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Laverne & Shirley
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.
- Created by:
- Garry Marshall, Mark Rothman, Lowell Ganz
- Cast:
- Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, David L. Lander, Michael McKean
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- ABC
Episode guide
Seasons
Season 5
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
Shotgun Wedding (II)
1979-09-13The girls get engaged to Richie and Fonzie to avoid a shotgun wedding. The crossover starts on Happy Days S07E01 Shotgun Wedding (I).
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E02
Episode 2
One Heckuva Note
1979-09-20Shirley finds an old love note written to Laverne from Carmine. This practically ends the girls friendship.
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E03
Episode 3
Fat City Holiday
1979-09-27The girls get jobs at a weight loss camp.
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E04
Episode 4
Upstairs, Downstairs
1979-10-04A fight over returning a wrongly issued check sets the girls to dreaming about Shirley in heaven and Laverne in hell.
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E05
Episode 5
What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?
1979-10-18Shirley's brother returns home from the Navy, an alcoholic.
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E06
Episode 6
You've Pushed Me Too Far
1979-10-25Lenny 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.
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E07
Episode 7
The Wedding
1979-11-01Edna 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.
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E08
Episode 8
Bad Girls
1979-11-08The 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?
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E09
Episode 9
You're in the Army, Now (1)
1979-11-15Laverne & Shirley enlist in the W.A.C.s to get even for a missed promotion.
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E10
Episode 10
You're in the Army, Now (2)
1979-11-15Laverne & Shirley regret joining the Army.
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E11
Episode 11
Take Two, They're Small
1979-11-22Lenny and Squiggy fix Laverne and Shirley up with computer dates, who turn out to be midgets.
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E12
Episode 12
The Fourth Annual Shotz Talent Show
1979-12-06Laverne 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
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E13
Episode 13
Testing, Testing
1979-12-13Shotz 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.
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E14
Episode 14
Not Quite South of the Border
1980-01-07The 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.
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E15
Episode 15
You Oughta Be in Pictures
1980-01-14The 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
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E16
Episode 16
The Beatnik Show
1980-01-21Shirley 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.
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E17
Episode 17
The Right to Light
1980-01-28To 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.
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E18
Episode 18
Why Did the Fireman . . .
1980-02-04Laverne 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.
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E19
Episode 19
The Collector
1980-02-11The girls try to talk Carmine out of going to work for a loan shark.
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E20
Episode 20
Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1)
1980-02-26The girls are riding the Moose Jaw Express when a murder victim enters their compartment.
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E21
Episode 21
Murder on the Moosejaw Express (2)
1980-03-04Laverne and Shirley try to find out who the murderer is.
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E22
Episode 22
Survival Test
1980-03-11Sargeant Alvina Plout takes the girls on a survival test against the men.
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E23
Episode 23
The Duke of Squiggmann
1980-03-25Squiggy sleepwalks thinking he is a rich duke.
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E24
Episode 24
Antonio, the Amazing
1980-04-01Laverne 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
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E25
Episode 25
The Diner
1980-05-06Lenny 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.
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E26
Episode 26
Seperate Tables
1980-05-13Shirley 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
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Penny Marshall
Laverne DeFazio
Cindy Williams
Shirley Feeney
David L. Lander
Squiggy
Michael McKean
Lenny
Phil Foster
Frank DeFazio
Eddie Mekka
Carmine Ragusa
Leslie Easterbrook
Rhonda Lee