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* DawsonCasting: At the beginning of the series, Laverne and Shirley were portrayed as being only a year or two out of high school, at least young enough to date high school seniors Richie and Potsie in a crossover episode. But at the time, Penny Marshall was 33 and Cindy Williams was 29.
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* DrinkOrder: Milk and Pepsi for Laverne.
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Co-created by Garry Marshall, the show starred his sister Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as her roommate Shirley Feeney. The most popular supporting characters were [[WackyGuy Wacky Guys]] Lenny and Squiggy, played by Michael [=McKean=] and David Lander; other supporting characters included Laverne's dad Frank (Phil Foster) and Shirley's sometime boyfriend Carmine "The Big Ragu" Ragusa (Eddie Mekka). The series ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1976 to 1983.
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Co-created by Garry Marshall, the show starred his sister Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as her roommate Shirley Feeney. The most popular supporting characters were [[WackyGuy Wacky Guys]] Lenny and Squiggy, played by the underrated Michael [=McKean=] and David Lander; other supporting characters included Laverne's dad Frank (Phil Foster) and Shirley's sometime boyfriend Carmine "The Big Ragu" Ragusa (Eddie Mekka). The series ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1976 to 1983.
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** RealLife Example: Referencing this show when referring to the real Milwaukee has been known to push quite a few of these in Southeast Wisconsin. Milwaukee's Mayor Tom Barrett even quipped upon being elected that one of his main objectives was to let the rest of the world know that "Laverne & Shirley don't live here anymore."
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** RealLife Example: Referencing this show when referring to the real Milwaukee has been known to push quite a few of these in Southeast Wisconsin. Milwaukee's Mayor Tom Barrett even quipped upon being elected that one of his main objectives was to let the rest of the world know that "Laverne & Shirley don't live here anymore."" Now [[RedLetterMedia Mister Plinkett]] does.
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* LocalHangout: The Pizza Bowl (when the show was set in Milwaukee) and Cowboy Bill's (during the Los Angeles years). Laverne's dad ran both establishments.
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** The final episode (in syndication order) is a PDP that has Carmine going off to NY to become a Broadway Star.
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* PantyShot: Shirley in the cartoon, which had her an Laverne as cheerleaders in a football game in an episode.
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* [[FourTemperamentEnsemble Five-Temperament Ensemble]]: Laverne (choleric), Shirley (phlegmatic), Lenny (mostly melancholic), Squiggy (sanguine), Frank (''"sangoleric"''), Edna (sanguine/phlegmatic), and Carmine (leukine).
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* [[FourTemperamentEnsemble Five-Temperament Ensemble]]: Lenny (melancholic/phlegmatic), Shirley (phlegmatic/sanguine), Laverne (choleric), Shirley Frank (melancholic), Edna (phlegmatic), Lenny (mostly melancholic), Squiggy (sanguine), Frank (''"sangoleric"''), Edna (sanguine/phlegmatic), and Carmine (leukine).
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lenny and Squiggy. More jerk in Squiggy, More heart of gold in Lenny.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lenny and Squiggy. More jerk "jerk" in Squiggy, More heart more "heart of gold gold" in Lenny.
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Laverne is a tough-talking girl who prefers her men the same way, while on the other hand, Shirley is about a girly as a girl can get.
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* IncomingHam: Squiggy must think that "Hallooooooooo!" is some sort of mating call.
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* IncomingHam: Squiggy must think that "Hallooooooooo!" "Haalloooooooow!" is some sort of mating call.
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* [[FourTemperamentEnsemble Five-Temperament Ensemble]]: Laverne (choleric), Shirley (phlegmatic), Lenny (mostly melancholic), Squiggy (sanguine), Frank (sanguine/choleric), Edna (phlegmatic/sanguine), and Carmine (leukine).
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* [[FourTemperamentEnsemble Five-Temperament Ensemble]]: Laverne (choleric), Shirley (phlegmatic), Lenny (mostly melancholic), Squiggy (sanguine), Frank (sanguine/choleric), (''"sangoleric"''), Edna (phlegmatic/sanguine), (sanguine/phlegmatic), and Carmine (leukine).
