9.0/10107 votesLoading...#1 - Not Quite South of the Border
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/7/1980
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: N/A
- 9.0/1094 votesLoading...
#2 - The Bardwell Caper (1)
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 3/10/1981
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
- 8.9/10123 votesLoading...
#3 - Why Did the Fireman . . .
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1980
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: N/A
- 8.9/1094 votesLoading...
#4 - The Bardwell Caper (2)
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 3/17/1981
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
- 8.8/10105 votesLoading...
#5 - The Quiz Show
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1978
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/10110 votesLoading...
#6 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1)
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/26/1980
The girls are riding the Moose Jaw Express when a murder victim enters their compartment.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/10100 votesLoading...
#7 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (2)
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 3/4/1980
Laverne and Shirley try to find out who the murderer is.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/10107 votesLoading...
#8 - Hi, Neighbor Book 2
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/1/1977
Laverne & Shirley come to the rescue when Lenny and Squiggy get stood up.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/10127 votesLoading...
#9 - Laverne and Shirley Meet Fabian
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1977
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: N/A
- 8.7/1085 votesLoading...
#10 - The Right to Light
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1980
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: N/A
- 8.6/10110 votesLoading...
#11 - Good Time Girls
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/1976
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
- 8.6/10119 votesLoading...
#12 - Haunted House
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/22/1977
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: N/A
- 8.6/10123 votesLoading...
#13 - The Slow Child
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1978
When Mrs. Babish's mentally slow daughter, Amy, comes to visit, a moving relationship soon develops between her and Lenny - despite the fact that almost everyone believes Lenny just wants to take advantage of ""the slow child"". But to everyone's amazement, Lenny really comes through as a thoughtful, sensitive and caring person toward Amy.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/10101 votesLoading...
#14 - Playing the Roxy
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1978
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
- 8.6/1099 votesLoading...
#15 - Dinner for Four
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1978
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/10111 votesLoading...
#16 - Supermarket Sweep
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/6/1979
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
- 8.6/1089 votesLoading...
#17 - Squiggy in Love
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 2/27/1979
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: N/A
- 8.6/1087 votesLoading...
#18 - You've Pushed Me Too Far
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1979
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1086 votesLoading...
#19 - The Wedding
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1979
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: N/A
- 8.6/1087 votesLoading...
#20 - Testing, Testing
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1979
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: N/A
- 8.6/10134 votesLoading...
#21 - The Diner
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 5/6/1980
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1094 votesLoading...
#22 - Helmut Weekend
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 3/2/1982
Squiggy's long lost father suddenly shows up and wants to spend time with his son.
Director: Tom Trbovich
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/10115 votesLoading...
#23 - Call Me a Taxi
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/1/1977
The girls take jobs as taxi dancers when they get laid off.
Director: Alan Myerson
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1098 votesLoading...
#24 - Lonely at the Middle
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/29/1977
Shirley is promoted to supervisor and has the other workers hating her for it.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Jack Winter
- 8.5/10104 votesLoading...
#25 - Shirley's Operation
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1977
The gang is rehearsing the play ""Alice In Wonderland"" so they're all in costume: Shirley is Alice, Laverne is the Mad Hatter, Lenny and Squiggy are Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee. Shirley faints on the couch and is taken to hospital where it is discovered that her appendix is about to burst. Fearful that she is going to lose her hair for the operation, Shirley hides while everyone else tries to find her before her appendix bursts.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: David W. Duclon
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!
Laverne & Shirley is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from January 27, 1976 to May 10, 1983. It starred Penny Marshall as...
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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 107 votes. Directed by Joel Zwick and written by N/A, it aired on 1/7/1980. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Bardwell Caper (1)".