wow i just loved the show i remember being glued to the tv to watch happy Days first and then Laverne and Shirley next great memories of the late 70's and early 80"s
Oh my gosh, did this bring back happy childhood memories! I loved this show so much along with Happy Days. I remember either one Christmas or birthday I got the Laverne & Shirley board game. Me and my best friend would act out our favorite scenes, I was always Laverne. I always thought in my little child brain that Laverne & Leonard would get married and live happily ever after. I don't remember how the show ended, it was so many years ago, but I wish one of the networks would start replaying this show and Happy Days. They just don't make good shows like they use to!
@@donnaleeclubb119 made no sense why they did that to begin with other than to maybe improve the ratings. The show was #1 in the ratings for almost three straight seasons until season 5 (1979-1980)when ABC made the asinine decision to move it from Tuesday night to Thursday so ‘Angie’ could take its Tuesday night slot . Ratings for ‘L & S’ plunged. Then ABC moved it to Mondays I believe before moving it back to its Tuesday night slot.
I met Eddie Meka in the late 80’s at a hotel I worked at in Teaneck New Jersey.. I walked right up to him and said “ hey! Your the big Ragu.. he introduced himself and what a really nice guy he was
One of my favourite sitcoms of the 70s, the cast was perfect, and Penny and Cindy were brilliant at physical comedy Fav episode when the girls try to run a diner with little or no experience, never tire of that episode. Betty pick up please! LOL! and attention, attention, lucky lucky, for the next ten minutes everything comes with pancakes! Another fav episode when the girls join the army, Vicky Lawrence from the Carol Burnett show, was brilliant as Sargent Lavina Plout.
@@tiffanyblue3927 OMG!!!! I have been saying that line at least once a month all these years and I never remembered where it came from!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!! "Betty please. Pickup".
As great as the main characters were, the real brilliance of this show were the supporting characters. There was almost no downtime, the hilarity rolled from cast member to the next. What a great show!
Years ago in a supermarket, a stranger told my mother she looked like Laverne from Laverne & Shirley. Mum was NOT impressed 😅 I sure as heck wasn't going to tell her that the stranger was right ...
I personally love them all, they made me laugh, and sometime P. my self. I will never forget the case of Laverne and Shirley. We will miss you all. RIP
I agree, it's like when they tried to do a spin-off called "The Ropers' from 3's company- Helen & Stanley were great as a sub-plot but not strong enough to base a series on them.... I wanted to like it, but the show was pretty terrible.
I can't see Penny Marshall as Gloria. Cindy Williams was funny as hell in Meet Wally Sparks. David Lander was hilarious in Scary Movie was sad to hear he passed too🌷🌹🌷🌹.
I would like to personally thank you Nostalgic Nick for relinving my childhood/teen memories during this quarantine time of Cornovirus. These videos get me through my day and nights!!
When the girls were volunteering in the hospital and Laverne was making the bed with the heavy patient in it and she slid right underneath! I liked the way they had disappointments and failures and bolstered each other up. Now everyone needs to win and be number 1 at everything. Standards are so high.....
My favorite show. My best friend's mom use to call us Laverne and Shirley. I was 'girly Shirley." I have a cat I call "Boo Boo Kitty." One of my favorite episodes was when Jay Leno guest starred as a guy that Laverne was interested in but he thought she wasn't feminine enough so Shirley tried to teach her how to be "girly." Shirley screaming," A cockroach! " Laverne steps on then realizes she is suppose to be scared too and says,"Joey, do something! " He says,"What do you want me to do? Scrap it off your shoe?"😂😂😂😂
I think the announcer should have mentioned that Michael McKean was in a few episodes of Grace and Frankie. And that Squiggy was in one episode of The Nanny
And that David did many voice overs including a character from Roger Rabbit. Not to mention some times he sometimes was an announcer at baseball games.
