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Nov 17, 2025
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Henry is my host.
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[Applause] Awesome.
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It was a surprise. Hey, I think we're we're missing somebody, aren't we? Yeah. Yeah. I think we're I mean, did we lose them?
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Did we check them on the counter? You know, maybe she was in your uh was it
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was it Anthony Williams? Yes. And by the way, look what he has in hand.
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Henry's birthday is October 30th. Hello. And uh this is the last time
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we're going to be together before the 30th. So, let's wish Henry Winkler happy
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birthday with me. Happy birthday to you.
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Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear.
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Happy birthday to you. [Applause]
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Yeah, I'm going to be a Say that again. I'm going to be able
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I want you to know the cake moved. Right on me. They said they said moving
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slides. Yes, you can. Yes, you can only sh. So, here it is. We
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are so happy to be here. Uh you live in a unbelievably wonderful town. So
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friendly, delicious. And this is what we're going to do. Instead of just talking, we want to know what is it you
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want to know. So uh just uh call out or are there uh are there microphones in
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the in the uh Oh, there is a microphone in the aisle. Great. Where's the microphone?
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Anybody see it? Okay. Anyway, yeah.
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And just let us know what you would like to know and then we will tell you stories about anything. Okay. Is that a
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good deal? Okay. And then we will go back to our tables on the floor and hopefully we'll see
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you. Uh and it will be a pleasure. Thank you so much for coming.
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[Applause]
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Why didn't you beat up Ghost Face? Say it again. Why did you beat up Ghost Face?
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Why didn't I beat up Ghost Face? Because I am a chicken.
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No, but I I will tell you that uh I I had lunch with Wes Craraven, bless his
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soul, the director of uh Scream, the original. He said, 'You know, I have a
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small part. Uh, would you like to do it? And I said, 'Yes, I would. And then I went and I we did all the scenes. And
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then they cut uh little holes in my clothing and put tubes in the holes so
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that when I was stabbed, uh uh blood would come rushing in. And so I went,
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"Ow, ow." And the director came over and he said, "Do you think it would be more excruciating?"
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I said, "Probably yes." And so then I had to get completely cleaned up. I got stabbed again and
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screamed out my bloody head off. And that was the take that they used. And
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then of course when I looked outside there was Freddy from Elm Street who was literally the director dressed up as
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Freddy. Thank you. Great idea. A great question.
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Anybody else? Yes. Hi, John. I have a question about Marian Ross.
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Yes. Only she's like a mother. You guys have a question. I had a woman to answer that
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had a question. Okay. There was no rumor. No, just kidding. No. No. Marian, no.
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Marian was great. Probably right. The most positive person ever. She's a she's
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a woman who always saw the best in you and um it just was just not only
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brilliant but an inspiration. She even starred in a film Skyward that Ron and I
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did. Ron Howard and I did a film called Skyward with Betty Davis years ago and Marian played the the mother in that to
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uh Susie Gilstra. But anyway, my experiences, you know, she's just one of a kind and the kindest, most talented,
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you know, lady really ever. I I second that. And also her talent was limitless.
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Not only did she play Mrs. Se, she went on then to play a Polish grandma. And
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you would never know that our Marian was in there. Absolutely. Great question.
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[Applause] If anybody wants to ask a question, can y'all please form a line? Thank you.
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Hello guys. It's awesome to have you here. So, one of my favorite episodes of Happy Days is the episode with Robin
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Williams playing Morph. Could you tell us about that?
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Oh, I guess it's my turn now. Um, well, you know, I've told this story
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before because I mean, it stands as obviously he was a figure that stood out like nobody. And, um, we we had trouble
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with that script. We we we have readings on we would have a reading on Monday
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with all the writers around and the director producers and um we'd read this
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through the script and when we were done with that one we I you know there was a lot of talk amongst us thinking it was
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like maybe the worst script that we we had ever had and we were really concerned how things were going to work
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out and then they had trouble casting the part of of Mark. Um uh they wanted
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Dick Shawn to play it, the brilliant comedian, but he turned it down. And
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then um they finally got somebody and um and then we rehearsed on Tuesday and
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Wednesday and I didn't even remember this puppet dancer told me whoever they cast quit. He quit on like Wednesday,
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right? So, um, they don't have a mark. And, um, the next day we're rehearsing
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with the cameras and it's our like kind of our last day before we shoot. The
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following day, we have a little rehearsal on Friday, too, but it was getting close and we didn't have anybody. And then it turned out that
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Gary Marshall's sister and Elmo had seen a guy at a place called The Comedy
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Store, which was in on Sunset Boulevard in LA. and they said, "This guy would be
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perfect." They both seen Robin. So, they brought him in and Robin did an audition
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for Gary and some of the other producers. And um they loved him. I I
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can't imagine how they wouldn't obviously. And then so we we so
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Thursday, the day before he comes in, I didn't have to be there uh with at the
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beginning of the morning because my scenes were going to be rehearsed a little later. So I didn't have to come
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in. But when I did come in, I I go onto the stage and there was just this buzz,
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this electricity that you could just it was just palpable. And I I was I didn't
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know what was going on. And then people came up to me one after the other. Where do you see this guy? He's unbelievable.
