I can't tell you why, because it would be the biggest spoiler ever, but the reveal at the end of this episode is the only time in my life I was truly, literally rolling on the floor with laughter.
This is one of the many episodes in the series that went back to the time that Rob and Laura met, fell in love, got married, and settled into married life. In this episode, little Ritchie is born, and, after a number of mix-ups at the hospital, Rob becomes convinced that the baby has been mixed up, too.
I suppose the resolution doesn't seem as funny today as it did in 1963. As an old Greek philosopher said, you can never step into the same river twice. Time goes by, and society changes, and things that were hilarious to our ancestors merely puzzle us. But as long as people still live who remember America in the age of Eisenhower and Kennedy, some of us will recall this episode, and how it made us guffaw until we had to gasp for breath—and how it gave us all a little hope when we badly needed it.
This is one of the many episodes in the series that went back to the time that Rob and Laura met, fell in love, got married, and settled into married life. In this episode, little Ritchie is born, and, after a number of mix-ups at the hospital, Rob becomes convinced that the baby has been mixed up, too.
I suppose the resolution doesn't seem as funny today as it did in 1963. As an old Greek philosopher said, you can never step into the same river twice. Time goes by, and society changes, and things that were hilarious to our ancestors merely puzzle us. But as long as people still live who remember America in the age of Eisenhower and Kennedy, some of us will recall this episode, and how it made us guffaw until we had to gasp for breath—and how it gave us all a little hope when we badly needed it.