The Reverend Doctor had sternjy announced that he would not, could not, conduct the nuptial ceremony unless and until the bridal couple had been "counseled."
Craig Lowell was to be married by a Reverend Doctor and a Reverend General.
The Reverend Doctor got out a card, started to write on it- paused.
The Reverend Doctor produced another fez.
(He refers to himself as "the Reverend Doctor," although his degree is honorary.)
The Reverend Doctor had a sense of humour and Faith's performance tickled him.
She wants him to try and get it back before the Good Reverend Doctor comes home, so Flipper goes out to find Gator.
The Good Reverend Doctor is presented as an insufferably pious, scripture-quoting Baptist minister who has lost his church, for reasons that are never revealed.
The fuzziness is difficult to accept since the character of the Good Reverend Doctor is key to the film's most crucial confrontation.
But the Reverend Doctor took refuge in his dignity, and I bided my time and waited for that revenge which comes sooner or later to us muck-rakers.