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''[[Laverne and Shirley]]'' is a [[
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 [[ABC]] from 1976 to 1983.
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* [[Christmas Episode]]
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: The girls' Milwaukee Landlady Edna, later Laverne's stepmother, just kind of vanished sometime after their move out to California.
* [[Commuting
* [[Crossover]]: With its parent program ''[[Happy Days]]''.
* [[Death Row]]: Laverne somehow winds up there in a season 8 episode. {{spoiler|She's eventually exonerated.}}
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* [[Incoming Ham]]: Squiggy must think that "Hallooooooooo!" is some sort of mating call.
* [[Irrevocable Message]]: A two-part episode ("The Bardwell's Caper") involved the duo trying to retrieve a nasty letter they had written to their boss.
* [[Jerk
* [[Knife-Throwing Act]]
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Rhonda (Leslie Easterbrook), a sexy blonde added as a ratings-boosting gimmick when the show moved to L.A.
** To some extent Laverne herself became this in the final season.
* [[New Year Has Come]]: A season 3 episode has the girls welcoming in 1960.
* [[Not Even Bothering
** Justified with Laverne and her father: they grew up in New York.
* [[Planning
* [[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.
** The final episode (in syndication order) is a PDP that has Carmine going off to NY to become a Broadway Star.
* [[Present Day Past]]
* [[Put
* [[Real Life Relative]]: Penny Marshall is the sister of series creator Garry Marshall.
* [[Required Spinoff Crossover]]: With ''[[Happy Days]]''.
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* [[Reunion Show]]: Two of them, in 1995 and 2002. The second one included an in-character skit.
* [[Ruptured Appendix]]: "Shirley's Operation."
* [[Screwed
* [[Shout-Out]]: The opening credits were spoofed by Wayne and Garth in ''[[
* [[Slapstick Knows No Gender]]: To levels that only [[Lucille Ball]] matched.
* [[Syndication Title]]: ''Laverne and Shirley and Friends'', ''Laverne and Shirley and Company''.
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* [[Third Person Person]]: Rhonda
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Lenny and Squiggy.
* [[Thriller
* [[Throw It In]]: The cursive "L" in the upper corner of Laverne's shirts/sweaters and her fondness for milk and Pepsi were both added to the character by Penny Marshall (milk and Pepsi being a [[Your Favorite]] of Marshall's in [[Real Life]]).
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Laverne is a tough-talking girl who prefers her men the same way, while on the other hand, Shirley is about a girly as a girl can get.
* [[Wacky Guy]]: Two of them, Lenny and Squiggy.
* [[Wonderful Life]]: "Laverne's Broken Leg"
* [[Yiddish
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