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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.
Genre:Comedy
Network:ABC

Worst Episodes Summary

"Chachi Sells His Soul" is the worst rated episode of "Happy Days". It scored 5.1/10 based on 105 votes. Directed by Jerry Paris and written by N/A, it aired on 9/18/1979. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "American Musical".

  • Chachi Sells His Soul
    5.1/10105 votes
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    #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

  • American Musical
    5.3/10111 votes
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    #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

  • Be My Valentine
    5.5/10110 votes
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    #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

  • Glove Story
    5.7/1085 votes
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    #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

  • Social Studies
    5.7/1078 votes
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    #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

  • Low Notes
    5.7/1082 votes
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    #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

  • Good News, Bad News
    5.7/1082 votes
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    #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

  • Babysitting
    5.8/1080 votes
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    #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

  • You Get What You Pay For
    5.8/1085 votes
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    #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

  • Live and Learn
    5.9/1092 votes
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    #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

  • Welcome to My Nightmare
    5.9/1089 votes
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    #11 - 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

  • No Thank You
    5.9/1081 votes
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    #12 - 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

  • Poobah Doo Dah
    5.9/1081 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • Hello, Flip
    5.9/1077 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • Life Is More Important Than Show Business
    5.9/1079 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • Affairs of the Heart
    5.9/1081 votes
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    #16 - 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

  • Like Mother, Like Daughter
    5.9/1085 votes
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    #17 - 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

  • Dreams Can Come True
    6.0/1085 votes
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    #18 - 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

  • The Sixth Sense
    6.0/1079 votes
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    #19 - 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

  • Scholarship
    6.0/1078 votes
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    #20 - 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

  • A Touch of Classical
    6.0/1080 votes
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    #21 - 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

  • Chachi's Future
    6.0/1079 votes
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    #22 - 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

  • Who Gives a Hootenanny?
    6.0/1076 votes
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    #23 - 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

  • Such a Nice Girl
    6.0/1078 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • Since I Don't Have You
    6.0/1077 votes
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    #25 - Since I Don't Have You

    Season 10 Episode 11 - Aired 12/28/1982

    Roger's old flame from his school days shows up, and Roger cannot resist her. Fonzie attempts to prevent her from breaking his heart again.

    Director: Jerry Paris

    Writer: N/A