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The Best Episodes of Laverne & Shirley Season 2

Every episode of Laverne & Shirley Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Laverne & Shirley Season 2!

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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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Drive! She Said" is the best rated episode of "Laverne & Shirley" season 2. It scored 8.1/10 based on 126 votes. Directed by Howard Storm and written by Jack Winter, it aired on 9/28/1976. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Angels of Mercy".

  • Drive! She Said
    8.1/10126 votes

    #1 - Drive! She Said

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1976

    Shirley offers Laverne free driving lessons in exchange for some money to buy a new car.

    Director: Howard Storm

    Writer: Jack Winter

  • Angels of Mercy
    8.2/10123 votes

    #2 - Angels of Mercy

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1976

    Laverne & Shirley become hospital volunteers.

    Director: Howard Storm

    Writer: Michael Warren, William Bickley

  • Bachelor Mothers
    7.8/10121 votes

    #3 - Bachelor Mothers

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/1976

    Since the girls have no dates that night, they agree to babysit Fonzie's godson. When they get a call for a big date only one of them can go, the other has to stay home and watch the baby. Laverne gets to go but when the date gets cancelled, Shirley has to stop Laverne from getting on a bus and going to Chicago to meet her date. Shirley asks Lenny and Squiggy to watch the baby while she goes to get Laverne. When the girls return to the apartment they find Lenny and Squiggy there but the baby is gone. Lenny and Squiggy gave it back to a guy who claimed to be it's father, the girls go berserk thinking all manners of horrible things has happened only to find out in the end it was indeed the father that they gave the baby to.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Excuse Me, May I Cut In?
    8.1/10132 votes

    #4 - Excuse Me, May I Cut In?

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1976

    Laverne and Shirley's tv breaks down, and when the contest offering a prize of a new color set arises Shirley acts nice to Richie Cunningham so that he'll ask her and Laverne to the dance, but also the real reason is that they want Richie to ask his friend Potsie Weber, who happens to be the school's best dancer, to partner Laverne. Potsie gets injured and can't dance so Laverne teams up with Richie at the last minute to win the TV. When back at the flat, the girls have to come clean about them just wanting the TV, but the guys are so nice about it that they get a little of what they were hoping for anyways.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bridal Shower
    8.2/10132 votes

    #5 - Bridal Shower

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/9/1976

    Laverne & Shirley get an invitation to a bridal shower, but are afraid to go because they're the only ones left unmarried.

    Director: Alan Myerson

    Writer: N/A

  • Look Before You Leap
    8.1/10119 votes

    #6 - Look Before You Leap

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/16/1976

    After a party at the brewery, Laverne comes home to find she's wearing a pair of men's boxer shorts. She starts to feel ill in the mornings but was so drunk the night before that she can't remember what happened. She fears that she's pregnant. So Lenny and Squiggy have a contest to see which of them will ask Laverne to marry them, Lenny wins and in a touching scene proposes to Laverne, of course in the end we discover that Laverne is not pregnant and that she was wearing the boxer shorts because she had been made an honorary guy at the brewery.

    Director: James Burrows

    Writer: David W. Duclon

  • Dear Future Model
    8.2/10117 votes

    #7 - Dear Future Model

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/23/1976

    Laverne & Shirley decide to become high fashion models and take a home modelling course.

    Director: James Burrows

    Writer: N/A

  • Good Time Girls
    8.6/10111 votes

    #8 - 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

  • Two of Our Weirdos Are Missing
    8.0/10113 votes

    #9 - Two of Our Weirdos Are Missing

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/1976

    Lenny and Squiggy disappear after Laverne & Shirley decide not to go to the circus with them. The girls phone around and find that they've gone to join the circus. When they get to the circus they discover that the ringmaster doesn't want to hire them, the girls find Lenny and Squiggy rehearsing and tell them they're fired from the circus. They then offer to help them out of all their problems and it all ends happily with the girls showing that they do care about their friends.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Christmas Eve at the Booby Hatch (aka Oh, Hear the Angel Voices)
    7.8/10139 votes

    #10 - Christmas Eve at the Booby Hatch (aka Oh, Hear the Angel Voices)

