- 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!
- 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]
- 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 tells his parents and Joanie that he's moving his family to California] Everything you said made a lot of sense... it was good advice. But I talked it over with Lori Beth, and we've decided that we have to give this a chance.
- [pause]
- Richie Cunningham: Look, when we get to California, I might have to get an odd job or something. But this is what I really, really want to do.
- [pause]
- Richie Cunningham: Now the only regret I have is that I have to say goodbye.
- Howard Cunningham: [standing up, addressing Marion] Give me that famous, pre-signed checkbook of yours, will ya?
- [Marion hands it to him]
- Richie Cunningham: Dad, Dad... now wait... wait a minute... I really don't want to take any of your money.
- Howard Cunningham: Richard, you remember before when I was telling you about the sacrifices I made for my family? Well, for a little while, I forgot why. But it's because I wanted my children to go as far as their gifts could take them.
- [hands him a blank check]
- Howard Cunningham: Now you take this and you fill in whatever amount you think you need.
- Marion Cunningham: [stands up] You know something? I don't know when I've been so proud of both of you. And now you're gonna leave just when I'm getting used to your moustache! It's gonna look very nice... on a screenwriter.
- Richie Cunningham: [gratefully] Thanks, Mom.