Brooklyn accents

[robyrob]

i was just watching the first disc of season one again, and it struck me how strange it is that when the girls were on Happy Days, and in the first two episodes of L&S, they both have distinguishably Brooklyn accents, but by the third ep, Shirley's is gone (presumably under the pretext that she is improving herself with the manners book and whatnot), and Laverne's isn't nearly as noticable.

weird huh?

[Moondance]

Originally posted by robyrob
i was just watching the first disc of season one again, and it struck me how strange it is that when the girls were on Happy Days, and in the first two episodes of L&S, they both have distinguishably Brooklyn accents, but by the third ep, Shirley's is gone (presumably under the pretext that she is improving herself with the manners book and whatnot), and Laverne's isn't nearly as noticable.

weird huh?

I never understood that myself. Shirley was from Milwaukee and Laverne was from Brooklyn, but how did Shirley acquire that accent? I suppose, in the beginning, neither Penny or Cindy knew that there characters would become so popular - so once they got their own show, their characters turned into their own. Shirley did have a slight accent in the pilot, but perhaps she changed it so she wouldn't be so much like Laverne.


Feen

[shotzette]

Actually, Garry Marshall asked Cindy to stop since her character wasn't from Brooklyn, and she couldn't do the accent very well to begin with.

Don't know how they rationalized Lenny and Squiggy's accents, though...

[robyrob]

Originally posted by shotzette
Actually, Garry Marshall asked Cindy to stop since her character wasn't from Brooklyn, and she couldn't do the accent very well to begin with.

Don't know how they rationalized Lenny and Squiggy's accents, though...

... i always assumed that Milwaukeeans (?) had their own little accent thing goin' on