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And I certainly didn't feel it within our friendship, which endures to this day. This is showstopper in the 1993 movie Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. "Which I didn't feel within the workspace. "The press kept saying: 'What's it like? Do you feel that you've become a second-class citizen on your own show?' and these kinds of things," Howard said. While Howard said it was "exciting" to watch viewers fall in love with Winkler as Fonzie, he accused "the studio heads" and "network heads" of "really treating me with a lot of disrespect from a business standpoint, just in terms of interaction." "We were a fantastic ensemble - we all got along great." "We immediately bonded and became great friends," he told Norton. In a clip from Friday's coming episode of "The Graham Norton Show," Howard said that Richie was meant to be "the undeniable lead" of "Happy Days" but Winkler proved "remarkable" as the Fonz from the first episode. Ron Howard said in a new interview that top studio and network executives involved with "Happy Days" treated him "with a lot of disrespect" after Henry Winkler's character Arthur Herbert "The Fonz" Fonzarelli became more popular than Howard's character Richie Cunningham. The two men are still good friends, and Winkler is the godfather to Howard's children. Howard said Richie Cunningham was the lead but Henry Winkler was "remarkable" as Arthur Fonzarelli. That doesn't sound like something a loser would do.Ron Howard said studio executives were disrespectful after the Fonz became popular on "Happy Days." Fonzie joins Al and a young African-American man in a sit-in at a diner. Fonzie is concerned about Al's safety and goes with him to look out for him. READ MORE: Twilight star Taylor Lautner is engaged to girlfriend Tay Dome After Happy Days, OHerlihy appeared in a string of film and television roles, often playing antagonistic or villainous characters. Did you ever see the episode where Al wants to go down to Alabama to join a Civil Rights march? (This was a later episode when the time was the 1960's). I think he was cool because he was a good person who was always willing to help a friend in need. So, I think Fonzie was a cool character not because of his leather jacket, or motorcycle, or his prowess with girls. He later went to a tough school and became the Dean of Boys, so he could help kids who needed guidance. Then, he started teaching shop class at Jefferson High. When Arnold's burned down, he put up money to help Al rebuild and became the part-owner. He was (or became) the owner of the garage he worked at. As well, Fonzie also worked several jobs at once. Gee.buying a house so you can provide a good home and be a good parent? Doesn't sound like a loser. In the last episode he bought a house so that he would be allowed to adopt an orphaned boy he'd befriended. In the last season, he did move out into a regular apartment. He stayed above the garage for so long because he loved he Cunninghams like his own family. That was because he'd given up his own apartment to his grandmother after she'd been forced to leave her own place. He graduated with the rest of the gang.įonzie living above the Cunningham's garage. Fonzie had dropped out of high school when the show started, but one of plot points of the episode where Richie graduated high school was that Fonzie revealed that he'd been secretly going to night school to earn his high school diploma. Fonzie being an illiterate high school drop-out? I don't know where you got that from. And season 1 to 6 was amazing As great as I remember it. Perhaps it was because Henry Winkler was older than the rest of the cast that he looked, as you said, twenty years older. Fonzie was supposed to be older than the rest of the gang, but not by that many years. was watching when he was making comments about Fonzie being a loser.