May 4, 1982C+
For a few weeks, Joanie Loves Chachi was the Happy Days spin-off in the 8:30 Tuesday slot. (It would return to the air for a half season in the Fall.) When Laverne & Shirley came back, we got this episode that feels like an unconscious preview of the cast of much of Season Eight, with the girls only at the beginning and end, and Lenny completely absent, although referred to. It's not a bad episode, and I was amused by Carmine reading Shirley's diary only to find romantic passages about himself, as well as, again, some of Squiggy's lines. Note that Frank served in Italy in World War II, when Laverne would've been a little girl. And Squiggy is still lusting after Rhonda, kissing her to the shock of policemen.
One of the Policemen, Bob McClurg, had an unknown role on "The Horse Show." Alan Aidekman wrote this episode with newbie Nick LeRose, who'd do three scripts for the final season.
Lenny and Carmine finding wet wool "pleasurable" is still the most random thing ever.
ReplyDeleteCarmine knows far too much about Lenny and Squiggy's fetishes.
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