Episode
Happy Days: Good News, Bad News
Overview
After his single makes it onto the record charts, Chachi is invited to go on tour with the Beach Boys as one of their opening acts. However, he quits the tour after learning he has diabetes.
Details
- Series
- Happy Days
- Season
- Season 11
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 1984-07-19
Episode context
Good News, Bad News is Episode 21 in Season 11 of Happy Days. It aired on 1984-07-19.
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Episode 20: School Dazed
Joanie brings home one of her students in an attempt to help her with her drug problem. The student promises Joanie that she'll make changes in her life, but she immediately takes several pills after everyone has gone to bed.
Episode 22: Fonzie's Spots
With the recent death of a fellow Leopard Lodge member, Howard fears that he may be ousted as Grand Poohbah for not attracting any new members other than Potsie during his five-year reign. He gets Fonzie, Chachi, and Roger to join as pledges, and they have to follow the orders of Potsie during their initiation.
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Episode 19: Low Notes
After having to borrow money from Marion and being hassled by Fonzie about being a bum, Chachi takes a job as a dance instructor.
Meanwhile, Howard takes away Potsie's salary after he sells power drills for $13.05 less than cost.
Episode 18: So How Was Your Weekend?
Marion and Joanie take a trip to Mother Kelp's to help her move. From the time they arrive, Mother Kelp does nothing but critcize Marion.
Meanwhile, Howard, Fonzie, Chachi, and Roger spend the weekend playing poker.
Episode 17: Passages (2)
Fonzie's adoption request is reconsidered after a stern talk by Howard to the adoptions administrator.
Meanwhile, Joanie and Chachi continue to prepare for their wedding.
Episode 16: Passages (1)
After realizing they're dating people that look like each other, Joanie and Chachi decide to meet in order to explore the option of getting back together.
Meanwhile, Fonzie wants to adopt an orphaned boy to whom he's been a Big Brother.
Episode 15: Fonzie Moves Out
Howard is offered the vice-presidential position at a large hardware-store chain and considers taking it and moving to New York. Despite nothing being final and Fonzie feeling as though the Cunninghams are pushing him to leave, he decides to immediately move out of his apartment.
Episode 14: The Spirit Is Willing
Fonzie meets a beautiful woman, Nancy Haley, at his garage while listening to the radio in a beat-up 1955 Chevy. He takes the woman home, but when he goes back to return her purse, an older woman tells him that the Haleys moved out ten years ago when their daughter was killed in an automobile accident.
Episode 13: Social Studies
Chachi is hesitant about asking girls out for fear that he will be rejected. Fonzie tells Chachi that girls will ask him out because he has the Fonzarelli power.
Episode 12: Like Mother, Like Daughter
Howard is jealous and upset when Marion's high-school boyfriend, Frederick, comes to visit. He becomes enraged when Frederick takes Joanie out on a date.
Episode 11: The People vs. The Fonz
Fonzie is accused of hitting a trouble-making student but refuses to testify at a school-board hearing. By not doing so, he runs the risk of being ruled against and getting fired.
Episode 10: Kiss Me, Teach
Joanie accepts an assistant teaching position at Patton High and immediately encounters trouble when a student has a crush on her.