THE TRUTH about the LAVERNE & SHIRLEY Feud!
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- Here's are my memories of the classic TV sitcom "Laverne and Shirley" that ran on ABC-TV for 8 seasons. I also talk about the so-called feud between actors, Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams. Was it real? I'll let you be the judge!
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I love your channel. You are always nice and soft-spoken, and seem to try to find the good in everything. In a time when the world around us appears to be getting harsh and uncaring, it's nice to find a place to go and relax and remember. I wish my wife was still alive...she would have loved this channel as well. She was not very t.v. literate, but she loved things like this. Thank you for being such a swell guy.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Allan. I am glad you are enjoying the channel!
So true 👍🏻
@@jdsundstrom Will there be a Tribute video to Cindy Williams?
The "innocence" of those years in TV. Laverne and Shirley just had a goofy, laid back fun. When people watched TV for escape, not reality. I miss those times.
cbdsw Ditto! Best comment on the chat.
@@GeraBrown I agree.
Gera Brown 🔶TOTALLY AGREE!🔶
Thankful for reruns and CZcams, for sure!!!
Me too....me too!!!!
me too
I actually met Penny Marshal when I use to work at NPR. She was very nice and gracious. I saw her in the parking lot and I spoke to her and told her that I had the biggest crush on Laverne DeFazio growing up. She smiled and said "Thank you, that was very kind of you to say"
Pure genuine clean comedy sitcoms in the 60s, 70s & 80s was the GRET time for TV. Now pevertion comedy is taking over Hollywood. Thanks Dave, appreciate all your videos
You're welcome, Keith! I'm glad you are enjoying the vids. :)
I like Lavern and Shirley it is clean comedy. 😀
Keith Ehredt
I was 9 when Laverne and Shirley debuted. And I remember thinking how racy hearing them talk about Voo dodo. And I remember not being able to laugh to hard at the innuendo of sex. If I had my old fuddy duddy Mom would of called off me being able to watch the show any longer.
Dude, I truly love your delivery when talking about these shows! You break it down with genuine love, like the optimism we had when we were children! You focus on all the good moments these shows have to offer. Yes, you also include the bad moments, but you say it with irrelevance, then return to the good moments! I appreciate you & your channel. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for the kind words, MIPM!
@@jdsundstrom you're very welcome, brother!
Loved seeing reruns of this as a kid in the late 80s to early 90s. Lenny and Squiggy were such a hilarious comedy team too.
The show runs on LOGO now.
I always thought they would get a spinoff.
Lenny and Squiggly should have had their own show!
Many shows that began in the 70's fizzled out by 1983-84. The landscape changed drastically.
Totally agree, Raymond!
That said. I recall those 'action' drama shows like Airwolf, Mcgyver, A Team may have taken over the silly 70s sitcoms, yet themselves were shown the door in only 3 or 4 seasons later the 80s decade had very high turnover competition with Cable.
Like Three's Company, Alice, One Day At a Time ect.
@@marieantoinettescake9513 Happy Days lasted 10 whole years. Still laff about that 1974-84. The whole Country mindset had changed alot in that decade.
Didn't it ever.
Thank you for the love that you have for Laverne and Shirley! I will be 59 years old in October this year but I remember being a little girl with my best friend watching every season of Laverne and Shirley and I will never forget the last season where I cried and cried on my mother‘s lap. She was upset that I was so sensitive and upset about the shows end but Laverne and Shirley was such a huge part of my childhood with my best friend! They were the examples they were the moral examples in our lives! Thank God for Laverne and Shirley in the 80s and God bless Penny Marshall!
The move to California was dumb, particularly since they moved the whole gang with them.
Agreed. I know it's a sit-com...but really? Everybody followed them to California?
Denise Boldea
I remember my best friend moved to Michigan with her parents around the same time as they moved. And thinking dang I wish we lived in sitcom land just so I could move to.
And then years later, Charlie Harper bought their Maliboo beach front condo...
Dave Sundstrom yeah
Chatsworth Osbourne Jr. Yup
I was on set with Cindy Williams on a show called Drive in 2006. It also starred Nathan Fillion and Emma Stone but got canned after 6 episodes.She saw me sitting in a corner and asked if she can get me something to drink. I said how about a Milk and Pepsi. We both had a laugh.
But did you Die 😂😂😂😂 laffin Of course
I remember me & my big sister doing the intro steps to the show every time we were about to go anywhere. Our parents' thought it was "stupid" but we kept doing it, mainly to spite their thoughts on it.
