Happy Days (1974–1984): Season 2, Episode 7 - Wish Upon a Star - full transcript

Hollywood comes to Jefferson High when Richie wins a dance date with a beautiful movie star in a school raffle.

♪ Sunday, Monday, happy days ♪

♪ Tuesday, Wednesday,
happy days ♪

♪ Thursday, Friday, happy days ♪

♪ The weekend
comes, my cycle hums ♪

♪ Ready to race to you ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪

♪ Happy and free ♪
♪ Oh, happy days ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪

♪ Share them with me ♪
♪ Oh, baby ♪

♪ Good-bye, gray
sky, hello, blue ♪

♪ There's nothing can
hold me when I hold you ♪



♪ It feels so right,
it can't be wrong ♪

♪ Rocking and
rolling all week long ♪

♪ Sunday, Monday, happy days ♪

♪ Tuesday, Wednesday,
happy days ♪

♪ Thursday, Friday, happy days ♪

♪ Saturday, what a day ♪

♪ Groovin' all week with you ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪

♪ Share them with me ♪
♪ Oh, happy days ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪

♪ Happy and free ♪
♪ Oh, baby ♪

♪ Good-bye, gray
sky, hello, blue ♪

♪ There's nothing can
hold me when I hold you ♪

♪ It feels so right,
it can't be wrong ♪



♪ Rocking and
rolling all week long ♪

♪ These happy days
are yours and mine ♪

♪ These happy days are
yours and mine, Happy Days! ♪

Attention.

The drawing for the
date with Cindy Shea,

Hollywood star of Calypso Beach,

will be held in five minutes.

Now, all of you
red-blooded, drooling,

heavy-breathing guys
head for the platform.

Come on. We're
heavy-breathing guys.

You better believe it.

Hey, Rich, come on.

You'll miss the drawing.

Don't bother him;
he's in love again.

So what's new?

So I'll pick you up for
the picnic on Sunday

at, at about 11:00, okay?

Oh, Richie.

A picnic, a dance, a
hayride all in one week.

If you keep this up,

I'll begin to think
you're interested in me.

Well... where my
sweater goes, I go.

Oh, Richie, you're so poetic.

Attention: We're about
to draw the lucky name.

We're mixing up the tickets.

The winner for the date

with Hollywood's
beautiful Cindy Shea

is Richie Cunningham!

Aw, come on!

Come on!

Let's have it again.

Let's do it one more time!

But I want to take
you to the dance.

Don't be silly.

If it were Frankie Avalon,
I'd drop you in a minute.

Hey-hey, you lucky stiff.

Va-va-va-voom!

I've already got
a date with Gloria.

It's a once-in-a-
lifetime chance.

Oh, look, I've got to go.

See you later.

Besides, she's got thick ankles.

Congratulations! Uh-huh.

Will you miss me when you're
away at taxidermist school?

I'll think of no one else,
even when I'm working.

Gee, it's just not
going to be the same

around the soda
shop without you.

Charlene, I love you.

Boy, look at those legs.

Those are the
legs of a hot chick.

They're nice legs.

Nice girls also have nice legs.

The bent one looks great.

It's a real kissing leg.

When she kisses
and her leg goes up,

you know she's worldly.

How can you talk
about her that way?

She's a nice, nice girl.

She's really a woman.

I'd sure love a chance
at making that leg bend.

Richard, I'm sure you're going

to have a good time
with Cindy Shea,

but there is something I
think you ought to know.

Oh, Howard, don't
start lecturing Richard.

Oh, now, wait a minute, Marion.

You don't even what know
what I'm going to say yet.

Now, what I was going to
say is that Hollywood stars

are not exactly famous
for their high morals.

I knew you were
going to say that.

Well, it's true, Marion.

I've read all about them
down at the barbershop.

Are we going to talk dirty?

No, we're not
going to talk dirty.

Now, I'm sure that Cindy Shea is

just a nice, sweet teenage girl.

She's got a clean bill.

If she had anything to hide,

they would have written
about it in the Exposé.

Will you put that away?

I feel bad about not being able

to take Gloria to the dance.

Well, why don't you get one
of your friends to take her?

Well, because she's my girl.

