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| Oddly enough, Tracy looks more like Cindy Williams. Maybe they could've had her do guest shots as Shirley's cousin or something. |
November 10, 1981
B-
Dana Olsen wrote this story that continues Season Seven's theme of the girls dealing with the passage of time. (The double title is the contrast between IMDB and the DVD listings. Wikipedia offers both titles.) Twenty-eight-year-old Shirley goes out with a 19-year-old, to a frat party, and she sets up Laverne with the guy's friend, "The Stallion," who turns out to be a fat, eager guy named Lyle (Jim Greenleaf, who would return in the role the following year). The episode is better than I expected, helped along by the girls frantically dancing with all the frat brothers (I'm pretty sure I saw the Freddie in there towards the end), and by the way the last L & S appearance of Penny's daughter Tracy, then 17, playing Tracy, who has a crush on Lyle. (This is lampshaded when Lyle says that Tracy reminds him of Laverne.) The "girls" have to face that while they are still "young at heart," they are now grown women. That doesn't mean Shirley is going to give away Boo Boo Kitty of course.
Several other Marshall relatives appear in this episode: nieces 22-year-old Penny Lee, Judy (age unknown), and Wendy (age also unknown) Hallin, by Garry and Penny's sister Ronny, and Garry's 13-year-old daughter Kathleen, all of the girls playing characters who are Danzaly named. Again, Lenny and Squiggy are absent, as is Carmine, and again it would be interesting to get their reaction to this plot.
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