OMG, it's a reworked Larry Breeding script!!!
It's dated September 27, 1982, and Larry Breeding died on October 1st! The episode aired on December 7th (coincidentally the date of the "Monastery" script I purchased). So sometime in the intervening two months, poor Jim Belushi was thrown into the mix and poor Penny had to play the part of reassuring "Wheezer" rather than Mike.
Scene A is set in a French cafe, a "French French restaurant," whatever that means. On p. 2, Mike, Laverne, Carmine, and Rhonda enter! Insane alternative-dimension script, I must possess you now!
Cough, sorry. OK, so no Suzi. Not that we learned much about her, but still. Is Carmonda a thing? What would Shirley say?
When Carmine wants to order fried chicken, Rhonda says, "Carmine, be adventurous...Try something new." The excerpt doesn't show what he orders, or even if he responds with innuendo. (Can you imagine Squiggy reacting to such a line?)
We jump ahead to p. 23, where Frank is describing a guy named Lewis. This seems to be set at Cowboy Bill's.
We jump ahead to p. 43, the tag, for "Lost in Spacesuits"?!? What in the name of interrobang is this madness???
Is this worth $140? Mmmaaayyybbbeee? I don't expect it to be the shitstorm of "Monastery," but I'm really curious about how they reworked it.
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Oh wow, I never guessed that Mike was supposed to keep recurring that way. Poor Larry Breeding! Poor Penny.
ReplyDeleteAlso RHONDA DATING CARMINE WTF
Yeah, it looks like he would've been a regular boyfriend, if not on the level of Sonny or even Norman.
DeleteAnd I don't know if it was supposed to be a double date or what. Weird, but I probably won't buy it just yet.
I would've/could've accepted Mike and Laverne being a permanent thing (LB is one of only two good things about season 8). Fate, man. What can you say?
DeleteI'm guessing so. No other reason for Rhonda and Carmine to horn in on Mike and Laverne's good time.
Poor Penny, what a year! My curiosity about the script is partly that Mike wasn't presented as "wimpy" otherwise, so I wonder how that worked with his character. It would've been interesting to see Laverne in a hopefully more-developed-than-whatever-that-was-with-Sonny relationship.
DeleteFree food? (Mike is paying, according to Carmine.)
HAH! Remember when Carmine complained about Sonny's cheapness?
DeleteIKR? That's interesting. Maybe he's a sensitive "artist" type in showcanon's parlance.
Yes, and then later Shirley complained about Carmine's cheapness. As for Mike, maybe he was going to be Flanderized like everybody else in Season Eight.
DeletePossibly!
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