Gilligan's Island

If they could build a movie studio for Ginger, why couldn't they patch up a boat.

R1 The show required a huge suspension of disbelief, indeed.

I watched it but I would hardly have called it great TV, as a young gay male just starting to realize my attraction to men, I wanted the Professor in such a bad way. I didn't understand why they had two hot women, although they did nothing for me and only the Professor for me. I did love that the Professor appeared to have zero interest in any of the women, now that I could identify with.

There was one episode where the Professor was having a dream, and when he woke up, his white button down shirt was open and his chest was exposed. He was hot!

The Tongo the Ape Man episode was one of my favorites.

I always wondered how the Professor's shirt stayed so perfectly white.

Quite possibly the unfunniest sitcom of all time. Even as I child, I couldn't stand it. The writing and the acting seemed to be pitched toward 5-year-olds.

R7 I bet you were really popular as a child.

Yes, I love this show.

We never really talk about Gilligan's Island. 🌟 🌟 GOOD THREAD, OP! 🌟 🌟 🌟

The island represented hell, and Gilligan was the devil keeping them there.

There was an episode where Rory Calhoun played a big game hunter and wanted to hunt a human. Gilligan was his target. That one freaked me out; it was really disturbing.

"Hamlet, Hamlet, do be a manlet. . . ."

"You need us. You NEED us."

From my favorite episodes.

R13 The Honeybees!

I wonder if Tina Louise, Dawn Wells, and Natalie Schafer could have fathomed that their one-off Honeybees number would bring such sheer delight to little gaylings watching the series and that it would inspire a similar sentiment in nostalgia half a century later.

I'm amazed that it never got remade into a movie like so many 60s & 70s TV shows.

I did, in reruns, but goddamn was it stupid. As soon as something else was available, I’d watch that instead.

A few years ago, there was a Gilligan's Island feature in development, but it never came to fruition. They couldn't do it now; most of the original Gilligan's Islands fans are either dead or don't go out to movies anymore.

And young people would have no idea what Gilligan's Island is.

R12 I remember that one, too. I didn't like it. It made me very nervous. And I was really upset with the other castaways for not protecting poor Gilligan from that maniac.

R15 I loved how Mrs Howell was rocking the punk look 15 years ahead of its time.

She should have done a tribute album to The Ramones.

I was disturbed by the Eva Grubb episode. She is turned into a swan and then returns to the mainland to take over Ginger's career. I thought Tina Louise was really good in the episode but it didn't have that denouement that is usual for the series, i.e. the Rory Calhoun episode where he returns to go crazy or the stowaway on the island who throws his radio away only to discover it contained his prize money.

I believe in the Return to Gilligan's Island episode, there was a vague reference to Eva Grubb in Hollywood but because she couldn't act, she disappeared.

That's hilarious r20, I thought the same thing. Early punk circa late 70's .

R22 Yes, Tina Louise was excellent in the Eva Grubb episode - she lowered her voice to sound completely different, and she turned out to be very evil. That one was disturbing, yes.

Tongo the Ape Man (Denny Miller) was so popular he returned as a marooned and bemuscled surfer boy.

R24, the obvious tag would be the gang hearing that Eva's boat had crashed and she had plastic surgery but kept insisting she was Ginger Grant so she was committed to an insane asylum. Sort of like the shell shocked vet in Airplane who thought he was Ethel Merman.

I used to watch this every day after school. I loved it. And it's "Hamlet, Hamlet do be a LAMBlet" not Manlet.

R11, Gilligan is Gluttony and the Skipper is Anger. There's no devil

I hated the episode with Zsa Zsa simply because her character KNEW the Howells. But when Erika Tiffany-Smith gets back she can't remember the directions back to the Island but surely she must remember who the Howell's are and that they are still alive and she doesn't say that part, which of course would mean a big manhunt.

Kurt Russell said he was teases relentlessly in school after his episode as the "wild child" aired for wearing a loin cloth.

R28, some say skipper was both gluttony and anger. Fat and always hitting Gilligan with his cap.

R1 So many people think the boat U.S.S. Minnow was left intact on the shore but the episode where Gilligan's glue is used to patch up the boat, it falls apart due to the substance. Gilligan desperately tries to save the ship somehow by going inside & is left in the end just holding the steering wheel at the end.

