# 'Gilligan's Island' - This one stretched the limits of credibility **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2000, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-this-one-stretched-the-limits-of-credibility/42321 "2000-11-22T17:54:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2000, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-this-one-stretched-the-limits-of-credibility/42321/21 "2000-11-23T08:01:32Z")
How 'bout the episode where a surfer rode a tsunami both to the island and then back to Hawaii? ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2000, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-this-one-stretched-the-limits-of-credibility/42321/22 "2000-11-23T08:12:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dougie\_monty \* > \*\* > With fronds like these you don’t need anemones. 😃 \*\* Ohhhh dougie\_monty!!! that was absoluty to groan over!! YES I am LMAO!! Good one! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2000, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-this-one-stretched-the-limits-of-credibility/42321/23 "2000-11-23T09:21:33Z")
I liked the one where a radioactive meteor landed on the island. Supposedly, it was going to make them all age fifty years overnight, which is not the way radioactivity affects people, unless that’s a family-friendly way of saying that they would **look** like they were a hundred and two when they died. Then, the dream sequence concerned them celebrating their fiftieth anniversary of being on the island…but if they were really being contaminated at such close range, they wouldn’t have lived another fifty days, let alone fifty years. Furthermore, I love how radioactive vegetables are good for them (in the short run, anyway), but a radioactive meteor is deadly. And finally, the problem is solved when lightning just **happens** to strike the meteor spot-on, exploding it. That’s even worse than the meteor itself would be; that would disperse the radioactivity everywhere! ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2000, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-this-one-stretched-the-limits-of-credibility/42321/24 "2000-11-23T13:29:36Z")
All I vaguely remember of the show is wondering how the hell they worked the Globe Trotters into the plot… ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2000, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-this-one-stretched-the-limits-of-credibility/42321/25 "2000-11-23T14:18:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by puddleglum \* > \*\*…I want to know how Mary Ann made all those pies without an oven. \*\* mmmmmmmmmmmmm…_Mary Ann’s pies._ _wistfully_ She could probably cook anything on that tanned flat tummy of hers, she was so hot… ::snaps back to reality:: “Hi, Nolt!” ::waves:: ---
**Author:** ![fierra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58956e/32.png) [@fierra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fierra)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2000, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-this-one-stretched-the-limits-of-credibility/42321/26 "2000-11-23T14:59:59Z")
Never seen it, Mark had to explain about it to let me understand a quote in ??The Simpsons?? that made a reference to it…but hi Nolt! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2000, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-this-one-stretched-the-limits-of-credibility/42321/27 "2000-11-23T19:08:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MadPoet \* > \*\*All I vaguely remember of the show is wondering how the hell they worked the Globe Trotters into the plot… \*\* That was one of the reunion movies. They’d returned to the island and made it into a resort. The Globetrotters’ plane crashed in the ocean nearby, and they managed to get their raft to the island. Whatever. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-this-one-stretched-the-limits-of-credibility/42321/28 "2000-11-24T04:02:55Z")
dougie\_monty, I hereby cast my vote for you as Official Punmeister of the Board! That was hysterical. And the hell of it is, I can’t tell anyone why this is funny, because it is completely lost in the translation! Anyway, what John (“Don’t call me Gilligan”) Denver must sing when hiking up the volcano is: “Rocky Mountain High . . . close to Hawaii . . .” ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2000, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-this-one-stretched-the-limits-of-credibility/42321/29 "2000-11-24T04:30:57Z")
what i want to know is: what the hell were the howells doing on the minnow in the first place? wouldn’t they have their own yacht? and that goes for ginger too- i can see the prof and MA taking the 3 hour tour but why the howells? and ginger? me ex and i once ate at alan hales restaraunt in LA and there he was! the skipper-he came around to all the tables to say hello-i could barely speak-the skipper! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilligans-island-this-one-stretched-the-limits-of-credibility/42321.md?page=1)