Original subtitles

Monday, Monday, happy day. Wednesday, Wednesday, happy day.

Stay Friday, happy day.

The weekend comes, and I go home, ready to race to you.

These days are ours, happy and free.

These days are ours, share them with me.

Goodbye gray sky, hello blue. There's nothing can hold me when I hold you.

You're so right.

It can't be wrong.

Rocking and rolling.

Just give me my books.

Okay, we'll get to class.

Yeah, whatever you say.

Ah, bingo.

Nothing. This always happens to me when I'm still late in the day.

Eight to the left. Eight to the left. Yeah.

Thanks. Yeah.

Somebody better be trapped in there or you're in deep trouble.

Yeah, well, what are you going to do about it? Today, I'm going to be a

But one day you're going to graduate and I'm going to be there with a present

brain surgery, no anesthesia.

I'll take care of it.

Fonzie? Oh, come on, no, no, I can't do anything. I see I'm motivating Mickey

here to join the human race. Fonzie, you've got to get down to the football

field. The driver's head class is playing chicken with the marching band

You know, you're lucky there's no such thing as spreading me out too thin. And

you, you're very lucky that all your moving parts are still moving.

I get your message. You better. Good choice.

Well, yes, Mr. McKenzie, the fact that your son, a straight -A student, was

here to Patton High might be interpreted as an...

administrative error, but we prefer to see it as a stroke of fate. Yes.

That wouldn't be because he's been averaging 39 points a game for the

team, would it?

A stretch on the team.

Dennis!

Can I help you, Mickey? Yes, come here.

This is where you pay me a dollar or else I beat your face in.

I haven't got a dollar. Oh, that's good. I need the exercise.

rehearsing Uncle Tom's cab.

See, my next appointment has arrived.

Tony, why don't you take Mr. McKenzie to the cafeteria for a complimentary

Danish, huh? Oh, yes, yes.

Mr. McKenzie, do you know how many patent students have gone on to Ivy

colleges? No. Good.

What is the meaning of this?

Mr. Phillips, me and Dennis were playing outside and Fonzarelli slugged me.

Mr. Fonzarelli? No.

Yeah, he's been after me all year.

Hey, put your mouth on hold, huh?

Get down to the nurse.

And when you're down there, you stay away from Dennis. You understand me?

You know, Mr. Phillips, I know my rights on this. I'm going to report this to

the school board.

And you're going to live to regret this. And you're going to live to regret

this.

Get out of here, you slimeball.

What? Yeah. What is going on around here, huh? Tell me.

What just happened?

I was walking down the hall and I see Mickey playing with Dennis' head like he

was Mr. Potato Head.

So, you know, I just took care of it. You hit him?

I did what I had to do.

Fonzie, we are not allowed to hit students unless it's in self -defense.

Now, were you in any danger?

Look,

I'm sorry, pal, but I am required by law to fill out a report with the school

board. You know what, Mr. Perfect, if you make the phone call, I could deal

a little slap on my wrist. Is that right?

Fonz, I don't think you understand what's at stake here.

If you hit a kid, they're gonna fire you. Oh, come on, I can't believe this.

Yes! You mean that kid can destroy property and people and I get fired? All

right, look, Fonz, just tell me right now you didn't hit him.

I'll believe you.

I can't do that.

I gotta make the call.

Go ahead, make the call.

Fonzie, we just want you to know that no matter how the school board rules,

we're behind you all the way. We believe in your innocence no matter how guilty

you may be.

What if by some travesty of justice you lose, Fonzie?

I'm working on a plan to blast you out of jail, all right?

You're talking jail already? Now you're talking jail? Josh, this is a school

board hearing. All they can do is fire him. Then they'll send him to a criminal

court, and then they'll send him to jail.

Hey, you know what?

I just want to thank you people very, very much for cheering me up. Good news.

Yeah, what happened? Mickey dropped his charges?

No, I'm going to defend you.

Now, there's logic.

