Editing Fonzie (section)

== Commentary ==
[[File:1976 campaign button d.JPG|thumb|A campaign button for [[Gerald Ford]]'s [[1976 United States presidential election|1976 presidential campaign]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fordlibrarymuseum.tumblr.com/post/152294379072/election-collection-goes-pop-culture-today-what|title=Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum • Election Collection goes Pop Culture today! What...|website=Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum}}</ref>]]

[[Micky Dolenz]] auditioned and was in the running to portray the Fonz, but the part ultimately was given to [[Henry Winkler]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/micky-dolenz-interview-monkees-tour-dolenz-sings-nesmith-1170752/|title=Micky Dolenz on the Monkees' Farewell Tour, New LP 'Dolenz Sings Nesmith'|first1=Andy|last1=Greene|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=May 19, 2021}}</ref>  Fonzie was originally envisioned as a tall blonde male character.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/happy-days-heres-why-the-fonz-was-almost-never-seen-without-his-motorcycle-in-the-first-season.html/|title='Happy Days': Here's Why The Fonz Was Almost Never Seen Without His Motorcycle in the First Season|first=Laura|last=Dorwart |date=January 17, 2021}}</ref>

Winkler received three [[Primetime Emmy]] nominations and two [[Golden Globe]] awards for his portrayal of Fonzie. In addition, the [[National Museum of American History]], [[Smithsonian Institution]] asked him to donate one of Fonzie's leather jackets in 1980.<ref name=donates>{{cite web
|url=https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_8645
|title=Henry Winkler Donates his Jacket, NMHT
|access-date=2021-08-31
|last=
|first=
|date=
|publisher= [[National Museum of American History]], [[Smithsonian Institution]]
}}</ref><ref name=smithmag>{{cite web
|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/happy-days-fonz-jumped-the-shark-180964399/
|title=Why 'Happy Days' — and the Fonz — Never Truly 'Jumped the Shark'
|access-date=2021-09-10
|last=MacGregor
|first=Jeff
|date=September 2017
|work=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]]
}}</ref><ref name=exhibit>{{cite news
|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/02/14/exhibit-a-a-a-a-y-the-fonz/d23c4b03-4277-48e7-968c-f24f3931cb4c/
|title=Exhibit A-a-a-a-y: 'The Fonz'
|access-date=2021-08-31
|last=Bumiller
|first=Elizabeth
|date=1980-02-14
|newspaper= [[The Washington Post]] 
}}</ref> The Smithsonian curator Eric Jentsch added the following to the jacket description: "Fonzie was a representation of cool at a time when you were learning about what cool was."<ref name=smithmag/> Years later, [[NPR]] would make a similar assessment, stating that for "kids growing up in the 1970s, there was one, absolute model of cool — not [[James Dean]] or [[Marlon Brando]], but The Fonz."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2011/11/26/142723714/actor-henry-winkler-plays-not-my-job|title=Actor Henry Winkler Plays Not My Job|website=[[NPR]] }}</ref>  In 1999 ''[[TV Guide]]'' ranked Fonzie as number 4 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list.<ref>{{cite book|title=TV Guide Guide to TV|year=2004|publisher=Barnes and Noble|isbn=0-7607-5634-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780760756348/page/651 651]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780760756348/page/651}}</ref> In a 2001 poll conducted by [[Channel 4]] in the UK, the Fonz was ranked 13th on their list of the [[100 Greatest (TV series)|100 Greatest TV Characters]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/G/greatest/tv_characters/results.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090531160558/http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/G/greatest/tv_characters/results.html |archive-date=31 May 2009 |title=100 Greatest TV Characters |access-date=26 May 2019 |publisher=[[Channel 4]]}}</ref> A few decades later, American artist Gerald P. Sawyer, unveiled the [[Bronze Fonz]] (a public artwork) on the [[Milwaukee Riverwalk]] in downtown [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]], on August 18, 2008.<ref name=jsonline>{{cite news|title=The Fonz in bronze? Group hopes that's correctamundo, wants to put statue downtown|newspaper=[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]|date=September 26, 2007|url=http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/29447164.html|access-date=December 21, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012192021/http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/29447164.html|archive-date=October 12, 2012|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 2021, when asked which books influenced him in childhood, American journalist [[Anderson Cooper]] (who is also dyslexic) responded that, "I also loved the Fonz and read a book when I was around 8 called ''The Fonz: The Henry Winkler Story''. I actually keep it in my office at CNN. Henry Winkler was very important to me when I was a child. Meeting him as an adult — and discovering what a kind and gracious person he is — was amazing."<ref name=wishes>{{cite web
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/books/review/anderson-cooper-by-the-book-interview.html
|title=Anderson Cooper Wishes His Parents and Truman Capote Could Reconcile Over Dinner
|access-date=2021-09-17
|last=Clark
|first=Rebecca
|date=2021-09-16
|work=[[The New York Times]]
}}</ref>

