"How's Your Sister?", Scene B

We now go to Laverne's apartment, the next afternoon.  The first three pages are pretty faithful, but Squiggy in the script calls Carmine "Carm," and Squendelyn was supposed to be wearing "a lovely mint green brocade pantsuit," which now I really want to see.

They omitted Squendelyn telling Carmine, "Ya know, you'd almost be perfect if you got your hair processed. Think about it."  For some reason, they changed Squiggy saying, "Well, you two seem to be hitting it off like two pies in a pan" to him calling them lovebirds and comparing them to two bats in a belfry.

In the script, Squen calls her brother "Andy," while it's "Andrew" onscreen.  His exit line "Two's company, three's a musketeer," became the more suggestive "Two's company, three's a felony."

In the script, Squen only pats Carmine's cheek, while onscreen she backs him up against the stove.  In the filmed episode, after Rhonda remarks that Squen looks like Squiggy, she says, "I'm not surprised.  We had the same father."  Here's how it went in the script:

SQUENDELYN

Lucky for us there was enough good looks in the family to go around.

RHONDA

How many children were there?

SQUENDELYN

Two that Mom brought home.  Four that came with the car.

CARMINE

It's a great story, Rhonda.

After Rhonda says that this isn't acting, this is the real Rhonda, Squendelyn was scripted to say, "You should spend more time in class."  And they left out Squen calling Carmine "Carmy."

All of Carmine's insults of Squendelyn are there in this late version of the script, but I'm glad they toned down some of her bitchiness towards him and Rhonda.  On the other hand, I wish we could've heard Lander deliver the "car" line about the Squiggman family.