promise not to.
#18 - Chachi's Incredo-Wax
Season 6 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/8/1979
Needing extra money, Chachi begins selling Incredo-Wax, a miracle product that will shine anything. Unfortunately, it has disastrous side effects and ruins everything it touches.
#19 - Fonzie's Funeral (1)
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/20/1979
Fonzie discovers thousands of dollars in counterfeit money hidden in a casket inside of a hearse he is working on. When he doesn't return from the funeral parlor after bringing back the hearse, the guys fear the worst.
#20 - Married Strangers
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/6/1979
It's their 23rd anniversary, and Howard and Marion are angry at each other over a rate-your-mate test they took in a magazine. Richie, Fonzie, and Joanie have arranged for them to take a second honeymoon. Marion angers Howard even further when she wants everything to be exactly the same as it was on their first honeymoon.
#21 - Fonzie's Blindness
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/1978
Al accidentally hits Fonzie in the head with a serving tray, and he becomes blind as a result.
#22 - They Call It Potsie Love
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/1975
Joanie develops a crush on Potsie after he sings to her at Arnold's.
#23 - Fonzie Moves in
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1975
With Howard's hardware store about to face new competition, the Cunninghams decide they need to rent the room above their garage to generate extra income. Howard is shocked when Richie rents it to Fonzie.
#24 - The Howdy Doody Show
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/18/1975
Facing a deadline for the school paper, Richie tries to get a photo of Clarabell the clown, from The Howdy Doody Show, without makeup. To get on the set, Richie plans to get Ralph to enter a Howdy Doody look-alike contest the show is conducting.
#25 - Wish Upon a Star
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1974
Richie wins a date with a movie star, Cindy Shea, to a school dance, and Gloria breaks up with him because of circumstances surrounding it. Cindy, however, will only be able to meet up with Richie after the dance has started.