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3* Funny, but at the same time pretty scary: Shirley drinks some cocoa on a train and starts choking and trying to communicate that it's poisoned by doing charades.
4* [[RunningGag Anytime]] Shirley or Laverne [[TemptingFate tempts fate]] with a phrase and Squiggy and/or Lenny [[InadvertentEntranceCue burst in right thereafter]], with Squiggy's trademark "Hello!" (also works as InstantlyProvenWrong sometimes).
5** This one for instance:
6--->'''Shirley:''' There is no reason on Earth why Prince Charming cannot walk through our front door!
7--->'''[[AbhorrentAdmirer Squiggy]]:''' ''(kicks the door)'' Hello!
8** After a failed date for Laverne:
9--->'''Shirley:''' There's better guys. Handsome, rich guys with class!
10--->'''Squiggy:''' ''(he and Lenny wear bathrobes, Squiggy has his leather jacket on)'' Hello!
11** When Shirley prays:
12--->'''Shirley:''' I'm a good girl! I'm not a bad girl, I'm not...
13--->'''Squiggy:''' ''(dressed as a red devil with a [[DevilsPitchfork trident]], Lenny's dressed as a masked cowboy)'' Shirl!
14--->'''Shirley:''' [[SuddenlyShouting GOOD GOD]]! IT'S THE DEVIL AND HOOT GIBSON! AAAHHH!!!
15* Anytime Laverne and Shirley have a [[LetsDuet singing duet]], particularly their goofy performance of "Da Doo Ron Ron" in pink dresses in the episode "Citizen Crane" (getting hampered by their own dresses and cables, the two lifting their dresses French Cancan-style, Shirley almost falling backwards when she's lifted by the backup dancers etc).
16* When Shirley finds out that Laverne is afraid to drive in "Drive, She Said", she teases her by shouting out, "Laverne [=DeFazio=] is afraid to drive!", which results in both of them shouting out each other's secrets and ends with Laverne shouting, "Shirley Feeney [[ACupAngst stuffs socks in her bra]]!".
17* In "Bowling for Razzberries", Laverne flirts with the doctor who is trying to examine her.
18* When Lenny and Squiggy hear that Laverne might be pregnant in "Look Before You Leap", they say, "Whoa!".
19-->'''Laverne''': "What are you ''whoa''-ing about?"
20-->'''Squiggy''': "Shirley told us you were gonna have puppies."
21* During an argument, Laverne says "Don't yell at me while I'm yellin' at you."
22* In "Good Time Girls", Laverne and Shirley walk into a bar [[SweetPollyOliver disguised as men]] to go to the men's toilets (Laverne wears a baseball jacket and a leather cap to cover the entirety of her hair and Shirley looks like an odd Music/{{Elvis|Presley}}[=/=]Squiggy[=/=]{{Greaser Delinquent|s}} mix). They quite poorly disguise their voices and look awkwardly skinny in the middle of several tall and jacked male patrons in there.
23* In an interview with the Television Academy, while the two leads are discussing the series' iconic opening hopscotch chant[[labelnote:*]]"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight! Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated![[/labelnote]], Creator/PennyMarshall mentioned she had no idea what "hasenpfeffer" actually means. Her reaction when Creator/CindyWilliams told her it means "rabbit"[[labelnote:*]]which is only ''half'' right; it's actually a stew made from rabbit or hare meat[[/labelnote]] is nothing short of priceless.
24-->'''Penny Marshall''': ..."Rabbit Incorporated". Ooookaaaay.

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