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Monday, happy days. Monday, Wednesday, happy days.

Wednesday, Friday, happy days.

The weekend comes as I go home ready to race to you.

These days are ours.

Happy and free.

These days are ours.

Tell them with me.

Goodbye gray sky, rainbow blue.

There's nothing can hold me when I hold you.

So right, it can't be wrong.

Rockin' and rollin', my sweet dog.

These days are ours.

Share them with me.

These days are ours.

Happy and happy.

These happy days are yours. These happy days are yours. Happy.

And if he becomes a star, remember, I discovered him.

Here's Chachi Arcola.

Judy! Judge Howard! Come down here right away!

What's the matter, Marion?

I broke the radio!

Is that what you called us down here to watch you break the radio?

No, no, no. You're on the radio. There was a song you didn't like, so you broke

the radio? He was singing.

Who? He, what's his name?

Chachi! Chachi?

It's broken.

Well, where's another radio? In the car. Come on.

What station, Marion?

if you didn't try to park in my glove compartment. They just turned the radio

on. They're both broken. What? The Burkharts, they have a radio?

Everybody's got a radio, miss. Let's go.

Come on.

Hey, what's the ruckus here?

You know, it's a good thing

you don't live with major disasters here.

That was Milwaukee's own Chachi Arco.

They cleaned my stuff.

They cleaned my stuff. That's it, everybody. I'm out.

records, and then pretty soon you'll be going to the movies and watching My Life

Story, huh?

Steve Allen played Benny Goodman. Maybe he'll play you.

When they make the story of your life, how will we get our cars apart?

Oh, I'm sorry about that, Mr. Cunningham. My brakes are bad.

Hey, wait a minute. You were supposed to pick them yesterday.

Oh, I was, but something else came up. Like what? I had to take a nap.

I'm a little tired lately, for instance.

Is that true? Yeah. Well, I'll fix your breaks right now. Let me tell you

something. I want this scene in the movie to be like a big dance number. All

right, let's celebrate, everybody.

We're going out to dinner tonight. My treat.

Oh, I'm busy tonight. Could I just have the money? Dad.

I give you.

Only two weeks and the song's already 178 on the charts. I am so proud of

Chachi.

I think you look like Liberace's milkman.

Oh, Howard, he looks very nice. Thank you. You're not going to wear that in

public. No, no, no. This is part of the big news I've got. What happened? Did

your record move up to 177? No.

176? Nope.

172? No. I'm going to get this.

179? Marion, would you just let him tell us so we can order?

Thank you.

Okay, everybody, hold on to your seats for this.

169? No.

Yours truly is going on the road with the Beach Boys.

Going on a roll with the Beach Boys this big time.

Well, actually, it's not just me and the Beach Boys. There's a few other opening

acts. How many?

Twenty -three.

But I'm the only one named Chachi. Oh, great. Oh, Chachi, I am so proud of you.

Aren't you proud of him more? I'm proud, Marion. I'm proud. Now, can we order?

Order anything you want.

You know what? I was down at Fister's Record Store.

They sold out all 48 copies of my record. Can you believe that? Ah, that's

great. I think I'll have...

this cousin of mine i got big news for you fine sure you're going on tour with

the beach boys what do you think i don't got my ear to the grindstone what do

you think oh it looks just like chachi you know i'll tell you something you're

gonna be so big i'm gonna make a corner over there called chachi land you know

that let's go home and take a look i got a surprise for you you're drinking more

water than the fish on fire you know i know it's gotta be all the excitement

Yeah, well, I got more excitement for you right here. What's up? Read the

selections.

Chachi, Chachi, Chachi, Chachi, Chachi, Chachi. Every record is mine. That's

right. I went to the store, bought them all out, all 48 copies.

You bought them? Yeah. You want them to fall in the hands of strangers?

Oh, Fudge, you should have been in rehearsal today. Yeah, who was that?

Everybody. The Beach Boys, right? Ed Cookie Burns. Hey, great hair.

You know what?

Frankie Valli himself talked to me. What'd he say? Get out of my way, kid.

Isn't success great? All the biggies insult you, huh?

Yeah, you know what? I got one more rehearsal tomorrow night.

And then a week from Saturday, we're off to the big time.

Davenport, Iowa.

Hey, what time's your rehearsal? I'll pick you up. I ought to give me a chance

to talk to the Beach Boys about rooming. It's 7 o 'clock.

Or was it 8?

Yeah, I think it was 8 o 'clock.

And I think it was 8 .30.

This is great.

This is great. You're going on tour with the Beach Boys. You can't remember?

All right, I'm going to go make a call for you and find out. It's a good thing

I'm here, huh? Otherwise, civilization would be back on a bone edge.

Josh, can we order now?

Dad's stealing French fries off the next table. Oh, yeah, go ahead.

Thanks. Joni, can I talk to you for a minute? Sure.

Nothing, thanks.

Joni?