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* {{Four Temperament Ensemble}}: Laverne and her dad Frank are choleric; Shirley and Edna are sanguine; Lenny is ''mostly'' melancholic; Squiggy is phlegmatic; Carmine is leukine.
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* {{Four Temperament Ensemble}}: [[FourTemperamentEnsemble Five-Temperament Ensemble]]: Laverne and her dad Frank are choleric; (choleric), Shirley and Edna are sanguine; (phlegmatic), Lenny is ''mostly'' melancholic; (mostly melancholic), Squiggy is phlegmatic; (sanguine), Frank (sanguine/choleric), Edna (phlegmatic/sanguine), and Carmine is leukine.(leukine).
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* {{Four Temperament Ensemble}}: Frank De Fazio is choleric; Edna is sanguine; Carmine is leukine.
** Opposites as best friends: Choleric Laverne and phlegmatic Shirley. Melancholic Lenny and sanguine Squiggy.
*** Granted, Laverne and Shirley can have the seeming habit of inversions, swapping temperaments back and forth almost every other episode.
** Opposites as best friends: Choleric Laverne and phlegmatic Shirley. Melancholic Lenny and sanguine Squiggy.
*** Granted, Laverne and Shirley can have the seeming habit of inversions, swapping temperaments back and forth almost every other episode.
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* {{Four Temperament Ensemble}}: Frank De Fazio is choleric; Edna is sanguine; Carmine is leukine.
** Opposites as best friends: CholericLaverne and phlegmatic Shirley. Melancholic Lenny and sanguine Squiggy.
*** Granted, Laverne andher dad Frank are choleric; Shirley can have the seeming habit of inversions, swapping temperaments back and forth almost every other episode.Edna are sanguine; Lenny is ''mostly'' melancholic; Squiggy is phlegmatic; Carmine is leukine.
** Opposites as best friends: Choleric
*** Granted, Laverne and
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** Opposites as best friends: Choleric Laverne and phlegmatic Shirley. Melancholic Lenny and sanguine Squiggy.
*** Granted, Laverne and Shirley can have the seeming habit of inversions, swapping temperaments back and forth almost every other episode.
** Opposites as best friends: Choleric Laverne and phlegmatic Shirley. Melancholic Lenny and sanguine Squiggy.
*** Granted, Laverne and Shirley can have the seeming habit of inversions, swapping temperaments back and forth almost every other episode.
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* CordonBleughChef: Laverne liked drinking a mix of Pepsi and milk together in the same glass.
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* IrrevocableMessage: A two-part episode ("The Bardwell's Caper") involved the duo trying to retrieve a nasty letter they had written to their boss.
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* ItsAWonderfulPlot: "Laverne's Broken Leg"
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* WonderfulLife: "Laverne's Broken Leg"
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''LaverneAndShirley'' is a {{sitcom}} spun off from ''HappyDays'', centering on two acquaintances of the Fonz who, as the series began, worked at a {{Milwaukee}} brewery.
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* CrossOver: With its parent program ''HappyDays''.''Series/HappyDays''.
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''LaverneAndShirley'' is a {{sitcom}} spun off from ''HappyDays'', centering on two acquaintances of the Fonz who, as the series began, worked at a {{Milwaukee}} brewery.
Co-created by Garry Marshall, the show starred his sister Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as her roommate Shirley Feeney. The most popular supporting characters were [[WackyGuy Wacky Guys]] Lenny and Squiggy, played by Michael [=McKean=] and David Lander; other supporting characters included Laverne's dad Frank (Phil Foster) and Shirley's sometime boyfriend Carmine "The Big Ragu" Ragusa (Eddie Mekka). The series ran on {{ABC}} from 1976 to 1983.
Co-created by Garry Marshall, the show starred his sister Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as her roommate Shirley Feeney. The most popular supporting characters were [[WackyGuy Wacky Guys]] Lenny and Squiggy, played by Michael [=McKean=] and David Lander; other supporting characters included Laverne's dad Frank (Phil Foster) and Shirley's sometime boyfriend Carmine "The Big Ragu" Ragusa (Eddie Mekka). The series ran on {{ABC}} from 1976 to 1983.
