# 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:** 2
**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 15, 2026, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/21 "2026-04-15T05:29:52Z")
Miss Wells was from Nevada. N’uff said. Winner. ---
**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 15, 2026, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/22 "2026-04-15T09:00:17Z")
Dawn Wells was _Miss_ Nevada 1959. A gen-yu-wine beauty queen! 🥰 ---
**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, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/23 "2026-04-15T18:54:48Z")
I fear I must ask, pray tell, what was her talent? (Remember the episode where she was conked on the head and thought she was Ginger, the girl could not sing or dance) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/24 "2026-04-15T19:15:20Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > 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. Which husband was her favourite? ---
**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 15, 2026, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/25 "2026-04-15T20:15:53Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I fear I must ask, pray tell, what was her talent? Who cares? 😍🥰 ---
**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, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/26 "2026-04-15T20:31:22Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Pfft. Ginger got the notices but MaryAnne was bumped up from “and the rest” to better billing. An accomplishment on its own. That was Gilligan’s doing. Bob Denver’s contract specified that, as the lead, he could decide where his name came in the credits. He told the producers that, if they didn’t properly credit the Professor and Mary Ann, he wanted his own name to be nowhere in the credits. ---
**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 15, 2026, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/27 "2026-04-15T22:21:12Z")
The way I heard it, Bob wanted his name moved to the end of the credits. Whatever his demand was, it helped that they were being reshot anyway because of the switch from B&W to color. He also insisted that no one should know he had gone to bat for Dawn and Russell, and it wasn’t until years later that they found out. Tina Louise got higher billing than Dawn because she was already more of an established actress. My mother (who would diss any beautiful woman other than Elizabeth Taylor) didn’t care for Tina because “She always tries to sound like Marilyn Monroe.” 🙄 Tina agreed to do the series only because her agent told her it was about a movie star stranded on a desert island. She was peeved when she learned she wouldn’t be the focus of attention, and her bad feelings were one reason she never returned for any of the TV movies. ---
**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 15, 2026, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/28 "2026-04-15T22:37:29Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > 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. He also played a murderer pretending to help the police in an episode of _ **Ironside** _. He gave himself away by putting peanuts in a bottle of Coke he was drinking. ---
**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 15, 2026, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/29 "2026-04-15T22:39:48Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I fear I must ask, pray tell, what was her talent? This comes from Google AI. Take it for what it’s worth. > For her talent competition, she performed dramatic readings, including a scene from Shakespeare and a piece from “Our Town” at the state level, and “Rosen from Azure Like It” at the national pageant (Azure Like It was a book by Wendy Holden) Wells’ biography says she wanted to dance ballet but suffered a knee injury. ---
**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 15, 2026, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/30 "2026-04-15T22:46:00Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > For her talent competition, she performed dramatic readings. This was Mrs Howell’s talent in the Castaways’ beauty pageant. She tried to recite Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride” but was heckled by Gilligan, the Skipper, and the Professor. ---
**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 16, 2026, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/31 "2026-04-16T14:42:38Z")
I have to say the Girls of the Island and their “Honey Bees” performance was outstanding. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/32 "2026-04-16T14:50:38Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > The one thing they cannot do is fix a hole in a boat. The coconuts were too small to plug the hole. Prof. Hinckley had blind spots in his creativity. ---
**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 16, 2026, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/33 "2026-04-16T15:01:14Z")
Oh, that Roy. I sometimes wondered if was he partaking some coconut wine he fermented in one of those caves. Often he gets a look at of weirdness come across his face.. Kinda wild man like. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/34 "2026-04-16T15:16:20Z")
I recall seeing Bob Denver appearing on an episode of some other show where he had a line something like: “I used to know a guy who was so smart he could figure out how to make a nuclear reactor out of coconuts but couldn’t figure out how to fix a hole in a boat.” ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/35 "2026-04-16T15:24:48Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > (Remember the episode where she was conked on the head and thought she was Ginger, the girl could not sing or dance) It actually takes a bit of talent to sing that badly on purpose! We actually saw her perform live, in a travelling version of Chapter 2, back in the 1980s. No singing was involved. Acting was perfectly competent. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/36 "2026-04-16T15:42:25Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > I recall seeing Bob Denver appearing on an episode of some other show where he had a line something like: “I used to know a guy who was so smart he could figure out how to make a nuclear reactor out of coconuts but couldn’t figure out how to fix a hole in a boat.” That was the movie **Back to the Beach,** a 1987 send-up of the Anette Funicello/Frankie Avalon Beach movies of the 1960s, and much else besides. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/37 "2026-04-16T16:04:24Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > 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. And then she divorced said architect, after realizing how incompetent he was, in designing a house w/ one bathroom for nine people and no toilet. ---
**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 16, 2026, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/38 "2026-04-16T17:41:08Z")
Without a sewer system. No less. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/39 "2026-04-16T17:56:03Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > after realizing how incompetent he was, Oh I dunno. His house has two floors on the inside, but only one on the outside. I’d say that’s pretty good. Maybe it extended into 4 dimensions. ---
**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 16, 2026, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-gilligan-when-come-back-bring-pie/1029234/40 "2026-04-16T18:02:05Z")
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