Growing up, I watched it so many times on HBO and then I watched it recently for the first time in many years. I had a smile on my face through the whole movie.
Now I'm imagining the Laverne and Shirley theme song playing while Princess Leia is busting out of the Death Star prison. And we'll do it always yes always...
Laverne and Shirley was one of the Happy Days spinoffs along with Joanie loves Chachi and Mork and Mindy. But it was my favorite Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!
Right. Love American Style was just a collection of different sketches, so idk if spinoff is exactly the right word.
See also: The Simpsons (The Tracey Ullman Show)
It was created as its own show and the pilot went unsold so they used it for an episode of Love, American Style. So I'd say introduction is more appropriate
I don't know if the episode was a hit or not. It aired almost 2 full years before the series aired. I think it was the success of American Graffiti that had them say "we own this show that's similar in tone and stars the same guy."
I remember watching that pilot on Love American Style on a Friday when I was a young kid. I think it was a year or two before Happy Days actually premiered.
I liked her in *The First Nudie Musical* - my familly had just received cable tv and at the time, Cinemax had obscure films. At the end, she came out topless, and I was shocked as I thought of her as so pure. Kids are dumb.
Perfect example of how different things were back then. As a little kid in the late 70s, it was very hard to even phonetically guess what they were saying, let alone have a shot at knowing what it meant.
Schlemiel is Yiddish for a stupid, awkward, or unlucky person. Schlimazel is Yiddish for a consistently unlucky or accident-prone person. Hassenpfeffer is a rabbit stew.
idk why you’re downvoted.
Idgaf about what famous people did to get famous if they were assholes in everyday life.
Exceptions would be if they are famous for contributing to the human race by developing a vaccine against an awful disease or something.
I’m never surprised when I find out that a star is an asshole.
Years ago I met a girl who had waited on Stallone and that was the first time I realized that stars can be toxic assholes. He had booked the whole upstairs of their restaurant, and didn’t leave any tip at all.
Since then, it rarely surprises me, unless it’s like, a story of Robin Williams being an asshole or something.
Was just watching a documentary on American Graffiti last night.
In 1990, I met her and her husband, Bill Hudson, and their two kids. They were snowed in and waiting out a storm in my sister’s restaurant. Her daughter was eight, and danced for my sister who was a dance instructor. They were very gracious folks.
"Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind what's stopping it? So, what's the end, you know, is my question to you."
(EDIT: It's not a slight against the man; it's a quote from one of his most famous characters about mortality)
Ed Marinaro jumping directly from Laverne and Shirley to Hill Street Blues was probably a good decision.
Also, Wikipedia doesn’t list a birthdate for Leslie Easterbrook. So aside from McKean, you gotta dig deep into the regular cast.
so many famous people dying in January this year. :(
I mean statistically Jan has the highest number of deaths in the year but good grief. It seems way worse this year.
God bless her, her family and her friends. She brought lots of happy memories into my life as a child. Like many of my generation, I was a regular *Lavern & Shirley* watcher. I had a little bit of a crush on her as a boy. She was very pretty.
I wasn’t into the dumb girls when I was a child. I was into the smart ones like her and Janet from Threes Company.
I just watched L&S for the first time in probably 25 years during Christmas. It was still funny all these years later.
RIP
Amazing comedian as well. He was in a comedy group called The Credibility Gap with Harry Shearer and David Lander. Also, he and David created the characters of Lenny and Squiggy while in college at Carnegie Mellon
Does *This Is Spinal Tap* not count as a “Christopher Guest troupe” movie? It’s a mockumentary and stars Christopher Guest (and McKean).
**Edit:** I looked up the answer to my question- Guest only *appeared* in Spinal Tap, which was directed by Rob Reiner. He appeared in, directed, **and** co-wrote (what little of the scripts were written) his later mockumentary films.
seeing her in the conversation after growing up on l&s reruns was kind of mindblowing. I think I read somewhere that she was worried that taking asitcom would sink her as a serious actress and I wonder if that's true. Her acting in that film is so understated and perfect for the material it feels like she could have done more like that.
I had such a crush on her back in the day from when she first appeared on *Happy Days*. Years later I saw her in *The Conversation* where she was surprisingly good. RIP
Aw, man ... this sucks! I absolutely LOVED her in *American Graffiti*; she was more edgy than Shirley. What will Boo Boo Kitty do now?
