# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/61 "2016-02-16T22:08:03Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Then you have to love the headhunters. Why you no speak real Kupa-Kai? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/62 "2016-02-16T22:31:29Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > The one with the Honey Bees ("you need us, you need us!) Blatantly ripped off by _ **F Troop** _. Probably the same guy (Arthur Julian) wrote both episodes. ---
**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 16, 2016, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/63 "2016-02-16T22:57:41Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > 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. Head hunters thought Gilligan was their god, because he looked like the head on the totem pole. ---
**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 17, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/64 "2016-02-17T01:35:47Z")
> [@BeeGee](#): > > Why you no speak real Kupa-Kai? I’ve been dead so long I forgot? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/65 "2016-02-17T01:36:31Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Blatantly ripped off by _ **F Troop** _. Probably the same guy (Arthur Julian) wrote both episodes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1oEiCeXzOQ ---
**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 17, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/66 "2016-02-17T01:45:58Z")
[quote=“terentii, post:65, topic:746101”] [/QUOTE] Ha! Too funny (but GI was way better) \ You needa me. You \*need \*me. Like a diamond needs a rrrrrring . . . " ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/67 "2016-02-17T01:58:43Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > 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. Yes! I was fascinated by the idea of a cable on the ocean floor connecting land masses. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus\_alba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quercus_alba/32/4061_2.png) [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/68 "2016-02-17T02:16:03Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > I actually did get scared of that one too! > . Nothing scared me more than the giant spider one. \ ---
**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 17, 2016, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/69 "2016-02-17T05:17:21Z")
> [@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. That and the fact that it’s a [/URLhttp://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/carrots.asp=]complete myth that carrots improve your eyesight. One I haven’t seen mentioned yet is the episode where a dowdy woman comes to the island planning to live like a hermit, the girls give her a makeover and she turns out to be a twin double of Ginger! The ‘evil twin’ then sets out to take over Ginger’s life. She’s played by Tina Louise, of course. Ironically enough, Louise later went on be in “the Stepford Wives” movie in which an evil doppelganger twin actually does ‘steal her life.’ The GI episode ends with the evil twin Ginger leaving all the castaways on the island and returning to Hollywood to take over the real Ginger’s life. As the episode ends, Ginger is listening to the radio announcer talk about how ‘Ginger Grant’ has been found alive and well and is going to star in a movie with Rock Hudson! And Ginger was crying. I always wondered what happened to the evil twin? ---
**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 17, 2016, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/70 "2016-02-17T05:18:25Z")
> [@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. That and the fact that it’s a [complete myth that carrots improve your eyesight.](http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/carrots.asp) One I haven’t seen mentioned yet is the episode where a dowdy woman comes to the island planning to live like a hermit, the girls give her a makeover and she turns out to be a twin double of Ginger! The ‘evil twin’ then sets out to take over Ginger’s life. She’s played by Tina Louise, of course. Ironically enough, Louise later went on be in “the Stepford Wives” movie in which an evil doppelganger twin actually does ‘steal her life.’ The GI episode ends with the evil twin Ginger leaving all the castaways on the island and returning to Hollywood to take over the real Ginger’s life. As the episode ends, Ginger is listening to the radio announcer talk about how ‘Ginger Grant’ has been found alive and well and is going to star in a movie with Rock Hudson! And Ginger was crying. I always wondered what happened to the evil twin? ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/71 "2016-02-17T06:27:07Z")
Then there was the episode where they were trying to stop a volcano from erupting by setting off a bomb inside. Many funny moments like “Skipper, nice of you to drop in”. Then the bomb getting hooked to Gilligans show and the frantically work to get it off. Then it goes off and everyones head pops out of the bushes. And the sight of the volcanos smoke going backwards. ---
**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 17, 2016, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/72 "2016-02-17T13:31:43Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > That and the fact that it’s a [/URLhttp://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/carrots.asp=]complete myth that carrots improve your eyesight. > > One I haven’t seen mentioned yet is the episode where a dowdy woman comes to the island planning to live like a hermit, the girls give her a makeover and she turns out to be a twin double of Ginger! The ‘evil twin’ then sets out to take over Ginger’s life. > > She’s played by Tina Louise, of course. Ironically enough, Louise later went on be in “the Stepford Wives” movie in which an evil doppelganger twin actually does ‘steal her life.’ > > The GI episode ends with the evil twin Ginger leaving all the castaways on the island and returning to Hollywood to take over the real Ginger’s life. As the episode ends, Ginger is listening to the radio announcer talk about how ‘Ginger Grant’ has been found alive and well and is going to star in a movie with Rock Hudson! And Ginger was crying. I always wondered what happened to the evil twin? That would be the Eva Grubb ep I mentioned in post 51. At least someone else remembers it fondly. ---
**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 18, 2016, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/73 "2016-02-18T05:40:57Z")
Funny thing about GI was that everyone who seemed to show up on this “uncharted desert isle” arrived in tiny little boats that wouldn’t be considered sea-worthy on a rough day on Lake Tahoe. For Christ’s sake! They could have swam back to Hawaii! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/74 "2016-02-21T20:28:27Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > For Christ’s sake! They could have swam back to Hawaii! They could have **swum** back to Hawaii! Swim, swam, swum. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101/75 "2016-02-21T20:33:14Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Ha! Too funny (but GI was way better) Surprise, surprise! _ **Petticoat Junction** _ beat them both to it: > **["Petticoat Junction" The Ladybugs (TV Episode 1964) - Plot - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0674025/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl)** > > "Petticoat Junction" The Ladybugs (TV Episode 1964) - Plot summary, synopsis, and more... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hH8FV46XU0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hH8FV46XU0) :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-episode-of-gilligans-island/746101.md?page=3)