No wonder I never liked it, and I thought MaryAnne was the cutest!
I hate when they do this. Nobody needs to know this. Everyone enjoyed it for what it was, a silly show. Nobody needs to know the agenda behind it 50 years later. It seems they want to ruin everything today.
I spent a great deal of my adolescence fantasizing about Comrade Mary Ann.
Who cares? I only tuned in to watch Mary Ann.
Now I know why I always detested that show. LOL.
Really never watched it much, always found the characters annoying. Of course it was supposed to be silly but it just grated on me....
So nice Schwartz shared the royalties....oh wait.
Which is probably why the only sentient beings in the universe who took it seriously were the terminally-naive Thermians from “Galaxy Quest”.
I’m watching season one of Prison Break on Netflix and I recognize it as being heavily influenced by Gilligan’s Island.
With two rich people, that for some reason, brought suitcases of money for a 3 hour boat ride?
And they did eventually open a hotel there.
No wonder they always screwed up the one job they had: get off the island. Also, the Professor (who was actually just a high school teacher) should have collectivized the coconut trees and shot Mr. Howell as a kulak.
Well of course. It was a fantasy.
The show Lost was just a simplified ripoff of Gilligan’s Island.
If they made that show today, who would be the obligatory gay character?
Schwartz was no communist. It was a little utopian fluff, is all. There was no sinister plot, no pro-Soviet stance.
Next you’ll be telling me the Brady Bunch was a Cold War Rapprochment between two Superpowers and the Neutral Country of SwitzerAlice who glued them together.
As Sherwood would surely say to this article, “Oy vey.”
As much as Marx and his band of delusional a-holes hated the traditional family, the traditional family was the only real working model of some of the ideals of socialism and communism.
You had the father who was the main worker providing primary resources for the “people” who are the children and the mother. The mother worked and provided secondary tier resources and distribution of said resources to the children. The children didn’t contribute much, but they always were fed to the best of the ability of the father and mother to feed them, they also worked here and there and didn’t get paid.
But of course as the children grew they became less leechful and contributed more until they they went their own way and started contributing to family units of their own.
Of course Marx never grew the hell up so this concept is missing from socialism/communism because he approached it from the perspective of the “eternal child” which he undoubtedly was if you look at his life.
The Truth about Karl Marx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA2lCBJu2Gg
Most people conflate, “This thing was just like communism” when mostly it was just a family model instead.
Gilligan’s Island was sorta like that, Gilligan and the skipper and ginger where children, the professor and mary ann were the father/mother figures and the millionaire and his wife were the grand parents.
They did a lousy job of propaganda so it’s kind of irrelevant.
What a load of hooey ...
I once saw an interview of Jim Backus and he said essentially the same thing tho I don’t think he mentioned Communism.
He did say he thought the whole thing was silly.
Mary Ann and Marcia.
Communist paradise? Yet, EVERY episode was a desperate attempt to get off the island! So, who exactly is the joke on again?
It’s downright funny to me how idiotic this is.
Nobody watching that show was thinking, “Ahah, Communism does have it’s finer points.”
It covered one version of how people shipwrecked on an island would behave, and > IMO, it was about as average as it could be. It was silliness, but something you might expect to see if in such a situation.
Some folks didn’t like it. Wow, first show ever that not everyone liked.
As a people we seem to have too much free time on our hands. Some things are just not worthy of our consideration.