Night After Night

***EXPLICIT LANGUAGE WARNING*** Time for some Lenny & Squiggy feelings! When Squiggy's deadbeat, absentee dad Helmut shows up in Burbank, Andrew jumps at the chance to bond with his pop. Though everyone around him responds to Helmet's return to his life with concern and skepticism, Squiggy shows his pop how much he's grown up in twenty years. But, it doesn't take long for Helmu...

Time to hit the slopes, kids! In another episode where Laverne and Shirley comb the west in pursuit of dateable bachelors, they head to the snowy slopes of Northern California after receiving a hot tip from their neighbor Rhonda. But instead of romance, the twosome find a fight. After arguing over whether they should be hanging out in the lodge or shushing down the slopes, they find themselves str...

***EXPLICIT LANGUAGE WARNING*** As foreshadowed back in the second episode of the season, it's high school reunion time. The girls and Carmine head back to Milwaukee sans Lenny and Squiggy to attend their tenth, resulting in a cavalcade of familiar faces. Yay, there's Terri Buttafouco! There's Rosie Greenbaum! There's... Eraserhead! They're all suddenly acting like the girls ar...

It's time for another episode where Laverne dates a married man. Sigh. While Shirley's away for a few days, Laverne has a chance encounter with a fella named Hank. In spite of some very red flags, she goes out on a date with him to a seafood restaurant. But a miscommunication with his so-called answering service leads to the revelation that Hank's married - and to his wife showing up a...

** EXPLICIT LANGUAGE WARNING ** We cover the episode where Laverne and Shirley fight back against the tabloids. When the girls have a bad experience with crooner Johnny Velvet, they hatch a plot to get payback. After pouring over some gossip rags, they decide to smear his name in The Peeper, helmed by the oily anything-for-a-sale head editor Tidmore. The two successfully get into Johnny Velvet&#39...

Put'em up, Ragu! It's time to cover the episode where Carmine tries out for the lead role in the Rocky Manicotti story, a low budget boxing flick. With the support of Rhonda, Shirley, and the Squignowski Talent Agency of Burbank (STAB), he makes it through the first round of cuts. But during the second call-back an interloper arrives. The two men find themselves roped into a sparring match...

This week, Laverne's relationship with handsome language interpreter Jeffrey (Jeff Goldblum in an early role) is going well...partly because Laverne has stretched the truth about how many languages she knows. Shirley decries her roommate's lie, but when she's set up with one of Jeffrey's friends, the man turns out to be a furrier. In spite of her love of animals -- and the lecture...

It's another boys-related episode! When Lenny and Squiggy head for the La Brea Tar Pits, Lenny ends up meeting a girl named Karen Caldwell. She's a college student studying paleontology and Lenny is instantly smitten with her - and to his shock she returns his feelings. A few weeks later, the two of them have become a cute and happy couple, to the surprise of Laverne, Shirley, and Carmine...

When Laverne and Shirley attend an event for would-be brides to sample the works of wedding coordinators, they find out that a couple's planned and paid-for wedding has been called off, leaving the guests and arrangements in place. Seizing the moment and snagging opportunity, Shirley knows who her groom should be: Carmine. Now all she has to do is talk him into marrying her, in spite of the fa...

*** EXPLICIT LANGUAGE WARNING *** It's a very Charles Grodin episode to cover on the podcast! When Grodin visits Bardwells, Laverne and Shirley get very different messages from their encounter with the actor. Laverne thinks he's into her and invites him to come over for a date. Shirley, on the other hand, thinks he's going to try to steal their jobs. When Mr. Grodin arrives, he finds e...

Laverne jolts Shirley awake with the news that her nebbish boyfriend David (Paul Sands) has proposed... that she move in with him! While Shirley's horrified by Laverne's choice to share furniture with David before marriage, she supports her best friend's decision and promises to run interference for a little while. Laverne and David proceed to settle in at David's place. Together,...

Frank pops into Laverne & Shirley's apartment with a pair of earrings that once belonged to Josephine, Laverne's mother. Claiming he wants to give them to Edna, he asks Laverne to hold onto them and take them to a jewelers to get them polished up. Frank tells Laverne to "pick something you like." Shirley recommends Laverne wear the earrings on an upcoming date with Willie Mar...