4 times the crew attempt to sail away from the island=

1 = Gilligan & Skipper go out on a raft in an early season one episode only for it to be chewed up by sharks.

2 = Also in season one, Ginger & Mary Ann catch the rubber life raft with a fishing rod during the gold mine episode. Everyone but Gilligan take too much gold in their belongings & end up sinking the raft in the lagoon.

In the color seasons, they end up with the evil Doctor's boat after they free themselves from his body changing ways on his remote island (LOL) only for it to sink into the lagoon when they all are about to retrieve some provisions.

The final time is in the episode "Ring Around Gilligan" where the evil Doctor & his monkey Igor use mind control rings on the castaways to practice a bank heist complete with the bamboo car peddled by Gilligan (LOL). The Professor tells the castaways that the winds have changed briefly which makes using a raft for a rescue mission possible. Gilligan is seen constructing a raft only for a mind controlled Ginger (& later the Skipper) to come along & smash it. When Mr. Howell comes to talk to Gilligan, he tries to beat Mr. Howell to the punch by destroying it himself. Mr. Howell is seen running away thinking Gilligan has lost his mind! (LOL).

After those episodes, no other raft/boat attempts are made until the first Gilligan's Island tv movie.

goofballs

Lots of sexual tension between The Professor and Ginger, Skipper and Little Buddy, Lovey and Mary Ann, etc.

Thank you for the correction, duckie at R27. I can never remember the words of songs right. Lamblet's even better.

It’s fun mindless escapism, in glorious technicolor. I’ll watch it sometimes just to get my mind off politics, and remember simply being a kid watching it after school.

I still love it for the same reasons, R35.

Bob Denver starred in a short-lived knockoff of "Gilligan's Island" in the 70s, a western called "Dusty's Trail" that was also produced by Sherwood Schwartz:

R35, R36, in Escape from Gilligans Island, one of the best moments was where the Howells were having dinner with their snobby friends and Gilligan and the Skipper come by to have them sign some documents saying the Skipper was not responsible for the crash of the Minnow. Mr. and Mrs. Howell are delighted to see them but when they hear their friends insulting them, they throw them out of their house.

R38, I remember that! It was a great scene.

R31 I love that episode where the evil scientist does his body switching experiment and Igor ends up in Ginger's body. I still remember Ginger opening her mouth and hearing a man's deep voice saying, "I like it. Feels good."

R38 a local channel shows that movie a few times a year and I never miss it. It's just fun to feel like a kid again while watching it.

I loved the episode where MaryAnn hits her head and thinks she's Ginger. Also, I will never forget how bummed I was when a ship passed the island when the moon was blue, just as Ginger fake-predicted, but Gilligan wasn't keeping watch anymore...

I love one where they discover seeds on the island that give one the ability (temporarily) to read others' minds.

It's an insanely stupid show that was also insanely fun. Didn't they all sue Sherwood Schwartz for not giving them any of the money from syndication?

Talking about this show is the lowest of the low.

then why are you talking about it?

R46, I'm not you jackass.

you're frequenting the thread and posting and then complaining about it. you're the jackass. and you're an idiot as well.

Pure fun and escapism.

The professor got fat in old age. His son died of AIDS and he did become a big supporter of gay rights and AIDS causes though.

R42 That's my favourite episode as well. Poor Ginger having all her dresses ripped apart and then later in the show when Maryann gets her own self back Ginger has to restitch all those dresses.

R51 In an early season one episode as she is crawling out of the vine trap cave in, Ginger mentions to the Skipper (as he is helping her out) that the dress she is wearing (a.k.a. the "iconic one") is her only dress. I guess by the time 93rd episode "The Second Ginger Grant" came along, Eva Grubb left behind some material for some new clothes for her.

On IMDB, the three most popular episodes are "Don't Bug The Mosquitoes" (8.3), my least favorite one "The Producer" a.k.a. "Hamlet" (8.3) & the OP's "Pass The Vegetables, Please" (8.2).

The three least favorite episodes are "Forward March" (6.5), "They're Off & Running" a.k.a. the turtle races (6.4) & "Diamonds Are An Ape's Best Friend" (6.3).

I think my two least favorite episodes (or, more pointedly, the two I just didn't like) were the Phil Silvers episode and the Eva Gabor episode. Neither ever appealed to me.

