"Studio City"December 2, 1980
C+
We now get completely Californized credits, both opening and closing, and I do remember being incredibly confused at the time by the New Year's 1965 sign in both. Was it already '65 or would it be when 1980 turned? Since the girls are mostly supposed to have graduated in '56, wouldn't that make them 27 in '65? And wasn't Troy Donahue a has-been by '65? Well, maybe that's why he's starring in a cheap caveman picture.
Yes, Donahue plays himself in this episode (written by Richard Rosenstock), wearing a very early-'80s-looking mustache, although no one notices of course. The girls get jobs as stuntwomen, not through Sonny, although he does show up on set. They are playing the "village virgins," and Laverne says it's a little late. (So she stopped saving herself during the time-skip?) Rhonda annoys Laverne and me. And that's about all I have to say, except that the Squignowski Talent Agency of Burbank (STAB) is now a thing and would continue to be for awhile. I guess Lenny & Squiggy had to earn money somehow after running out of ice cream.
Doug Cox, who was the Birthday Boy on the "beatnik" episode, here plays the director Zwick, an obvious shout-out to Joel Zwick (who had moved on to Bosom Buddies and It's a Living). Frank and Edna are absent, as is of course Carmine (for now).
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