The man who turns me in is now going to defend me. Hey, Fonz, listen, don't

worry about it. You know, I got a B -plus in debating at Yale.

Could have been an A if I could have just talked the teacher into it.

Will you take your seats? I want to look organized.

of the local school board, I call this hearing to order.

Mr. Arthur Fonzarelli is charged with striking Mickey Varner. Ha!

We don't ha here.

Mr. Smith, you may call your first witness.

I'd like to call my client, Mickey Varner.

Now, Mickey, will you tell us exactly what happened in the hallway of Patton

High School last Tuesday the 12th.

Sure would be my pleasure.

I was late getting to school that day, and I was putting my books in my locker.

Mickey, I've been looking all over for you. Oh, I went to visit my grandmother

at the hospital, and I was there, you know, so I gave some blood.

Do you have time to give me another wrestling lesson?

Oh, I'm sorry. I don't want to be late for Miss Cunningham's class.

Oh, me either. But if that bully, Mr. Fonzarelli, picks on me again, I want to

be able to defend myself.

Okay, Dennis, but I despise violence.

Now, let me show you this if you use it in self -defense.

Okay? Hold there.

What you do is you sneak up on him, you grab him, and you can wrench him. I'm

not hurting you. I'm holding him. I'm holding him. I'm wrenching him.

All right, you lowlifes, you're fighting again, huh? We weren't fighting, Mr.

Fonzarelli. Mickey here was just showing me another wrestling hole.

And I say you will fight.

See, Mr. Phillips is going to believe me because he's too much of a sap to say

anything different.

You know, he's a conscientious administrator, and on top of that, he's

snappy dret. And you know what?

When I get him fired out of here on a trumped -up moralist charge, I will be

principal, and you will be very sorry.

Come on.

Give me a good reason.

Give me a good reason to beat your brains in. No, Mr. Fonzarelli. I could

hit a teacher. I have way too much respect.

Is that true?

Hey, then, respect this.

All right, that's for you. Mr.

Ponzarelli, you're prejudicing this court to your own detriment.

Well, at least somebody's accomplishing something here.

Thank you, Mickey. Have a good evening.

Mr.

Phillips? Yes?

You may call your witness.

Oh, thank you.

I'd like to call Dennis Morton.

Dennis?

This is where I start earning my fee. All right. Yeah.

You don't get a fee. I know, but if I did, this is where I start earning it.

Hello, Dennis.

Hi. How you doing? Fine.

Dennis, was Mickey really giving you a wrestling lesson?

No, he was beating me up because I wouldn't give him a dollar. Your Honor,

concede that my client was guilty of slight reality augmentation.

Does it have anything to do with lying?

It's very close.

But that still doesn't change the fact that Mr. Fonzarelli brutally beat a

student, a direct violation of school code. All right, I'll take care of this.

Dennis, this is very important now.

Did you see Mr.

Fonzarelli hit Mickey?

No, I just assumed he did it.

You just assumed? You were making an assumption?

We're concerned with the facts here.

I'm asking you if you actually saw Mr.

Fonzarelli... Strike Mickey.

Well, no, my head was shoved in the locker. Thank you very much, Dennis. Oh,

one last thing.

To the best of your recollection, do you recall Mr.

Fonzarelli calling me a sap?

No, sir, he didn't. Did you get that?

Thank you very much, Dennis.

Well, looks like we've got him on the run now, Fonz.

Just your word against Mickey's.

I'd like to call Arthur Fonzarelli. Uh, let's, uh, cancel that call, all right?

I don't want to go on.

Mr.

Phillips? Yes? Could we get on with this? I must remind you that we don't

validate parking.

Oh, I'll be right back, Marion. I gotta move the car.

I call Arthur Fonzarelli.

I asked you not to do this.

Mr. Fonzarelli.

Would you be so kind as to tell the court your version of the incident at

High?

I stand on the Fifth Commandment.

Mr. Fonzarelli, I think you mean the Fifth Amendment.

Amendment, commandment, what's the difference? I have the right not to

incinerate myself.

