Our Way: A Laverne and Shirley and (+) All Characters of Laverne and Shirley Fanlisting

W E L C O M E

Welcome to "Our Way", a fanlisting for the 1976-1983 ABC Sitcom Laverne and Shirley!

This listing is currently owned and was established by me, Missy, and is a part of TFL.org.

S T A T S

Last Updated: June 17th, 2009
Last Added: Ed (Show)
Member Count: 27 (show fans) 3 (Characters of fans)
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A B O U T

A spin-off of "Happy Days", "Laverne and Shirley" debuted as a mid-season replacement in January of 1976. It foccused on the antics of blue-collar bottlecappers Shirley Feeney and Laverne DeFazio. Friends of The Fonz - whom they went to high school with - and Richie Cunningham, they lived on the "wrong side of the tracks" in East Milwaukee, WI, in the basement of a brownstone. Constantly in search of decent dates, relaxation, money and hope, the girls wiled away their time on the Shotz Brewery line - from which they were often laid off- accompanied through life by their greaser enemies/friends, Lenny and Squiggy, whom they've known since high school and haven't been able to shake yet; Carmine Ragusa, Shirley's on again-off again dancer boyfriend; Frank, Laverne's father, who owns the Pizza Bowl, a combination restauraunt/bowling alley; Edna Babbish, their urbane landlord; and Rosie Greenbaum, a high-school friend who married up into proctology and is Laverne's sworn enemy.

In the 1979-1980 season, the girls were permanently fired from Shotz when their jobs were usurped by automation. They moved cross-country to California to try their luck in the movies - Frank and Edna, now married, had already moved there to open a franchise of the western-themed rib and burger chain "Cowboy Bills". The girls end up getting jobs at the Bardwells Department store as giftwrappers; Lenny and Squiggy drive them cross-country to Burbank in an ice cream truck, get lucky their first night there and decided to stay, taking the appartment adjacent to the girls' and opening a talent agency/ice cream vending business. Carmine can't stand to be parted from Shirley, and thus gives up his Marjorie Wards franchise and becomes a singing telegram.

In the California setting, we're introduced to two new characters; Sonny St. Jacques, a stuntman and briefly Laverne's boyfriend, and Rhonda Lee, an actress with a wild personal history who lives nextdoor.

In the 1981-1982 season, Shirley Feeney married Dr. Walter Meeney and became pregnant - then, due to real-life backstage friction, the character moved overseas with her husband.

The show's final two seasons also saw the dissapearence of Lenny, Laverne becoming a space-suit tester, and Frank and Edna's divorce. The final episode followed Carmine's move to New York and the chorus of Broadway's "Hair".

In a reunion show, which aired in 2003, we learned that Shirley and Walter produced three children, and Laverne married four times and produced five children. Both are single again and living together in Milwaukee. Lenny and Squiggy, meanwhile, work for a reality show...in hole number two, licking people.

The cable rights to Laverne and Shirley are owned by the Retro Television Network, or RTN.

Fun Fact: This show is one of the few in television history to have surpassed its' spin-off (temporarily) in popularity while both shows were still running, becoming a number one show to Happy Days' number two the year after its debut. Until Charmed surpassed it, it was the longest-running show with female leads in the history of television.

R U L E S

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