# MaryAnne, Gilligan when come back, bring pie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, food-cooking\ **Created:** [April 13, 2026, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234 "2026-04-13T02:04:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/1 "2026-04-13T02:04:53Z")
First season episode #25 ‘Physical fitness’. Skipper needs to lose weight for a hilarious (?)reason. Gilligan needs to gain weight and strength. Similiar reasons. So MaryAnne being the nurturer she is make pies. Lots of pie. Coconut cream Banana cream. Yum—my. I said she made more banana cream pie. Everyone else says coconut cream pie. First off, who makes coconut cream pie? It’s just pudding with coconut in. Or actual creamed coconut? I don’t think Maryanne had the facilities to “cream” coconut on the island. I say banana cream pie would be much simpler. But then there’s no Nilla wafers. And they might’ve had a problem with milk products. They might’ve had plantains which might be an issue. Seems I better stick to fresh fruit on the island. No pie 😑 (I looked Coconut cream pie was the most mentioned in Gilligan canon, ok, So I’m wrong!) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/2 "2026-04-13T02:20:40Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > And they might’ve had a problem with milk products Coconut milk! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/3 "2026-04-13T02:21:56Z")
Maryann was a master baker. She could improvise. (and Dawn Wells put an actual coconut cream pie recipe on her website, back when everyone had their own website) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/4 "2026-04-13T03:50:17Z")
If that show taught us nothing else, there is nothing that can’t be made out of coconuts. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/5 "2026-04-13T04:29:30Z")
Moving to Cafe society. I’m not sure if this is about the TV show or about pies, but either way, this seems like the best home. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/6 "2026-04-13T05:50:41Z")
Yeah, if the Professor can make a washing machine, a lie detector, and a Geiger counter out of coconuts and bamboo, I don’t think he’d have trouble finding a way to cream coconut for Mary Ann’s pies. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/7 "2026-04-13T06:08:18Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > If that show taught us nothing else, there is nothing that can’t be made out of coconuts. The one thing they cannot do is fix a hole in a boat. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/8 "2026-04-13T06:32:24Z")
Or batteries that last longer than people’s sparkly evening gowns. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/9 "2026-04-13T15:13:51Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > I don’t think he’d have trouble finding a way to cream coconut for Mary Ann’s pies. That sounds filthy ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/10 "2026-04-13T15:19:53Z")
I thought the same. We have dirty minds, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/11 "2026-04-13T15:29:54Z")
So did the ad execs at TBS: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jvzzO7PovOs/hqdefault.jpg "ginger vs mary ann tbs promo") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvzzO7PovOs) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/12 "2026-04-13T15:30:47Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Maryann was a master baker. I always thought that Gilligan was reduced to being a Master Baker, but I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/13 "2026-04-13T15:40:32Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > I always thought that Gilligan was reduced to being a Master Baker, but I could be wrong. He was the first mate on the boat, so he was a master baiter. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/14 "2026-04-13T21:42:53Z")
Batteries can be recharged by stirring sea water in coconut shells. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/15 "2026-04-13T22:03:18Z")
I don’t think Ginger’s boobs were ever that big, but who cares? 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2026, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/16 "2026-04-14T04:58:31Z")
Hey, these guys were Silly, but they weren’t Stupid! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2026, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/17 "2026-04-14T18:38:08Z")
The show must go on. After rescue Ginger couldn’t be assed to spend 5 more minutes doing a cameo on one of the MFTV movies.Even though her big movie aspirations were not happening. MaryAnne went on the QVC. The Howells were bankrupt living in Skippers guestroom. (That may be a lie) The professor was working in a sketchy lab making medicine outta tropical plants. Probably paid for by drug lords. So really, Rescue was not a Good thing. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/18 "2026-04-15T01:33:35Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > The professor was working in a sketchy lab making medicine outta tropical plants. Probably paid for by drug lords. Probably driven to depression when he learned that his wife, with whom he’d had three daughters, had re-married an architect, after he was presumed dead. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/19 "2026-04-15T01:45:21Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > The professor was working in a sketchy lab making medicine outta tropical plants. Probably paid for by drug lords. Naw, he went on to the “selling babies” racket. Seriously, Russell Johnson (the Professor) had a one-shot guest role on an episode of _Lou Grant_ where he played a shady lawyer arranging illegal “adoptions” of babies to couples who didn’t qualify for a legal adoption. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/20 "2026-04-15T01:50:41Z")
I knew he had evil intentions. MaryAnne, her QVC career, and a cook book barely paid the bills. She was a sad creature. Sitting home watching reruns knowing the teen boys were drooling at her short shorts. Pfft. Ginger got the notices but MaryAnne was bumped up from “and the rest” to better billing. An accomplishment on its own. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234.md?page=2)