Wednesday, March 17, 2021

"How's Your Sister?", Scene H

 The tag is set at Cowboy Bill's, during the day:

THE RESTAURANT IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS.  CARMINE SITS ALONE AT ONE OF THE TABLES, LOOKING DEPRESSED AND RESTING HIS HEAD IN HIS HAND.  LAVERNE ENTERS CARRYING HER WAITRESS UNIFORM.

CARMINE
Laverne, what are you doing here?  I thought you were working double shifts at the space plant?

LAVERNE
I was.  I made so much money that it pushed me into a higher tax bracket.  Now I gotta work here to get even.

This was omitted and the filmed scene starts with her already sitting at his table.

In the script, when Squiggy says that Squen "may not be the prettiest girl in the world," he adds, "In fact she may be the ugliest," while onscreen he says that neither is he himself.

The two nameless and lineless last guest characters are described as "beautiful women."  In the script, Squiggy tells them, "It seems Carmine can't join us.  He has a previous appointment with bad judgment," while onscreen he tells them that Carmine thinks their insides are ugly.

Laverne stops Carmine from following Squiggy and the two women in both versions, but this was what left out of the filming:

LAVERNE
Don't do it to yourself, Carmine.  You're never gonna find inner beauty in women like that.

CARMINE
Yeah, but it's gonna be fun looking.

And then he runs off.

It's too bad that in an episode where Laverne doesn't have much to do, her whole sub-subplot was cut.  (And no wonder she can afford the apartment on her own now.)  Other than that, I can take or leave both versions of Squiggy's material.  And notice that in the script, Carmine definitely doesn't learn his lesson.

4 comments:

  1. Carmine looking for a woman's 'inner beauty' by looking up her proverbial skirt is um. Emblematic of S8. Also implied Squiggy/Carmine orgy? HOW OFTEN HAVE CARMINE AND SQUIGGY SEEN EACH OTHER HAVE SEX?!

    Also the whole Laverne subplot is...well, odd but interesting.

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    1. Indeed emblematic.

      "I know what he does with honey."

      Ironically, this may be the S8 script that least bashes Laverne, since she comes off pretty well in the little she has to do.

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