David L. Lander

David L. Lander plays Andrew “Squiggy” Squiggman on Laverne & Shirley, the hallway knock inside Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams turning Milwaukee bottle-cappers into a slapstick instrument. Happy Days spin-off that often beat the parent show; Lenny, Squiggy, schlemiel-schlimazel liturgy. Lander is half the interruption — a Squiggman who makes female buddy comedy in work boots feel crowded on purpose.

File the spine first: Laverne & Shirley, ABC, 1976–1983. Lander’s Andrew “Squiggy” Squiggman made Laverne & Shirley a hallway interruption — Milwaukee bottle-cappers as a slapstick instrument, Lenny-and-Squiggy as schlemiel weather, a Happy Days spin-off that often beat the parent show. Andrew 'Squiggy' Squiggman is the credit; Lander is the person who has to make it play as a pulse, not a logo.

Start with David L. Lander at s01e01. The Society Party opens the Happy Days spin-off in work boots. Marshall and Williams already play bottle-cappers as a slapstick instrument, schlemiel-schlimazel included. The hour that still shows the turn is s03e01. Airport '59 is female buddy farce in period costume. The Milwaukee grind still the engine; Lenny and Squiggy weather around a friendship that often beat the parent show. s05e01 stamps later weather — codes as position, not a plot recap.

Nielsen scale still needed the downstairs weirdos. On TV Flash Lander is 1970s sitcom craft: Squiggy as the reason the apartment photographs as a bit, and a knock that became as famous as the bottle caps. ABC's 1976–1983 run still files David L. Lander as Andrew 'Squiggy' Squiggman; s01e01 remains a fair door.