30 Years Ago, Penny Marshall & Cindy Williams Reunited 20 Years After Their ‘Unfortunate’ Parting on ‘Laverne & Shirley’
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If the phrase “schlemiel, schlimazel,” mean anything to you, either you know some Yiddish or remember the theme song to the classic ABC sitcom Laverne & Shirley, which aired from 1976 to 1983. And as Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney, actors Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams chanted those words one more time for The Laverne & Shirley Reunion, which aired on ABC three decades ago now, on May 22, 1995.
The reunion special marked 20 years since Marshall and Williams played Laverne and Shirley for the first time on an episode of Happy Days. The characters proved so appealing that they got their own sitcom, which followed the slapstick-heavy hijinks of these two Shotz Brewery bottle cappers, best friends and roommates doing it their way in midcentury Milwaukee.
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