Laverne & Shirley
Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!
Best friends, roommates, and polar opposites, Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney work together at the Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee and keep each other's spirits up at home.
Seasons
1. The Society Party
Air Date: 1976-01-27
Shotz brewery bottle-cappers and best friends, Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney, are invited by the boss' nephew, Tad Shotz, to the Shotz formal society party. Shirley is excited about going while Laverne finds it insulting.
2. The Bachelor Party
Air Date: 1976-02-03
While Mr. DeFazio is away for a few days, Laverne and Shirley take over running the Pizza Bowl for him. Later, The Fonz convinces the girls to let him host a wild bachelor party at the Pizza Bowl - it goes against Shirley's better judgement, but Laverne doesn't see any problem with it. When the party gets started, however, the girls both begin to realize just how much of a mess they've gotten themselves into.
3. Bowling for Razzberries
Air Date: 1976-02-10
During the annual Shotz bowling tournament, Laverne decides to get even with her bowling rival, Karen from the past 5 years. However, on the big night, Laverne falls ills and takes heavy medication, leaving Laverne ""jerky"" during the tournament.
4. A Nun's Story
Air Date: 1976-02-24
While Laverne & Shirley await their yearly high school reunion, they reminisce about their old crazy friend, Anne-Marie, who shows up at the reunion a nun.
5. Falter at the Altar
Air Date: 1976-03-02
Laverne suddenly decides to marry her boyfriend of only two months before he is sent away by the Navy.
6. Dog Day Blind Dates
Air Date: 1976-03-09
Laverne & Shirley double date with two criminals who secretly intend on robbing the bank next to the Pizza Bowl.
7. Once Upon a Rumor
Air Date: 1976-03-16
Shirley's stuck zipper on her skirt leaves for a sticky situation when Lenny witnesses Squiggy with Shirley, half-dressed, leading to rumors around the Shotz Brewery that Shirley is a ""fun date.""
8. One Flew Over Milwaukee
Air Date: 1976-03-23
Shirley drives everyone she knows crazy when she loses her pet canary.
9. Dating Slump
Air Date: 1976-03-30
Shirley becomes reclusive and refuses to date after learning that Carmine has a new girlfriend, which drives Laverne crazy.
10. It's the Water
Air Date: 1976-04-06
Laverne & Shirley try to earn promotions by trying out for the new beer tasting position.
11. Fakeout at the Stakeout
Air Date: 1976-04-13
Laverne & Shirley falls victims to a peculiar robber, known as the ""Milwaukee Masher.""
12. Hi, Neighbor
Air Date: 1976-04-27
Lenny & Squiggy drive Laverne & Shirley crazy when they move into the girls' apartment building.
13. How Do You Say 'Are You Dead' in German?
Air Date: 1976-05-04
Laverne & Shirley panic when a German delivery guy faints in their living room.
14. From Suds to Stardom
Air Date: 1976-05-11
After losing four talent contests, Laverne & Shirley decide to do something about it. This has Laverne and Shirley doing the 'Cabana' act.
15. Mother Knows Worst
Air Date: 1976-05-18
Shirley's domineering mother comes for a visit, and finds fault with Shirley, her friends, and everything else about Shirley's life, until Laverne sets her straight.
1. Drive! She Said
Air Date: 1976-09-28
Shirley offers Laverne free driving lessons in exchange for some money to buy a new car.
2. Angels of Mercy
Air Date: 1976-10-05
Laverne & Shirley become hospital volunteers.
3. Bachelor Mothers
Air Date: 1976-10-19
Since the girls have no dates that night, they agree to babysit Fonzie's godson. When they get a call for a big date only one of them can go, the other has to stay home and watch the baby. Laverne gets to go but when the date gets cancelled, Shirley has to stop Laverne from getting on a bus and going to Chicago to meet her date. Shirley asks Lenny and Squiggy to watch the baby while she goes to get Laverne. When the girls return to the apartment they find Lenny and Squiggy there but the baby is gone. Lenny and Squiggy gave it back to a guy who claimed to be it's father, the girls go berserk thinking all manners of horrible things has happened only to find out in the end it was indeed the father that they gave the baby to.