My younger cousin and I would do that (same cousin who was certain that "Hasenpfeffer Incorporated" was where the girls worked, as opposed to Schots Brewery)
The networks always mess things up by changing the schedule, they did it to Mork & Mindy, CHIPS, Charlies Angels, and countless others.
Why do they always do that?!!?
Twas the 80s. The competition was tuff.
@@jdsundstrom It was the '79 season and ABC had been #1 for 4 seasons, so they were a bunch of swollen heads! They thought their shows would be hits anywhere on the schedule and they could just move them anywhere to be lead-ins for new shows. The morons reckoned without the viewers' feelings about THEIR habits and schedules. This folly allowed CBS to regain the lead in the spring of 1980, denying ABC 5 full seasons at the top
@@jdsundstrom Dave, one word that comes to mind which describes the mindset of ABC executives then would be "hubris".
Remember when ABC cancelled taxi? And NBC pick up the the series.
I'm only 12 years old, but Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley are my fav shows!!! Long live the vintage tv!!
Met Cindy Williams several years ago at the San Jose toy show. She was nice.
I would have lost it.
Hey big mouth. What's your response from big deal?
hungry jerk that’s awesome! She was funny in Naked Space.
@@SonnyGTA she was very nice. Everything she said about Penny was positive.
I also remember watching Penny on The Odd Couple. She was hilarious as Oscar’s secretary.
Cyndi Grecco, I think she kind of looks like Valerie Bertinelli.
That part in the beginning when Laverne would turn around and run into the counter and dump everything, that used to really crack me up. Another good in-depth video good job sir
bill thompson Same.
That was my first thought too
@Marshall W I agree 100%
I said that same thing when I saw her pic!
I was think the same thing. She does remain you of her.
My favorite scene was when Shirley and Lavern had chained themselves inside a bank whose policies they were protesting... then they discovered that another of the bank's disgruntled customers had planted a genuine time-bomb in there! Lavern and Shirley couldn't escape because they'd somehow lost the key to the manacles they'd chained themselves inside the bank with! I'll never forget Shirley's prayer as the bomb was about to go off... SHIRLEY: Oh Lord, open up those pearly gates, because Lavern and I are coming at high velocity speed!
It was actually the electric company but still very funny.
@@jennifersebbo9039 Yup ... getting old. Wasn't too long ago that I'd convinced myself that Lavern's dad was portrayed by two different actors...
Justin Tyme how about when they wore stolen dresses to a fancy party and the snob matriarch said- well I never and Shirley said- it shows honey. Lol
@@robertstalnaker5728 Pure classic! wow this video took me back. Makes me kind of sad that nothing "new" makes me laugh even half as much as the sitcom gold of the 70's and 80's.
Shirley: I Don't vodee o doe!
Laverne: You vodee o.
lol
Stephen Adams: Musical Interpretations & Satire 🤣🤣🤣... I forgot about that piece of dialogue 🤣🤣
@@Leadeshipcoach It's from the first episode, or for sure one of the first 3.
Shirley: Once!
I was looking for that phrase! thank you
Enzo 1965 you forgot to keep scrolling🙄
If I had to pick my favorite episodes from Laverne and Shirley, I’d pick when they meet Fabian, and “We got no wall”. Thank you for another great behind the reporting
You are most welcome, Julio!
Shirley's fabian scream is iconic.
Oh yeah!!! The BEST!
Cindy Williams and Erin Moran appeared at a car show in Syracuse NY, and I heard from the organizer that Cindy helped Erin with her nerves on several occasions. I think Erin Moran's shakey relationship with tabloids made it tough for her at public events.
Great info, Michael! Thanks for sharing.
Omg i was there too wtf
One of my all time favorite Happy Days moments took place on the episode you mentioned "A date with Fonzie"....when Shirley was describing her fight at Arnold's with Laverne....Richie was coming into the room with some snacks and Shirley punches him in the face, knocking him down, and as she goes to assist him, Mr and Mrs C along with Joannie happen to return from their trip.......That was one of the best pieces of physical comedy that ever happened on that show...to this day I will laugh at loud as she "pops" Richie
Like you always say Dave, "the good stuff".
Absolutely Grant!
