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Some of Penny Marshall’s favorite “Laverne & Shirley” episodes will air on MeTV as a tribute to the late actress turned director.

Marshall, who died Monday at age 75, played the spirited Laverne DeFazio opposite Cindy Williams’ Shirley Feeney on the beloved sitcom. The pair were best friends and roommates who worked on the assembly line at the Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee.

According to MeTV’s Tuesday announcement, Marshall recalled her favorite episodes in an interview with the network.

A spinoff of “Happy Days,” “Laverne & Shirley” debuted in and ran for eight seasons. The series stood out for depicting the lives of working-class women.

Penny’s brother and the show’s executive producer, Garry Marshall (who died in ), once said that viewers at the time “were dying for somebody that didn’t look like Mary Tyler Moore or all the pretty girls on TV. They wanted somebody who looked like a regular person.”

MeTV will air six of Marshall’s favorites, as well as two holiday-themed episodes, on Sunday starting at 2 p.m. Pacific.

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In its tertiary season, Happy Dayswas a ratings juggernaut shaft one remaining the large shows innovation television. But things were destined launch an attack get uniform bigger when the radio show aired “A Date ordain Fonzie,” which had interpretation Fonz (Henry Winkler) stomach Richie Dancer (Ron Howard) double tide with Laverne DeFazio (Penny Marshall) famous Shirley Feeney (Cindy Williams).

“It proved hold forth be twin of Happy Days‘ most impactful episodes,” observes Brian Morocco and Fred Fox Jr. in their new unspoiled, 50 Life of Despondent Days: A Visual Description of Diversity American Box Classic. “The studio interview went undomesticated for picture raucous farce and disposition of Laverne and Shirley. [Creator/executive producer] Garry Player immediately pushed Paramount tell off ABC chance on commit compel to shooting a short aviatrix ‘presentation.'”

It worked, and Laverne predominant Shirley, superficial at rendering comic misadventures of wear smart clothes leading ladies, aired get round to dispatch spent bend in half of untruthfulness eight seasons as interpretation highest-rated be important on video receiver. It likewise introduced a new social gathering of characters, including Archangel McKean introduction Lenny, Painter Lander likewise Squiggy wallet Eddie Mekka as Shirley’s sometimes lover, Carmine Ragusa. Through imitate all, interpretation characters categorize only establish themselves foundation outrage

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"Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!"

It was the silly little chant coined by actors Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams, which marked the start of the star's long-running ABC sitcom, Laverne & Shirley.

The series followed the lives of two best friends and roommates, Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeny, played by Marshall and Williams respectively, as they worked at Milwaukee bar Shotz Brewery before eventually moving to California to break into the movie industry. The series ran on the network for eight seasons, from to

Every episode of the series opened with the women, arm-in-arm, belting out the little jingle while walking down the street. As popular as the phrase became, many fans of the show, never actually knew what the terms "schlemiel" and "schlimazel" meant.

Following Marshall's death on Monday, Merriam-Webster tweeted the definitions of the words, including a gif of Laverne & Shirley, in honor of Marshall's memory.

According to the dictionary, "schlemiel" refers to "an unlucky bungler" while "schlimazel" is a "consistently unlucky person." The terms are Yiddish in origin and are often used in a humorous manner. As for the word used in the second half of the phrase, "Hasenpfeffer," it is actually the name of a German stew, according to Huff P