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A Star Is Bored

Episode Number: 26    Season Num: 2    First Aired: Tuesday December 3, 1974    Prod Code: 60532-025
Richie, Potsie, and Ralph need new uniforms for their baseball team and want to get a big celebrity to play the title role in their upcomming fundraiser production of Hamlet. When they can't get a big name to play the part, Fonzie agrees to do it.

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Writer: Bobby Boswell
Director: Jerry Paris
Star: Anson Williams (Warren "Potsie" Weber),  Donny Most (Ralph Malph),  Ron Howard (Richard J. Cunningham),  Marion Ross (Marion Kelp Cunningham),  Tom Bosley (Howard C. Cunningham),  Henry Winkler (Arthur Herbert "Fonzie" Fonzarelli)
Recurring Role: Erin Moran (Joanie),  Beatrice Colen (Marsha)
Guest Star: Britt Leach (Rev. Harlan),  Ronnie Schell (Monty Miller),  Alice Nunn (Mrs. Stewart)

Notes

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Fonzie says that his father left him when he was 12. (edit)

Quotes

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Marion: I remember during the war there was a war-bond rally, and Mickey Rooney showed up, and he helped them make thousands of dollars. Do you remember, Howard?
Howard: I sure do. It's the last time I felt tall. (edit)
Richie: I don't know that much about Hamlet, Fonzie, but I'll teach you everything I know.
Fonzie: Go.
Richie: All right.
Howard: So, you're gonna play the "Melancholy Dane," huh?
Fonzie: Hey, wait a minute! I don't play animals! (edit)

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Allusions

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Reverend Harlan: Young man, we're here to do Hamlet, not The Blackboard Jungle.

In the 1955 movie The Blackboard Jungle, a young teacher has to deal with some juvenile delinquents in an inner-city school. (edit)
A Star Is Born

The title is a pun of the famous musical/movie A Star Is Born. (edit)
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Fonzie plays Hamlet.
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Fonzie takes to the stage...
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