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Gilligan's Island...

posted 16 years ago by bettiegia
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I'm really enjoying this movie (airing right now) but I keep waiting for them to eat a coconut cream pie, and power the radio by peddeling tropical bike! MJ

[–] childofgod16 16 years ago

On Gilligan's Island, they never operated the radio by pedaling a bike. It was battery powered.

[–] bettiegia 16 years ago

Nit-picking nit-picking....I'm pretty sure at SOME point in the run of Gilligan's Island, they powered SOMETHING with a stationary bike...in my mind's eye I can see Gilligan peddeling away.

[–] childofgod16 16 years ago

You're right. There were several things that they powered by pedaling a bike. One was a washing machine, and there were several others. But not the radio. :-)

Yes, I can be a nit-picker sometimes. No hard feelings, though, right? :-)

[–] ghostfan 15 years ago

They didn't power the radio by the bike, but in one episode, the Skipper recharges the batteries in the radio by pedaling the bike. Darned if I can remember which episode though.

I would have answered this sooner, but I just decided to look up this movie -- a friend of mine taped the movie off TMC and sent it to me. I hadn't seen it in years!

[–] eholzapfel26 12 years ago

Gilligan's Island would've been better if (like the band of people in Five Came Back) they had a killer on the island with them.

...and a kid, and a thug babysitting the kid, and a bail-bondsman, and a drunk!

[–] Vega_Lyra 9 years ago

Your post was made over 2 years ago, but it made my day...

This could have extended the show for at least another season or two.

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[–] darryl-tahirali 8 years ago

Gilligan's Island would've been better if (like the band of people in Five Came Back) they had a killer on the island with them.

...and a kid, and a thug babysitting the kid, and a bail-bondsman, and a drunk!

They came pretty close . . .

a killer on the island with them

"The Hunter": Big-game hunter Jonathan Kincaid (Rory Calhoun) arrives on the island looking to hunt a human in this take-off on The Most Dangerous Game. Guess who the quarry is?

...and a kid

"Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy": Kurt Russell is Jungle Boy, found living on the island.

and a thug babysitting the kid

That may be a bit harder, but there were a couple of thugs who came to the island, first Jackson Farrell (Larry Storch), a gangster on the lam in "Little Island, Big Gun," and then Wiley (Don Rickles), a thief who arrives and begins kidnapping the women for ransom in "The Kidnapper." Then there was, in "The Little Dictator," an exiled Latin American dictator (Nehemiah Persoff) who acted pretty childishly . . . he also fulfills Vasquez's function as a political figure.

and a bail-bondsman

Another tricky one. The closest would be Gilligan himself, whose law-and-order zeal in "Gilligan's Goes Gung-Ho" costs the castaways a chance to get rescued.

and a drunk!

Here there are a few candidates, such as two Soviet cosmonauts (Vincent Beck, Danny Klega) who down bottles of vodka with the male castaways in "Nyet, Nyet--Not Yet," and butterfly obsessive Lord Beasley (John McGiver), whom the castaways try to get drunk in "Man with a Net."

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[–] EliotTempleton 8 years ago

You really need to get out of the house more.

[–] darryl-tahirali 8 years ago

You need to keep your "advice" to yourself.

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"Meretricious persiflage!" -- D.H. Lawrence

[–] TongueFu 12 years ago

Even on Gilligan's Island, they didn't peddel a bike. They pedaled a bike.

[–] Randy-144 10 years ago

Maybe one of them tried to peddle the bike, as in 'sell it'. But, since they lived a true communal existence, everything other than the personal possessions they brought with them belonged to all of them; though the point could be made that since the professor made the bike, he owned it.