Laverne & Shirley (1976)
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Leslie Easterbrook as Rhonda Lee
Episodes 66
Not Quite New York
After being fired from the brewery, the girls decide to pack up and move out to California. The only way they can afford to get out there is to have Lenny and Squiggy drive them there in an old ice cream truck.
Read MoreWelcome to Burbank
The girls are ready to return to Milwaukee after experiencing an earthquake on their first night in California.
Read MoreStudio City
The girls are hired to play stunt women in a Troy Donohue movie.
Read MoreGrand Opening
In order to pay Shirley back some of the money she owes her, Laverne agrees to be the target in Sonny's knife throwing act at Cowboy Bill's grand opening. When Sonny breaks his arm and is unable to do the act, Shirley takes over throwing the knives at Laverne, which makes Laverne extremely nervous since she knows that Shirley is already upset with her.
Read MoreCandy is Dandy
The girls finally get a job in California in the gift wrapping department at Bardwell's Department Store. On their first day on the job, Laverne gets tipsy after eating candy laced with alcohol.
Read MoreThe Dating Game
Lenny and Squiggy appear in on the television show, The Dating Game.
Read MoreThe Other Woman
Shirley finally gets to date a Doctor. The trouble is she looks exactly like his old wife.
Read MoreThe Road to Burbank
There is a dispute over who should pay the bill when Lenny and Squiggy trash a hotel room on their way to California and try to blame it on Laverne and Shirley. This leads to the telling of two different versions of what happened that night: one where Lenny and Squiggy are chasing the girls all night, and the other where the girls are feeling feisty and chase the boys around the room.
Read MoreBorn Too Late
Lenny and Squiggy imagine that they are the stars in a whole series of flashback black and white silent movies.
Read MoreLove Out the Window
After learning that Laverne fears for his safety, Sonny quits his job as a stuntman and takes a job selling insurance.
Read MoreMalibu Mansion
The girls are hired to house sit at the Malibu beachfront mansion of the owner of the Cowboy Bill's chain of restaurants. While he is away for the weekend, the girls throw a beach party which gets gate crashed by a gang of bikers. The girls manage to clean the place up just in time, but the owner's talking pet parrot threatens to spill the beans.
Read MoreTo Tell the Truth
Stuck at home on a rainy night with nothing to do, the gang decides to play a game of truth or dare. Within minutes, everybody ends up arguing with each other.
Read MoreI Do, I Do
The girls almost marry tow rock stars from Britain after eating some brownies laced with marijuana.
Read MoreBut Seriously, Folks . . .
Carmine's new stand up comedy act is not such a big hit with his friends when he starts to make fun of them in turn.
Read MoreThe Bardwell Caper (1)
Disappointed after not receiving the customary tri-monthly $5.00 raise, Laverne and Shirley write a nasty letter to their boss. At the end of the day, it is revealed that they DID get a raise, after all, but also that the nasty letter is sitting, unopened, on the boss's desk - waiting to be read the next morning. Desperate to save their jobs, Laverne and Shirley go home and try to hatch a plan to get that letter back, before morning.
Read MoreThe Bardwell Caper (2)
The girls recruit Lenny, Squiggy, and Carmine to help them pull off this mission. Lenny and Squiggy will drive the getaway car, and act as lookouts, while Carmine, Laverne, and Shirley will sneak through the air vents, and make their way into the boss's office. They will carefully maneuver around the alarm system, retrieve the letter, and be on their way. No one shall be the wiser.
Of course, when they try to put the plan into action, our heroes run into some obstacles along the way, and quickly realize that this isn't going to be as easy as they thought.
Read MoreHigh Priced Dates
The girls turn to Edna for advice when their dates expect ""rewards"".
Read MoreFifth Anniversary
The girls throw Frank and Edna a fifth wedding anniversary party at their trailor, which has a broken trailor jack.
Read MoreOut, Out Damned Plout
Sgt. Plout goes AWOL and decides to hide out at the girl's apartment.
Read MoreLaverne's Broken Leg
After she has to miss a party because of her broken leg, Laverne sits at home alone and falls asleep while watching It's A Wonderful Life on TV. She then dreams what life would be like for her friends and her family if she had never been born.
Read MoreSing, Sing, Sing
Laverne asks Carmine to give her singing lessons so that she can sing for Hoot Night at Cowboy Bill's.