4. Excuse Me, May I Cut In?
Air Date: 1976-10-26
Laverne and Shirley's tv breaks down, and when the contest offering a prize of a new color set arises Shirley acts nice to Richie Cunningham so that he'll ask her and Laverne to the dance, but also the real reason is that they want Richie to ask his friend Potsie Weber, who happens to be the school's best dancer, to partner Laverne. Potsie gets injured and can't dance so Laverne teams up with Richie at the last minute to win the TV. When back at the flat, the girls have to come clean about them just wanting the TV, but the guys are so nice about it that they get a little of what they were hoping for anyways.
5. Bridal Shower
Air Date: 1976-11-09
Laverne & Shirley get an invitation to a bridal shower, but are afraid to go because they're the only ones left unmarried.
6. Look Before You Leap
Air Date: 1976-11-16
After a party at the brewery, Laverne comes home to find she's wearing a pair of men's boxer shorts. She starts to feel ill in the mornings but was so drunk the night before that she can't remember what happened. She fears that she's pregnant. So Lenny and Squiggy have a contest to see which of them will ask Laverne to marry them, Lenny wins and in a touching scene proposes to Laverne, of course in the end we discover that Laverne is not pregnant and that she was wearing the boxer shorts because she had been made an honorary guy at the brewery.
7. Dear Future Model
Air Date: 1976-11-23
Laverne & Shirley decide to become high fashion models and take a home modelling course.
8. Good Time Girls
Air Date: 1976-11-30
The girls get plenty of offers for dates after Icky Hector puts their names and phone number on several men's room walls.
9. Two of Our Weirdos Are Missing
Air Date: 1976-12-07
Lenny and Squiggy disappear after Laverne & Shirley decide not to go to the circus with them. The girls phone around and find that they've gone to join the circus. When they get to the circus they discover that the ringmaster doesn't want to hire them, the girls find Lenny and Squiggy rehearsing and tell them they're fired from the circus. They then offer to help them out of all their problems and it all ends happily with the girls showing that they do care about their friends.
10. Christmas Eve at the Booby Hatch (aka Oh, Hear the Angel Voices)
Air Date: 1976-12-21
Carmine calls the gang together at the Pizzabowl and asks them all if they're willing to help him put on a Christmas show for the local hospital. Carmine and none of the others know that it's a mental hospital. When they get there they're greeted by one of the patients pretending to be a doctor. The real doctor enters and tells the group that it is a mental hospital. Shirley immediately becomes anxious as her parents always used to threaten her when she was a little girl that she would be placed in such a place along with her dotty aunt. The shows starts with Edna doing a song and playing a small guitar, followed by Carmine singing ""Jingle Bell Rock"" and tap dancing, then Lenny and Squiggy sing ""The Jolliest Fat Man"" and finished off with Laverne and Shirley baton twirling and singing. The show ends on a warm note getting the message to the viewer that they shouldn't forget the poor people who are on their own at Christmas.
11. Guilty Until Proven Not Innocent
Air Date: 1977-01-04
Laverne is arrested for shoplifting, so Shirley tries to get her released.
12. Anniversary Show
Air Date: 1977-01-10
While the girls are stuck at a train station in Canada, the rest of the gang is waiting for them to have a surprise party at the Pizzabowl. To pass the time they sit around and reminisce through flashbacks of scenes from previous episodes.
