The Best Episodes of Happy Days Season 5

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   6.6/10(139 votes)

   #1 - Hollywood (1)

   S5:E19/13/1977

   A Hollywood talent scout, needing a mechanic for his limousine, sees Fonzie at Arnold's and thinks he could be the next James Dean. The Cunninghams, Potsie, and Ralph go to Hollywood with Fonzie for his screen test.

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2. 

   6.6/10(136 votes)

   #2 - Hollywood (2)

   S5:E29/13/1977

   Fonzie takes his screen test with Richie as his reading partner. The director loves Fonzie, but the studio is more impressed with Richie and offers him a contract.

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3. 

   6.5/10(168 votes)

   #3 - Hollywood (3)

   S5:E39/20/1977

   Fonzie faces jumping a caged shark on water skis, and Richie decides whether or not he wants to sign the Paramount Pictures contract he was offered.

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4. 

   7.8/10(134 votes)

   #4 - Hard Cover

   S5:E49/27/1977

   Facing a dating slump, Fonzie suggests that Richie go to the library to meet girls. Richie meets Lori Beth Allen at the library who invites him to her dorm room.

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5. 

   6.6/10(113 votes)

   #5 - My Cousin, the Cheat

   S5:E510/4/1977

   After Chachi is caught by a truant officer, Fonzie and Richie arrange for Joanie to tutor him. He gets caught cheating on a test and, as a result, gets suspended from school and gets in hot water with Fonzie.

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6. 

   7.4/10(127 votes)

   #6 - Fonsillectomy

   S5:E610/25/1977

   Fonzie has to have his tonsils removed and will miss a big Halloween party.

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7. 

   7.0/10(117 votes)

   #7 - The Apartment

   S5:E711/1/1977

   Richie, Potsie, and Ralph get an apartment of their own.

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8. 

   7.2/10(124 votes)

   #8 - Fonzie and Leather Tuscadero (1)

   S5:E811/8/1977

   Pinky Tuscadero's younger sister, Leather, comes to Milwaukee looking for a gig. Al gives her and her group a job at Arnold's after a successful audtion, but Officer Kirk threatens to shut the place down after learning of Leather's troubled past.

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9. 

   7.1/10(111 votes)

   #9 - Fonzie and Leather Tuscadero (2)

   S5:E911/15/1977

   After Howard refuses to let Joanie go on tour with Leather, she follows through with her threat to run away from home.

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10. 

    7.5/10(118 votes)

    #10 - My Fair Fonzie

    S5:E1011/22/1977

    Fonzie is invited to a socialite dinner party, but the people who invite him do so thinking Fonzie will make a fool of himself.

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11. 

    6.9/10(107 votes)

    #11 - Bye Bye Blackball

    S5:E1111/29/1977

    Richie, Potsie, and Ralph want to join the best fraternity on campus, but they have to survive ""Hell Week"" first.

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12. 

    7.0/10(114 votes)

    #12 - Requiem for a Malph

    S5:E1212/6/1977

    Ralph is caught with the girl of the football team's star fullback, Rebel E. Lee. Instead of a fight, Fonzie arranges a boxing match between Rebel and Ralph to settle their dispute.

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13. 

    7.0/10(105 votes)

    #13 - Nose for News

    S5:E1312/13/1977

    After getting a ""D"" on a paper for his investigative reporting class, Richie decides to do a story about the corrupt sanitation department that is forcing Howard to pay a weekly surcharge.

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14. 

    6.8/10(107 votes)

    #14 - Grandpa's Visit

    S5:E141/3/1978

    Howard's father comes for a visit after being forceably retired as a captain of detectives due to his age. Not wanting to sit around, he gets a job at Fonzie's garage. After one day, Fonzie, not having the heart to do it himself, asks Howard to fire his father.

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15. 

    7.2/10(108 votes)

    #15 - Potsie Gets Pinned

    S5:E151/10/1978

    After one date with Jennifer Jerome, Potsie wants to ask her to marry him. Howard suggests that they get pinned instead, but, after asking her, Potsie suddenly backs out.

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16. 

    7.2/10(119 votes)

    #16 - Joanie's First Kiss

    S5:E161/17/1978

    Joanie is set to go on her first car date, so Fonzie and Richie show her how to counter any advances her date may make toward her. Joanie says she may not want to counter his advances and would like to experience her first kiss.

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17. 

    7.1/10(107 votes)

    #17 - Marion's Misgivings

    S5:E171/24/1978

    When Marion's friend is dumped by her husband for a younger woman, Marion begins to think that Howard may do the same to her.

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18. 

    8.0/10(165 votes)

    #18 - Richie Almost Dies

    S5:E181/31/1978

    Lori Beth reports that Richie isn't moving after they crash his new motorcycle.

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19. 

    6.3/10(106 votes)

    #19 - Spunkless Spunky

    S5:E192/7/1978

    Fonzie's dog, Spunky, appears depressed and distant. After a visit to the veterinarian, it is determined that Spunky's problem is mental.

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    5.7/10(124 votes)

    #20 - Be My Valentine

    S5:E202/14/1978

    Joanie daydreams about the gang singing romantic Valentine's Day songs.

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21. 

    7.1/10(106 votes)

    #21 - Our Gang

    S5:E212/21/1978

    Richie tells Chachi the story of how he met Fonzie in order to convince him that joining a gang is a mistake.

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22. 

    8.5/10(254 votes)

    #22 - My Favorite Orkan

    S5:E222/28/1978

    An alien, Mork from Ork, comes to earth looking for someone average, or humdrum, to study and picks Richie.

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23. 

    6.3/10(105 votes)

    #23 - Do You Want to Dance?

    S5:E235/9/1978

    Fonzie's girlfriend is a moderately successful ballet teacher, but Fonzie has trouble accepting that she may be happier as a professional performer in New York.

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    6.4/10(120 votes)

    #24 - Second Wind

    S5:E245/16/1978

    Al is to receive a man-of-the-year award from the Sons of Italy, but he doesn't have a date. Fonzie sets him up with a meter maid, and she agrees to go with him to the banquet.

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    6.7/10(103 votes)

    #25 - Rules to Date By

    S5:E255/23/1978

    Richie and Lori Beth have a fight and break up before going on a weekend trip where the band is backing up Leather and the Suedes. Meanwhile, Howard and Marion argue about women's rights.

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