"Gilligan's Island" question

Eldergays where were they stranded and for how long.

Maybe they were just killing time pre or post vacation, hence all the luggage.

Because Thurston was a tight wad.

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Because it was funny.

How about a glamorous movie star?

Trying to understand Gillian’s Island is like trying to find meaning in a Pauly Shore film.

The skipper had an exclusive charter to tour a particular reef so the Howells and ginger sought out the ss minnow.

You really want to overthink a sitcom from the 60's?

Lovey got a kick out of fraternizing with the underclasses.

even when we were kids and the show was new, we thought it strange they all had so much luggage for a three hour tour.

Fred Flintstone's royal doppelganger called it "mingling with the peasants" r9.

For the same reason that Ginger packed two dozen evening gowns.

Did Mary-Ann bring the feminine protection?

Dear OP, “Gillian’s Island” was not a documentary.

#13, you can make tampons with seaweed.

Why did the Howells bring all of Mrs. Howell's jewels with them?

Why did Ginger bring all her Hollywood gowns with her?

How could the Professor build anything out of bamboo but still not be able to get them off the island?

How could Mary Ann regularly make Gilligan coconut cream pies and banana cream pies without cream or butter or flour?

Did Mary Ann and Ginger scissor? Weren't they CRAVING some professor dick?

It was a television show - not based on reality. But, word has it that Thurston cruised the boat house after sundown looking for deckhands to plow his bow from stem to stern!

Then there was the space version, where every planet they visited had oxygen and a mild climate.

There wasn't such a wide divide between the classes back then.

Sherwood Schwartz's vision for the show was to put a bunch of disparate people together on a deserted island and see how they interacted. SS didn't think too much about how they ended up on the same dinky little boat. Thurston Howell didn't seem like a tightwad, IMO. Ginger would've brought a date. Mary Ann, too. Yet, here we are.

They were hoping it was a swingers cruise.

You can sing the words to " Amazing Grace" to the music of the "Theme from Gilligan's Island."

You're special OP.

They were swingers and wanted to party with Ginger and The Professor on rough seas.

Also, R23, every Emily Dickinson poem.

But it's even more interesting to recite the lyrics to the "Theme from Gilligan's Island" as if it were an Emily Dickinson poem.

I think the reason Skipper was always upbeat and smiling was because he had a big fat cock.

The professor seemed hung - and he was hot

R27 They probably didn't want to tour the South Seas, since the boat sailed from Honolulu.

On a 3-hour tour.

They thought it was the transport taking them to the ocean liner. And they first thought Ginger was the entertainment. Nudge. Nudge. Wink. Wink.

Because they were old money.

Lovey was a ditz. She might have thought she was booking the Minnow for a private tour, and misunderstood. Or arrived on the wrong day.

Maybe they were slumming?

Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer were perfectly cast and made the Howells timeless tv characters.

Why did Doug and Tony go into the Time Tunnel? Why did Samantha marry Darrin? Why does Dick Van Dyke keep tripping over that ottoman?

Why don't the other castaways just kill Gilligan, since he always messes up their plans to return home?

Why doesn't Jan just kill Marcia?

OP, you have possibly chosen one of the most minor of the unending logical glitches in GI. It is a total fantasy and extreme exercise in the suspension of disbelief. You just go with it.

Let’s cast the Gilligan Island reboot film with stunt casting.

[quote]Also, [R23], every Emily Dickinson poem. But it's even more interesting to recite the lyrics to the "Theme from Gilligan's Island" as if it were an Emily Dickinson poem.

I always thought the melody for Emily's poems was " The Yellow Rose of Texas."

[quote] I always thought the melody for Emily's poems was " The Yellow Rose of Texas."

I'm astonished you would think that for some reason there could only be one song.

R17, totally unnecessary. Besides, the professor didn't have a dick.

[quote] Why did the Howells, apparently fabulously wealthy, book a three-hour public boat tour with a group of strangers?

Believe it or not, it was solely because that's the way the script was written. Funny now that works. Frankly I would have thought you would have asked why the Howells were carrying a suitcase with tons of money in it. Money they displayed on multiple occasions. Or how did the people on a deserted island come up with all the costumes they wore when they did their little plays at various times.

^ Really? Because that’s how the script was written? I thought actors wrote their own scripts.

Why couldn’t they make it to the mainland? They were ground ashore on a backlot and you can see buildings sometimes.

Elliot Page as Gilligan, Melissa McCarthy as the Skipper, Beyonce and Jay-Z as the Howells, Megan Markle as Ginger, Cole Escola as Mary Ann, Neil deGrasse Tyson as the Professor.

When they returned to civilization, Ginger found out that the movie industry had changed so much that all they wanted was sex and violence. She no longer fit in. I wish they would have told us what happened to Eva.

R45 I love you. Elliot Page as Gilligan. Something tells me that might work 😆.

I’m LOL’ing at Melissa McCarthy as the Skipper 😂

OP his wasn’t a regular boat tour. Everyone was wealthy except Mary Anne.

Trivia: Natalie Schafer was 13 years older than Jim Backus.

Ginger must’ve been climbing the walls of her hut in sexual frustration: Howell was too old, Professor was an asexual, Skipper was physically repulsive, and Gilligan was a sexless man/boy.

R11, we’ve already established that Ginger was extremely “close” to Mary Ann.

Excuse me, I meant R51

I can’t top R45, but I’m inspired to go for distant runner-up.

Raygun as Gilligan, Rebel Wilson as the Skipper, Harry and Meghan as the Howells, Nicole Kidman as Ginger, Naomi Watts as Mary Ann, Elon Musk as the Professor.

And... 50+ replies. What has happened to the DL?

r55 Meaning?

Why was it not called Ginger's Island?