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The Best Episodes of Laverne & Shirley

Every episode of Laverne & Shirley ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Laverne & Shirley!

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Best friends, roommates, and polar opposites, Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney work together at the Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee and keep each other's spirits up at home.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 14 - Not Quite South of the Border
    9.0/10(128 votes)

    #1 - Not Quite South of the Border

    S5:E14

    The girls can't wait to go on a vacation to Mexico. Unfortunately when they get there, they find half of their hotel room missing and that they have to share the room with another woman.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 20 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1)
    9.0/10(119 votes)

    #2 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1)

    S5:E20

    The girls are riding the Moose Jaw Express when a murder victim enters their compartment.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 21 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (2)
    9.0/10(109 votes)

    #3 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (2)

    S5:E21

    Laverne and Shirley try to find out who the murderer is.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Laverne & Shirley Season 6 Episode 15 - The Bardwell Caper (1)
    8.9/10(96 votes)

    #4 - The Bardwell Caper (1)

    S6:E15

    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.

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:David Ketchum

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  5. Laverne & Shirley Season 6 Episode 16 - The Bardwell Caper (2)
    8.9/10(95 votes)

    #5 - The Bardwell Caper (2)

    S6:E16

    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.

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:David Ketchum

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  6. Laverne & Shirley Season 2 Episode 19 - Hi, Neighbor Book 2
    8.8/10(113 votes)

    #6 - Hi, Neighbor Book 2

    S2:E19

    Laverne & Shirley come to the rescue when Lenny and Squiggy get stood up.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Laverne & Shirley Season 4 Episode 5 - The Quiz Show
    8.8/10(122 votes)

    #7 - The Quiz Show

    S4:E5

    The gang attend ""Be Silly For Dollars"". Carmine got the tickets & wanted to be a contestant. Shecky the host comes to the audience to select contestants. He first picks Lenny & Squiggy who aren't too interested. Then as he's about to select Carmine, Laverne & Shirley start jumping up & down & he selects them instead. On the game show, Lenny & Squiggy appear first. They answer a hard stumper correctly & model Irma comes out displaying a salami they won. Shecky tempts them with living room furniture, but they decide to take the salami! Laverne & Shirley appear next. They miss the question & have to do a silly stunt. They had two minutes to dress each other blindfoldedly which they succussfully do. Irma tells them they won a trip to Appliance Street! Shecky tells them they could either take the oven or appliance potpourri. After squabbling & arguing, the lucky buzzer sounds! Shecky invites them back next week. At home, Laverne's father wants them to wear some silly clothing pr

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 17 - The Right to Light
    8.8/10(89 votes)

    #8 - The Right to Light

    S5:E17

    To protest a false bill, the girls chain themselves insde the gas company building, little knowing that another disgruntled customer has planted a bomb in the building. Because the girls are chained to the wall, they can't get out.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 18 - Why Did the Fireman . . .
    8.8/10(129 votes)

    #9 - Why Did the Fireman . . .

    S5:E18

    Laverne falls for a fireman who is always being called to duty. Before he gets a chance to propose to Laverne, he dies in the line of duty saving many lives.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Laverne & Shirley Season 2 Episode 8 - Good Time Girls
    8.7/10(122 votes)

    #10 - Good Time Girls

    S2:E8

    The girls get plenty of offers for dates after Icky Hector puts their names and phone number on several men's room walls.

    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Laura Levine

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  11. Laverne & Shirley Season 4 Episode 3 - Playing the Roxy
    8.7/10(113 votes)

    #11 - Playing the Roxy

    S4:E3

    Laverne comes out the bedroom wearing only her slip and reading a magazine about a stripper named Roxy's adentures. It turns out that Shirley has read the article and when Laverne is about to go outside to collect the mail, Shirley gives Laverne a telling off for wearing only her slip outside. So she goes to collect the mail. Lenny and Squiggy appear wearing their new lodge hats, The Order Of The Bass, and then tell Laverne that Shirley is taking a nap outstide at the bottom of the stairs. Shirley has fallen and hit her head and now thinks she is Roxy from the magazine. She then shows a complete change in her persoanlity as she practices bumps and grinds. Carmine thinks he'll have more luck with Roxy and chats her up just as Laverne tells him to leave. Later when Shirley/Roxy is all alone, Lenny and Squiggy arrive and try to get Roxy to strip. She says she will if it's at a mens club and she gets paid, so they arrange for her to strip at their lodge's big party. Laverne comes home late

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Stephen Nathan

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  12. Laverne & Shirley Season 4 Episode 20 - Squiggy in Love
    8.7/10(102 votes)

    #12 - Squiggy in Love

    S4:E20

    Laverne and Shirley try to help Squiggy by pointing out to him that his latest great looking girlfriend is just using him to help move into and decorate her flat. When they finally confront Squiggy with the news, he tells them he knows he's being used but what chance does a guy like him have with a beautiful girl like that. Of course he does the right thing thanks to his friends and tells the golddigger to get lost.

