Given the fact the Gilligan’s Island was probably the surrealest show ever put on the tube and thus was not designed to be scientifically (or otherwise) accurate; how many of the Professor’s creations could he really have made with things he found around a tropical island.
F’rinstance, the pedal car seems plausible, as does the hot water plumbing system. The coconut phonograph doesn’t (I think you’d have problems with the needle). We have lots of technical experts on this board, from engineers and chemists to tropical botanists. What could the Professor really have made?
I think the Professor didn’t really WANT to escape. Think about it – he’s the only reasonably attractive male on a lush tropical island with Ginger and Mary Ann…
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“Finally, consider Kottke’s voice which sounds like geese farts on a muggy day.”
Leo Kottke 6- And 12-String Guitar
Snappy Plissken – I’ve been wondering this for a while, but your reference to Kurt Russell makes me gotta ask: Are you related to the famous Snake Plissken? (I thought he was dead!)
I read in Sherwood Schwartz’s book that they ridiculed him for the episode where the Prof made a balloon from raincoats. 25 years later some people in (then) East Germany did this and it worked. They floated to West Germany.