# Best episode of "Gilligan's Island"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 14, 2016, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101 "2016-02-14T06:30:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/21 "2016-02-14T15:26:46Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > The Maryann thinks she is Ginger episode I prefer the one where Mary Ann thinks she is Ginger. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/22 "2016-02-14T15:32:44Z")
My favorites as a kid were the one where they get superpowers from radioactive vegetables and the Hamlet one. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/23 "2016-02-14T15:43:15Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > Seconded. To the music of _Carmen_. Me as well. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bXId5jOTxdg/hqdefault.jpg "Gilligan's Island Polonius' Advice to Laertes sung to the Toreador Song") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXId5jOTxdg) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/24 "2016-02-14T15:47:35Z")
> [@tim-n-va](#): > > My favorite is the one where they were about to get off the island and Gilligan screwed it up at the end. That’s my favorite episode too! ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/25 "2016-02-14T15:50:15Z")
What about one of the movies that followed? \* The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island\* ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/26 "2016-02-14T15:57:17Z")
The one where the Mad Scientist used mind control rings on the castaways. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/27 "2016-02-14T16:20:52Z")
> [@tim-n-va](#): > > My favorite is the one where they were about to get off the island and Gilligan screwed it up at the end. I always liked the one with the lengthy dream sequence better. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/28 "2016-02-14T16:36:08Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > My favorites as a kid were the one where they get superpowers from radioactive vegetables and the Hamlet one. Mine too (the radioactive vegetables). I remember Ginger (or was it Mary Ann?) ate carrots, so her vision was superpowered, she got them all excited because she saw a boat that could save them, but of course it turned out it was like 100s of miles away. Which makes no sense, since it’d be over the curve of the Earth, but what did I know, I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/29 "2016-02-14T17:14:39Z")
My favorite is also the Hamlet episode. From a different episode, Lovey is the grooviest girl-group member of the [Honeybees](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDcpexDjvAM). ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/30 "2016-02-14T17:56:08Z")
I like the one where Maynard G Krebs wakes up from his bad dream. Or: “G… I… double L I… G A N spells Gilligan. …uh that’s me!” . ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/31 "2016-02-14T17:59:07Z")
Pulu see Bagoomba! ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/32 "2016-02-14T18:05:50Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Mine too (the radioactive vegetables). > > I remember Ginger (or was it Mary Ann?) ate carrots, so her vision was superpowered, she got them all excited because she saw a boat that could save them, but of course it turned out it was like 100s of miles away. > > Which makes no sense, since it’d be over the curve of the Earth, but what did I know, I was a kid. Mary Ann got the super sight (from carrots). Gilligan got super strength from Spinach. Mrs. Howell got super speed from Sugar Beets. I think that was it. Who knows what wonders I would have invented if my brain wasn’t filled with that information. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/33 "2016-02-14T18:39:06Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > the single best episode is the one where the mad scientist switches their brains all around. Rule Number Seventeen of 1960s sit-coms: “The episode where the mad scientist switches their brains all around is _de facto_ the best episode of the series.” ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/34 "2016-02-14T18:40:38Z")
I liked the one where they hear on the radio that the Skipper was bring blamed for the wreck and they recreate the storm to see what, if anything, they could have done better. Later they learn the radio station played the wrong weather report for the day and it wasn’t the Skipper’s fault at all! Hooray! ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/35 "2016-02-14T18:44:48Z")
The one with the surfer whose surfing abilities promise their collective salvation suggests itself. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/36 "2016-02-14T18:54:22Z")
Well, the one with the “vampire bat” flying around has a Mary Ann panty flash. So that’s a pretty good one. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/37 "2016-02-14T18:57:33Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Well, the one with the “vampire bat” flying around has a Mary Ann panty flash. So that’s a pretty good one. Not so fast there, Slick. I’m going to need an episode number and a minute count for this alleged “Mary Ann panty flash” before we can pass judgement on the quality of the episode. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/38 "2016-02-14T19:04:12Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I liked the episode where they did a musical version of _Hamlet_. > [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > Seconded. To the music of _Carmen_. > [@F.U.Shakespeare](#): > > Thirded. Not only an appearance by the great Phil Silvers as the blase bigshot producer Harold Hecuba, but an acting tour de force by the method-trained, highly underrated Tina Louise as Ginger tries to land a role in his movie. I was once at a party where almost everyone had an advanced degree, and the least educated people were current college students. It turned out that _everyone_ there knew all the words to all the songs from this episode. And it was before DVR or internet. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/39 "2016-02-14T19:05:42Z")
Well, **Scumpup** , there was [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdvH9DB-_gw). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/40 "2016-02-14T19:05:56Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Not so fast there, Slick. I’m going to need an episode number and a minute count for this alleged “Mary Ann panty flash” before we can pass judgement on the quality of the episode. > **[ginger and mary ann bat - Bing](http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ginger%2Band%2Bmary%2Bann%2Bbat&view=detailv2&&id=720C95D8D711D20F723CD2C641E0413D773E46E6&selectedIndex=5&ccid=RBM9zEFu&simid=608019412664847646&thid=OIP.M44133dcc416ed72858533f401e08ba7fo0&ajaxhist=0)** > > Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you’re looking for and rewards you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101.md?page=3)