Laverne & Shirley - Season 5 Episode 16 The Beatnik Show
Shirley is turned on to Beatnik culture, while visiting a local coffee house one evening. She soon begins wearing black, and moping around the apartment, complaining that nothing in her life is ""cool"" anymore. Laverne then tries to snap her friend out of this Beatnik mindset, so she can go back to being her old self again.
- Genre: Comedy, Family
- Studio: ABC
- Keyword: female friendship, retro, sitcom, 1950s
- Cast: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, David L. Lander, Michael McKean, Phil Foster, Eddie Mekka
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