Read MoreChild's Play
Because of Squiggy's forgetfulness, Laverne and Shirley must play all the parts in Shirley's play ""Murder In Mother Goose Land"", which a Broadway producer attends.
Read MoreThe Most Important Day Ever
Laverne and Shirley appear on television as part of a Latvian acrobatic act in an effort to help Lenny and Squiggy's new talent agency.
Read MoreIt Only Hurts When I Breathe
Laverne and Shirley recall their high school days only to find themselves embroiled in a slugfest that leaves Laverne with a broken jaw.
Read MoreI Wonder What Became of Sal?
Laverne's old boyfriend Sal, comes to California looking for her. Now Sal is a succesful millionaire businessman and he once again proposes to Laverne.
Read MoreTeenage Lust
The girls attend a wild fraternity party and find out they're not as young as they used to be.
Read MoreThe Defiant One
Shirley finds herself mistakenly handcuffed to a bankrobber who is forced to take her with him when he escapes from the police.
Read MoreNight at the Awards
When Lenny and Squiggy invade the backstage of a televised awards show, they suddenly find themselves in the middle of the stage with Joey Heatherton.
Read MoreSome Enchanted Earring
Laverne accidentally loses one of her mother's diamond earrings.
Read MoreMoving In
Laverne moves in with her new boyfriends but after having a talk with Lenny, she begins to have second thoughts. Laverne's new boyfriends asks Laverne to move in with him. Laverne tells Shirley she's moving out and this prompts a speech from Shirley seeing as Laverne isn't marrying the guy just living with him. Laverne convinces Shirley she really want to go, but asks Shirley to cover for her with her father. Needless to say not long after Laverne leaves, Frank turns up looking for Laverne. Shirley has to lie to him to keep him from suspecting the truth. Lenny turns up at Laverne's new apartment just in time to convince Laverne to re-think what she's doing. The boyfriend doesn't want to get married so Laverne realizes her mistake and moves back with Shirley.
Read MoreFriendly Persuasion
While wrapping in Bardwell's one day, Charles Grodin comes in and chats to the girls. Laverne mistakingly thinks he's asking her out and she invites him over for dinner. That night at dinner all the gang are there and Charles arrives. Shirley thinks he's after their gift wrapping jobs at Bardwell's so she is mean to him, and Lenny and Squiggy are there arguing with Laverne and Shirley becuase there was no water to rinse Squiggy's hair. Shirley and Carmine are arguing because she's tired of Carmine taking her out to eat on coupon dinners. Everybody is arguing and Charles tries to turn it around, but ends up hurting Laverne's feelings when it's declared that he didn't ask her out. This prompts the guys to ask him to leave, after that they all start being nice to each other and feel guilty as this was what Charles was preaching earlier. Charles comes back in to try to clear the air, and is forgiven by Laverne and the gang and they all head out to eat.
Read MoreI Do, I Don't
Shirley tries to get Carmine to marry her after she is provided with a free wedding reception. Shirley talks Laverne into going to a promotional evening for brides to be. When she gets there, she discovers that a woman who has paid for an all frills wedding has to cancel, and she tells the organiser to give her wedding package to the next needy soul. Shirley promptly tells the woman that she is the needy soul she's looking for. Now that Shirley has a free wedding coming, she needs to talk Carmine into proposing to her. She tricks Carmine into asking her back at her flat and then rushes him out the door and says she'll meet him later at the hotel where the wedding ceremony will take place. Later when Laverne and Shirley and her two best men (Lenny and Squiggy) arrive at the hotel, the vicar is waiting along with all the guests and there's no Carmine. This prompts Laverne and Lenny and Squiggy to break into a few choruses of ""Lullaby of Broadway"" to entertain the crowd. Eventually Carmin
Read MoreLove Is the Tar Pits
Squiggy is jealous of Lenny's new girlfriend. While out at the local tarpits, Lenny sees a nice girl reading on the lawn. A guy starts to hassle her so he tells him to leave her alone. Lenny then asks her out on a date, and this starts to make Squiggy feel that he's being left out. Three weeks later Lenny and Karen are still together and Squiggy is sure that Karen is out to break Lenny and Squiggy up. Lenny and Squiggy have an argument over Karen and Lenny leaves in a huff. Later at Cowboy Bills, Lenny learns that Karen has been accepted for a university in New York and she leaves in 2 days. Lenny thinks she's breaking up with him because he's too dumb, and tells Frank he's going back to the tarpits for a last farewell. Squiggy hears this from Frank and thinks Lenny is going to kill himself. He rushes to the tarpits to find Lenny waste deep in the tar, jumps in to save his life and after a heartfelt chat Squiggy apologizes and they leave best friends again. It was discovered that Lenny
Read MoreWatch the Fur Fly
After Shirley yells at Rhonda for wearing a coat made of animal fur, Laverne unknowingly sets Shirley up on a date with a furrier.
