"Lonely At the Middle," Scene H

We go to the "girls apartment - night":

LAVERNE WALKS IN FROM KITCHEN WITH A PEPSI AND MILK AND A NEWSPAPER.  SHE PUTS THE PEPSI AND MILK DOWN ON THE TABLE -- NEAR HER LEFT HAND.  SHE SITS AND PUTS HER FEET UP ON THE TABLE, OPENS THE PAPER AND READS FOR A BEAT.  THEN SHE WANTS SOME PEPSI AND MILK.  SHE PUTS HER FEET DOWN, TAKES THE GLASS WITH HER LEFT HAND, BRINGS IT TO HER RIGHT HAND, TAKES IT WITH HER RIGHT HAND AND TAKES A SIP OF IT.  THEN SHE TAKES THE GLASS WITH HER LEFT HAND, PUTS IT DOWN ON THE TABLE, PUTS HER FEET UP AGAIN AND CONTINUES READING.  (SHIRLEY HAS WATCHED HER DO ALL THIS.)

SHIRLEY

You know, one of the interesting things about my job is the way it opens up your mind to all sorts of things you never noticed before.

LAVERNE

Oh, yeah... like what?

SHIRELY

Well, like how we throw away so much of our lives by doing little things inefficiently.

Onscreen, this was replaced by Laverne in the frame device talking to Lenny (including about the "secret place" in her novel).  For some reason, in the script, Shirley gives Laverne advice about drinking coffee, even though it just said Laverne is drinking milk & Pepsi, but this was fixed by filming.  Shirley's instructions are more detailed in the script, but not really worth going into here.  Also, in the script Shirley advised Laverne on how to squeeze toothpaste, rather than set her bangs, but the dialogue just isn't interesting enough to quote.

Shirley telling Laverne how to call her crazy was kept, as was Laverne walking over furniture to get to the kitchen.  Laverne throwing the cake at Shirley was from the script as well, but there we learn that it's left over from Shirley's party.  Onscreen, Shirley says it was a waste of a perfectly good butter cake, but in the script, she says, "I won't dignify that with a reply.

My main thought is that this scene is much stronger onscreen, not even counting the frame device.