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He's great. And I really So I I rush over to the area where the stage where
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they're rehearsing. And then I see this this guy that seems to be like floating
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in the air doing things that you can't believe he's and and I see Jerry Paris, our director, who's like going out of
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his mind in love with this guy because uh Jerry was kind of like that. He kind
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of had a personality along those lines. But anyway, he he came there and he was doing things uh in his act. I found out
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in his act back then he he he had a comedy bit about being an alien. So, um,
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he already had some of that material in him, but it didn't matter. He came up with a million other things, but, um,
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turned out to be obviously it turned out to be one of the best shows, even though we had one of the worst scripts cuz he
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was changing things and coming up with things. And to tell you how amazing it
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was, this was Friday night. We do the show with standing ovation. People loved
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it. We get back to work on Monday and we find out, hey, you know what? Rama's got
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his own series now. Like the the network was there cuz they
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heard all about this guy. And then by in a few days they decided to do a spin-off that unbelievable.
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When I was doing a scene, I'm I didn't mean to cut off.
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When I was doing a scene with him, I realized I am in the presence of greatness and I better know my lines so
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I don't have to do it over and over again because Robin never did the same thing twice. And I realized I better
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just stay out of his way because there was no way you could compete with this
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extraordinary imagination. What you saw in all of the years that
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we've enjoyed Robin was what we saw on his first day on that sound stage. And
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it was an honor to be in his presence. Honestly,
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you've done an interview where you have admitted that you did not know how to ride a motorcycle. I do not know how to ride a motorcycle.
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I, as a matter of fact, I rode it for 17 seconds. The rest of the time you saw me
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on a motorcycle, I was on a uh a wooden plank uh uh with four rubber wheels
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being pulled by a truck. Uh first time I'm on it. All I have to do, we're
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inside, I have to move it five feet. Now, I am very dyslexic. I am in the
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bottom 3% academically in America. And because it's true and I am now I
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don't know where the the the gas is and where the thing is and where the boom is
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and the limiting book and uh the director of photography is right in front of me sitting in a chair in front
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of the soundtrack and I all of a sudden pull the wheelie.
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It is now going a million miles an hour. I am heading toward the director of photography. He jumps out of the way.
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The bike goes down. We slide under the truck. Everybody comes running over and
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said, "Is the bike okay?" Because it's rental.
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This guy only has six lines in the beginning. We don't really care about him much. And uh so I never learned how
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to ride a motorcycle. So the question is, do you mean that was not the question?
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Wow. Sound like the question. Yeah, you could have fooled me. Yes, sir. Did you know how to ride water skis in
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the Okay. Ryan water ski. I was not a great athlete, but I did know how to water
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ski. Uh my father uh a very short German kept telling me I should tell Ron um
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Gary Marshall, "Tell him you water ski." I said, "I can't tell him I water ski."
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Tell him you water ski. So finally after about a hundred times, I went to Gary. I
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said, "Gary, my father wants you to know I water ski. Wouldn't you know it, two scripts later, I'm on water skis. I did
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all of the water skiing except for the jump because they wouldn't let me do stunts because there was only one me.
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There was only one uh ants and only one Donnie. So they took care of us, made
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sure we were healthy, and uh let go of the rope. And if you remember the
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episode, I come up on the beach, I step out of those skis, and they freeze frame
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on my smile. Half that smile is the fonts going, "Hey, look at that. I did it."
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Half that smile is Henry going, "Oh my god, I did it."
