History WMG / HappyDays

Probably the only logical explanation, given Howard's "two children" remark in the series' finale. How? There was an incredibly tragic accident where Chuck and his super-cute girlfriend were driving when they were rear-ended by a drunk driver. The collision is so violent that Chuck's car is pushed into the driveway of a gas station, where a gas tanker is refilling the underground tanks. The whole place explodes into a huge fireball, and there are mass casualties. Chuck and his girlfriend are literally incinerated, as are the gas truck driver and several customers and employees inside the gas station.

The first half of the episode goes according to the original plot – Richie seriously injured in the motorcycle crash, everyone gathers at the Cunningham home, Leather sings "Find Strength in Your Friends" to Richie clips, and Fonzie makes his tearful plea with God to let Richie live. After the latter scene comes the suspensfully taken commercial break ... and then back to the hospital room. Instead of what actually does happen (it's morning, Howard and Marion walk in to see Fonzie sleeping on the chair, Richie wakes up and all is OK), Fonzie is still sleeping ... when Richie goes into a massive seizure. Fonzie wakes up, panics, and immediately – within less than five seconds – a half dozen doctors and nurses are in the room to aid Richie. Howard and Marion also show up and are crying, begging the doctor to save their son. But Fonzie is shouting and screaming, pleading with the doctors to save Richie, but it quickly becomes apparent that Richie is about to die. And he does die (offscreen, as the scene fades as the doctors are feverishly working in vain to save Richie, with cries from Howard, Marion and Fonzie). The next scene is the funeral scene – and after 15 minutes of just watching mourners file past Richie's casket (and him lying in state) – we fade to the funeral. There, Fonzie begins to give a eulogy, but less than three minutes in, he begins to break down, has a complete emotional collapse and has to be helped to his seat (by a teary-eyed Lori Beth and Ralph). So now, the Cunninghams have buried not one, but two sons.

[[WMG: Fonzie is a [[TheWheelOfTime Ta'veren male channeler]]]]

It explains his dssapearance ''and'' the cast forgetting him ''perfectly!''

It explains his dissapearance ''and'' the cast forgetting him ''perfectly!''

[[WMG: Chuck Cunningham was taken by [[{{MorkAndMindy}} Mork.]]]]

Hence the '70s-style hairdos and attitudes seen in the late '50s-early '60s; the gang were continually slipping back and forth about 20 years. About 20 years later, it manifested again in the nearby town of [[That70sShow Point Place]], causing one Eric Forman and his friends in the late '70s to occasionally act and talk more like the cast of ''{{Friends}}''.
** This is how both Fonzie and Chachi ended up [[ArrestedDevelopment practicing law in California]] under different names in the 2000s, both being ages that line up more with having been young in the '70s/early '80s than 20 years before.

[[WMG: "Richie Almost Dies" was actually "Richie Dies."]]

[[WMG: Chuck was an early version of Dawn from BuffyTheVampireSlayer]]

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[[WMG: Chuck was absorbed by a Doctor Who style space-time rift in the Cunningham's Attic]]

[[WMG: "Roger Phillips" was SUPPOSED to be a returning Chuck Cunningham, but Garry Marshall called an audible at the last minute]]

[[WMG: Fonzie wiped Chuck out of existence.]]

[[WMG: Fonzie [[UnPerson erased Chuck from the Cunninghams' memories.]]]]

[[WMG: Fonzie is secretly a [[BladeRunner Replicant]] on a hallucinatory Martian vacation.]]

Due to not having a lot of screen time, brother Chuck may have suffered from some kind of mental illness. This being TheFifties, the stigma may have been great enough that Chuck voluntarily withdrew from society, or [[MadwomanInTheAttic his family kept him upstairs to save face]].

[[WMG: Chuck was gay.]]
His parents found out and he was kicked out of the house. Everyone was forbidden to ever mention him again.

[[WMG:Chuck was a pedophile]]
The reason that Chuck Cunningham disappears is that he was a pedophile and he was caught in flagrante delicto molesting Joanie. Or worse...RITCHIE.
Unable to forgive Chuck and to forget what has happened,Howard and Marion force him to leave home and the entire incident was a taboo subject in the Cunningham household from then on.

[[WMG: Fonzie is secretly a Replicant on a hallucinatory Martian vacation.]]

Hence the '70s-style hairdos and attitudes seen in the late '50s-early '60s; the gang were continually slipping back and forth about 20 years. About 20 years later, something similar occurred in the nearby town of [[That70sShow Point Place]], causing one Eric Forman and his friends in the late '70s to occasionally act and talk more like the cast of ''{{Friends}}''.

The Fonz has shown repeatedly that he can pretty much make any device work by either tapping, punching oreven clicking his fingers. If you check out the {{Technopath}} trope, you will see that Fonzie fits this trope quite well.

[[Chuck was pedophile]]