I love laverne and shirley I used to watch it every Sunday at 3 pm on me tv but they took it off and put gilligan's island on instead made me mad I want them back on me tv I don't have a favorite because they're all great and that's what makes laverne and shirley such a great show
Me, too. I got to meet him in 1979 when he appeared in summer stock in Pippin - his singing and dancing - and acting! - was so much better than him as Carmine. Saw Pippin twice and got lots of Eddie photos and autographs and even a bootleg cassette recording of Pippin. I even had a t-shirt made with a photo of him and me! He came back the next year in Dames At Sea with his new blonde wife. It wasn't as good as Pippin but he was good in it. Ahhhh, such memories! :)
My favorite episode was how her friends and tv dad rallied around her to bring her out of her depression. She lossed her fiance´ in the line of duty, as a fire fighter. She winds up feeling better.
I remember when I was a kid my grandfather (other family members) worked at Paramount Pictures. I remember meeting the Fonz, Ritchie.......remember seeing these dressing rooms at the small outside building that had Laverne and Shirley on each............even at that young age I remember thinking................THATS their dressing room(?) seemed kind of basic.
Oh yeah my favorite episode was called guinea pigs when they wanted money to go to a fancy p arty so they went to a place where shirley wasn't aloud to eat and laverne wasn't allowed to sleep omg I laughed I almost peed
I don't remember the charectors name, however I thought she was the funniest one of the show. She played a Valley Girl type neighbor of Laverne and Shirley when they moved to Southern California.
For the record, Shirley's stuffed cat wasn't "Kitty"...it was "BOO BOO Kitty". When I was in junior high & high school, my best friend, Michelle, was the walking embodiment of Laverne. She looked & sounded just like her, and had a similar personality. Once the show became popular, people started calling US "Laverne & Shirley" (I was tiny, brunette, & "cute").
I love the couple of episodes where they had altercations with their "freenimie" from high school who married some type of doctor and threw it in their face because the girls were always searching for "the one" special guy to marry. Then they started fabricating how great their single life was dates and dinner every night with a different guy and their "frenimie" got kind of jealous. The girls realized that they really did have a pretty good single life.
In the late 1970's my sister and I went to a Halloween party dressed as Laverne and Shirley. She looked very much like Laverne, and I, Shirley. We even had authentic 1950's clothes from our mother. Months later, people who were at the party who did not know us said "Laverne and Shirley!" and we weren't even in costume any more!
I was sad to learn of Penny Marshall's death and so shortly after Gary Marshall. The two of them were responsible for some of my favorite movies and Laverne and Shirley; comdic gold. Who could forget Lenny and Squiggy. His death on Dec 2020 was yet more sad news in a year already filled with bad news.
Should Lenny and Squiggy gotten a spinoff? NO!! If they did we may not have had Michael's talents for Conehead's, Airheads, The Brady Bunch movie, Spinal Tap and all the rest. A spinoff might have killed his career if the series had not done well. So... It was a blessing in disguise. RIP David.... HellOOOH!
I remember the episode it did seem like was a trial balloon for a Lenny & Squiggey spin off. You actually saw their apartment and it was cool. They had a driving arcade game in it and they just acted like big kids.
I still clearly remember what they wrote in their HS yearbooks. "If in heaven we don't meet, hand in hand we'll bear the heat. And if it ever gets too hot, Pepsi Cola hits the spot."
I liked the show when it was in Milwaukee. I think that it went downhill when they moved to California and when she Shirley left. They should've made Shirley and Carmine marry ❤
Cindy did a movie called "The First Nudie Musical", and McKean did one episode of The Nanny with Fran Drescher, as C.C's brother, WHICH may not be a surprise, as they had already worked together in Spinal Tap.
I remember Cindy Williams starred a short lived TV show in the mid 80s called "Cindy" and Michael McKeon playing the dad in the movie "D.A.R.Y.L." I thought it was brilliant that Penny & Cindy had in their contracts that whatever one gets, the other gets too and if one of them leaves the show, the other gets double. That is why their names are the way they are in the opening credits and it was a compromise to fulfill their contracts to give them both top billing.
