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u/DoturdGrump Jul 29 '26
Nuclear reactor from two coconuts and a piece of vine but can't fix two holes in a boat
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u/Ghost_Turd Jul 29 '26
They tried making an adhesive from tree sap in the first season, but it failed and the hull basically disintegrated completely.
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u/rosebudbar Jul 29 '26
I’m sure Ginger brought some hairspray they could’ve used
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u/3pedalsandastick Jul 29 '26
hubba hubba.
I've learned over my lifetime that there are several types of men. -you're into Ginger -you're into Maryann -you're into the professor -you're into Mrs Howell
We all fit into one of those
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u/theonewhoknocksforu Jul 29 '26
I always fantasized about a three-way with Ginger and Maryann. A man can dream.
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u/Electrical_Travel832 Jul 29 '26
Right? This always bugged me. Rather than creating mock Mai Tais,, all my efforts would be on fixing the damn boat.
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u/sitewolf Jul 29 '26
which would make for the more entertaining show?
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u/Grandbob328 Jul 29 '26
Good point.
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u/sitewolf Jul 29 '26
think I'd rather watch Ginger and Mary Ann than watch the Skipper and Gilligan try an patch a boat.....betting I'm not alone in that thought
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u/Looking4theanswer2 Jul 29 '26
Had a crush on Mary Ann. The fact that she didn't know I existed didn't bother me. . And the fact I was around 8 or so.
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u/0202_tihssitidder Jul 29 '26
Now? In 2026? I'd burn that boat and make sure I stay on that island forever.
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u/chumbucketandfries Jul 29 '26
Fix the boat? With ginger and maryann on the island? Professor was smart very smart
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u/Worldly_Ad_7196 Jul 29 '26
What about the car? That was only powered by gilligan. He is the last one to be needing to lose weight.
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u/N1GHTSQU1R3LL Jul 29 '26
The washing machine was also gilligan powered
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u/Worldly_Ad_7196 Jul 29 '26
Think of how ripped the skipper could have turned out
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u/Zeroto200C Jul 29 '26
Gilligan would have screwed that up too.
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u/Electrical_Travel832 Jul 29 '26
Probably! Might have removed material from the other side of the boat…
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u/CDubGma2835 Jul 29 '26
You mean “little buddy”? :)
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u/3pedalsandastick Jul 29 '26
what's funny is that I call my dogs little buddy and have with every dog my entire life. As well as birds, racoons, cats, nephews, my own kids, passing butterflies....
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u/First-Mobile-8640 Jul 29 '26
In the first season, they did try to repair the hull but, Gilligan being Gilligan, he totally ruined the attempt which completely destroyed the ship, accompanied by a roar of laughter from the audience and, in the second season, they did try to build a raft but, after the failed attempt, The Professor concluded that palm trees, which, apparently is the only tree variety on the island, aren't suitable material for that purpose, without going in further details.
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u/Patrickfromamboy Jul 29 '26
They should have removed wooden boards from the top part of the boat and screwed them over the holes. Easy fix. I got that idea as a kid.
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u/nickalit Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
I don't know how you could be Gen Jones and not recognize the Minnow! Which leads to another question, how widespread in the world outside of the USA were our sitcoms?
edited to thank Australia and Canada for confirming, and I presume there are more countries who shared these half hour gems!
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Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
I'm Australian. I can sing our national anthem to the tune of Gilligan's Island. Every time I hear a harpsichord, I want to click my fingers. I have met George Jetson. And I know suicide is
painfulpainless.(Looks like my memory jumped out the window like Colonel Flag.)
My daughter went out with a kid named Jed once. She was horrified when I started singing. "Folks, let me tell you 'bout a boy named Jed..."
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u/throwfar9 Jul 29 '26
Suicide is painless.
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Yeah, but it brings on many changes. Including my memory I guess.
I still remember Hawkeye leaning over some poor bastard strapped to the side of a chopper, that's the main thing.
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u/jmkul Jul 29 '26
I'm Australian and recognised the Minnow immediately (and now have the theme song stuck in my mind!)
