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jmowreader

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11. Happy Days ran out of ideas LONG before that

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #4)

Fri Sep 24, 2021, 08:08 PM

Sep 2021

I mean, come on: how did Hawaii fit into the general timeline of Happy Days?

The shark jump actually had a purpose: Henry Winkler, in real life, is a very fine water skier. He wanted to show it off on the program, so they invented the shark jumping sequence.

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