13. Playing Hooky
Air Date: 1977-01-11
The girls both call in sick to Shotz and decide to have 'fun' instead. They go to the movies where they see a couple of guys and Laverne waves at them throughout the picture. Later in the children's play park, Shirley goes to get fudgecicles. One of the guys from the movie theater comes over and talk to Shirley, then goes back to his friend. Later, while at their apartment, the guys, who have followed them home invite themselves in. They play a game of charades and one of the guys goes out to buy pink champagne. The other guy offers the girls $100 to buy something for themselves. When they take it, he handcuffs them and arrests them for being ""pros"". His friend comes back to find the girls upset and crying. When he finds out his new rookie partner, who's on his first case, offered the girls money, he tells him that's not allowed because it's entrapment and orders him to free Laverne and Shirley. To try to make it up to them, they offer to take them out to dinner and show them a good
14. Guinea Pigs
Air Date: 1977-01-18
The girls become guinea pigs in order to raise money to go to a cocktail party. Laverne is allowed to sleep for a few minutes at a time, and Shirley has to eat dirt.
15. Call Me a Taxi
Air Date: 1977-02-01
The girls take jobs as taxi dancers when they get laid off.
16. Steppin' Out
Air Date: 1977-02-08
The girls have big dates now if only they can get themselves together in time.
17. Buddy, Can You Spare a Father?
Air Date: 1977-02-15
Shirley goes to a sleazy bar to look for her father.
18. Honeymoon Hotel
Air Date: 1977-02-22
Shirley wins a vacation at a newlywed hotel. Laverne and Shirley plan to use Carmine to fool the hotel staff into letting them in, thinking they'll be left alone after the inital photos. Unfortunately they never get a moments peace and a mass party ensues.
19. Hi, Neighbor Book 2
Air Date: 1977-03-01
Laverne & Shirley come to the rescue when Lenny and Squiggy get stood up.
20. Frank's Fling
Air Date: 1977-03-08
Laverne asks Lenny, Squiggy and Carmine to dress up as gangsters in order to scare away a golddigger who wants to marry her father.
21. Haunted House
Air Date: 1977-03-22
The girls want new furniture and go looking for a used couch, in a haunted house. Lenny and Squiggy go with Laverne and Shirley to the haunted house to help them remove a couch if they buy one. Of course, the cast start to disappear one by one until there's only the girls left, they can't get out. In the end discover that it is the owners of the house who are trying to scare people away so they don't have to move. Shirley discovers that Abe Lincoln once slept in the house and suggests they have the house marked as a piece of history which saves the building.
22. Lonely at the Middle
Air Date: 1977-03-29
Shirley is promoted to supervisor and has the other workers hating her for it.
23. Citizen Crane
Air Date: 1977-04-05
Milwaukee's most prominent citizen, Charles Feister Crane, decides to make Laverne and Shirley his newest singing discovery, a singing duet called ""The Rosebuds"".
1. Airport '59
Air Date: 1977-09-20
Laverne & Shirley go on their first plane trip and end up flying it when their pilot faints at the controls.
2. Tag Team Wrestling
Air Date: 1977-09-27
Laverne starts off by telling Shirley how a driver had cut her off so she had shouted back to her that she was a 'banana face'. Later on, Laverne's big tag team partner from the brewery can't compete due to injury and Shirley has to take her place. Once in the ring, they discover that the professional wrestlers their facing are the ladies Laverne insulted that morning and the match is now on for real.
3. The Pact
Air Date: 1977-10-04
Laverne and Shirley get into a huge fight after Shirley's new boyfriend asks Laverne out. The girls agree to make a pact swearing never to let a guy come between them again.
4. Robot Lawsuit
Air Date: 1977-10-25
A giant robot attacks Laverne in a toy store this leads her to sue the toy company.
5. Laverne's Arranged Marriage
Air Date: 1977-11-01
Laverne's father arranges a marriage for her to a wealthy cheese manufacturer who happens to be in the mob.