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''LaverneAndShirley'' is a {{sitcom}} spun off from ''HappyDays'', centering on two acquaintances of the Fonz who, as the series began, worked at a {{Milwaukee}} brewery.
brewery.
Co-created by Garry Marshall, the show starred his sister Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as her roommate Shirley Feeney. The most popular supporting characters were [[WackyGuy Wacky Guys]] Lenny and Squiggy, played by Michael [=McKean=] and David Lander; other supporting characters included Laverne's dad Frank (Phil Foster) and Shirley's sometime boyfriend Carmine "The Big Ragu" Ragusa (Eddie Mekka). The series ran on{{ABC}} Creator/{{ABC}} from 1976 to 1983.
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Co-created by Garry Marshall, the show starred his sister Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as her roommate Shirley Feeney. The most popular supporting characters were [[WackyGuy Wacky Guys]] Lenny and Squiggy, played by Michael [=McKean=] and David Lander; other supporting characters included Laverne's dad Frank (Phil Foster) and Shirley's sometime boyfriend Carmine "The Big Ragu" Ragusa (Eddie Mekka). The series ran on
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** Not too far fetched, quite a few Jews live in the Milwaukee area.
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* BathroomStallGraffiti: An early episode has the girls discovering their names and numbers have been written on a men's room wall at a local pool hall. Leading them to [[SweetPollyOliver disguise themselves as guys]] to try and remove it.
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* BathroomStallGraffiti: An early episode has the girls discovering their names and numbers have been written on a men's room wall at a local pool hall. Leading them to [[SweetPollyOliver disguise themselves as guys]] to try and remove removing it.
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* TheFifties: TheFifties / TheSixties: With TheSeventies and [[TheEighties Eighties]] often [[AnachronismStew bleeding through]].through]].
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Shirley's beloved "Boo Boo Kitty".
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Shirley's beloved "Boo Boo Kitty".
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* PantyShot: Shirley had a very brief one early on while dancing with Carmine (he lifts her off the ground almost upside down and her skirt flies up--it was reformatted later to omit the shot of Shirley's panties), and in an episode of the cartoon (she does a split in a cheerleader dress).
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''LaverneAndShirley'' is a {{sitcom}} spun off from ''HappyDays'', centering on two acquaintances of the Fonz who, as the series began, worked at a Milwaukee brewery.
Co-created by Garry Marshall, the show starred his sister Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as her roommate Shirley Feeney. The most popular supporting characters were [[WackyGuy Wacky Guys]] Lenny and Squiggy, played by Michael [=McKean=] and David Lander; other supporting characters included Laverne's dad Frank (Phil Foster) and Shirley's sometime boyfriend Carmine "The Big Ragu" Ragusa (Eddie Mekka). The series ran on {{ABC}} from 1976 to 1983.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* AnimatedAdaptation: ''Laverne and Shirley Join the Army'', although on-screen it simply read ''Laverne & Shirley''.
* ArtifactTitle: Shirley left the cast in the final season. Conversely on the cartoon, Cindy Williams did not return to voice Shirley in season two, replaced by Lynn Marie Stewart.
* BathroomStallGraffiti: An early episode has the girls discovering their names and numbers have been written on a men's room wall at a local pool hall. Leading them to [[SweetPollyOliver disguise themselves as guys]] to try and remove it.
* BerserkButton: Never call Laverne a bimbo.
** RealLife Example: Referencing this show when referring to the real Milwaukee has been known to push quite a few of these in Southeast Wisconsin. Milwaukee's Mayor Tom Barrett even quipped upon being elected that one of his main objectives was to let the rest of the world know that "Laverne & Shirley don't live here anymore."
* TheCastShowoff: Eddie Mekka (Carmine) got numerous opportunities to show off his singing and dancing skills, sometimes in episodes where he had nothing else to do.
