"The Bachelor Party," Scenes E through K

Act Two opens in the "girls' apartment - a few minutes later - night," even though it was day in the previous scene.  They skipped Shirley saying, "Spaghetti -- ravioli  -- inka dinka bottle of ink, cork fell out and you stink.  I don't want you.  I want you -- so you stink," and I guess this is before she notices Laverne entering with a pizza box.  But that's the only change in Scene E.

The next scene is set at the "Pizza Bowl - the next night."  The beginning of the description is "It's bedlam," which is fairly accurate.  They seem to have left out the men pinching Shirley, although Squiggy and others seem to be trying.

They dropped the groom's first line:

MILO

(TOO MUCH BEER AND PIZZA) Getting married -- (FALLS IN HIS PIZZA)

They added Fonzie kissing Laverne again when she reluctantly agrees to be the cake-girl.  After the men go into the bowling alley, Laverne said to herself, "Look, I'm in show business."

The scene after that is also in the Pizza Bowl, "a few minutes later":

THE CAKE IS NOW IN POSITION NEAR THE GUYS' TABLE.  ALL THE GUYS HAVE TURNED THEIR CHAIRS TO FACE IT.  LAVERNE IS STANDING NEXT TO THE CAKE.  FONZIE IS MAKING A TOAST.

FONZIE

And while I'm toasting you, Milo, I wanna toast all my old gang.  Carmine Ragusa the big Ragoo [sic], may he win the Golden Gloves and Shirley, too.

ALL CHEER.

FONZIE (CONT'D)

(TOASTS) And to Silky Mulcheck, who now that I've moved across town, is the biggest ladies' man in the neighborhood.  (WINKS)  And to Squiggy and Lenny -- the reason I moved out of this neighborhood.

LENNY

(LAUGHS) He's got a good sense of humor.

SQUIGGY

Did he ever put French fries in his hair?

In the script, after Laverne says that "a very nice girl" is going to come out of the cake, there's the stage direction, "LENNY APPLAUDS," which McKean does very lecherously.

In the script, Fonzie's threat to Lenny was "How'd you like to feel my fist up your nose?", which became a threat to Lenny's throat.  They again added a little kiss between Fonzie and Laverne, after she thanks him for handling the disappointed men.

They omitted Laverne taking the "top hat" off the cake and putting it on.  And the scene and act end with Shirley asking, "Can I try that hat on?"

The tag is set in the "girls' apartment - day," and the stage directions say that "it's Monday."  They added Frank saying that the old neighborhood is changing and even the snow is dirtier.  Otherwise, the scene basically made it in.

Thoughts:

• There's not much to say about Scenes E, H, and K, other than they were polished a bit.
• It is J, the scene of the title party, that is of most interest here.
• Carmine would win the Golden Gloves by season's end, although not Shirley.
• Aired canon would hint that Fonzie is from this neighborhood, but here it is clearly stated.
• It's weird to have Silky mentioned in the toast, as if he's equally important to viewers as Carmine, Squiggy, and Lenny, but like I said, they were still figuring things out about characters at this point.
• The line about Squiggy and Lenny being the reason that Fonzie moved away, and his later threat to Lenny, ricochets off Squiggy's line in the "Fonzie's Funeral" episode of Happy Days, where Squig says that the Fonz was the nicest guy who ever beat him up.
• Lenny finding Fonzie funnier than Squiggy feels weird, and the French fries thing comes back again, a meh running joke.
• I don't know what the "top hat" of the cake is.  Is it part of Shirley's costume?  Is it the term for the very top layer of the cake?
• Overall, this script for the second episode of the series shows them definitely finding their way with the characters, from people we'd never see again to Fonzie's relationship to both girls.  I gave the resulting episode only a C+, and I think this script is weaker, but nonetheless intriguing in its primitiveness.