Or in color for anything after season one.
Going by this thread, it seems that the ideal length of a cruise would fall somewhere between 3 hours and 3 years.
Actually, Gilligan also discovered that the glue wasn’t permanent, and tried to warn everyone before they set sail in the “repaired” Minnow. They didn’t believe him, but the delay that his warning caused resulted in the Minnow self-destructing while it was still on land. If not for that delay, they would have been at sea when the Minnow came apart, and they all would have perished.
Gilligan saved every one of their lives, and I will not hear a word against him! 
No way, Jose! I’d go stir crazy.
The ‘Professor’ used Gilligan as his patsy to distract the others from realising that he was actually sabotaging all of their schemes to get rescued.
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Definitely. The Professor’s answer to Ginger or Mary Ann was both.
Seems like he really was the smartest guy in the room . Or the hut. :leer:
It could be—he did have the only private hut on the island—but I also suspect he was involved in some shady dealings, or on the run from criminal indictment, or maybe blacklisted by HUAC, and engineered the entire scheme to force the SS Minnow onto the island. He could also be running a social experiment, examining how different generations and socioeconomic strata would interact in a post-apocalyptic, self-sufficiency scenario but his presence and the faculties he provided would certainly skew any results.
Stranger
In fact, how do we even know he was a Professor? Maybe that was his “working name” like Heisenberg? We saw the Skipper pilot the ship, but that’s it.
Well maybe. But consider he had a stress-free existence. No faculty meetings. No grant proposals to write. No obnoxious students. Everyone looked up to him as a genius, as opposed to his life on land where the other faculty probably sniped at him and reviewers wrote nasty comments on his papers.
If the Minnow had suddenly developed a leak, I could go with the sabotage hypothesis, but I don’t think even the Professor was up to whipping up a storm.
Hypnotism and stage trickery. The ‘Professor’ is a master of gaslighting.
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I’m sure the Professor had the best drugs. That guy could whip up anything.
That high school guy on Breaking Bad was a total chemical loozer by comparison.
Have you not heard of HAARP? Even Loopy Laura Loomer knows how it’s manipulated for evil. And you can direct it against only certain people even if they are in a crowd.
Rule 34 as applied to conspiracies?
Was there an episode where some political flacks came to solicit votes in a close election, and abandoned them when they didn’t vote the right way? If not there should have been. And probably would be in a remake.
I find that the Professor would work quite well as a proto-member of Vault-Tec and/or the Enclave now that you mention it…
A similar hypothesis has been advanced but the Professor is just a lackey for the Howells.
Being on a cruise for such an extended period would be my idea of dystopia, I really feel like I would be setting my mental health up to fail by even contemplating embarking on such an ‘adventure’.
Welcome aboard, Cityyewtree! You can sail aboard the SS Straight Dope for as long as you like.
Hell hath (almost) no fury: Life at Sea passengers call for criminal investigation into cruise company as they try to claw back $16 million in refunds
He had had a big lab full of Bunsen burners, glass tubing, and Erlenmeyer flasks. It’s obvious - he was making meth. He recreated the lab in his hut - as you point out, the only private one on the island - and when he’d whipped up a ton or so, he would suddenly figure out a way to patch the Minnow, ballast it with ice, and sail back to a life of luxury selling meth in L.A.
I’ll give management a tiny bit of credit for not completely ghosting the customers; according to that CNN article, Life at Sea’s COO met with some of the stranded passengers in Istanbul. Wonder if the CEO and he played “Rock, Paper, Scissors” to decide who had to go appease the pissed-off. “Rock crushes scissors, it’s you!” “Shit.”