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5/10
Well, I Wouldn't Mind Seeing It Again
richard.fuller129 March 2008
Warning: Spoilers
Yes, it was interwoven into Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley, as the other posters note.

Lynda Goodfriend and Scott Baio both crossed over from Happy Days, tho not as Lori Beth and Chachi, they were entirely new characters.

Likewise Eddie Mekka from Laverne and Shirley appeared, but he wasn't Carmine Ragusa from L&S.

Apparently even Pat Morita appeared as Arnold in an episode or two, which I do now recall.

Check out Happy Days reruns. Nancy Walker does turn up there in one of the retrospect episodes as Howard Cunningham's cousin, Nancy Blansky.

It was mindless, but it was fun to me. I was eleven. sigh.

And I do recall Penny Marshal, tho playing Laverne DeFazio, did show up in one episode.

I wouldn't mind seeing it again. If it ever is released on DVD, I'll look for it. It won't be a lot of episodes and it will just feel like lost episodes of Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley actually.

There was a boss man who would enter, see how the girls perform, and would never say anything or smile or any kind of expression, and when Nancy would ask "well, what do you think?" he would just turn and storm out.

She thought she would finally hear his voice when he got a phone call, and all he did was nod and shake his head.

Laughter. I was eleven.

And yea, Blansky's was in present day, but pretty much by this time, so was Laverne and Shirley and Happy Days and no one seemed to notice.

LOL! I know this show aired on Saturday night at least once, it got moved around. It was summer. I watched it. I was eleven.

Wouldn't mind seeing it again.
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logical leap
bbraat8 March 2004
Horrible show full of forced laughter. While it was tied in to Happy Days no one seemed to notice that the shows were set in two different decades, the fifties and the seventies. Nancy Walker just showed up on Happy Days and they ignored the time warp. On Blansky, Eddie Mekka announces that he's going to visit his cousin Carmine on Laverne and Shirley, also set in the fifties. It's sad that a truly funny and smart comedian, Nancy Walker, walked into this dog of a show and tried to make it work. I guess she wanted to play lead once in her life. I'm glad to see that they cleaned up the hit-making formula when they got around to Joanie-Loves-Chachi a few years later.
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2/10
When the networks put on anything that jiggled
Coralknight7 November 2019
This was one of those mid-season fillers the networks threw out to see if it stuck. Throwing together a cast of pretty, semi-recognizable faces ("Hey! Isn't that the chick from that OTHER show?"), a generous laugh-track to mask predictable/ un-funny jokes and a pretense to see women in various stages of undress, this show exemplified how formulaic and un-original programming had become in the 70's. This review has already gone on longer than the actual series lasted, so I'll just quit here, since no one over the age of 30 will ever need to suffer through it.
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2/10
Horrible...
bradleyjstevens-15 October 2018
Who's the genius who thought this was a good idea?
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A prime example of bad 70's TV
152317 April 2003
This show had every 70's teeny bopper element aimed to appeal to the lowest intellect and thus make it a hit - except this time cute boys and inane, jiggly, dumb blondes were not enough to cover for horrible scripts, contrived situations, bad acting, and unbelievable plots. The show tried to be a spin-off/tie-in to Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley (or at least ride on their success) by utilizing actors - most notably Eddie Mekka and Scott Baio - from those shows and making the title role the cousin of Happy Days' Howard Cunningham. Having Nancy Walker as its star, scantily-clad bimbos wiggling around the set, and pretty boy co-stars to elicit screams from young girls in the audience, however, could never have saved it from itself.

This show is best forgotten in a footnote to bad television.
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A Happy Days Spin-off that was a flop but was what it was.
brode162719 July 2011
This show technically was a spin-off from Happy Days and as many things from Happy Days were never really explained, it is true that this took place in the 70's while Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley were supposed to be in the 50's. What the other reviewers got wrong was that yes Eddie Mekka was already playing Carmine in Laverne and Shirley and was doing double duty, but L&S was only in its second season. Scott Baio joined the cast of Happy Days after this show was canceled. His first HD episode was in Sept. of 1977, the start of the 5th season. Lynda Goodfriend didn't really become a part of Happy Days until after this show as well. In the first episode of this show Roz Kelly reprises her Pinky Tuscadero role from Happy Days. It wasn't a great show and I would say goes down as one of the HD spin-off flops, but I remember watching it and liking it, but I was a huge Happy Days fan. It does have its place in 70's and Garry Marshall TV shows history.
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Not a spinoff.
stolfwx21 July 2021
I suppose this is a minority view, but I do not consider Blansky's Beauties to be a spinoff of Happy Days. The facts are these: Nancy Walker appeared as Nancy Blansky in a cameo on the Happy Days Third Anniversary Show, Feb 5 1977. Blansky's Beauties debuted one week later on Feb 12.

So yes, Nancy Blansky appeared on Happy Days before she appeared on Blansky's Beauties. But the fact remains that Blansky's Beauties existed as a series, in every way except having been broadcast, before the Happy Days cameo, which I would therefore classify as a crossover.
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