I LOVED this show when I was younger - and I still watch it today in syndication! They really had a fantastic dynamic together. An amazing comedic chemistry! :-)
Another allegation from the very early 80s is that the tension on the set was so bad that they actually would count the lines to make sure each had equal lines. There was intense jealousy. Each would rage that the other got too many lines and was trying to be the star of the show.
I hadn't heard that one. Thanks for sharing, Wild1995!
@@jdsundstrom Yeah, they touch on this in one of the Behind The Camera movies.
They also made sure that the "Laverne" was lower on the screen than the "Shirley", since Lavern's name came first in the title, Shirley's name was higher up to, again, even things out.
Wild1995
I heard that too. I remember it wasn’t even just lines. It was actually words. If one of them had a word more the other would pitch a fit. God how juvenile. Fighting over the number of words each got to say per show. I personally would of hated having to deal with that. And I probably would of told them both to knock this immature bs off.
I remember Penny Marshall, in a later interview, defending Cindy Williams’ position. The discussion was about the “feud” which didn’t really seem like a feud when Marshall described it, but more like an awkward situation...especially for Williams. Gary Marshall, Lowell Ganz, and Mark Rothman were already a hugely successful director/producer/writing team with Happy Days fame under their belt. Of course, Penny Marshall was Gary’s sisters, so it was almost like she was an instant part of that group...and then in come Cindy Williams, who, from the beginning, seemed like the outsider. Now this was Marshall explaining how the entire thing “appeared” for someone like Cindy, who though billed as an equal star in the show, may have felt she was expected to help Marshall/Ganz/Rothman launch Penny into Fonzie-level stardom. It’s been years since I saw that interview, so I don’t remember every detail about what Marshall said - only that she could see how the whole thing looked to Williams....and that that certainly couldn’t have helped the situation of two equally-billed stars, when it seemed all the people involved were Penny’s people. Add to that the fact that taping and rehearsals were always a nightmare....so many times getting it done only at the last minute...never going home on time, while simultaneously always watching the Happy Days crew leaving set at a respectable time each day, because the rhythm was so tried and true there that it was easy for them to wrap-up on time.
One of the greatest unsolved mysteries of this show: the Case of Ed Marinaro. He shows up in the last show of the fifth season as Laverne's cousin from Italy, setting him up as a new cast member. The following season, Italian cousin has disappeared as L&S decide to move to California, where they acquire a new landlord played by Ed Marinaro, whose character Sonny is shaped to be Laverne's new love interest. Just as things get serious between the two, Sonny disappears without a trace or a mention. Marinaro went over to NBC for his role on Hill Street Blues, but the whole thing was handled so sloppily at L&S. It's like the producers started to disregard the intelligence of the viewers.
They jumped the shark when they moved them out to Hollyweird.
Little Ogeechee I totally agree. Very sad to see the show go that route.
The show was never the same after the move.
I LOVED it AT FIRST!!! Xo
Trumpenstein uhm, not talking about where the show was filmed, most television is filmed in either NYC or L.A., talking about where the fictional characters were living...They simply were not suited at all to Hollywood...it was just a stupid move on the part of the writers...
And only Garry Marshall wanted to move them, Penny and Cindy both have stated that they thought it was a terrible idea and never wanted to move the setting
Loved this show. Lenny and Squiggy were priceless too.
David and Michael were a bonus.
This is one of your best videos! Thanks for mentioning Grecco!! This is my favorite TV theme song along with The Jeffersons theme!
One of my favorite TV theme songs as well, MGB!
Fun fact. Cindy Williams auditioned for Princess Leia. Just imagine her career today if she'd gotten the part.
I can see why they would want Cindy to audition for the part. Still, I'm glad Carrie Fisher got the part. I can't imagine anyone else in the role.
Ironically carrie Fisher who played princess Leia's in star wars was penny Marshall s best friend.
RIP Penny 😔 I was very sad to hear of her passing a couple of years ago. Absolutely loved Big! One of my favorite movies of the 80s to this day.
She was such a talented director!
Schlemiel = Someone clumsy : Schlimazel = Someone unlucky
Example: Laverne spilled her milk and Pepsi on Shirley's dress.
Also, if you were into classic video games of the 90s, there was a graphic adventure by the company Sierra, called King’s Quest VI. Therein is a genie character also called Schlemiel Schlimazel. Both clumsy and unlucky, as the story plays out.
"Jerry is both the schlameel and the schlemozzle."-Ron Swanson
@magusxxx You have the definitions for those two words reversed. A schlemiel is an awkward, or unlucky person, and a schlimazel is an accident-prone person.
