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  • If this was made today, it would be full of transvestites, cross dressers and homosexuals fist fucking one another's gaping assholes. Another piece of Jewish crapola.

  • Ah, the memories. Thanks for posting this.

  • Omg...the memories!

  • OMG...THE MEMORIES!!!

  • i grew up in the 70's also, don't knock the music, black sabbath, deep purple led zepplin, jethro tull, aerosmith, ted nugent, frank zappa, lynyrd skynyrd, ect, ect, you must of grown up in bum-fuck egypt, minimum wage was 2.10 an hour, gas was 35 cents cigs were 25 cents, and a 12 ounce bud was15 cents, i had no problem with the 70's, this guy is going to vote for obama for another term, you're a goofball

  • @hulkwillsmash48 LMAO man!! I love the last part of your comment regarding that idiot Obama!! Not only is this guy a goofball but his ass is probably one of those old ass anarchists at the Occupy rally crap!! LMAO again!!

  • @mrjohnnysmith Oh, I get it. People have concerns about the direction of their country and you call them crap. Very intelligent. Extremely intelligent.

  • @hulkwillsmash48 - Yes, I grew up in the 70s as well. Everything you said is true. Wish I could return to those times...

  • Take it from an old geezer who remembers. I grew up in the 70s and they sucked. Times were as bad as they are now with high unemployment and with the additional burden of high inflation. In the late 70s I was a teenager and there was no hope of even a summer job at McDonald's unless you had a connection. TV sucked (the Brady Bunch!) movies sucked, the music sucked, everything sucked. Young people now—don't buy the rosy memories. The 70s was one of the worst decades in American History.

  • Where's Fonzie?

  • Best TV theme song ever. I catch myself singing it all the time. I like so many of those old episodes. And it's the Happy Days one. Thanks.

  • was great shlock at the time.. as it turns out.. nothing has been done as good since.. how's that for tv paradox. ha ..

  • Is this Love American Style, or Happy Days ? lol

  • XD This show looks ridiculous, but I cant help but like the theme

  • this was the pilot episode for "happy days"

    richie is used by a girl that just wants to watch his brand new tv set!

  • No KIDDING! I saw this episode on Friday, January 28,1972 just after returning

    from my first (ever) date. I knew this was a pilot to get Ron(ny) Howard back into

    a series after "The Smith Family" (Remember it ??) . Never thought it would sell,

    especially with Harold Gould as his father.. I thought it was Howard's "Swan Song' .. was I ever WRONG...

  • I agree with you kittybunnyface. There is something in particular about the early seventies that I have a special fondness for even though it was really before my time as I was still just a toddler. I wish I could revisit that time.

  • As a kid, my brother and I used to spit spittle in the air near the end of this song pretending it was the fireworks, lol

  • joujrneyman2mage, whatever drugs you are on, I'd like to have some so I too, could escape reality for a while. How else could you in your wildest dreams believe "conservatives" watch Jerry Springer and the "must see TV" crap that has polluted the airwaves since the mid 70s? The values shown on "Love American Style" may have been "liberal" compared to late 60s fare, but are conservative by today's standards. And why put "Fox News" into a discussion about sitcoms and entertainment? Idiotic!

  • X*D

  • So, this was the episode where Garry Marshal pushed the original idea for Happy

    Days.

  • The good old 240p :)

  • Great '60s music. When it was OK to say that you were an American and OK to talk about love. I was born in 1965 so I'm too young to have experienced it firsthand but I'm still nostalgic for it.

  • Okay, this clears it up. I tried telling someone I saw a Happy Days episode with Harold Gould instead of Tom Bosley and they thought I either had dreamed it or was crazy. I caught it in the middle on Nick at Night really early in the morning and had no idea it was "Love American Style".

  • i use to watch this show alot when it was on

  • Ronny...hehehe

  • I forgot that Happy Days started as a Love American Style episode.........

  • This is it !!! The pilot of HAPPY DAYS on LOVE AMERICAN STYLE.

  • The success of the movie American Graffitti, triggered the idea to make "Happy Days" a series.

  • Gad, I remember this theme--every Friday night!! Fun!! No shows like this any longer.

  • While it is true that passing time distorts memory, I have to disagree; I watch a lot of shows from the 60s and 70s now, thanks to YouTube, and they were more intelligent, the scripts were more literate, the plots were less predictable..although sometimes hairstyles were hideous. :-) But the first part of that goes triple for movies, which now tend to pander to the lowest possible common denominator because they're too damned expensive to produce. Try getting a new script like 'Sleuth' made.

