Happy Days (TV Series)
Welcome Home: Part 2 (1983)
Henry Winkler: Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli
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Quotes
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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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Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli : [enters through kitchen] Hey Richie! I got 'em! Two first-class tickets to Tinseltown!
Richie Cunningham : First class? Oh, Fonz... I can't afford First Class.
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli : Of course you can... I got 'em from Yolanda down at the travel agency. One more date and you're going to Europe!
[awkward silence]
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli : Well, I guess this is it, huh?
Richie Cunningham : Yeah. Fonz, listen... um, I'm a writer... or at least I hope so.
[pulling envelope from his jacket]
Richie Cunningham : Yet sometimes it's a little easier to express myself with words. I wrote this to you this morning. Because I knew when we were face to face like this, that I... well, I might not be able to find the words. How do you thank somebody who's been everything to you?
[Fonzie nods]
Richie Cunningham : Your brother, your protector. You delivered my own child. I just don't know how I can ever say that.
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli : [shrugs] I think you just did.
[Richie goes to put the letter back in his pocket, but Fonzie takes it from him... he whispers as his voice breaks]
Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli : I just wanna tell ya... that I love you. Very much.
[walks out]
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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.