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Happy Days’ jumps over a shark—and into the Sept. 20, 1977 American lexicon

or the start of ’ Show creator mechanical shark. It was really just a fifth season, we wanted to fin. We weren’t . But he take a trip with the cast and producer jumped over it, and we thought, ‘Well, “Fto shoot a three-parter we we escaped with this one. It’s not a great wrote that would take place in Hawaii. But episode, but at least it’s water, it’s fun, suddenly, the studio said there was no money recalls how they we were at the beach.’ And we’d finally for Hawaii. So we decided to put those three tried to make gotten out of the studio. By then, we’d episodes in Hollywood. We had all the char- a splashy had enough already in Arnold’s. The Cun- acters get a trip to California, and we shot ningham living room was becoming a little scenes in Malibu and Pacific Palisades. But season opener boring for the writers. So getting the char- the episodes had no kick. Previously, we’d acters outside was for us really something. had such success with [’s Later, someone coined the phrase ‘jump- character] Fonzie jumping over garbage cans on a motor- ing the shark’ to mean the moment when a show starts cycle. So we said, ‘Fonzie has to jump something!’ going downhill. But for us, that actually hadn’t been true. It was pretty much my idea to let him jump over some- Happy Days ran for six more years. But the episode became thing on water skis—and Henry knows how to ski. Someone famous inadvertently, and now that phrase shows up finally said, ‘Well, a shark is exciting.’ I thought, ‘We’ll see.’ in all areas of the world, in politics and entertainment. ion

t We did a lot of strange stuff to tap-dance past Hawaii. I’ve never been hurt by that—I think it’s great. Look, we c And this made no sense. It was not a good idea. But we became part of the American talk. The show had created

l Colle were stuck with three shows! deliberate catchphrases like ‘Sit on it’ and ‘Aaaay’—and a The object the stuntman would jump over would instead, ‘’ became the most famous of

The Kob be a mechanical shark—well, it turned out to be a bad all, without us even trying.”

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