08x22 - American Musical

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♪ Sunday, Monday, happy days ♪

♪ Tuesday, Wednesday Happy days ♪

♪ Thursday, Friday Happy days ♪

♪ The weekend comes My cycle hums ♪

♪ Ready to race to you ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪



-♪ Happy and free ♪

-♪ Oh, happy days ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪



-♪ Share them with me ♪

-♪ Oh, baby ♪

♪ Goodbye, gray sky Hello, blue ♪

♪ There's nothin' can hold me When I hold you ♪

♪ It feels so right It can't be wrong ♪

♪ Rockin' and rollin' All week long ♪

[saxophone solo]

♪ Sunday, Monday, happy days ♪

♪ Tuesday, Wednesday Happy days ♪

♪ Thursday, Friday Happy days ♪

♪ Saturday, what a day ♪

♪ Groovin' all week with you ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪



-♪ Share them with me ♪

-♪ Oh, happy days ♪

♪ These days are ours ♪



-♪ Happy and free ♪

-♪ Oh, baby ♪

♪ These happy days Are yours and mine ♪

♪ These happy days Are yours and mine ♪

♪ Happy days ♪

I am definitely not an historian.

[sighs]

Basket by Arcola!

And the fans go wild!

[imitates crowd cheering]

Hi, Fonz. [clears throat]

Don't "Hi, Fonz" me.

How's your American history essay?

Oh, Fonz, you can't believe it, Fonz!

Fonz, it is so boring.

I mean, what is history, anyway?

I'll tell you what it is, just a bunch of dead people

running around, wearing funny pants.

Sit down!

You're gonna be history yourself pretty soon, you know that?

Let me tell you somethin', pal.

American history's my best subject.

That's right.

President number one, George Washington,

number two, John Adams,

number three, Thomas Jefferson

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-

All right, Fonz, I believe you.

What did you stop me for? I was gonna name all .

There's over .

Just wanted to see if you were on your toes.

[laughs] All right, all right, all right.

What's this about? What's your essay about?

They want me to write about America

being described as a melting pot.

All right, that's true. Put down a big "T".

No, Fonz, these aren't true

-false questions.

I'm all ears. I'm listening, I'm listening.

Then they want me to talk about the immigrants

who migrated to America

and helped shape the backbone of our nation.

They did. All right.

"Then in discussing immigration,

talk about the following areas.

A, economic conditions. B, political oppression.

C, cultural influences.

And D, personal hardships."

See, there's your problem in an eggshell.

What you're tryin' to do is squeeze all these millions of people into your story.

Picture one guy livin' right through it, you know?

I don't get you, Fonz.

All right.

A story Mrs. C. told me about Joanie's great

-great grandmother.

She's in Ireland, right? She's got this boyfriend,

he's got to leave. He's got to leave her,



-he's gotta leave his country, everything.

-Why?

No jobs. We're talkin' Ireland .

We're talkin' the great spud famine here.

All he had was his good looks

and, like, a shamrock sandwich, you know?

All right. He sails to America.

Now, picture this.

He's on the dock waiting to board the ship, right?

Okay. He's got his meager belongings

wrapped up in, like, a handkerchief...

[Chachi, with Irish accent] Take care, me darlin'.

[Joanie, in Irish accent] May the fairies be good to you.

Ah, what a lass ye are.

I'm gonna miss ye.

And I, you.

[gentle music playing]

♪ Run, now ♪

♪ I'm feelin' so lonely ♪

♪ Though I've never Felt closer to you ♪

♪ Thought I could hide The pain that's inside ♪

♪ But I just can't take Leavin' you ♪

♪ You're the music That lasts long after ♪

♪ Long after The song fades away ♪

♪ You're the wave In the shell ♪

♪ So far from the sea ♪

[together] ♪ Long after You'll always have me ♪

♪ Long after You'll always have me ♪

♪ Promise You'll never forget me ♪

♪ Or the hours I spent in your care ♪

♪ I may not hold ♪

♪ The warmth of your hand ♪

♪ But the love in my heart ♪

♪ Will be there ♪

♪ You're the music That lasts long after ♪

♪ Long after The song fades away ♪

♪ You're the wave In the shell ♪

♪ So far from the sea ♪

[together] ♪ Long after You'll always have me ♪

♪ Long after You'll always have ♪

♪ Me ♪



-Boy, that must have been really tough.