One of my favorites was the episode in which a briefcase washed up on the island and Gilligan handcuffed it to himself. He later dreamed that he was a Bond-like super spy with the other castaways in various crazy roles, particularly the Skipper as his mother and Mr. Howell as a super villain who communicated with his minions through weird means like chicken soup. It was a very clever, very well-written episode that I'm sure would've received due praise had it been any show other than "Gilligan's Island."

I liked the dream episodes. One had Mrs. Howell as Mary Poppins and Maryann as Eliza Doolittle.

I used to watch this shit after school and other than atomic vegetables I wouldn’t have remembered any of the plots. You guys have great memories.

Never a borrower, nor a lender be. Do not forget, stay out of debt.

It was fun. But I don’t think I could sit down and watch it like I did as a kid.

The Howells are great characters. Mr. Howell in particular is one of my favorite all time silly personas. He had some really amusing lines.

R54 I remember that one! MaryAnn did a great Cockney accent!

R53 I remember that secret agent episode, too. Gilligan kisses Ginger, then she instantly dies. She was wearing poison lipstick that ricocheted back onto her lips because Gilligan was wearing plastic lip guards.

R58, I too loved the Howells. They were just fabulous characters, made even better by Jim Backus's and Natalie Schafer's wonderful performances. You could just see how much fun they were having playing those roles.

R58 There was one episode where Gilligan was in yet another jam, and all the castaways were talking about what to do to fix it. Mrs. Howell enthusiastically said, "I know! I'll fix him a nice bowl of chicken soup!" And the Skipper said, "Mrs. Howell, chicken soup won't help." And she flippantly replied, "Well, it certainly couldn't hurt." It was the first time Mrs. Howell got kind of bitchy and I loved it!

R61 That was the one where Gilligan gets bit by the green bug with yellow wings (titled "Gilligan Gets Bugged"?). Everyone thinks he has 24 hours to live.

After Mrs. Howell said that, she followed with "Let's throw Gilligan a party. I just love a going away party!" Skipper & Mr. Howell looked shocked by her words but she quickly apologized for them.

They sing "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow" for Gilligan & then get too choked up to continue with his party. I think they sang that for the hunter before they found out he was going to hunt one of them. It must be their go to song for celebrations. No wonder Eva Grubb left them all behind. Could you imagine them all singing "For She's A Jolly Good Fellow" to her for originally letting the castaways take her boat?

My ex used to call me 'Lovey', and I just took it as a term of affection. It was only later that I realized he was mocking me for always being prepared with an umbrella (he's AA, with close-cropped hair so he usually doesn't bother with them). Of course, the disconnect of logic was very apparent even to a little boy like me, but it was still entertaining. And the Professor was quite hunky, and Gilligan had a tight little body with a nice tuft of black hair on his chest.

Mrs. Howell was no stranger to snobbery but unlike Mrs. Drysdale, she often showed great kindness, sympathy and generosity.

One of Mrs. Howell's best lines was to the crazy Doctor on the island: You must be one of those silly doctors who voted for Medicare.

R62 That's right! They all thought Gilligan was going to die and Mrs. Howell wanted to make him chicken soup!

Remember when they had Miss Castaway and Gilligan had to choose between the ladies. Ginger did Let Me Entertain You and got pelted with peas. Maryann tried to do a soft shoe and got her foot caught in glue and Mrs. Howell did a recitation of The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere only to be bombarded with pepper and had a sneezing fit. He ended up choosing a gorilla because she was a native.

One of the best episodes was where Mrs. Howell dreams she's Cinderella with great performances from everyone. Maryann and Ginger are the evil stepsisters and Gingers gets her wig snatched off and Maryann magically has her dress pulled up.

[quote][working with Joan Crawford on Female on the Beach (1955)] Now, Female was another story. By this time I presumed Joan and I were friends, at least colleagues, so I made a point of stopping by her trailer for cocktails and such. Now the leading man on this film was Jeff Chandler, a terribly nice young man, very good-looking, and he and Joan were in the middle of a very steamy affair. I remember Joan staying on after filming and Jeff remained as well. We were about halfway through the film when Joan invited me to her house for a small dinner party and I really had made very definite plans and had to decline. Well, she seemed alright with it, until the next morning I arrived on the set only to find my trailer had been physically moved almost to the parking lot of Universal. You learn not to say 'no' to Miss Joan Crawford unless you wish to suffer the consequences.

