# Friendly's offering a Happy Ending

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friendlys-offering-a-happy-ending/583494>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 27, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friendlys-offering-a-happy-ending/583494 "2011-05-27T22:14:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friendlys-offering-a-happy-ending/583494/1 "2011-05-27T22:14:50Z")

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Hilarious.

> **[Is Friendly’s being overly friendly?](https://www.adweek.com/adfreak/friendly-s-being-overly-friendly-20478/)**

And, we would presume, completely intentional…

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friendlys-offering-a-happy-ending/583494/2 "2011-05-27T22:54:08Z")

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The article doesn’t make it clear but Friendly’s has had “Happy Endings Sundaes” for years.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friendlys-offering-a-happy-ending/583494/3 "2011-05-27T23:26:00Z")

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> [@Telemark](#):
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> The article doesn’t make it clear but Friendly’s has had “Happy Endings Sundaes” for years.

The article is six years old, that’s why all the links are broken.

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**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friendlys-offering-a-happy-ending/583494/4 "2011-05-27T23:32:00Z")

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Yeah, I was tipped off by the reference to the recently released movie Happy Endings, which I saw several years ago and which was not a recent release back when I saw it.

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friendlys-offering-a-happy-ending/583494/5 "2011-05-28T01:25:18Z")

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> [@Larry\_Mudd](#):
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> The article is six years old, that’s why all the links are broken.

This is a very unusually form of Zombie thread. Maybe Zombie by Proxy?

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friendlys-offering-a-happy-ending/583494/6 "2011-05-28T02:29:13Z")

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> [@Larry\_Mudd](#):
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> The article is six years old, that’s why all the links are broken.

Sure, but they’ve offered Happy Ending Sundays for much, much longer than six years. It seems like they trademarked Happy Ending back in 1984.

How long has “happy ending” be associated with dodgy massage parlors? Not that long, for sure.