# Why couldn't the nuns go to Maria's wedding? (Sound of Music) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [December 22, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-couldnt-the-nuns-go-to-marias-wedding-sound-of-music/1025946 "2025-12-22T15:22:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-couldnt-the-nuns-go-to-marias-wedding-sound-of-music/1025946/21 "2026-01-01T16:34:17Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Especially in that era, I’d expect that nuns would have much more knowledge of the practical workings of the world than the typical woman. Yet none of them can land an airliner when the cockpit crew is incapacitated. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-couldnt-the-nuns-go-to-marias-wedding-sound-of-music/1025946/22 "2026-01-01T17:14:08Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Yet none of them can land an airliner when the cockpit crew is incapacitated. Blame Vatican II and all the Church’s reforms! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-couldnt-the-nuns-go-to-marias-wedding-sound-of-music/1025946/23 "2026-01-01T17:30:50Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > These women had lives in the outside world before taking their vows, so it’s not at all implausible that at least a few learned that much about cars prior to entering the convent. And perhaps their order was dedicated to St. Eligius, who is the patron saint of several areas, including automobile mechanics. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2026, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-couldnt-the-nuns-go-to-marias-wedding-sound-of-music/1025946/24 "2026-01-01T20:25:09Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Yet none of them can land an airliner when the cockpit crew is incapacitated. Heehee. Shirley you jest. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-couldnt-the-nuns-go-to-marias-wedding-sound-of-music/1025946/25 "2026-01-02T15:28:03Z")
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop watching _The Sound of Music._ ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Blaylock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_blaylock/32/3235_2.png) [@Bob\_Blaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Blaylock)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-couldnt-the-nuns-go-to-marias-wedding-sound-of-music/1025946/26 "2026-01-03T22:55:22Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > …and displaying two distributor caps.   One was an ignition coil.  The other, I couldn’t get a good enough look at to tell for sure, but it could have been a distributor cap.  Looked awfully small to be a distributor cap, but maybe the Germans car of that time simply had much smaller distributors that what I think they should be. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-couldnt-the-nuns-go-to-marias-wedding-sound-of-music/1025946/27 "2026-01-04T15:52:05Z")
Of course, all that’s really needed for the scene to work is for them to be recognizably car parts. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-couldnt-the-nuns-go-to-marias-wedding-sound-of-music/1025946/28 "2026-01-04T16:09:37Z")
Joey, have you ever been in a German prison? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-couldnt-the-nuns-go-to-marias-wedding-sound-of-music/1025946/29 "2026-01-04T16:13:48Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Likewise what happened to the nuns when the pissed-off Nazis came back into the monastery. Good question. It’s not clear what the Nazis would do. Will they recognize that the nuns were responsible for the sabotage or will they think the Von Trapps did it? I suggest they blame it on Rolfe. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2026, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-couldnt-the-nuns-go-to-marias-wedding-sound-of-music/1025946/30 "2026-01-05T02:03:26Z")
Rolf, have you ever been to the Eastern Front? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2026, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-couldnt-the-nuns-go-to-marias-wedding-sound-of-music/1025946/31 "2026-01-05T05:03:32Z")
Just think how much better The Sound of Music could have been if the nuns had sung R.E.S.P.E.C.T to the Nazis when they burst into the Abbey? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2026, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-couldnt-the-nuns-go-to-marias-wedding-sound-of-music/1025946/32 "2026-01-05T05:26:37Z")
That could be in the remake, **The Sound of Music: The Musical.** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-couldnt-the-nuns-go-to-marias-wedding-sound-of-music/1025946.md?page=1)