Scooter wrote:If you recall, it would have been Gilligan that tapped trees for sap, which he made into pancake syrup which turned out to be a strong but unfortunately not permanent glue, which they used to try to repair the Minnow and ended up causing it to break completely apart.
Ok, how much of a geek am I for remembering that?
I remember that episode too. I wondered why the parts of the boat that were not damaged fell apart too?
And how did the proffessor manage to keep those batteries in the radio charged up? Those were carbon based batteries which did not take to recharging.
And how was it that the one outfit that the Skipper, Gilligan and the Professor wore all the time looked just as new as the dozens of changes of clothes worn by the Howells and Ginger?
And just how many hats did Mrs. Howell imagine she was going to need on a three hour cruise?
"Hang on while I log in to the James Webb telescope to search the known universe for who the fuck asked you." -- James Fell
As I recall, they did take recharging from the professors coconut based recharging system where everyone had to rapidly stir some goop in coconuts wired together to charge the batteries. there was just no stopping that guy.
Scooter wrote:And how was it that the one outfit that the Skipper, Gilligan and the Professor wore all the time looked just as new as the dozens of changes of clothes worn by the Howells and Ginger?
And just how many hats did Mrs. Howell imagine she was going to need on a three hour cruise?
And don't forget, Thurston also brought a chest full of cash with him for this "three hour cruise"...
And all the books the castaways had with them...
I'm just guessing here, but I don't think "plot continuity" was a big consideration on this show...
Well, the way the Howells were played, you could almost buy that they'd bring trunks of clothes (and even cash) with them for the 3 hour ocean voyage. But how the other clothes lasted so long, why Ginger and Mary Ann always had enough makeup and hair grooming products, why the clothes always remained clean and unworn, etc.--those are some of the mysteries of the ages. My favorite was the one science book of the professor that contained any scientific knowledge they needed--kind of like a pre-internet in print for and only a few hundred pages.
Good for you Joe; given the rerun situation, missing it was pretty hard (I saw most of what I watched in reruns)--be proud. But like reality shows? No, IMHO it set the stage for ludicrous sitcoms having no basis in reality--things like It's About Time, My Mother the Car, The Flying Nun, Mr. Terrific/Captain Nice, Beverly Hillbillies... Silly Brain Candy that was wildly popular for a time.
Am I alone in never having watched a single episode of this show?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
I don't remember Mr. Terrific/Captain Nice but I remember the others. There was a time when I watched anything if it was in color. Most of them were stupid shows.
Except for Get Smart. I used to watch that with my Mensa buddies.