6. Cruise (1)
Air Date: 1977-11-08
Shirley is waiting anxiously for Laverne to come back from the bank with their savings for their cruise holiday that they have been planning on for weeks. When Laverne comes in, she tells Shirley that they have $50 less than they thought, and now they're not going to be able to take the cruise as they only have two days until the ship sets sail. The girls get depressed until Laverne says that they shouldn't give up hope, that they still have two days left and that they'll think of something to come up with the money. The girls go see Carmine who gets them a job at J&J Shoes. Carmine tells the owner he'll bring all his tap dance students over to his store to buy their shoes if he hires Laverne and Shirley for the weekend. The guy hires the girls and tells them to go and get changed into their uniforms. When we see Laverne and Shirley again, Shirley is dressed as Jack and Laverne is dressed as Jill from the nursery rhyme. The store owner tells them they'll get $2 for every pair of shoes
7. Cruise (2)
Air Date: 1977-11-15
Lenny and Squiggy begs Laverne and Shirley not to squeal on them. Shirley succumbs to their pitiful begging faces and warns them that if they're caught they don't know them, they've never known them etc.. Next Laverne is seen feeling sickly as she's battling with sea-sickness while trying to chat up the sailors. The boys are pretending to be part of the band and are scrounging bits of food here and there, when Ensign Benson walks by. The boys jump over the rail and are holding on with their fingertips. They're going to get away with it until a sailor empties the mess hall garbage over the side on top of them. Now the boys are caught and are air-lifted via helicopter back to Milwaukee harbor. The girls come clean about helping the boys, however Shirley has caught the eye of Ensign Gary Benson and they get let off. We see Laverne hooting it up in the sailor's mess, spinning the anchor and kissing the sailors while Shirley is out gazing across the ocean and into the stars with Ensign B
8. Laverne and Shirley Meet Fabian
Air Date: 1977-11-22
Fabian's concert is sold out, but the girls still want to see him. The girls bet Rosie that they can not only meet Fabian but that they will have their pictures taken with him. Rosie agrees to the bet, and says that if she should lose she'll clean the girls flat with her toothbrush. Needless to say, Rosie is soon scrubbing the floors, toothbrush and all.
9. The Stakeout
Air Date: 1977-11-29
Carmine is suspected of being a counterfeiter, so the F.B.I. use Laverne and Shirley's flat as a stakeout to catch him in the act.
10. Shirley's Operation
Air Date: 1977-12-06
The gang is rehearsing the play ""Alice In Wonderland"" so they're all in costume: Shirley is Alice, Laverne is the Mad Hatter, Lenny and Squiggy are Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee. Shirley faints on the couch and is taken to hospital where it is discovered that her appendix is about to burst. Fearful that she is going to lose her hair for the operation, Shirley hides while everyone else tries to find her before her appendix bursts.
11. Take My Plants, Please
Air Date: 1977-12-13
The girls get laid off so they go to work for themselves selling flowers and plants door to door.
12. New Years Eve 1959
Air Date: 1977-12-27
It is New Years Eve and Laverne is dumped by her date and Shirley has a cold. Squiggy does his human fly stunt as the countdown to the new year, 1960, arrives.
13. The Mortician
Air Date: 1978-01-10
Laverne has a crush on a mortician who is more interested in her dead than alive. To help her chances of getting to know the mortician better, Laverne asks Shirley to pretend she is dying.
14. The Horse Show
Air Date: 1978-01-17
Shirley rescues a horse from a glue factory and put it in her bedroom. The girls try to find a new home for Buttercup before she's turned into glue. In the end it's Lenny and Squiggy who save the day by finding a farm with a nice pasture who's willing to let the horse live out the remainder of its days in contentment.
15. The Slow Child
Air Date: 1978-01-24
When Mrs. Babish's mentally slow daughter, Amy, comes to visit, a moving relationship soon develops between her and Lenny - despite the fact that almost everyone believes Lenny just wants to take advantage of ""the slow child"". But to everyone's amazement, Lenny really comes through as a thoughtful, sensitive and caring person toward Amy.
16. The Second (Almost) Annual Shotz Talent Show
Air Date: 1978-01-31
Mr. Shotz wants the girls to find a spot in the talent show for his no-talent nephew.
17. The Dentist
Air Date: 1978-02-07
Laverne has a chipped tooth and goes to Shirley's dental student cousin Mikey. Laverne, as a favor to Shirley, allows Shirley's dentist cousin to fix her tooth. The only problem is he's a lousy dentist and Laverne can't let on that he's doing a terrible job as Shirley's cousin's professor is watching every move he makes.