    Director:Penny Marshall
    Writer:Barry Rubinowitz

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  13. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 7 - The Wedding
    8.7/10(90 votes)

    #13 - The Wedding

    S5:E7

    Edna accepts a marriage proposal from Frank, who waited to the last minute to ask her. Laverne and Shirley end up singing at their wedding in an all-black gospel choir.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 11 - Take Two, They're Small
    8.7/10(94 votes)

    #14 - Take Two, They're Small

    S5:E11

    Lenny and Squiggy fix Laverne and Shirley up with computer dates, who turn out to be midgets.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 25 - The Diner
    8.7/10(138 votes)

    #15 - The Diner

    S5:E25

    Lenny inherits a greasy spoon diner called 'Laslo's Place', they immediately rename it ""Dead Laslo's Place"". Because Laverne and Shirley are desperate for work, they get hired to cook and waitress the diner. The girls get run off their feet and Shirley ends up running out of the diner screaming in frustration. Frank offers to buy the restaurant from Lenny, which he does, so now Frank has 2 restaurants.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Laverne & Shirley Season 3 Episode 8 - Laverne and Shirley Meet Fabian
    8.6/10(134 votes)

    #16 - Laverne and Shirley Meet Fabian

    S3:E8

    Fabian's concert is sold out, but the girls still want to see him. The girls bet Rosie that they can not only meet Fabian but that they will have their pictures taken with him. Rosie agrees to the bet, and says that if she should lose she'll clean the girls flat with her toothbrush. Needless to say, Rosie is soon scrubbing the floors, toothbrush and all.

    Director:Alan Rafkin
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Laverne & Shirley Season 4 Episode 12 - Dinner for Four
    8.6/10(109 votes)

    #17 - Dinner for Four

    S4:E12

    The girls meet two guys in Frank's Pizzabowl. When they get chatting, the girls think that the guys are inviting them for dinner at their posh flat, but in reality all the guys want is to hire them to be maids for the evening to them and their posh girlfriends.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Laverne & Shirley Season 4 Episode 17 - Supermarket Sweep
    8.6/10(126 votes)

    #18 - Supermarket Sweep

    S4:E17

    Laverne wins three minutes of free shopping and everyne want something. Everybody wants something all right: Lenny and Squiggy are constantly telling them to get Bosco, Carmine is out taking orders from the neighborhood. When the day comes, due to the girls' greed all they end up with is one measly item each.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Ron Leavitt

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  19. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 6 - You've Pushed Me Too Far
    8.6/10(91 votes)

    #19 - You've Pushed Me Too Far

    S5:E6

    Lenny refuses to have anything to do with Squiggy after he pushes him into a garbage can from their second floor apartment window. Laverne and Shirley get the two friends to make up in Squiggy's uncle's wax works museum.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 13 - Testing, Testing
    8.6/10(90 votes)

    #20 - Testing, Testing

    S5:E13

    Shotz hires a psychiatrist to evaluate job aptitudes. The gang are all terrified that some deep dark secret, or that all their inadequacies are going to be revealed when they visit the company shrink.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 15 - You Oughta Be in Pictures
    8.6/10(93 votes)

    #21 - You Oughta Be in Pictures

    S5:E15

    The girls jump at the chance to be the stars in a movie, unaware that the film they will be starring in is an Army hygiene film. Shirley begs Laverne to come and tryout for an acting part in a movie. Laverne agrees and they get to the studio. They subsequently get cast as the two stars of the feature. They have to go and get fitted for wardrobe and when they come out they're wearing cheap, gaudy costumes that Laverne immediately asks if they can keep. They're introduced to their leading men, upon which Shirley finds out that her leading man is gay. The director starts filming the movie and only then the girls find out they're playing hookers in an army hygiene film. When it's all over, we find Laverne and Shirley miserable at home. Then Lenny and Squiggy enter telling them they've just been to see the premiere of the film. Laverne and Shirley asks if anyone recognized them as the hookers. Lenny tells them not to worry, as no one recognized them, but he had to tell everybody it was the

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Laverne & Shirley Season 7 Episode 18 - Helmut Weekend
    8.6/10(96 votes)

    #22 - Helmut Weekend

    S7:E18

    Squiggy's long lost father suddenly shows up and wants to spend time with his son.

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Laverne & Shirley Season 2 Episode 15 - Call Me a Taxi
    8.5/10(125 votes)

    #23 - Call Me a Taxi

    S2:E15

    The girls take jobs as taxi dancers when they get laid off.

    Director:Alan Myerson
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Laverne & Shirley Season 2 Episode 16 - Steppin' Out
    8.5/10(120 votes)

    #24 - Steppin' Out

    S2:E16

    The girls have big dates now if only they can get themselves together in time.

    Director:Dennis Klein
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Laverne & Shirley Season 2 Episode 21 - Haunted House
    8.5/10(132 votes)

    #25 - Haunted House

    S2:E21

    The girls want new furniture and go looking for a used couch, in a haunted house. Lenny and Squiggy go with Laverne and Shirley to the haunted house to help them remove a couch if they buy one. Of course, the cast start to disappear one by one until there's only the girls left, they can't get out. In the end discover that it is the owners of the house who are trying to scare people away so they don't have to move. Shirley discovers that Abe Lincoln once slept in the house and suggests they have the house marked as a piece of history which saves the building.

    Director:Alan Myerson
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Not Quite South of the Border" is the best rated episode of "Laverne & Shirley". It scored 9/10 based on 128 votes. Directed by Joel Zwick and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/7/1980. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1)".