** The show had annual talent-show episodes that would give everyone a chance to sing, especially Michael [=McKean=] and David Lander, who wrote and performed their own comedy songs as "Lenny and the Squigtones."
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: When the two first appeared on ''HappyDays'' there was very little difference between Laverne and Shirley. For this series, though, Laverne was made more of a tomboy and Shirley a girly girl.
* ChristmasEpisode
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The girls' Milwaukee Landlady Edna, later Laverne's stepmother, just kind of vanished sometime after their move out to California.
* CommutingOnABus: Michael [=McKean=] didn't appear in many episodes of the final season, as he was busy preparing ''ThisIsSpinalTap''. With Squiggy appearing alone in many episodes and Shirley gone from the show entirely, some joked that it should have been re-titled "Laverne and Squiggy."
* CrossOver: With its parent program ''HappyDays''.
* DeathRow: Laverne somehow winds up there in a season 8 episode. [[spoiler:She's eventually exonerated.]]
* DiagonalBilling: Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams in the opening titles.
* DrinkOrder: Milk and Pepsi for Laverne.
* DropInCharacter: Lenny and Squiggy.
* TheFifties: With TheSeventies and [[TheEighties Eighties]] often [[AnachronismStew bleeding through]].
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Subverted in a scene involving many prop bottles and one real glass bottle.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: A rare female example.
** Lenny and Squiggy.
* HypnoFool: In one episode, the duo find themselves acting like chickens every time a bell rings.
* InadvertentEntranceCue: Lenny and Squiggy were the undisputed champions of this.
* IncomingHam: Squiggy must think that "Hallooooooooo!" is some sort of mating call.
* IrrevocableMessage: A two-part episode ("The Bardwell's Caper") involved the duo trying to retrieve a nasty letter they had written to their boss.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lenny and Squiggy.
* KnifeThrowingAct
* MsFanservice: Rhonda (Leslie Easterbrook), a sexy blonde added as a ratings-boosting gimmick when the show moved to L.A.
** To some extent Laverne herself became this in the final season.
* NewYearHasCome: A season 3 episode has the girls welcoming in 1960.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Nearly the entire cast. One would think Milwaukee was located just outside of Brooklyn.
** Justified with Laverne and her father: they grew up in New York.
* PantyShot: Shirley had a very brief one early on while dancing with Carmine (he lifts her off the ground almost upside down and her skirt flies up--it was reformatted later to omit the shot of Shirley's panties), and in an episode of the cartoon (she does a split in a cheerleader dress).
* PlanningWithProps: In "The Bardwell's Caper", Laverne and Shirley planning to get a nasty letter out of their boss' office.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Inverted. The real Milwaukee of the 1950s was in the midst of a mass-migration of African-Americans who came (and often were recruited) specifically to work at the city's breweries. Yet despite the titular characters working at a brewery (and the show's creation [[TheSeventies at a time]] when [[TokenMinority interracial casts]] were en vogue), the show featured no African-American characters.
** The final episode (in syndication order) is a PDP that has Carmine going off to NY to become a Broadway Star.
* PresentDayPast
* PutOnABus: The last season had Shirley marrying an Army medic and going overseas with him.
* RealLifeRelative: Penny Marshall is the sister of series creator Garry Marshall.
* RequiredSpinoffCrossover: With ''HappyDays''.
* ReTool: When the duo moved from Milwaukee to Los Angeles.
* ReunionShow: Two of them, in 1995 and 2002. The second one included an in-character skit.
* RupturedAppendix: "Shirley's Operation."
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: In the series' third and fourth seasons, ''Laverne & Shirley'' was #1 in the Nielsens, even surpassing ''HappyDays''. ABC moved it from Tuesdays at 8:30 to Thursdays at 8:00, and it became '''''[[EpicFail #38]]''''' in the Nielsens, and never really recovered, even after being moved back (the highest it was afterward was #20).
* ShoutOut: The opening credits were spoofed by Wayne and Garth in ''WaynesWorld''.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: To levels that only Lucille Ball matched.
* SyndicationTitle: ''Laverne and Shirley and Friends'', ''Laverne and Shirley and Company''.