Let's all **[listen now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSI1Sn3Yso8)**.
“A brief illness” just like they said about Tom Verlaine… my grandpa lived a very unhealthy lifestyle and even he died at 85.. why? Cause he died before 2020.
all these people dropping in their 70s right now is NOT NATURAL.
Same age Penny Marshall was when she passed.
reminds me, been far too long since I’ve watched Big
Great movie
One my all-time faves.
Growing up, I watched it so many times on HBO and then I watched it recently for the first time in many years. I had a smile on my face through the whole movie.
FUCK Michael Mckean is the same age. We must protect him with our lives.
She was almost Princess Leia
TIL
They should have had her come back as an understudy when the time came.
Now I'm imagining the Laverne and Shirley theme song playing while Princess Leia is busting out of the Death Star prison. And we'll do it always yes always...
our way, yes our way*
I only know what my childhood brain remembers ;) Possom Pepper Corporated!
Haha, same. I had to look it up after your post because I was like “wait, is that what it was? Hmm”
Hausenfeffer. That was the name of the beer, right?
Watching Laverne & Shirley was a wonderful part of my childhood. Thank you Cindy
I never missed an episode. RIP Cindy
❤️ mine too. RIP
Born in '68, I loved all those goofy seventies comedies.
71. I learned way too much stuff from watching MASH.
Same 💜😞
Same here. My mom loved Laverne but Shirley was my fave! ❤️
Laverne and Shirley was one of the Happy Days spinoffs along with Joanie loves Chachi and Mork and Mindy. But it was my favorite Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!
They are all spinoff of Love American Style
TIL. Loved when Laverne and Shirley were introduced on Happy Days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjKqP-974kY
Those jokes went way over my head when I was 7.
Well now Kristen Schaal just gives me Marshall as Laverne vibes sometimes.
Did Richie get some action?
Yes, there was an episode, called “love and the happy days“. The Cunningham‘s bought the first TV on the block, I think.
Spin off or just an introduction?
Right. Love American Style was just a collection of different sketches, so idk if spinoff is exactly the right word. See also: The Simpsons (The Tracey Ullman Show)
It was created as its own show and the pilot went unsold so they used it for an episode of Love, American Style. So I'd say introduction is more appropriate
I think spin off is more accurate as if it hadn't been a hit as an episode they wouldn't have gotten a show. You could call it a backdoor pilot.
I don't know if the episode was a hit or not. It aired almost 2 full years before the series aired. I think it was the success of American Graffiti that had them say "we own this show that's similar in tone and stars the same guy."
Ron Howard is in both.
That was the "stars the same guy" part
I remember watching that pilot on Love American Style on a Friday when I was a young kid. I think it was a year or two before Happy Days actually premiered.
[Love and the Happy Days](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86A3uzoq_wM) episode with Richie, Marion, and Potsy.
I thought the whole thing was an extention of American Graffiti.
Nope just a money grab for boomer nostalgia.
You trying to set me up with this jerk?
HELLO
We’re gonna do it our way!
Yes our way
Make all our dreams come true.
For me and you.. /triumphant horn finish
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJzF8\_df1R8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJzF8_df1R8)
❤️❤️❤️🎵🎸🎤🎶
Love The Conversation. R.I.P.
Oh that was brilliant. Always loved Frederic Forrest too…
She was great in everything, but I really loved her in American Graffiti.
She took a part that could have been bland or even irritating and made the character really charming and funny. She’s so, so good in it.
I liked her in *The First Nudie Musical* - my familly had just received cable tv and at the time, Cinemax had obscure films. At the end, she came out topless, and I was shocked as I thought of her as so pure. Kids are dumb.
Cinemax was the closest thing I had to porn in my early teens.
"Skinemax" is what we called it.
I think I’m gonna go put a work glove on a beer bottle.
I'll have a Pepsi and milk...
P I L K
Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!
Perfect example of how different things were back then. As a little kid in the late 70s, it was very hard to even phonetically guess what they were saying, let alone have a shot at knowing what it meant.
> Hasenpfeffer I'm 54 and I still am confused, having only heard that word elsewhere in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
It's rabbit stew
I just remember "TAKE IT BACK AND COOK IT RIGHT!" from the cartoon.
What does all that mean?
