Revised Shooting Script of "The Monastery Show," Act Two, Scene E

Still daytime in the Common Room....

"They do the bread bit."  The script and what aired are similar, but Laverne gets up from the table to get a spoon in the episode, rather than reaching across the table.  When she puts her chair's leg on a nun's foot, Laverne in the script "watches her fascinated," while in the episode Laverne imitates the nun's pained gestures.  Both of these versions make Laverne look like an idiot, but arguably more so in the episode.  In the script, "Sister Margaret bends down and looks under the table and points.  Laverne looks under the table to see what she's done."  She's a lot slower on the uptake in the episode. 

The Mother Superior asks Laverne if she spoke, and so Laverne replies.  The episode leaves out Laverne's "That was a trick question," but she begs a lot more about staying.  The line about "Sister Catherine banging her head on the clacker" was added.

After the Mother Superior and most of the nuns leave, Laverne complains that all she's had to eat is mush.  So Sister Margaret offers her, yes, a salami, but in the script she first "pulls out a loaf of rye bread."  And a jar of mustard after the salami.

Again, not a scene with major changes, although the ones that happened further weaken Laverne's character.  This is definitely not the feisty, street-savvy
Laverne of the early days.