-Yeah.

Thank goodness we don't have any spud famines.

Okay. Now I understand

why people came for economic reasons.

But what about the second part?



-What's that?

-Uh, political oppression.

Oh. Good old "P.O." huh? [laughs]

All right. Here we go, political oppression.

Okay, I got it.

We're in a small European town, right?

.

A guy's just hanging' out on a street corner.

He's got himself a strawberry popsicle, right?

All of a sudden, there's a parade comes through the town.

He sees the king, right?

Talks to the guy next to him,

he says, "Look at that, the King is a 'tubbo'.

Hey, don't let your tummy hit the ground."

Right? Like that, they take his popsicle, throw him in jail.

They say, "You could rot in jail

or you could sail to America."

Jail or America? [scoffs]

What kind of choice is that?

Who wouldn't choose America?

Chachi, let me tell you somethin',

sailing to America was not a piece of cake.

You know, those boats did as much sinking

as they did sailing.

Then you got disease and rats,

we're talkin' rats big enough

you could throw a saddle on 'em and ride those suckers!

There's always one guy

willin' to take the risk to come for freedom,

the freedom you could only get here in America.

[upbeat music playing]

♪ Got good news From the guard today ♪

♪ Says we can sail To the USA ♪

♪ We leave in June And arrive in May ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ You call that good news? ♪

♪ That ain't good news ♪

♪ Ooh, yeah ♪

♪ We got the Immigration blues ♪

♪ Do

-do

-do

-do ♪

♪ I ain't gettin' in That creaky old boat ♪

♪ 'Cause if I fall off I don't swim or float ♪

♪ If I don't float That's all she wrote ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ I got the immigration blues ♪

♪ Doo

-doo ♪

♪ Doo

-oo

-oo

-oo ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ He's got The immigration blues ♪

♪ This jail is cold ♪

♪ It's damp, it stinks ♪

♪ It's so packed There's no room to think ♪

♪ It ain't heavy But it won't sink ♪

♪ Who

-o

-o

-o

-ooa ♪

♪ I got the immigration blues ♪

♪ Ain't nothing but bad news ♪

♪ Doo

-doo ♪

♪ Doo

-oo

-oo

-oo ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ He's got the Immigration blues ♪

♪ Now, let's get Somethin' straight ♪

♪ Right off of the bat ♪

♪ Beds this big I can't sleep like that ♪

♪ I'm way too scared And a little too fat ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ I got the immigration blues ♪

♪ Ohh ♪

♪ Doo

-doo ♪

♪ Doo

-oo

-oo

-oo ♪

♪ Ohh ♪

♪ He's got The immigration blues ♪

♪ Let's all chat About this new habitat ♪

♪ From my calculation The world's still flat ♪

♪ Sail off the edge ♪

♪ Not this cat ♪

Ooh!

♪ I got the immigration blues ♪

♪ Yes, I do ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ He's got The immigration blues ♪

♪ Do

-do

-do

-do ♪

♪ I don't buy That the world is flat ♪

♪ Beds are cool And I can swim like a snap ♪

♪ But no veggies ♪

♪ No girlies, and rats! ♪

♪ Ooh! ♪

♪ I got the immigration blues ♪

♪ That's right, ya hear me? ♪

♪ I got the blues ♪

♪ Ohh ♪

♪ He's got the Immigration blues ♪

♪ We got the immigration... ♪

♪ Blues ♪

You're makin' this stuff come alive, Fonz!

Hey, I make a lot of things come alive.

All right. Now we're up to, uh...

Let's see, C. "Cultural and social influences

of the immigrants on America."