* ThematicThemeTune: "Making Our Dreams Come True". The song, performed by Cyndi Grecco, was issued as a single and reached the ''Billboard'' Top 30.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Lenny and Squiggy.
* ThrillerOnTheExpress: "Murder on the Moosejaw Express."
* ThrowItIn: The cursive "L" in the upper corner of Laverne's [=shirts/sweaters=] and her fondness for milk and Pepsi were both added to the character by Penny Marshall (milk and Pepsi being a YourFavorite of Marshall's in RealLife).
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Laverne is a tough-talking girl who prefers her men the same way, while on the other hand, Shirley is about a girly as a girl can get.
* WackyGuy: Two of them, Lenny and Squiggy.
* WonderfulLife: "Laverne's Broken Leg"
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: From the opening credits:
-->One, two, three, four, \\
Five, six, seven, eight, \\
[[TheMillstone Schlemiel]], [[ButtMonkey schlimazel]], \\
[[BugsBunny Hassenpfeffer]] incorporated!
** Not too far fetched, quite a few Jews live in the Milwaukee area.
* YourFavorite: For Laverne - Milk and Pepsi. Together.
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''LaverneAndShirley'' is a {{sitcom}} spun off from ''HappyDays'', centering on two acquaintances of the Fonz who, as the series began, worked at a Milwaukee brewery.
Co-created by Garry Marshall, the show starred his sister Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as her roommate Shirley Feeney. The most popular supporting characters were [[WackyGuy Wacky Guys]] Lenny and Squiggy, played by Michael [=McKean=] and David Lander; other supporting characters included Laverne's dad Frank (Phil Foster) and Shirley's sometime boyfriend Carmine "The Big Ragu" Ragusa (Eddie Mekka). The series ran on {{ABC}} from 1976 to 1983.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* AnimatedAdaptation: ''Laverne and Shirley Join the Army'', although on-screen it simply read ''Laverne & Shirley''.
* ArtifactTitle: Shirley left the cast in the final season. Conversely on the cartoon, Cindy Williams did not return to voice Shirley in season two, replaced by Lynn Marie Stewart.
* BathroomStallGraffiti: An early episode has the girls discovering their names and numbers have been written on a men's room wall at a local pool hall. Leading them to [[SweetPollyOliver disguise themselves as guys]] to try and remove it.
* BerserkButton: Never call Laverne a bimbo.
** RealLife Example: Referencing this show when referring to the real Milwaukee has been known to push quite a few of these in Southeast Wisconsin. Milwaukee's Mayor Tom Barrett even quipped upon being elected that one of his main objectives was to let the rest of the world know that "Laverne & Shirley don't live here anymore."
* TheCastShowoff: Eddie Mekka (Carmine) got numerous opportunities to show off his singing and dancing skills, sometimes in episodes where he had nothing else to do.
** The show had annual talent-show episodes that would give everyone a chance to sing, especially Michael [=McKean=] and David Lander, who wrote and performed their own comedy songs as "Lenny and the Squigtones."
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: When the two first appeared on ''HappyDays'' there was very little difference between Laverne and Shirley. For this series, though, Laverne was made more of a tomboy and Shirley a girly girl.
* ChristmasEpisode
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The girls' Milwaukee Landlady Edna, later Laverne's stepmother, just kind of vanished sometime after their move out to California.
* CommutingOnABus: Michael [=McKean=] didn't appear in many episodes of the final season, as he was busy preparing ''ThisIsSpinalTap''. With Squiggy appearing alone in many episodes and Shirley gone from the show entirely, some joked that it should have been re-titled "Laverne and Squiggy."
* CrossOver: With its parent program ''HappyDays''.
* DeathRow: Laverne somehow winds up there in a season 8 episode. [[spoiler:She's eventually exonerated.]]
* DiagonalBilling: Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams in the opening titles.
* DrinkOrder: Milk and Pepsi for Laverne.
* DropInCharacter: Lenny and Squiggy.
* TheFifties: With TheSeventies and [[TheEighties Eighties]] often [[AnachronismStew bleeding through]].