I fondly remember an episode of “Taxi” where Louie DePalma described the difference between the the two: a schlimiel is the guy who goes to a formal dinner and spills his soup...a schlimazel is the guy he spilled his soup on. czcams.com/video/mcZLRgenQ6Y/video.html
Angela Pritula I’ve heard of that
This was just one of the flat out funniest shows ever-and even more special because it was much more in the performances than the writing.
I always enjoy your trips down memory lane and I don't want to come back to reality.
A joy as ever, thanks for the memory Dave.
You are most welcome, Jonathan!
"Betty...pick up!" The diner....🤣
Betty, pick up your hash blacks.
That was Hilarious!🤣🤣
Cindy & Penny were friends from before Laverne & Shirley as they were writers & they remained friends up till Penny's passing according to Cindy. They would go to each others homes for fun. No feud. that was just concocted by the mainstream media - just like they do today.
Hello mlk27743, Where did they live at back in those days ? , John from North Carolina.
A.D. yeah
mlk27743 yeah
How did they go to each others homes....Penny lived in New York....Cindy Williams lived in Van Nuys , Calif. Please explain...thanks...John from North Carolina.
I don’t know the answer to your question but just watched a video where they sat next to each other and said the same thing. Cindy said she’d get into bed with Penny and watch movies and Penny nodded along. Maybe one of them moved later in life.
Cindy was pregnant and she said they couldn't work it out around her delivery time. She said it in an interview that is why she didn't return to the show.
Yep, her husband was Bill Hudson (one of the Hudson Brothers, I believe) and he was also telling her that she was being mistreated.
@@jdsundstrom I didn't know that it was that many problem they were having in the production. I didn't watch it that much afterward, I couldn't catch the time slot when it was on.
Shelly Blanchard yup
Dave Sundstrom yup
@@tiffprendergast it was better when they were together on the show. it looks like though they could have made a story line for that purpose. it has 35 years ago so we can watch it the reruns. Sorry if I sound a little uptight.
Lenny and Squiggy: "Hellowwwww".
cant remember the word they used for sex
I have been watching this with my 15 yr old son and he just cracks up! I'm so glad I get to share my childhood favorite with him ☺
Thanks Dave! You're an incredible narrator.
LAVERN & SHIRLEY at the Coffee House for the first time... :::waitress places little cups of liquid brewed from finely-ground coffee beans:::
SHIRLEY: Look at these little cups, Lavern! They must be souvenirs we can take home... WAITRESS: It's expresso SHIRLEY: Yes, you were very prompt.
Great tribute. There is a clue to the jealousy and competition between Penny and Cindy right from the beginning. Notice on the opening credits that both Penny and Cindy come crashing through the main door and closet door together. A bit odd, no? Who comes crashing out of a closet door while colliding with someone coming in the front door? They fought over who was going to be introduced first so the network found this clever way to have both credited at the same time. Also if you listen to Penny's interviews of the last 10 years she accredits the problems on the set with Cindy's husband who she thought was controlling her and the show. She felt Cindy's husband was putting her up to this nonsense. Yes they did make up after the show.
Wild1995! Again, you amaze me with your great information!
@@jdsundstrom Being on a #1 show almost from the start can go to someone's head I guess. It was an incredible show. So glad they made up in the end and realized their jealousy was superficial.
I thought the tension was about Penny and her family. Penny's family control everything.
I remember when they appeared on Happy Days and I remember when their show started. I enjoyed them both! I'm glad they reunited.
Thanks for sharing, RuleofFive!
Funny show! I lost interest though, when the show set was set in the 1960's.
same here. The move to California and Laverne becoming a nun kinda did it for me.
@@vxy357 hated it when they left Milwaukee.
I was 14 yrs old and remember writing a fan letter to Penny Marshall and telling her how much I loved Milk & Pepsi(I actually hated it). Anyways a few weeks later I got an autographed picture of her saying something about the M&P combo. Made me feel as if she personally read my letter.
That's pretty cool, Thomas! Even if it just came from the show's publicity department. :)
I just remember how much I loved watching
L & S. I’d heard there were some mumbling between the actresses, but it really didn’t affect the show as far as I was concerned?
Just goes to show you how professional they were!
Thanks Dave!
I miss the 70’s!
Me too, John!
Remember when Boo-boo Kitty had his tail ripped off and Laverne tried to hide it?
