So it all seems like some kind of adult version of Peter and the Frigging Wolf. The director tops off all the theme music with a heaping helping of wah-wah mutes to punctuate the humorous incidents, like when Gilligan gets hit in the head with a cocoanut. And then there's the completely unrelated fantasy. Russell liked an unrelated idea and he couldn't fit it into the movie, so here's how he did it. Laughlin and his wife are watching TV one night, and they are channel-surfing when this fantasy comes on.
Cutlery falls into a swimming pool, and people dive in to get it.
I couldn't figure out any relation of any kind to the rest of the film. Odd filmmaking, lurid and obsessive, as Ken Russell's films tend to be. He wanted to make a comedy, and he wanted to make a very serious black drama about the underbelly of society, ala 8mm. What a concept. Despite the fact that I've ragged on this movie, it must be the among the most watchable bad movies ever made.