![]() ![]() It seems like the makers of TV shows back in the '60s didn't care as much about logic and continuity as they do today. And how likely is it that an Army chaplain would be a fake? About as likely as Laura getting married at 17. But because they were married while Rob was still in the service, at Camp Crowder, the wedding would have been performed by a chaplain. The only one I can think of is that the man who performed their ceremony wasn't actually an ordained minister. If Carl Reiner was determined to do these two episodes about Laura and Rob not being legally married, he should have chosen some other plot device as to why their marriage was invalid. ![]() Perhaps there are even more, discussed in other episodes. (Or maybe 16 we don't know at what age she joined the USO.) And these are just the mentions of boyfriends we can remember right now. So Joe plus three other boys plus Jim Darling plus at least three others mentioned in the other episode equals eight former boyfriends for Laura that we know of-all by the age of 17. In it Laura tells Millie that she doesn't know why she saved all the love letters Joe wrote to her, because she never saved the letters from three other boyfriends (and she names them). I saw that episode with Joe Coogan just the other day. Then they stumble and stutter with embarrassment as they try to remember not to reveal to the justice of the peace that they're actually getting remarried after having been unlawfully married for years and having a child. Then, in the next episode, they argue and fight on their way to a new marriage ceremony. Amazingly, they drag out this dreck over two episodes, wasting almost the entire first episode on the mystery of what secret Laura is hiding from Rob. ![]() I guess Carl Reiner thought it would be hilarious to have Laura and Rob deal with the fact that they aren't legally married and that, technically, Ritchie was born out of wedlock. And why didn't Laura's parents have a problem with her dropping out of high school to join the USO? And weren't they worried that she was too young to get married? Why didn't they ever raise any objections with Rob about it? We're expected to believe that, by the age of 17, Laura has had multiple boyfriends (as discussed in at least a couple other episodes) and has been dancing with the USO for a while. The other thing that doesn't make sense is Laura's real age in relation to all her life experiences before she met Rob. Rob and Laura have been married for at least eight years at this point, and she would have had to remember to keep lying about her age on all kinds of documents-medical records, insurance forms, and on and on. But this makes no sense for many reasons. I dislike the episode "Laura's Little Lie." This is the one where Laura tells Rob she lied about her age on their marriage license, saying she was 19 instead of 17. ![]()
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