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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 3 Episode 5 - Laverne's Arranged Marriage
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Laverne's Arranged Marriage

    S3:E5

    Laverne's father arranges a marriage for her to a wealthy cheese manufacturer who happens to be in the mob.

    Director:Alan Rafkin
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Laverne & Shirley Season 3 Episode 6 - Cruise (1)
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Cruise (1)

    S3:E6

    Shirley is waiting anxiously for Laverne to come back from the bank with their savings for their cruise holiday that they have been planning on for weeks. When Laverne comes in, she tells Shirley that they have $50 less than they thought, and now they're not going to be able to take the cruise as they only have two days until the ship sets sail. The girls get depressed until Laverne says that they shouldn't give up hope, that they still have two days left and that they'll think of something to come up with the money. The girls go see Carmine who gets them a job at J&J Shoes. Carmine tells the owner he'll bring all his tap dance students over to his store to buy their shoes if he hires Laverne and Shirley for the weekend. The guy hires the girls and tells them to go and get changed into their uniforms. When we see Laverne and Shirley again, Shirley is dressed as Jack and Laverne is dressed as Jill from the nursery rhyme. The store owner tells them they'll get $2 for every pair of shoes

    Director:Alan Rafkin
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Laverne & Shirley Season 3 Episode 8 - Laverne and Shirley Meet Fabian
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 14 - Not Quite South of the Border
    9.0/10(129 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 20 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1)
    9.0/10(121 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 21 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (2)
    9.0/10(110 votes)

    #6 - 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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  7. Laverne & Shirley Season 4 Episode 5 - The Quiz Show
    8.8/10(123 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(92 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(131 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 5 Episode 25 - The Diner
    8.8/10(140 votes)

    #10 - 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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  11. Laverne & Shirley Season 4 Episode 3 - Playing the Roxy
    8.7/10(116 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(104 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:Unknown

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  13. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 7 - The Wedding
    8.7/10(93 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(96 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 13 - Testing, Testing
    8.7/10(91 votes)

    #15 - 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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  16. Laverne & Shirley Season 4 Episode 12 - Dinner for Four
    8.6/10(112 votes)

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

    #17 - 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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  18. Laverne & Shirley Season 4 Episode 22 - The Tenants Are Revolting
    8.6/10(104 votes)

    #18 - The Tenants Are Revolting

    S4:E22

    The girls believe they are doing a good deed by calling in a building inspector to make repairs, until Mrs. Babish is given a deadline to fix it or pay a fine.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 6 - You've Pushed Me Too Far
    8.6/10(93 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 15 - You Oughta Be in Pictures
    8.6/10(94 votes)

    #20 - 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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  21. Laverne & Shirley Season 4 Episode 11 - Laverne and Shirley Move In
    8.5/10(110 votes)

    #21 - Laverne and Shirley Move In

    S4:E11

    Shirley recalls how she and Laverne first moved in together.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Laverne & Shirley Season 4 Episode 18 - Lenny's Crush
    8.5/10(106 votes)

    #22 - Lenny's Crush

    S4:E18

    Lenny falls in love with Laverne after misunderstanding what she told him.

    Director:Carl Gottlieb
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 3 - Fat City Holiday
    8.5/10(105 votes)

    #23 - Fat City Holiday

    S5:E3

    The girls get jobs at a weight loss camp.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 8 - Bad Girls
    8.5/10(99 votes)

    #24 - Bad Girls

    S5:E8

    The girls realize things have changed in their old club "The Angora Debs," when they let Edna's niece Vicki join. Finding that it's become a gang of trouble making teenage girls. Can the girls save Vicki and the old Deb spirit as well?

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 26 - Seperate Tables
    8.5/10(88 votes)

    #25 - Seperate Tables

    S5:E26

    Shirley is building a lollipop stick model of her dream house. Laverne walks in wanting to go to the movies, but Shirley just wants to build her house in peace. Laverne starts to muscle in on Shirley's model and Shirley tells Laverne to go to see the movie on her own. Laverne doesn't want to and this prompts Shirley to ask Laverne is she's afraid to go on her own. Laverne says she's not afraid of nothing, and storms out. later she comes back and tells Shirley how good the movie was. Shirley thinking she went on her own, congratulates Laverne, Mrs. Kolchek walks in and it turns out that Laverne dragged the old woman from her bed to go to the movie with her rather than go on her own. Shirley tells Laverne she has a problem, and that she's probably very insecure. Laverne realizes Shirley is right, so Shirley books them both a table at a new Chinese restaurant where they'll both be eating at separate tables to try to cure Laverne of her monophobia. The next day we see Shirley being seated

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Laverne's Arranged Marriage" is the best rated episode of "Laverne & Shirley". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Alan Rafkin and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/1/1977. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Cruise (1)".