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The Best Episodes of Happy Days Season 11

Every episode of Happy Days Season 11 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Happy Days Season 11!

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In 1950s Milwaukee the Cunningham family must contend with Fonzie, a motorcycle riding Casanova.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Happy Days Season 11 Episode 1 - Because It's There
    6.0/10(92 votes)

    #1 - Because It's There

    S11:E1

    Fonzie finds a note he wrote as a child containing a list of things to accomplish in the next twenty years. On the list is one goal he hasn't yet accomplished: climb Suicide Hill on a motorcycle. The problem is that he's already tried it and failed.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 2 - The Ballad of Joanie and Chachi
    6.2/10(85 votes)

    #2 - The Ballad of Joanie and Chachi

    S11:E2

    New events in Joanie's life cause Chachi to resent her for not having enough time for him. Each has their own solution: Joanie wants to break up, and Chachi wants to get married.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 3 - Where the Guys Are
    6.6/10(101 votes)

    #3 - Where the Guys Are

    S11:E3

    In an attempt to help Fonzie move on after his break-up with Ashley, Potsie, Chachi, and Roger take him on a retreat to a singles resort. However, to get him to go, they tell him they're going to a sporting camp. When they arrive at the lake, Fonzie discovers what the resort is all about and says he's going to leave. He ends up staying which puts a damper on the rest of the guys' fun.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writers:Nancy Steen, Neil Thompson

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  4. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 4 - Welcome Home (1)
    7.6/10(119 votes)

    #4 - Welcome Home (1)

    S11:E4

    Richie (with Lori Beth and Richie Jr.) and Ralph return from the army. Howard is able to get Richie an interview with The Milwaukee Journal, but Richie doesn't appear to be interested.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 5 - Welcome Home (2)
    7.6/10(107 votes)

    #5 - Welcome Home (2)

    S11:E5

    Still upset about having given up on his dream as a screenwriter and having to pretend to be happy all of the time, Richie takes out his frustrations on everyone around him - including punching Fonzie in a bar.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 6 - Glove Story
    5.9/10(93 votes)

    #6 - Glove Story

    S11:E6

    After being nothing more than a coatrack for Fonzie's scarf during a rumble, Chachi enters the city boxing championship tournament to earn his respect. Fonzie is elated when Chachi wins his first fight.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Rich Correll

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  7. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 7 - Vocational Education
    6.7/10(100 votes)

    #7 - Vocational Education

    S11:E7

    Roger is the new principal of the tough George S. Patton Vocational High School. He thinks he can handle the students there but is sorely mistaken.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 8 - Arthur, Arthur
    6.3/10(95 votes)

    #8 - Arthur, Arthur

    S11:E8

    Fonzie's long-lost brother from San Francisco, whom Fonzie didn't know existed, tracks Fonzie down in Milwaukee. Fonzie is, initially, happy to have a brother but soon comes to hate him.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Craig Heller

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  9. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 9 - You Get What You Pay For
    6.0/10(94 votes)

    #9 - You Get What You Pay For

    S11:E9

    Howard decides that it is necessary to build a second bathroom after he's forced to shave at the dining room table. To save money, he decides to allow Fonzie's students to build the room. Howard doesn't realize that the room will take all semester to complete, and this hurts his plan to make a killing in whisper-quiet toilets. He fires Fonzie and the students and says he'll finish the bathroom himself.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 10 - Kiss Me, Teach
    6.6/10(101 votes)

    #10 - Kiss Me, Teach

    S11:E10

    Joanie accepts an assistant teaching position at Patton High and immediately encounters trouble when a student has a crush on her.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 11 - The People vs. The Fonz
    6.7/10(95 votes)

    #11 - The People vs. The Fonz

    S11:E11

    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.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 12 - Like Mother, Like Daughter
    6.0/10(92 votes)

    #12 - Like Mother, Like Daughter

    S11:E12

    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.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 13 - Social Studies
    5.8/10(84 votes)

    #13 - Social Studies

    S11:E13

    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.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 14 - The Spirit Is Willing
    7.0/10(106 votes)

    #14 - The Spirit Is Willing

    S11:E14

    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.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 15 - Fonzie Moves Out
    6.3/10(92 votes)

    #15 - Fonzie Moves Out

    S11:E15

    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.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 16 - Passages (1)
    7.2/10(99 votes)

    #16 - Passages (1)

    S11:E16

    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.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writers:Nancy Steen, Neil Thompson

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  17. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 17 - Passages (2)
    7.8/10(132 votes)

    #17 - Passages (2)

    S11:E17

    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.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 18 - So How Was Your Weekend?
    6.2/10(89 votes)

    #18 - So How Was Your Weekend?

    S11:E18

    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.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 19 - Low Notes
    5.8/10(87 votes)

    #19 - Low Notes

    S11:E19

    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.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 20 - School Dazed
    6.2/10(96 votes)

    #20 - School Dazed

    S11:E20

    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.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 21 - Good News, Bad News
    5.8/10(90 votes)

    #21 - Good News, Bad News

    S11:E21

    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.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Happy Days Season 11 Episode 22 - Fonzie's Spots
    7.0/10(112 votes)

    #22 - Fonzie's Spots

    S11:E22

    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.

    Director:Jerry Paris
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 11 Ratings Summary

"Because It's There" is the best rated episode of "Happy Days" season 11. It scored 6/10 based on 92 votes. Directed by Jerry Paris and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/27/1983. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Ballad of Joanie and Chachi".