The WORST episodes of Happy Days
Every episode of Happy Days ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Potsie on His Own
Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/17/1981
Potsie falls behind on his rent and is forced to move back in with his parents. However, after learning that Lori Beth's roommate likes men who live alone, Potsie has to stay in his apartment. He tells Fonzie that he can get quick cash but won't say how.
#2 - Ralph's Family Problem
Season 7 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/6/1980
Ralph's parents are getting a divorce, and Ralph becomes depressed. Meanwhile, Marion practices for her upcomming role as the witch in a Hansel & Gretel play.
#3 - Live and Learn
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/18/1980
Fonzie is given the job as teacher of auto mechanics at Jefferson High School. He gets frustrated when his students don't pick everything up as quickly as he did when he was a kid.
#4 - Dreams Can Come True
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/25/1980
Lori Beth receives a letter from Richie in which he proposes marriage. She has to go to Greenland for the wedding, but doesn't have the money to make the trip. Marion goes on a show called Dreams Can Come True in which three women tell their stories of tragedy. The winner has their dream come true, and Marion hopes she can win the money for Lori Beth.
#5 - Hello, Roger
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/2/1980
Roger Phillips, Marion's nephew, comes to Milwaukee to become an English teacher and the basketball coach at Jefferson High School. He gets off on the wrong foot with Fonzie after he inadvertently empties his locker, insults him, and crashes into his motorcycle.
#6 - Joanie Gets Wheels
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/9/1980
Despite Howard's objection, Joanie decides to buy a car because she and Chachi are tired of having to double-date, and Chachi cannot afford to buy his own.
#7 - White Christmas
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/16/1980
On Christmas Eve, a terrible blizzard traps Howard and Joanie at the hardware store and Fonzie, Potsie, Chachi, Jenny, and Roger at Arnold's.
#8 - If You Knew Rosa
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/6/1981
Al announces that he's given up his search for Rosa Coletti, a woman with whom he was involved 20 years ago. However, he receives a letter from his mother saying that she's found Rosa and that she'll be coming to Arnold's next Saturday night.
#9 - The Sixth Sense
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/13/1981
Chachi tells Fonzie that his motorcycle has seen better days, but Fonzie refuses to junk it. He finally decides to get a new bike after crashing his old one but has to save his money a little longer. Joanie suggests to Chachi that they all pool their money with Fonzie's to surprise him with a new bike for his birthday. Meanwhile, Arnold's has a new cook, but Fonzie's sixth sense tells him that something isn't right about him.
#10 - Broadway It's Not
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/10/1981
Chachi becomes jealous after seeing a kissing scene involving Joanie and another actor during rehearsals for a school musical. Fonzie also considers quitting as director.
#11 - Bride & Gloom
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/17/1981
After Jenny's date dumps her before a big masquerade ball, Fonzie agrees to take her. They dress as a bride and groom and, as part of a talent portion of the party, have a make-believe wedding. However, since the captain of the boat performed the ceremony, the marriage may be legal. Roger believes they can get the marriage annulled if Jenny agrees to it, but, instead, she comes into Fonzie's apartment carrying suitcases.
#12 - Fonzie Gets Shot
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/3/1981
Fonzie is shot, presumably by Potsie, during a weekend trip to Potsie's uncle's cabin. Fonzie, Chachi, and Roger each describe their versions of what happened.
#13 - The Roaring Twenties
Season 7 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/25/1980
Howard's Uncle Joe, after reading Richie's report on the 1920s, tells him a story about what really happened during Prohibition.
#14 - Scholarship
Season 8 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/14/1981
Desperate to get Chachi on the school's basketball team, a scout for Eastern Florida University offers him a scholarship and several other superfluous perks - including a cheerleading scholarship for Joanie. Fonzie is extrememly excited for Chachi, but Howard and Roger think the scholarships are too good to be true.
#15 - Howard's Bowling Buddy
Season 8 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/12/1981
Marion hurts her back before a big bowling game, but Howard finds a new partner in the lovely Fern Flagg. He had told Marion that she was an old spinster woman. Marion and Fern meet each other, and Marion is furious at Howard for lying to her about Fern's appearance. Meanwhile, Jenny receives a product in the mail called the Ajax Bust Builder.
#16 - Mother and Child Reunion
Season 8 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/19/1981
Fonzie takes his auto shop class to an out-of-town junkyard and meets a waitress at a diner whom he thinks is his mother.
#17 - American Musical
Season 8 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/26/1981
Chachi struggles with an essay on the causes, hardships, and influences of immigration until Fonzie tells him several stories in a series of musical vignettes.
#18 - Home Movies (1)
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/1981
Joanie prepares some home movies to send to Richie. She mentions that she and Chachi have had their problems over the summer. In the movies, Lori Beth announces that she's going to have a baby, Al's mother visits for the entire summer, Howard is consumed with Braves baseball, and Fonzie and his former gang, the Falcons, get ready to settle old scores with a rival gang.
#19 - Home Movies (2)
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1981
Fonzie's Falcons and their rival gang, the War Mongers, attempt to settle their old scores with a game of softball. The outcome is disputed, so they end up rumbling. Marion confronts Howard about his anxiety over becoming a grandfather, and Chachi continues to try to make up with Joanie.
#20 - Another Night at Antoine's
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1981
Chachi tells Joanie that he wants to date other girls and soon realizes that he's made a big mistake. He tries to straighten things out with her, but she goes out on a dinner date with another guy.
#21 - Little Baby Cunningham
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1981
Lori Beth asks Fonzie to be her coach in a new birthing method called natural childbirth. He's fully on board until he learns he has to be in the delivery room with her.
#22 - The Other Guy
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1981
Fonzie and Roger are dating the same girl but don't know it. Meanwhile, Joanie is upset that she and Chachi don't go out as much as they used to, and Howard and Marion argue about love letters he wrote to her.
#23 - Fonzie, the Substitute
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1981
Fonzie substitutes for Roger in his hygiene class, and, as a prank, the students hide the lesson plan and tell Fonzie they're learning about sex. Roger is later informed that he will be fired as a teacher as a result of Fonzie's teachings.
#24 - The Mechanic
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1979
A wheelchair-bound man, injured by a drunk driver, answers Fonzie's want advertisement for Bronko's Auto Repairing and is hired. He drives Fonzie crazy and is rude to everyone he comes into contact with.
#25 - Fonzie Loves Pinky (2)
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1976
Fonzie assesses the damage to Pinky's car, and Richie asks Howard to delay the start of the demolition derby.