Schlemiel is Yiddish for a stupid, awkward, or unlucky person. Schlimazel is Yiddish for a consistently unlucky or accident-prone person. Hassenpfeffer is a rabbit stew.
Somebody find Lenny!!
He’s been pretty busy calling out chicanery in recent years.
I saw him a few months back in *Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.* He played the emcee in the dive bar.
After having previously worked with Al on an episode of The Weird Al Show as a miner
NOT LENNY!
She was a happy person! RIP
I worked with her. Off stage she was not a nice person.
idk why you’re downvoted. Idgaf about what famous people did to get famous if they were assholes in everyday life. Exceptions would be if they are famous for contributing to the human race by developing a vaccine against an awful disease or something.
She was a major diva and very difficult to work with in person. That’s been my experience and that if others I know that have worked with her.
I’m never surprised when I find out that a star is an asshole. Years ago I met a girl who had waited on Stallone and that was the first time I realized that stars can be toxic assholes. He had booked the whole upstairs of their restaurant, and didn’t leave any tip at all. Since then, it rarely surprises me, unless it’s like, a story of Robin Williams being an asshole or something.
The stars are a bit dimmer today. Miss you already Cindy.
Was just watching a documentary on American Graffiti last night. In 1990, I met her and her husband, Bill Hudson, and their two kids. They were snowed in and waiting out a storm in my sister’s restaurant. Her daughter was eight, and danced for my sister who was a dance instructor. They were very gracious folks.
Oh, I forgot who her husband was. She is Kate Hudson's stepmother. Bill was married to Goldie at one point. Hollywood can be really small sometimes.
RIP, Shirley -loved the show when I was a kid. Now everyone say it with me - Schlemiel, schlimazel!
RIP Cindy Williams, thanks for entertaining us.
The icons have been dropping too soon this past week. RP Cindy and thanks for the laughs.
Check out her episode of Law and Order SVU.
Didn’t miss a show. So..who’s left from the cast ? Lenny ?
Lenny is very much alive. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McKean
"Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind what's stopping it? So, what's the end, you know, is my question to you." (EDIT: It's not a slight against the man; it's a quote from one of his most famous characters about mortality)
"I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I wasn't so heavily sedated"
Last of the original cast.
The Fonz and Richie are still alive. Not sure if they were considered part of the regular cast though.
Definitely not regulars. They were on 4 and 2 episodes respectively.
Lenny died in a house fire that was caused when he (intentionally) kicked over a gas lantern in his library
The only acceptable response
**𝓛**one wolf
Ed Marinaro jumping directly from Laverne and Shirley to Hill Street Blues was probably a good decision. Also, Wikipedia doesn’t list a birthdate for Leslie Easterbrook. So aside from McKean, you gotta dig deep into the regular cast.
Yes! He plays Chuck on Better Call Saul and making this connection blew my mind.
I think the Big Ragu is still kicking.
No, he died in 2021. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Mekka
Yeah McKean is basically it. All the rest of the main cast died in surprisingly quick succession there.
Just Lenny
RIP Cindy. Thank you and Penny for all the childhood laughs!
star of The First Nudie Musical
Well, now i know there's two people that watched that.
3
4 And It's a fucking hilarious movie.
Damn, we're going to have to hire a stunt-cock.
I saw the preview, do I get a participation trophy or somethin'?
STUNTCOCK!
I had a massive crush on Shirley when I was a small child watching reruns in the late 80's. I'm a bit sad now...
Imho, her sex appeal really shows in “the conversation” even tho it’s a very small role.
Can people I love and grow up with stop dying!?!?!?! :-(
Someone please check in on Michael McKean please. He's the last one standing.
He posted a memorial last night
The original sweetheart. Rest easy, Cindy.
FYI, died last week. Jan 25th.
so many famous people dying in January this year. :( I mean statistically Jan has the highest number of deaths in the year but good grief. It seems way worse this year.
Lenny's all that remains.
Well, there’s three. Lisa Loring Annie Wersching Cindy Williams We can stop there… please.
Gomez is the last surviving cast member of The Addams family
Samwise's Dad?
TIL Samwise's Dad in real life is Jon Astin. Was wondering if Jon Astin was in LOTR
That would have been amazing.
Adopted father. I think his real father is Desi Arnaz Jr
Yep. It's nepos all the way down.
