"Sing, Sing, Sing," Scene D

It's Cowboy Bill's at "night," but definitely a different night.  Laverne and Lenny were supposed to be "standing by the counter," not cutely sitting on the counter.  They dropped the first part of Frank's routine:

FRANK

Welcome to our second annual Hoot Night.  I'm gonna warm you up with a couple of jokes.  Did you hear the one about the auctioneer's daughter?  She...  (DRUMMER HITS A RIMSHOT)  No, no.  You gotta wait till after the punchline.  (TURNS BACK TO MIKE)  Two rabbis walk into a bar.  (DRUMMER HITS ANOTHER RIMSHOT)  No, no.  You did it again.  Just watch my hand.  (HE HOLDS HIS HAND UP.  RETURNS TO MIKE)

Instead we get a voiceover of Frank saying he's going to tell jokes and then there's his "doctor" joke from the script.  After the audience does his punchline, there was this:

NOBODY LAUGHS.  THERE IS A RIMSHOT.  FRANK REACTS.  HE LOWERS HIS HAND IN DISGUST. 

FRANK

Sure, you work with them.  See if they sign your paycheck.

Onscreen, we get Laverne and Lenny looking very amused (and adorable).

Frank implausibly describing Rhonda as Edna's "very dear friend" was not in the script, so I'm going to guess Phil Foster added it.

More omissions with Frank and the drummer:

FRANK

(INTO MIKE) Thank you, Rhonda and Edna.  (TO AUDIENCE) Listen up all you men out there.  Edna's married and Rhonda's expensive.

DRUMMER HITS A RIMSHOT.

FRANK (CONT'D)

(TO DRUMMER) That was no joke.

Laverne and Lenny are sitting on the counter by this point, but I think the scene works better as shot, with them just up there from the beginning.  Once again, they added the two of them touching, here with her comforting him after he's speechless in front of Sabrina.

After Laverne says that Carmine and Lenny are going to be so proud of her, Carmine had the line, "That's what Napoleon said before he left for Waterloo."  Here's how Squiggy's fabulous entrance goes in the written version:

SQUIGGY ENTERS, DECKED OUT IN AGENT-STYLE (CIGARETTE HOLDER, CAPE, CANE, ETC.)  HE IS ACCOMPANIED BY A GIRL.

SQUIGGY

Good evening, gentlemen, could you show me to the reserved agents seating, please.

LENNY PULLS OUT A CHAIR.

SQUIGGY (CONT'D)

(SOTTO TO GIRL) (THEN) Order anything on the menu that's cheaper than me.

GIRL

You're so good to me, Squiggy Wiggy.

SQUIGGY

Shhhhh!  Not in public.

SQUIGGY CROSSES TO CARMINE.

CARMINE

Great outfit.  You doing a magic act tonight?

SQUIGGY

I'm here to scout talent.  I'm an entremanure.

Onscreen, the girl (Beehive Girl) loses her line, but Lenny seating Squiggy becomes a neat little routine between the boys.  The rest of the scene is mostly unchanged, although Squiggy's "Shouldn't one of us help the lady being murdered in the bathroom?" was improved (I assume by Lander) to the more casual "I think someone ought to go to the ladies' room.  There's a woman strangling herself to death in there."  Also, the closing line was Lenny's "He's so good with creative people," which became Carmine telling "Squiggles" to be gentle.

Thoughts:

• The changes definitely make the scene cuter and funnier, unless you're a fan of rimshots.
• There is no physical or other description of Sabrina, just "Lenny's heart throb, the waitress, Sabrina."  She truly is just a breathing prop.  In comparison, Karen the next season would be a complex character.
• Although it would've been great to have Beehive Girl speak, I do love that she just shows up, without explanation, in mid-'60s Burbank.  Also, "Squiggy Wiggy" kills me.
• That is such a Carmine line, about the magic act.
• I feel like "entremanure" did resurface somewhere, but I don't remember where.