OOH YEAH MY PARENTS KANE KEKE AND OUR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS REMEMBER AND HAPPY DAYS AND ALICE, SHA SHA NA NA, ALL IN THE FAMILY, BIG, JUMPING JACK FLASH ETC.
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What do you remember about the show? 🤔
I remember the iconic theme and Lenny and Squiggy's spectacular entrances!!
So much. The freind ship
Watched every day with my dad rip pop
I remember how much fun they had every day. They had such a great life.
THE LAUGHS ON TUESDAY NIGHTS! And my friends and I doing the opening walking down the block in Queens!
Yes I remember. I never missed an episode and I watch reruns to this day. The girls were my favs but I liked all the characters.
wow i just loved the show i remember being glued to the tv to watch happy Days first and then Laverne and Shirley next great memories of the late 70's and early 80"s
I still watch it. There are so many hilarious episodes it’s hard to name one but I do enjoy the early seasons more.
Oh my gosh, did this bring back happy childhood memories! I loved this show so much along with Happy Days. I remember either one Christmas or birthday I got the Laverne & Shirley board game. Me and my best friend would act out our favorite scenes, I was always Laverne. I always thought in my little child brain that Laverne & Leonard would get married and live happily ever after. I don't remember how the show ended, it was so many years ago, but I wish one of the networks would start replaying this show and Happy Days. They just don't make good shows like they use to!
They're both at the Pluto channel on Roku. Was watching them today
: )
The Pluto TV app (streams free with ads) has a Happy Days channel, which airs episodes of Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork & Mindy.
The Fabian episode was one of my favorites. I like the earlier seasons more than when they moved to California.
That was a riot. I was young but i laughed so hard it hurt.
Fabian was a teenager in 1959, but he’s portrayed as a grown man in that episode.
Yeah. That show jumped the shark when they moved to California.
@@donnaleeclubb119 made no sense why they did that to begin with other than to maybe improve the ratings. The show was #1 in the ratings for almost three straight seasons until season 5 (1979-1980)when ABC made the asinine decision to move it from Tuesday night to Thursday so ‘Angie’ could take its Tuesday night slot . Ratings for ‘L & S’ plunged. Then ABC moved it to Mondays I believe before moving it back to its Tuesday night slot.
That one was SO funny- Shirley outside on the ledge, and you could see her (but not hear her) screaming- AWESOME!
Sad that so many people have passed. I also liked Carmine on the show. It seems he sadly didn’t get too far, but he’s still alive.
He looks good, healthy, he's working and like you said .. he's still got the gift of Life!
Rip Penny Marshall, Garry Marshall and David L. Lander!!
I met Eddie Meka in the late 80’s at a hotel I worked at in Teaneck New Jersey.. I walked right up to him and said “ hey! Your the big Ragu.. he introduced himself and what a really nice guy he was
I laughed and still do at every episode. It's one of my comfort shows!
One of my favourite sitcoms of the 70s, the cast was perfect, and Penny and Cindy were brilliant at physical comedy Fav episode when the girls try to run a diner with little or no experience, never tire of that episode. Betty pick up please! LOL! and attention, attention, lucky lucky, for the next ten minutes everything comes with pancakes! Another fav episode when the girls join the army, Vicky Lawrence from the Carol Burnett show, was brilliant as Sargent Lavina Plout.
Betty! That was hilarious.
..LOL.. YES!!! "BettyPlease".... "Folks... please don't harass Bettyplease"
@@tiffanyblue3927 OMG!!!! I have been saying that line at least once a month all these years and I never remembered where it came from!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!! "Betty please. Pickup".
The show when Laverne thought she was pregnant and Lennie offered to marry her. Very sweet.
That was too funny...lmao
The way Lavernes dad seemed to be genuinely her dad. I guess I got suckered by the character play/dynamic.
