# Maryanne or Ginger? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871 "2011-03-24T17:55:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/61 "2011-03-25T13:43:14Z")
I prefer the new Agent 99: [http://www.aolcdn.com/photogalleryassets/moviefoneuk/990708/anne-hathaway-410-031011.jpg](http://www.aolcdn.com/photogalleryassets/moviefoneuk/990708/anne-hathaway-410-031011.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/62 "2011-03-25T13:58:17Z")
I just always have to go with the character archetype. Ginger would only be with me to try to get something out of me. If Maryann acts like she likes me, I know it’s real. Plus, I prefer slightly insecure to highly confident. I can have friends that are the latter, but I can only get close to the former. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/63 "2011-03-25T16:12:38Z")
Why choose? Do both. ---
**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 25, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/64 "2011-03-25T18:31:13Z")
I prefer Mary Ann, but I feel like giving props to Ginger just because she always comes off badly in polls like this. Ginger really was an attractive woman, it was just her misfortune to be cast alongside another woman who was equally cute and written with a more appealing personality. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/65 "2011-03-25T19:16:35Z")
at the risk of being whoooooshed, Who is Opal? MaryAnn for the win. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/66 "2011-03-25T19:17:17Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > So what stopped our castaways from getting rescued that time? The Mosquitos figured that the Honeybees were too much competition and so left them stranded. Not Gilligan’s fault at all! That episode was a great early life lesson for me. Always bring a Music Minus One record if you’re going to go on a three-hour tour! You’ll never know when you might need it. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/67 "2011-03-25T19:56:44Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > at the risk of being whoooooshed, Who is Opal? > > MaryAnn for the win. Much to her chagrin, OpalCat MUST be the third item on any list on the SDMB ---
**Author:** ![Silent\_Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Silent\_Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silent_Kal)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/68 "2011-03-25T20:24:40Z")
Wiki’s Gilligan’s Island entry has a note on this very topic: > [@](#): > > The question of which one men prefer, and to a lesser extent, who women view themselves to be more like, has endured long after the end of the series.[[20]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan%27s_Island#cite_note-Hiassen-19)[[21]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan%27s_Island#cite_note-USNews-20) It has inspired videos, essays,[[22]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan%27s_Island#cite_note-21) a 1993 [Budweiser](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser) beer commercial,[[23]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan%27s_Island#cite_note-22) and even the occasional sermon.[[24]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan%27s_Island#cite_note-23) By most accounts, the wholesome, [low-maintenance](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/low-maintenance) Mary Ann has consistently outpolled the glamorous but demanding Ginger since the very beginning. Also, it seems like whenever I read a “celebrity encounters” thread, Tina Louise is mentioned as being… not very nice. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/69 "2011-03-25T21:01:11Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > What? No love for [Agent 99](http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CCkQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBarbara_Feldon&rct=j&q=Agent%2099&ei=UY6MTc3TGKqZ0QGbxeW_Cw&usg=AFQjCNEj06Vhlwig7eVbmHAbKB92jqJoTw&cad=rja)? Or the ultimate 60s TV woman, [Laura Petrie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dick_Van_Dyke_Show)? No, the ultimate 60’s TV woman is [Emma Peel](http://theavengers.tv/forever/images/queenofsin.jpg) ---
**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 25, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/70 "2011-03-25T21:25:09Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > No, the ultimate 60’s TV woman is [Emma Peel](http://theavengers.tv/forever/images/queenofsin.jpg) Worthy choice, but much like I prefer Maryann, I prefer Laure Petrie in this case. MtM was beautiful, sexy and cute all at once. But Emma was super sexy for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/71 "2011-03-25T22:50:02Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > [Ginger](http://ll-media.tmz.com/2008/02/08/0208_tina_louise_wi_getty.jpg) My eyes! The goggles - they do nothing! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/72 "2011-03-25T22:50:55Z")
Ginger would be great for like a night. Mary Ann would be much better for the long haul. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/73 "2011-03-25T22:55:55Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > No, the ultimate 60’s TV woman is [Emma Peel](http://theavengers.tv/forever/images/queenofsin.jpg) No, sorry. The ultimate 60’s TV woman is [Samantha Stevens](http://cdn.hometheaterforum.com/9/95/95fbac5a_htf_imgcache_39660.jpeg). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/74 "2011-03-25T23:20:58Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Another plus for Mary Ann is that she might have some good smoke. No, that’s Mary Jane. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/75 "2011-03-25T23:23:31Z")
> [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](#): > > Ginger. Ginger Ginger Ginger. Give me the vamp, the bombshell, the sex symbol, the dangerous, voracious, mercurial, well, think Elizabeth Taylor fer instance. Them’s are the girls for me. Girls next door, not so much. > > My sexual aesthetic has been informed entirely by Ginger, the Bond girls and 70s Penthouse magazine. > > I am SO LONELY This. Also, you know, redhead vs. brunette. Like if Elizabeth Taylor were a redhead, if the fabric of the cosmos could bear that. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/76 "2011-03-25T23:24:37Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > No, sorry. The ultimate 60’s TV woman is [Samantha Stevens](http://cdn.hometheaterforum.com/9/95/95fbac5a_htf_imgcache_39660.jpeg). Julie Newmar as Catwoman. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/77 "2011-03-25T23:29:53Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > Like a bamboo door in a tropical island storm. 😛 Fortunately, in one episode the Professor demonstrated his ability to make rubber. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/78 "2011-03-25T23:30:58Z")
Yvonne Craig as [Batgirl](http://www.askactor.com/images/casts/United_States/14035/Yvonne_Craig_14035_20.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/79 "2011-03-25T23:35:56Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > For those who chose Betty Rubble: Aren’t you worried about paper cuts? :eek: I’d **go** with Betty . . . but I’ d be thinking of Wilma. But it’s just a fantasy. We both know she’d never leave Fred. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871/80 "2011-03-25T23:46:01Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > What, no love for Mrs. Howell? Dear Lovey (or “Wangworker Wentworth,” as noted in several of her yearbooks) was indeed the hottest hootchie in the Hamptons back in the day, as every Yale crew team from 1914 through 1963 can attest (and don’t get me started about the Vassar field-hockey squad). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maryanne-or-ginger/575871.md?page=5)