# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/21 "2023-07-10T15:28:57Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Why does Gilligan and Skipper only have one set of clothing and Ginger has a Hollywood wardrobe? Not to mention the Howell’s closet. If I remember correctly, in the show’s first season, all of the characters had limited wardrobes; I remember that Ginger made a second dress for herself, out of the _Minnow_’s boat cover. [![](https://images.kinorium.com/movie/shot/54273/h280_37167886.jpg?21558535972) ](https://images.kinorium.com/movie/shot/54273/h280_37167886.jpg?21558535972) For whatever reason, as the show went on, the producers changed their minds about that, when it came to Ginger, Mary Ann, and the Howells, while keeping the other three male characters in identical clothing throughout. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/22 "2023-07-10T15:32:56Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > What disclaimer is this? I don’t recall any disclaimer from watching the reruns after school when I was a kid. Maybe we were just smarter then and didn’t need disclaimers. My guess is that whatever TV station or network which is running the series now (and which Beck is watching) has added that disclaimer. This article, from 2020, notes a Canadian TV station running such a disclaimer on Gilligan’s Island, as well as other older TV shows; my guess is that something similar is being run on Beck’s station: > [@](#): > > “The following presentation is a product of its time. It depicts prejudices that were wrong then and remain unacceptable today. CHCH does not condone discrimination of any kind,” said the CHCH advisory. > > “Rather than ignoring past discriminatory practices, exhibiting work like this allows viewers to engage in thought or discussion that educates and promotes the importance of social justice and inclusivity. Viewer discretion is advised.” > **[CHCH broadcasts trigger warning before episode of Gilligan’s Island](https://tnc.news/2020/10/19/chch-broadcasts-trigger-warning-before-episode-of-gilligans-island/)** > > According to IMDb, GIlligan’s island is a G-rated TV show which does not depict sex, nudity, violence, profanity, drug use or frightening scenes. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/23 "2023-07-10T15:35:28Z")
Gilligan stuffed his face as much as Jughead. And Mrs Howell was utterly lazy. ---
**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 10, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/24 "2023-07-10T15:39:35Z")
Sure, I don’t really remember Gilligan eating a lot, but the Jughead-style, skinny-as-a-rail kid who was constantly eating was a comedy staple of the time, so I’ll buy that. Switching those two works as well or maybe better. ---
**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 10, 2023, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/25 "2023-07-10T15:42:12Z")
Yeah, what @kenobi_65 said. It was similar to that. The marathon was on SundanceTV during the 4th of July long weekend. I also think they cut out a bunch of scenes. I was watching for the episode about the “Honey bees” singing. But I missed it. I must have been sleeping or something. I’m sure they’ll do this again. In fact I have no doubt they will. 🫡 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/26 "2023-07-10T15:47:31Z")
It should be noted that the Professor did in fact get them off the island. He built a wooden spaceship. It over functioned and stranded them on another planet. This was the premise of Gilligan’s Planet by Filmation. Oh, and my personal hypothesis (and thus the correct one) is that the Professor could indeed have gotten them home at any time. He kept them on the island to perform bizarre, inhuman and utterly fascinating experiments on the other castaways. Also, he was sleeping with all the other castaways. ---
**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 10, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/27 "2023-07-10T16:01:09Z")
Wasn’t there a TV movie or brief series. ‘Return to Gilligan’s island’? The actress who played Ginger wasn’t a part of it. Maybe she died. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/28 "2023-07-10T16:04:26Z")
Actually Tina Louise is the last one living. There were a few movies and a 70s cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/29 "2023-07-10T16:09:40Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > There was more…and I wish I could take credit for it but I’ve never watched the show the same again! Was it [this?](https://www.hipforums.com/forum/threads/thurstons-drug-money-the-gilligans-island-conspiracy.445859/) (_“If the series was a movie made in the 1980s, she would have been played by Debra Winger. But it wasn’t, and her very presence on the boat, presumably wearing a wire, tells us that Howell’s scheme was doomed to failure before it even began…”_) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/30 "2023-07-10T16:12:55Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Wasn’t there a TV movie or brief series. ‘Return to Gilligan’s island’? > > The actress who played Ginger wasn’t a part of it. Maybe she died. In addition to two animated Saturday-morning TV series (_[The New Adventures of Gilligan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Adventures_of_Gilligan)_ and _[Gilligan’s Planet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan%27s_Planet)_), they did [three live-action made-for-TV sequel movies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan's_Island#Film_sequels) in the late '70s and early '80s. Tina Louise didn’t appear in any of those; she came to resent the show as having typecast her, and felt that it had damaged her career. ---
**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 10, 2023, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/31 "2023-07-10T16:24:23Z")
There’s something deeply ironic in an actress resenting being typecast as an actress… ---
**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 10, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/32 "2023-07-10T16:29:49Z")
Hey, was she ever on The Love Boat? That would-a been cool. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/33 "2023-07-10T16:31:15Z")
I’m pretty sure she was a Stepford Wife. And I looked it up, 2 episodes of the Hasbeen Boat. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/34 "2023-07-10T16:32:50Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > There’s something deeply ironic in an actress resenting being typecast as an actress Well, yeah. She had (or, at least, believed that she had) a serious film career, prior to playing Ginger; she studied under Lee Strasburg, and was a member of the Actors Studio. The show did probably typecast her, not only as a comic actor (and a TV actor, rather than in film, which was a major distinction back then), but for playing a glamorous sexpot character (clearly based on Marilyn Monroe). ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/35 "2023-07-10T16:37:48Z")
Did you see her pre-Gilligan’s roles? She was already type-casted and never got a chance to show any range if she had any. 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. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/36 "2023-07-10T16:40:09Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > She was already type-casted and never got a chance to show any range if she had any. Well, as I said, I think that she _thought of herself_ as a serious actress, at least. And, she very intentionally tried to distance herself from the Ginger role after the original series ended, though it was, obviously, the only role which most people knew (and still know) her for. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/37 "2023-07-10T16:41:17Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > …the same warning is shown before the Brady Bunch. So I’m trying to remember what the problem was there. Greg was SMOKING. ---
**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 10, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/38 "2023-07-10T16:53:34Z")
Eh, maybe, de gustibus and all, but he wasn’t to my tastes. ---
**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 10, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/39 "2023-07-10T16:55:06Z")
Jan clearly had unattended bipolar issues. She hated her sisters. Alice and her unhealthy relationship with that butcher guy. Bobby and his fascination murderous outlaws. No privacy. Remember Greg moving to the basement and making a hippy hangout. Blaring that softrock upstairs was just so so upsetting. A big ol’dog named ‘Tiger’ 🙃 Yep, I needed to be warned. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847/40 "2023-07-10T17:41:36Z")
Nitpick but Greg’s hippie hangout was in the attic not the basement. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brain-shakers-from-watching-the-gilligans-island-marathon/986847.md?page=3)