Thursday, June 16, 2022

Celebrity Toons: Kelp! (Fonz & The Happy Days Gang, 1981)

 From season 2 of Fonz & The Happy Days Gang:

The gang winds up in an undersea kingdom in the far future. Standard stuff. Greedy villain wants the domed city, and meets resistance. Here's "Kelp!":


I don't think anyone's ever explained how Fonzie's finger snapping can break prisons, turn on jukeboxes, etc.. It just is.

Rating: B.

4 comments:

Goldstar said...

In this Saturday morning cartoon adaptation, Fonzie's coolness was straight-up wizardry at times! It seemed like the Fonz could anything, except fix the time machine to take himself and his friends' home.

However, Fonz and his dog Mr. Cool did later turn up as army mechanics on the second (and last) season of Laverne & Shirley in the Army, so it can be assumed that the 2 of them did eventually make it back to their own time. However, the whereabouts of Richie, Ralph and Cupcake were left unanswered.

hobbyfan said...

I wrote a fan-fic at animesuperhero.com several months ago that addressed that. They never bothered with closure at the end of Happy Days Gang, and they needed Fonzie to help Laverne & Shirley, but I've always assumed Richie & Ralph made it home, and Cupcake returned to her own time. Look for it in the Story Board when you get a sec.

Goldstar said...

I read your fan-fic earlier today. I like how you incorporated cother characters from Happy Days into the narrative. Particularly one character who's been largely forgotten by fans. Good job.

hobbyfan said...

I figured this was a good way to explain away Chuck's absence when the writers could not. That plus Richie being more assertive made for a good story.