  • Little known fact. Marion Ross was on an episode of the original b@w Perry Mason.

  • @houston937

    "I will defend your right to try ..."

  • I have never been able to understand some of the lines in the opening theme. Can anyone fill this in?

    On a star spangled night my love.

    You can rest your head on my shoulder.

    And by the dawn's early light my love.

    I will ???????????????

  • This must be more Nixon like..

  • This show ran a really long time, I was born in '71 and remember it all the way until the early 80's, although I think it was called New Love American Style at that time, not sure what was so new about it.

  • @JENDALL714 lol, whenever they call something 'New' on TV, it's a sign that it's getting really old!

  • Ron Howard, Marion Ross and Anson Williams are the only 3 members of this cast to have stayed with Happy Days when it got it's own show. I've seen the First Happy Days on Love American Style and the rest of the cast just didn't fit in and I'm glad they made changes.

  • ahahah this is such a great theme song LOL

  • I wish they'd put these on DVD. What an innocent time.

  • FUN SHOW ;)

  • The TV shows of the seventies were quite good and inoffensive as I would agree , growing up at the time , but mind you , not all TV shows today are crap . Yes , there are a lot of sex , violence , and potty humour these days , on both cable and network television , but this is a reflection of our times , people are not naive and innocent about life as they once were , clean wholesome TV doesn't cut it anymore . We cannot change TV back to what it was in the '70s , we could change certain things

  • The 70's were better and happier. I miss 'em.

  • @kittybunnyface I second this statement, and yes TV today is lousy compared to what we had back in the 60s and 70s. What happened?

  • @kittybunnyface No, the Seventies were horrible but at least people hadn't completely forgotten how to love each other, unlike today.

  • @kittybunnyface You are so right. Unfortunately, 1980 marked the end of the golden age of television.

  • Ah, little Ronny Howard. Whatever happened to him? :D

  • Television is horrendous now, yes this was a campy (but fun) TV Show that made you feel good. How much of the depressing crap they put on TV these days makes you feel good? I can't find anything. All this god awful reality crap just showing how stupid, vain, greedy, arrogant and annoying people are with or without a stupid cell phone stuck to their face.

    Sorry but the 70's were better. People were nicer, the pace was slower and TV made you feel good.

  • @DA90027 I agree completely !

  • I remember this one very well, some of the characters that were shown in this one either were completely phased out, or replaced with different actors when this particular episode evolved into a show which has become legend . . . Happy Days.

  • Yeah I agree today's junk is purely commercial. Bring back the love boat even for christ's sake or mash or any one of the feel good comedy's. We need to talk to the boss. If he/she aint in there 20's!

  • I love how everyone complains about how bad television is now compared to goofy stuff like this (even my dad hated Love American Style). Truly, Everything Was Better When You (yes, you) Were Twelve.

    Mark my words, we'll have people ten years from now complaining that Adventure Time and Criminal Minds were better cartoons/dramas than the tripe produced in the year 2021.

  • @RiotShield i actually like Criminal Mindas, bust have't ogtten around to watching it. mainly because im watching abc sitcoms and svu. i am a loyal law & order fan even if the shows aren't loyal to the fans.

  • @RiotShield -- You are correct in your analysis that things are much better

    from the past than they were at the time. I think we tend to

    distort the past sometimes.

  • @TIPTON340 I remember Love, American Style was on Nick @ nite at the time.

  • @JesseL85719 Which time am I talking about? My toddler time, of course!

  • @RiotShield hopefully people will say the same thing about Glee

  • @RiotShield

    the TV series of the 1960s and 1970s were optimistic, heartfelt, but clueless, and during an era when we needed to recognize our flaws (stop pretending not to see the racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, homophobia around us) so we could finally do something about them, such cluelessness seemed criminal

    however, today, when the U.S. seems damaged beyond repair by Bush's vandalism of the Constitution and our national honor and by Obama's inertia, a time of clueless hope looks pretty good

  • @RiotShield Now wait, just wait a minute.. Adventure Time is ALREADY better than any other cartoons!

  • @RiotShield Who the hell are you? Future Man?....LOL

  • @RiotShield You've realized something everyone already knows.

  • @n8tracks The way people carry on about media from the 90s and earlier makes me doubt that sometimes.

  • @RiotShield Flip what the zip? I'm not gonna spank your hams.

  • @RiotShield Well said! They just miss their youth.

  • @RiotShield That is probably VERY true. Although I do prefer stuff from the 50's and 60's more than the 90's when I was 12.

  • Anson Williams took a nightly ass pounding from Donny Most back in the seventies.

