A Christmas miracle delivers my missing Laverne & Shirley from 1978

You'd think that, because Laverne & Shirley topped the TV ratings for the second year in a row, it should be readily available, but I was unable to find an episode from that year from any library or streaming service. Thankfully, CHCH was running a series of Christmas-themed episodes from a number of classic shows on December 25th and so, even though that meant I was watching this way out of order, I'll roll back the publication date so it fits where it belongs.

The episode was "O Come All Ye Bums," and it was a heartwarming enough affair with the gang trying to patch together a turkey dinner as a sort of holiday food bank, and it ended with the poor but thoughtful roommates giving each other homemade autographed pictures of Elvis.

Most notably, perhaps, as a reminder to anyone who thinks that today's youth are worse off than they ever were, it featured a kid waiting in line to see Mr. DeFazio as a mall Santa, and the youngster acts like a grade-A jerk. So it shall always be.