Greece Is the Word (Happy Days Gang)

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Greece Is the Word
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Premiere date	January 31, 1981
Run time	25:46
Starring	Henry Winkler Ron Howard Donny Most Frank Welker Didi Conn Dena Dietrich
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Director(s)	Gordon Hunt (voices)
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"Greece Is the Word" is the thirteenth and final episode of The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang season one. It aired on January 31, 1981 on ABC. It was voice directed by Gordon Hunt.

The Happy Days gang land in ancient Greece, which is being seized by the Medusa-like Umbra.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Cupcake	Didi Conn
The Fonz	Henry Winkler
Mr. Cool	Frank Welker
Richie Cunningham	Ron Howard
Ralph Malph	Donny Most
Lumina	Unavailable
General Kallis	Unavailable
Umbra	Dena Dietrich
Ralph's mother
Colossus	N/A

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Arnold's
  • Greece
  • Atlantis
• Neptune (mentioned)

Objects

• Timeband
• Lumina's charm
• Umbra's ring
• Ralph's petrified frog
• Scooby Snacks (mentioned)

Vehicles

• Cupcake's time machine ship
• Umbra's galley

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Behind the scenes

• The episode title is a play on "Grease is the word", a line in the chorus of the song "Grease" in the 1978 musical film of the same name.
• When Lumina thinks that Mr. Cool has found Fonzie's friends, he responds jokingly that it's either that or a year's supply of Scooby Snacks, the favorite snack used as a bribe in coercing Scooby-Doo from Scooby-Doo, Whereh Are You! and its spin-offs.

Errors

• When Ralph says he'll give up his Captain Cosmo decoder ring to General Calais, he just throws more paper at him.
• When Cupcake felt obligated to correct Fonzie that Ralph didn't have a key to the time ship, she said it right in front of Umbra.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • November 5, 2019: CBS Home Entertainment releases The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang: The Complete Animated Series on DVD.