Happy Days, the Musical. Challenge 1# GET HAPPY

So, today, I watched Happy Days, Episode 11 of Season 8, "Welcome to My Nightmare."

Let's just say, I was not thoroughly impressed, but it made a mark on me.

PLOT OF THE EPISODE:
Fonzie is getting sick and tired of people asking him to do things for him, such as Mr.Cunningham nearly begging him to have his blood drawn to set an example. Or lying for a friend cause his friend's girlfriend is off her rocker. Anyhow, Fonzie grows sick of this, and then comes down with a fever. Being taken care of by Mrs.Cunningham, he turns on "Frakenstein's Monster" as he goes to sleep, and doesn't wake for nearly two days.

Though he claims he doesn't dream, Fonzie has a nightmare that his friends need him to drive out to an old fashioned castle, complete with your weird bloodsucker and hunch assistant, and they need him to drive out and fix their car. Little do they know, Mr.Vampire (let's call him that because he doesn't have a name) has it out for Fonzie. He basically holds his friends captive 'till Fonzie shows up, and explains that he wants to take Fonzie's "cool" and give it to his monster that looks a lot like Fonzie, called "Dougie". (Hell, I don't know to spell the name, alright?) "Dougie" is designed to be Mr.Vampire's wingman, and basically, to get chicks. When Fonzie arrives to the castle, he at first refuses to give his cool, but when Vampire man over here decides to electrocute his friends, he gives in. Stripped of his cool, the nightmare ends with his friends abandoning him to run after "Dougie" who has Fonzie's cool, and Fonzie wakes up, murmuring and mumbling that he's alone.

When he wakes up, we discover he's been out for about two days, and all of his friends have been covering him. With Chachi running his garage, Mr.Cunningham managing his apartment, he finds his friends will help him when he needs them, not just abandon them like he dreamed. It's just that his friends need him a little more then he needs them

SOME OF MY FAVORITE MOMENTS OF THE EPISODE:

"Maybe we just should've shaved the monkey."

Only in "Happy Days" can you find an evil vampire excitedly biting his thumb
exclaiming "WATCH THE THUMBS."

"What're you doing on the wall? Don't you know it's impolite
when you're on the wall of other's people's houses?! Sheesh!"
-Fonzie

We see Fonzie live up to his "SNAP" calling.

What I saw, from the episode, is that though Fonzie acts as though he is completely cool with everything, he has his inner doubts, his inner trials. He thinks his friends will always go to him when they need something, but other then that, he thinks that's all he's good for.

"Everybody wants something from me, then they leave me."

Especially at the end, Fonzie confesses his inner doubts and trials to Mrs.Cunningham, who tells him the truth about his friends, that they will always help him.

How will this help me get into character? I have no clue, but I assume it has something to do with freaking out every time Danton's gotta snap, and we all faint, right?

Or not. 

-Emily Villanueva, Car Hop, July 15th. I think it's Tuesday