Oh, yeah. That means when they brought their lifestyle over here

when they came.



-Well, like what?

-Like what?

Like, uh, from France, we got French toast.

From Rome, we got Romanians.

From the "Swedens", we got Ann

-Margret.

Fonz, I don't think that's what they mean.

[laughing]

I don't either. [laughing]

No. What does it mean?

It means that when they came over here,

they brought their music, their arts, their crafts, their fun!

Immigrants have fun! Is that a giraffe?

No, it's a tiger.

That's all right.

When things were tough, and things got tough,

their culture was like a source of strength for them, you know?

[man] Here we go! Hey!



-[champagne cork pops]

-[cheering]

Please! Please! Please! Please! Whoa!

[shushing]

I would like to say something

-

-

So would I.

This is America. Dad, it's the th century.

What did you make us get dressed up like this for?

Well, this is a day of celebration.

It's a great day!

Look, we're Americans, but we keep our customs.

[dramatic violin music playing]

♪ A toast ♪

♪ To my home ♪

♪ And family ♪

♪ A toast ♪

♪ To our hope ♪

♪ And pride ♪

♪ A toast ♪

♪ To my two ♪

♪ Lovely girls ♪

♪ Whose day ♪

♪ Was magnifico ♪

♪ In America ♪

[music accelerates]

♪ Landed a big job today Landed a big job today ♪

♪ A whole lotta work Not much pay ♪

♪ A whole lotta work Not much pay ♪

♪ Someday I'll own my own Someday I'll own my own ♪

♪ Cafe ♪

[all] ♪ In America ♪

♪ Que viva, mi America ♪

♪ There's no place To compare it "ta" ♪

♪ It's home, it's home for me ♪

♪ I started my first day At school ♪

♪ I started my first day At school ♪

♪ I met a boy, he's beautiful I met a boy, he's beautiful ♪

♪ Never thought I'd find a guy Never thought I'd find a guy ♪

♪ So cool ♪

[all] ♪ In America ♪

♪ Que viva, mi America ♪

♪ There's no place To compare it "ta" ♪

♪ It's home, it's home for me ♪

Olé!

[all cheering]

[hooting]

♪ In America ♪

♪ Que viva, mi America ♪

♪ There's no place To compare it "ta" ♪

♪ It's home, it's home for me ♪

To America!

"Que viva, mi America."

Yeah.

What does that mean?

That means keep writin' here in Milwaukee.

I tell you somethin', you're really gettin' this stuff.

Oh, yeah, and I'm beginnin' to like it.

Yeah. Just don't ask me about algebra.

Nah, I'm cool with algebra.

All right, Fonz, we got one left,

uh, personal hardships.

Personal hardships.

All right.

All right, Roger's grandfather

came over here from Russia.



-Russia? I thought he was Irish.

-Yeah.

No, no, no. That was his mother's side.

We're talkin' his mother's side, the Kibbitzikoffs.

They wanted their son to get here to America to start a new life,

maybe get a new name they could spell. [laughs]

Kibbitzikoffs. [laughing]

Did he make it?

Yeah. You bet he did.

They snuck him in on the bottom of a borscht wagon.

Then he got to the border

and he walked, like, weeks and weeks and weeks

to the Atlantic Ocean.



-That's unbelievable.

-Yeah.

And when you think about it,

what is harder than leaving your family forever?

And I mean ever.

♪ You're gonna make it Gonna make it ♪

♪ Gonna make it big ♪

♪ In America ♪

♪ You're gonna make it Gonna make it ♪

♪ Gonna make your mark ♪

♪ In America ♪

♪ You're gonna make it Gonna make it ♪

♪ Gonna make your life ♪

♪ In America ♪

♪ In America, you'll be big ♪

♪ I'm gonna make it Gonna make it ♪

♪ Gonna make it big ♪

♪ In America ♪

♪ You're gonna make it Gonna make it ♪

♪ Gonna make it safe ♪

♪ To America ♪

♪ You're gonna make it Gonna make it ♪

♪ Gonna make it big ♪

♪ In America ♪

♪ You're gonna make it ♪

♪ Gonna make it ♪

♪ Gonna make it ♪

♪ Big ♪

I wanted to give you something

so that you would never forget me.