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Ram on the beach. How did he do that? It was so How did I do that? I by the grace of the
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the good Lord divine. No, but you were a really good waters. No, you were great. But that was
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something else. I mean that was Whoa. We were right there match
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for Lake Mayopac. Yeah, Lake Mayack outside of New York City. My parents loved uh they lived
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above their means and we had this house in May also uh besides being in New York
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and I learned to water ski on Lake Mayopac. Yes. Hi. I'm sorry. Um uh uh well he actually
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took my question. I was going to ask about the motorcycle. So um um can can you uh Mr. Winkler, can you say
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something for me? Can you say I was wrong? Yes, I can. And it's so easy. I
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was rude. [Applause] No, no, no. I'm not kidding. It's very I
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Let me just say, are you [Applause]
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[Applause] had to convince me not to join the uh
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Marines? Right. I remember that episode very
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well. So, yes. My question is, is there any
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scene that y'all had to do improv on that not a lot of people actually know was improv?
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There's Well, I have there's one go. I I remember cuz it's like we were doing
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the uh camel jockey show and uh they said uh we need a song
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and this guy made up the song called Mock Mock. Remember that one, right? Mm shoo
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kick lock. Brilliant song.
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What a song. What a lyric. Yeah, that was improv. I don't know if you remember
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that episode. We were pretending. We were going away uh you know it was spring break and we went on a vacation
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up to to a cabin somewhere and we found out that the cabin uh well we said we
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can't there were girls up there and we were like in the cabin they were cabin next to us or something like that and we
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said we can't tell them we're high school kids you know they're college so we got to pretend to to be you know
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something other than who we really are. So what did we come up with? That we were Tunisian camel jockeyies.
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I don't know how that got in the script, but it turned out to be intervention, but it was a it turned out to be a very
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very funny script. And and yes, that they they wanted us to do a song to the
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tune of Rock Around the Plot. And um and I took the I took some of the words that
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they gave us to pretend we would, you know, when we were talking, the girl would ask her a question. We go mama or
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whatever. We all these crazy mama. So, so I took all the words that they gave us and put and figured out a way to
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put him to rock around the clock. That's what he's talking about. I think that was one of my favorite
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moments. Uh I was sleeping uh in the woods. Yeah. And all of the critters were
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making sounds keeping me awake. And at that time I had abs. And I was able
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Yeah. No. No. They're now very deep. They're very deep inside. They're somewhere. And uh at that time I sat up
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and I just went cool and the animals went silent so the fawns could sleep.
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Yeah. And then you went after the great you went let's see Tarzan do that.
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You know, the other thing that was really improv was the Morg show. Morg Well, Morg was improv because he
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never did anything twice. So, you you know, it was funny when he got his own show, when Robin got his own show. We
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did the show, three cameras. Uh there were three cameras moving around at all
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times while we shot the show. Then Gary when they were doing Robin's
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show on another sound stage would say, "Okay, cameras, are you good? Did you get everything?" And each camera said,
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"I never saw Robin. I never saw Robin. He didn't come by me." So Gary put in a
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fourth camera only to follow Robin because you never knew where he was
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going to move. It was just amazing. Remember in the script they'd have all
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this and and then Robin does something. They would have dialogue for everybody
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and then they Robin would say something here. Yes. Truly. Yes. Sir.
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Greetings gentlemen. This question is for all three of you. It's pretty obvious that your show was perfectly
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cast, but I've always wondered if you had to go back to the beginning and do again that you couldn't play the
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character you were cast. you had to pick a different character. Which one would you pick and why?
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I'll go first. Because I was not really like Ralph in in real
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life. I was sort of the opposite. I was sort of a quiet honor student and and I
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I would make jokes. I would be a great audience for some of the friends I knew who love to do jokes. So I was more like
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Richie Cunningham. So if I had to do it again, that's what I probably would have played. Wow. I would be the f
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I just Yeah, I just Thank God I got
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Yes. Hello. Great hat. Yeah, thank you. Um, so when I was in
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fifth grade, I was not a very good reader and I'm suspecting I'm probably dyslexic. Okay, I got to go get that
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tested. But one of the books I found in the library that had a very interesting other book next to it was uh Ghost Buddy
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Zero to Hero. And I just want uh I wanted to ask what was your inspiration for uh Hoover Porter House? Cuz he was
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my favorite of course. I am so sorry. What book do you are you holding?
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I'm I'm holding the audio book. Uh Ghost Buddy Zero to Hero. Ah Ghost Buddy. Okay.
