Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Carmine From Laverne & Shirley Busted For DUI


Last weekend was like 80's week in jail. How is this for freakishness. I am going back in my mind here, but I believe that prior to Three's Company on the ABC schedule was Laverne & Shirley. It may have been Joanie loves Chachi, but I think it was Laverne & Shirley. Anyway on Saturday, Joyce DeWitt was arrested for suspicion of DUI and I wrote about that on Monday. Well, it turns out that on Friday, Eddie Mekka was arrested in Las Vegas for the same thing. Who is Eddie Mekka you ask? Well he was Carmine on Laverne & Shirley. He played the The Big Ragoo.

Just like his ABC cohort, Eddie also found himself drinking in the middle of the afternoon. According to TMZ, at around 1230pm, Eddie was arrested after he got into an accident with another car. Police at the scene administered some tests, and arrested him for suspicion of DUI.

34 comments:

MontanaMarriott said...

LOL OH DAMNNN who's next, Potsi?

ItsJustMe said...

DAMN, CARMINE! How's that for not aging too well.

mr. ray said...

If I remember correctly wasn't it:
8:00: Happy Days
8:30: Laverne & Shirley
9:00: Three's Company
9:30: Soap

whole lotto luv said...

That means someone from Soap is next. I'll put my dollar on Jessica Tate/Mona from Who's the Boss? Katherine Helmond.

Sue Ellen Mishkey said...

I am too young for this stuff. I mean, Soap? What the heck is that?!

califblondy said...

OMG, I loved Soap.

David D. said...

He used to be so hot. This must be what Madge looks like under all that surgery.

TV said...

LOVED Soap...hysterical....even today in rerun its still funny

jax said...

i put money on a DUI from Billy Crystal's dummy from Soap.

mr. ray said...

Soap was BRILLIANT! And the dummy was Chuck's...Bert's biological son.

BigMama said...

sings " He'll never go from rags to riches..... "

Audrey said...

Mr. Ray, you are right. But in the Midwest, prime time started at 7:00pm. What was on after Soap? Starskey & Hutch? My bedtime was 9pm, so rarely got to see Starskey & Hutch OR Charlie's Angels. Alas...

mr. ray said...

Audrey...I think Charles Angels was on after Soap...or maybe it was Starskey & Hutch. I don't remember because 10p was my bedtime! ;-)

ent lawyer said...

I believe it was Hart To Hart

jax said...

wasn't MASH in the mix there somewhere?

mr. ray said...

Totally forgot about that show.

mr. ray said...

Mash was CBS not ABC.

The Cocoanut Grove said...

Didn't Shirley dump the Big R when she moved to LA with Laverne?

No wonder he took up the bottle.

lmnop123 said...

Well at least we know he doesn't use botox.

ureallyannoyme said...

He's a good competitor, but I think Nick Nolte's record setting mugshot is safe.

And it took me several seconds to realize it wasn't Frank DeFazio.

Anonymous said...

Oh, man, I hope Boo Boo Kitty wasn't riding with him!

GoGo said...

@jax...

It was Jay Johnson who had the dummy Bob... BC was the gay son

also, MASH was CBS on Mondays at 9.00

GoGo said...

@Sue Ellen Mishkey... you MUST try to see this soap opera parody (youtube? netflix? video store?)-- it was absolutely hysterical!

GoGo said...

I'll put $20 on Jennifer Salt for next... maybe Diana Canova...

califblondy said...

Was it Bert who got into a fist fight with the dummy?

I'm going to have to order Soap DVDs from Amazon.com.

mr. ray said...

It was either Bert or Danny that got into the fist fight with Bob (dummy).

Majik said...

BigMama...He'll never go from rags to riches....I SWEAR TO GOD THAT SONG WENT THROUGH MY HEAD WHEN I HEARD THIS!!!

That's hysterical it went through yours, too...damn, I love L&S. In my top 5 sitcoms fo'sho.

Unknown said...

Stick to milk and Pepsi!

Sara Bellum said...

Aw man, is Soap on DVD? My bedtime was at 9:30, so I never saw it.

And whoa! Carmine isn't aging well. I loved when he'd come in the room and just belt out some tune. I never got why he wanted Shirley. I always thought Laverne was cooler.

ardleighstreet said...

@ BigMama you took the words right out of my mouth.

I loved SOAP. The chemistry between R.Guillaume who played Benson and K.Helmond was great.

It seems the "Big Ragu" needs to lay off the sauce.

MnGddess said...

Soap was hilarious! They need to run it again...

And MAN! The Big Ragu ain't so cute anymore....

Lissette said...

Mr. Ray, that's exactly how I remembered it! Well done!
I'd go to rags to riches....
Sad, I loved his character.

Jerry said...

Nice look, Eddie. Hair by Nick Nolte?

GladysKravitz said...

I keep thinking that he bears an unfortunate resemblance to Ron Jeremy.

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