I don't know if it's right

to let your steady go
out with somebody else.

Well, that's true, but these
are unusual circumstances.

I guess I really don't
have much choice.

Richard, aren't you
going to finish your fruit?

Well, I'd better get
down to Arnold's

before all the guys get dates.

I'll see you.

Mom, can I send away for
some bust developing cream?

Watch it, watch it.

Look, I don't know what you
guys are so shook up about.

What's Cindy Shea
got that I haven't got?

Do you want me to start
from your wedgies and work up

or from your rats and
buns and work down?

Take gas.

Okay, guys, pick a straw.

Ah, you win, Ralph. Win what?

Gloria.

I'm going to let you take
her to the dance. All right!

I'll go break the
good news to her!

Hey, say, Rich, what time
are you picking Cindy up?

She's picking me
up in a limousine.

Mm.

Wow, Rich, talk about class.

I wonder if the
chauffeur will look

through his rear-view
mirror to see if you're necking.

Richard Cunningham!

I'm not a turkey
you can raffle off!

Take back your dumb sweater.

And you can forget about
the dance and the hayride

and the picnic... and
my phone number.

Well, look at the
bright side, Rich.

Now you don't
have to feel guilty.

Three-quarter-inch
socket wrench.

I mean, so you bombed out
with some local talent, huh?

Phillips screwdriver.

Now you got a chance to move
in on some choice Hollywood stuff.

Yeah, but it's
just for one night.

Cunningham... Cunningham...?

Yeah.

When you're in the
old... The old folks' home,

what are you going to talk about

with the guy in the
next wheelchair, huh?

Uh, going steady with your
high school honey or, um,

a big night on the
town with a movie star?

Whoa.

Yeah, y-you're
probably right about that.

Thanks, Fonzie.

Wire cutters.

Lips.

Will you play,
Marion? Oh, yes, dear.

Three. Uh, 13.

Dad!

What are you doing?

Miss Haley said I was
the best actress in the play.

Joanie!

"I cannot tarry a
moment longer, Prince.

"Midnight approacheth
and I must leave.

Woe is me."

Oh, that's very
good, Cinderella.

Now taketh thyself upstairs

and washeth that
junk off thy faceth,

or woe is really you.

But I want to be discovered.

So do I, but you don't
see me going around

wearing a lot of makeup.

Now go on. I can't get a break.

She's here.

She's here! Go. Go, go.

Well, Richard, don't you think
you should open the door?

What'll I say to her?

Why don't you try something
clever like "Come in"?

Oh, Howard.

He's just nervous.

Never mind, I'll get the door.

There's nothing to
be nervous about.

She's just like us,
a regular person.

Hi, I'm Cindy Shea.

Hi, I'm Richie Cunningham.

That's my father.

I'm honored, Richie.

Mr. Cunningham.

Hello, Cindy.

That's my mom.

Mrs. Cunningham.

Oh, would you like to come in?

Oh, this is Johnny
Jordan, my photographer.

I hope you folks don't mind

if we take a few
publicity shots.

I like to capture on
film great moments

when celebrities
meet regular people.

Oh, well, we-we're
regular people.

Right, Dad?

Uh, Richie, you stand in
there real close to Cindy now,

and Sis, you stand
right over here.

Oh, I'm not his sister.

I'm his mother.

You're kidding!

"I cannot tarry a moment longer.

Midnight approacheth."

That's my sister.

Okay, kid, you get in here
real close now and freeze.

Uh, any more upstairs?

A dog? A goldfish?

All right, happy now,
everybody, real happy.

Let me see those
pretty white teeth.

Ready and...

Have you ever used
bust developing cream?

Okay, that'll be enough.

Cindy, this is for you.

Oh, thank you,
Richie, that's so sweet.

You can give it to me later.

Later?

Oh, I'm sorry, Richie.

Didn't anybody tell you
about my schedule tonight?

What schedule?

Oh, I feel terrible.

Well, see, I thought
we could take care

of these pictures now, and
then you could go on to the dance

and have a good time.

And I'll see you at the dance.

Oh.

Oh, these trips are so crazy.

I have escorts waiting for me

at two other high schools,

I just got done
with an orphanage,

and now I have to go
to a demolition derby.

