History YMMV / HappyDays

* HeyItsThatVoice: Apparently Ralph Malph ends up [[WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons stuck in The Realm working for Dungeon Master]]. Who knew?

* SeasonalRot: It started out as a very cool, low-key show, then became the ideal version of a standard sitcom with a StudioAudience. It'd started getting worse (the Trope-Named Shark-Jump) even before Richie left, but only got worse after that. Fonzie got a temporary full-time girlfriend for one season, and things got increasingly worse with gimmicks and nonsense until a thankfully fantastic final episode.

* GodModeSue: '''Fonzie'''. UpToEleven in later seasons as a result of {{Flanderization}}.

* GodModeSue / MemeticBadass: '''Fonzie'''. UpToEleven in later seasons as a result of {{Flanderization}}.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Fonzie in the first two seasons, so much that he became a BreakoutCharacter and was promoted to second billing, after Ron Howard.

* GodModeSue / MemeticBadass / MemeticSexGod: '''Fonzie'''. UpToEleven in later seasons as a result of {{Flanderization}}.

* DarkerAndEdgier: By the final season. Well, as D&E as you could be with this show. More dramatic moments, the use of "hell" and "damn", and Fonzie showing more weakness.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Well, as D&E as you could be with this show. More dramatic moments, the use of "hell" and "damn", and Fonzie showing more weakness.

** To be fair, though, at least by Season 9, they stopped with all the "cartoonish" episodes and it became a more down-to-earth show again. Not to say a lot of the episodes weren't ridiculous, but at least they didn't feature gangsters, mad scientists, and the like.

* GodModeSue / MemeticBadass: '''Fonzie'''. UpToEleven in later seasons as a result of {{Flanderization}}.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Joanie and Chachi announce their engagement. Howard, the father of the bride, walks up menacingly to Chachi- "Chachi, I'm going to say something, and I'm only going to say it once: I like you. Welcome to the family." and holds out his hand. Also, when they tie the knot in the GrandFinale, when Howard thanks the audience for being with his family through all these years, and says "to Happy Days."

* GodModeSue: '''Fonzie'''. UpToEleven in later seasons as a result of {{Flanderization}}.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Apparently Ralph Malph ends up [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons stuck in The Realm working for Dungeon Master]]. Who knew?

* SeasonalRot: It started out as a very cool, low-key show, then became the ideal version of a standard sitcom with a StudioAudience. It'd started getting worse (the Trope-Named Shark-Jump) even before Richie left, but got apocolyptically bad after that. Fonzie got a temporary full-time girlfriend for one season, and things got increasingly worse with gimmicks and nonsense until a thankfully fantastic final episode. Eleven total seasons, about four or five good.

* GodModeSue: '''Fonzie'''. UpToEleven in later seasons as a result of Flanderization.

** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upctPUa6RhA Pumps Your Blood]] song.

* {{Hatedom}}: Dear. '''God.''' Looking at some of the comments on ThisVeryWiki, you can see that there are quite a few people who, it seems, can barely ''stand'' this series, or at least the direction it went in after the switch to a StudioAudience. General consensus is that [[FirstInstallmentWins the first two seasons are the best]], the third, fourth, and ''maybe'' fifth seasons are okay, the sixth and seventh are mediocre at best, and [[FanDumb you're not allowed to like anything after Richie left]].

* GodModSue: '''Fonzie'''. UpToEleven in later seasons as a result of Flanderization.

* TheScrappy: Chachi, but [[strike:only after he got his own spinoff]] Chachi was ''always'' [[strike:The Scrappy]] [[TheScrappy The Chachi]]. He was popular with the girls, but retroactively, amongst older fans? Please.

* {{Hatedom}}: Dear. '''God.''' Looking at some of the comments on ThisVeryWiki, you can see that there are quite a few people who don't exactly hold a high opinion of this series. General consensus is that [[FirstInstallmentWins the first two seasons are the best]], the third, fourth, and ''maybe'' fifth seasons are okay, the sixth and seventh are mediocre at best, and [[FanDumb you're not allowed to like anything after Richie left]].

* EarWorm: C'mon, sing it with me: "[[TitleThemeTune Sunday, Monday, Happy Days...]]" YourMileageMayVary with the final season's rendition, however.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Apparently Ralph Malph ends up stuck in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons The Realm working for Dungeon Master]]. Who knew?

* HeyItsThatVoice: Apparently Ralph Malph ends up stuck in [[DungeonsAndDragons The Realm working for Dungeon Master]]. Who knew?

* WallBanger: Richie and Ralph leaving for the army was bad enough (Rich left his friends and family!) because it was so out of character, but marrying Lori-Beth over the phone and not being there for the birth of his son? Come on.
** It was the late 1950s, and the military wasn't always good about granting leave for family situations. Plus, Richie was serving in Greenland in what was inferred to be a somewhat-secret capacity (it was the height of the ColdWar, after all), which made his absence that much more plausible.
** Moreover, Richie didn't have much say in his joining the Army; he was drafted.