Tuesday, January 19, 2021

"Watch the Fur Fly" script, Scene J

We return to the girls' apartment, "later that evening."

THE GIRLS AND JEFFREY AND HAROLD ARE AT THE FRONT DOOR.  THEY KISS.

Somehow, in the aired episode, this became Laverne and Jeffrey smooching up a storm as Shirley and Harold say goodnight, she thanks him for the hat, and they quickly kiss.

In the script, Shirley cried through Bambi ten times, which became thirteen.  We lost Laverne saying, "Remember when I was dating that farmer.  I sat through a three day symposium on the multiple uses of fertilizer."  After Shirley says Laverne wanted her date to stay, Laverne's line about their "different needs" is an addition.  This was left out after Harold says he appreciates Shirley's honesty:

HAROLD
...Would it make any difference if I'm going to consider starting a line of 'fun furs'.  But just what is a Boo Boo Stole?

SHIRLEY
I'll tell you later.  Right now Laverne has something to say too.

SHIRLEY STARES HER DOWN.

Laverne and Jeffrey calling Sunday "domingo" was added.  This is what was taken out after the guys exit:

SHIRLEY
We broke our pact.  In eighteen seconds, we broke our pact.

LAVERNE
Well, there's only one thing to do.  (BEAT)  Books!  We need books!

And the scene and the act end with them "babbling up the stairs."

I would've liked for them to keep the "farmer" example, since I like it when the girls reminisce about moments we never actually got to see.  The "Boo Boo Stole" exchange doesn't work, so it was good to take that out, and I prefer Laverne confessing as her own decision, rather than being pressured into it by Shirley.  The ending is another minor loss.

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