"Lenny's Crush," Scene B

We're still at the girls' apartment, now the next morning.  Lenny was supposed to be not just strumming his guitar but "sipping a glass of milk."  I don't know how he would do both at once, but we do see a cup on the coffee table.

Shirley was supposed to immediately cover herself with a pot and a potholder at first, and then a blanket from the couch.  Instead onscreen, she hides behind the half-wall between the kitchen and living room, and eventually covers herself with a dish towel.  (She waits until she says no man has ever had a good time before she goes and gets the blanket onscreen.)

In the script, after Lenny says he and Laverne are "kind of a hot item now," he adds "It's love."  And for some reason, in the script it's "your runway" (as in Shirley's) rather than "the runway."

Onscreen, Squiggy is definitely irritated when he "walks through the door" like love, but script-Squiggy is a different animal:

Onscreen he was "a worried stiff" about the chemical treatment.

The "Cupid's arrow" part was added.  And onscreen Squiggy says it's terrific, while in the script Squiggy is more lukewarm with "so probable."  Squiggy having a cold was another improvement onscreen.

In the script, Laverne is merely bleeding, not "bleeding to death."  Also, in the script, Shirley says, "You're the boom-boom, Laverne," for kissing Lenny.

In the script, we learn even more of the backstory to Ned Stearns, and an explanation for why he wanted to carry Shirley's ballet slippers:

SHIRLEY

Ned was a guy who had a crush on me.  We met when I was studying interpretive dance.  He loved my weeping willow.  (PLAYS A WEEPING WILLOW)

LAVERNE

Oh yeah.  Wasn't he the kid they said was half wolf?

SHIRLEY

That was Red Derns.

LAVERNE

Red Derns.

In case you're curious, the song is intact in the script, but I assume Michael McKean had already submitted it by this phase of the writing process.

A few thoughts:

• Lenny doesn't say "in love" or equivalent onscreen nearly as early as in the script, but on the other hand he does tell Squiggy about Cupid's arrow.
• This Squiggy definitely got laid, suggesting that onscreen Squiggy's anger might've been motivated in part by sexual frustration.  I like both versions.
• OK, now I'm imagining Shirley playing a Weeping Willow at the Buttered Cocoon as the Art Garfunkel character is the Mighty Oak.
• And yet another interesting acquaintance of the girls' we'll never meet, Red Derns, the demi-wolf.