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| Remember Laverne & Shirley? |
February 15, 1983
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Kenny Wolin & Barry Bleach's only L & S script makes no attempt, as just about every other episode has, to pretend to have any connection to reality. As such, it's somewhat interesting, and it does offer what feels like a lot of the remaining regulars (five!), but yeah, it doesn't work. Laverne's apartment is haunted by an Olympic-losing ghost (Richard Karron, who was Robert A. Markland in '77), therfore, the only solution is to recreate the 1932 Olympics in her living room so that the ghost can stop possessing her.
Note that Suzi must be even more "frigid" than Shirley, since Carmine gets excited about holding hands with both Rhonda and Laverne during a seance.
Jeannetta Arnette, who plays Marianne Vimvoli, the actress that Squiggy tries to give the casting couch treatment to (on Laverne's couch), would get her long-running gig on Head of the Class three years later.
Hah, my initial reaction to this one was 100 percent "this is where comedy goes to die" when I rewatched it on Twitter. But nothing is as bad as Monastery Story.
ReplyDeleteI smiled at some of Squiggy's lines, but yeah. Even by Season Eight standards, it's not hilarious.
ReplyDeleteSadly true!
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