As great as the main characters were, the real brilliance of this show were the supporting characters. There was almost no downtime, the hilarity rolled from cast member to the next. What a great show!
Years ago in a supermarket, a stranger told my mother she looked like Laverne from Laverne & Shirley. Mum was NOT impressed 😅 I sure as heck wasn't going to tell her that the stranger was right ...
Michael McKean has the distinction of being the only celebrity to win two Celebrity Jeopardy tournaments for charity.
He also is married to the great actress Annette O'Toole.
Who who he was so smart?
@@donnaleeclubb119
Wow- I didn't know that- she's cool.
I personally love them all, they made me laugh, and sometime P. my self. I will never forget the case of Laverne and Shirley. We will miss you all. RIP
This my favorite show.
Truthfully, I don't think Lenny and Squiggy could've carried a show on their own. They were better as second bananas.
You are right, they couldn't. The spin-off didn't even last a full season.
I agree!
I agree, it's like when they tried to do a spin-off called "The Ropers' from 3's company- Helen & Stanley were great as a sub-plot but not strong enough to base a series on them.... I wanted to like it, but the show was pretty terrible.
Actually a correction! Shirley's stuffed cat was named "Boo-Boo Kitty"!
Thank you for mentioning that, cuz it would be hard to let that slip by. I call all black cats Boo-Boo Kitty. 😄
Thank you!!
Jon Simunovich-Audron: I know, right?! That cat was so ugly! My personal favorite was the pillow that had 'Hi, Sailor' on it! :)
I liked the one with the reunion when they found out their friend was a nun. I still don't know how that guys boxers fit after all those years. 🤣🤣🤣
I can't see Penny Marshall as Gloria. Cindy Williams was funny as hell in Meet Wally Sparks. David Lander was hilarious in Scary Movie was sad to hear he passed too🌷🌹🌷🌹.
I would like to personally thank you Nostalgic Nick for relinving my childhood/teen memories during this quarantine time of Cornovirus. These videos get me through my day and nights!!
Laverne and Shirley, the Lucy and Ethel of the 1970s. Lenny and Sqiggy would have been a hit spin-off!
Nope, There was a spin-off, dead after 12 episodes.
I was a dancer in A League of their Own that Penny directed. It was an amazing experience!
I'm so glad you posted this. I always remembered that in Big Rosie's apartment was the painting from the Brady Bunch's boys room 2:12 .
Loved the theme song, too. Does any woman in the world NOT have a best friend she can sing this with?
Me
My all time favorite show growing up. Loved it,more than happy days or any other show at the time.
One of my favorite shows!!!!!!
When the girls were volunteering in the hospital and Laverne was making the bed with the heavy patient in it and she slid right underneath! I liked the way they had disappointments and failures and bolstered each other up. Now everyone needs to win and be number 1 at everything. Standards are so high.....
Loved this show! I got Lenny and the sgigtones album for Christmas from my big brother! What fun!
My favorite episode was when Laverne auditioned for West Side story;D
You missed that Eddie was also in league of their own. He was the dance partner for madonna
Love that show
My favorite show. My best friend's mom use to call us Laverne and Shirley. I was 'girly Shirley." I have a cat I call "Boo Boo Kitty." One of my favorite episodes was when Jay Leno guest starred as a guy that Laverne was interested in but he thought she wasn't feminine enough so Shirley tried to teach her how to be "girly." Shirley screaming," A cockroach! " Laverne steps on then realizes she is suppose to be scared too and says,"Joey, do something! " He says,"What do you want me to do? Scrap it off your shoe?"😂😂😂😂
I loved Laverne & Shirley as a child and even more today! I watch it daily on Pluto TV 📺!
I think the announcer should have mentioned that Michael McKean was in a few episodes of Grace and Frankie. And that Squiggy was in one episode of The Nanny
And that David did many voice overs including a character from Roger Rabbit. Not to mention some times he sometimes was an announcer at baseball games.
