Ron Howard says he would have left if 'Happy Days' made this big change

In a recent interview with Vulture, Ron Howard admitted to the one change on Happy Days that his "ego" would not allow for. 

"I never, ever challenged what they were doing creatively. It made perfect sense that you’d build this Fonzie character and maximize that," the actor, who starred as Richie Cunningham, expressed. "But the optics of now being in a show called Fonzie’s Happy Days, my ego wouldn’t allow for that. I wasn’t bluffing. I would’ve left. And my contract, I’m sure, had no clause connected to titles. They could have said, 'F--- you. We changed the title, and we expect you to show up Monday morning.' But thank God for great bosses. Garry Marshall said, 'If you’re not cool with it …'"

However, he wasn't the only one against the title change. "I later found out Henry [Winkler] himself thought it was a terrible idea," Howard shared. "I think the position I took made it easy for both Garry and Henry to also say, 'No, let’s not do that.' Years later, Henry said they were ready to do a spinoff and other things for Fonzie and he just said, 'Why fix it if it’s not broken? My success depends on the ensemble I’m in.'"