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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!

The Best Episodes of Laverne & Shirley

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...

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  1. 8.8/10(110 votes)

    #1 - The Quiz Show

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    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

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  2. 8.6/10(105 votes)

    #2 - Playing the Roxy

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    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

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    Director:Joel Zwick
  3. 8.6/10(103 votes)

    #3 - Dinner for Four

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    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.

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  4. 8.6/10(116 votes)

    #4 - Supermarket Sweep

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    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.

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    Director:Joel Zwick
  5. 8.6/10(100 votes)

    #5 - Squiggy in Love

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    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.

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  6. 8.6/10(96 votes)

    #6 - Helmut Weekend

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    S7:E18

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

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    Director:Tom Trbovich
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  8. 8.5/10(131 votes)

    #7 - Laverne and Shirley Meet Fabian

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    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.

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    Director:Alan Rafkin
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  9. 8.5/10(111 votes)

    #8 - Shirley's Operation

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    S3:E10

    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.

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  10. 8.5/10(97 votes)

    #9 - Lenny's Crush

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    S4:E18

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

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    Director:Carl Gottlieb
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  11. 8.5/10(96 votes)

    #10 - The Tenants Are Revolting

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    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.

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    Director:Joel Zwick
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  12. 8.4/10(113 votes)

    #11 - New Years Eve 1959

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    S3:E12

    It is New Years Eve and Laverne is dumped by her date and Shirley has a cold. Squiggy does his human fly stunt as the countdown to the new year, 1960, arrives.

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    Director:Alan Rafkin
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  13. 8.4/10(135 votes)

    #12 - The Slow Child

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    S3:E15

    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.

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    Director:Alan Rafkin
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  14. 8.4/10(106 votes)

    #13 - The Driving Test

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    S3:E19

    The show starts with Laverne and Shirley chatting away in the Shotz brewery canteen when Lenny and Squiggy come in. Upon opening their pay checks, Squiggy discovers a letter from Max Shotz himself. He reads it aloud and the gang discovers that Squiggy failed his written driving test and he must retake it this Saturday and pass or lose his truck driver's licence and his job. We next see Laverne and Shirley spring cleaning their flat, Shirley is pouring soapy water on the floor while singing ""Twist Again"" as Laverne with sponges on her feet does the twist to clean the floor. Lenny comes in all upset and asking the girls if they'll help him help Squiggy to pass his test as Squiggy is getting very depressed. The girls reluctantly agree as if they don't, Lenny says he'll have to move in with them as he won't be able to afford the rent on his own. Laverne is asking Squiggy some highway code questions in which his answer is ""Here chicky, chicky, chicky"". After a few minutes of this, Laverne j

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    Director:Alan Rafkin
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  15. 8.4/10(113 votes)

    #14 - The Debutante Ball

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    S3:E21

    Laverne and Lenny go to a debutantes' ball where Lenny learns he is 89th in line for the Polish throne.

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    Director:Alan Rafkin
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  16. 8.4/10(102 votes)

    #15 - Laverne and Shirley Move In

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    S4:E11

    Shirley recalls how she and Laverne first moved in together.

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  17. 8.3/10(112 votes)

    #16 - The Second (Almost) Annual Shotz Talent Show

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    S3:E16

    Mr. Shotz wants the girls to find a spot in the talent show for his no-talent nephew.

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    Director:Alan Rafkin
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  18. 8.3/10(101 votes)

    #17 - It's a Dog's Life

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    S4:E13

    Shirley handcuffs herself to a homeless dog at the pound to protest the scheduled death of the dog. Carmine comes to the rescue in the end by finding homes for all the abandoned dogs as he gives a free dance lesson to anyone who'll adopt a dog.

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    Director:Joel Zwick
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  19. 8.3/10(97 votes)

    #18 - Fire Show

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    S4:E19

    One of the firemen who comes to put out the fire in their apartment falls for Laverne. Unfortunately, Shirley falls for him too which leads to the girls' friendship being tested to the limits.

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    Director:Joel Zwick
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  20. 8.3/10(101 votes)

    #19 - Shirley and the Older Man

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    S4:E24

    Shirley's friendship with a rich older man is resented by Carmine, who is jealous, and the man's daughter is suspicious of Shirley's intentions.

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    Director:Joel Zwick
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  21. 8.3/10(87 votes)

    #20 - Teenage Lust

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    S7:E4

    The girls attend a wild fraternity party and find out they're not as young as they used to be.

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    Director:Tom Trbovich
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  22. 8.3/10(85 votes)

    #21 - The Defiant One

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    S7:E5

    Shirley finds herself mistakenly handcuffed to a bankrobber who is forced to take her with him when he escapes from the police.

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    Director:Tom Trbovich
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  23. 8.3/10(84 votes)

    #22 - Class of '56

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    S7:E16

    Laverne, Shirley and Carmine go back to Milwaukee to attend their high school reunion. What they don't know, however is that the gang back home thinks that the girls are famous movie stars and that Carmine is a famous Las Vegas singer. Lenny and Squiggy write to the gang back in Milwaukee that Carmine, Laverne and Shirley have all made it big in Hollywood. Feeling slightly insecure about how they measure up the rest of their old classmates' successes, the trio agree to go along with the story. Laverne is supposedly dating Marlon Brando and Shirley Paul Newman, when Rosie starts asking questions about Marlon and the girls start giving contradictory answers, they soon get found out. Shirley then tells the truth and Terri Buttafuco asks them to leave for lying. The girls get out the doors and Laverne comes back in telling off all her old friends for only being nice to them because they thought they were famous. This lays a heavy guilt trip on their old friends and all is forgiven.

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  24. 8.2/10(114 votes)

    #23 - The Dentist

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    S3:E17

    Laverne has a chipped tooth and goes to Shirley's dental student cousin Mikey. Laverne, as a favor to Shirley, allows Shirley's dentist cousin to fix her tooth. The only problem is he's a lousy dentist and Laverne can't let on that he's doing a terrible job as Shirley's cousin's professor is watching every move he makes.

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    Director:Alan Rafkin
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  25. 8.2/10(106 votes)

    #24 - 2001: A Comedy Odyssey

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    S3:E22

    Laverne dreams she and Shirley are in their 80's still living together and still single. Laverne and Shirley are old and single but so are Lenny and Squiggy which leads to them going to marry each other finally so they can have some fun.

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  26. 8.2/10(96 votes)

    #25 - The Robbery

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    S4:E4

    Out for kicks, Laverne teams up with a tough guy who commits a crime. Laverne's date with Jake of the Purple Fiends goes sour when he robs a grocery store.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Quiz Show" is the best rated episode of "Laverne & Shirley". It scored 8.8/10 based on 110 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/10/1978. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Playing the Roxy".