Episode
Laverne & Shirley: The Quiz Show
Overview
The gang attend ""Be Silly For Dollars"". Carmine got the tickets & wanted to be a contestant. Shecky the host comes to the audience to select contestants. He first picks Lenny & Squiggy who aren't too interested. Then as he's about to select Carmine, Laverne & Shirley start jumping up & down & he selects them instead. On the game show, Lenny & Squiggy appear first. They answer a hard stumper correctly & model Irma comes out displaying a salami they won. Shecky tempts them with living room furniture, but they decide to take the salami! Laverne & Shirley appear next. They miss the question & have to do a silly stunt. They had two minutes to dress each other blindfoldedly which they succussfully do. Irma tells them they won a trip to Appliance Street! Shecky tells them they could either take the oven or appliance potpourri. After squabbling & arguing, the lucky buzzer sounds! Shecky invites them back next week. At home, Laverne's father wants them to wear some silly clothing pr
Details
- Series
- Laverne & Shirley
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1978-10-10
Episode context
The Quiz Show is Episode 5 in Season 4 of Laverne & Shirley. It aired on 1978-10-10.
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Episode 4: The Robbery
Out for kicks, Laverne teams up with a tough guy who commits a crime. Laverne's date with Jake of the Purple Fiends goes sour when he robs a grocery store.
Episode 6: Laverne and Shirley Go to Night School
Shirley wants to become a medical assistant, and wants reluctant Laverne to go to night school with her.
More episodes from this season
Episode 3: Playing the Roxy
Laverne comes out the bedroom wearing only her slip and reading a magazine about a stripper named Roxy's adentures. It turns out that Shirley has read the article and when Laverne is about to go outside to collect the mail, Shirley gives Laverne a telling off for wearing only her slip outside. So she goes to collect the mail. Lenny and Squiggy appear wearing their new lodge hats, The Order Of The Bass, and then tell Laverne that Shirley is taking a nap outstide at the bottom of the stairs. Shirley has fallen and hit her head and now thinks she is Roxy from the magazine. She then shows a complete change in her persoanlity as she practices bumps and grinds. Carmine thinks he'll have more luck with Roxy and chats her up just as Laverne tells him to leave. Later when Shirley/Roxy is all alone, Lenny and Squiggy arrive and try to get Roxy to strip. She says she will if it's at a mens club and she gets paid, so they arrange for her to strip at their lodge's big party. Laverne comes home late
Episode 7: Date with Eraserhead
Shirley has a blind date with Eraserhead and it isn't quite what she had in mind.
Episode 2: Festival (2)
Frank tries to win the climbing the greased pole contest so he can win a trip to Italy for his mother.
Episode 8: The Bully Show
Lenny and Squiggy are forced to make a date between Laverne and their foreman. After fighting feelings of guilt since they know that the guy is a real jerk, they come to Laverne's rescue just in time.
Episode 1: Festival (1)
The girls go to New York to visit all of Laverne's relatives and to attend the Italian festival. Laverne's Grandmother, Frank's mother takes a liking to Squiggy and treats him like a son.
Episode 9: A Visit to the Cemetery
Laverne comes to accept the death of her mother and visits her grave for the first time.
Episode 10: Chorus Line
Laverne dreams of going to Broadway when she auditions for West Side Story in Chicago.
Episode 11: Laverne and Shirley Move In
Shirley recalls how she and Laverne first moved in together.
Episode 12: Dinner for Four
The girls meet two guys in Frank's Pizzabowl. When they get chatting, the girls think that the guys are inviting them for dinner at their posh flat, but in reality all the guys want is to hire them to be maids for the evening to them and their posh girlfriends.
Episode 13: It's a Dog's Life
Shirley handcuffs herself to a homeless dog at the pound to protest the scheduled death of the dog. Carmine comes to the rescue in the end by finding homes for all the abandoned dogs as he gives a free dance lesson to anyone who'll adopt a dog.