From the episodes that I watched of "Happy Days", I learned quite a bit that will help me with the show. Here in my last "Get Happy"post, I will focus on the setting and the car hop girls (because that is my character). I hope that my character analyses helped everyone out as well!
For starters, I'll give you a glimpse of Arnold's, the high school hang out area. Imagine this: the Juke box is "I'm all shook up" by Elvis Presley, the Fonz is writing in his office (the bathroom wall), the booths are full with chatting high school students, people are dancing in a swing style, Arnold is serving Malts and other types of food, and the old fashioned cars are parked out front. That is the low down of Arnold's.
Arnold's is the most popular place, but also there is Jefferson high school, where all the main characters go to school, the Cunningham house, the hardware store and the mechanic shop where Fonzie works.
The time is the 50's and the show definitively has the feel. They have jukeboxes and phones you have to dial that are attached to the wall. Everyone is part of the social life. If you want to be seen as 'cool' you need to have some fancy wheels!
What I have learned from this show is that we are (mostly) high school students, carefree looking to have a good time. Richie and his friends are always up to something and the Fonz is always ready to save the day. Richie is growing up and is learning life's lessons along side his best friends.
My character is a car hop girl. From the show I have learned that the car hops sometimes get pranked by the high school students. From the script, I know that the car hop girls do not actually get pranked, but they do sing with Fonzie and Pinky so I'm guessing they are supposed to be portrayed as "cool". The car hops are seen taking the food from Arnold's and bringing it to the cars. During the intro, one car hop spills a milkshake all over a police officer.
That concludes the "Get Happy" Post segment. If you read the whole collection of
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See you in my next post, the all new "Get Singing" where I explore give my opinions on the soundtrack of the musical "Happy Days"!
I really like how you connected thecar hop from the show to the script! I am also a car hop and this helped me have a better understanding of the part. I also think it was really funny in the intro when the car hopspills the milkshake on the police officer. I love how organized your blog is! Great job!
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