Initiating Event Enter danger indicator Water-height measuring stick goes underwater. Reporter bangs on door. Conflict Believe there is danger Professor concludes island is sinking. Cast believes someone is trying to crash rehearsal. Action Take action against danger Everyone relocates to dry part of island.
Cast member tries to block door.
Danger indicator is false Gilligan moved the measuring stick when fishing. Goldstein reassures cast that it's only a reporter. On a road trip through the South, Goldstein discussed his ideas with John Bourdeaux, another Off-Off Campus performer who also happened to be hooked on sitcoms. Bourdeaux, an ebullient American history major who could perhaps be best cast opposite the academic Goldstein as the fun-loving fraternity member, was enthusiastic. Back in Chicago, the two got the go-ahead from the University Theater student committee and UT director Bill Michel, AB'92, to mount a production of what has now become Sitcom.