Creator of Gilligan's Island (as well as The Brady Bunch), Schwartz's vision of a diverse group of people learning to live together on an island was an all time classic of American television.
Scorned by critics and the "educated class," it surfaced at a perfect time...when social barriers were falling like dominoes. Gilligan's Island poked fun at the chinks of everyone's armor, and found a way to make the absurd seem believable...week after week. And it sure was a nice place to be for 30 minutes.
To this day, 45 years later, a man's true nature can be ascertained by asking one simple question, "Ginger or Mary Ann?"
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Threesome. There, I said it. Hypothetically speaking, anyway.
RIP Sherwood (isn't that a great name?)
PG - you nail it!!
Hoped I married Mary-Ann while I married Ginger (I knew)...
Now Ginger´s giving me a hell of a time and I´m living with Mary-Ann and finally feeling good.
ROTFL
T
(watched them in b&w as a gradeschool kid in Jersey)
Who would have thought that Bob Denver would be able to out-live Maynard G. Krebs???!!!
Gotta love a writer that can hang with both Sherwood Schwartz and Patty Smith.
ps Mary Ann.
mary ann from day one
mary-ann hands down! ( or wrapped around my uh-hum...)
el vaquero
This very question was asked of listeners a few days ago on an Australian National radio station! Plus someone made the observation that you can sing the words of the Aussie National anthem to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme :-D
I couldn't get it out of my head for the rest of the day!
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