Read MoreRocky Ragu
Carmine is in the girls apartment getting Laverne to sew his pants after a dog took a bite out of them, when Rhonda comes in saying that she's just landed a lead role in a new movie/musical about the life of a famous ex-boxer. Rhonda says that Carmine should try out for the lead role as he would make an excellent Rocky. Carmine agrees to meet Rhonda at Cowboy Bills to rehearse a scene. Later at Cowboy Bills, Laverne walks in on Carmine and Rhonda as they're rehearsing a tender moment. Laverne thinks Carmine is two timing Shirley and slaps him in the face, and storms out. Squiggy then enters and offers to represent Carmine at the audition. When Lenny, Squiggy and Carmine get to the audition, there are loads of guys waiting to try out for the part. Squiggy gets rid of the secretary and Lenny ducks into the main office. He comes out a minute later with a bandage on his head and tomato ketchup dripping from his bandage, telling all that he had never taken such a beating and that he was onl
Read MoreStar Peepers
The girls vow to get revenge on a rude, obnoxious singing star who was extremely rude to them at Bardwell's. They figure the way to get revenge is to take some incriminating pictures of him and sell them to a tabloid.
Read MoreAn Affair to Forget
Laverne is dating a guy but she doesn't know that he is married. When he takes her to a restaurant for dinner, his wife shows up. Not wanting his wife to know he is there on a date he throws Laverne in the big aquarium which is set up in the restaurant.
Read MoreClass of '56
Laverne, Shirley and Carmine go back to Milwaukee to attend their high school reunion. What they don't know, however is that the gang back home thinks that the girls are famous movie stars and that Carmine is a famous Las Vegas singer. Lenny and Squiggy write to the gang back in Milwaukee that Carmine, Laverne and Shirley have all made it big in Hollywood. Feeling slightly insecure about how they measure up the rest of their old classmates' successes, the trio agree to go along with the story. Laverne is supposedly dating Marlon Brando and Shirley Paul Newman, when Rosie starts asking questions about Marlon and the girls start giving contradictory answers, they soon get found out. Shirley then tells the truth and Terri Buttafuco asks them to leave for lying. The girls get out the doors and Laverne comes back in telling off all her old friends for only being nice to them because they thought they were famous. This lays a heavy guilt trip on their old friends and all is forgiven.
Read MoreSki Show
Laverne and Shirley decide that they must change their usual habits for meeting guys because they're not getting anywhere going around the single bars. Rhonda comes in and shows the girls her new ski outfit. This gives Laverne the idea that they should go to a ski resort to meet new guys. Shirley reluctantly agrees. Next we see them trying to ski and failing miserably, especially Shirley. Along comes a chairlift guy who Laverne wants to impress so she lies about being a novice and pretends she knows how to get on the ski lift. Of course she doesn't and the next few scenes are pictures of the girls trying and failing to mount the ski lift. Eventualy they manage only to have the ski lift breakdown while they're half way up a mountain. The girls are up there for hours, but eventually they get back to the ground. We find them sitting on a rock, shivering and hugging among themselves about whose great idea it was to come skiing when along comes two mountain rescue guys Bob and Bennett who
Read MoreHelmut Weekend
Squiggy's long lost father suddenly shows up and wants to spend time with his son.
Read MoreThat's Entertainment
Frank and Carmine argue about whether today's music is better or worse than the music of yesteryear.
Read MoreLightning Man
Carmine finds fame after being struck by lightning.
Read MoreCrime Isn't Pretty
Frank and Carmine set up booby traps in the girl's apartment to try and catch a burglar who has been breaking into the apartment and stealing things.
Read MorePerfidy in Blue
When Shirley loses Laverne's favorite purse, she is afraid to tell her because she didn't ask if she could borrow it. When Laverne asks Shirley if she knows where the purse is, she lies and says no. Shirley then goes to sleep and dreams that Laverne is trying to kill her because she knows that Shirley lost her favorite purse and lied to her about it.
