‘I s’pect I growed. Don’t think nobody never made me.’
“I don’t think it went on during the show” immediately followed by “I think it grew as the show went into reruns” implies she means that “I don’t think it went on during the show to the degree that it did during reruns.”
Maybe Ginger and her were ovulating.
A rully big influence.
D’oh! Yes, of course.
There could have been sea turtles laying eggs. and maybe there was sugar cane growing on the island.
I don’t know why I’m obsessed with this, but it’s the kind of thing that occupies my mind for hours.
“Sago from Metroxylon palms is nearly pure carbohydrate and has very little protein, vitamins, or minerals. 100 grams of dry sago typically comprises 94 grams of carbohydrate, 0.2 grams of protein, 0.5 grams of dietary fiber, 10 mg of calcium, 1.2 mg of iron and negligible amounts of fat, carotene, thiamine and ascorbic acid and yields approximately 355 calories.”
So slightly less than 4 ounces, 355 calories. Sweet enough for you? You still need sugar cane?
But it did go on during the show, I assure you. I was part of it. 
How about honey? :dubious:
So, you’re the Professor on Gilligan’s Island. You’re a brilliant and reasonably attractive, reasonbly fit and healthy male in your '30s to '40s.
Your competition on the island consists of:
Gilligan: the goofy, bumbling, clumsy, moronic, inept, goofy-faced guy with the maturity of a 12 year old.
The Skipper: an overweight blowhard with the brilliance to hire as his first (and only) mate the aforementioned Gilligan.
Thurston Howell the Third, i.e. the Millionaire: sure, he’s got money (that you can’t currently spend), but he’s ancient, and married to a nagging old crone. And they didn’t have Viagra back then.
Hmmmmm.
Ginger or Mary Ann? What’s with this “choose” thing?
Despite his bumbling ineptness, Ginger did actually seem to have some affinity towards Gilligan (maybe she just liked a guy she could more easily manipulate). Fine, let him have her, as long as he’s not competing with me for Mary Ann, I’m happy.
nm
I’ll be in my hut.
^in your bunk hammock.
In a special on the show from years ago, I think it was Surviving Gilligan’s Island, Denver, Wells, and Johnson talked about experiences doing the show. One of them told the story of the first script read through, where Tina Louise complained that the script didn’t seem to focus on her as the star. They all looked at her funny and one of them asked her, “Why would you think you’re the star of a show that is named Gilligan’s Island?”
The thing I always wondered is if she thought up to that point that she was Gilligan.
If it’s 1964 you’ve probably never heard that name before and I expect most people would guess that is a girls name.
I doubt it. From my understanding they tell people the character they are auditioning for, and certainly they would have told her the name when they cast her. This was long after that point in the process.
Producers lie and actors are naive.
Wayne Rogers was told Trapper John would be the star character of the TV series MASH*. But anyone checking the movie or book would know it revolves around Hawkeye. Made for a very unhappy actor who left the show (and became a major investment advisor to the stars).
“And the rest.”
No, “And the rest” was the Professor and Mary Ann. Ginger, the Movie Star, was one of the five mentioned specifically in the original theme song.
As Chronos says, she was a named character in the theme, not part of “and the rest.” And do you really think that Wells and Johnson didn’t know the names of their characters before they signed the contracts?
“Yeah, you’re playing “all the rest” we’ll come up with something else later.”