"Guilty Until Proven Not Innocent"

"Guilty Until Proven Not Innocent"
January 4, 1977
B-

Sand and Kaprall co-wrote this story where Kaprall's Officer Norman turns out to be not much help when Laverne gets arrested for shoplifting.  I was leaning towards a C+, but the scene where a drunk Mrs. Babish plays the sax as a drunk Shirley sings the blues (rhyming "jail" with "money" rather than "bail"), and then Lenny and Squiggy enter as respectively the Lone Ranger and the Devil, is genuinely funny. 

Note that Carmine has arranged a double date for himself and Mr. DeFazio, which is a little weird, but we never see it or find out any details.  It's mainly just there to explain why the girls aren't going to Green Bay when Laverne's father drives their car.  Also, this is one of several Season Two episodes where Shirley writes in her diary during the tag.