I love laverne and shirley I used to watch it every Sunday at 3 pm on me tv but they took it off and put gilligan's island on instead made me mad I want them back on me tv I don't have a favorite because they're all great and that's what makes laverne and shirley such a great show
Loved them all I remember Fabian was on one episode it was great Rosie rubbin in Shirleys face the Fabian tickets fun fun🇨🇦😁😁😁
I still watch the show!
Love this show! Especially Lenny and Squiggy! May those that have passed Rest in Peace..💙
This show always made you laugh.♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
They should put 3 show back on TV. The were awesome 🤩 n very funny. I really enjoyed them. N made my mom n me 😆 🤣. A lot.
Love them
Still watch them
McKean and Lander also had roles in a Kurt Russel film titled Used Cars. An underrated movie to be sure.
I had a huge crush on Carmine 🤓💕
Me, too. I got to meet him in 1979 when he appeared in summer stock in Pippin - his singing and dancing - and acting! - was so much better than him as Carmine. Saw Pippin twice and got lots of Eddie photos and autographs and even a bootleg cassette recording of Pippin. I even had a t-shirt made with a photo of him and me! He came back the next year in Dames At Sea with his new blonde wife. It wasn't as good as Pippin but he was good in it. Ahhhh, such memories! :)
"The Big Ragu"...😃🤙
Eddie Mekka -- Looks good, healthy, still working.. he's doing good :)
Lenny and Squiggy made the show without them I don't think Laverne and Shirley Would Have Made It
They were really a stellar cast!
My favorite episode was how her friends and tv dad rallied around her to bring her out of her depression. She lossed her fiance´ in the line of duty, as a fire fighter. She winds up feeling better.
In 1980 we named our kittens Laverne and Shirley ❤️
I love this show
I remember when I was a kid my grandfather (other family members) worked at Paramount Pictures. I remember meeting the Fonz, Ritchie.......remember seeing these dressing rooms at the small outside building that had Laverne and Shirley on each............even at that young age I remember thinking................THATS their dressing room(?)
seemed kind of basic.
Total blast from the past... I grew up with Lavern and Shirley.... Loved it, hated it (because my little sisters “HAD” to watch it!!). Good video....
Squiggy is my favorite character cause every time I see him I say GREAT SCOTT
I will always crush on Lenny 😊💜
Oh yeah my favorite episode was called guinea pigs when they wanted money to go to a fancy p arty so they went to a place where shirley wasn't aloud to eat and laverne wasn't allowed to sleep omg I laughed I almost peed
One of my fav shows....hello.
I remember that show but mostly in reruns but loved a league of their own
I miss watching television during these times.
I just love Squiggy ❤️
I love that show.....weenies bring me weenies!!!! Betty please pick-up....hahahaha :)
Don’t forget the great inspirational theme song!
My favorite character on the show was Laverne and boo boo kitty
I don't remember the charectors name, however I thought she was the funniest one of the show. She played a Valley Girl type neighbor of Laverne and Shirley when they moved to Southern California.
I think my favourite was the military episode guest starring Vicki Lawrence as "The Frawg".
For the record, Shirley's stuffed cat wasn't "Kitty"...it was "BOO BOO Kitty".
When I was in junior high & high school, my best friend, Michelle, was the walking embodiment of Laverne. She looked & sounded just like her, and had a similar personality. Once the show became popular, people started calling US "Laverne & Shirley" (I was tiny, brunette, & "cute").
ThT show was so damned funny! “ hello”.
AMAZING'!!
I love the couple of episodes where they had altercations with their "freenimie" from high school who married some type of doctor and threw it in their face because the girls were always searching for "the one" special guy to marry. Then they started fabricating how great their single life was dates and dinner every night with a different guy and their "frenimie" got kind of jealous. The girls realized that they really did have a pretty good single life.
The 70s were a whole different time
Laverne and Shirley was one of my favs because my friend Cathi and I were their dopplegangers!
