"Frank's Fling"

Maureen Arthur, who would later be the childhood
sweetheart of Mork & Mindy's son, don't ask.

"Frank's Fling"
March 8, 1977
B

This is another episode that's not particularly deep-- although we do get a little of Laverne's memories of her mother-- but it is very funny and really shows the ensemble coming together, as when six of them try to think hard but look like they're constipated. 

Frank has a fling with a woman named Veronica, and we know she's no good as soon as she's catty with Edna, who gives as good as she gets.  (I'm going to assume that this episode is set before the previous one to air, but maybe Edna was interested in Frank already.)  Veronica is clearly after Frank's money, as it turns out he knew all along, although he forgives his "two daughters" and their friends for scaring Veronica off.

Some of the cartooniness of this story must be due to the script by William J. Keenan, his only for L & S, since he was more at home with, for instance, the animated Jackson 5ive and the Osmonds.  It works here but I don't know how it would've played out long-term.  Director Howard Morris didn't do any other L & S either, although he did his share of cartoons, too, mostly as an actor, e.g. the voice of Jughead Jones.