Aaaaah! Henry Winkler and Ron Howard reunited at the 2024 Emmy Awards on Sunday, celebrating their 50th anniversary. Happy days.
Dressed in black suits, Howard and Winkler stood behind a booth at their usual spot, Arnold's. Before conjuring up their fictional characters from decades past, Winkler paid tribute to Howard's recent Emmy win for his work on the Disney+ documentary Jim Henson is a man of ideas.After a round of applause from the audience, Winkler said of standing on happy days Replica Set, “I Feel Like Home”.
the happy days The intro song was as legendary as the show itself. During the duo's reunion, Howard jokingly mentioned to Winkler that the music was missing from their moment on stage, prompting Winkler to bring out his inner Fonzie. Winkler walked over to the jukebox, banged on it as his iconic character always does, and shrugged in a way that only Arthur Fonzarelli could.
There are several layers of nostalgia at play here, as is the case with happy days The series is set in the 1950s but was filmed in the 1970s, and turns 50 in January.
During the reunion, Howard announced Christopher Storer as the winner in the comedy directing category. The bear.
The TV cast also reunited at the 2023 Emmy Awards in January. Ted Danson, Rhea Perlman, Kelsey Grammer, and John Ratzenberger from chants They reunited (at their infamous bar, of course), while the cast members were All in the family, Martinand Gray's Anatomy Television icons Carol Burnett and Joan Collins also attended the ceremony.
Although cast meetings also took place at the 2024 Emmy Awards, Jesse Collins Entertainment executive producer Dionne Harmon told diverse They tried to change things up a bit. “The response to January was amazing, and we felt like people really connected to the nostalgia,” they said. “So we wanted to come up with a way to bring that nostalgia to the show on Sunday without doing exactly the same thing. We really focused on the TV shows that everyone loved in January, and on Sunday, we’re going to focus on the characters, the individual characters from all kinds of shows.”
