"Dance Studio" script, Scene E

Now it's night at the Dance Studio.  In the episode, Carmine would see and read aloud the inscription on an autographed picture of Gene Kelly, but here he sees a picture of himself.  The script says that Carmine "breaks into the dance of his choice," and presumably Eddie chose the song he dances and sings voiceover to, "By Myself."

The first part of the dialogue when Frank and Edna come in was kept, but in the episode Carmine refuses to give a dance lesson, while this is another surreal DeMarco sequence we missed out on:

CARMINE

What did you want to learn?

FRANK

What do you got?

EDNA

Frank, this isn't a deli.

CARMINE

That's okay.  I got a special on Latin dances this week.  The Merengue, Pachanga, Cha-Cha...

FRANK

Nah, somethin' American.  Rhumba.

CARMINE

Okay.  That's an easy one.  It's just a box step.  TAKES EDNA IN HIS ARMS.) [First parenthesis missing]   Come on, Edna.  You know this one.  (TO FRANK) You stand behind me and do what I do.

FRANK STANDS RIGHT BEHIND CARMINE AS THEY ALL START TO DANCE.

FRANK

Dummy, went to a loan shark.

CARMINE TURNS TO ANSWER FRANK AND WINDS UP DANCING WITH FRANK WHILE EDNA FOLLOWS CARMINE'S FEET.

CARMINE

Look, I didn't want to...

FRANK

I ain't dancin' with you.

FRANK TURNS CARMINE BACK TO EDNA.

FRANK (CONT'D)

Don't you know those guys break your legs if you don't pay?

CARMINE

I had no choice.  Every bank in town turned me down.

FRANK

Sure.  They don't know ya since you were a kid.

EDNA

Frank's right.  You should have gone to people who know you.

CARMINE

You kiddin'?  The people I know borrow money from me.

FRANK

Okay, lesson's over.  What do I owe ya?

CARMINE

Nothin'.  This one's on me.

EDNA

No, Carmine.  It was a good lesson, and we want to pay for it.

FRANK REACHES INTO HIS POCKET AND PULLS OUT A DOCUMENT AND HANDS IT TO CARMINE.

FRANK

Here.  We got you a loan from the bank.

In the script, Frank does put the Pizza Bowl up for collateral, but Edna does not put up the apartment building, which I feel like is a Betty Garrett addition, as is Edna's line about "people like us looking out for each other."

The episode breaks for commercial after Frank's joke about breaking Carmine's legs (which DeMarco did have), but the rest of the scene ended up as the tag.  (Which means we get an omitted original tag, for Scene H.)

The recurring joke about Eskimo pies was added later, but Carmine making up with the girls is pretty much as written, although Carmine does not call Laverne "Vernie" in the script.  Also, he was supposed to pat Laverne on the head, not mess her hair up.  Furthermore, the script says, "Carmine kisses Laverne," it does not say he sweeps her into his arms to kiss her, so Eddie could've interpreted the direction as a little kiss.

Then again, the three of them were supposed to "walk arm in arm out the door" after Shirl's line "Please.  Don't do that again."  So DeMarco remains a propagandist for polyamory.