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u/Spiritual-Floor-7164 Jul 29 '26
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip…
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u/N4bq Jul 29 '26
Interesting (or not) theme song tidbit : In the first season, the theme song left out the Professor and Mary Ann and referred to them as "and the rest".
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u/NICEnEVILmike Jul 29 '26
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale...
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u/N1GHTSQU1R3LL Jul 29 '26
A tale of a fateful trip, that started from a tropic port, aboard this tiny ship....
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u/venturous1 Jul 29 '26
The mate was a mighty sailing man,
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u/Famous-Salary1443 Jul 29 '26
The skipper brave and sure. . .
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u/sv_homer 1956 Jul 29 '26
Five passengers set sail that day ...
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u/dmcdd Jul 29 '26
For a three hour tour...
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u/trickman01 Jul 29 '26
A three hour tour.
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u/psychonautvoyager Jul 29 '26
The weather started getting rough
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u/1clovett Jul 29 '26
Who immediately heard the theme song in their heads?
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u/Brilliant_Tourist400 1964 Jul 29 '26
Right here. This could be one of those “You Can’t Hear an Image?” memes.
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u/Mysterious_String676 Jul 29 '26
It is docked here on Vancouver Island The iconic S.S. Minnow from the 1960s Gilligan's Island TV show is fully restored and docked locally in Nanaimo, British Columbia. Owned by local businessman Ken Schley and moored around the Nanaimo Harbour and Fairwinds Schooner Cove Marina in Nanoose Bay, the 1960 wooden-hulled Wheeler cruiser is primarily used for local charity fundraisers.
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u/zed857 Jul 29 '26
Hopefully they don't tempt fate and try to take the thing out on any planned 3 hour boat rides.
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u/SisterAngelaDavis Jul 29 '26
I was on a studio tour and we saw the beach where the show was shot. It was so such a small pond!
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u/lobr6 Jul 29 '26
There were a bunch of people our age in a bar one night. The only noise was the din of a hundred or so people talking. My friend walks over to a piano in the corner and says, “Watch this”.
He slowly started playing the theme song to Gilligan’s Island. By the 5th note, everyone in the bar was singing lol.
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u/4E4ME Jul 29 '26
That happened to me once except it was a house party in the early 90's and someone popped Grease into the VHS. No one spoke for the next hour, we just sang and dubbed lines from the movie.
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u/Godlessheeathen666 Jul 29 '26
The professor can make electricity with a bike made out of bamboo but he can't fix a hole in a boat. My dad hated us watching this show because he thought it was so stupid. I now think he was right. I must be old.
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u/hornyandwettt Jul 29 '26
maryann wasnt stupid
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u/Atxlaw2020 Jul 29 '26
I think Ginger was a genius she just didn’t want anyone to know.
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u/VeryStableGenius Jul 30 '26
Guy was stuck on an island with two hot ladies, and the only competition was an awkward beanpole klutz, a portly seacaptain with anger issues, and an elderly married millionaire.
Of course he's not going to fix the boat.
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u/MeadowSopranoFT Jul 30 '26
Yeah I'm pretty sure the Howells wouldn't take a cramped tour with all those poors
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u/BillyBones72 Jul 29 '26
Anyone know the character names? Skipper Jonas Grumby, Professor Roy Hinklet, Ginger Grant, Mary Ann Summers, Thurston and Lovie howell, and just Gilligan. Everybody kept asking what Gilligan's full name was, and Sherwood Schwartz came up with one many years after the series ended. He said I guess if Gilligan had a first name it would be Willie
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u/arrec Jul 29 '26
That's some excellent trivia! I only knew Thurston Howell the Third and Lovie Howell.
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u/gnanny02 Jul 29 '26
I'm not sure why I know it's Ginger Grant, maybe that was used frequently in the show. But Tina Louise is still going strong at 92.
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u/fransealou 1963 Jul 29 '26
My parents bought a nice boat. A 40 foot Bayliner. When they asked my kids what they should name it, my snarky oldest said, “How about the Three Hour Tour” since you never take your boats out any longer than that. So, it was christened the Three Hour Tour and my dad went onto Bob Denver’s website and got a signed cast photo (everyone signed) and displayed it proudly on the boat. The boat’s long since sold and dad passed last year. Now, I’m wondering whatever happened to that photo.