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Yeah. So, I came back from New York City. I did a Broadway play with the
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late great John Ritter, who I miss every day. He was just phenomenal. And I
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couldn't get hired and I was having trouble. People said, "Oh, he's so fun. He's so great, but he was the f." And I
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went to a friend and I said, "I'm having trouble and I can't get hired." He said, "Write books for children about your
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dyslexia. I said, 'Well, I cannot do that because I am dyslexic.
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He said, 'I' going to introduce you to Lyn Oliver. And in 2003, we had lunch.
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We hanged uh we we worked out Hank Ziper. Hank is short for Henry. And
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Ziper was a woman who lived in the fourth grade. Uh no, lived in the fourth grade, lived on the fourth floor in my
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apartment building. And I thought it was a zippy name. and together we wrote 40
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novels. The last one came out September 30th was our our 40th children's novel.
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And Hank Ziper is the story of my life being dyslexic. And we write comedy for
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children because we believe that comedy is the gateway to becoming a reader. And
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when there is no internet, there is always a book. Amen.
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[Applause] Can I just say and I I say this unabashedly, I have some of those books
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at our table. [Applause]
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Oh, that's awesome. Hi. Hey. How you doing? Good. Uh, so my favorite episodes from Happy
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Days were the ones where you guys would play, the band would play at Arnold's, you know. Uh, so I wanted to know uh
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first what uh what was like y'all's favorite song that y'all had to you know
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that you would sing there? Yeah, I think well it it was Yeah, it
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was interesting. Um the singing wax and the whole singing started um um when I
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suggested to Gary Marshall, hey, how about having a band on the show? And we
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and we did it. We tried it out and it worked and the audience liked it. But I think the I think the most favorite song
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on the show is Put Your Head on My Shoulder. That I sang to Joanie. Yeah. That got a lot of a lot of
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reaction. Yeah. And it was wonderful. It was wonder It was a lot of fun. A lot of fun to open the show with that and
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people seem to enjoy it. Put your head on my Can't sing it anymore. I don't
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know what happened. I think it's age. But I'll tell you, but I'll tell you
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who's great, man. Mr. Don Hos, he's one of the best American song book performers. I don't know. Go online,
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look him up. He's great. Great performer. And uh and uh just is killing
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it all around the country. But you tour all over the country, right? Well, I I mean, I've done shows in
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different parts of the country, but with a combo. Uh no, we usually pick up the musicians
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there. There you go. Yeah. It's kind of a little unnerving at first when you get there. You don't know
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how how they're going to be. But but I have a musical director who in advance he calls all the places in that city and
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finds who are the good jazz musicians who can read the music really well. We show up with the music and I do a little
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rehe one rehearsal and boom, gone. You're done. That time that time.
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No. What a day this has been. What a rare mood. We're too low.
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What a day this has been. What a rare mood I'm in. Why? It's almost like being
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in love. There's a smile on my face for the whole human race. Why it's almost
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like being in love. All the music I see
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to be like a bell that is ringing for me.
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from the way that I feel when that bell starts to peel. I would swear I was
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falling. I can swear I was falling. It's almost like being
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[Applause]
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notice I don't sing. You didn't join in.
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You can snap. Yeah, the snaps. Yeah. I have a question uh for Mr. Henry,
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did you get to keep the jacket or the cone? Okay. First jacket. The first jacket
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they stole out of the uh costume department at Paramont Studios. So, they
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made six. They put them under lock and key. And when the show was over, I got
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three jackets and Gary got uh uh three jackets or uh two jackets. And one of
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them is in the Smithsonian uh museum in uh Washington DC in the
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Museum of America which is by the way a great museum.
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[Applause]
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Um I just wanted to ask um Mr. Wrinkler, did you come up with Fonzy's a on your
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own or was that No. A uh what I what it was great was I reduced language with sound like e she's
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so beautiful. Hey, I'm hungry.
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Hey, don't you mess with me. And the only word that I added was wo,
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which I got from my favorite sport at the time, horseback riding. And the comb when I first got there, the
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first thing I did, it said, "Go to the mirror, comb your hair." And I said to
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the director, I want to do anything but that. I want to be original. Every actor
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that has ever played a part like this has used their comb. Don't make me comb my hair. He said, "It's written by the
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producer. Go comb your hair." So, I walk to the mirror,
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pull out my comb, and they go, "Hey, look at that. I don't have to cuz it's
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perfect." [Applause] A great moment.