~Natalie Schafer, from IMDB.

Dawn Wells said that she cared for Natalie Schafer in her declining years.

R66 That's one of my top 5 favorites to watch. It never gets old to me.

I was shocked that the Professor backed Mary Ann after Ginger taught him how to kiss & they had that passionate b & w "castaway film" kiss.

I guess the Professor held a grudge after Ginger shot him & he injured himself when he fell onto her table. Her loss.

Part 1 of the Cinderella episode. Watch how charming Natalie is during the ball sequences.

I lived for Gilligan's Island!

It's hilarious still, and if you notice the cast consists of the classic Commedia dell'arte characters. That's why it is the perfect balance and so many scenarios work beautifully!

I was waiting for Gilligan to ride the professor

Well, given that neither seemed to convincingly express that much interest in women, you have to wonder if that's what was really going on deep in that jungle, R72.

Gillian was a chubby chaser..

Gilligan frequently dressed up like a woman to lure horny head hunters.

I would watch this (and Bewitched) all the time after grade school and the episodes are burned into my brain. I have two of the color seasons on DVD and am always meaning to complete my collection. Watching them now is fascinating.

The episode where the Russian spy(?) pretends to be a ghost on the island, covered in a flowing white sheet and moaning in echo as he runs in slow motion, used to give me nightmares as a little kid.

The one where the meteor crashed onto the island and set off rays that were making everything age rapidly freaked me out. I was so worried about the Howells getting old so fast, being as they were already old.

I watched the reruns after elementary school. My favorite episode is when they had a beauty contest and Gilligan ended up picking his monkey.

R78 The men were so mean to the women in that episode! Poor MaryAnn getting her taps heel stuck in glue! Poor Ginger getting pelted with peas by the Professor!

R79 The group was always hard on Ginger the most. That episode started out with the Skipper trying to make Ginger feel better after her rival won a beauty contest.

Mr. Howell then made it about his wife & then the Professor made it about Mary Ann. It became about every female instead of poor Ginger who had to hear some awful news. No matter how diplomatic the Skipper was with his toast, the spotlight on Ginger's problem/feelings was lost to the group forever with Gilligan suggesting a beauty contest to solve the "problem". You would think after the pageant was over, the other four would have taken Gilligan aside & told him to vote for Ginger to make her feel better about being stranded on the island but no that didn't happen.

Ginger's feelings were pushed aside again in the first season with the Cleopatra play. Mrs. Howell made it about her & no one would stand up & redirect the focus back to why they were putting on the play to begin with= to make Ginger happy while on the island & to give her a role she could do when returning to Hollywood.

The Skipper & Gilligan could always return to boating, The Professor to his experiments, Mary Ann to her farming & the Howells to their partying/money making. Ginger being around 30 & female, would have a career span of maybe another decade in Hollywood if she was lucky. This fact always seemed to get lost on her fellow castaways.

If I was Ginger, I would've told off the others on more than one occasion. She was especially thoughtful to the others feelings during her crystal ball episode. They seldom returned the favor. Why didn't the castaways have Gilligan or one of his pet apes hide some or most of Ginger's clothes so Mary Ann couldn't ruin them all during her "Ginger" phase? I guess when 3 of the guys wear the same outfit every day, they weren't very sympathetic with Ginger's larger wardrobe issues. The Howells simply had no excuse. Fuck 'em Miss Grant! Fuck 'em all!

That was also my favorite episode of the series, OP.

Hey OP, You & me both on this one...MaryAnn's favorite sugar beets looked like massive udders and she'd only seen anything like that under a cow! After she ate some, she did everything in high speed motion. All the vegetables were enormous, the professor's giant carrots made him see all the way back to Hawaii or some such place. This episode weirdly passes through my mind, occasionally I reference it to others who give me blank looks. Gilligan's Island was an annoyingly dopey show most of the time...Anywho! Radioactive seeds for best of GI.

^^ In the radioactive vegetables episode, Mrs. Howell reaches across the table while exclaiming "Oh, I just ADORE sugar beets!" And that line has remained prominently in my brain for decades!

I loved how the sugar rush prompted a high-speed, frenzied cleaning of her hut while a perplexed Mr. Howell looked on.

