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| Another humiliating attempt to earn more money. |
November 8, 1977
C+
Chris Thompson wrote this first-parter that did give me some moments I really enjoyed, mostly with Mrs. Babish, but also had some consent issue problems, even for the time ('50s or '70s). Betty Garrett has another nice scene with Cindy W., here telling her that the tour of the Great Lakes will be fun and "of course" the girls will go to Europe someday. There's some censor-bait in their exchange about men liking "pounding" (as in the waves and other things). And then later she shows she's still got her musical-comedy skills, dancing with Mekka at the bon voyage party.
That party has Lenny and Squiggy giving goodbye "grabs" not just to Laverne and Shirley but to every woman they can get their hands on. Not only that, but when the girls are short $50, Lenny encourages Squiggy to donate his beloved moth collection (mentioned on multiple episodes) to them, not out of generosity but so that the girls will be in their debt, day or night. I prefer the actual shippy moment of Laverne yelling out the window that if Lenny ever puts their money in his mouth again (don't ask), she'll tell everyone he's never vo-di-oh-doed, to which he replies that he has witnesses! Oh, and I should mention that Fredna are "going steady," an odd term for people in their 50s in the '50s, but whatever.
As the "next week" sequence suggests, Phillip Clark would return as Ensign Benson, Shirley's potential love interest.
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