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Laverne and Shirley Jumped the Shark...


...when the gang moved to sunny California. I had no desire to move along with them. The dingy Milwaukee basement apartment was it's own character, similar to the Adam-12 radio car being a character unto itself, per Jack Webb. It helped define the duo.

... when Lenny and Squiggy stopped being juvenile-minded, somewhat creepy, lecherous young men of Milwaukee. The less creepy but still horned-up doofus duo of Lenny and Squiggy became zany caricatures.

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The dumbest thing was they still called the show Laverne and Shirley even though Cindy Williams left the show for most of the final season. I hated it when Laverne was alone on the show.

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