"The Stakeout"November 29, 1977
C+
Not to be confused with Season One's "Fakeout at the Stakeout," this Barry Rubinowitz story has the FBI staking out a neighbor from the girls' apartment and suspecting Carmine of being an accomplice. It's a potentially funny episode but it feels like it just doesn't come together, starting with Mrs. Babish letting the G-Men into the apartment before telling the girls about it, and continuing on with Laverne's "seduction" of a married man. (I do love the Christmas bow in her hair, which she keeps on even after she changes out of her "tramp" outfit.) Note that the whole thing about Laverne lying about having a Negro "cousin" is very '70s and a bit cringey in its obviousness. I don't have any shipping notes, other than Shirley describing Carmine as a man she dates "semi-regularly."
Michael L. McManus, who was Moose earlier, here plays Herb Prange.
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