  • @yourdickis2limp Was that before or after Donny and you parted company?

  • @BlameRepublicans Donny Most was a born again bisexual who spent his years on happy Days snorting cocaine off of Henry Winklers dick.

  • @yourdickis2limp In the days prior to crack?  LOL!

  • @BlameRepublicans Crack was the black mans way of expressing himself in America.The blackman doesnt have skills,education or class...so they take Cocaine and fugure out how to stick it in a pipe and smoke their heart away which has helped cut down on the population of unemployed,welfare Niggers for the past 25 years.

  • @yourdickis2limp did a black man touch you "down there" while at camp?

  • @BlameRepublicans no,but a black man came in your little sisters mouth while you and your mother Watched and masterbated.

  • @yourdickis2limp So they're not "niggers" anymore? It didn't happen at camp? Was it at your church? Ahh poor little bigot. You had your "lil smokey" touched by a black man in church? LOL. You're a crazy moron to me.

  • @BlameRepublicans A Nigger is a Nigger sambo."Camp","Church",why not at the nighborhood crack house where you and your family spend ninety percent of your time fucknuts?Now go fire up the pipe and let your local Nigger crackdealer make a better living for himself?

  • So let me get this straight - you seek to classify an subset of people as inferior to you despite the fact there are many members of said subset who are far more successful than you - all based on skin color? Wow - that's original. I don't think that's been done before. You should apply for a patent. You should design your own uniforms, maybe form a team, or clan. I bet that would be real successful. You know - stopping blacks from raising up through the ranks and becoming President. IDIOT

  • @BlameRepublicans you no nothing about me fucknuts,so why even have this conversation?I think your attempt to question my "inferiorities" and "lack of success" is just a typical American condecing his way to bully a decent guy into feeling as though hes inadaqute and not worthy of enjoying the American dream our fonding fathers and mothers worked so hard for.Go pick on someone else this afternoon Sambo Im going to make love to my beautiful wife in my big white house in my all white neighborhood.

  • @yourdickis2limp Id like to make it manditory for this guy to live in the all black sections of LA and then tell us how nice it is. Of course, he would not last one week there. Of cpourse liberals never live around what they preach about.

  • @Bag0fRats @BlameRepublicans is a member of the Wiccans organization who was caught robbing a spermbank in Harlem and is now wearing an ankle bracelet in his mothers basement for the next 5 years to rid society of himself.He actualy sticks up for Niggers because he has them to thank for inventing Crack cocaine which helps him fantasize about watching his wife get gang banged by a dozen Harlem Globetrotters.

  • @yourdickis2limp ouch ! 

  • @Bag0fRats @BlameTheRepublicans still works night shifts at a local XXX hard core gay porn movie theater(the kind that Pee Wee Herman got arrested in).He gets paid $5 an hour to lick the man goo off of the video screans and a bottle of Listerine for being such a devoted employee.

  • @yourdickis2limp Bullshit. A liberal with a job will no longer be a liberal. No liberal program would survive without welfare bribery.

  • @Bag0fRats @BlametheRepublicans was a John Bircher years ago but ran away when many of his friends started killing themselves.

  • @yourdickis2limp  So Niggaz invented crack???.

  • @BlameRepublicans I have news for you blacks are just as racist as whites. However, white liberal pussies (redundaznt I know) never want to talk about that. Why dont you fakes do something about the N word said in all these rap songs ? Oh, you dont have the balls to do that.

  • @Bag0fFat

    "redundaznt" Lol fucking idiot. It's called English - try it some time. Jackass.

  • @yourdickis2limp if he's a Dem he'll now tell us how angry he is that those two queefs could not get married.

  • @Bag0fRats Erin Moran said she had so many problems having sex with the cast of Happy days because all of them were Gay or bisexuals who would rather snort Cocaine than shove a stiff dick in her fat ass.Moran claims that the only stright guy on the set of Happy Days was Pat Moriata but he had only a half inch Chinnese dick.She also said that Ted McGinley swallowed so much of Anson Williams,Ron Howard,Donny Most and Henry Winklers man goo one night that he had his stomach pumped out.

  • this was one of my all time favorite theme songs.

    Ah !!Those were the day, TV just isnt the same anymore

  • The 70s were so campy.

  • Man that brings back memories

  • ..i used to watch this i think it was on late friday after the odd couple on ABC..friday was a good night for tv..we had a recently bought color tv and friday was about ''''sanford and son' ,brady bunch',' partridge family', 'chico and the man',''odd couple ,'love american style'',and because i could stay up late' carson' and the 'midnight special'. it's all meshed together because of time gone by but i remember those days well.my fave LAS was the episode with "wait till your father gets home'

  • jrf, i agree, i was about same age and we did same thing,brady bunch,partridge family,mannix with the whole family by the tv,does that happen with familes these days,i don't think so.........