Fonzie, what are you doing? I told you I didn't want to be up here.

Mr. Fonzarelli, I respect your right not to speak, but tomorrow morning I'm

going to have to make a judgment.

And based on what I've heard so far, you are what we call in the legal

profession, dead neat.

Good morning, breakfast clubbers. How do you do?

Toast, my favorite kind of bread.

You're certainly chipper this morning.

Have you forgotten about the hearing?

What? Did the words dead meat ring a bell? Oh, dad, dad, dad.

Oh, yeah, I got everything taken care of, see? I resigned.

Mr. Singles, do you have any jam? You're quitting?

You're turning tail funds? You're going belly up?

I've got my reasons for what I'm doing. Is that right? Name one.

Uh -uh, jam first.

Oh, yes, here, right there. Oh, thanks very much, okay? Here's a very good one,

okay? Yeah. Being dean of boys happens to get in the way of my leisure life.

Fonzie, you're full of it. Joanie.

Hey, that's very fine talk. You use that mouse when you teach?

You love that job, admit it. Okay, Joanie, I admit it. I love that job.

down there every day makes me proud.

Being dean of boys is like the greatest thing that ever happened to me, but so

what? So what's the point that one lousy jerk can take it all away from you? The

point is you ought to fight for it.

No good would come of that.

Well, if you all stand up for yourself, we will. That's right. Well, how?

What could we do? When I was a kid, when I was a kid, I saw this episode of The

Defenders, right, where this guy wouldn't testify for himself.

So E .G. Marshall got his friends to say how he couldn't possibly have committed

the crime.

Did he win?

I don't know.

My mom sent me to bed before the jury came back.

I saw that show. He did win.

And then his wife left him and he killed himself.

That's why we watch comedies.

Never mind, Marion. The point is that it worked.

And we're not going to let you resign until we've had our say.

And once they've heard us, they're going to know what kind of a man you really

are.

You mean after everything you heard, you still believe me? Of course we believe

in you, Arthur.

Hey, I'm deeply touched. I just wish that I could explain it, but I can't.

don't have to.

Come on, everybody. Let's get going. Come on, everybody.

Mrs. Cunningham, you're a lovely woman. I really appreciate your tip on how to

get water rings out of coffee tables.

Would you please confine your testimony to the case at hand? Well, all I have to

say is that Arthur Fonzarelli is just the finest young man I know, besides

Richie. Oh, that's her son.

He's in California now.

If Richard were here, I'm sure he would agree with me that Arthur Fonzarelli is

so honest and so compassionate and so dedicated a young man. He couldn't

possibly have hit that slimy little runt like that.

Thank you, Mrs. Cunningham.

For my final character witness, I'd like

to call Charles Arcola.

Well, Charles, how long have you known Mr. Fonzarelli? All my life.

Oh, perhaps you could shed some light as to what sort of influence Mr.

Fonzarelli has had on you.

A very positive one.

When Fonzie caught me cheating on my homework, I'll never forget this, he sat

down and told me I was only cheating myself.

Yes.

And that stopped you from cheating?

Oh, yes.

He's a fine person.

And we're all the better for having known him.

Thank you, Mr. Arcola.

Mr. Arcola, have you ever seen Mr.

Fonzarelli hit another person?

Well, you know, that covers a lot of ground. Well, just how many people has

hit? 20? 50? 100?

Come on, that's ridiculous. 500?

That's a ballpark figure.

That was years ago.

Come on, he hasn't had anybody in a long time.

Is that so? Yes.

Is that so?

Just last month, didn't Mr.

Fonzarelli intentionally punch Mr.

Howard Cunningham in a hotel room? Oh, no, wait a minute. I object.

That was an accident. He meant to hit the other guy.

Thank you, sir.

Why is this guy shrewd?

Mr. Arcola, thank you for your testimony.

No further questions?

Well, I have one further answer.

Fonzie didn't hit that kid.

Thank you for your opinion.

