Schlameel - At the beginning of each episode of the sitcom LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY/ABC/1976-83, Laverne De Fazio (Penny Marshall) and Shirley Feeney (Cindy Williams) skip down a Milwaukee sidewalk chanting

"1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 Schlameel, Schlamaazal Hassenpepper Incorporated" (Lyrics from "Making Our Dreams Come True" by Norman Gimbel & Charles Fox).

 The significance of the words were never disclosed, but were more than likely the remembered words of a shared childhood ritual. "Schlemiel" is Yiddish for "a fool, born loser"; "Schlimaazel" is Yiddish for "a loser or unlucky person"; and "Hassenpfeffer" is a reference to a German rabbit stew.