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The Best Episodes of Laverne & Shirley Season 8

Every episode of Laverne & Shirley Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Laverne & Shirley Season 8!

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
    Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 1 - The Mummy's Bride
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    #1 - The Mummy's Bride

    S8:E1

    Shirley marries Walter Meeney.

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:Roger Garrett

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  2. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 2 - Window on Main Street
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    #2 - Window on Main Street

    S8:E2

    The girls agree to live in Bardwell's main show window for a weekend in order to demonstrate the 'House Of The Future'

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 3 - The Note
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    #3 - The Note

    S8:E3

    Laverne gets depressed and then angry after she finds a very short note from Shirley saying that she has left to go overseas with her husband who was just transferred there. Laverne just can't believe that Shirley would leave and only write a few words to say goodbye. To try and help cheer her up, each of the gang tries to find Laverne a new roommate. But things turn out okay after Laverne finds the rest of Shirley's note which had fallen under the bed.

    Director:Gabrielle Alice James
    Writer:Judy Pioli

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  4. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 4 - Lost in Spacesuits
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    #4 - Lost in Spacesuits

    S8:E4

    The show starts in Laverne's apartment, where she's trying to put together a load of her stuff to sell as she's desperate for money now she's out of a job. In comes Frank with an old army buddy whose life he saved during the war. This army buddy offers Laverne a job at Ajax Aerospace. Laverne's delighted and is told to report for work Monday morning. Come Monday, we see Laverne at her new job which is testing gravity boots. She soon finds this more boring than bottling beer in her old Milwaukee job. When everyone goes for lunch, there's only her and a weird guy called Chuck left in the room. To make things more exciting, Chuck gets Laverne to try on a secret experimental anti-gravity spacesuit. Laverne comes out wearing the the suit and helmet and Chuck who has the remote control soon has Laverne doing acrobtaics in mid-air. The problems start when Chuck can't get Laverne down, Laverne suggests she put on a pair of gravity boots which brings her back down to earth, however she can't ge

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 5 - The Playboy Show
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    #5 - The Playboy Show

    S8:E5

    Laverne is waiting tables at Cowboy Bill's when Rhonda comes asking if Laverne would be kind enough to go downtown to pick up a Playboy Bunny application form for her as she's busy trying out for her new play. Rhonda suggests Laverne should pick up an application for herself at the same time. Laverne is reluctant to go and even more reluctant to get an application for herself because of her 'chicken ankles'. Next we see loads of beautiful girls at the Playboy auditions when Laverne walks in, the woman in charge is a hypochondriac and says she has a fever coming on so Laverne starts handing out the application forms for her. Laverne becomes friendly with a woman named Kathy. Laverne decides to apply after Kathy (Carrie Fisher) tells her to try after all what's she got to lose. Back at the flat, Laverne is eagerly waiting for a phone call from the Playboy auditions to see if she's allowed to attend ""Bunny Training"". She gets the call and she in. Laverne tells Frank that she's going to tr

    Director:Michael McKean
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 6 - Death Row (1)
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    #6 - Death Row (1)

    S8:E6

    Laverne makes friends with a group of people that she doesn't know are really a gang who plan to rob a bank. When she goes to the bank with them she thinks it is only to get new dishes that the bank is giving away with every new account that is opened. When she realizes what is actually happening it's too late because the police have already arrived. Laverne is handcuffed along with the rest of the gang and they are all carted off to jail.

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:Gene Braunstein

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  7. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 7 - Death Row (2)
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    #7 - Death Row (2)

    S8:E7

    While waiting to be booked at the police station for the bank robbery, Laverne and her new 'friend' are mistaken for murderers who were on the run. They are both sentenced to be executed at midnight that night.

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 8 - Jinxed
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    #8 - Jinxed

    S8:E8

    When Laverne is convinced that she is jinxed after refusing to answer a chain letter, her friends send her a ""gypsy"" to help her.

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:David Ketchum

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  9. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 9 - Of Mice and Men
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    #9 - Of Mice and Men

    S8:E9

    Laverne's plan to restore her cowardly boyfriend's self-confidence backfires.

    Director:Paul Sills
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 10 - The Gymnast
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    #10 - The Gymnast

    S8:E10

    Laverne is convinced that the former trapeze artist she's been dating is out to kill her.

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 11 - The Monastery Show
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    #11 - The Monastery Show

    S8:E11

    Laverne, upset with the way her life has been going, asks if she can stay at a convent for a couple of weeks to try and sort things out. The Mother Superior lets her stay but then asks her to leave when she has trouble keeping the vow of silence that all the other Sisters have taken.

    Director:Garry Marshall
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 12 - Defective Ballet
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    #12 - Defective Ballet

    S8:E12

    Squiggy is mistaken for a Russion ballet dancer who is trying to defect to the United States.

