# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/41 "2016-02-14T19:26:44Z")
Not having watched it since I was a kid, I honestly can’t tell which episodes are real and which ones people are making up.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/42 "2016-02-14T19:32:36Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > But for me, the single best episode is the one where the mad scientist switches their brains all around. “If I’ve told you a thousand times, I’ve told you once. Scientist, yes. Mad, no.” **Chortles insane laughter.** A classic line. I actually use it IRL from time to time. Also, the South American dictator episode. (Was that the same guest actor?) Seems like political commentary, but just played for laughs, really skewers over-important “special episodes.” From a time when TV humor really wasn’t so meta. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/43 "2016-02-14T19:36:55Z")
> [@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. Is that the one where the Skipper got pissed at Gilligan and swatted him with his hat? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/44 "2016-02-14T19:49:34Z")
How about the one where they programmed a robot to walk to Hawaii, and then its speech is all messed up because Gilligan put a rabbit’s foot in it for good luck? ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/45 "2016-02-14T19:59:41Z")
My favorite episode was the one where the band “The Mosquitoes” visited the island. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/46 "2016-02-14T20:43:34Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > “Neither a bow’rer nor a lender be… do not forget… stay out of debt.” Loved the Skipper singing this, though at the time I knew the tune more as the STP jingle. That’s crazy. It’s the [Palm Dairy jingle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi1sScXLThg), of course! The Hamlet episode is definitely the most memorable one for me by far. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/47 "2016-02-14T20:58:15Z")
Carmlet is indeed memorable but I liked the one in which the telephone cable washed ashore. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/48 "2016-02-14T21:10:38Z")
The one where Mary Ann thinks she’s dying, and the one in which they recreate the death of some guy who was killed with a spear gun right before they left and the castaways think one of the passengers did it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mr.Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Me)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/49 "2016-02-14T21:22:43Z")
One of my favorites has always been the one with Wrong-Way Feldman. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/50 "2016-02-14T23:52:16Z")
Then you have to love the headhunters. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/51 "2016-02-14T23:55:48Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > My favorite episode was the one where the band “The Mosquitoes” visited the island. Obviously The Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/52 "2016-02-15T00:09:13Z")
Carmen is great, as are G-I-double L-I, the “Ahm jes a poor cokn’y flowa girl, dat’s wut I am!’, the American astronauts (Sol! they’re spelling my name!” - all great. But my favorite is the Rashomon episode. At least, that’s how I remember it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/53 "2016-02-15T02:21:05Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Then you have to love the headhunters. Or the one with the castaways pretending to be headhunters. “Moo lah, moo lah, moo lah!” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/54 "2016-02-15T06:49:00Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > For favorite episodes I’d say would be “Ghost a Go Go” where there was a ghst on the island. The episode really scared me as a kid and yet still had some hilarious parts. With Richard Kiel guest starring; and he was not the only James Bond henchman to appear on the show. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/55 "2016-02-15T07:37:24Z")
Three words: Mind. Reading. Seeds. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/56 "2016-02-15T10:49:28Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > With Richard Kiel guest starring; and he was not the only James Bond henchman to appear on the show. Oh, I looked it up. The actors name was Harold Sakata and he played Ramoo, the game hunters assistant. Was their another? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/57 "2016-02-15T13:29:32Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Oh, I looked it up. The actors name was Harold Sakata and he played Ramoo, the game hunters assistant. > > Was their another? I think it was just those two, Jaws and Oddjob. Always thought that was an interesting bit of trivia. ---
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> [@Gatopescado](#): > > [ginger and mary ann bat - Search](http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ginger+and+mary+ann+bat&view=detailv2&&id=720C95D8D711D20F723CD2C641E0413D773E46E6&selectedIndex=5&ccid=RBM9zEFu&simid=608019412664847646&thid=OIP.M44133dcc416ed72858533f401e08ba7fo0&ajaxhist=0) You, sir, are a hero. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/59 "2016-02-16T16:47:55Z")
Another vote for the Hamlet episode. I did not know the music was from _Carmen_so it was a fun, if distracting, surprise when it was played during the swimming pool scene in _Hail Ceasar_. I had to hold myself back from singing "Hamlet, Hamlet do be a man, let rotten enough alone . . . " Also Pulu Si Bugumba and the one with the Honey Bees ("you need us, you need us!) One that I don’t think was mentioned is when lonely spinster Eva Grubb showed up and Ginger gave her a makeover and she out Gingered Ginger and left the island to go to Hollywood. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/60 "2016-02-16T21:12:41Z")
Yet another vote for Harold Hecuba. Gillian’s Old West dream sequence was fun. The ghost was great. And I love the one where the undersea telephone cable washes up on the lagoon shore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101.md?page=4)