"Look Before You Leap," Scene H

Laverne was supposed to be wearing galoshes, because of the snow, but she's actually in high heels.  Shirley's snow hat is described as "adorable."  The dialogue is faithful at first, although Shirley laughs much more onscreen.  The script does have the added detail that Laverne has been getting sick every morning for three weeks, which considering the vat incident happened only a month ago, feels really early for morning sickness.

You can see the outfits in the handwritten notes are what we'd get onscreen, but in the script, the guys are "wearing their brewery jumpsuits.  Lenny has on his 'Lone Wolf" jacket and is wearing a clip-on tie."  Squiggy suggesting that he and Shirley step into the bedroom was added.

Lenny trying to carry Laverne to the couch was not in the script!  On the other hand, after Laverne suggests Lenny sit down, in the script he was supposed to "vault over the back of the couch and bounce for a second next to Laverne."

In the script, Lenny's last name is spelled "Kosnovsky," almost there.  After Lenny tells her what it means, she would say, "I never knew that," rather than the filmed "That's nice."

In the script, "Lenny startles her by leaping to his knee," but onscreen there's more up and down between them.

Also, in the script, "Lenny pulls his jacket up over his head and points to 'Lone Wolf' on the back," and then Laverne says, "Let me help you there," and "then he slides the jacket back in place."

The stage direction after his proposal is "Lenny lays his head like a puppy on Laverne's knee.  Laverne is genuinely touched."  In the script, she "surreptitiously wipes off her knee," after he raises his head, which I'm glad was dropped.  She was also supposed to "lightly punch him on the chin" after calling him "Big dope," but it's much sweeter that she rubs his shoulder.

On the other hand, here's what happened after she calls him "a real sweet guy":

It's possible there's a quick cheek kiss right as the scene fades out, but it's hard to tell.  The part with Shirley coming in is actually also from Scene H.  Here's the transition:

LENNY

Well... Gotta get to work...

HE STARTS OUT.

LAVERNE

Bye, Len.

LENNY

See ya around.

LAVERNE

Okay.

LENNY

I'm gonna be goin' now.

LAVERNE

Uh huh.

LENNY

Say, let's do this again sometime...

LAVERNE

Goodbye, Lenny.

LENNY EXITS, WAVING.  LAVERNE SMILES, CROSSES TO KITCHEN.

LAVERNE

Laverne "Help There's a Hog in My Kitchen!"

SHE STARTS MAKING HERSELF A MILK AND PEPSI.  AFTER A FEW BEATS, SHIRLEY ENTERS, TEARY-EYED.

The main difference in the dialogue after that is that Frank shows up and keeps knocking fairly early on onscreen, while in the script it's not until after Laverne says that he can kill somebody else over the news about her problem.  And then there's this dropped dialogue:

SHIRLEY

Who is it?

FRANK (O.S.)

Me.

LAVERNE BECOMES UNDONE.  WE HEAR FRANK MUMBLE OUTSIDE.  

LAVERNE

(ON THE VERGE OF TEARS) I can't talk to him, and I'm not gonna.  Make him go away.

SHIRLEY

He won't go away.  You know him.  Sometimes he never goes away.

LAVERNE

I'm goin' into the bedroom, and I'm gonna stay there forever.

SHIRLEY

You got a doctor's appointment.

LAVERNE

I'm not goin'.  I'm not comin' outa that room ever again!

The chef being named Tony was an added, and canonical, detail.  They omitted this when Frank wants to go in to see Laverne:

SHIRLEY JUMPS IN FRONT OF HIM.

SHIRLEY

Wait a minute.  You got sauce all over your nosey.  Mr. De Fazio, how are you at taking horrible news?

FRANK

Terrific.

SHIRLEY

Let's say you went back to the Pizza Bowl, and you found out that the Knights of Pythias came and ordered 85 pizzas for their annual Pythias picnic, and Mary, your waitress forgot to collect the money, and you were out hundreds of dollars.  What would you do to her?

FRANK

(FURIOUS) I'd kill her... I'd get an axe...

SHIRLEY

What if Laverne did the same thing... would you get that angry at her?

FRANK

I'd yell a little bit... I'd yell a lot... But Laverne is Muffin... Muffin is family.

HE PUTS HIS HANDS TOGETHER LIKE HE'S PRAYING.  SHIRLEY IS RELIEVED.

FRANK (CONT'D)

Can I go in now?

SHIRLEY

Yes.

FRANK GRUNTS AND EXITS INTO BEDROOM.

SHIRLEY (CONT'D)
(CALLING AFTER HIM) Remember, you and Muffin... family.

Shirley's little rhyming prayer at the end made it in.

Thoughts;

• As with the filmed version, there are a lot of feels here.
• It's interesting that the stage directions got modified in all those various ways, generally moving in a direction of more affection, although I do wonder about the quick kiss.
• Lenny's drawn out goodbye is frickin' adorable, although I reluctantly concede it was probably necessary to drop for time constraints.
• And I have to wonder how Penny would've played Laverne musing on the meaning of her potential married name.
• Laverne is definitely more upset, and reluctant to face the world, in the script than onscreen.
• The Shirley & Frank exchange is interesting for its insights into how Frank sees Laverne (and of course it mentions Mary the Waitress), but I guess that comes through well enough in the following scene.
• Also, Nosey.  And Pythias Picnic.