Alright, so it was a fun show in it’s time. I still chuckle at the odd umpteenth rerun episode if I ever happen to channel surf across one.
For lack of anything else to do, I’ve sat and watched (Once!) a biography interview with some of the cast members from the show that they managed to drag out of the cupboard and dust off.
But, why, in the name of all that is decent, good, human and remotely original must they make a [url=“http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010815/en/review-stagegilligan_1.html” play based on this has been show. Why can’t they just let it die a dignified rerun death? Have they no shame?
Interesting premise. “The voice of Hello Kitty on Invader Zim?” Those newswriters have no sense of pop culture. (The closest thing to Hello Kitty that I can think of on that show is GIR, who’s a hell of a lot funnier. That’s some stretch…)
I’ve actually had a business idea in my mind to buy a Pacific Island no one’s using, and with permission from the proper authorities, make it a tourist site called “Gilligan’s Island.” I’d have Bob Denver cut the ribbon on it, and the island would have lots of visual refrences to things on the show. However, I fear the only way you could get there-a boat-would somehow crash at one time, and the newsmen would have a field day. “In an ironic disaster today, a large storm in the Pacific caused a boat to crash into the tourist attraction based on the television show Gilligan’s Island…”
It was on major shipping lane too, with all the useful shit that kept floating up on the island.
I’m betting the Professor was boffing Mary-Anne.
The French are the only ones in the past few decades who test nukes on Pacific islands. Actually it would make a lot of sense if Gilligan’s Island was a French possession. The Frecnh probably knew they were there but didn’t want to help them because they couldn’t say “We’re shipwrecked!” in French.
I’d guess that velvet and satin don’t fare well in air which has been super-heated by the French.
I tried to go on holiday to France when they were busy nuking Muraroa Atoll a few years back. I wouldn’t have been quite so indignant at the refusal to issue Australian citizens entry visas if I’d known they were blowing up Gilligan’s Island.
It used to, I’m sure, but now it’s just a buncha entertainment executives. And self-styled environmentalists who take private planes and whine when we try to drill for the oil that fuels them.