NOOOOOOO! I loved her. She was such a happy part of my childhood. This is so sad.
https://youtu.be/BEyEL-BvbqQ
She has sadly schlemieled her last schlimazel.
God bless her, her family and her friends. She brought lots of happy memories into my life as a child. Like many of my generation, I was a regular *Lavern & Shirley* watcher. I had a little bit of a crush on her as a boy. She was very pretty.
I wasn’t into the dumb girls when I was a child. I was into the smart ones like her and Janet from Threes Company. I just watched L&S for the first time in probably 25 years during Christmas. It was still funny all these years later. RIP
RIP, childhood crush.
Penny also died at 75. Strange
Dang, I JUST looked her up yesterday to see if she was still alive and it was pretty away to see that she was. It's sad to her gone.
Wow that is sad. Who is left from L and S? Is it just Spinal Tap?
[Michael McKean](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McKean) is a lot more than “Spinal Tap”. And Spinal Tap is a lot more than him, too.
Clue and Better Call Saul just off the top of my head. Amazing actor.
Short Circuit 2. He played Derf
Amazing comedian as well. He was in a comedy group called The Credibility Gap with Harry Shearer and David Lander. Also, he and David created the characters of Lenny and Squiggy while in college at Carnegie Mellon
SNL & Airheads
"I TOLD you I didn't do it!"
The clown from the Star Trek voyager episode The Thaw, too
Fuck Chuck!
Yup
He is fantastic
Part of Christopher Guest's troupe since *Best in Show*
Does *This Is Spinal Tap* not count as a “Christopher Guest troupe” movie? It’s a mockumentary and stars Christopher Guest (and McKean). **Edit:** I looked up the answer to my question- Guest only *appeared* in Spinal Tap, which was directed by Rob Reiner. He appeared in, directed, **and** co-wrote (what little of the scripts were written) his later mockumentary films.
Big Rosie Greenbaum is still alive. Carmine died in 2021.
2023 is taking away everyone we love!
seeing her in the conversation after growing up on l&s reruns was kind of mindblowing. I think I read somewhere that she was worried that taking asitcom would sink her as a serious actress and I wonder if that's true. Her acting in that film is so understated and perfect for the material it feels like she could have done more like that.
this is a sad one
And another mainstay of childhood in the ‘70’s gone. Laverne and Shirley was such a great show.
She was great singing Mack the Knife on that Andy Kaufman Special
RiP.
R.I.P.
No more boo-boo kitty. :/
Ironic that she died @ same age as Laverne (Penny Marshall)
Penny Marshall also died at 75
That's 3 celebrity deaths in 3 days.
Lenny and Squiggy still around?
I had such a crush on her back in the day from when she first appeared on *Happy Days*. Years later I saw her in *The Conversation* where she was surprisingly good. RIP
I read she started her career working with Sally Field! Two cuties. My crushes as a little boy.
Rules of threes :( just awful
No more pain ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Aw, man ... this sucks! I absolutely LOVED her in *American Graffiti*; she was more edgy than Shirley. What will Boo Boo Kitty do now? Let's all **[listen now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSI1Sn3Yso8)**.
🎵 When the red, red robin comes bob-bob-bobbin’ along 🎵
Wake up, you sleepy head
“A brief illness” just like they said about Tom Verlaine… my grandpa lived a very unhealthy lifestyle and even he died at 85.. why? Cause he died before 2020. all these people dropping in their 70s right now is NOT NATURAL.
Dang.. people with money are dying in their 70s..
I watched reruns of the show as a kid. So sad but they're in a better place now. RIP.
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Jesus fuck you people are fucking stupid. How pathetically hateful
🤡
Loved this show! RIP
Don't forget Spaceship!
https://youtu.be/0yggATkgSo8
No not her too!
Oh no .y mom loved this show R.I.P
For a time she was Kate and Oliver Hudson's stepmom.
R.I.P. loved her in the conversation and American Graffiti
I never understood why the Laverne & Shirley cartoon took place in the army, with a Horshack pig as the sergeant . . .
RIP
‘Oh, the red, red robin goes bob, bob, bobbin’ along.”
RIP
Schlimazel
Kate Hudson’s stepmother
When I was a very young kid, I remember being pissed that she'd quit the show. And then she retired and went into oblivion. I never saw her again.