Episode
Laverne & Shirley: Frank's Fling
Overview
Laverne asks Lenny, Squiggy and Carmine to dress up as gangsters in order to scare away a golddigger who wants to marry her father.
Details
- Series
- Laverne & Shirley
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 1977-03-08
Episode context
Frank's Fling is Episode 20 in Season 2 of Laverne & Shirley. It aired on 1977-03-08.
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Episode 19: Hi, Neighbor Book 2
Laverne & Shirley come to the rescue when Lenny and Squiggy get stood up.
Episode 21: Haunted House
The girls want new furniture and go looking for a used couch, in a haunted house. Lenny and Squiggy go with Laverne and Shirley to the haunted house to help them remove a couch if they buy one. Of course, the cast start to disappear one by one until there's only the girls left, they can't get out. In the end discover that it is the owners of the house who are trying to scare people away so they don't have to move. Shirley discovers that Abe Lincoln once slept in the house and suggests they have the house marked as a piece of history which saves the building.
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Episode 22: Lonely at the Middle
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Episode 17: Buddy, Can You Spare a Father?
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Episode 23: Citizen Crane
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Episode 16: Steppin' Out
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Episode 15: Call Me a Taxi
The girls take jobs as taxi dancers when they get laid off.
Episode 14: Guinea Pigs
The girls become guinea pigs in order to raise money to go to a cocktail party. Laverne is allowed to sleep for a few minutes at a time, and Shirley has to eat dirt.
Episode 13: Playing Hooky
The girls both call in sick to Shotz and decide to have 'fun' instead. They go to the movies where they see a couple of guys and Laverne waves at them throughout the picture. Later in the children's play park, Shirley goes to get fudgecicles. One of the guys from the movie theater comes over and talk to Shirley, then goes back to his friend. Later, while at their apartment, the guys, who have followed them home invite themselves in. They play a game of charades and one of the guys goes out to buy pink champagne. The other guy offers the girls $100 to buy something for themselves. When they take it, he handcuffs them and arrests them for being ""pros"". His friend comes back to find the girls upset and crying. When he finds out his new rookie partner, who's on his first case, offered the girls money, he tells him that's not allowed because it's entrapment and orders him to free Laverne and Shirley. To try to make it up to them, they offer to take them out to dinner and show them a good
Episode 12: Anniversary Show
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Episode 11: Guilty Until Proven Not Innocent
Laverne is arrested for shoplifting, so Shirley tries to get her released.