The reason Ginger got so many bad breaks on the show is probably because everyone, producers, writers, directors, actors, etc. hated her.

When I was a child the vegetable seeds episode was also my favorite, OP!

As an adult the Phil Silvers/Harold Hecuba episode has moved into first place. It is fucking brilliant tv!

This thread really takes me back. I remember for years this was the lineup we watched every evening on Channel 11 back in the '70s:

4:30 Gilligan's Island

5:00 I Love Lucy

5:30 The Dick Van Dyke Show

6:00 Bewitched

6:30 Adam-12

R83 Speaking of great lines from Mrs. Howell, there was an episode where Gilligan's and the Skipper's hair mysteriously fell out and the other castaways were trying to pretend not to notice so Gilligan and the Skipper wouldn't feel self-conscious.

At one point, everyone's at the breakfast table, and Maryann asks Mrs. Howell what she'd like to eat. Mrs. Howell says, "I'll have a hard BALD egg!"

To this day, whenever I see a hard boiled egg on a menu, I hear Mrs. Howell.

R80 I love your analysis of the psychology of the Gilligan's Island castaways and the enmity toward Ginger. You should teach a class on this - you are a true Gilligan's Island expert.

R83 Then she runs out of the hut, hops up on a table and dances on it, then scurries off into the jungle!

And the ending of the radioactive vegetable seeds was great, too. The professor decided they all had to eat soap to expel the radiation from their bodies. So they're all at the table, choking down bars of soap, and then bubbles start coming out of all their mouths. I remember Ginger cooing, "Just call me Bubbles," as the bubbles floated out of her mouth.

The episode ends with a shot of the jungle and hundreds of bubbles floating around.

R90, Ginger said she would have a new career as a bubble dancer, something I didn't get as a kid.

R90 Actually, I think it was MaryAnn who cooed, "Oooh! Just call me Bubbles!"

I didn't understand the bubble dancer line, either, R91. I always thought she was making a play on "belly dancer" or something.

It was a silly show, but it was fun. A lot of those retro shows were silly: "Bewitched", "My Favorite Martian", "Mr. Ed", "Green Acres", "The Beverly Hillbillies." All very silly, but fun and occasionally funny.

I love that so many of us have the same favorite episodes, especially the radioactive seeds!

And I’m duly impressed by the depth of knowledge this thread has revealed. Impressed, but not terribly surprised. DL, you infuriate, but you have your undeniable charms.

R92, I thought it meant something like she took a bubble bath onstage.

Our collective trauma.

R96 So disturbing, even today. Rory Calhoun played a great psychopath.

R95 Some bubble dancers do.

I remember being a little disturbed by this as well.

The writers knew just which animals to superimpose over the characters’ heads.

In the Phil Silvers episode, Ginger does an impression for Harold Hecuba which as a child, while amusing to me went right over my head. As an adult I can see it's Ginger performing her Sophia Loren in "Two Women" schtick to impress the producer. Hilarious. "Breada, breada, I giva you breada! You stuffa you fat face with breada!" Which Silvers then mocks mercilessly. She follows with a very good Marilyn Monroe impersonation The whole thing is pretty funny.

Radioactive vegetables was my favorite episode too then and now: "Mrs. Howell! She kept eating the sugar beets! Sugar is energy... I wonder how she's reacting to the vegetables!" And then the great scene with her moving in sped-up motion.

As an adult I realize the bst episodes were the most fanciful episodes, like that one,the two Nehemiah Persoff peisodes as the evil scientist (where he had the mind control ring, and also when he could change minds in bodies), and Duke the muscle-bound fap-worthy surfer riding the extremely rare "reverse tsunami" from the island to Hawaii.

Another favorite episode was when the unmanned Mars Lander landed on the island, and it all got mixed up when the Lander finally turned its camera on after the castaways (due to ridiculous plot machinations)had been doused in glue and had fought with Gilligan in an enormous pile of feathers, and convinced the NASA scientists watching they had to be bird people living on Mars ("I... I think that... that big chicken-man... is trying to make the little chicken-man... lay an egg!").

Also love the Erika Tiffany Smith episode with Zsa Zsa Gabor: "Oh Mrs, Tiffany Smith, you're so beautiful, you remind me of a poem!: 'The boy stood on the burning deck... his feet were filled with blisters!'")

