Here it is! Another dingaline adventure with those belles of the brewery

There's something funny brewing - a brand-new madcap adventure of

Laverne the girl with a head on her shoulders as well as on her beer.
and
Shirleythe girl who gets high on champagne dreams.

For these zany roommates, life is as full of hops, yeast and bubbles as the beer in the bottles they cap.

To Shirley Feeney almost any man she meets may turn out to be Mr. Right. Right? "Wrong," says Laverne DeFazio, her practical pal. But that doesn't stop either of them from getting involved with men - and mayhem.

Take off with them again, bumbling along the rocky road to romance with occasional detours to dissaster. LAVERNE and SHIRLEY, who'll keep you smiling as nostalgically and laughing as intemperately as they did in their first paperback apparence.

As Variety Could Put It-

MILWAUKEE. Laverne DeFazio, bouncy bottle-capper on the Shotz Beer line, in headed west. Appearing on the show EASY MONEY when it visited locally, she she wound up as the TV quiz game's big winner. Now she's off to Hollywood to compete in the finals with her good friend and roomie, Shirley Feeney as her chaparone. As her coach, Genius Jones, encyclopedia salesman (whose tutalage Ms. DeFazio credits for her original performance), will also travel to Film City.

Watch Out, West Coast! Look Sharp, Los Angeles! Caution, California!

Prepare for fun as the chicks from Shotz hit Hollywood for EASY MONEY!

In an attempt to get closer to Shirley after the Striker and Coogan kidnapping incident from the previous novel, Carmine scores seats for himself, Laverne, Shirley and Laverne's latest beau, encyclopedia salesman Genius Jones, for tickets to the Quiz Show "Easy Money", which is making a stop-over in Milwaukee.

Laverne is selected out of the audience to play, and thanks to Genius' constant spouting of facts during their dates has picked up enough general knowledge to win big. Laverne is invited to California to play on the show's finals.

Hollywood hoopla instantly surrounds Laverne - Genius becomes her coach, Shirley becomes her hanger-on, and Mister Shotz and her father are suddenly very interested in what kind of sponsership Laverne can provide them with. It's such a winning combination Laverne becomes a sensation. Soon, celebrity begins to tire out Laverne, but is something more sinister in the works?

Yes, Laverne and Shirley Are Going To California (ten years canonically before the show made the actual move that took the girls to LA), in this improvement over volume one.

Characterization is improved a bit here - Carmine's attempt to buy Shirley happiness results in Laverne's fame, which is characteristic. Though there's no real physical comedy here, this could easily be a part of the show (and in fact feels reminescent of the episodes "The Quiz Show".

If the first volume was loaded with celebrity roman a clefs, the second one is jam-packed with them; Lizzie Wells is obviously Lucille Ball and Choo Vargas is definately Desi Arnaz - though neither produced gameshows out of Lizzichu- er- DesiLu. It's debatable that Nelson Nesbit is William Randolph Hearst, though he was a newspaperman not a tv producer. The most embaressing example is "Coke Tinkleman", which is obviously Grant Tinker and obviously shows how "Conn" feels about Mr. Tinker.

The plot - which concearns the serious problem of graft and game show fixing - was a major real-life problem back in the '50's. The novel even provides a Bob Woodward-like figure in Billy Kane to expose the misdeeds of the producers.

The Lenny and Squiggy plot is the most problematic. The boys nearly don't have a purpose in this novel, beyond tailing the girls to LA on "vacation", then getting lost in the desert trying to save them from Nelson Nesbit. They might as well not be in the novel at all, where as in the first one they were intregal to the plot.

There are fewer unfortunate grammatical errors here - Lenny's last name is still unfortunately misspelled again ("Koznovsky", which is probably closer to the actual Polish), and Carmine's name is misspelled at one point, too ("Raguza").

"Oh Laverne, bowling isn't a God-given talent!" -Shirley Feeney