Episode
Happy Days: Joanie Gets Wheels
Overview
Despite Howard's objection, Joanie decides to buy a car because she and Chachi are tired of having to double-date, and Chachi cannot afford to buy his own.
Details
- Series
- Happy Days
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1980-12-09
Episode context
Joanie Gets Wheels is Episode 5 in Season 8 of Happy Days. It aired on 1980-12-09.
Previous / Next
Episode 4: Hello, Roger
Roger Phillips, Marion's nephew, comes to Milwaukee to become an English teacher and the basketball coach at Jefferson High School. He gets off on the wrong foot with Fonzie after he inadvertently empties his locker, insults him, and crashes into his motorcycle.
Episode 6: White Christmas
On Christmas Eve, a terrible blizzard traps Howard and Joanie at the hardware store and Fonzie, Potsie, Chachi, Jenny, and Roger at Arnold's.
More episodes from this season
Episode 3: Dreams Can Come True
Lori Beth receives a letter from Richie in which he proposes marriage. She has to go to Greenland for the wedding, but doesn't have the money to make the trip. Marion goes on a show called Dreams Can Come True in which three women tell their stories of tragedy. The winner has their dream come true, and Marion hopes she can win the money for Lori Beth.
Episode 7: And the Winner Is
Fonzie wants to win the Teacher of the Year award to spite a fellow teacher.
Episode 2: Live and Learn
Fonzie is given the job as teacher of auto mechanics at Jefferson High School. He gets frustrated when his students don't pick everything up as quickly as he did when he was a kid.
Episode 8: If You Knew Rosa
Al announces that he's given up his search for Rosa Coletti, a woman with whom he was involved 20 years ago. However, he receives a letter from his mother saying that she's found Rosa and that she'll be coming to Arnold's next Saturday night.
Episode 1: No Tell Motel
Howard feels that Joanie has been seeing too much of Chachi lately, so he offers her her own phone if she agrees not to see Chachi for two weeks. Joanie and Chachi sneak off to a concert in Chicago and have to stay in the same room, the honeymoon suite, at a motel because it is the only one left.
Episode 9: The Sixth Sense
Chachi tells Fonzie that his motorcycle has seen better days, but Fonzie refuses to junk it. He finally decides to get a new bike after crashing his old one but has to save his money a little longer. Joanie suggests to Chachi that they all pool their money with Fonzie's to surprise him with a new bike for his birthday.
Meanwhile, Arnold's has a new cook, but Fonzie's sixth sense tells him that something isn't right about him.
Episode 10: It Only Hurts When I Smile
Fonzie comes down with a terrible toothache but refuses to see a dentist. Meanwhile, Howard is upset about Joanie's choice of attire for a wedding she's attending.
Episode 11: Welcome to My Nightmare
After a day of everyone asking favors of him, Fonzie has a nightmare about a mad scientist draining his cool.
Episode 12: Broadway It's Not
Chachi becomes jealous after seeing a kissing scene involving Joanie and another actor during rehearsals for a school musical. Fonzie also considers quitting as director.
Episode 13: Bride & Gloom
After Jenny's date dumps her before a big masquerade ball, Fonzie agrees to take her. They dress as a bride and groom and, as part of a talent portion of the party, have a make-believe wedding. However, since the captain of the boat performed the ceremony, the marriage may be legal. Roger believes they can get the marriage annulled if Jenny agrees to it, but, instead, she comes into Fonzie's apartment carrying suitcases.