In the episode covered: After the boys puts the finishing touches on their latest movie script, Blood Orgy of the Amazons: A Different Kind of Love Story, Lenny and Squiggy try to figure out how to get it seen by big-shot actors. Their epiphany: if they get themselves onstage at The Golden Circle Awards, perhaps one Joey Heatherton, presenting for the evening, might take an interest. However, the...

Shirley, trying to dodge a bum who keeps bugging her during her lunch break at Bardwell's, notices a man nearby reading Black Beauty. She can't help but strike up conversation with the tall, dark, and handsome lug; unfortunately, she doesn't realize he's part of a gang robbing the bank next door. When the cops catch the crooks, Shirley is accused of being their accomplice and handc...

Things get awkward for Shirley when she realizes Mike, the peppy and handsome guy she's been seeing, is seven years younger than her. The girls joke around about the difference between their nearly-thirty selves and Mike, who's not even twenty-one yet. When Mike calls up, asking to take the girls to his frat's big mixer, the giddy gals agree to go. Laverne even offers to head out on a...

Laverne gets a surprise visit from her former fiancé Sal Malina, a sailor she nearly married in Milwaukee back in 1957 before realizing he didn't thrill her enough to give her goosebumps. Ten years later Sal's successful, rich, still handsome, and just as crazy about Laverne as he used to be. With Shirley's encouragement, Laverne re-starts their romance to see if she can make it work t...

Laverne, Carmine and Shirley get invitations to their 10 year high school reunion back in Milwaukee in the mail. They brings up a flood of nostalgia, but also to leads to the girls bickering. Name calling and and fisticuffs ensue. When Laverne dares Shirley to take a swing at her, Shirley knocks her best friend out and accidentally breaks her jaw. Laverne's left with a mouth that's been wi...

Season 7 begins! The Squignowski Talent Agency of Burbank (STAB) books a group of acrobats from Latvia for a rather important gig, but need Laverne and Shirley to host their clients in their apartment. Not knowing what's up, Laverne plies her feminine wiles and ends up smooching a married man and angering his wife, an important linchpin of the acrobats' act. Without a pair of "Ta-Da!&...

We made it to the end of the first year in California! In this Season 6 book ender, Shirley's creativity takes new shape as she writes and directs a stage play, "Murder in Mother Goose Land." It results in Shirley enlisting Laverne and the entire gang as actors in the production. Shirley's hoping to present the play before big time theatre producer, but when the performance is mo...

**EXPLICIT LANGUAGE WARNING** It's time to put on a big show! Cowboy Bills is having a regular hoot night and the whole gang wants to get in on the act. Carmine and Shirley perform a touching duet, Rhonda and Edna plot a trumpet-laden rocker, but Laverne...well, her plans to become a balladeer go by the wayside after she clears out the place with her less-than-lovely voice. Determined anyway,...

***EXPLICIT LANGUAGE WARNING*** It's not a wonderful life for Laverne when she slips on some lard at Cowboy Bills and breaks her leg. But when Rhonda throws one of her infamous parties next door on the very same day, she insists everyone attend without her, leaving Laverne home alone in a cast. After everyone pops back in to rub all the fun they're having in her face, Laverne wishes she ha...

Sgt. Alvinia T. Plout's (Vicki Lawrence) back! She's hiding out in Los Angeles, having run away from the Army after a love affair with a handsome fellow soldier went sour. She's hoping to cage romantic advice from Laverne & Shirley, and to use their new apartment as a hiding place while she works her grief out by moonlighting as a singer in a local club. The girls are already terri...

Laverne and Shirley are in the middle of breakfast when Edna interrupts them. She's worried Frank has forgotten that their fifth wedding anniversary is approaching, putting the girls smack dab in the middle of a brewing parental conflict. Hoping to ease the tension and prod Frank into remembering, Laverne and Shirley decide to get the gang together to throw a big anniversary party at Edna and...

When Rhonda sets up Laverne & Shirley with a couple of high rollers, she notes that the men may expect "something" off the girls for treating them to a pricy dinner. While the date goes well, the girls start to worry that they 'have' to go further with their new fellas than they feel comfortable to. So they go to Laverne's stepmom Edna for some sage advice. What will they...

When Laverne and Shirley assume they've been passed over for a customary raise, Laverne writes and sends a strongly worded letter to their boss, Mr. Hildebrand, against Shirley's frantic advice. Soon after, the girls learn that they haven't been passed over for the raise at all; they've actually given a *larger* raise than is customary. They also learn that Hildebrand hasn't re...