Oh, I... I see.

Oh, Richie, believe me, I
feel as bad about it as you do.

You're really nice and I'd like

to go with you.

Uh, Cindy, we have to hurry.

Okay, now wait for me

and I'll see you at the dance.

Okay, Rich, now give me

that "I can't wait
to see her" look.

Why do they keep calling
this a victory dance?

We haven't won a
homecoming game in five years.

Would you buy a
ticket to a defeat dance?

Hey, don't be ticked off
just 'cause you got stood up.

I didn't get stood up.

Cindy is just saving the
best date for last, that's all.

Rich, you just filled my sleeve.

Get a grip, will you?

She's here.

All right, big smile now.

That's it.

Uh, Miss Shea.

Miss Shea, it is my
pleasure to welcome you

to our humble school.

Richie, I'm sorry I'm late.

Forgive me?

Sure.

I wanted to save
the best date for last.

And I'd like you to escort me

back to my hotel
after the dance.

Back to the hotel.

And now, we will have
the traditional pinning

of the homecoming corsage.

Okay, pin it on there.

Huh? Pin it on her.

Oh... here.

Here, let me help you.

Okay, pin it on, Rich, go ahead.

Go ahead.

Most of the guys just gave
up and let me do it myself.

That's a good idea. Yeah.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

I'm so glad that I could
come and help you celebrate

your victory Homecoming Dance.

And I'd like to congratulate
you on a great win.

We lost. Oh.

What a shame.

Well, we'll get 'em next year.

Anyway, I'm glad I
could get off the set

of my new picture,
Calypso Beach.

And it'll soon be in drive-ins
and theatres everywhere.

Okay. Hey!

Anyway, thanks
a lot for everything

and I'll see you at the movies.

Eat your hearts out.

Oh, I'm sorry, I got
lipstick on your collar.

Thank you.

Oh, Fonzie.

Sorry, all my
dances are for Richie.

That was Fonzie.

Oh, I hope I didn't
hurt his feelings.

I've been cut in on all night.

I guess it must be hard being
a major motion picture star.

It's been a long day...

Plane rides and visiting
three high schools.

I saw Waikiki Nun four times.

I could sure use a smoke.

Walter Winchell called
you "an island of purity

in Hollywood's sea of sin."

Smoke?

Yeah, I haven't had
a cigarette all day.

Do you have one on you? No.

I mean, uh... there's a rule.

You can't smoke
on school grounds.

Oh... oh, that's all
right; I understand.

How about a drink?

Who smokes and drinks?

The movie chick.

She does not! Potsie's right.

Just because she's
from Hollywood,

that's no reason
to gossip about her.

She just now
asked me for a drink.

I knew it. Show me a bent leg

and I'll show you
a girl who drinks.

I don't believe it!
And if Troy Donahue

were here right now,
he'd punch you in the nose.

Oh, yeah? Well, I might just
punch him back. Oh, yeah?

Well, I'd like to see
you punch him back.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
you guys make me sick.

I mean, what do
you think happens?

He's got a gorgeous chick,

she wants a drink, she
asks him back to the hotel...

That's a tragedy?

You mean it... it
could get... romantic.

I never thought
of her like that.

I have.

Well, what should I do now?

I think the first thing you
should do is get some booze.

You got me Coke?
I don't want Coke.

Sniff it. Sniff it?

That's right... put your
nose where your mouth is.

Hey, this is... Will
you keep it down?

Why did you put it in Coke?

Because if I put it in a malt,
it'd make the milk curdle.

Fonzie... What are you doing?

Are you trying to
blow in my ear?

No, I was just whispering.

Yeah, well, whisper
from over there.

Fonzie...

what do I do when
we get to her door?

I mean... what do I
say to get her into...

the hotel room? Not a word.

Chicks like that like
to make the first move.

And, uh... tell
her I'm real sorry

I couldn't find the
time to dance with her.

The principal.

Well, boys, are you
having a good time?

Uh... great!

Sure thing.

Terrific.

Good time, sir. Good time.

Good.

Well, here's my door.

Oh, yeah... here's your door.

Well, this is a real
nice hallway, isn't it?

