Laverne's ex from Milwaukee who she nearly married visits. She broke up with him back then because she wasn't in love with him. And all the characters kept mentioning this happened "ten years ago". In fact they say it so many times I guess to try and convince us it's true, but it clearly wasn't that long even with the 2 year time jump.
The girls are only in their late 20's as one of them mentioned just a few episodes before, so 10 years prior they'd have still been teenagers. When this occurred in the Milwaukee episode they were clearly in their early 20's.
They should've said 7 years, but that's not the bizarre part of the episode. Sal and Laverne go out on a date and return to her apartment and out of the blue he proposes again. They haven't seen each other in 10 years according to them, so after one date and it's "marry me" already?!
But even that's not the bizarre part....what's bizarre is after Laverne accepts and they agree to go to Vegas to marry, he leaves to get ready, and literally the next scene one second later, he walks back in saying "No we can't get married". Lol...what the hell?!
He brings up the same goosebumps excuse that made them not marry "ten years ago". Then why ask her again?! The whole episode felt very rushed and the flashback scenes seemed like padding. They should've used that time to show the relationship progress on their date instead of flashbacks. At least then we'd probably understand why he popped the question again after just a couple of hours from meeting her again.
They were clearly out of ideas here at this point and it shows. Neither even bothers to do their hair in the time period anymore and they both have that late 70's/early 80's look. The whole episode was just weird...and I think for the first time ever there was no Lenny and Squiggy to be seen. Not that i'm complaining because that was the only bright spot in this weird episode. Can't give it more than 1 star.