Happy Days
Fifties nostalgia series
Happy Days is an American television sitcom that aired from 1974 to 1984, set in 1950s Milwaukee and centered on the Cunningham family.
The show launched the career of Henry Winkler as the leather-jacketed Fonzie and spawned the spinoffs Laverne & Shirley and Mork & Mindy.
The phrase happy days without the television reference simply means good times, often nostalgically recalled: Those were happy days.
- JoanieDiminutive of Joan
- HowardEnglish given name
- MarionUnisex given name
- MilwaukeeWisconsin's biggest metropolis
Henry Winkler · Ron Howard · jump the shark · thumbs up · leather jacket · cool
Hillbilly-influenced early rock
- poodle skirtsFull skirts with appliquéd dogs
- jukeboxCoin-operated music player
- greasersMachine lubricators or rebels
- sock hopInformal school dance
drive-in · tailfins · doo-wop · soda fountain · malt shop · bobby socks · saddle shoes · letterman jacket
Recalling past experiences
- memoriesStored past experiences
- bygoneOf earlier times
- golden agePeriod of peak prosperity
- retroEvoking recent past
vintage · innocence · simpler times · Americana · sentimentality · wistfulness · recollection · retrospection
Fonzie
Henry Winkler · Ron Howard · Milwaukee · jump the shark · thumbs up · leather jacket · cool
rockabilly
Hillbilly-influenced early rock
- poodle skirtsFull skirts with appliquéd dogs
- jukeboxCoin-operated music player
- greasersMachine lubricators or rebels
sock hop · drive-in · tailfins · doo-wop · soda fountain · malt shop · bobby socks · saddle shoes · letterman jacket · hot rod
reminiscence
Recalling past experiences
- memoriesStored past experiences
- bygoneOf earlier times
- golden agePeriod of peak prosperity
retro · vintage · innocence · simpler times · Americana · sentimentality · wistfulness · recollection · retrospection · longing
- Retro TVI Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, Leave It to Beaver, The Andy Griffith Show, The Twilight Zone
- TV showsTV shows, sitcom, The Office, cartoon, Modern Family
- PlaysHamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear
- 70sdisco, bell-bottoms, Saturday Night Fever, pet rock, leisure suits
- Retrovintage, retro, throwback, record players, old-school
- Absurdist WorksWaiting for Godot, Rhinoceros, Sisyphean task, meaninglessness, Catch-22
Happy DaysDark Shadows
Gothic daytime serial
dark days · The Twilight Zone · Misery · Breaking Bad · American Horror Story
Happy DaysM*A*S*H
Mobile army surgical hospital
The Wire · Roots · Mad Men · Good Times · The Sopranos
Happy DaysSeinfeld
Friends · The Office · Star Trek · The Jetsons · Westworld
happy, happen, unhappy, happiness, days, happily, happening, unhappiness, unhappily