| Lucille/Carmine. (Lucmine? Carmille?) |
C+
In this story by Barbara Robles (her only credit at IMDB) and Judy Skelton, Shirley's latest scheme to make her dreams come true is mail-order modeling lessons. Lucille (Sandy Wirth) now runs some sort of Tupperware-like lingerie company and agrees to have the girls model for Rosie Greenbaum and Rosie's friends, oddly enough in Laverne & Shirley's apartment. This allows Shirley to be annoyed with Lucille, while Laverne is annoyed by Rosie, although there's not much of a pay-off to either. Then the girls go to a real modeling agency but get overlooked.
It's kind of weird to have the girls so insecure about their looks and weight, although I guess they're Hollywood-average. Lenny scoffs at the idea that a book can teach them how to be sexy. And I couldn't help wondering how exactly the Tarzan rope that Laverne uses would work in a basement apartment.
Photographer Michael Mann would play a Lackey the next year. Receptionist Deborah Harmon would star as a mother of eight a dozen years later on ABC's Just the Ten of Us. Billy Sands, who's Holms here and would be Waldo later, would probably at that time have been most recognizable as either Private Dino Papparelli on Sgt. Bilko or "Tinker" Bell on McHale's Navy.
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