"Playing Hookey," Scene B

We get an exterior, a "playground - day."  This was dropped:

SHIRLEY

Not it.

LAVERNE

I ain't playin' hide and go seek with just the two of us.

SHIRLEY

We haven't been here since we were kids.

LAVERNE

Yeah.  They make everything smaller now.

SHIRLEY

Not smaller, we're adults now, grown up!

Shirley correcting Laverne's pronunciation of "fudgsicle" was added.  On the other hand, Melissa's mother stuck around longer and even asked Laverne, "Why don't you leave Melissa alone?"

This was omitted, after Bob walks off:

LAVERNE

All set.  (CALLS AFTER HIM)  Hi.  Where's your friend?  (TO SHIRLEY) Couldn't you keep him here for a second so I could meet him?

SHIRLEY

He walked away when you came up, Laverne.

LAVERNE

Just walked off?

The last page of the scene, and act, was dropped:

SHIRLEY

Drag your feet and stop this thing.

LAVERNE

And break my leg?

IT CONTINUES TO SPIN, AD LIB SCREAMS.  FINALLY IT STOPS.  THEY GET OFF, OBVIOUSLY DIZZY.

LAVERNE (CON'TD)

Shirl, are you all right?

SHIRLEY

I'm fine.  Go belt that rotten kid.

LAVERNE LOOKS.

LAVERNE

She went that way.  Shirl, I've had enough of your fun.  Let's go to Otto's Snake Pit and pick up some guys.

SHIRLEY

We better go home and change first.

LAVERNE

Hurry up.  Otto's happy hour starts at four o'clock.

 THEY STAGGER OFF CAMERA.  BOB AND ERNIE EXCHANGE LOOKS AND FOLLOW THEM.

Thoughts:

• I can understand most of these omissions, although they develop the scene a bit more, like showing Laverne's over-eagerness with the two guys.
• Notice the mention of Otto's Snake Pit, a bit of foreshadowing.
• And we get more of a sense of Bob and Ernie following the girls in the script than onscreen.