Episode
Laverne & Shirley: Born Too Late
Overview
Lenny and Squiggy imagine that they are the stars in a whole series of flashback black and white silent movies.
Details
- Series
- Laverne & Shirley
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1981-01-27
Episode context
Born Too Late is Episode 9 in Season 6 of Laverne & Shirley. It aired on 1981-01-27.
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Episode 8: The Road to Burbank
There is a dispute over who should pay the bill when Lenny and Squiggy trash a hotel room on their way to California and try to blame it on Laverne and Shirley. This leads to the telling of two different versions of what happened that night: one where Lenny and Squiggy are chasing the girls all night, and the other where the girls are feeling feisty and chase the boys around the room.
Episode 10: Love Out the Window
After learning that Laverne fears for his safety, Sonny quits his job as a stuntman and takes a job selling insurance.
More episodes from this season
Episode 7: The Other Woman
Shirley finally gets to date a Doctor. The trouble is she looks exactly like his old wife.
Episode 11: Malibu Mansion
The girls are hired to house sit at the Malibu beachfront mansion of the owner of the Cowboy Bill's chain of restaurants. While he is away for the weekend, the girls throw a beach party which gets gate crashed by a gang of bikers. The girls manage to clean the place up just in time, but the owner's talking pet parrot threatens to spill the beans.
Episode 6: The Dating Game
Lenny and Squiggy appear in on the television show, The Dating Game.
Episode 12: To Tell the Truth
Stuck at home on a rainy night with nothing to do, the gang decides to play a game of truth or dare. Within minutes, everybody ends up arguing with each other.
Episode 5: Candy is Dandy
The girls finally get a job in California in the gift wrapping department at Bardwell's Department Store. On their first day on the job, Laverne gets tipsy after eating candy laced with alcohol.
Episode 13: I Do, I Do
The girls almost marry tow rock stars from Britain after eating some brownies laced with marijuana.
Episode 4: Grand Opening
In order to pay Shirley back some of the money she owes her, Laverne agrees to be the target in Sonny's knife throwing act at Cowboy Bill's grand opening. When Sonny breaks his arm and is unable to do the act, Shirley takes over throwing the knives at Laverne, which makes Laverne extremely nervous since she knows that Shirley is already upset with her.
Episode 14: But Seriously, Folks . . .
Carmine's new stand up comedy act is not such a big hit with his friends when he starts to make fun of them in turn.
Episode 3: Studio City
The girls are hired to play stunt women in a Troy Donohue movie.
Episode 15: The Bardwell Caper (1)
Disappointed after not receiving the customary tri-monthly $5.00 raise, Laverne and Shirley write a nasty letter to their boss. At the end of the day, it is revealed that they DID get a raise, after all, but also that the nasty letter is sitting, unopened, on the boss's desk - waiting to be read the next morning. Desperate to save their jobs, Laverne and Shirley go home and try to hatch a plan to get that letter back, before morning.