Read MoreThe Mummy's Bride
Shirley marries Walter Meeney.
Read MoreWindow on Main Street
The girls agree to live in Bardwell's main show window for a weekend in order to demonstrate the 'House Of The Future'
Read MoreThe Note
Laverne gets depressed and then angry after she finds a very short note from Shirley saying that she has left to go overseas with her husband who was just transferred there. Laverne just can't believe that Shirley would leave and only write a few words to say goodbye. To try and help cheer her up, each of the gang tries to find Laverne a new roommate. But things turn out okay after Laverne finds the rest of Shirley's note which had fallen under the bed.
Read MoreLost in Spacesuits
The show starts in Laverne's apartment, where she's trying to put together a load of her stuff to sell as she's desperate for money now she's out of a job. In comes Frank with an old army buddy whose life he saved during the war. This army buddy offers Laverne a job at Ajax Aerospace. Laverne's delighted and is told to report for work Monday morning. Come Monday, we see Laverne at her new job which is testing gravity boots. She soon finds this more boring than bottling beer in her old Milwaukee job. When everyone goes for lunch, there's only her and a weird guy called Chuck left in the room. To make things more exciting, Chuck gets Laverne to try on a secret experimental anti-gravity spacesuit. Laverne comes out wearing the the suit and helmet and Chuck who has the remote control soon has Laverne doing acrobtaics in mid-air. The problems start when Chuck can't get Laverne down, Laverne suggests she put on a pair of gravity boots which brings her back down to earth, however she can't ge
Read MoreThe Playboy Show
Laverne is waiting tables at Cowboy Bill's when Rhonda comes asking if Laverne would be kind enough to go downtown to pick up a Playboy Bunny application form for her as she's busy trying out for her new play. Rhonda suggests Laverne should pick up an application for herself at the same time. Laverne is reluctant to go and even more reluctant to get an application for herself because of her 'chicken ankles'. Next we see loads of beautiful girls at the Playboy auditions when Laverne walks in, the woman in charge is a hypochondriac and says she has a fever coming on so Laverne starts handing out the application forms for her. Laverne becomes friendly with a woman named Kathy. Laverne decides to apply after Kathy (Carrie Fisher) tells her to try after all what's she got to lose. Back at the flat, Laverne is eagerly waiting for a phone call from the Playboy auditions to see if she's allowed to attend ""Bunny Training"". She gets the call and she in. Laverne tells Frank that she's going to tr
Read MoreDeath Row (1)
Laverne makes friends with a group of people that she doesn't know are really a gang who plan to rob a bank. When she goes to the bank with them she thinks it is only to get new dishes that the bank is giving away with every new account that is opened. When she realizes what is actually happening it's too late because the police have already arrived. Laverne is handcuffed along with the rest of the gang and they are all carted off to jail.
Read MoreDeath Row (2)
While waiting to be booked at the police station for the bank robbery, Laverne and her new 'friend' are mistaken for murderers who were on the run. They are both sentenced to be executed at midnight that night.
Read MoreOf Mice and Men
Laverne's plan to restore her cowardly boyfriend's self-confidence backfires.
Read MoreThe Gymnast
Laverne is convinced that the former trapeze artist she's been dating is out to kill her.
Read MoreThe Monastery Show
Laverne, upset with the way her life has been going, asks if she can stay at a convent for a couple of weeks to try and sort things out. The Mother Superior lets her stay but then asks her to leave when she has trouble keeping the vow of silence that all the other Sisters have taken.
Read MoreDefective Ballet
Squiggy is mistaken for a Russion ballet dancer who is trying to defect to the United States.
Read MoreThe Baby Show
Sgt. Plout once again shows up on Laverne's doorstep. This time she is pregnant and looking for a place to stay. Plout and Laverne enter a mothers-to-be contest and then go to a funeral home to pay their respect to one of Frank's buddies. While at the funeral home, Sgt. Plout goes into labor and delivers her baby.