Corey Thorne
Lol I had forgotten about Boo-boo kitty til I read this comment.
Didn’t Ed Begley Jr play Shirley’s kid brother.
I think the story of Boo-Boo Kitty was. That when her kid brother was brought home from the hospital. They gave her Boo-Boo Kitty just to show her she was still special.
But Shirley after Laverne mentioned how weird it was that everyone in her family was blonde but Shirley had dark hair. Shirley thought she was adopted. And Shirley’s mother had to come show Shirley her birth certificate to show her she was really part of the family.
@@maryallison0509 Hello @Mary Allison, is there any eposides with Cindy William's mother in it ? Please reply....thanks...John from North Carolina.
@@johnsteelman1410
From What I could find on Google. Yes we have met Mrs Feeney. Patricia Carroll. It didn't give the episode number or episode name. But I bet if you typed Pat Carroll \ Laverne and Shirley into CZcams you could probably find it. Or maybe into Google. Good luck.
@@johnsteelman1410 her real mom was in an episode with Pennys mom/ There is some debate if the re runs show the entire segment with their moms. Some say its edited on the dvds /re runs others say they air the entire segment. Its season 3 Episode 16, titled The Second Almost Annual Shotz Talent Show
I tried Pepsi and milk . . . once. A couple of swallows was enough for me for a lifetime. I poured the rest down the sink. .
Me too! Yuck huh
I think it's all about getting the ratio of Pepsi to milk just right.
I tried it too.... not very good. But a pepsi float with a scoop of vanilla ice cream was and is still good!
Never was curious
As a kid, I tried it, but using Coke and milk. I really liked it and drank it lots of times.
Just for the sake of completeness, I'd like to acknowledge the 1981 animated series based on L&S's time in the army. This was based loosely on an earlier two part episode when the girls did join the army. Penny and Cindy provided their own voices.
In one of the interview shows they were talking about the crazy long hours they would work! Where Happy Days would finish scripted for the week they said their show was constantly having improv moments that kept everyone going for a long time!
Both Penny and Cindy were vocal about their unhappiness in moving the show's locale from Milwaukee to California. They said it was the end of the show itself. You can hear them talk about it in their joint-interview for The Archive for American Television, clips of which can be watched here on CZcams.
Lenny and Squigy also ,they were so professional you could never tell any friction between the two a must watch.
The Gary Marshall “Happy Days Universe” was so much fun. Thank you for posting! …and yes, Milk & Pepsi was DISGUSTING! 😖😤
😂😂😂😂 Best wishes to you and yours Dave! ♥️
Best wishes to you as well, TAO TAO!
I truly look forward to your videos Dave!
I loved this show so much! I had just become a Happy Days fan with the '75 season, and the first season of L&S was a little raunchy to appeal to new adults like me, who was 19 when it premiered in early '76. Garry Marshall, Penny's brother, was the best sitcom producer of the '70s and '80s, because he knew how to execute a formula like no one else. The ratings of L&S and many ABC shows suffered after the '79 scheduling debacle, but with the time jump move to LA it became a more introspective show, still fun but more about 2 women maturing together. The brighter colors hurt my eyes, lol, but Garry Marshall evolved that show to perfection! Super clip, Dave!
Great comments, Gera! Thanks for sharing. :)
@@jdsundstrom Just ran back because I forgot to mention the album! I was listening to a lot of older music in '77 what with the pop music landscape changing. L&S Sings was a retro-styled album that appealed to me. The singing was forgivable in that it was like a take-off on early '60s girl groups. A well-produced effort with an original song or two. Check out "Five Years On", co-written by Michael McKean, who was Lenny in L&S but later in, well you know the movie.
Thanks for another wonderful video, Dave. I love the warm tone of voice you use, because it actually brings back extra memories of those great days for me.👍😎
I'm glad you enjoyed the video, John!
Highest rated show on television in 1978 and 1979.
Yep. Surpassing the show that it was spun off from!
It was so great at the time. All TV channels aired happier and more positive Shows. Then it all turned into Murder and Drama. The 70s were where you could laugh and have enjoyment, entertainment but it shifted in the 80s. You no longer watched to be uplifted, it was over-the-top stress and violence.
Oh yeah! LOVED Saturday nights with The Carol Burnett Show! Some of her skits were an absolute SCREAM! 😆😆😆
Saturday nights weren’t the same when the show went off the air in ‘78. Those were the days!
