Laverne & Shirley: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Laverne & Shirley Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Airport '59
Sep 20, 1977
Laverne & Shirley go on their first plane trip and end up flying it when their pilot faints at the controls.
Tag Team Wrestling
Sep 27, 1977
Laverne starts off by telling Shirley how a driver had cut her off so she had shouted back to her that she was a 'banana face'. Later on, Laverne's big tag team partner from the br
The Pact
Oct 4, 1977
Laverne and Shirley get into a huge fight after Shirley's new boyfriend asks Laverne out. The girls agree to make a pact swearing never to let a guy come between them again.
Robot Lawsuit
Oct 25, 1977
A giant robot attacks Laverne in a toy store this leads her to sue the toy company.
Laverne's Arranged Marriage
Nov 1, 1977
Laverne's father arranges a marriage for her to a wealthy cheese manufacturer who happens to be in the mob.
Cruise (1)
Nov 8, 1977
Shirley is waiting anxiously for Laverne to come back from the bank with their savings for their cruise holiday that they have been planning on for weeks. When Laverne comes in, sh
Cruise (2)
Nov 15, 1977
Lenny and Squiggy begs Laverne and Shirley not to squeal on them. Shirley succumbs to their pitiful begging faces and warns them that if they're caught they don't know them, they'
Laverne and Shirley Meet Fabian
Nov 22, 1977
Fabian's concert is sold out, but the girls still want to see him. The girls bet Rosie that they can not only meet Fabian but that they will have their pictures taken with him. Ros
The Stakeout
Nov 29, 1977
Carmine is suspected of being a counterfeiter, so the F.B.I. use Laverne and Shirley's flat as a stakeout to catch him in the act.
Shirley's Operation
Dec 6, 1977
The gang is rehearsing the play ""Alice In Wonderland"" so they're all in costume: Shirley is Alice, Laverne is the Mad Hatter, Lenny and Squiggy are Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee. S
Take My Plants, Please
Dec 13, 1977
The girls get laid off so they go to work for themselves selling flowers and plants door to door.
New Years Eve 1959
Dec 27, 1977
It is New Years Eve and Laverne is dumped by her date and Shirley has a cold. Squiggy does his human fly stunt as the countdown to the new year, 1960, arrives.
The Mortician
Jan 10, 1978
Laverne has a crush on a mortician who is more interested in her dead than alive. To help her chances of getting to know the mortician better, Laverne asks Shirley to pretend she i
The Horse Show
Jan 17, 1978
Shirley rescues a horse from a glue factory and put it in her bedroom. The girls try to find a new home for Buttercup before she's turned into glue. In the end it's Lenny and Squig
The Slow Child
Jan 24, 1978
When Mrs. Babish's mentally slow daughter, Amy, comes to visit, a moving relationship soon develops between her and Lenny - despite the fact that almost everyone believes Lenny jus
The Second (Almost) Annual Shotz Talent Show
Jan 31, 1978
Mr. Shotz wants the girls to find a spot in the talent show for his no-talent nephew.
The Dentist
Feb 7, 1978
Laverne has a chipped tooth and goes to Shirley's dental student cousin Mikey. Laverne, as a favor to Shirley, allows Shirley's dentist cousin to fix her tooth. The only problem is
Bus Stop
Feb 14, 1978
The girls take a bus to a distant city to visit two medical students who leave them stranded.
The Driving Test
Feb 21, 1978
The show starts with Laverne and Shirley chatting away in the Shotz brewery canteen when Lenny and Squiggy come in. Upon opening their pay checks, Squiggy discovers a letter from M
The Obstacle Course
Feb 28, 1978
The policeman in charge of testing the recruits thinks Shirley is too puny and weak to do the assault course, so Laverne helps Shirley train to prove him wrong. Laverne's policeman
The Debutante Ball
May 9, 1978
Laverne and Lenny go to a debutantes' ball where Lenny learns he is 89th in line for the Polish throne.
2001: A Comedy Odyssey
May 16, 1978
Laverne dreams she and Shirley are in their 80's still living together and still single. Laverne and Shirley are old and single but so are Lenny and Squiggy which leads to them goi
The Dance Studio
May 23, 1978
The girls try and help Carmine get financing so that he can open his own dance studio. Of course, they end up ruining it for Carmine so in the end Frank and Edna lend him the money
Breaking Up and Making Up
May 30, 1978
Laverne and Shirley try to get Frank and Edna back together after they break up when Edna's ex-husband comes to town.