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Henry Winkler AKA Fonzie

That's my husband. Henry Winkler is his hero. Observe the Arnold's diorama he built a few months ago:





 
I figured, I was just going for the easy joke. How come Fonzie doll doesn't have a couple chicks on his arm?
 
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Telling me these broads wouldn't have liked a piece of kosher Italian sausage? I think so...
 
You guys should produce your own little "Robot Chicken" type show on leased access.

I saw Henry Winkler host a pharmaceutical-industry-backed benefit concert for heart disease featuring a bunch of fogey bands (what's left of the Doobie Brothers, the children and carcasses of the Mamas & Papas) about a decade ago, and thought he was hitting bottom. In between acts, he would make lame jokes and wag his finger about clogging your arteries. I could almost see his Maalox mustache from the loge section.

Then he appeared on Arrested Development, and all was forgiven.
 
He was promoting the his latest children's book. Hank Zipzer #17: A Brand New Me. I read it before the signing and found the characterizations to be astute, but overall it wasn't really my kind of book. I prefer Gordon Korman. His message was very positive; he talked about his parents and teachers, and the disheartening future they predicted for him, and how now he has accomplished so much. I'm glad to see him sending such a positive message to kids.
 
I watched that episode last weekend, the funny thing is that even Fonzie thought it was a stupid idea.
 
Too bad you didn't think to ask Winkler what he thought of that episode becoming synonymous with terminal fail. It is immortality, of a sort I guess.
 
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If you Google, you'd see that he gets asked about it in almost every interview he does.
EW: And, of course, the Fonz is also known for the phrase ''jump the shark.''

Winkler: ''Jump the shark,'' to me, is America. A guy comes up with a phrase. Whether or not it is true, whether or not it actually means anything to anybody, he got a book out of it, he got a board game out of it. We're talking about it today all these days later. Every time that they talk about ''jump the shark'' in the newspaper, they always show a picture of me — and I had really good legs at that time. Also, I am, truly, the only actor on the Earth who has jumped the shark twice. Once on Arrested Development, I jumped the shark.
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Oddly enough I had never seen this. Good that he has a sense of humor about it, not like that old bitch Nimoy who whined about being pigeonholed as Spock for so many years. Price of fame I guess.

O n a side note, I completely missed the Arrested Development bandwagon, must have been during one of those "no tv" times in my life. Maybe a trip to the library is in order...
 
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