Why are you doing this? Is my skirt flying up every time I turn around?

Hey, Joanie, I know that one of the big reasons you broke up with me was

because, you know, you knew where you were going in your life, and I was

floundering and kind of getting in your way.

Well, you just needed to find yourself, that's all.

Yeah, well, what I'm trying to say is after I come back from the tour, I'm not

going to be floundering anymore.

I'm really going to miss you.

That's all I wanted to hear.

Okay, everybody, shout time.

I'm looking all over you. Stop that here.

Let me tell you something, all right?

There is a rehearsal waiting for you. Let us go.

You're not moving. I'm not going.

You got yourself fired, didn't you? You are so irresponsible again.

No, I quit.

Why?

Call it a win.

You know, you're going to make me very angry, and we all know what an awesome

experience that could be.

I just didn't want to go.

I don't believe what you're talking here.

This is a dream of yours.

You say to me, oh, Fonz, just give me a record. You got a record?

Oh, Fonz, please, just let him sit him on tour.

You're on tour.

What'd you do, take a nap and wake up stupid?

I changed my mind, that's all. I changed my mind, that's all.

Give me a reason.

Fonz, to tell you the truth, I didn't feel like being on that big band bus.

You know, I get carsick. Do you?

I would have had to have bought new luggage so as to forget about it. I am

officially angry.

So get off there, give me the right reasons, and I will fix it, all right?

You can't fix this one.

I have now moved from anger to rage.

So what? What are you going to do to me? I'm going to shorten your life. Too

late.

Talk to me.

I went to see a doctor.

You know, everybody going on the road has to have an insurance physical.

That's very routine to me. Yeah, only I wasn't so routine.

Why not?

I've got diabetes.

I'll see you fix that.

You've got diabetes?

Yep.

No, you don't.

You're telling me I don't. You don't. You're my cousin. You're strong. You're

athlete. You're young. You don't.

Fonz, I got it. No, you don't. I got it.

That's why I'm thirsty all the time and losing weight.

Doctor came in and he made some tests.

And then he called another doctor and he made some more tests. What does that

doctor know? He's got to call another person.

Fonz, the tests were positive. I've got it.

I don't know. Wait, wait, wait. On television, Jackie Gleason, right? I saw

show. He was sick. He got all worked up about it. Went to the doctor and

everything. You know what happened?

The test got mixed up. He wasn't sick. His dog was sick. Your dog has diabetes.

I don't have a dog. Well, I'm going to get you one. Don't catch your face, you

fives.

We're not all like you, you know. Most of us are mortals. We get sick.

You watch my mouth.

You are not sick.

Chachi. Yes, I am, Fonz.

Don't you understand?

I'm a man without a future.

I got no reason to go on tour or to make records or fall in love.

Look at this face.

She's not going to be around for much longer.

Wait. Does the doctor look like Alan Fonz? One Titanic camera. Alan Fonz

a beer.

Don't you do this to me.

Johnny, how you doing?

Oh, pretty good. Good. Not bad.

You're looking pretty good yourself.

Oh, I feel great.

Well, that's great. I feel great. Really great.

I've been doing a lot of reading the past couple of days, and it's given me a

brand new perspective on this whole thing. That's wonderful.

You know, sometimes a good book can provide just the right inspiration for

living. I agree.

Dealing with death, death and dignity, death of a salesman?

I like a good mystery.

Let me guess.

You're feeling depressed, aren't you?

No. Not at all, Joan. These books have turned my life around.

Yeah? I'm still feeling sorry for myself.

Oh, God. That takes a lot of courage.

Yeah, that's what I'm doing. I'm going skydiving.

Why would you do that?

Well, because I'm in the fourth stage.

Fourth stage of what?

The four stages of a patient's response to a life -threatening illness.

See the denial?

Well, actually, Fonzie took care of that one for me.

Anger. Yesterday, I beat up Patsy. He was great about it, though.

Brief. Reading his books. Yeah.

And finally, acceptance.

You know, once you know that you're on the Titanic and you realize all the

lifeboats are gone, you might as well just join the band, right?

But skydiving? Maybe you should think about this a minute. I haven't got a

minute. I've got to try to play it to catch up. But, Josh, you can't do this.

You're being totally irresponsible.

You know something?

You're right.

Look, if I don't make it back, will you bring these back to the library for me?

That's the ultimate diet.

Marion, please.

You've been cooking all day.

Well, I'm sorry, Howard, but baking helps me to take my mind off things. I'm

upset about Chachi. Yeah, the poor kid.

Mary and his cookies are terrible.

I know that, Howard. They're for Chachi. They're sugarless.

You know what?

Chachi's got diabetes.

We know. No, no, no, no.

Chachi's really got diabetes.

I went to his doctor's office.

He said, Chachi's got diabetes.

I said, take that back. He refused.

So I dangled him out the window.

He stuck to his guns, you know, so I just left.

