# Gilligan's Island Castaways as superheroes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-castaways-as-superheroes/841207>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 3, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-castaways-as-superheroes/841207 "2019-10-03T14:47:30Z")\
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**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:** [January 21, 2020, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-castaways-as-superheroes/841207/41 "2020-01-21T08:44:27Z")

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> [@Dale\_Sams](#):
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> I thought the Japanese guy (and i could be wrong) came from a sub?
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> Also re: the island…it has an active volcano or was that a different island? And is in canoing distance of a shitton of cannibals on different islands.

Correct on all counts. It was a midget sub that surfaced in the lagoon. The Japanese sailor was played by no one other than Vito Scotti, heavily made up.

The volcano, like much else, was “on the other side of the island.”

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**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:** [January 21, 2020, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-castaways-as-superheroes/841207/42 "2020-01-21T08:57:28Z")

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Things like radioactive seeds and silent movie equipment were not only washing up in the lagoon all the time, they kept falling out of the sky too. Everything from a robot to a tub of French Vanilla ice cream. Apparently there was a lot of air traffic going overhead at the time, but nobody ever noticed the distress signals.

People have done a lot of fanwanking to explain things like why the Howells had so much luggage and money with them while they were supposedly just going out for a three-hour tour. It makes some interesting reading.

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