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Beautiful days Alumni Henry Winkler and Ron Howard took the stage during Sunday’s awards ceremony, giving fans of the ABC sitcom a glimpse of former stars Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli and Richie Cunningham back together.

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In celebration of Beautiful daysTo mark the 50th anniversary, Winkler and Howard greeted each other at a recreation of one of the show’s most famous sets: Arnold’s Drive-In, aka the restaurant where the show’s teens hung out. (Before the broadcast, ceremony producer Jesse Collins told our sister site Variety, “I’m curious if you think we fit the jukebox.” What do you think?)

Before the pair reviewed the nominees for Best Directing in a Comedy Series, Howard joked that their set-up was conspicuously lacking music. “I have a solution, though,” he said, suggesting that Winkler give the jukebox one of The Fonz’s signature thumps. But Winkler declined.

“First of all, I’m out of practice,” he said. But Howard was not to be turned away. “You went to the Yale School of Drama, Henry! Come on, you know you can do it.” So Winkler turned on the machine as only he could, and the Beautiful days The theme song played and the crowd burst into applause.

Happy Days Premiered in 1974, the series, created by Garry Marshall, ran for 11 seasons and was a nostalgic look at life in the Midwest in the 1950s and 1960s. The ensemble cast included Winkler as Fonzie, a biker who was the epitome of cool, and Howard as Richie, a naive teenager; the cast also included Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Anson Williams, Erin Moran, Scott Baio, Pat Morita and Al Molinaro.

The series won an Emmy in 1978 for Best Editing in a Comedy Series. In addition, Winkler, Ross and director Jerry Paris were nominated several times during the series’ run. Another (less praiseworthy) fun fact: Beautiful days is behind the origin of the phrase “jump the shark” – used to indicate that a television show has lost its plot/run out of ideas – which originated from the Beautiful days Season 5 episode “Hollywood, Part 3”, in which Fonzie literally jumps over a shark while waterskiing.

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Winkler was most recently seen as Gene in the HBO series Barrya role for which he won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2018. In addition to numerous dubbing roles, his TV resume also includes Arrested development, Royal Pains And Children’s Hospital.

Howard is now an Oscar and Emmy award-winning director and producer. His films include A beautiful spirit And Apollo13His diverse TV work includes Arrested development, Parenthood, genius, pasture, Under the banner of heaven, bliss, Sports night And Curious GeorgeHoward’s documentary was released in early September Jim Henson, the idea man won the award for outstanding documentary or nonfiction special at the Creative Arts Emmys.

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