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I remember I was there on the stage watching when you did that and we all we
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all went crazy when we saw that and I remember you off in the corner with Mel
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Ferber the director having we wondering what was going on you it seemed like a
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intense conversation we found out later that you were saying I can't do this I can't do this and that moment was just I
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remember it was like we were witnessing the birth of your character and it was the pilot
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define my character really those 10 years. Yeah. Hello. Hi. So, I have a thank you and a
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question. So, as one of those people who does test people for dyslexia, I want to
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thank you for the the Hank Simper books. Um, all 40 of them have come through our house at one point in time or another.
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U, my question actually has already been addressed, so I have another one. On behalf of my daughter, who is a tech
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theater girly, um, how big was your crew on the show? Well, you know, the crew is uh is uh you
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know defined by the contract of each department.
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Uh whether they need that person or not, they are making a living on the set. But
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I would say it takes between 75 to 100 people uh on the set, drivers,
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um out in the field buying props and stuff like that. Uh there are 75 to 100
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crew members that make uh a television show.
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Hello. I want to know, did they actually let you jump like the the jump the shark episode? Did they actually let you do it
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or did they have a stunt level? No, they did not let me jump the shark. And on Arrested Development, I jumped
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the shark. I am the only actor in captivity that has jumped the shark twice.
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And I want to say, you know, uh it was supposed to be a negative thought, jump
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the shark, but we were number one for four or five years after it, so we didn't care. And every time they would,
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you know, there was newspapers at that time and they would show a picture of Junk the Shark. They had me on water
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skis and I had great legs at that time.
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Hello. Um, my question is when the band Weezer did the Buddy Holly, were y'all
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aware that they were going to use little clips from Happy Days? I remember
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did you get that letter from David Gford asking hey we'd we really like to do this for free
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remember but so what happened the only they shot they really I think it was the video of the year I think but um what
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happened was we weren't involved at all the only one they hired was Alano
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kind of put things together and they just found clips of us and it it looked like we were we were all together but Al
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was the only one that was like shot you for the video itself. Yeah. So, yeah,
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but it turns out I thought I thought it turned out great.
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So, that guy just stole my question.
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It's honor to be shown by I recently learned by recently I mean like a few seconds ago to check the letter box that
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uh Mr. Winkler, you um I don't exactly remember when, but you were in the film French Dispatch, and I wanted to ask
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what it was, I guess, what it was like working with a director like Wes Anderson. Okay. So, Wes Anderson,
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I first went to see Bottle Rocket, Wes Anderson's first movie with my son, who
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was 10, Max. And after it was over, he turned to me and he said, "I'm going to
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do that. I'm gonna be a director. And right now on Netflix is the Ed Dean
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story in the Monster franchise directed by Max Wler. Oh my god.
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Now cut to 2018. I think I won the Emmy
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for uh for Barry and I got an invitation to go to France and I flew with my wife
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to Paris, got on a train for 3 hours to a small town in Eglum in uh the middle
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of France. got off the train, stood for 3 hours in a uh costume fitting, shot
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the next day with the great Wes Anderson. Oh my goodness, I am with one of the
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most artistic filmmakers. And then he said, "Henry," and I thought to myself,
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"Oh my goodness, I'm going to be directed by Wes Anderson right now." And
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I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Henry." And I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Can you?" I said, "Yes, sir. Move to your
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left about an inch."
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[Music] Contemplate that for a few moments. I am moved immediately.
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I helped the character and went, "Oh my goodness, thank you. You've helped me crack out."
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Hello gentlemen. How do you feel about being a part of television history?
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Um it it well I it's really uh it's interesting. I mean it it feels
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great but who knew at the time? I mean here we are young guys on a on u this
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new series and I don't you know honestly we weren't we were almost not part of of
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history because we were almost cancelled when we started the show. It was one camera. We came in mid-season, one
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camera like a movie and we did okay. We got up to I think 15 48.