It was basically a tie for #1 with Three's Company because the ratings were so close.
I missed the live show by just a sliver, I like your vids so much. You always have great content and bring back so many great memories and I want to thank you so much for your fantastic work. You keep the old GREAT! stuff alive!
Thanks so much, brian70Cuda!
@@jdsundstrom You are very welcome my friend.
The days of Innocence the days when life was so similar I love Laverne and Shirley and I love Happy Days now that's all the late 70s and early 80s and all throughout the the beginning of the 90s I really miss those shows take me back to my childhood my team Hood teenagers in nothing thank you Dave for bringing back those good memories
Mike Connor's playing the role of privte investigator Joe mannix was 1' of the better TV show's of the mid 60's a Korean war Vet with a commando background and a mercenary who faught in central america in the early 60's and finely emerging as a west coast PI who worked all over , a great show with a good real man's actor
Being born in 1970 the girls who were my standard of beauty were Marie Osmond,Maureen Mccormick,and Cindy Williams..Still feel that way to this day..I can even remember being a little jealous when Cindy Williams was pregnant.I was only 11 or 12 but I knew it meant she had a boyfriend and our love was doomed
No mention of Lynda Carter?!
Cindy Williams was a mega cutie pie !
What about Ginger and Mary Ann?
Michael Hein Two more Hotties!.But I guess I always like the wholesomeness Marie,Maureen and Cindy portrayed..Then again,you don’t get much more wholesome than Maryann!.
We loved Laverne and Shirley! Grew up watching this duo and those were good times. Thanks for including them.
Such a hilarious show!! Back when TV was awesome. 😊 Thanks, Dave. Please have a nice holiday today.
One of my VERY FAVORITE shows!!!! So glad I have the DVD's!!!
Laverne & Shirley- The Final Season! WHY!! They never should have filmed the final season! Penny Marshall herself said"we've done enough"! I agree with her. They had done enough. It was one of those shows we won't soon forget! But I must say, watching that final season is like watching the final season of Petticoat Junction!!
Another great video from Dave. Thanks!
Hey Dave! Great video. Yeah, Laverne & Shirley.....where do I begin? Let's preface this, by saying I loved Happy Days, even though as seasons wore on with that show, it got progressively more silly. And hats off to the late Garry Marshall, just like Norman Lear, this gentleman knew how to make spin-offs. The thing about L & S, is that it started off well, but they lost me when the setting moved from Milwaukee to Los Angeles and the WHOLE cast (if memory serves me) joined the women on the West Coast! Wowzer.... That's even more goofy than Mork from Ork trying to kidnap Ritchie Cunningham! Okay.... In fairness, it was a sitcom and many sitcoms, can take liberties with logic, and I guess you just have to like it or loath it. I didn't hate L & S, just wasn't my favorite, I guess. RIP, Penny Marshall.... Loved Big. And respect to Cindy Williams, who was awesome going way back to American Graffiti with Ron Howard.
I really loved the first few seasons of L&S, Paul. However, like you, when they moved to California, the show just kinda lost me.
Mainly watched for Lenny and Squiggy. Those guys were hilarious. Named my hamsters after them.
Blayne, excellent names for hamsters.
We named our wild bats that nested in our awning every year after them!!! Lol
thank you very much for the memory MR.Dave
Awwww. This is just great!! I was busy with a baby in 1982, so I didn’t watch this when it was set in the ‘60’s. I liked the show’s younger years, tho, for sure !
I'm glad you enjoyed the video, Nan!
I always loved Shirley. She was the really funny one. There are so many examples: When the two girls went to a dance hall to sell 10 cent dances and the man dancing with Shirley had her 12 inches off the floor. Her feet always looked extra long when she those "spool heel" shoes. She was great!!!!
Made our family happy!!! Thankyou for this making this NICE video!!!!
That whole California thing never felt quite right. It wasn't bad, but it just wasn't right. Like listening to a great song when one speaker doesn't work.
Although, I doubt I'll ever forget Penny Marshall grabbing the chandelier while the bed was sliding across the floor during an earthquake. She had to be pretty tough to get through some of those crazy stunts.
I was a Shirley, but always wanted to be a Laverne. 😉
Agree on both counts, Kathy. California just didn't feel the same. The girls were supposed to be working at Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee. And yes, both Laverne and Penny were tough ladies!
