A Scholarly Critique of the Style, Symbolism and Sociopolitical Relevance of Gilligan's Island

Fight The Bias.Com ^ | 9/24/2003 | Lewis Napper

[yarddog]

I guess everyone's list will be different but here is mine.

Wilma

Jeannie (not even close)

Marcia, although when I was a teenager I thought Susan Dey was hot!

Bat Girl

Superman

June Cleaver (as a Mother)

Louie

Also you forgot the two which we argued over most when I was a kid.

Roy Rogers could whip Gene Autry, and Tarzan could whip Bomba.

[yarddog]

Oh btw.

Who is Lloyd Christmas?

[50sDad]

If the truth be told, I always liked Velma better than Daphne.

Daphne? Daphne is a prissy little spoiled rich girl. Now Velma...she suffers from the classic Vulcan Syndrome (VS). If you could slip a crowbar under that massive intellect and pry her libido out in the sunlight, she'd melt the proverbial trailer hitch. (As evidenced by the out-takes of "Bad Velma" in the Scooby Do Movie DVD. Did you catch the effects of demon magic on Velma's neckline? She's good. SHE'S EVIL!)

[50sDad]

Who's a bigger weasel, George Costanza(Seinfield) or Louie DePalma(Taxi)?

Depends. George was a self-cendered weasel, but had no idea that it was wrong for him to put himself at the pinnacle of creation, or that by making himself the sole focus of his every thought he was behaving in an immoral way...George was so shallow a swim though the ocean of his soul wouldn't get your feet wet. Now Louie...Louie knew that he was a self-centered bastard, that he was screwing over everyone else so he could end up on top, and did it anyway. Louie was the bigger weasel.

[Little Ray]

Velma - she's cute enough and she would be more fun on a date.
What would you talk about with Daphne?

[MamaTexan]

Ginger or Maryanne?

Neither....

The Professor :)

[macrahanish #1]

Maryann!!! Both then and now. I saw photograph of Dawn Wells from around 2000. She was still beautiful, and didn't have the Joan Rivers plastic surgery thing going on.
Tina Louise looked like a fossil within ten years of the end of Gilligan's journey.

[Richard Kimball]

I always leaned towards George being the bigger weasel. Louie felt guilty sometimes. George was totally selfish. BTW, I always thought the guy who sued Sienfeld, claiming George's character was based on him was probably telling the truth. What else would you expect from George Costanza?

[Jonah Hex]

The Professor :)

(spit-take/double-take, look at freep name)

Oh, you're a woman!! Thank gawd!!

;-)

[Richard Kimball]

Okay, here's mine:

Betty
Jeannie
Marcia
Poison Ivy (I took a poll of my male students, and 75% of them said they'd probably kiss her even though her lips were poisoned.)
The Hulk
June Cleaver, whom I always thought was incredibly sexy.
George
Lloyd Christmas was Jim Carrey's character in "Dumb and Dumber". Local betting is that Christmas gets Munsoned in the first round.
Roy Rogers and Gene Autrey? Man, how old are you?

Oh, I wish I had a pencil-thin mustache
The Boston Blackie kind
Two-toned Rickey Ricardo jacket
and an autographed picture of Andy Devine
I remember bein' buck-toothed and skinny
Writin' fan letters to Sky King's Penny
Oh I wish I had a pencil-thin mustache
Then I could do some cruisin' too

BTW, if you want to feel REALLY old, I asked some of my college students, Cameron Diaz or Kirsten Dunst, and one of them said, "Dunst! Diaz is old, man."

[MamaTexan]

Oh, you're a woman!! Thank gawd!!

Well, I just hadta say sumpthin'....

You guys were workin' yerselves up to a lather!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Neither.... The Professor :)

Oh yes. A guy with brains who is good with his hands and creative too. It doesn't get any better then that.

[the invisib1e hand]

Have you ever noticed how many song lyrics ("Amazing Grace", "Yellow Rose in Texas", etc.) can be song to the Gilligan theme?

I've noticed that Purple Haze accomodates the lyrics to "Green Acres" very well.

[the invisib1e hand]

need it be either/or?

[An.American.Expatriate]

Need to send this to my mom . . . just think, all those years of Gillgan's Island I was actually learning leasons for life!!!

Boy won't SHE be surprised . . .

[Elliott Jackalope]

"That means the island is Hell, and Gilligan, of course, is the Devil..."

Which means that The Skipper is God. Suddenly everything is so very, very clear. Now I understand. It is as if a bolt of lightning has struck me between the eyes, and now I can see everything as it really is. Of course! It's so obvious now. You have removed the veils from my eyes, and I am grateful to you for your insight.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to start the "First Church of Gilligan's Island". The world will be a better place for it.

[StriperSniper]

and Gilligan, of course, is the Devil...

Nope, it's Jerry Lee Lewis. ;-)

[Jonah Hex]

and Gilligan, of course, is the Devil...

Nope, it's Jerry Lee Lewis.

"Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!"

[StriperSniper]

Tinå Løuise

[Xenalyte]

You can nanner about socio-political overtones all you want, but the actual focus and function should be the real question....
Ginger or Maryanne?

I solved that problem. Ginger is the left one, and Mary Ann the right one.