In the late 1970's my sister and I went to a Halloween party dressed as Laverne and Shirley. She looked very much like Laverne, and I, Shirley. We even had authentic 1950's clothes from our mother. Months later, people who were at the party who did not know us said "Laverne and Shirley!" and we weren't even in costume any more!
1983?
I never heard of it until 1987 on reruns
I liked the cop played by Wayne Powers.
As a dark hair blue eyed naughty good girl myself I LOVED Shirley but was also kinda a Laverne girl too. I loved that show.
Eddie Mekka should have been a bigger star. He is so talented.
I thought so too. He's got a Channel on here but only 70 subs.
I was sad to learn of Penny Marshall's death and so shortly after Gary Marshall. The two of them were responsible for some of my favorite movies and Laverne and Shirley; comdic gold. Who could forget Lenny and Squiggy. His death on Dec 2020 was yet more sad news in a year already filled with bad news.
It eas so funny and all the actor's and actress play there roles so well.
My favourite episode was the one where Lenny and Squiggy were on the dating game
Should Lenny and Squiggy gotten a spinoff?
NO!!
If they did we may not have had Michael's talents for Conehead's, Airheads, The Brady Bunch movie, Spinal Tap and all the rest. A spinoff might have killed his career if the series had not done well. So...
It was a blessing in disguise.
RIP David.... HellOOOH!
I was such a fan of this show when I was a kid! Even tried a milk and Pepsi... BTW, I can not stress enough.... DO NOT try milk and Pepsi! Yucko!
I remember the episode it did seem like was a trial balloon for a Lenny & Squiggey spin off. You actually saw their apartment and it was cool. They had a driving arcade game in it and they just acted like big kids.
Hello, I like all the eposides of laverne and shirley.....I have a photo of Cindy William's I got from Amaonze......
I always learn a new fact from watching your videos. Lenny was Chuck McGill?! Amazing!!
I still clearly remember what they wrote in their HS yearbooks. "If in heaven we don't meet, hand in hand we'll bear the heat. And if it ever gets too hot, Pepsi Cola hits the spot."
Don’t forget the brief cameo of Lenny and Squiggy in the movie 1941.
They also appeared in the 1980 comedy, Used Cars.
I liked the show when it was in Milwaukee. I think that it went downhill when they moved to California and when she Shirley left. They should've made Shirley and Carmine marry ❤
RIP, David Landers.
My favorites were Lenny and Sqiggy. But the others were great too.
Cant get enough of your videos dude!
Hey Penny Marshall also made some appearances in the Bob Newhart show too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh loved when Laverne and (Big) Rosie Greenbaum would go after each other...lol who was played by Carole Ita White
My favourite episode was when L and S met Mork....
Cindy after the wreck on American Graffiti to me is timeless.
ha, recall a L&S show where she got shall we say, tipsy.
Black body suit. Cute and hot.
RIP The Big Ragoo
A friend of mine turned me on to this channel.ive enjoyed it every since.r.i.p my brother derrion.see you on the other side.
Lenny and Squiggy made the show.
Cindy did a movie called "The First Nudie Musical", and McKean did one episode of The Nanny with Fran Drescher, as C.C's brother, WHICH may not be a surprise, as they had already worked together in Spinal Tap.
I remember Cindy Williams starred a short lived TV show in the mid 80s called "Cindy" and Michael McKeon playing the dad in the movie "D.A.R.Y.L." I thought it was brilliant that Penny & Cindy had in their contracts that whatever one gets, the other gets too and if one of them leaves the show, the other gets double. That is why their names are the way they are in the opening credits and it was a compromise to fulfill their contracts to give them both top billing.
OOH YEAH MY PARENTS KANE KEKE AND OUR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS REMEMBER AND HAPPY DAYS AND ALICE, SHA SHA NA NA, ALL IN THE FAMILY, BIG, JUMPING JACK FLASH ETC.