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Co-created by Garry Marshall, the show starred his sister Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as her roommate Shirley Feeney. The most popular supporting characters were [[Wacky Guy|Wacky Guys]] Lenny and Squiggy, played by Michael McKean and David Lander; other supporting characters included Laverne's dad Frank (Phil Foster) and Shirley's sometime boyfriend Carmine "The Big Ragu" Ragusa (Eddie Mekka). The series ran on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] from 1976 to 1983.
There was also a short-lived (13 episodes) animated adaptation in 1981 loosely based on the two-part episode "You're in the Army Now", except the pair ''actually'' join the army, and find that their immediate superior is an anthropomorphic pig - with a bad attitude - named Sergeant Squealy. Among other weird things like werewolves and robots. ([[Hanna-Barbera]] was going through a "weird stage" at the time...)
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* [[Animated Adaptation]]: ''Laverne and Shirley Join the Army'', although on-screen it simply read ''Laverne & Shirley''.
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* [[Planning with Props]]: In "The Bardwell's Caper", Laverne and Shirley planning to get a nasty letter out of their boss' office.
* [[Politically-Correct History]]: Inverted. The real Milwaukee of the 1950s was in the midst of a mass-migration of African-Americans who came (and often were recruited) specifically to work at the city's breweries. Yet despite the titular characters working at a brewery (and the show's creation [[The Seventies|at a time]] when [[Token Minority|interracial casts]] were en vogue), the show featured no African-American characters.
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* [[Put on a Bus]]: The last season had Shirley marrying an Army medic and going overseas with him.
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* [[Your Favorite]]: For Laverne
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