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Subverted in a scene involving many prop bottles and one real glass bottle.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: A rare female example.
** Lenny and Squiggy.
* HypnoFool: In one episode, the duo find themselves acting like chickens every time a bell rings.
* InadvertentEntranceCue: Lenny and Squiggy were the undisputed champions of this.
* IncomingHam: Squiggy must think that "Hallooooooooo!" is some sort of mating call.
* IrrevocableMessage: A two-part episode ("The Bardwell's Caper") involved the duo trying to retrieve a nasty letter they had written to their boss.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lenny and Squiggy.
* KnifeThrowingAct
* MsFanservice: Rhonda (Leslie Easterbrook), a sexy blonde added as a ratings-boosting gimmick when the show moved to L.A.
** To some extent Laverne herself became this in the final season.
* NewYearHasCome: A season 3 episode has the girls welcoming in 1960.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Nearly the entire cast. One would think Milwaukee was located just outside of Brooklyn.
** Justified with Laverne and her father: they grew up in New York.
* PantyShot: Shirley had a very brief one early on while dancing with Carmine (he lifts her off the ground almost upside down and her skirt flies up--it was reformatted later to omit the shot of Shirley's panties), and in an episode of the cartoon (she does a split in a cheerleader dress).
* PlanningWithProps: In "The Bardwell's Caper", Laverne and Shirley planning to get a nasty letter out of their boss' office.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Inverted. The real Milwaukee of the 1950s was in the midst of a mass-migration of African-Americans who came (and often were recruited) specifically to work at the city's breweries. Yet despite the titular characters working at a brewery (and the show's creation [[TheSeventies at a time]] when [[TokenMinority interracial casts]] were en vogue), the show featured no African-American characters.
** The final episode (in syndication order) is a PDP that has Carmine going off to NY to become a Broadway Star.
* PresentDayPast
* PutOnABus: The last season had Shirley marrying an Army medic and going overseas with him.
* RealLifeRelative: Penny Marshall is the sister of series creator Garry Marshall.
* RequiredSpinoffCrossover: With ''HappyDays''.
* ReTool: When the duo moved from Milwaukee to Los Angeles.
* ReunionShow: Two of them, in 1995 and 2002. The second one included an in-character skit.
* RupturedAppendix: "Shirley's Operation."
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: In the series' third and fourth seasons, ''Laverne & Shirley'' was #1 in the Nielsens, even surpassing ''HappyDays''. ABC moved it from Tuesdays at 8:30 to Thursdays at 8:00, and it became '''''[[EpicFail #38]]''''' in the Nielsens, and never really recovered, even after being moved back (the highest it was afterward was #20).
* ShoutOut: The opening credits were spoofed by Wayne and Garth in ''WaynesWorld''.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: To levels that only Lucille Ball matched.
* SyndicationTitle: ''Laverne and Shirley and Friends'', ''Laverne and Shirley and Company''.
* ThematicThemeTune: "Making Our Dreams Come True". The song, performed by Cyndi Grecco, was issued as a single and reached the ''Billboard'' Top 30.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Lenny and Squiggy.
* ThrillerOnTheExpress: "Murder on the Moosejaw Express."
* ThrowItIn: The cursive "L" in the upper corner of Laverne's [=shirts/sweaters=] and her fondness for milk and Pepsi were both added to the character by Penny Marshall (milk and Pepsi being a YourFavorite of Marshall's in RealLife).
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Laverne is a tough-talking girl who prefers her men the same way, while on the other hand, Shirley is about a girly as a girl can get.
* WackyGuy: Two of them, Lenny and Squiggy.
* WonderfulLife: "Laverne's Broken Leg"
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: From the opening credits:
-->One, two, three, four, \\
Five, six, seven, eight, \\
[[TheMillstone Schlemiel]], [[ButtMonkey schlimazel]], \\
[[BugsBunny Hassenpfeffer]] incorporated!
** Not too far fetched, quite a few Jews live in the Milwaukee area.
* YourFavorite: For Laverne - Milk and Pepsi. Together.
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