History Series / LaverneAndShirley

* IrrevocableMessage: A two-part episode ("The Bardwell Caper") involved the duo trying to retrieve a nasty letter they had written to their boss.

* PlanningWithProps: In "The Bardwell Caper", Laverne and Shirley planning to get a nasty letter out of their boss' office.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: After Cindy Williams left the show, several episodes paired Laverne with a female guest star who replaced Shirley as her [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl girly girl]] slapstick partner, including Laraine Newman in "Death Row" and Creator/CarrieFisher in "The Playboy Show."

* CommutingOnABus: Lenny didn't appear in many episodes of the final season, as Michael [=McKean=] was busy preparing ''Film/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."

* CommutingOnABus: Michael [=McKean=] didn't appear in many episodes of the final season, as he was busy preparing ''Film/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."

* WhenItAllBegan: The episode "Why Did the Fireman" was the first time Creator/TedDanson appeared in a TV series produced by Creator/{{Paramount}} Television. After a 1982 guest appearance on Paramount's ''Series/{{Taxi}}'', he began his 11-year run on ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' for the studio as Sam Malone, a role he reprised in 1995 episode of spin-off series ''Series/{{Frasier}}''. Three years after appearing on the latter series, he reunited with Paramount for a 6-year run as the title character on ''Series/{{Becker}}''.

* ArtifactTitle: Shirley left the cast in the final season. Conversely on the cartoon, Cindy Williams did not return to voice Shirley in season two, and was replaced by Lynn Marie Stewart.

* TearJerker : The season 5 episode, "Why Did the Fireman" in which Laverne's almost fiance, a fire fighter, dies on the job comes to mind. Especially in that Laverne is in denial that he's actually dead until the end of the episode. Could also fall under VerySpecialEpisode

* SyndicationTitle / ProtagonistAndFriends: ''Laverne & Shirley & Friends'', ''Laverne & Shirley & Company''.

* DiagonalBilling: Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams in the opening titles, television's first instance of this form of billing (it having been invented just two years earlier for ''Film/TheToweringInferno''). However, the opening titles also "cheat" this billing in favour of Marshall in two ways: the title of the show is also oriented diagonally in the reverse order (top-left-to-bottom-right), making it impossible not to read the name Laverne before that of Shirley; in addition, as Marshall and Williams are credited on screen, their names are superimposed over their bodies in a scene of the two of them smiling for the camera - with Marshall standing on the ''left''. (It's good to be the sister of the show's creator and producer.)

Created by Creator/GarryMarshall with former ''Happy Days'' writers Lowell Ganz and Mark Rothman, the show starred his sister Creator/PennyMarshall (Garry's sister) as Laverne [=DeFazio=] and Cindy Williams as her roommate Shirley Feeney. The most popular supporting characters were [[ThoseTwoGuys Wacky Guys]] Leonard "Lenny" Kosnowski and Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman (played by the underrated Creator/MichaelMcKean and David Lander); also in the cast were Laverne's widowed dad Frank (Phil Foster), the girls' landlady Edna Babish (Betty Garrett), and Shirley's on-again, off-again boyfriend Carmine "The Big Ragoo" Ragusa (Eddie Mekka).

''Laverne & Shirley'' was a {{sitcom}}, [[SpinOff spun off]] from ''Series/HappyDays'' and airing for 8 seasons (1976–83) on Creator/{{ABC}}, centering on two acquaintances of the Fonz who, as the series began, worked at a UsefulNotes/{{Milwaukee}} brewery.

''Laverne & Shirley'' is a {{sitcom}}, [[SpinOff spun off]] from ''Series/HappyDays'' and airing for 8 seasons (1976–83) on Creator/{{ABC}}, centering on two acquaintances of the Fonz who, as the series began, worked at a UsefulNotes/{{Milwaukee}} brewery.

''Laverne & Shirley'' is a {{sitcom}} [[SpinOff spun off]] from ''Series/HappyDays'', centering on two acquaintances of the Fonz who, as the series began, worked at a UsefulNotes/{{Milwaukee}} brewery.

