"Take Two, They're Small," Scenes E, H, and J

We roll down to the "Pfister Roller Rink - night."  Laverne was supposed to have her camera and be "snapping pictures" as she skates with Brent, but otherwise the opening stage directions are intact.

The organist's line "I spent six years in the conservatory for this?" was added, as were most of his other lines.  (The only one in the script is the one about "the Cooperman wedding.")

Ah, the "tiny tie" exchange was moved to this scene for filming.  I'd forgotten.

Brent and Lance complimenting Laverne's legs, as the girls fight with the Boylen sisters, was not in the script.

Instead of the scene ending with the girls imitating the Boylens' laughs, this is how it went in the script:

LAVERNE PICKS UP HER CAMERA.

LAVERNE

Now, this is a picture.  Smile, Claudette.

SHIRLEY

I think she is.

LAVERNE SNAPS THE PICTURE.

Then it's back to the apartment, still at night.  Scene H is pretty much the same in both versions.  However, on air it was the tag, while it's the penultimate scene in the script.

The scripted tag is also in the apartment, but "a few nights later":

SHIRLEY, WEARING HER PAJAMAS AND A ROBE, IS PLAYING SOLITAIRE ON THE COFFEE TABLE.  SHE IS CHEATING.  LAVERNE ENTERS FROM THE BEDROOM.  SHE IS HOLDING SOMETHING BEHIND HER BACK.

LAVERNE

Shirl, Brent was right.  My feet ain't growing.

SHIRLEY

I told you you were crazy.

LAVERNE

I'm not crazy.  I'm stupid.  Look.  Remember when you told me to find a good place to put these inner soles?  (HOLDS UP EIGHT INNER SOLES)

LAVERNE                                                SHIRLEY

I put 'em in my skates.                              You put them in your skates.

THE DOOR BURSTS OPEN AND LENNY AND SQUIGGY ENTER.

SQUIGGY

Well, girls, how were your dates?  Did you have a good little time?

THE GUYS LAUGH, AND ELBOW EACH OTHER.

SHIRLEY

Actually, we had a delightful time, thank you.

THE GUYS REACT.

LENNY

You liked 'em?

SQUIGGY

Well, then, you're gonna love the guys we got lined up for you next week.  A couple of real prince charmings.  Hold still and let 'em check you out.

LENNY

(CALLING OUT THE DOOR) Oh, Rock?  Tab?

TWO ELDERLY GUYS ENTER.  THEY LOOK AT THE GIRLS.

ROCK

Too old.

THEY TURN AND EXIT.  ON THE GIRLS' REACTION, WE :

FADE OUT.

Thoughts:

• I think it's just as well they left out Laverne's camera in Scene E.
• The "I think she is" smiling line has to do with the Boylen sisters having "their rear ends up in the air."
• Is Shirley cheating at solitaire some kind of comment on her love life?
• Laverne's fear about her feet is a bigger deal on paper than on air, and that's not much of a payoff.
• I'd rather think that the boys fixed the girls up to make money and maybe to help their friends, rather than that they were also motivated by a chance to mock the girls, since that seems a little mean-spirited, as does their fixing them up with cradle-robbing old men.
• The names "Rock" and "Tab" are supposed to suggest '50s film hunks Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter.  That both actors much later came out as gay is one of the ironies of this script.
• Overall, this script mostly seems to have been trimmed, rather than drastically overhauled in that week and a half before the airdate.  This was at a time when L&S had been pushed over to Thursdays and fallen in the ratings, so that may've added to the uncertainty.  It's not a bad script, or episode, but neither is it a classic.