Here are some fun facts you probably never knew about the two funny gals:
- The show never received a single Emmy, ever!
- In 1976 Cindy Williams (who played Shirley Feeney) angrily walked off the set to protest Penny Marshall getting all the good lines. She would inevitably return two days later.
- When Cindy Williams did depart again during the 1982-1983 season it was due to pregnancy. In the show, her absence was simply explained by having Shirley move out of the apartment to be with her husband Walter after he was transferred out of the country.T
- There was a certain amount of intersections between the characters of this show and the well known Happy Days (1974), partially due to the fact that both shows were set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- After The Odd Couple (1970) ended its run, the apartment set on that show was recycled and modified to become Laverne and Shirley’s apartment.
- Boo-Boo Kitty, the cloth cat was Shirley’s good luck charm.
- Shirley’s middle name, Wilhemina, is taken from her dead grandmother.
- Laverne always wears the letter “L”. Sometimes she has one “L” on her skirt and another “L” on her blouse. Wherever the “L” is placed, it is so the audience can tell the difference between her and Shirley.
- Laverne’s favorite drink was milk and Pepsi, taken from a real life personal story: her mother would mix pepsi and milk lazily in a cup for her when she was growing up.
- For the first couple of seasons of the show, the full title was officially “Laverne Defazio and Shirley Feeney.”
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