  • what the f_ck is taking so for season 2 of love american style to get released out

    on DVD

  • HOLY CRAP!!! That's RIGHT!!! Happy Days was piloted as a story on Love American Style, I totally forgot that.

  • I loved this show!! I was 8 years old in 1969, My parents had just purchsed our very 1st color TV during the summer of '69 and sitting down with my brothers in front of big 27 inch Magnavox on Friday Nights was a blast. I miss the 'old' days!!!

  • OMG cant belive this I just teared up thanks for posting this

  • Sadly,Mr.Gould is gone! (Crying)Goodbye Hal!

  • that sound is so beautiful. with the 70's horns and vocal harmonies..

  • Wow! You just hit this guys heart with an awesome memory of my childhood home and watching this show with my brothers in our living room. The song gave me a nostalgic kinda sad yearning for that time.

  • the sad thing all new generation today tv shows sucks, danm back in the 80s were better, 

  • They should have kept Harold Gould as Mr. Cunningham. LOVE this classic theme tune. Harmonies rock.

  • The best thing about this show was that it was on friday night. Also remember my friend's parents wouldn't let him watch it because they thought it was too racey. haha

  • this sucks real bad just bad taste please let it die please

  • depressing man every ones dead

  • hey great theme,remeber it well,who sung it.thanks for download!

  • @auggdogrules This version is The Cowsils later seasons featured a different group of singers but the same song.

  • this song brings back childhood boners. mmmmm. (:>)

  • R.I.P. Harold Gould. :'(

  • @tjmooney Yes Harold Gould was Ann Marie"s father on the original "That Girl" Pilot! I believe that was unaired at the time but is included on the wonderful dvd 5 season collection of That Girl!

  • @tjmooney He was great in The Sting and a hundred other movies and tv shows.

  • I remember watching this show as a kid when it was first run..........man I feel old all of a sudden! What ever happened to that Ron Howard guy? lol

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  • THE GOOD OLE DAYS Now the only good thing on is sports and old shows. Thank GOD for DVDs

  • kewl show , i need a time machine

  • Man, 44 years old. What the heck happened?

  • @neneshubby you got old like me....lol

  • @neneshubby A lot of shitty tv programing an drugs.

  • Can you believe it? "Happy Days" was a Spinoff of "Love American Style". I heard the rumors but didn't really believe it until now! Amazing!

  • Wow! I remember those glorious days when this show was on. Brought tears to my eyes. I will trade every one of that reality crap and sexual innuendo trash today for this show, and others like it from the 70's!

  • @musicollector1975 I agree.  So many wonderful shows then. Not like the trashy junk today.

  • Belive it or not, this episode kicked off the "TV Land" network, in 1996. This episode made television history, by being the pilot of a cable network.

  • My twin Billy and I watched our grandpa (a widower) on Friday nights and would watch this show with him-TV just is not the same..keep the postings coming...

  • MST3K Brought me here

  • @dimsumboy22 You watched The Creeping Terror 3 weeks ago, eh? :)

  • I loved this show!

  • wnen I watched this show it was because nothing better was on. It was on the rerun channel 17, 29 or 48. better then room 222

  • Duckman

  • Remember Watchung This On Fridays Back In The Early 70's. If I Recall That Lineup It Was In The Following Order::" THE BRADY BUNCH," " THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY," "NANNY AND THE  PROFESSOR," " THE ODD COUPLE," And This Show. Ahh, Those Were The Days!

  • It's hard to believe that "Happy Days" was a spin off from this show.

  • @raydio60 I also always heard all these years that Happy Days idea came from the movie.. "American Graffiti". Strange.

  • @pepjrp I heard that too but I don't know how true that was because Ron Howard was in American Graffiti and his name was not Richie Cunningham and the story takes place in 1962.

  • I don't get it. Happy Days spun off this?? What was the premise of Love American Style, then?

  • @whoisdickieschnabel IIRC, the episode was about a girl Richie Cunningham had the hots for, and when the Cunninghams got a TV (when it was new and few had them), she pretended to be interested in Richie only so she could check out the TV. Typical Love American Style "plot" of the hassles of chasing the opposiie sex except it was set in the 50s. All LAS episodes were silly, cheesy, corny comedy about romance, sex and dating. HD was just 50s nostalgia sitcom developed from this one episode.