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/21/1976

    Carmine calls the gang together at the Pizzabowl and asks them all if they're willing to help him put on a Christmas show for the local hospital. Carmine and none of the others know that it's a mental hospital. When they get there they're greeted by one of the patients pretending to be a doctor. The real doctor enters and tells the group that it is a mental hospital. Shirley immediately becomes anxious as her parents always used to threaten her when she was a little girl that she would be placed in such a place along with her dotty aunt. The shows starts with Edna doing a song and playing a small guitar, followed by Carmine singing ""Jingle Bell Rock"" and tap dancing, then Lenny and Squiggy sing ""The Jolliest Fat Man"" and finished off with Laverne and Shirley baton twirling and singing. The show ends on a warm note getting the message to the viewer that they shouldn't forget the poor people who are on their own at Christmas.

    Director: Howard Storm

    Writer: David W. Duclon

  • Guilty Until Proven Not Innocent
    8.1/10113 votes

    #11 - Guilty Until Proven Not Innocent

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/4/1977

    Laverne is arrested for shoplifting, so Shirley tries to get her released.

    Director: James Burrows

    Writer: N/A

  • Anniversary Show
    7.6/1099 votes

    #12 - Anniversary Show

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/10/1977

    While the girls are stuck at a train station in Canada, the rest of the gang is waiting for them to have a surprise party at the Pizzabowl. To pass the time they sit around and reminisce through flashbacks of scenes from previous episodes.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Playing Hooky
    8.4/10119 votes

    #13 - Playing Hooky

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/1977

    The girls both call in sick to Shotz and decide to have 'fun' instead. They go to the movies where they see a couple of guys and Laverne waves at them throughout the picture. Later in the children's play park, Shirley goes to get fudgecicles. One of the guys from the movie theater comes over and talk to Shirley, then goes back to his friend. Later, while at their apartment, the guys, who have followed them home invite themselves in. They play a game of charades and one of the guys goes out to buy pink champagne. The other guy offers the girls $100 to buy something for themselves. When they take it, he handcuffs them and arrests them for being ""pros"". His friend comes back to find the girls upset and crying. When he finds out his new rookie partner, who's on his first case, offered the girls money, he tells him that's not allowed because it's entrapment and orders him to free Laverne and Shirley. To try to make it up to them, they offer to take them out to dinner and show them a good

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Guinea Pigs
    8.4/10134 votes

    #14 - Guinea Pigs

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/18/1977

    The girls become guinea pigs in order to raise money to go to a cocktail party. Laverne is allowed to sleep for a few minutes at a time, and Shirley has to eat dirt.

    Director: James Burrows

    Writer: Jack Winter

  • Call Me a Taxi
    8.5/10116 votes

    #15 - 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

  • Steppin' Out
    8.4/10114 votes

    #16 - Steppin' Out

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/8/1977

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

    Director: Dennis Klein

    Writer: N/A

  • Buddy, Can You Spare a Father?
    8.2/10102 votes

    #17 - Buddy, Can You Spare a Father?

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/15/1977

    Shirley goes to a sleazy bar to look for her father.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Eric Cohen

  • Honeymoon Hotel
    8.2/10107 votes

    #18 - Honeymoon Hotel

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/22/1977

    Shirley wins a vacation at a newlywed hotel. Laverne and Shirley plan to use Carmine to fool the hotel staff into letting them in, thinking they'll be left alone after the inital photos. Unfortunately they never get a moments peace and a mass party ensues.

    Director: Gary Shimokawa

    Writer: Eric Cohen

  • Hi, Neighbor Book 2
    8.7/10108 votes

    #19 - 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

  • Frank's Fling
    8.0/10108 votes

    #20 - Frank's Fling

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/8/1977

    Laverne asks Lenny, Squiggy and Carmine to dress up as gangsters in order to scare away a golddigger who wants to marry her father.

    Director: Howard Morris

    Writer: N/A

  • Haunted House
    8.6/10120 votes

    #21 - 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

  • Lonely at the Middle
    8.5/1099 votes

    #22 - 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

  • Citizen Crane
    8.0/1096 votes

    #23 - Citizen Crane

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 4/5/1977

    Milwaukee's most prominent citizen, Charles Feister Crane, decides to make Laverne and Shirley his newest singing discovery, a singing duet called ""The Rosebuds"".

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A