"Cruise: Part 2"

"Cruise: Part 2"
November 15, 1977
B-

Babaloo Mandel's first of two L & S scripts (written with Barry Lange, who has zero other IMDB credits) gets things a bit more on track, although there is Squiggy forcing a kiss on Shirley, admittedly after she's claimed he's her husband in order to keep the two stowaways from being thrown off board.  And when the guys try to hide in the girls' cabin, Squiggy calls "dibs" on Shirley.

I remember both parts vaguely from the time, specifically Lenny's "do some barks" confusion about disembarking on Part One and this time Squiggy looking down the girls' dresses.  Penny M. has some lowcut or spaghetti-strapped outfits here that reveal parts of her tan torso, and she really is being presented less frumpily than in the first season or two, a trend that would continue as I recall.

As for Cindy W., she gets a nice mix of drama and comedy, especially with her whirlwind romance with Ensign Benson (Phillip Clark again).  She thinks he's going to propose and wonders how to let him down, but of course she's mistaken.  Note that Laverne is a lot happier for Shirley than Shirley was for her in Season One, but this won't be the last time that one or both girls think marriage is on the horizon.