## Thoughts This is a pretty fun movie from a pretty long time ago! The first half is a bit slow, but the second half is fun when both of the families get together and live in the same house. It shows its age a little bit. I still can't get over the fact that the two main characters are somehow able to afford a house that fits this family of 18 — there are more of them later one in the movie, too — on a single income. I don't even think that the father is still working as he seems to waffle between shipping out on his aircraft carrier and staying home with the family. The mother is a stay-at-home parent, which is clearly required in this case for at least one of them to be. How else could a family like this operate? There's one scene where they spend ~$126 on groceries — four carts full, by the way — and that would be about $1,200 in today's money. How in world are they able to afford *anything* at all? According to [[Gemini]], the mother wrote in her book at the time that they had supplementary income from a donut shop that they ran in addition to the father's navy earnings. They also did the typical frugal spending and buying things wholesale when able. Still, it's hard to imagine that being possible! The doctor character is especially funny! > "*Oh my God — I'm too late.*" > "*What's the name of this organization?*" > "*Oh, have a heart. Leave the babies on a different doorstep.*"