On November 11, , the episode "A Date with Fonzie" aired. As for the plot, Richie is having a hard time landing a date, so Fonzie sets them up for a double date. Richie winds up way out of his depth because the women Fonzie selects for them are a lot older, more aggressive, and more experienced than the high school students Richie usually dates. For the season, it ranked as the 2 show on TV, outdrawing even its predecessor series.
Garry Marshall is the undisputed king of s sitcoms. To get it up and running in a relatively quick manner, Marshall and production studio Paramount had to act quickly and recycle where possible. For example, Hey, Landlord lasted two short seasons in and , and it was a show about a guy who moves to New York, inherits an apartment, and shares it with a comedian.
Lander, Lenny and Squiggy dressed like "greasers" — tough guy hoodlums like you'd find in Grease or The Outsiders. But looks can be deceiving. They were really a couple of truck drivers who worked at Shotz Brewery with Laverne and Shirley and who wouldn't leave them alone and were, in actuality, a couple of creepy loser weirdos with strange voices.
According to Delaware Liberal , McKean and Lander met as drama students at Carnegie Mellon University in the mids and developed the characters — originally named Lenny and Ant'ny — while members of the comedy group the Credibility Gap. McKean and Lander landed jobs on the show as writing consultants, and their first order of business was to write themselves into the pilot episode, although producers asked them to rename Ant'ny, and thus Lander's character became Squiggy.
The dorky, confident pair became so popular that McKean and Lander recorded a album while in character as Lenny and the Squigtones. Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams arrived at their respective roles of Laverne and Shirley in different ways. Marshall's brother, Garry Marshall, created the series, and the two had worked together earlier in the '70s on the sitcom The Odd Couple.
Williams' route to the show was more circuitous. According to Penny Marshall in Live from New York: The Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live , Williams was in the running for the role early on, as she'd be reprising a character she originated on Happy Days , but the actress wanted to keep pursuing movie roles. Producers called her in for a screen test and promo photos , only for Cindy Williams to decide she wanted the role after all.
Seemingly every outfit she wore over the course of the series came adorned with a large, script "L" near the shoulder and neckline.
That "L" stands for "Laverne," of course, and its constant presence implies that Laverne makes her own clothes or alters store-bought ones to carry her personalized and identifying touch. However, Laverne actually wears an "L" all the time due to practical concerns, for the benefit of the audience.
But she found that having to repeat identifying information was "boring," and it was just as annoying to hear costar Cindy Williams "say 'Laverne' all the time. After The Odd Couple ceased production, the apartment set on that show was modified to become Laverne and Shirley's apartment. Various cast members from Happy Days Ron Howard, Erin Moran have talked about the vicious fights next door on set of Laverne and Shirley, so loud that they would listen with glasses to the wall.
Virtually all the scripts of the unsuccessful sitcom Hey, Landlord were eventually rewritten as scripts for this show. For several years there was a certain amount of interplay between the characters of this show and Happy Days , especially when both shows were set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
In Cindy Williams briefly walked off the show to protest Penny Marshall getting all the good lines. She returned two days later. Squiggy David L. Lander usually appears alone in this season. Shirley's middle name was Wilhemina, after her late grandmother. While still a defensive end with the L. Rams, actor Fred Dryer made his television debut in a 30 second spot as a lifeguard in Laverne's dream sequence in the 6th season premiere "Not Quite New York".
The name of the club that Laverne and Shirley belonged to as teenagers was called the Angora Debs. Cindy Williams has said she was fired due to her pregnancy, but the producers deny this. When the girls moved to Burbank the show flashed forward about 5 years.
The plot has Laverne's boyfriend Randy played by Ted Danson dying while fighting a fire. Laverne becomes depressed and goes into denial, and then her father has to talk her out of it. Penny said yes, and Cindy said no. Cindy had just starred in American Graffiti and the Conversation, both big hits in the early 70s, and was busy auditioning for movies like Star Wars and still had dreams of being a movie star. Liberty Williams and Penny Marshall filmed a couple scenes together as the new Laverne and Shirley, and this was presented to the ABC executives who gave it the go ahead, ready to film the new series with Liberty in the lead, not Cindy.
The new pairing was good, but not great. Who knows if given time Liberty Williams could have grown into the role and the pairing could have become something special, but it seemed to lack the chemistry that Cindy and Penny, who were friends in real life, had. ABC began to prepare the girls for the new series, but Garry Marshall pled with Cindy one last time to take the role, and finally she relented, and the rest is history.
Except in an ABC vault somewhere there's the screen test in it showing Liberty Williams as Shirley, never seen by the general public. The girls were originally going to smoke during the Happy Days spin-off episode. But the censors said no, so they changed it to gum-chewing. Shirley Feeney had a New York accent for the first thirteen episodes.
Gary Marshall eventually told her to drop it because people in the midwest do not have Brooklyn accents. She was grateful that he did. Composer Charles Fox, while at the amusement park with his kids, heard her voice and offered her the theme song "Making Our Dreams Come True" which became a top 20 hit and ran the length of the show.
Shirley's good luck charm was Boo-Boo Kitty, a cloth cat. Garry Marshall has said in interviews that when he conceptualized this show he was basically re-doing Lucy and Ethel schtick from "I Love Lucy".
This makes sense since Marshall himself worked for Lucille Ball on "The Lucy Show" before starting the long run of his own productions which began with "The Odd Couple". Squiggy's real first name was Andrew. That same year they co-starred as a couple also in "More American Graffiti" Carmine was a Golden Gloves champion before becoming a dance instructor. Though they reportedly fought all the time during Laverne and Shirley production, both actresses have said in interviews that they remain very close and are still the best of friends, in spite of all their fighting on the show and everything that has happened.
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