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The Exact Moment Henry Winkler Stopped Being the Fonz

A breakout role like the Fonz is what every young comic actor aspires to. But once an actor becomes identified with an iconic TV character, it can be a prison that is nearly impossible to escape. "There were eight or nine years at a time when I couldn't get hired because I was The Fonz,” he told TODAY, “because I was typecast." 

“I had psychic pain that was debilitating because I didn't know what to do,” Winkler says of an acting career tethered to Fonzie. “I didn't know where to find it, whatever it was, I didn't know what I was going to do. I had a family. I had a dog. I had a roof. Oh. My. God.”

Not the Memes! Nicolas Cage Laments How He ‘Had No Control’ Over the Internet’s Reaction to His Work

Throughout the past two decades of internet humor, there has been nothing more reliably entertaining to the terminally online than screen acting icon Nicolas Cage losing his shit on screen. But what will happen if he ever loses his shit on the terminally online?

Roughly a decade ago, the actor famous for his distinctly expressive artistic style, described by Cage as “Western Kabuki,” commented on his unique online following whose interest in his work seemed to reach past his performances into stranger meta-territory. The community in question was a subreddit called “OneTrueGod,” which accumulated a six-figure membership over meme posts proclaiming the divinity of the actor who inspired scores of ubiquitous screenshots shared in forums across the internet.

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