# Mary Ann of 'Gilligan's Island' Caught With Marijuana **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014 "2008-03-11T20:39:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/1 "2008-03-11T20:39:55Z")
For some reason, I just found this story to be very funny, especially the line “They should have called her Mary Jane” [Link](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336817,00.html) ---
**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:** [March 11, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/2 "2008-03-11T20:45:48Z")
So now, having been presented with new evidence, we must re-ask the age old question: Ginger or Mary Ann? ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/3 "2008-03-11T20:55:42Z")
Both. While I’m watching. Pass the popcorn please. Pass the paper towels please. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/4 "2008-03-11T20:59:23Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Greenjeans] So now, having been presented with new evidence, we must re-ask the age old question: Ginger or Mary Ann? [/QUOTE] Ditto both, circa 1969 to 1975. That picture of Dawn…well, granted it’s a mug shot but oogh. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/5 "2008-03-11T21:06:50Z")
I didn’t think she looked too bad for a 69-yr old… Too funny, though! Ya gotta watch out for those straight-laced girls! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/6 "2008-03-11T21:08:05Z")
When Bob Denver was arrested a few years ago the early reports said that Dawn Wells had mailed him the package that got him in trouble, but he refused to identify his “source”. He got probation and a fine as well. I understand arresting her for DUI, but when I hear of somebody being arrested for possession of a small amount of marijuana and paraphernalia I have a near nostalgic “How quaint… they’re still arresting people for that? Tell me, do they still sell those orange sherbert Push-Ups in stores and have those ‘It’s 10 o’clock, do you know where your children are?’ ads just before the news as well?” This will do wonders for her career visibility if she wants it to: NORML rallies, guest spots on Leno and what-not as resident “hippie senior”, etc… ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/7 "2008-03-11T21:10:38Z")
This is just more proof that [Mary Ann was a narc](http://www.sff.net/people/adam-troy/Random/theories.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/8 "2008-03-11T21:15:07Z")
Yah, she sounds like a Menace 2 Society all right. What a wonderful use of taxpayer resources. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/9 "2008-03-11T21:31:56Z")
[QUOTE=photopat] That picture of Dawn…well, granted it’s a mug shot but oogh. ☹ [/QUOTE] Actually, that’s the most _cheerful_ looking mug shot I’ve ever seen. She must have had time for a taste before they popped her. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/10 "2008-03-11T21:35:00Z")
Maybe the island offered **one** luxury! ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/11 "2008-03-11T21:53:05Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Maybe the island offered **one** luxury! [/QUOTE] That’s why they could never get their shit together enough to build a damn raft! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/12 "2008-03-11T22:06:38Z")
Gilligan’s not here, man. Since two of the Gilligan’s Island crew have been busted for pot now, I have to ask - were any of the Scooby-Doo writers or actors ever caught carrying, um, Scooby Snax? ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/13 "2008-03-11T22:23:02Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] Yah, she sounds like a Menace 2 Society all right. What a wonderful use of taxpayer resources. [/QUOTE] The article implies that she was smoking pot while driving, which just seems like a bad idea all around. I agree she doesn’t look bad at all for her age. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/14 "2008-03-11T22:49:31Z")
First Bailey driving naked, and now this. I’m so depressed. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/15 "2008-03-11T23:08:19Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] First Bailey driving naked, and now this. I’m so depressed. [/QUOTE] Wait … what did I miss? ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/16 "2008-03-11T23:09:05Z")
\*\*I’m \*\* depressed because she’s 69. Sigh… older and older and older. Better than the alternative, I guess… Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/17 "2008-03-11T23:21:04Z")
She’s still that nice girl everybody likes. She has all those friends making excuses for her. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/18 "2008-03-11T23:27:59Z")
[QUOTE=TWDuke] I agree she doesn’t look bad at all for her age. [/QUOTE] I’d say better all around than [Tina](http://picasaweb.google.com/tina.daggett/Celebrities/photo#5059008989716716306), who seems to have a white-knuckle grip on her lost youth. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/19 "2008-03-11T23:45:56Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] First Bailey driving naked, and now this. I’m so depressed. [/QUOTE] In case anybody else was wondering, that story [here](http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/11/09/james_brolin_s_ex_recovering_after_naked). What had to really hurt was that she wasn’t identified as “Jan Smithers, bka Bailey Quarters from WKRP” in the opening sentence but as > [@](#): > > The ex-wife of Barbra Streisand’s husband James Brolin ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/20 "2008-03-12T00:38:11Z")
Huh. A friend of mine claimed to smoke with her in the late 1980s, and I was never sure whether to believe him. Guess I do now. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014.md?page=2)