Winkler feared being [[Typecasting|typecast]] as a greaser after playing Fonzie (and for his previous role as a greaser in ''The Lords of Flatbush'' before ''Happy Days''); to avoid this, he turned down the role of Danny Zuko in [[Grease (film)|''Grease'']].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/henry-winkler-interview-french-dispatch-turning-down-snl-grease-1639341|title=Henry Winkler on 'Barry,' 'The French Dispatch' and some of his missed career chances|website=[[Newsweek]]|date=October 15, 2021}}</ref> He nonetheless had difficulty finding work in the 1980s after ''Happy Days'' ended because of his association with the Fonzie role; he would work mainly behind the camera in the 1980s, most notably as the Executive Producer of the popular adventure TV series, ''[[MacGyver (1985 TV series)|MacGyver]]'', and eventually begin getting other roles in the 1990s, prompting a career rejuvenation.<ref name=ruminating>{{cite web
|url=https://oldgoats.substack.com/p/ruminating-with-henry-winkler
|title=Ruminating with Henry Winkler
|access-date=September 26, 2021
|last=Alter
|first=Jonathon
|date=June 24, 2021
|publisher=OldGoats.com
|archive-date=September 27, 2021
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927023310/https://oldgoats.substack.com/p/ruminating-with-henry-winkler
|url-status=live
}}</ref>

=== In popular culture ===
*"The Fonz Dance" ([[Happy Days season 4#Episode|''Happy Days,'' Season 4, Episode 8]]) refers to Winkler improvising a version of the [[Hora (dance)#Jewish hora|hora]] as Richie's band plays the song [[Hava Nagila]].<ref name=dance>{{cite web
|url=https://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/henry-winkler-kicks-off-his-tonight-show-interview-with-the-fonz-dance/3902989
|title=Tonight Show: Henry Winkler Kicks Off His Tonight Show Interview with "The Fonz" Dance
|access-date=2021-09-18
|last=
|first=
|date=2018
|publisher=NBC
}}</ref><ref name=dance2>{{cite web
|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/henry-winkler-fonzie-dance-tonight-show_n_5c5ad4b4e4b0871047596797
|title=Henry Winkler Busts Out Strenuous Fonzie Dance On 'Tonight Show
|access-date=2021-09-18
|last=Dicker
|first=Ron
|date=2019-02-06
|publisher=Huffington Post
}}</ref> Years later in 2018, Winkler performed a version of the dance as a guest on ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon]]''.<ref name=dance/><ref name=dance2/>
*In season 5 of the sitcom ''[[Friends]]'', the doctor who delivers Phoebe's triplets is a fan of Fonzie, which annoys her.
*In the 1994 film ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' the character Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) calms would-be robber "Honey Bunny" (Amanda Plummer) by instructing her to "Be like Fonzie" ("That's right, we're all gonna be cool!")
*2019 it was reported that [[Dominic Cummings]], [[Special advisers (UK government)|special political adviser]] to [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]] [[Boris Johnson]], paraphrased Jules by telling [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] MPs to "be cool like Fonzies" as political pressure built to request an extension to the date of [[Brexit negotiations in 2019#August 2019|the UK's withdrawal from the European Union]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.indy100.com/article/dominic-cummings-pulp-fiction-cool-like-fonzies-boris-johnson-brexit-9095526|title=Dominic Cummings: Boris Johnson's adviser 'quoted Pulp Fiction' by telling aides they need to be 'cool like Fonzies'|last=Duncan|first=Conrad|date=September 8, 2019|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=September 9, 2019}}</ref>
*In the 2015 sci-fi film [[The Martian (film)|''The Martian'']], the character Mark Watney poses as the Fonz for his first official "proof of life" picture.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Martian-5-Cool-Little-References-Movie-Works-86397.html|last=Eisenberg|first=Eric|date=October 5, 2015|title=The Martian: 5 Cool Little References The Movie Works In |work=Cinema Blend|access-date=October 20, 2020}}</ref>
*[[Jon Hein]] developed the phrase "[[jumping the shark]]" in response to [[Happy Days season 5|Season Five, Episode 3, "Hollywood: Part 3"]] of the sitcom ''[[Happy Days]]'', in which Fonzie jumps over a shark while on water-skis.<ref>{{cite news |title=A Few Pixels Short of a Personality | first=Ann | last=Hornaday |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date= July 25, 2003 |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2003/07/25/AR2005033117626_pf.html |access-date=April 12, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Joanne |last1=Hollows |first2=Rachel |last2=Moseley |title=Feminism in Popular Culture |year=2006 |publisher=Berg Publishers |isbn=1845202236}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Paul |last=McFedries |title=The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins |year=2008 |publisher=Alpha Books |isbn=978-1592577811}}</ref>
*Fonzie had the ability of hitting electrical equipment to make it work, and this became known as the ''Fonzarelli Fix'', a term that is still in use today.<ref name="touch">{{cite web |url=http://www.resourcenation.com/blog/how-to-fonzie-your-online-marketing-jukebox/32372/ |title=How To "Fonzie" Your Online Marketing Jukebox |last=Krautstrunk |first=Matt |publisher=[[Resource Nation]] |date=May 17, 2011 |access-date=August 6, 2011}}</ref>
*A [[garage apartment]] is sometimes called a Fonzie flat.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fonzie Flat|url=http://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/andc/WOTM%20JAN%202013.pdf|work=[[Australian Oxford Dictionary]]|access-date=February 19, 2019}}</ref>
*The 2016 single "[[Lemon (N.E.R.D. and Rihanna song)|Lemon]]" by [[N.E.R.D.]] featuring [[Rihanna]], has the line in Rihanna's verse, "Waiting for my thumb like The Fonz" as a reference to Fonzie's trademark thumbs up.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://genius.com/12969798 | title=Just waitin' for my thumb like the Fonz }}</ref>