Episode
Laverne & Shirley: You're in the Army, Now (1)
Overview
Laverne & Shirley enlist in the W.A.C.s to get even for a missed promotion.
Details
- Series
- Laverne & Shirley
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1979-11-15
Episode context
You're in the Army, Now (1) is Episode 9 in Season 5 of Laverne & Shirley. It aired on 1979-11-15.
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Episode 8: Bad Girls
The girls realize things have changed in their old club "The Angora Debs," when they let Edna's niece Vicki join. Finding that it's become a gang of trouble making teenage girls. Can the girls save Vicki and the old Deb spirit as well?
Episode 10: You're in the Army, Now (2)
Laverne & Shirley regret joining the Army.
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Episode 15: You Oughta Be in Pictures
The girls jump at the chance to be the stars in a movie, unaware that the film they will be starring in is an Army hygiene film. Shirley begs Laverne to come and tryout for an acting part in a movie. Laverne agrees and they get to the studio. They subsequently get cast as the two stars of the feature. They have to go and get fitted for wardrobe and when they come out they're wearing cheap, gaudy costumes that Laverne immediately asks if they can keep. They're introduced to their leading men, upon which Shirley finds out that her leading man is gay. The director starts filming the movie and only then the girls find out they're playing hookers in an army hygiene film. When it's all over, we find Laverne and Shirley miserable at home. Then Lenny and Squiggy enter telling them they've just been to see the premiere of the film. Laverne and Shirley asks if anyone recognized them as the hookers. Lenny tells them not to worry, as no one recognized them, but he had to tell everybody it was the