Hey Dave, I gotten to meet the singer who did the theme song for Laverne & Shirley "Making your dreams come true" Cyndi Grecco and she was very sweet to me. I told her me and my classmates sung that song at my Elementary School graduation and she said she was very proud of that her song was used in my graduation.
Good one, Dave! Nice job, too, for giving mad props to Cyndi Grecco. Few may have known she was the voice behind the theme song. I had her album (L&S's too, for that matter!), but inasmuch as the radio station I was jocking for at the time was "FM progressive rock" or AOR, we never player her. But, artists like her and the Rembrandts (performers of the "Friends" theme) often go woefully overlooked.
LOVED Laverne and Shirley as a teen in the ‘70’s! It was hilarious when they got into fights and they did the slap fighting thing! 😆😆
Also on the show when they were mad at each other, they would scream out each other’s personal secrets out the window! 😁😁
When the show moved forward in time to the mid ‘60’s, I felt it “lost something”. Maybe the innocence of the show was gone.....pretty much sums it up for that era as the mid ‘60’s culturally was VERY different from the late ‘50’s/early ‘60’s.
Shirley Willamina Feeney.
I always love your videos Dave. Keep the good work up.
I remember Penny Marshall on the Odd. Couple.
So Penny at the very beginning of Laverne & Shirley, which premiered on January 27, 1976 would’ve been about 32 years of age, because her birthday was October 15, 1943. Cindy Williams at the start of Laverne & Shirley on January 27, 1976 actually was 28 years old because her birthday was August 22, 1947. In the series storyline, both Laverne & Shirley would’ve been in their early 20s
Thanks for sharing!
"A League of Their Own," doesn't get the credit it deserves. It's generally overlooked/forgotten. Such an emotional film.
"Big" of course is a classic.
Thanks for another great video Dave
Good video, I LOVE Lavern & Shirley we are on season 6 now watching the DVDs
such wonderful memories....and laughs I was a teen watching them....
Another great video Dave!
I once saw a cover of "Mad" with Laverne, Shirley, Rocky and the Fonz...anyone remember?
Fyi: If anyone has the Logo channel Laverne and Shirley are on right now. Until 3:30 eastern time.
I loved the Laverne and Shirley show back then. Actually still do. 😍 It was a wonderful time to watch TV. 💙
Awesome trip down memory lane. Love those characters! 💜
I was only 9 when the show started airing. I loved the show! I read that David Landers and Cindy Williams dated for 3 years while the show aired. I liked that Lenny and Sqwiggy had their own bumper music when they were in trouble! They were so funny. Lenny had a touching crush on Laverne. I liked the episode where Lenny asked Laverne to marry him because she thought she was pregnant. She said you lost huh? And he said no, I won. Just wonderful. It sounded like Cindy Williams sung the ending theme song to me. I thought she did! I had their board game as well. I wish I still had it now. To me, they were more like the Cagney and Lacey of comedy. (I know they were first). The theme of opposites attract working together and were friends was great.
I mixed milk and Pepsi. I remember kind of liking it. I definitely remember my mother saying not to dare do it again! 😂
Penny Marshall could take some really good pictures. She was so photogenic.
You are missed Ms Marshall on your birthday today 😞🙏❤️
Thanx for sharing this!!
You're welcome, CNM!
I loved it when Penny would say Bimbo.
Great show! Love it! Remember Bo-Bo kitty? Lol
That theme song though!! Great show back in the day! I even loved the __The Wayne's World__ nod to this iconic show!
This brings back lots of memories. 😍❤
Thanks for video. I do remember the "Good Ole' Days' of growing up and watching Happy Days, and L & S. I even had friends like Swiggey and the other one. Gosh, childhood was too long ago.
You are very welcome, Poe Lemic!
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Thanks ... It was "Lenny". I'd forgotten until this video. Yeah, Lenny and Swiggey.
Love you videos , I lived through all this as a 1965 kid
Thanks for the kind words, Jeff!
I got the Lenny & The Squigtones album for my 10th birthday. Loved it then, love it now! It really has some great tracks on it! A bonus on the back cover is the first appearance of Nigel Tufnel. Plus it included a pull out poster of L&S in KISS-inspired capes and platform boots!
Both are the most charming ladies. With any friendship there are some bumps in the road. Penny and Cindy's friendship is no different than anyone else. Hollywood likes drama so let's create some. If they had problems we would all know. Thanks for sharing your video.
Thanks for the comment, Ronald! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Thank you so much.