Aren't they?

No, no, no. I brought them back in. What kind of guy do you think I am?

Okay, Aunt Mary.

I got your dry cleaning. And now remember, these bags are not toys.

You know everything. Sit down.

All right, I want you to tell me everything you know.

Well, Uncle Howard's pants had gum on the right side.

Not the cleaning.

Diabetes.

Well, I'm not exactly an expert in that subject, Fonz.

You went to Yale for four years. What'd you do? Walk the bulldog.

All right. We did briefly touch upon this in school. Let me see.

Diabetic. Yeah.

All right. They have to watch their diet, they have to exercise, and they

to take their insulin. As long as they do this, they can live long, normal

like the rest of us. And what else?

That's it.

That's it? Yeah. If that's it, then why is he acting so crazy? Well, because

it's a very big adjustment.

Juan, I'm glad you're here. Your cousin is insane.

Oh, no, as if he doesn't have enough problems.

They can tell all that from a blood test? No, no, no.

He's going to skydive out of an airplane.

Why would he want to do that?

He's acting like he doesn't care whether he lives or dies.

Well, somebody ought to say something to him.

Probably before he jumps out of an airplane.

I'll tell you one thing, that boy breaks his leg, he better not come running to

me.

Hey, Fonz, walking the bulldog at Yale was a great honor.

It was bathing him I didn't like.

like the inside of this sandwich.

You want a bite?

I don't care if I'm gonna be kissing dirt.

I'm only living for the moment anyway.

Oh, yeah.

I used to live for the moment myself.

Then I realized the fella could get killed.

Now I just live for the weekend.

in the same place.

You seem a little nervous.

You sure you had a skydiving course at all?

I do this all the time.

I forget which one of these opens the chute.

That one right there. That's Mr.

Ripcord. He's your friend.

What if that one doesn't work?

You can pull that one there.

And that'll open the chute?

No, but it'll give you something to do on the way.

Come on, keep your legs out. Come on, get them out there.

I'll tell you when you should go, all right? Yeah. All right.

Maybe I should think about this, Omar.

Why don't you pay me before you go?

You ought to get my money first.

supposed to be there in the train.

I live.

I live.

My funds.

So this is living.

Yeah.

You know something?

When I was up there free -falling funds, I felt so, I felt so stupid. Yeah.

That's the word I'm looking for.

All right, come on, help me down.

Sure.

In a minute.

Come on, Fonz, you're making me dizzy.

You just fell 3 ,000 feet and this is making you dizzy.

Give me a break, all right?

All right, here's some good news. What?

A diabetic can live a very happy life if you just... I know all that, Fonz. All

I have to do is watch my diet and take my insulin.

You think the doc didn't tell me that?

Oh, yeah?

Then why do you act like you got bean dip for a brain?

Because if I forget to take one little shot, I'm history.

There's a lot of things in life you gotta not do.

You gotta not play in traffic.

You gotta not drink Drano.

You gotta not hand feed sharks.

So you gotta not forget to take your medicine, that's all.

The doctor also told me this is the most dangerous age for diabetics. A young

guy just out on his own.

I'm talking to you. I can hear you through my hair.

That's why a lot of them mess up and die.

He only said that to scare you. Well, it worked.

Come on, Fudge, you know how I am. I'm irresponsible.

You know, I can't remember to get my brakes fixed.

I can't remember rehearsal time.

How many goldfish have we flushed because I forgot to feed them, huh?

I don't stand a chance.

Good thing I didn't pull that one.

Chachi, you know very, very well that I'm not going to let you go through this

diabetes thing alone.

I'm going to buy you a beautiful watch with an alarm.

That's it? Yeah, a watch, yeah, with an alarm.

I mean, you set the alarm, it goes off, you take your medicine.

No, Sons, I'll forget to wind you.

Yeah, self -winding. I'll lose it. I'll staple it to your wrist.

You know, maybe this getting diabetes is the best thing that ever happened to

you, isn't it?

Getting a serious illness is good for me?

Boy, they should make you a greeter at the hospital.

No, no, no.

Everybody has to grow up and take charge of themselves, right? People got years

to do it in. You're going to do it all in one shot.

And nobody can do anything for you but buy you a watch.

You know what? No.

I'm scared.

Cha -cha.

Scared is allowed.

You know what's not allowed?

To feel ashamed because you got diabetes.

That's not allowed.

You think you get that watch from me by Saturday?

That's when the tour leaves.

See, now you sound just like a man. Oh, I love you so much. You know that?

He came from all the way up there? Yeah.

Meanwhile, this is some tree, huh?

Can you imagine this Christmas time?

Have to get very big ornaments, though, I'll tell you.

Maybe we could wrap Joanie up in tinfoil, put her on top, huh?

You're laughing. First time in two days.

That's what I like to see.

Let's get out of here. Just stay very, very close, because dressed like that, I

might lose you.

I can't be wrong.