Richie struggles with his emotions as everyone - particularly his mother, Marion - rejects his dream of being a Hollywood screenwriter.Richie struggles with his emotions as everyone - particularly his mother, Marion - rejects his dream of being a Hollywood screenwriter.Richie struggles with his emotions as everyone - particularly his mother, Marion - rejects his dream of being a Hollywood screenwriter.
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Richie Cunningham: [an angry Richie has been drinking heavily at a local bar... Fonzie is trying to take him home] I would REALLY like to be alone right now.
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli: No you don't.
Richie Cunningham: Let's get something straight right now, all right? The days when The Fonz can come riding in and solve all my problems with a few choice words are long gone! So why don't you leave-a-mundo?
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli: You're absolutely right. This is not a frosh mixer. I can't fix you up with a date, but you are my friend, we can talk about it and I haven't said 'a-mundo' in an awful long time!
[Richie turns away]
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli: Fine... you don't wanna say anything, we won't talk. Then we'll go home. You know why? 'Cause there's a lotta people worried about you.
Richie Cunningham: [angry] I'll leave when I damn well feel like leaving!
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli: Good plan... good plan.
[gets up]
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli: Except something in my soul tells me that you want to leave
[yanks chair out from under Richie's feet]
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli: right now. So Richie, put the beer down and let's go home, OK?
[Richie stands up and punches Fonzie in the face]
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli: So we got that out of our systems, right? Come on, Richie. Let's go.
Richie Cunningham: I said I'll leave when I feel like it!
[swings at Fonzie again and misses]
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli: [Fonzie restrains him and pins him to a pool table] What, are you crazy? You think I'm gonna let you do that a second time?
Richie Cunningham: I'm gonna get you for that, Fonz! I'm gonna kick your butt!
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli: Right... right.
Richie Cunningham: [Richie slowly comes to his senses] Fonz... what am I doing? I'm going crazy!
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli: [gently] It's OK... you're OK. Wanna get up.
Richie Cunningham: [softly] Yeah.
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli: [Fonzie releases him and pats his shoulder] You're OK.
Richie Cunningham: Man... I can't live like this. I can't go around living my life pretending I'm happy all the time! It's no good, Fonz! It's no good!
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli: I get the picture. You've been living your life for everybody else, right? You've been the perfect son, the perfect student, the perfect father...
Richie Cunningham: [interrupting] Perfect soldier!
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli: Perfect friend!
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli: It's time to take responsibility for your own life. You've gotta do what you wanna do, Richie.
Richie Cunningham: [shakes his head] No, it's not that simple. See, my dad got me that job at the newspaper.
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli: So what?
Richie Cunningham: My wife, Lori Beth, has her heart set on living in Milwaukee!
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli: Your wife Lori Beth has her heart set on spending the rest of her life with you! Don't sell her short! I mean, she loves you, Richie! She'll back you in anything you want to do! We all will!
Richie Cunningham: Look, you're single. You don't know what it's like having people depending on you each and every day!
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli: [raising eyebrows] Are you delirious? All right, I'll be fair with you... I don't have a wife and kids. But if I had yours, I would let nothing stop me!
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- Dec 31, 2021
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