While I’m on a “Happy Days” as agent of American national memory kick,

Bears pointing out that The Fonz was very much a rehabilitation of the “greaser” (along with Grease, I suppose), who in the actual 50s was quite a feared and loathed figure, as “juvenile delinquents”, street gangs, motorcycle gangs.

When the 70s needed to create a useful myth of the 50s they invented a sexy rebel who stood apart from normie patriarchy yet was completely reconcilable to it