The Worst Episodes of Happy Days
Every episode of Happy Days ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Happy Days!
In 1950s Milwaukee the Cunningham family must contend with Fonzie, a motorcycle riding Casanova.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Happy Days" is "Chachi Sells His Soul", rated 5.1/10 from 105 user votes. It was directed by Jerry Paris and written by N/A. "Chachi Sells His Soul" aired on 9/18/1979 and is rated 0.3 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "American Musical".
5.1/10 105 votes#1 - Chachi Sells His Soul
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1979
Wanting to be treated more like an adult, Chachi sells his soul to the devil. In order to get him out of it, Fonzie has to go 24 hours without receiving a kiss from a girl.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
5.4/10 107 votes#2 - American Musical
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 5/26/1981
Chachi struggles with an essay on the causes, hardships, and influences of immigration until Fonzie tells him several stories in a series of musical vignettes.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
5.5/10 110 votes#3 - Be My Valentine
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1978
Joanie daydreams about the gang singing romantic Valentine's Day songs.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
5.7/10 85 votes#4 - Glove Story
Season 11 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1983
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
5.7/10 78 votes#5 - Social Studies
Season 11 Episode 13 - Aired 1/31/1984
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: N/A
5.7/10 82 votes#6 - Low Notes
Season 11 Episode 19 - Aired 7/5/1984
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: N/A
5.7/10 82 votes#7 - Good News, Bad News
Season 11 Episode 21 - Aired 7/19/1984
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: N/A
5.8/10 80 votes#8 - Babysitting
Season 10 Episode 20 - Aired 3/1/1983
Fonzie babysits Heather when Ashley leaves for a tax seminar, but his attention is drawn away by a televised heavyweight title fight leaving Heather resentful toward him. Meanwhile, Joanie and Chachi return to Milwaukee after Joanie says she's sick.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
5.8/10 85 votes#9 - You Get What You Pay For
Season 11 Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/1983
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: N/A
5.9/10 91 votes#10 - Live and Learn
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 11/18/1980
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.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
5.9/10 78 votes#11 - The Sixth Sense
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 1/13/1981
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.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
5.9/10 87 votes#12 - Welcome to My Nightmare
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 2/3/1981
After a day of everyone asking favors of him, Fonzie has a nightmare about a mad scientist draining his cool.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Mark Rothman
5.9/10 81 votes#13 - No Thank You
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1981
Fonzie is rejected several times by a new teacher at Jefferson High. After he kisses her in a final attempt to win her over, she screams and runs out of the house. Roger talks to her and finds out that she is a nun.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
5.9/10 81 votes#14 - Poobah Doo Dah
Season 9 Episode 15 - Aired 1/26/1982
Al is chosen to head the Leopard Lodge's annual Poobah Doo Dah when he says he can get his distant cousin, Frankie Avalon, to perform. However, as Al is auditioning other acts to round out the show, Avalon calls to say he can't make it.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
5.9/10 77 votes#15 - Hello, Flip
Season 9 Episode 19 - Aired 2/23/1982
Roger's family sends his brother, Flip, to Milwaukee with the hope that Roger can straighten him out. Roger entrusts Flip to pick up Marion after he attends a Fats Domino concert, but he skips the concert to hang out with some hoodlums and leaves Marion to walk home in the cold.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
5.9/10 79 votes#16 - Life Is More Important Than Show Business
Season 10 Episode 15 - Aired 1/25/1983
A record producer hears a demonstration tape of Joanie and Chachi and is eager to sign them. However, Chachi has an argument with Mario, a member of the band, and says they're breaking up.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
5.9/10 81 votes#17 - Affairs of the Heart
Season 10 Episode 22 - Aired 3/22/1983
Jenny dumps a nice guy to be with a former Olympic swimmer, but K. C. learns that the swimmer doesn't feel the same way about Jenny as she feels about him. Meanwhile, Fonzie wants to have a swimming pool put in the Cunninghams' backyard.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Neil Thompson, Nancy Steen
5.9/10 85 votes#18 - Like Mother, Like Daughter
Season 11 Episode 12 - Aired 1/24/1984
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: N/A
6.0/10 84 votes#19 - Dreams Can Come True
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 11/25/1980
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.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
6.0/10 81 votes#20 - Potsie on His Own
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 3/17/1981
Potsie falls behind on his rent and is forced to move back in with his parents. However, after learning that Lori Beth's roommate likes men who live alone, Potsie has to stay in his apartment. He tells Fonzie that he can get quick cash but won't say how.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
6.0/10 77 votes#21 - Scholarship
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 4/14/1981
Desperate to get Chachi on the school's basketball team, a scout for Eastern Florida University offers him a scholarship and several other superfluous perks - including a cheerleading scholarship for Joanie. Fonzie is extrememly excited for Chachi, but Howard and Roger think the scholarships are too good to be true.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Mark Rothman
6.0/10 80 votes#22 - A Touch of Classical
Season 9 Episode 16 - Aired 2/2/1982
Initially furious that the music teacher, Cynthia Brannigan, hires the Boston Conservatory Orchestra for the annual Jefferson High concert, Fonzie changes his tune when he realizes that famous composer Tchaikovsky was very much like himself. Fonzie decides to get the entire Jefferson High gang to like classical music.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Rich Correll
6.0/10 79 votes#23 - Chachi's Future
Season 9 Episode 20 - Aired 3/2/1982
After a day of fishing with Howard, Chachi gets to thinking about his future when he realizes that being a success in the music business is a long shot. He leaves the house determined not to come back until he finds a career that would be sufficient to support Joanie should they get married one day. He tries his luck at being a salesman.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
6.0/10 76 votes#24 - Who Gives a Hootenanny?
Season 10 Episode 6 - Aired 11/16/1982
Joanie and Chachi have the opportunity to appear on a television music show but learn that their format is folk. Meanwhile, Fonzie is upset that folk music seems to be replacing rock and roll.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: N/A
6.0/10 78 votes#25 - Such a Nice Girl
Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/1982
Marion encourages K. C. to date, so she accepts an invitation to Arnold's Gala Costume Ball from Melvin Belvin.
Director: Jerry Paris
Writer: Neil Thompson, Nancy Steen