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The Best Episodes of Laverne & Shirley Season 5

Every episode of Laverne & Shirley Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Laverne & Shirley Season 5!

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Best friends, roommates, and polar opposites, Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney work together at the Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee and keep each other's spirits up at home.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 1 - Shotgun Wedding (II)
    8.0/10(110 votes)

    #1 - Shotgun Wedding (II)

    S5:E1

    The girls get engaged to Richie and Fonzie to avoid a shotgun wedding. The crossover starts on Happy Days S07E01 Shotgun Wedding (I).

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Judy Pioli

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  2. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 2 - One Heckuva Note
    7.8/10(99 votes)

    #2 - One Heckuva Note

    S5:E2

    Shirley finds an old love note written to Laverne from Carmine. This practically ends the girls friendship.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 3 - Fat City Holiday
    8.5/10(103 votes)

    #3 - Fat City Holiday

    S5:E3

    The girls get jobs at a weight loss camp.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 4 - Upstairs, Downstairs
    8.2/10(93 votes)

    #4 - Upstairs, Downstairs

    S5:E4

    A fight over returning a wrongly issued check sets the girls to dreaming about Shirley in heaven and Laverne in hell.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 5 - What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?
    8.0/10(97 votes)

    #5 - What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?

    S5:E5

    Shirley's brother returns home from the Navy, an alcoholic.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 6 - You've Pushed Me Too Far
    8.7/10(92 votes)

    #6 - You've Pushed Me Too Far

    S5:E6

    Lenny refuses to have anything to do with Squiggy after he pushes him into a garbage can from their second floor apartment window. Laverne and Shirley get the two friends to make up in Squiggy's uncle's wax works museum.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 7 - The Wedding
    8.7/10(93 votes)

    #7 - The Wedding

    S5:E7

    Edna accepts a marriage proposal from Frank, who waited to the last minute to ask her. Laverne and Shirley end up singing at their wedding in an all-black gospel choir.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 8 - Bad Girls
    8.5/10(98 votes)

    #8 - Bad Girls

    S5:E8

    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?

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 9 - You're in the Army, Now (1)
    8.1/10(95 votes)

    #9 - You're in the Army, Now (1)

    S5:E9

    Laverne & Shirley enlist in the W.A.C.s to get even for a missed promotion.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 10 - You're in the Army, Now (2)
    8.1/10(91 votes)

    #10 - You're in the Army, Now (2)

    S5:E10

    Laverne & Shirley regret joining the Army.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 11 - Take Two, They're Small
    8.7/10(95 votes)

    #11 - Take Two, They're Small

    S5:E11

    Lenny and Squiggy fix Laverne and Shirley up with computer dates, who turn out to be midgets.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 12 - The Fourth Annual Shotz Talent Show
    8.3/10(99 votes)

    #12 - The Fourth Annual Shotz Talent Show

    S5:E12

    Laverne and Shirley are in charge of selecting the acts for the 4th annual Shotz talent show. It starts off with Frank auditioning in Laverne and Shirley's apartment showing them his ventriloquist act. He produces a Laverne doll which cracks Shirley up but Laverne is none too impressed until Frank produces a Shirley doll which Laverne starts laughing at, but now Shirley doesn't find it so funny. They convince Frank that his act is just too good for the show and that he should MC it as usual. He agrees as he doesn't want to show up all the other acts. We then see Laverne and Shirley auditioning acts at Shotz. Upon the end of each act when Laverne and Shirley ask the never seen Mr.Shotz what he thought he of the last act, all we hear is a raspberry. Lenny and Squiggy sings a number called ""I Knew I Should Have Listened To Momma"" which also gets a raspberry. Carmine and Edna come in singing ""Yankee Doodle"" and tap dancing. Mr.Shotz loves this and tells the girls that he wants this year's

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 13 - Testing, Testing
    8.7/10(91 votes)

    #13 - Testing, Testing

    S5:E13

    Shotz hires a psychiatrist to evaluate job aptitudes. The gang are all terrified that some deep dark secret, or that all their inadequacies are going to be revealed when they visit the company shrink.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 14 - Not Quite South of the Border
    9.0/10(129 votes)