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 13 - The Baby Show
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    #13 - The Baby Show

    S8:E13

    Sgt. Plout once again shows up on Laverne's doorstep. This time she is pregnant and looking for a place to stay. Plout and Laverne enter a mothers-to-be contest and then go to a funeral home to pay their respect to one of Frank's buddies. While at the funeral home, Sgt. Plout goes into labor and delivers her baby.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 14 - Rock 'n' Roll Show
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    #14 - Rock 'n' Roll Show

    S8:E14

    Laverne talks her wacky friend Chuck into forming his own band after he plays Beethoven on his harmonica. Laverne is also on a special diet for her ulcer and back at the flat Carmine is trying to stop Laverne from eating all the wrong foods. Chuck shows Laverne his new band, a bunch of geeky looking guys enter and proceed to put Laverne to sleep with their classical playing. Laverne tells Chuck he has to play rock music if he wants to make big money. The guys trust Laverne so much that they've quit their jobs to become big musicians. Laverne tries to show them how to jazz up their act a little, but the results are still terrible. To make things worse, Squiggy has just gotten the band their first job. He tells them that they are to perform in 20 minutes. Laverne has to read out to the massive crowd that the Rolling Stones won't be performing and that instead her friend Chuck's band will be playing instead. Amazingly to everyone, the band plays extremely well and goes over a smash. It

    Director:Chris Thompson
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 15 - The Fashion Show
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    #15 - The Fashion Show

    S8:E15

    Jealous of all the beautiful girls her new photographer boyfriend has to take pictures of, Laverne goes to a fashion show where he is working and ends up being one of the models in the show.

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 16 - Short on Time
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    #16 - Short on Time

    S8:E16

    When Frank finds a note from Edna saying that she has left him, he goes to Laverne's to talk to her about it. Laverne, who doesn't know that Edna has left, asks her father to stay at the apartment and babysit Little Chucky who is a chimp, because she has gotten a chance to sing with The Spinners as Rhonda gave her the winning woman. While singing with the group, she feels guilty about leaving her father when he wanted to talk to her so she rushes back home and learns about Edna leaving. The show ends with Little Chucky waiting on tables at Cowboy Bills.

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 17 - Ghost Story
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    #17 - Ghost Story

    S8:E17

    Laverne and the gang hold a seance to rid her apartment of a ghost that has taken up residence there.

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 18 - Please Don't Feed the Buzzards
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    #18 - Please Don't Feed the Buzzards

    S8:E18

    Lenny and Squiggy find a treasure map and convince Frank and Carmine to go with them to search for gold.

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 19 - How's Your Sister?
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    #19 - How's Your Sister?

    S8:E19

    Squiggy's bizarre sister, Squendolyn, arrives for a visit and ends up moving in with Laverne and falling for Carmine.

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 20 - Do the Carmine
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    #20 - Do the Carmine

    S8:E20

    Carmine and Squiggy are sitting at Cowboy Bills, as Carmine complains that nobody likes his new record 'Do the Hotfoot', Squigy notices that sitting at the next table is Bobby Bitts, king of the hits. Squiggy tries to talk Bobby into playing Carmine's record on his show ""American Dance Band"" but Bobby's having none of it. Squiggy decides the only way to get Bobby to hear the record is for Carmine to sing it live there at Cowboy Bills. Carmine gets a few verses in and Bobby stops him, says it's ""Superrific"" and books him to sing on his next show. The title is changed to ""Do the Carmine"", and Carmine now fills his head with dreams of becoming a rich rock star, and he asks Laverne if she'll be in the audience of the show to hear him sing. Carmine sings his record and for 1 week he's a success, but some pious do-gooder hears his song and thinks it's rebellious and communist. So he confronts Bobby and demands that he not play Carmine's record or he'll have his group put pressure on the sta

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 21 - Councilman DeFazio
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    #21 - Councilman DeFazio

    S8:E21

    Frank is making his usual contribution to his local councilman. After the guy has taken Frank's money he tells him that he plans to tear down Cowboy Bills and build a high rise on top of it. Frank chases the guy from the restaurant and heads down to see Laverne.Laverne is ill in bed, but Frank vents his frustrations to Laverne and decides the only way to stop him and beat city hall is to run against the current corrupt councilman and stop him that way. Next day back at Cowboy Bills, Frank is busy getting all his friends to help him campaign for him, the councilman walsk in with a camera crew in tow and he's telling them all about his plans for the area. Frank confronts the guy and tells the news crew that the other guy is crooked and that his family has all the companies that he gives the city's jobs too. The anchor woman for the TV station invites Frank to an open debate on tv to air his views against Counilman Pike. Later Frank confesses to Carmine that he's never spoken in public be

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Laverne & Shirley Season 8 Episode 22 - Here Today, Hair Tomorrow
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    #22 - Here Today, Hair Tomorrow

    S8:E22

    Rhonda enters Cowboy Bills to tell Frank that she suspects Carmine is about to commit suicide. She tells Frank that he's packed all his stuff, turned off the gas, and disconnected his phone. Just as the two of them are about to run to try to save Carmine, he walks in and tells them that he's decided he's getting nowhere fast and that he wants to move to New Yrok to try his luck on Broadway. Rhonda and Frank lend him money as he doesn't have quite enough to get there yet. He says his goodbyes to Frank and Rhonda and he goes to tell Laverne. When he walks into Laverne's apartment to tell her his news, Laverne tells him that after weeks of saving she can finally afford to buy a water bed that she's been after. Carmine then tells her that he's sick of being a singing telegram boy and that he's moving to New York but he's $100 short. At this point Laverne offers to loan Carmine the $100 from her bed money. Eventually he takes it and says goodbye to her, too. Carmine arrives in New York and

    Director:Tom Trbovich
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 8 Ratings Summary

"The Mummy's Bride" is the best rated episode of "Laverne & Shirley" season 8. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Tom Trbovich and written by Roger Garrett, it aired on 9/28/1982. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Window on Main Street".