Read MoreRock 'n' Roll Show
Laverne talks her wacky friend Chuck into forming his own band after he plays Beethoven on his harmonica. Laverne is also on a special diet for her ulcer and back at the flat Carmine is trying to stop Laverne from eating all the wrong foods. Chuck shows Laverne his new band, a bunch of geeky looking guys enter and proceed to put Laverne to sleep with their classical playing. Laverne tells Chuck he has to play rock music if he wants to make big money. The guys trust Laverne so much that they've quit their jobs to become big musicians. Laverne tries to show them how to jazz up their act a little, but the results are still terrible. To make things worse, Squiggy has just gotten the band their first job. He tells them that they are to perform in 20 minutes. Laverne has to read out to the massive crowd that the Rolling Stones won't be performing and that instead her friend Chuck's band will be playing instead. Amazingly to everyone, the band plays extremely well and goes over a smash. It
Read MoreThe Fashion Show
Jealous of all the beautiful girls her new photographer boyfriend has to take pictures of, Laverne goes to a fashion show where he is working and ends up being one of the models in the show.
Read MoreShort on Time
When Frank finds a note from Edna saying that she has left him, he goes to Laverne's to talk to her about it. Laverne, who doesn't know that Edna has left, asks her father to stay at the apartment and babysit Little Chucky who is a chimp, because she has gotten a chance to sing with The Spinners as Rhonda gave her the winning woman. While singing with the group, she feels guilty about leaving her father when he wanted to talk to her so she rushes back home and learns about Edna leaving. The show ends with Little Chucky waiting on tables at Cowboy Bills.
Read MoreGhost Story
Laverne and the gang hold a seance to rid her apartment of a ghost that has taken up residence there.
Read MorePlease Don't Feed the Buzzards
Lenny and Squiggy find a treasure map and convince Frank and Carmine to go with them to search for gold.
Read MoreHow's Your Sister?
Squiggy's bizarre sister, Squendolyn, arrives for a visit and ends up moving in with Laverne and falling for Carmine.
Read MoreDo the Carmine
Carmine and Squiggy are sitting at Cowboy Bills, as Carmine complains that nobody likes his new record 'Do the Hotfoot', Squigy notices that sitting at the next table is Bobby Bitts, king of the hits. Squiggy tries to talk Bobby into playing Carmine's record on his show ""American Dance Band"" but Bobby's having none of it. Squiggy decides the only way to get Bobby to hear the record is for Carmine to sing it live there at Cowboy Bills. Carmine gets a few verses in and Bobby stops him, says it's ""Superrific"" and books him to sing on his next show. The title is changed to ""Do the Carmine"", and Carmine now fills his head with dreams of becoming a rich rock star, and he asks Laverne if she'll be in the audience of the show to hear him sing. Carmine sings his record and for 1 week he's a success, but some pious do-gooder hears his song and thinks it's rebellious and communist. So he confronts Bobby and demands that he not play Carmine's record or he'll have his group put pressure on the sta
Read MoreCouncilman DeFazio
Frank is making his usual contribution to his local councilman. After the guy has taken Frank's money he tells him that he plans to tear down Cowboy Bills and build a high rise on top of it. Frank chases the guy from the restaurant and heads down to see Laverne.Laverne is ill in bed, but Frank vents his frustrations to Laverne and decides the only way to stop him and beat city hall is to run against the current corrupt councilman and stop him that way. Next day back at Cowboy Bills, Frank is busy getting all his friends to help him campaign for him, the councilman walsk in with a camera crew in tow and he's telling them all about his plans for the area. Frank confronts the guy and tells the news crew that the other guy is crooked and that his family has all the companies that he gives the city's jobs too. The anchor woman for the TV station invites Frank to an open debate on tv to air his views against Counilman Pike. Later Frank confesses to Carmine that he's never spoken in public be
Read MoreHere Today, Hair Tomorrow
Rhonda enters Cowboy Bills to tell Frank that she suspects Carmine is about to commit suicide. She tells Frank that he's packed all his stuff, turned off the gas, and disconnected his phone. Just as the two of them are about to run to try to save Carmine, he walks in and tells them that he's decided he's getting nowhere fast and that he wants to move to New Yrok to try his luck on Broadway. Rhonda and Frank lend him money as he doesn't have quite enough to get there yet. He says his goodbyes to Frank and Rhonda and he goes to tell Laverne. When he walks into Laverne's apartment to tell her his news, Laverne tells him that after weeks of saving she can finally afford to buy a water bed that she's been after. Carmine then tells her that he's sick of being a singing telegram boy and that he's moving to New York but he's $100 short. At this point Laverne offers to loan Carmine the $100 from her bed money. Eventually he takes it and says goodbye to her, too. Carmine arrives in New York and
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