  • @whoisdickieschnabel every story episode had the the word love in its title. This was "Love and the Happy Days".

  • its sad that the hippy generation ended like THIS. Wow all those musicians were the real american heroes if they were still arouud things would be different

  • I remember this show!! Brings back memories! Great theme!

  • Even the opening music makes you feel good. I want to go back, life sucks now!

  • @DA90027 Never were truer words spoken than in your 2nd sentence.

  • I had forgotten that Love American Style had launched the show Happy Days.

  • Oh gosh I use to watch this show and Room 222 plus another called That Girl.

  • @GuyinCa Oh wow, I loved Room 222 (and That Girl :-)

  • @TishKitty Yay, another who remembers That Girl. Awww, those where the days weren't they. Good old mom got me hooked on those shows, plus I use to watch a few soaps with her even.

  • Damn,what happened to the time? I was just a child when I watched this.Now you couldn't pay me to watch television.

  • TV of today is nothing but crime shows and Reality Shows and a huge dose of prescription drug commercials. You hear that Sally Field. You and your damn osteoporosis drug commericial. . Im sick of it. Go back to being the Flying Nun and lose your hat and crash into the sea. Love American Style. Just a harmless fun litle show from a much better time period that has now gone by.

  • Wow, I used to watch this as a kid in the glorious seventies! What memories!

  • The best days of my life.

  • i love the show i watch them all the time i am 54 now and i still love them i was a bobby sheman fan and still are for my whole life mary in colorado spring co

  • Interestng that 3 actors from "Happy Days" are in this episode: Richie (Ron) Potsie (Anson) and Marion (Marion Ross).

  • It was 41 year ago (1969)., bring back a good old days., since we were young. Look at the TV now a day. There is no anything like before.

  • @MrKaewkwan

    lol, i was born in '76. But you're right. TV now a days is saturated with "reality" shows amother other junk.

  • @MrKaewkwan The TV of yesteryear tops all the crap they show now. Maybe we didnt have the great special effects of today, but we had something todays TV never has.... Class !

  • the birth of Happy Days

  • I remember catching a bit of this if I was sick and at home alone back in the mid-70s (so it was recent re-runs). It was very sexual and in retrospect marked the transition from the late 60s to the 70s/80s mores (for good or bad). I also remember seeing the Love in the Happy Days show (bit) and being confused, because it looked like Happy Days in Bizarro World. A few different actors and settings. That clip would later become the basis for the show.

  • Happy Days/New Family in Town died when the producers replaced Ric Carrott and Susan Neher.

  • I was only five years when this program came out. I'm now 40 and it's still one of my absolute favorites.

  • @MaliceInWonderland04  this program came out in the late 60's

  • Hey ighforever I think you should turn off your TV

  • @ighforever - Did I miss something? Why does the minute opening of a 35 year old TV show "promote cheating, sleeping around?

  • love this song

  • Actually I think this is when the Theme song was actually sung by Charles Fox Singers, I could be wrong. Cowsils only Sang it first season

  • This was sung by the Cowsills of course, the real Partridge family!

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  • You will note this was the "pilot" for the "Happy Days" TV show.

  • I loved wathcing love american style as a kid.

  • Didn't know about this. I do remember Love American Style. This was what they called an anthology show, since the cast changed with each story. I'm pretty sure I was too young to really get this show, when it was on network TV.

  • Oh my, The crew from Happy Days is in this opening. Before Happy Days ever appeared.

  • @badalice07 Happy Days was a spin-off from this episode.

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  • me and my buddy love watching this, that guy Margolin from the ROCKFORD FILES was always in this, he' as funny as heck

    bt

  • My mom wouldn't ket me watch this show because is was too risque. Funny how I remember all the words to the into song--ha! Guess that's why we sat so close to the TV...not only because there was no remote control, but for super speedy channel changing! Ah....the good ol' days!

  • Lol I sing This Song In my Volvo and people look at me like im on crack what a fricken riot I love this song it really reminds me of satarday morning cartoons with the super friends and Hr Puffinstuff

    ...

  • @bruford55 The Cowsills!

  • As a kid in the 1970s, I watched TONS of syndicated reruns of classic tv shows. But LAS wasnt one of them. The reason? The story lines, dealing with love, adult relationships, romance, etc., went WAY over my young head. However, that aside, I LOVED the opening theme song. Many is the time that when LAS came on, Id watch the opening theme, then change the channel to my shows that was opposite it. Decades pass, they release LAS episodes on DVD. I finally watch it as an adult & loving it.

  • cool show, way ahead of its time and at the height of the 70's sexual revolution. hit the mark perfectly.