The BEST episodes written by Bob Brunner

8.08

95 votes

#1 - Jailhouse Rock

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 7

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.

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8.05

112 votes

#2 - Great Expectations

Happy Days - Season 1 - Episode 13

Richie meets a beatnik named Diedre at the movies and gets caught up in her type of lifestyle.

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8.00

1 votes

#3 - After Mel's Gone

Alice - Season 6 - Episode 8

Mel becomes despondent when he realizes he has no heirs.

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7.84

85 votes

#4 - The Society Party

Laverne & Shirley - Season 1 - Episode 1

Shotz brewery bottle-cappers and best friends, Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney, are invited by the boss' nephew, Tad Shotz, to the Shotz formal society party. Shirley is excited about going while Laverne finds it insulting.

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7.68

97 votes

#5 - The Howdy Doody Show

Happy Days - Season 2 - Episode 17

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.

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7.67

84 votes

#6 - Jack's 10

Three's Company - Season 6 - Episode 19

Jack's snobby new girlfriend wants to keep him on a tight leash and force him into a career in cardboard.

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7.54

120 votes

#7 - Fearless Fonzarelli (2)

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 4

Fonzie crashes after a successful attempt to jump 14 garbage cans on his motorcycle and faces surgery to remove torn cartilage in his knee.

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7.45

248 votes

#8 - Richie's Cup Runneth Over

Happy Days - Season 1 - Episode 3

Richie and Potsie are invited to Potsie's cousin's stag party. In an attempt to lessen the effects of the alcohol they will consume, they each drink several cartons of milk and a sip of olive oil.

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7.43

77 votes

#9 - Arnold's Wedding

Happy Days - Season 3 - Episode 23

Arnold asks Fonzie to be the best man at his wedding, but Fonzie is resistant to the idea because of the "Fonzarelli curse." Arnold's fiance calls the wedding off when she thinks she'd be holding back Arnold's career.

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7.33

6 votes

#10 - A Special Friend

Diff'rent Strokes - Season 7 - Episode 24

Arnold and Sam's new friendship with a street performer gets mired in fear and confusion when they discover she has epilepsy.

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How Do You Say 'Are You Dead' in German?

7.24

42 votes

#11 - How Do You Say 'Are You Dead' in German?

Laverne & Shirley - Season 1 - Episode 13

Laverne & Shirley panic when a German delivery guy faints in their living room.

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7.16

196 votes

#12 - Fonzie Drops In

Happy Days - Season 1 - Episode 7

After taking a look at a B+ Potsie got on an exam, Fonzie decides to drop back into school. He asks Richie to do his homework and cheat for him.

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7.05

147 votes

#13 - Richie's Car

Happy Days - Season 2 - Episode 2

Richie buys a car from Fonzie and finds out that it is stolen.

7.03

38 votes

#14 - The First Baby

The Odd Couple - Season 3 - Episode 9

Felix suffers from a unique case of trauma while expecting a child.

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7.00

6 votes

#15 - Carmella Meets the Gooch

Diff'rent Strokes - Season 7 - Episode 7

The Gooch returns to taunt Arnold and take on a new target--Sam, only to face his first challenge in the Drummond's new neighbor, an Italian foreign exchange student.

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6.95

37 votes

#16 - That Is the Army, Mrs. Madison

The Odd Couple - Season 4 - Episode 7

Oscar remembers his marriage and a wedding night spent in the army barracks.

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6.67

6 votes

#17 - Sam's New Pal

Diff'rent Strokes - Season 7 - Episode 17

Sam is taken aback when he realizes his new "buddy" is a girl, but Mr. Drummond is even more dumbfounded when the kids want to have a sleepover.

6.66

56 votes

#18 - Fonzie and Leather Tuscadero (1)

Happy Days - Season 5 - Episode 8

Pinky Tuscadero's younger sister, Leather, comes to Milwaukee looking for a gig. Al gives her and her group a job at Arnold's after a successful audtion, but Officer Kirk threatens to shut the place down after learning of Leather's troubled past.

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6.43

7 votes

#19 - A Haunting We Will Go

Diff'rent Strokes - Season 7 - Episode 1

When Arnold and Sam creep through the crevices of the neighborhood's haunted house they find the ghost boasts a bounty of surprises--the biggest being a love for people and contempt for war.

6.42

52 votes

#20 - Fonzie and Leather Tuscadero (2)

Happy Days - Season 5 - Episode 9

After Howard refuses to let Joanie go on tour with Leather, she follows through with her threat to run away from home.

6.40

5 votes

#21 - Arnold's Songbird

Diff'rent Strokes - Season 7 - Episode 12

In order to be elected the entertainment chairman for a school charity fundraiser, Arnold promises to get a celebrity but when it's time to deliver, he's forced to look to his nemesis Carmella for help, hoping she can save the day.

6.38

8 votes

#22 - Arnold's Job

Diff'rent Strokes - Season 8 - Episode 6

Arnold's dream of becoming an "overnight" success as a photo-journalist run headlong into reality when he gets his first job on a local newspaper.

6.24

42 votes

#23 - Casanova Cunningham

Happy Days - Season 6 - Episode 5

Richie makes up a story to tell Lori Beth when he's actually escorting a baton twirler to the fraternity dance.

6.17

6 votes

#24 - Sam's Missing (1)

Diff'rent Strokes - Season 8 - Episode 1

A family whose little boy died, forces the father to kidnap Sam, who is shopping for some snacks in a grocery store. After the kidnapping, the man threatens to kill Sam's parents if he attempts in any way to escape.

6.07

13 votes

#25 - Fonzie's Spots

Happy Days - Season 11 - Episode 22

With the recent death of a fellow Leopard Lodge member, Howard fears that he may be ousted as Grand Poohbah for not attracting any new members other than Potsie during his five-year reign. He gets Fonzie, Chachi, and Roger to join as pledges, and they have to follow the orders of Potsie during their initiation.

6.06

33 votes

#26 - The Gymnasts

Diff'rent Strokes - Season 7 - Episode 10

Drummond's surprise meant to encourage an Olympic hopeful felled by a tragic accident backfires when the young man instead becomes embittered at meeting the 1984 Men's Olympic Gold Medal-winning Gymnastics Team until Willis and Sam take on the challenge of setting things right.