So I'm giving you something from my heart,

something that I hope you will never forget.

It's a poem.

♪ There is no truth ♪

♪ Like that I've found ♪

♪ In the eyes of a child ♪

♪ No strength ♪

♪ Not born of gentleness ♪

♪ A spirit of beauty ♪

♪ Sent such a child my way ♪

♪ You are soft music ♪

♪ The gentle night brings ♪

♪ The warmth and the wind ♪

♪ That turns winter to spring ♪

♪ Keep childlike eyes ♪

♪ And you'll never lose ♪

♪ The music in your heart ♪

♪ Stay kind, my child ♪

♪ Take time, my child ♪

♪ Look beyond the stars ♪

♪ And never lose ♪

♪ The music in your heart ♪

♪ And never lose ♪

♪ The music in your heart ♪

My teacher's gonna love this.



-This is great!

-Yeah.

Yeah.

I guess that means we had some relatives

that came over from Italy, right?

No, we were all planted here by Johnny Appleseed.

Huh! Of course! Of course!

What about Uncle Giovanni?

Who?

All right, Uncle Giuseppe.



-Oh, I know him.

-Yeah, right. He came over on the boat in .

He had popcorn boxes in the bottom of his shoes

'cause he got holes in 'em.

You know that people today are still coming' here to America,

the land of milk and honey?

My store. It's even got my name on it, huh?

Hi, sonny.

This is somethin' to be proud of.

I'm proud. One day I'm gonna have a different kind of store,

maybe one without a wheel, and a wall.

I'll have a wall and a door, maybe a bathroom.

Yeah. And why?

Because America's a place you could start with nothin'

and you end up with somethin', huh?

Are you listening to me?

You know what America is? You could stand on a soapbox.

You could be different, you could speak your mind.

You could have the courage to act out your own convictions.

That's true. You know, America, America is John F. Kennedy,

"Don't ask what your country could do for you,

you ask what you could do for your country."

It's Ben Franklin,

"God helps those that help themselves."

That's what America is.

America is Jesse Owens,

"Climb with me to the summitless mountain, higher and higher."

Vince Lombardi,

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

And America is...

Irving Berlin, "God Bless America."

Oh, God bless America!

I tell you somethin' else,

America is also The Lone Ranger,

"Go for all the cookies, Tonto."

Yeah, that's right.

And Martin Luther King, "I have a dream."

That's what America is.

And what do all these people I talk about,

what do they have in common?

They had good hopes, they had high hopes, they had positive hopes.

'Cause you got to think positive!

[all] ♪ Think positive ♪



-♪ Take a sh*t ♪

-♪♪ Think positive ♪



-♪ Take a sh*t ♪

-♪ You got to take a sh*t In life ♪



-♪ Think positive ♪

-♪ Take a sh*t ♪



-♪ Think positive ♪

-♪ Take a sh*t ♪

♪ You got to Spread your wings and fly ♪

♪ You've got the bull By the horns ♪

♪ Look him square in the eye ♪

♪ Plant both your feet And just hold your head high ♪



-♪ Think positive ♪

-♪ Take a sh*t ♪



-♪ Think positive ♪

-♪ Take a sh*t ♪

♪ You got to take a sh*t ♪

♪ In life ♪

[cheering and applause]

♪ Whoa, think positive ♪

♪ Just grab the bull By the horns ♪

♪ Look him square in the eye ♪

♪ Plant both your feet On the ground, now ♪

♪ And just hold your head Up high ♪

♪ Think positive ♪



-♪ Positive ♪

-♪ Yeah, I said ♪



-♪ Think positive ♪

-♪ Positive ♪

♪ You've got to take a sh*t ♪

♪ In life ♪