Ah yes, the good ol’ days of long distance individual twisted copper pairs. If the Minnow gang wanted to get picked up faster, they should have just cut the cable in half and waited. Someone in a ship would have been along soon enough to repair it given the scope of the outage they would have caused.
I never could enjoy Gilligan’s Island because they were just so damn dumb. A troupe of syphilitic apes could’ve gotten off that island faster.
It is hard to emphasize with stupid people.