# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/21 "2008-03-12T02:38:36Z")
[QUOTE=Brynda] 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. [/QUOTE] I’d have believed it as soon as I learn she has a WigWam acting camp in Idaho (quite true- web site’s down at the moment, but you can get to it through [dawnwells.com](http://dawnwells.com)). ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/22 "2008-03-12T05:15:21Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] 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 [/QUOTE] Yeesh. I thought she was a recluse somewhere in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/23 "2008-03-12T06:43:13Z")
[QUOTE=Brynda] 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. [/QUOTE] I met her a couple times here in Florida, must have been around '79-'80. She was very nice, not as saccharine as Mary Ann, but pleasant and not full of herself. She never asked me to smoke with her though. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/24 "2008-03-12T11:04:48Z")
Sorry to say, but I think the OP screwed the pooch with the thread title. **Mary Ann Caught With Mary Jane** was staring you right in the face; you need to get in touch with your inner _New York Post_. Also, Mary Ann \> Ginger, and it’s not even close. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/25 "2008-03-12T11:09:25Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Greenjeans] So now, having been presented with new evidence, we must re-ask the age old question: Ginger or Mary Ann? [/QUOTE] Mary Ann…it’s not even a contest, never was. Still fine @ 69! ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/26 "2008-03-12T11:26:22Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] 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” [/QUOTE] and the picture was Brolin! What, no Streisand pictures available? :rolleyes: - and that is the cutest mug shot I’ve ever seen! ---
**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 12, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/27 "2008-03-12T13:33:47Z")
If I had tried to picture Mary Anne in a mug shot (not that I ever did, before today), it would have looked exactly like this mug shot. I refuse to even try to picture Bailey in a mug shot. There are some places my mind will not go. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/28 "2008-03-12T16:12:56Z")
If I were Dawn Wells’s agent I think I could ride this publicity into a guest shot on _Desperate Housewives_ or some similar show. (Is _Weeds_ still on and has Mary Louise Parker’s character’s mother ever been shown? If so and if not there’s a shoe-in there.) ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/29 "2008-03-12T16:25:36Z")
I’d 69 her. ---
**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/30 "2008-03-12T17:47:08Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Greenjeans] So now, having been presented with new evidence, we must re-ask the age old question: Ginger or Mary Ann? [/QUOTE] If I wasn’t sure before, I am now. Mary Ann. Hot, wholesome looking, and brings Mary Jane along for the ride. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/31 "2008-03-12T19:55:33Z")
She can bogart my joint any time. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/32 "2008-03-12T20:00:06Z")
Ginger was always more of the coke whore. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/33 "2008-03-12T20:02:39Z")
I’d do both Mary Ann and Mary Jane. Perhaps at the same time. Would that be considered a threesome? ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/34 "2008-03-12T20:26:31Z")
[QUOTE=Phase42] This is just more proof that [Mary Ann was a narc](http://www.sff.net/people/adam-troy/Random/theories.htm). [/QUOTE] That is brilliant! I’ll never watch GI the same way again. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/35 "2008-03-12T20:36:01Z")
[QUOTE=Phase42] This is just more proof that [Mary Ann was a narc](http://www.sff.net/people/adam-troy/Random/theories.htm). [/QUOTE] Damn, foolishly I thought Gilligan only wrecked every escape on purpose as he was actually growing weed and enjoying secret tryst with Mary Ann. This makes so much more sense. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/36 "2008-03-12T22:46:00Z")
In the final disposition of the case, she isn’t doing time for marijuana, but for reckless drviing. The charge for cannabis was dropped in the bargain. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/37 "2008-03-13T07:43:49Z")
That may just be the happiest, most relaxed mug shot I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014/38 "2008-03-14T09:58:28Z")
I wonder if she got a three hour tour in the slammer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-ann-of-gilligans-island-caught-with-marijuana/441014.md?page=1)