18. Bus Stop
Air Date: 1978-02-14
The girls take a bus to a distant city to visit two medical students who leave them stranded.
19. The Driving Test
Air Date: 1978-02-21
The show starts with Laverne and Shirley chatting away in the Shotz brewery canteen when Lenny and Squiggy come in. Upon opening their pay checks, Squiggy discovers a letter from Max Shotz himself. He reads it aloud and the gang discovers that Squiggy failed his written driving test and he must retake it this Saturday and pass or lose his truck driver's licence and his job. We next see Laverne and Shirley spring cleaning their flat, Shirley is pouring soapy water on the floor while singing ""Twist Again"" as Laverne with sponges on her feet does the twist to clean the floor. Lenny comes in all upset and asking the girls if they'll help him help Squiggy to pass his test as Squiggy is getting very depressed. The girls reluctantly agree as if they don't, Lenny says he'll have to move in with them as he won't be able to afford the rent on his own. Laverne is asking Squiggy some highway code questions in which his answer is ""Here chicky, chicky, chicky"". After a few minutes of this, Laverne j
20. The Obstacle Course
Air Date: 1978-02-28
The policeman in charge of testing the recruits thinks Shirley is too puny and weak to do the assault course, so Laverne helps Shirley train to prove him wrong. Laverne's policeman boyfriend is getting women volunteers together to form L.A.M.P. (Ladies' Auxiliary Milwaukee Police). Laverne is naturally selected, but then Shirley wants to try it too. Laverne tries to dissuade her but ends up agreeing as long as Shirley doesn't quit. When Shirley gets there, no sooner does she try the obstacle course than she fails at the first obstacle which happens to be a pool of water. Shirley runs out of the room soaking wet. Laverne finds Shirley at the Pizzabowl in the ladies room, and Shirley now wants to quit. Laverne calls Shirley a cream puff and storms out. Back at the apartment, Shirley apologizes and says she'll keep at it if Laverne will help her become more athletic. Laverne then trains Shirley in all the obstacle course events until the day of the test, Shirley manages all the obstacles
21. The Debutante Ball
Air Date: 1978-05-09
Laverne and Lenny go to a debutantes' ball where Lenny learns he is 89th in line for the Polish throne.
22. 2001: A Comedy Odyssey
Air Date: 1978-05-16
Laverne dreams she and Shirley are in their 80's still living together and still single. Laverne and Shirley are old and single but so are Lenny and Squiggy which leads to them going to marry each other finally so they can have some fun.
23. The Dance Studio
Air Date: 1978-05-23
The girls try and help Carmine get financing so that he can open his own dance studio. Of course, they end up ruining it for Carmine so in the end Frank and Edna lend him the money that the banks won't.
24. Breaking Up and Making Up
Air Date: 1978-05-30
Laverne and Shirley try to get Frank and Edna back together after they break up when Edna's ex-husband comes to town.
1. Shotgun Wedding (II)
Air Date: 1979-09-13
The girls get engaged to Richie and Fonzie to avoid a shotgun wedding. The crossover starts on Happy Days S07E01 Shotgun Wedding (I).
2. One Heckuva Note
Air Date: 1979-09-20
Shirley finds an old love note written to Laverne from Carmine. This practically ends the girls friendship.
3. Fat City Holiday
Air Date: 1979-09-27
The girls get jobs at a weight loss camp.
4. Upstairs, Downstairs
Air Date: 1979-10-04
A fight over returning a wrongly issued check sets the girls to dreaming about Shirley in heaven and Laverne in hell.
5. What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?
Air Date: 1979-10-18
Shirley's brother returns home from the Navy, an alcoholic.
6. You've Pushed Me Too Far
Air Date: 1979-10-25
Lenny refuses to have anything to do with Squiggy after he pushes him into a garbage can from their second floor apartment window. Laverne and Shirley get the two friends to make up in Squiggy's uncle's wax works museum.