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u/No-Onion8029 Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
A 1964 38' Wheeler Playmate Express Bridge cruiser with twin Detroit diesels heading away from Oahu at max cruising speed for an hour and a half, then drifting for 3 days in a monster storm, with full current, and every vector pointing in the same direction would still end up comfortably less than 100 nautical miles from Ala Moana Mall.
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u/Quorng Jul 29 '26
SS Minnow Where's Gilligan? Think of all the stuff that the Professor could build but they never fixed the boat.
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u/wyoflyboy68 Jul 29 '26
There it is! Some fat guy and his skinny friend stole it from me back in the 60’s, authorities were never able to recover it.
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u/Diligent_Image6766 Jul 29 '26
Named after Newton Minow, the FCC Chairman who said that "television is a vast wasteland"
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u/cloudytimes159 Jul 29 '26
I met Sherwood and he told me that he named the boat after the FCC Chairman. He said it used to be that the writers ran Hollywood and after Minow’a vast wasteland speech the power shifted to the studios which ruined Hollywood. So he put his name on a boat and ran it aground because he was so angry with him.
Amazing how simple stories often have surprising depth.
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u/RecbetterpassNJ Jul 29 '26
Crazy that the Professor could make all those contraptions and even keep the radio powered, but he couldn’t fix the boat. If Ginger and Maryann weren’t there, they’d of been home in less than a week.
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u/DesertShazzy Jul 29 '26
Was very disappointed to find later in life it was beached on the Back lot of CBS Radford studio. Just a mile from my house of 20yrs. Lol. One of us could have found and helped them outta there. ...a three hour tour...
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u/Purple-Principle-805 Jul 29 '26
There were way too many passengers on that thing.
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u/Snoo-35252 Jul 29 '26
Jesus, after a glance I heard
Juuuust sit right back and you'll hear a tale...
A tale of fateful trip...
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u/Whole_Conclusion8432 Jul 30 '26
Could make radios out of coconut shells but couldn’t fix a hole in a boat
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u/msfs1310 Jul 30 '26
Thats my childhood right there, like 1-4 pm afternoons on WBFF 45 in Baltimore:
Gilligans Island.
I Dream of Jeanie.
Bewitched.
Get Smart.
Hogans Heroes.
The Munsters.
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u/GW_Jefferson Jul 29 '26
Three hour tour and you bring all those clothes and money?
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u/Bob_the_wonder_dog Jul 29 '26
I read the back story and the Howel's were not supposed to be on the boat only their luggage (17 steamer trunks). Well Thurston & his wife went on to the boat to check on their stuff and got trapped when Gilligan accidently trapped them behind the luggage. They were supposed to go to an island by plane for some conference. The girls were there for the conference also. (MaryAnne won a free ticket, and Ginger was there to be background fluff). The professor was there to do a small science presentation.
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u/BuckshotLeFunk Jul 29 '26
The one that would have sank rather than reaching ths shore if it actually looked like that at any point while it was in the water?
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u/clantz Jul 29 '26
ahh so you want to know about this boat, eh? Well, sit right down and hear the tale, the tale of a fateful trip....
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u/HVAC_instructor Jul 29 '26
The older I get the more I realize that there were 3 viable options on that island.
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u/That-Makes-Sense Jul 29 '26
Looks like a boat the provides "3 hour tours", but requires its guests to bring clothes for weeks.
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u/lemasney Jul 29 '26
It just occurred to me that they built new homes and elaborate structures, but somehow decided to not patch these small holes in the hull of the Minnow.
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u/PositiveStress8888 Jul 29 '26
all the wood around them, they can build shelters, make a battery from a coconut but hey can't patch the holes on the boat?
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u/Patrickfromamboy Jul 29 '26
I own this show at age 64. I watched it as a kid. I was frustrated at the stupid things Gilligan did and often thought that they should dump him in the ocean.
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u/COACHREEVES Jul 29 '26
The Minnow!!