Hey R86! I grew up in Dallas Fort Worth too! I remember that line up. And the Banana Splits at 3:30 followed by the Flintstones at 4:00.

This episode, where Gilligan gets knocked in the jaw, and become a radio, is great. Always enjoyed the episodes without guest stars the most, for some reason.

R86 assuming you were in the tri-state area, you were switching back and forth between 11 (WPIX) and 5 (WNEW). Here is how I remember it-

5:00 I Love Lucy channel 5

5:30 The Dick Van Dyke Show channel 11

6:00 Bewitched. Chan 5

6:30 Adam-12. Chan 5

And GI was always on 5. As was Brady Bunch.

Chiefy Wiefy wuv Ginger Winjer

Perhaps you all are forgetting when the film machinery floated to the island and the castaways made a film that everyone at Cannes thought was a lost Fellini.

That film was great R106. Mr. Howell...."Good heavens X-rays!"

R101 I loved that Mars lander episode, and yes, I remember that line about the Skipper trying to get Gilligan to lay an egg!

R101 They're...chicken people!

Does anyone have info about Tina Louise's unhappiness on the show? I guess she was trapped in her contract but you have to wonder why she didn't try to leave after the first season the way Farrah Fawcett did on Charlies Angels.

Lovey Howell was fabulous. I wanted to be her. Still do.

The Professr’s obit.

Grew up in a school for orphans, earned the Purple Heart in WWII, and had an AIDS-activist son.

[quote]He ended up choosing a gorilla because she was a native

Gorillas are African strictly. So they must've drifted quite a ways

Remember when Gilligan was invisible? That was so so very

What people, including much of the cast and Sherwood Schwartz have said is that when Tina Louise was cast, she believed herself to be the focus of the show. Which is very odd, because of the shows title.

When she realized this was not the case, she got upset, and was unhappy for her whole time there. She also had to deal with being sexually assaulted by CBS chief James Aubrey.

She denies thinking she was going to be the focus of the show, however.

R115, Aubrey was the subject of Jacqueline Susann's "The Love Machine" but he didn't assault Tina. She was known for giving blow jobs to get other jobs and she and Aubrey had a very nice understanding.

OMG, R102, I love you! You are so awesome! Yes, I grew up in the DFW metroplex. And I actually couldn't remember what show came on before "Gilligan" and you're right, it was "The Flintstones."

R107, I love the moment in that episode when you see a close-up of Ginger's lips in their little homemade film, causing Mr. Howell to ask "What is that horrible-looking thing?" to which Gilligan replies, "Ginger's mouth." Of course, Ginger is quite insulted.

I just gave $20 to Dawn Wells go fund me account

So so very what, R114?

“Oh a Leeeeeeeeennnsssss oh!

Darling, what’s a lens?

Oh look, Gilligan's little friend has come to join the parrrtee!

It isnt even good enough for the late, late, late, late, late show!

Really Thurston... eat and run!

Mrs Howell and Mrs Drysdale, two rich TV broads I loved...

Fun fact: though Mr. Howell called his wife "Lovey," no one else 9except Erica Tiffany Smith and Mr. Howell's imposter) ever did.

In one episode, it's revealed that her real first name is Eunice.

Moolah, Moolah!

[quote]the two Nehemiah Persoff peisodes as the evil scientist (where he had the mind control ring, and also when he could change minds in bodies)

IIRC, the evil scientist was played by Vito Scotti. Persoff appeared in a separate episode.

[quote]Always enjoyed the episodes without guest stars the most, for some reason.

Same here, R103! Except for the episodes with the evil scientist, I always preferred the ones with just the regular cast.

I liked the episode when they wished to be off the island and then the parcel of land they were all standing on broke off.

Keep forgetting about the prehistoric episode. One of the best.

Gilligan's Island as Roseanne.

I'm actually surprised Tina participated in that skit considering how she never wanted to be associated with "GI" anymore after it was over.

R126 "Go wrong way, fall off edge." Another one of my favorite lines!

The one episode that stuck in my head is when the Skipper gets shell-shocked / PTSD and sees the rest of the Castaways as "gooks"

I remember that it was black and white and very non-pc.

There is actually Gilligan's Island "adult" short stories out there.

Yep. Mrs. Howell has sex.