7. The Wedding
Air Date: 1979-11-01
Edna accepts a marriage proposal from Frank, who waited to the last minute to ask her. Laverne and Shirley end up singing at their wedding in an all-black gospel choir.
8. Bad Girls
Air Date: 1979-11-08
The girls realize things have changed in their old club "The Angora Debs," when they let Edna's niece Vicki join. Finding that it's become a gang of trouble making teenage girls. Can the girls save Vicki and the old Deb spirit as well?
9. You're in the Army, Now (1)
Air Date: 1979-11-15
Laverne & Shirley enlist in the W.A.C.s to get even for a missed promotion.
10. You're in the Army, Now (2)
Air Date: 1979-11-15
Laverne & Shirley regret joining the Army.
11. Take Two, They're Small
Air Date: 1979-11-22
Lenny and Squiggy fix Laverne and Shirley up with computer dates, who turn out to be midgets.
12. The Fourth Annual Shotz Talent Show
Air Date: 1979-12-06
Laverne and Shirley are in charge of selecting the acts for the 4th annual Shotz talent show. It starts off with Frank auditioning in Laverne and Shirley's apartment showing them his ventriloquist act. He produces a Laverne doll which cracks Shirley up but Laverne is none too impressed until Frank produces a Shirley doll which Laverne starts laughing at, but now Shirley doesn't find it so funny. They convince Frank that his act is just too good for the show and that he should MC it as usual. He agrees as he doesn't want to show up all the other acts. We then see Laverne and Shirley auditioning acts at Shotz. Upon the end of each act when Laverne and Shirley ask the never seen Mr.Shotz what he thought he of the last act, all we hear is a raspberry. Lenny and Squiggy sings a number called ""I Knew I Should Have Listened To Momma"" which also gets a raspberry. Carmine and Edna come in singing ""Yankee Doodle"" and tap dancing. Mr.Shotz loves this and tells the girls that he wants this year's
13. Testing, Testing
Air Date: 1979-12-13
Shotz hires a psychiatrist to evaluate job aptitudes. The gang are all terrified that some deep dark secret, or that all their inadequacies are going to be revealed when they visit the company shrink.
14. Not Quite South of the Border
Air Date: 1980-01-07
The girls can't wait to go on a vacation to Mexico. Unfortunately when they get there, they find half of their hotel room missing and that they have to share the room with another woman.
15. You Oughta Be in Pictures
Air Date: 1980-01-14
The girls jump at the chance to be the stars in a movie, unaware that the film they will be starring in is an Army hygiene film. Shirley begs Laverne to come and tryout for an acting part in a movie. Laverne agrees and they get to the studio. They subsequently get cast as the two stars of the feature. They have to go and get fitted for wardrobe and when they come out they're wearing cheap, gaudy costumes that Laverne immediately asks if they can keep. They're introduced to their leading men, upon which Shirley finds out that her leading man is gay. The director starts filming the movie and only then the girls find out they're playing hookers in an army hygiene film. When it's all over, we find Laverne and Shirley miserable at home. Then Lenny and Squiggy enter telling them they've just been to see the premiere of the film. Laverne and Shirley asks if anyone recognized them as the hookers. Lenny tells them not to worry, as no one recognized them, but he had to tell everybody it was the
16. The Beatnik Show
Air Date: 1980-01-21
Shirley is turned on to Beatnik culture, while visiting a local coffee house one evening. She soon begins wearing black, and moping around the apartment, complaining that nothing in her life is ""cool"" anymore. Laverne then tries to snap her friend out of this Beatnik mindset, so she can go back to being her old self again.
17. The Right to Light
Air Date: 1980-01-28
To protest a false bill, the girls chain themselves insde the gas company building, little knowing that another disgruntled customer has planted a bomb in the building. Because the girls are chained to the wall, they can't get out.
18. Why Did the Fireman . . .
Air Date: 1980-02-04
Laverne falls for a fireman who is always being called to duty. Before he gets a chance to propose to Laverne, he dies in the line of duty saving many lives.
19. The Collector
Air Date: 1980-02-11
The girls try to talk Carmine out of going to work for a loan shark.
20. Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1)
Air Date: 1980-02-26
The girls are riding the Moose Jaw Express when a murder victim enters their compartment.
21. Murder on the Moosejaw Express (2)
Air Date: 1980-03-04
Laverne and Shirley try to find out who the murderer is.
22. Survival Test
Air Date: 1980-03-11
Sargeant Alvina Plout takes the girls on a survival test against the men.
23. The Duke of Squiggmann
Air Date: 1980-03-25
Squiggy sleepwalks thinking he is a rich duke.
24. Antonio, the Amazing
Air Date: 1980-04-01
Laverne and Shirley are returning from a friend's wedding to find a strange man lying asleep on their sofa. Laverne arms herself with a baseball bat and is about to hit the guy when he turns over and she can't bring herself to hit him as she thinks he's gorgeous. She's just about to kiss him to wake him up when Frank and Edna informs the girls that this is Laverne's cousin from Italy called Antonio. Laverne is miserable that she can't date her cousin, but Shirley exclaims ""He's not my cousin"" and goes for it, only to be reminded by Edna that she's got Carmine. Anotnio greets everybody and announces he's come to America to make his fortune. Antonio is exercising with Lenny and Squiggy, who are teaching him some bad habits, like biting your palm if you like something. The boys leave to go collect hair from the local barber shop and Carmine comes in. Carmine is letting Antonio stay with him while he's in Milwaukee and gives Antonio a t-shirt to wear advertising his dance studio on the bac
25. The Diner
Air Date: 1980-05-06
Lenny inherits a greasy spoon diner called 'Laslo's Place', they immediately rename it ""Dead Laslo's Place"". Because Laverne and Shirley are desperate for work, they get hired to cook and waitress the diner. The girls get run off their feet and Shirley ends up running out of the diner screaming in frustration. Frank offers to buy the restaurant from Lenny, which he does, so now Frank has 2 restaurants.
26. Seperate Tables
Air Date: 1980-05-13
Shirley is building a lollipop stick model of her dream house. Laverne walks in wanting to go to the movies, but Shirley just wants to build her house in peace. Laverne starts to muscle in on Shirley's model and Shirley tells Laverne to go to see the movie on her own. Laverne doesn't want to and this prompts Shirley to ask Laverne is she's afraid to go on her own. Laverne says she's not afraid of nothing, and storms out. later she comes back and tells Shirley how good the movie was. Shirley thinking she went on her own, congratulates Laverne, Mrs. Kolchek walks in and it turns out that Laverne dragged the old woman from her bed to go to the movie with her rather than go on her own. Shirley tells Laverne she has a problem, and that she's probably very insecure. Laverne realizes Shirley is right, so Shirley books them both a table at a new Chinese restaurant where they'll both be eating at separate tables to try to cure Laverne of her monophobia. The next day we see Shirley being seated
1. Not Quite New York
Air Date: 1980-11-18
After being fired from the brewery, the girls decide to pack up and move out to California. The only way they can afford to get out there is to have Lenny and Squiggy drive them there in an old ice cream truck.
2. Welcome to Burbank
Air Date: 1980-11-25
The girls are ready to return to Milwaukee after experiencing an earthquake on their first night in California.
3. Studio City
Air Date: 1980-12-02
The girls are hired to play stunt women in a Troy Donohue movie.
4. Grand Opening
Air Date: 1980-12-09
In order to pay Shirley back some of the money she owes her, Laverne agrees to be the target in Sonny's knife throwing act at Cowboy Bill's grand opening. When Sonny breaks his arm and is unable to do the act, Shirley takes over throwing the knives at Laverne, which makes Laverne extremely nervous since she knows that Shirley is already upset with her.
5. Candy is Dandy
Air Date: 1980-12-16
The girls finally get a job in California in the gift wrapping department at Bardwell's Department Store. On their first day on the job, Laverne gets tipsy after eating candy laced with alcohol.
6. The Dating Game
Air Date: 1980-12-30
Lenny and Squiggy appear in on the television show, The Dating Game.
