# Brain shakers from watching the Gilligan's Island marathon **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [July 10, 2023, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847 "2023-07-10T07:57:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/261 "2023-07-14T19:52:35Z")
Interesting video of one of the Minnows. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/rQtFSwHSGLQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Local yacht broker finds SS Minnow!!!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQtFSwHSGLQ) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/262 "2023-07-14T20:14:42Z")
Bunkbed-styled hammocks. Comedy gold! ---
**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:** [July 14, 2023, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/263 "2023-07-14T20:15:14Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Tina Louise was in the first or second season of _Dallas_ (before J.R. got shot) She was in a _real bad_ western in 1969 playing a married woman who is fooling around with the Mayor. A completely useless role. But very un-Gilliganish. It was on TCM a few days ago. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/264 "2023-07-14T20:37:44Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > There sure was lots of booze on that island. And food! Magic food. Nothing for breakfast, nothing for lunch, nothing for dinner, just coconuts. As anyone who has ever tried coconuts and coconut juice, I won’t call it milk, you are going to get the shits. Rampant, uncontrollable shits. Stuck on an island with only coconuts for food, and no toilet paper, does not sound appealing to me. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/265 "2023-07-14T20:50:23Z")
Tina Louise is very good in _God’s Little Acre_ (1958), her feature film debut. Her role is not as dramatically showy as that of her male co-stars, Robert Ryan, Jack Lord or Aldo Ray, but she blows them all off the screen with her sensuality. It’s the best performance in the film - and probably of her career – amid a cast that included Vic Morrow, Buddy Hackett, Fay Spain, Rex Ingram and a young Michael Landon (as an albino). Post-_GI_, amid a plethora of TV credits, Ms. Louise had a small role in the French-made flick _Dog Day_ (1984) as the moll of bank robber-on-the-lam Lee Marvin. Her appearance in this strange, but entertaining (if little-seen) elegy to the American movie gangster is both unexpected and largely negligible, but wholly in sync with the film’s esoteric nature. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/266 "2023-07-14T21:53:30Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > It’s rather interesting that you used the character’s name for one, and the actress’s name for the other. I honestly don’t recall Dawn Wells doing anything non-Gilligan. I saw Eden in stuff before and after _I Dream of Jeannie._ ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/267 "2023-07-14T21:58:27Z")
Dawn Wells was in a Bigfoot movie. Bad, bad, bad. Don’t recall it’s title. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/268 "2023-07-14T22:08:29Z")
I looked it up “Return to Boggy Creek” I should have remembered that. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2023, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/269 "2023-07-15T00:32:59Z")
> [@epbrown](#): > > I honestly don’t recall Dawn Wells doing anything non-Gilligan. I think I saw her on _Bonanza_ once. Her IMDb listing shows a couple other guest roles that I could have seen, but none that I remember. I started a thread once about actors that people have only seen in one role. In a way, I find that more interesting than actors who are familiar faces. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2023, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/270 "2023-07-15T01:11:29Z")
Dawn was in this movie I saw when I was living in England in 1977: > **[Winterhawk (1975) ⭐ 5.7 | Adventure, Western](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0075432/?ref_=m_ttfcd_tt)** > > 1h 38m | PG ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/271 "2023-07-15T14:03:11Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > And food! Magic food. Nothing for breakfast, nothing for lunch, nothing for dinner, just coconuts. They also mention wild eggs, and I imagine they had a variety of seafood. Plus there was definitely something Mary Ann was using for the crust of her coconut cream pies… Taro root, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/272 "2023-07-15T16:23:57Z")
Bananas, mango, pineapple, breadfruit. Surely some of it must have been there. But, lord, all that fruit would kill you after awhile. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/273 "2023-07-15T16:38:09Z")
The castaways were nothing if not regular. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/274 "2023-07-15T16:55:41Z")
> [@Jay\_Z](#): > > Never mind how this supposedly “uncharted” island had airplanes on it in the first place. Amelia Earhart landed _someplace_. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/275 "2023-07-15T17:18:25Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > A starring role as Sappho in Warrior Empress 1960. (I kid you not) and a fairly major role with Bob Denver oddly enough in For Those Who Think Young playing basically a bombshell. Nothing else major. She was in God’s Little Acre playing a seductive character also. Before acting she was a model. Her image was very widely seen. Still, nothing ever indicated a serious career in acting would have been forthcoming. Even as Ginger playing a starlet I don’t think she was actually acting. She seemed to be playing the same person as in For Those Who Think Young. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/276 "2023-07-15T18:01:41Z")
After she saw Tina on _ **GI** _, my mother said “I don’t like her. She tries to sound like Marilyn Monroe.” Well, yeah, Mom. She’s playing the part of Ginger, for whom it’s normal. **DUH!** I’m not at all familiar with her other work. Did she in fact talk like that anywhere else? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/277 "2023-07-15T18:44:00Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Did she in fact talk like that anywhere else? As I mentioned, it seemed to be the very same persona from For Those Who Think Young. Which is often an overlooked movie because it wasn’t very good but still had a sort of B level star studded cast. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/278 "2023-07-15T20:32:27Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > > > There sure was lots of booze on that island. > > And food! Magic food. Nothing for breakfast, nothing for lunch, nothing for dinner, just coconuts. As anyone who has ever tried coconuts and coconut juice, I won’t call it milk, you are going to get the shits. Rampant, uncontrollable shits. > > Stuck on an island with only coconuts for food, and no toilet paper, does not sound appealing to me. I’m not an expert in tropical island flora and fauna, but abundance of food was one of the least unbelievable aspects of the show. In addition to coconuts, I’m sure there would be plenty of edible plants and tropical fruit if you knew what to look for, not to mention fishing and shellfish gathering. I used to watch a show called Survivorman, in which a guy named Les Stroud would simulate survival situations, spending a week in various wilderness settings. Unlike a certain ursine-nicknamed faker who had a similar show but faked most of it, Les actually did a week by himself, even doing his own filming. His only lifeline was a sat phone if he got into trouble. In most of the settings, especially cold weather ones, he was clearly miserable and near-starving much of the time. But in one tropical island setting he was able to gather a veritable cornucopia of fruits, edible plants, fish and shellfish. He even said something like, “compared to other times, this is a downright vacation!” As for booze, it don’t take a professor of chemistry to know how to ferment some fruit. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/279 "2023-07-15T20:43:56Z")
Moonshine wasn’t what the Howells were drinking. No wonder the Minnow wrecked. She was setting low in the ocean from the weight. (I know absolutely nothing about yachts and ocean voyages, so I just made that up) ---
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> [@terentii](#): > > Did she in fact talk like that anywhere else? Here’s Tina in an episode of Dallas. No, she doesn’t sound like Ginger.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZU4ukbkoTM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZU4ukbkoTM) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847.md?page=15)