^^^There ARE actually

I never saw that clip at r127. I guess it was from after I gave up on Roseanne? But I enjoyed it immensely.

r122

In one episode, the Professor called her Lovey

I have a bone to pick with the lyricists of the theme song. They use Gilligan's Isle, not Gilligan's Island. Could they not find anything to rhyme with island?

Anyone seen the straight pornos based on Gillian's Island? They are typical straight porn but the credits which of course changes the words to the theme song is hilarious.

[quote]They use Gilligan's Isle, not Gilligan's Island. Could they not find anything to rhyme with island?

...as primitive as can be

So join us here each week my friends, I'll jerk you with my hand

Says Gilligan the castaway, on Gilligan's Island

It was mentioned but no one posted a picture of Denny Miller as Duke, the surfer. He sure got my attention as a gayling.

^ That is the masculine physique I miss. “Hunk” without the sculpting and without the runaway narcissism.

You're not paying attention, R138. Hunk Denny was mentioned way, way up thread. See R5.

“Man, this is smorgas-broad time!”

Mary Ann and Ginger are proxies for DL.

And Denny Miller also played Tongo, the fake ape man, who was in character for a Tarzan role.

Note the ”real” ape. The island boasted both an African gorilla and an Indonesian orangutan!

Way off course, indeed.

R140. Read again. I said “It was mentioned but...”. Reading is fundamental.

“Duke Williams Arrives.”

And thousands of little gay boys feel a strange stirring.

One of my favorite scenes in GI where the girls are in a mud bath and Gilligan thinks the headhunters got them.

Ginger's hair was always so immaculate.

The planet location was more exciting.

R147

Ginger stole my look

The incidental music was perfect for the show. And I used to love it when one of the characters (usually the Skipper) would break the fourth wall with a glance or a comment.

For anyone who wants to see the Mosquitoes episode featuring the Honeybees, tune into MeTV today at 3 p.m. eastern time.

Not a Gilligan fan, but wondering why the fuck this thread got F&F'd?

I didn't even know that, R151, until your post. You're right, bizarre.

What is "F&F'd?"

Dawn Wells cannot sing, so in the Mosquitoes episode her singing voice was dubbed by singer-songwriter Carol Connor. She is perhaps best known as the lead vocalist on the Teddy Bears' single, "To Know Him Is To Love Him."

Connor was nominated for an Oscar for co-writing the Theme from Rocky - Gonna Fly Now. The also co-wrote With You I'm Born Again and testified for OJ that she had seen him at a charity event before the murders.

R153, Flames and Freaks.

Weird it happened to this totally innocuous thread.

R155 I don't get it - Flames and Freaks?

All of the dream sequence episodes are hilarious.

There's a Jack the Ripper dream episode

The one where the radioactive meteorite ages them all 50 years older dream- "Mary Anne, we ARE all the girls!"

The Jack in the Beanstalk dream episode about the oranges

The Cavemen dream episode with the quote already mentioned- brilliant.

Am I missing any other dream sequences?

R157 The episode where Gilligan is bitten by a bat, and thinks he's a vampire. There's a great dream sequence on that episode, including the professor and skipper as Holmes and Watson.

I despise Vampires, they're so toothy.

R157 The Mr. Hyde episode, Cinderella episode, "WIld West duck" episode & the "poison mushroomed Mary Ann" episode come to mind.

The 3 Bamboo Car Episodes

Bob Denver's son played mini-Gilligan in the Jack and the Beanstalk episode.

G.I. Mind Swaps

R14 I like this version, as well.

R163 I always loved that line from Ginger/Igor: "I'm in here. Feels good."

Yeah, I opened this thread expecting Skipper the bear and aged twink Gilligan fantasies to devolve into partisan bs or racism. I'm disappointed. What's with the FF?!

So many old shows seem to be in both b&w and color btw. Didn't Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie and Beverley Hillbillies start out in b&w too?

Also, I agree with the hunk. I hate the vascular look. Always have. Reminds me of diseased-looking porn models. Strong, buff, with a little meat is 100%.

R163 I love hearing the Skipper's voice coming out of Mrs. Howell!

R163 I loved that episode, but it always bothered me that they left that house and went back to the island. Why didn't they just stay there? They'd have had plumbing and electricity and all the luxuries! And they had already turned Vito Scotti and Igor into a dog and a cat, so what harm could those two do to them? And with all the electronic gadgets in the dungeon, the Professor would have found a way to contact someone to come and rescue them.