I don't understand.

It worked on the defenders.

Mr. Phillips, do you wish to call any more character witnesses?

Or do you think you've done enough damage?

No more witnesses.

I'm finished.

Very well. Then I'm prepared to make a judgment.

Mr. Fonzarelli?

Are you aware of the gravity of the charges against you? Yes, I am.

And you're still unwilling to defend your actor?

Yes, I won't.

Well, Mr. Fonzarelli, if you're not willing to defend your actions, then I

see where I have any other choice.

I'm going to have to rule against you.

Wait.

Wait, I'll tell you what really happened.

You don't want to listen to her that this lady doesn't know anything, okay?

Yes, I do.

I'm Mrs. Friedman. Yes, Street Teacher Patton.

And I saw the whole thing.

Well, if that's true, Mrs. Friedman, why didn't you come forward sooner?

Well, I tried, but...

Mr. Fonzarelli didn't want me to.

Intimidating the witness.

Another example of Mr.

Fonzarelli's strong -arm tactics.

How would you like a strong arm right up your nose?

Sir, uh, this is a very fine teacher, but a history teacher. She don't know

after World War II, you know.

Yes, well, I'll be the judge of that. You may tell your story, Mrs. Freeman,

you needn't be afraid of Mr.

Fonzarelli.

Well, I... I was on haul duty that day.

I don't really know how the fight started, but when I got there... Help!

know this happens to you every day. You don't bring me a towel, Dennis.

Help! What's going on here?

What is going on here, Dennis?

Easy. Watch your head.

Come on, Dennis.

What happened?

All right, look at me. Can you see me?

Yeah. Are you all right? Yeah. Go to the nurse.

No, I'm fine, Mr. Bickley.

Go to the nurse.

Will you?

You look white as a ghost. What's wrong with you?

Mr. Fonzarelli, I just hit a student. I can't believe it.

Well, can't you believe?

You hit a student, you saved the student. Good deal. No, no, you don't

understand.

Teachers get fired for what I just did. Oh, come on. No, really. If I lose my

job, I don't know what I'll do. I've got three kids to support.

You're not going to lose your job. I will take care of this. Don't worry.

Listen, this is what you're going to do.

Come on, you're going to go down there to the teacher's lounge. You're going to

get yourself a cup of coffee. You're going to calm down, first of all.

You will not mention this to anybody. Repeat that to me. I will not mention it

to anybody.

Mickey never knew who hit him.

Mr. Fonzarelli took the blame, and he's been protecting me ever since.

Thank you, Mr. Fonzarelli.

You're one of a kind.

Wait a minute, wait a minute. You're telling me I was hit by a girl? No,

clobbered, Mickey. You were clobbered by a girl.

Mr. Fonzarelli, are you now willing to end your silence in this matter?

Yes, I am.

Not only does Mrs. Friedman tell the truth, she also carries an amazing

punch.

In light of Mrs. Friedman's testimony, I dismiss all charges against Mr.

Fonzarelli.

I do!

Now I must consider whether or not to take action against Mrs. Friedman.

could I just put in here for a minute, you know, and overstep my bowels a

bit, okay?

Yes, Mrs. Freeman technically hit a student, but when she hit the student,

wasn't being a student at the time. What was he being?

He was being a hoodlum.

He was beating somebody up. He was stealing.

Now, see, teaching at Patton High is tough enough, but thank goodness we got

teachers. Who are willing to teach. And we got students like Dennis who are

willing to learn. You understand?

So I say, who do you want to run your schools? The teachers and the students?

Or little creep balls like this?

I'll tell you something. It is time that we put a stop to the tyranny

of creeps.

Creepman. On behalf of the school board, I hope you have a long and happy career

as a teacher in our school system.

Yes.

This hearing is adjourned.

I always wanted to do that. Could I just... Oh,

thank you.

You can't hold me when I hold you. I can't be wrong.

These days are ours.

Share them with me.

These days are ours.

Happy and free.

These happy days are yours and mine.