Happy Days

Fonzie talks to Richie and tells him that his nephew, Spike, is coming to stay with him for a week because his aunt has a reserve meeting at the Great Lakes Naval Station. Fonzie asks Richie to do him a favor and watch Spike for the week, but Richie is going to Chicago for two weeks for a journalism class at Northwestern. Fonzie loans Richie $20 to use on girls while in Chicago. Howard drinks some warm milk and eats Fig Newtons while he waits with Marion in the kitchen for Joanie to come home. Fonzie comes over for some milk and Newtons. Spike comes in and asks for a key to Fonzie's place because he's going out. Joanie comes home and complains that Spike gets to stay out much later than she does. Howard talks to Fonzie about setting rules for Spike. Fonzie says his rules are: "Live fast, love hard, and don't let anyone else use your comb." Howard tells Fonzie that someone should play the role of a father for Spike. Fonzie comes home with his date, Gigi, to find that Spike is home. Spike wants to talk with Fonzie about something important, but he is brushed off and sent out with a quarter. Richie, at Northwestern, talks to Ralph and Potsie, who are at Arnold's, on the phone. Arnold wants to close up, and he sends Potsie and Ralph home. He goes to clean the bathrooms. Spike comes into Arnold's through a window and opens the door for Moose and Bobo who steal some money from the cash register. Arnold runs after them and catches Spike. Arnold calls Fonzie who comes to talk to Spike about the robbery while Arnold cooks them some hamburgers. Fonzie calls Howard to get him to talk to Spike. Howard says that Fonzie is the one who needs to talk to Spike, and he (Howard) waits in Fonzie's office while Fonzie talks to Spike. Spike says he needed the money and didn't know how else to get it. Fonzie asks Spike what he's interested in, and Spike says he likes flowers and would like to work in a flower store. He tells Fonzie that it was Moose and Bobo who were the other guys that robbed Arnold's. Ralph and Potsie come in and explain that they chased the guys for ten blocks and got the money back for Arnold. Fonzie thanks Arnold for not calling the police.



Songs in this episode:

"Wake Up Little Susie" by The Everly Brothers (1957)

"Hound Dog" by Elvis Presley (1956)