Created by Creator/GarryMarshall with former ''Happy Days'' writers Lowell Ganz and Mark Rothman, the show starred his sister Creator/PennyMarshall (Garry's sister) as Laverne [=DeFazio=] and Cindy Williams as her roommate Shirley Feeney. The most popular supporting characters were [[ThoseTwoGuys Wacky Guys]] Leonard "Lenny" Kosnowski and Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman (played by the underrated Creator/MichaelMcKean and David Lander); also in the cast were Laverne's widowed dad Frank (Phil Foster), the girls' landlady Edna Babish (Betty Garrett), and Shirley's on-again, off-again boyfriend Carmine "The Big Ragoo" Ragusa (Eddie Mekka). The series ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1976 to 1983.

Co-created by Creator/GarryMarshall (with former ''Happy Days'' writers Lowell Ganz and Mark Rothman), the show starred his sister Creator/PennyMarshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as her roommate Shirley Feeney. The most popular supporting characters were [[ThoseTwoGuys Wacky Guys]] Lenny and Squiggy (played by the underrated Creator/MichaelMcKean and David Lander); other supporting characters included Laverne's dad Frank (Phil Foster), the girls' landlady Edna Babish (Betty Garrett), and Shirley's on-again, off-again boyfriend Carmine "The Big Ragoo" Ragusa (Eddie Mekka). The series ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1976 to 1983.

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[[caption-width-right:320:''"One, two, three, four,\\

--> ''"We're gonna do it\\

** "Big Rosie" Greenbaum once the show switched settings to Burbank. When the girls returned to Milwaukee in season 7's "Whatever Happened to the Class of '59?", [[TheBusCameBack so did Big Rosie.]]

* DropInCharacter: Lenny and Squiggy fit this trope to a T, with either or them both just showing up at the girls' places randomly and without warning, frequently accompanied by Squiggy's signature greeting of "[[IncomingHam Hallo!]]" After the cast moved to Burbank, new neighbor Rhonda Lee also did this.

* DropInCharacter: Lenny and Squiggy fit this trope to a T, with either or both of them just showing up at the girls' places randomly and without warning, frequently accompanied by Squiggy's signature greeting of "[[IncomingHam Hallo!]]" After the cast moved to Burbank, new neighbor Rhonda Lee also did this.

** Carrying over from their ''Happy Days'' appearances, Cindy Williams gave Shirley a strong accent in the pilot, as she felt the producers wanted her to in order to better match Laverne. After Williams was told she didn't have to use it, she toned it down for subsequent episodes and did away with it entirely by the end of the season.

Co-created by Creator/GarryMarshall (with former ''Happy Days'' writers Lowell Ganz and Mark Rothman), 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 [[ThoseTwoGuys Wacky Guys]] Lenny and Squiggy (played by the underrated Creator/MichaelMcKean and David Lander); other supporting characters included Laverne's dad Frank (Phil Foster), the girls' landlady Edna Babish (Betty Garrett), and Shirley's on-again, off-again boyfriend Carmine "The Big Ragoo" Ragusa (Eddie Mekka). The series ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1976 to 1983.

* CrossOver: With its parent program ''Series/HappyDays''.

%%* PresentDayPast: Like its parent show ''Happy Days'', the series increasingly fell victim to this as time went on. Zero-Context Example. Please explain what "this" is before removing the percent signs.

* RequiredSpinoffCrossover: With ''Happy Days''.
* ReTool: Season 6 has the entire cast move from Milwaukee to Burbank, CA.

[[caption-width-right:320:''"Give us any chance, we'll take it\\
Read us any rule, we'll break it\\
[[ThematicThemeTune We're gonna make our dreams come true...]]''"]]

->''"One, two, three, four,\\

Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!"''

* 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 removing it.

** Never call Laverne a bimbo.

* 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.

** Justified with Laverne and her father: they grew up in New York.

* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Most of Laverne's sweaters and shirts have an "L" on them.
* CandyStriper: In Season 2, Episode 2, "Angels of Mercy", Shirley convinces Laverne to join her as a hospital volunteer as a way of trying to win over Laverne's crush, Jerry, who is undergoing knee surgery. The two wear the traditional striped pinafore and hat as they get up to silly shenanigans while on duty.

* AccidentalMurder: Not of a person, but in "One Flew Over Milwaukee", Shirley mentions accidentally killing somebody's goldfish by stepping on it when it had jumped out of the tank.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: After Cindy Williams left the show, several episodes paired Laverne with a female guest star who replaced Shirley as her slapstick partner, including Laraine Newman in "Death Row" and Creator/CarrieFisher in "The Playboy Show."