It's back to the girls' apartment, now the next morning. As on the episode, "The girls are having breakfast. Laverne is squeezing oranges for juice." The first three pages of dialogue, including the boys' entrance, made it in. Since the script didn't actually have the boys' act in it, we get this "The boys try to sing their song with American lyrics. The song peters out after a couple of lines." We lost this bit after Lenny says the song needs more work:
LAVERNE
Maybe you can sing up to where you're stuck and then we'll throw oranges at you.
SQUIGGY
A medley.
Frank enters and says the lines he would in the episode. But when Laverne suggests everyone think, Lenny and Squiggy were supposed to "take thinking poses," rather than sit on the couch as Squiggy says, "I hate that stuff."
In the script, Shirley was supposed to say, "If it wasn't for Thomas Edison, we wouldn't have the night light. We're a country that got tired of burning bread in an oven so we invented the pop-up toaster." In the episode, she mentions the automobile and the electric light.
So, not a lot of changes, but I can see why I wrote in my review of the episode, "Chris Thompson's writing is a little weak here, with characters meta-discussing, talking about what they need to discuss, too much." It's there in this version of the script to begin with.
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