February 1, 1983
C+
The last L & S episode written by Al Aidekman and Marc Sotkin, and the next to last written by Roger Garrett, has potential it doesn't live up to but, yes, it's not bad for Season Eight. Laverne's fashion photographer boyfriend, Mike Bailey (Larry Breeding, as presumably the same character he was on "Window on Main Street," although this Mike has been dating Laverne only four weeks), has to flatter and flirt with his models, so Laverne gets very jealous, despite his reassurances. Inevitably, she has to cover for the model she makes quit, and it goes disastrously, or does it? Note that Mike likes Laverne because she's "real," and yet she never confesses that the chicken dinner came out of a fast-food bucket.
Speaker Kit McDonough, with her distinctive voice, was Julie the Stewardess in "Airport '59." Guard Robert Arcaro was a nameless Man the season before. This time Anjelica Houston plays Miss Paris, although I didn't recognize her. And Joanna Kerns is unmistakable, if miscast, as spoiled model Monique, a couple years before Growing Pains.
LB and PM had pretty decent, charming chemistry in this one but yeah, it's just S8 "okay."
ReplyDeleteYeah, I kind of like them together, but not the plots that they're in.
ReplyDeleteDitto TBH
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