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No, the first we were number 15 the end of the half year. This the next year we start we just start going downhill to
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the point we're 48th place. Not looking so great. We get picked up. Well, Gary,
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I guess Gary Marshall spoke with Fred Silverman and said, "Listen, give give us a shot." Fred Silverman
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Fred Silverman was the head of ABC, right? and he I think he was pretty new there and he said give us a chance let
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me I Gary had this idea let me make it three camera let me let's get a live audience let's change the whole concept
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here and he said all right we'll give you 13 so and and they they they moved
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Henry up front and early early early in that season we
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became number one in the world and we stayed there and at that and that and at that time uh that's that's when it
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became iconic And and um I think one reason it's part of Tulsa history, it
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was always part of Americ
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we were yeah we were part of America kind of that time in America and uh but yeah but as far as feeling it's very
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it's very humbling and wonderful that that folks could still be entertained and and uh love the show. I just want to
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say I learned to play softball which I never played before. I was the pitcher
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for the Happy Days team. I got to be family with these guys and the cast. We
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had the most wonderful time for 10 and a half years uh going to work every day
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and making something that made people laugh. I am so proud that I am a member
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of the cast. [Applause]
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Um, and also it's funny you mentioned the baseball team because you know Henry
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never played and was it Clint Ron who worked with you? Clint Ronint. Clint
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and Walter Vaughn who was our um uh uh script supervisor uh caught for me and
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taught me how to pitch a ball and we won a lot of our I became very good.
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Henry Henry a really good pitcher. He was great and we're all kind of athletes. Donnu could have been pro.
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I couldn't I couldn't catch. He could pitch man. I could pitch. I could pitch.
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Well, it's a big but we went all over the world. Went all over the world. wrestling tours, playing Marines, Army N, and then we played in practically
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every major stadium in the United States. Uh we would do pregame, charity games, but we in the locker rooms. I
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mean, it was amazing. Amazing. And then, but Gary Marshall felt he was a he loves sports. He loved softball,
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but he felt if he could make a team, you always have the back of your teammate and he felt it would come to the set. I
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think that's one of the reasons we're still such close friends after 50ome years. It really created a deep
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friendship.
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In Sylvester Stalloon's documentary, he talk about how you helped him a lot. And
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I was just wondering if you had anything to say about Sylvester Stallone. I'm so sorry. I I did not hear who we
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helped. Sylvester. Sylvester. I did not have to help Sylvester.
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Sylvester is so smart and so funny and he talks out of the side of his mouth.
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We would be uh filming the Lords of Flatbush and uh he would say to the
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people watching, "What are you looking at? I'm going to eat you for breakfast."
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I said, "Sly, I know you don't want to do that because he is probably Chewy."
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Sly came to California, came to Los Angeles on Sunset Boulevard.
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His car broke down. He called me up. He said, "Hey, I'm stuck here. You got to
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come help me." So, I drove to where he was. I got his first wife, Sasha. I got
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Sly, their stuff out of the car. And in the back seat was a bull mastiff.
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This was the biggest dog with the most slobber I have ever seen in my house. I
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want my in my life. I want to say I had to use a snorkel to get in the back
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seat. You were swimming in slobber. I got him back to his apartment. He gave
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me a script. I took it to ABC. They bought it. I brought him the money.
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But they said, "We want a new writer." I said, "Don't let them do that to me and me." I went to ABC. I said, "Here's your
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money back. I need the script." They said, "We don't do that." I said, "I
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know you don't do that, but there's always a first line. We don't do that." I said, "I know you
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don't do that, but I really need you to do that." They gave me the script. I gave it back to Sly. The next thing, two
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years later, Rocky Hi.
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[Applause] Uh, I have a question for Mr. Winkler.
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Um, uh, I know you I'm reading your your, um, book right now. So, I know you
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want to be remembered like for more than the fawns like for Henry. So, I want to know like what, um, what part of your
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work, your life are you most hope that people will take with them? Wow. Okay. So, outside of my family, uh
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Stacy and I have three children. We have seven grandchildren, uh from 9 months to
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16. Uh we have two puppies. The proudest moment of my life is that I am uh so
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dyslexic and that I have helped write 40 books.
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I don't have a favorite um entertainment that I've done. it will be the next
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thing that I do because I love that I'm living my dream. And I I have a new show
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on the History Channel called Hazardous History. Hazardous History and we did
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eight episodes and because the audience loved it so much, we're now going to do
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30. It's on the History Channel. I am so excited.
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example for those of you who haven't watched it yet.
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Seven Up, born 1927.
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Citrusy, so refreshing. And the tagline was,
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"We'll help you take the edge off because it was laced with lithium."
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Can I just say So, is this still available?
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Can I just say we are so happy that we got to spend this time with you. Thank
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you for your wonderful questions. Thank you.
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And here's Jody. Jody's going to wave. Jody's waving. Cute as a button. And if
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you want to take a picture with all three of us, Jody will help you. Thank
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you so much. Thank you so much for the happy days.