"Dear Future Model," Scene B

It's the "Girls' apartment - night (evening)":

LAVERNE IS MIXING A MILK AND PEPSI AND SHIRLEY IS FIXING HERSELF AN ORANGE SODA.

SHIRLEY

Oh, my aching dogs.

LAVERNE

Yeah, mine are barking their heads off.

SHIRLEY

Boy, I thought today would never end.

LAVERNE

Yeah, the only fun part was when Black Jack got his tie caught in the conveyor belt.

SHIRLEY

It dragged him all the way down to labeling.  (LAUGHING) It was probably the silliest thing you've ever seen.

THE DOOR BURSTS OPEN, LENNY AND SQUIGGY ENTER.  LENNY IS CARRYING A LARGE CARDBOARD BOX.

SQUIGGY

Hello.

LAVERNE

Wrong again.

LENNY

(MIFFED) Look, from on don't have things delivered unless you're gonna be here to be delivered them to.

SHIRLEY

Is that box for us?

SQUIGGY
It's for Mamie Eisenhower, only she's not in.  Of course it's for you.  And we had to sign for it.  Ink don't grow on trees, you know.

SHIRLEY TAKES THE BOX FROM LENNY, LOOKS AT THE LABEL.

SHIRLEY

Laverne, it's our modeling course.

That was all dropped and the aired scene opens with the boys and the box already there, with an added line from Lenny, "Do you really think this modeling course is gonna make you sexy?"  As if he doesn't already think that they, Laverne especially, are sexy!

Note that in the script, Squiggy wants to charm the "couple of chickaroonies" into "spending the night," rather than getting to first base.  And the sheets are hard because of something other than dry-cleaner's starch:

The rest of the scene is pretty faithful, although Shirley did not call Laverne a brat in the script.

Thoughts:

• Is it just me or does that almost sound like a lynching joke about poor Black Jack, who was mentioned on I think "Good Time Girls"?
• In any case, it's not much of a set-up for a Hello Entrance, especially since all the boys are doing is carrying a cardboard box.
• The boys' dropped dialogue is all right but droppable.
• On the other hand, I'm impressed that the "hard sheets" dialogue was actually a bit more censorable in the script.