Jim Belushi guest stars as a wimpy guy with massive sweat stains under both arms on his shirt (Didn't they have Speed Stick in 1982?!) and actually wearing more facial makeup than Penny Marshall. Between the sweat stains and makeup on his face it was difficult to pay attention to the story.
But thankfully, there was no story because wimpy sweat stained, drag faced Jim Belushi fell asleep and dreamed of a boring dance sequence where the actors make fools of themselves.
Cindy Williams was surely watching this mess at home while counting her settlement money and laughing her butt off that she was no longer a part of this train wreck. Who wouldn't?
There were many bad episodes while Shirley was there, but Laverne all by herself is a complete and total bore, it's like Lucy without Ethel.... They really should've gotten a female sidekick replacement for her for the rest of the series. I really liked Carrie Fisher when she guested and think she could've saved the show from the depths of hell that it quickly sank to.
And I can't help but wonder if it was these 8th season episodes that gave Roseanne inspiration for her train wreck final season 15 years later as both are so far out there and Twilight Zone-ish. This is yet another 1 star dumpster fire episode----i'm holding out hope though there's at least one or 2 good ones left before it's done. I guess i'm an eternal optimist----or a masochist that I continue on.