Laverne & Shirley
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At the Milwaukee concert (Oct. 16, 2004), the theme to this television sitcom was played as it was set in Milwaukee.
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Laverne & Shirley (originally Laverne DeFazio & Shirley Feeney) is an American sitcom television series that ran for eight seasons on ABC from January 27, 1976, to May 10, 1983. A spin-off of Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley starred Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams as Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney, two friends and roommates who work as bottle-cappers in the fictitious Shotz Brewery in late 1950s Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From the sixth season onwards, the series' setting changed to mid-1960s Burbank, California. Michael McKean and David Lander co-starred as their friends and neighbors Lenny Kosnowski and Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman, respectively; along with Eddie Mekka as Carmine Ragusa, Phil Foster as Laverne's father Frank DeFazio, and Betty Garrett as the girls' landlady Edna Babish. Featuring regular physical comedy, Laverne & Shirley became the most-watched American television program by its third and fourth season; in total, it received six Golden Globe nominations and one Emmy nomination.