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Sep 26, 2023 · According to Winkler, his dad, Harry, is the one that set Fonzie's shark-jump in motion. "My father kept telling me to tell [Happy Days creator] Garry Marshall that I waterskied," the...
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Sep 27, 2023 · According to Winkler, his dad, Harry, is the one that set Fonzie's shark-jump in motion. "My father kept telling me to tell [Happy Days creator] Garry Marshall that I waterskied," the...
Mar 11, 2024 · TV LEGEND: The inspiration for Fonzie jumping over a shark on Happy Days was because Henry Winkler's father pushed his son to tell the producers about using his son's water-skiing skills on the show. One of the more famous phrases in pop culture is "jumping the shark."
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Sep 3, 2010 · Since Henry water skied in real life, it was suggested the characters race and then, as a tiebreaker, have to jump a shark in a netted area in the ocean. Now, whose idea was it for Fonzie to jump...
Sep 26, 2023 · The "Happy Days" star on the 1977 shark jump that entered TV history.
Sep 20, 2024 · On 20th September, 1977 his wish came true – in a shark-jumping sequence so absurd it would forever be linked with the irreversible artistic decline of long-running TV series.
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Apr 1, 2021 · For most viewers of Happy Days, the wildly popular ABC sitcom of the 1970s and early 1980s, the sight of Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli jumping over a shark on water skis during the September 20,...