7. The Other Woman
Air Date: 1981-01-06
Shirley finally gets to date a Doctor. The trouble is she looks exactly like his old wife.
8. The Road to Burbank
Air Date: 1981-01-13
There is a dispute over who should pay the bill when Lenny and Squiggy trash a hotel room on their way to California and try to blame it on Laverne and Shirley. This leads to the telling of two different versions of what happened that night: one where Lenny and Squiggy are chasing the girls all night, and the other where the girls are feeling feisty and chase the boys around the room.
9. Born Too Late
Air Date: 1981-01-27
Lenny and Squiggy imagine that they are the stars in a whole series of flashback black and white silent movies.
10. Love Out the Window
Air Date: 1981-02-03
After learning that Laverne fears for his safety, Sonny quits his job as a stuntman and takes a job selling insurance.
11. Malibu Mansion
Air Date: 1981-02-10
The girls are hired to house sit at the Malibu beachfront mansion of the owner of the Cowboy Bill's chain of restaurants. While he is away for the weekend, the girls throw a beach party which gets gate crashed by a gang of bikers. The girls manage to clean the place up just in time, but the owner's talking pet parrot threatens to spill the beans.
12. To Tell the Truth
Air Date: 1981-02-17
Stuck at home on a rainy night with nothing to do, the gang decides to play a game of truth or dare. Within minutes, everybody ends up arguing with each other.
13. I Do, I Do
Air Date: 1981-02-24
The girls almost marry tow rock stars from Britain after eating some brownies laced with marijuana.
14. But Seriously, Folks . . .
Air Date: 1981-03-03
Carmine's new stand up comedy act is not such a big hit with his friends when he starts to make fun of them in turn.
15. The Bardwell Caper (1)
Air Date: 1981-03-10
Disappointed after not receiving the customary tri-monthly $5.00 raise, Laverne and Shirley write a nasty letter to their boss. At the end of the day, it is revealed that they DID get a raise, after all, but also that the nasty letter is sitting, unopened, on the boss's desk - waiting to be read the next morning. Desperate to save their jobs, Laverne and Shirley go home and try to hatch a plan to get that letter back, before morning.
16. The Bardwell Caper (2)
Air Date: 1981-03-17
The girls recruit Lenny, Squiggy, and Carmine to help them pull off this mission. Lenny and Squiggy will drive the getaway car, and act as lookouts, while Carmine, Laverne, and Shirley will sneak through the air vents, and make their way into the boss's office. They will carefully maneuver around the alarm system, retrieve the letter, and be on their way. No one shall be the wiser. Of course, when they try to put the plan into action, our heroes run into some obstacles along the way, and quickly realize that this isn't going to be as easy as they thought.
17. High Priced Dates
Air Date: 1981-04-07
The girls turn to Edna for advice when their dates expect ""rewards"".
18. Fifth Anniversary
Air Date: 1981-04-14
The girls throw Frank and Edna a fifth wedding anniversary party at their trailor, which has a broken trailor jack.
19. Out, Out Damned Plout
Air Date: 1981-05-05
Sgt. Plout goes AWOL and decides to hide out at the girl's apartment.
20. Laverne's Broken Leg
Air Date: 1981-05-12
After she has to miss a party because of her broken leg, Laverne sits at home alone and falls asleep while watching It's A Wonderful Life on TV. She then dreams what life would be like for her friends and her family if she had never been born.
21. Sing, Sing, Sing
Air Date: 1981-05-19
Laverne asks Carmine to give her singing lessons so that she can sing for Hoot Night at Cowboy Bill's.
22. Child's Play
Air Date: 1981-05-26
Because of Squiggy's forgetfulness, Laverne and Shirley must play all the parts in Shirley's play ""Murder In Mother Goose Land"", which a Broadway producer attends.
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Rating
7.2/10
Release Date
1976-01-27
Episodes
178 (8 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Production Companies
Henderson Productions
Miller-Milkis Productions
Paramount Television