"Good Time Girls," Scenes A, B, and C

On August 4, 1976, almost four months before "Good Time Girls" aired, the Rev. Shooting Script was submitted.  (And, yes, I'll be looking at the scripts between the second and eighth episodes of Season Two.)  There are some very interesting omissions, which either got shot and then chopped or were dropped before the actual filming.  

We start, as we so often do, in the "girls' living room - night."  The first page or so made it in, but this was omitted after Shirley and Laverne agree that Hector Kestenbaum is a jerk:

SHIRLEY

Gus, who never changes his shirt.

LAVERNE

Jerk number two.

SHIRLEY

Warren with the air rifle.

LAVERNE    

(CUTS IN) Wait a minute.  Warren is pretty funny when he puts a straw up his nose and drinks a coke.

SHIRLEY

Putrid, Laverne....

Laverne threatening "Lefty" after Hector "smacks her on the rump" was added.  But otherwise, this scene is relatively unchanged.  

Scene B, on the other hand, was entirely deleted, although an outtake does exist from it.   It's set at "Vinnie's Pool Hall - Night," presumably later that same night:

LENNY AND SQUIGGY ARE AT A TABLE, SHOOTING POOL.  SQUIGGY'S GOT THE BALLS RACKED UP.  HE TAKES AIM, SHOOTS CUE BALL DIRECTLY INTO CORNER POCKET WITHOUT TOUCHING THE RACK.  HE SWAGGERS OVER TO LENNY, HOLDS OUT HIS HAND.

SQUIGGY

That'll be a dollar.

LENNY

(HANDING SQUIGGY A DOLLAR) I don't know how you do that.

JUST THEN TWO BIG GUYS COME OVER WITH CUE STICKS.  THEY BRUSH LENNY AND SQUIGGY ASIDE AND START TO PLAY AT THEIR TABLE.

LENNY (CONT'D)

Hey, wait a minute!  We're using this table.

TOUGH MAN #1

Hey, get lost, Shorty.

SQUIGGY

That's Squiggy.

TOUGH MAN #1

All right, get lost, Squiggy.

SQUIGGY

That's better.

ONE OF THE GUYS MAKES A BREAK SHOT.

LENNY

C'mon.  Let the babies have their bottles.

THEY MOVE TO ANOTHER TABLE JUST AS HECTOR ENTERS, REALLY ANGRY.  NOTE: LENNY AND SQUIGGY SHOOT POOL DURING THE FOLLOWING:

LENNY (CONT'D)

Hey, Hector.  How ya doing?

HECTOR

Aw, I've had it with Laverne and Shirley.

LENNY

Who you fooling? Nobody has.

SQUIGGY HITS BALLS.

HECTOR

Every time I ask 'em out, they always got some excuse.

SQUIGGY

Hey, buck up.  They do that on accounta you're such a pinhead.

HECTOR

Yeah, well some day I'm gonna fix their wagons.

LENNY PUTS HIS ARM AROUND HECTOR.

LENNY

Let's face it.  You're just not a ladies' man.

SQUIGGY

Yeah.  Lenny used to have trouble with girls.  But I gave him the secret.

LENNY

Yeah.  He did it.

HECTOR

Yeah?  What, what?

SQUIGGY

Look.  Gettin' girls takes charm.  And suave.

A HARD-LOOKING CHICK WALKS BY.

LENNY

Heavy on the suave.  You gotta have a smooth line of patter.  Right, Squig?

SQUIGGY

Yeah.  Watch me and Len in action.  (TO PASSING GIRL) Hey, chickie, chickie.

HE AND LENNY MAKE KISSING NOISES AT HER.

LENNY

Hey, baby.  Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen.

HE AND SQUIGGY DO A RONNY.  THE GIRL SHAKES HER HEAD AND MOVES OFF.

HECTOR

Boy, I wish I could talk to girls like that.

 LENNY

It'll come, it'll come.

SQUIGGY

Yeah.  You're wasting your entire manhood on Laverne and Shirley.  They ain't the only fish in the market.

LENNY

Hey, you want some real action?  Go grab yourself an "off the wall" date.

HECTOR

Off the wall?

LENNY

Get yourself a hot phone number off the men's room wall.

HECTOR

Are those numbers for real?

SQUIGGY

Are you kiddin'?  That's how Len and I met Ready Betty Wazlewski.

LENNY

Ready Betty.  Man, that girl could make a dead man dance.

HECTOR

I guess it's worth a try.  What do I got to lose?

PREOCCUPIED, HECTOR HEADS FOR THE MEN'S ROOM.

LENNY

What a jerk!

SQUIGGY STARTS TO SHOOT WITH THE CHALK STILL ON THE TIP OF HIS CUESTICK.

LENNY (CONT'D)

You got chalk on your stick.

SQUIGGY

I know that.  It's a trick shot.

LENNY HANDS HIM ANOTHER DOLLAR.

The very short next scene did in fact make it in, with a few minor alterations.  For some reason, it's set at "Pool Hall Men's Room - Day," as if Hector didn't immediately seek out a "hot number":

HECTOR IS STANDING, STARING AT THE NAMES ON THE WALL, NEAR A WALL TELEPHONE.  LOTSA GRAFFITI.  ANOTHER GUY IS THERE.

Onscreen, there is no other guy, although there is "lotsa graffiti," and Hector says he doesn't need Laverne and Shirley because this is like a candy store.  In the script, hickies are a specialty of "Ginny LeSeuer" rather than of "Marjorie Flamm."

Thoughts:

• I'm going to assume that this is another Warren than Eraserhead, or than Potsie Weber for that matter.  Especially since he snorts Coke up his nose.
• By this version of the script, Tough Man #1 had been cast, as Fred Willard.  He would appear in an undeleted scene.
• The "Who you fooling" line sounds like a Michael McKean adlib in the blooper, but there it is, right in the script.  Which is not to say he might not have contributed it to an earlier version.
• I almost feel sorry for Hector in Scene B, not because of the girls but because he probably thinks Lenny and Squiggy are his pals from high school and they actually think he's a pinhead and a jerk.
• I definitely feel cheated that we didn't get a scene of the boys showing Hector how to pick up chicks.  I picture McKean and Lander playing it as a cleaner version of what their act originally was.
• And, oh, the irony of the boys telling Hector not to waste his manhood on Laverne and Shirley.  Yes, they do go out with other girls, but we know that Lenny in particular would drop everything if Laverne ever said yes.
• Is this the first mention of Ready Betty Wazlewski?  Lenny's line about a "dead man" again sounds like a cleaned up version of the original Lenny & Anthony act.
• The stuff with Squiggy's balls and cuestick is pretty Freudian under the circumstances.
• This covers Act One and we're definitely off to an interesting start.