    #14 - Not Quite South of the Border

    S5:E14

    The girls can't wait to go on a vacation to Mexico. Unfortunately when they get there, they find half of their hotel room missing and that they have to share the room with another woman.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 15 - You Oughta Be in Pictures
    8.6/10(94 votes)

    #15 - You Oughta Be in Pictures

    S5:E15

    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

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 16 - The Beatnik Show
    8.2/10(99 votes)

    #16 - The Beatnik Show

    S5:E16

    Shirley is turned on to Beatnik culture, while visiting a local coffee house one evening. She soon begins wearing black, and moping around the apartment, complaining that nothing in her life is ""cool"" anymore. Laverne then tries to snap her friend out of this Beatnik mindset, so she can go back to being her old self again.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 17 - The Right to Light
    8.8/10(90 votes)

    #17 - The Right to Light

    S5:E17

    To protest a false bill, the girls chain themselves insde the gas company building, little knowing that another disgruntled customer has planted a bomb in the building. Because the girls are chained to the wall, they can't get out.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 18 - Why Did the Fireman . . .
    8.8/10(131 votes)

    #18 - Why Did the Fireman . . .

    S5:E18

    Laverne falls for a fireman who is always being called to duty. Before he gets a chance to propose to Laverne, he dies in the line of duty saving many lives.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 19 - The Collector
    8.3/10(89 votes)

    #19 - The Collector

    S5:E19

    The girls try to talk Carmine out of going to work for a loan shark.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 20 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1)
    8.9/10(118 votes)

    #20 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1)

    S5:E20

    The girls are riding the Moose Jaw Express when a murder victim enters their compartment.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 21 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (2)
    8.9/10(107 votes)

    #21 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (2)

    S5:E21

    Laverne and Shirley try to find out who the murderer is.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 22 - Survival Test
    8.1/10(90 votes)

    #22 - Survival Test

    S5:E22

    Sargeant Alvina Plout takes the girls on a survival test against the men.

    Director:Joel Zwick
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 23 - The Duke of Squiggmann
    8.3/10(93 votes)

    #23 - The Duke of Squiggmann

    S5:E23

    Squiggy sleepwalks thinking he is a rich duke.

    Director:Penny Marshall
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 24 - Antonio, the Amazing
    8.3/10(97 votes)

    #24 - Antonio, the Amazing

    S5:E24

    Laverne and Shirley are returning from a friend's wedding to find a strange man lying asleep on their sofa. Laverne arms herself with a baseball bat and is about to hit the guy when he turns over and she can't bring herself to hit him as she thinks he's gorgeous. She's just about to kiss him to wake him up when Frank and Edna informs the girls that this is Laverne's cousin from Italy called Antonio. Laverne is miserable that she can't date her cousin, but Shirley exclaims ""He's not my cousin"" and goes for it, only to be reminded by Edna that she's got Carmine. Anotnio greets everybody and announces he's come to America to make his fortune. Antonio is exercising with Lenny and Squiggy, who are teaching him some bad habits, like biting your palm if you like something. The boys leave to go collect hair from the local barber shop and Carmine comes in. Carmine is letting Antonio stay with him while he's in Milwaukee and gives Antonio a t-shirt to wear advertising his dance studio on the bac

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Laverne & Shirley Season 5 Episode 25 - The Diner
    8.8/10(141 votes)

    #25 - The Diner

    S5:E25

    Lenny inherits a greasy spoon diner called 'Laslo's Place', they immediately rename it ""Dead Laslo's Place"". Because Laverne and Shirley are desperate for work, they get hired to cook and waitress the diner. The girls get run off their feet and Shirley ends up running out of the diner screaming in frustration. Frank offers to buy the restaurant from Lenny, which he does, so now Frank has 2 restaurants.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Shotgun Wedding (II)" is the best rated episode of "Laverne & Shirley" season 5. It scored 8/10 based on 110 votes. Directed by Joel Zwick and written by Judy Pioli, it aired on 9/13/1979. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "One Heckuva Note".