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| Oh no, a clip show! |
January 10, 1977
C+
Ah, yes, a dreaded clip show. This isn't bad as such shows go, although obviously they're harder to sit through on DVD. The screen during the opening credits says "Laverne & Shirley Birthday Show," but IMDB says "Anniversary Show,"* and the framing story is that the girls' friends, including Rosie, are throwing a party because they won a big bowling tournament. The girls mistakenly take a train to Canada, so everyone sits around and reminisces about them, including moments that none of the people at the party were present for, like Shirley wooing Richie. Still, it is nice to see scenes from that episode again, as well as Lenny's proposal, plus a thirty-second montage of some of Lenny & Squiggy's entrances. And we hear that Mrs. Babish's second husband (of how many I don't know) was named Lloyd.
Paula A. Roth and Roger Garrett wrote the frame story, and he'd write ten more episodes. I'm mostly just tagging the people listed on IMDB, which means leaving out the various writers and directors of the episodes we see clips from, but I'm also including Winkler and Howard of course.
*The actual anniversary would've been closer to January 27th, but I guess the middle episode of Season Two is close enough.
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