SHIRLEY
Tony, Mary, Tony, Mary....
FRANK
It's no use. Nobody can hear us. Mary'll miss us at midnight and come down here and let us out.
SHIRLEY
Oh, midnight. Midnight it'll be too late.
Mary is of course Mary the Waitress. I think Tony is the cook. As on the episode, Squiggy leaves the table where he and Frank have been drinking wine and leads Shirley away from the door, although he doesn't say "shut up" in the script. (It feels like a Landerian addition, since that seems to be what Squiggy often says to calm Shirley down.) And, yes, she "goes for his neck" when he suggests cannibalism.
Note that Frank calls Shirley "Sweetheart" when he says they'll just have to wait. In the episode, we get that first page of Scene D, but in the script Shirley says, "Laverne needs these papers. I'm ashamed of you. Where's your sense of daring do [sic]? There's always a way out of these places," and then Squiggy observes, "In a coffin."
After Laverne covers Lenny with her skirt on the episode, we return to this scene, with Shirley trying to get through the vent. The next page and a half is basically the same in the script and filmed episode, but we get this at the end, "After the show. A pickup of Shirley coming out of box on Squiggy's shoulders and starting through the bars."
The cellar scenes understandably have fewer changes than the ballroom ones, but I do have to ask, how freaking late does this pizzeria stay open?
They seem to close around 11:30 to midnight, which makes sense for an urban mom and pop pizza joint in a major town.
ReplyDeleteI guess that makes sense. And it's not like they serve breakfast. Does Frank just have Mary and Tony manage the PB so he can have evening dates sometimes? Not to mention coming over for repairs and stuff at the girls' apartment.
DeleteJudging from Laverne's line during the tag scene for Quiz Show ("Oh Pop, can't we open up for lunch now? It's noon!"), they open around 12 every day, so 12 to 12 makes sense (This doesn't take into effect that they apparently have 24 hour bowling lanes (!?) even though Frank lives over the restaurant -which probably helps re hour setting). Yep, they don't serve breakfast or anything, and Frank is presumably always there unless he's with Edna, so I presume he either sets his own hours or Mary is second in command when he needs to be away for a couple of hours.
DeleteHere's a somewhat related question: where did Frank and Edna live between their wedding and their residence in Burbank? I got the impression that they slept at her place, and the apartment building is only a couple blocks from the PB. I could picture her being annoyed living above a bowling alley, but on the other hand, it probably beat living below Lenny and Squiggy. (I mean, I love the boys but they clearly irritate Edna.)
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing that either he moved into her place; I need to rewatch Separate Tables to confirm. Since there's only around what, six or so episodes between the wedding ep and the Burbank move? It's not a long stay on either end.
DeleteHah, between their tendency to apply substances to the ceiling and Squiggy's clarinet playing, it's a miracle the whole third and fourth floors aren't cleared out.
Is "Separate Tables" the one where they come downstairs and have clearly been "fooling around"? "The Wedding" was the 7th episode of Season Five, pretty early on.
DeleteNo wonder Jerry Callahan moved out!
Yep, the last ep before the girls are fired and move to Burbank.
DeleteHAH!