R167 I did too! They really went wild with the concept. They could have just switched Mary Ann & Mrs. Howell to make it more "less controversial" for the times.

Mr. Howell could have been briefly faced with a younger & prettier Mrs. Howell to deal with. I'm glad they went with the more daring match ups.

A disloyal Ginger (as Igor) responds "Capture them yourself" instead of "Leave my friends alone!"

It doesn't sound like she was too thrilled with her fellow castaways treatment of her in this situation. LOL!!!

R168 That never occured to me. Maybe they thought he employed other thugs (besides Igor) that came to the island & weren't going to stay around to meet them. They had his boat & were going to get dependable food/supplies from their island when it shockingly sank into the lagoon LOL! I wonder if they took any batteries from his gadgets for their radio?

I was watching a few episodes of GI and ended up looking up the actors ages, I was surprised to find that the skipper was 43 when the series started, while the professor was 50, and Mr Howell 51. Talk about time being a bitch for some, and not for others. The skipper always seemed much older than the professor.

Even a child could figure out there were no uninhabited islands within 3 hours of Honolulu.

Russell Johnson was 7 years older than Alan Hale? Who da thought?

r171

What? What does that have to do with anything? In the pilot Gilligan says to the Skipper, "When the passengers wake up, they're going to want to get off at the marina." Clearly during their three hour tour, the storm came and after it calmed down, the boat drifted all night.

r172

Mr Lucas (Trevor Banister) was a year older than Mr Humphries (John Inman), being 37 and 38 when the show started.

R173 at any given point in time, regardless of a storm - the boat of that class (a 40’ wheeler) had a maximum fuel load of 100 gallons. It actually was rated for 3 hours and 80 nautical miles out. No matter what kind of a storm it hit, it wasn’t going to get blown so far as to encounter a previously undocumented set of islands.

R175 Oh, Lord. Someone trying to impress us with his knowledge of boats and sailing on a Gilligan's Island thread. Eye roll, please.

R170 Actually, Russell Johnson was born in 1924, which would have made him 40 when Gilligan's Island premiered, not 50.

I had a crush on the professor when I was young, So handsome and smart. You know he hated those rubes and the stuck up Howells. I wonder what he was doing on that boat. Maybe research?!?

I would have sucked Skipper’s dick night and day.

And we’d convert the hammock into a sling for serious roughfucking.

r176 it was a stupid show. even as a kid, i saw that. my dad was amused when I asked him these questions when I was in second grade.

looking back, this was one step from a drag show. why would anybody go on a tourist cruise with trunks of clothes? Right. Just Virginia Hamm, Shanita Mann and Pussy Galore.

R177. You’re right could have sworn I saw 1914 on Wiki, that at least makes more sense. Still surprised how relatively young the skipper was.

R180 Smell her!

This is pretty good.

Any time I see "Gilligan's Island," I also can't help but be struck by what a beautiful-looking series it was -- the two color seasons were just stunning to look at, particularly now on an HD screen. Between Gilligan's and Skipper's orb-bright red and blue shirts (respectively) plus the vibrant colors often worn by the Howells, Ginger's fire-red hair, not to mention a background always bursting with lush-green tropical scenery, it all made for an aesthetically-gorgeous production.

r184

TV shows back then wanted to emphasize colors since they spent so much money upgrading to color.

I recall in one show, where a missile was going to hit the island, the Skipper says that they drifted for three days after the storm, so they were on the boat awhile, which contradicts the first episode

Wrongway bump

I loved Hans Conried as Wrongway Feldman.

Something for the die-hard fans to look forward to: a film called The Gillian Manifesto

That should read The Gilligan Manifesto.

R188 Thanks for posting that.

I'm watching the episode where Skipper tells them all they have to be thankful for then everyone looks at Gilligan and says in unison, "Without Gilligan we'd be off this Island, and wouldn't have to be thankful for any of the trivial shit the Skipper just listed."

They showed the Phil Silvers "Harold Hecuba" episode today on MeTV. I watched it and now can't get that "Hamlet" song out of my head (at the 4:00 mark in the attached video). I give them credit, they wrote pretty catchy tunes for the show.