Lenny and Squiggy drive the girls to Burbank in an old ice cream truck. The girls enter and set up their new apt. Soon, they meet their new neighbors and are quickly shaken up in California ... Read allLenny and Squiggy drive the girls to Burbank in an old ice cream truck. The girls enter and set up their new apt. Soon, they meet their new neighbors and are quickly shaken up in California ways. Will they adapt or head on back?Lenny and Squiggy drive the girls to Burbank in an old ice cream truck. The girls enter and set up their new apt. Soon, they meet their new neighbors and are quickly shaken up in California ways. Will they adapt or head on back?
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- TriviaEd Marinaro had previously played Laverne's cousin Antonio just a few months earlier at the end of season 5.
- GoofsWhen Laverne peaks into Rhonda's apartment following the earthquake she mentions the book "Valley of the Dolls". However, this episode is set in 1964, and the trashy novel wasn't published until two years later in 1966.
- ConnectionsReferences The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)
- SoundtracksMaking Our Dreams Come True
(uncredited)
Lyrics by Norman Gimbel
Music by Charles Fox
Sung by Cyndi Grecco
Featured review
The California Apartment
Their apartment in California always confused the heck out of me. The writers didn't put much thought into it because none of it makes any sense when you think about it.
The duplex they live in is obviously two floors from the outside shots and the balcony they have is on the second floor because the first floor has no balcony. Yet their hunky neighbor (who was Laverne's cousin in the previous season) lives upstairs from them, but there's no third floor unless he lives on the roof.
Then there's "Hi Ho!" Rhonda's apartment. Her bedroom is on the other side of the girl's living room brick wall, yet when the front door is open you can clearly see there are apartments across the hall from them.
From the outside shots, the building has two apartments on the right and two on the left with a hallway in the middle. So if there are apartments across the hall from the girl's front door, the other side of the brick wall would be the outside yard where the kitchen door leads out to.
I wish the writers had put just a little thought into the apartment layout because it makes no sense and is distracting. Especially how their bedroom is upstairs from the living room when they're already on the top floor.
There's also no sense how they got the apartment. We just see the girls show up in the ice cream truck they left Milwaukee in and bring their suitcases inside---and are surprised when they walk in as if they're seeing it for the first time.
How did they have the apartment all ready for them and who signed the lease? The hunky neighbor said he was the apartment manager but apparently never saw them before in his life. He does passingly mention "I see your furniture arrived" (They didn't have a blue couch in Milwaukee.)
So the only logical conclusion is that Laverne's Pop got the apartment for them while they were driving out. But still wouldn't they want to see it before moving in?!
An episode showing the girls apartment hunting first would've been funny to see so I don't know why they just rushed everything so quickly to get them moved in so fast. There's lots of comedy to be found in apartment hunting especially with these two characters.
Then there's the 4 year jump in time. Three seasons ago it was New Years Eve 1959 into 1960, so it would logically be late 1962 at the time they moved to California, but they have a huge Beatles poster in the living room and Laverne mentions the book "Valley of the Dolls" and also sings Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind", both of which came out in 1966.
Laverne also mentions they're age as being 27 in the episode before this one and in the second season they made mention how they were out of high school for 3 years, so they should only be 24 at this point. I guess the writers wanted to age them and bring the show into a more current time.
And during the California seasons you see the girls begin dressing more late 70's/early 80's with their clothing and hairstyles and I think it was a bad move because part of the charm is the setting of the late 50's/early 60's. I believe Happy Days did this as well in the later seasons. It's like they just didn't care anymore about time accuracy with both shows.
On a positive note, I think Rhonda was a good addition to the cast. I love how she'd always announce "Hi Ho Rhonda's here!" when she made an entrance. That's one thing I always remembered from the California years as a child.
I rate this episode 5 stars because the earthquake scene was funny even though it was totally unrealistic how the beds kept sliding back and forth like that. But it was funny as absurd as it was.
The duplex they live in is obviously two floors from the outside shots and the balcony they have is on the second floor because the first floor has no balcony. Yet their hunky neighbor (who was Laverne's cousin in the previous season) lives upstairs from them, but there's no third floor unless he lives on the roof.
Then there's "Hi Ho!" Rhonda's apartment. Her bedroom is on the other side of the girl's living room brick wall, yet when the front door is open you can clearly see there are apartments across the hall from them.
From the outside shots, the building has two apartments on the right and two on the left with a hallway in the middle. So if there are apartments across the hall from the girl's front door, the other side of the brick wall would be the outside yard where the kitchen door leads out to.
I wish the writers had put just a little thought into the apartment layout because it makes no sense and is distracting. Especially how their bedroom is upstairs from the living room when they're already on the top floor.
There's also no sense how they got the apartment. We just see the girls show up in the ice cream truck they left Milwaukee in and bring their suitcases inside---and are surprised when they walk in as if they're seeing it for the first time.
How did they have the apartment all ready for them and who signed the lease? The hunky neighbor said he was the apartment manager but apparently never saw them before in his life. He does passingly mention "I see your furniture arrived" (They didn't have a blue couch in Milwaukee.)
So the only logical conclusion is that Laverne's Pop got the apartment for them while they were driving out. But still wouldn't they want to see it before moving in?!
An episode showing the girls apartment hunting first would've been funny to see so I don't know why they just rushed everything so quickly to get them moved in so fast. There's lots of comedy to be found in apartment hunting especially with these two characters.
Then there's the 4 year jump in time. Three seasons ago it was New Years Eve 1959 into 1960, so it would logically be late 1962 at the time they moved to California, but they have a huge Beatles poster in the living room and Laverne mentions the book "Valley of the Dolls" and also sings Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind", both of which came out in 1966.
Laverne also mentions they're age as being 27 in the episode before this one and in the second season they made mention how they were out of high school for 3 years, so they should only be 24 at this point. I guess the writers wanted to age them and bring the show into a more current time.
And during the California seasons you see the girls begin dressing more late 70's/early 80's with their clothing and hairstyles and I think it was a bad move because part of the charm is the setting of the late 50's/early 60's. I believe Happy Days did this as well in the later seasons. It's like they just didn't care anymore about time accuracy with both shows.
On a positive note, I think Rhonda was a good addition to the cast. I love how she'd always announce "Hi Ho Rhonda's here!" when she made an entrance. That's one thing I always remembered from the California years as a child.
I rate this episode 5 stars because the earthquake scene was funny even though it was totally unrealistic how the beds kept sliding back and forth like that. But it was funny as absurd as it was.
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- Nov 27, 2021
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