It was real nice.

Oh, aren't you coming in?

Oh, sure... sure.

Where else would I be going?

Of course.

Come on in.

Listen, would you mind

if I changed into something
more comfortable?

No, no, change away.

Okay.

Oh, look, why don't
you put some records on.

I always travel with
my whole collection.

Who's your favorite?

Margaret Truman.

Margaret Truman...

I'll be right out.

Okay.

♪ ♪

Cindy, I haven't
known you very long,

but... I feel like I've
known you all my life.

I want you to know that
you're a very special girl.

And, one day...

Who knows... maybe we'll
run into each other again.

Hi, Richie.

Oh, I... I didn't expect
to see you here.

Well, Richie, don't
get the wrong idea.

You're not planning on
taking any more pictures.

No, no... Oh, good.

Uh, can I give Cindy a message?

Hey, look, Richie, uh...

I think there's something
you should know.

We don't advertise
it, but, um...

well, it would be
bad for her image.

I'm her husband.

Husband?!

Uh, you and her are, uh...

married... to each other?

Oh... oh, well, hey,

talk about a small world.

You're disappointed. No.

No, why should I
be disappointed?

Where is Cindy?

Oh, she just went in to slip
into something a little more...

Boy, look what time it is!

I'm really going to
have to get going.

I didn't realize it
was getting this late.

Now I feel better. Hi.

Yeah... Hi.

Oh, I hope you don't
mind me asking Richie in.

He's the nicest kid
I've met on the tour.

Oh, no, great.

He's welcome.

I'm going to go take a shower.

The music's low
and the lights are dim.

It's just like the
love scene from

Fort Lauderdale Beach Bums.

Richie, you didn't think we were
going to be romantic, did you?

No... no...

Well, things didn't work out

exactly the way I
had them planned.

I hope I didn't lead you on.

But Johnny and I are
very happily married.

You didn't have to tell me that.

I knew that already.

I could tell from the moment
you arrived at my house.

You and Johnny are
really a nice couple.

Oh... sorry.

I broke your "Love Me Tender."

But I wasn't going to play it.

I was going to play
"Jailhouse Rock."

It's all right, I've
got another one.

Will you stay and
have a drink with us?

I'll call room service.

What would you like?

I'll have a... Tom Collins.

Yes, this is room 212.

Would you send up a Tom Collins

and a hot chocolate, please?

Why don't you just make
that two hot chocolates.

Make that two hot chocolates.

Well, it's like this...

Cindy's very beautiful
and everything, but...

but-but she's way up here.

You know? And-And...

And you and I are
kind of down here.

Gloria, you're a real person.

You're the kind of
person that I'd like to take

to a picnic and a hayride.

Okay, I'll go.

I guess I like you
'cause you're cute

when you're
fighting for your life.

And Gloria, you were right:

She's got thick ankles.

Maybe I'll wear my cashmere
sweater to the hayride.

Bye.

Bye.

Hey, Rich, we've been
looking all over for you.

Yeah, give us the word.

What happened at the hotel?

Oh, oh... oh, yeah.

Well...

she invited me
into her hotel room.

Hey... I shut the
door... and, uh...

she went to slip into
something more comfortable.

We're still here.

Oh, well, uh...

she came back in and I, uh...

I turned the lights
down and then, uh...

put on soft music
and... Yeah...?

And... uh... And what? What?

We drank hot chocolate.

Hot chocolate?

He's lying!

Hey, come on, Richie,
buddy, what happened?

♪ Thursday, Friday, happy days ♪

♪ Saturday, what a day ♪

♪ Rockin' all week with you ♪

♪ This day is ours ♪

♪ These are such happy days. ♪

♪ Hello, sunshine,
good-bye, rain ♪

♪ She's wearing my
school ring on her chain ♪

♪ She's my steady, I'm her man ♪

♪ I'm gonna love her all I can ♪

♪ This day is ours ♪

♪ Won't you be mine? ♪

♪ Oh, happy days ♪

♪ This day is ours ♪

♪ Oh, please be mine ♪
♪ Oh, happy days ♪

♪ These happy days
are yours and mine ♪

♪ These happy days are
yours and mine, Happy Days! ♪