Talk:Gilligan's Island

message: Agreed the "Ginger vs Mary Ann" section seems trivial but it seems well-sourced and does not fit the definition of a trivia section in WP:TRIVIA. Kendall-K1 (talk) 15:40, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm still trying to figure out  how Phil Silvers got OFF the island. 198.23.5.11 (talk) 18:58, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia? 

message: I think we should only have thinks that are official continuations of the story.  If we do include clones, then the notable ones should be grouped in a separate section.  The current format is a mess, switching from official, to unrelated, back to official.  There are countless movies and TV episodes that were inspired by Gilligan's Island.  Books about the show can go in further reading.  --Rob (talk) 00:45, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reunion films, clones and spin-offs 

message: The production section mentions that the lagoon featured on the show was demolished in 1997 as part of an expansion project. This article, dated 1995, mentions said project. As the statement is currently unsourced anyway, and according to the link was not done in 1997, I thought this could be of help. SophiaPehawkins (talk) 04:34, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Good find! I would happily correct and reference the article with the source you've found myself, but if you do it yourself it will be more rewarding for you. Change the year to 1995 and cite it using either the  or  templates. If you have any questions I'll be more than happy to assist you! Cheers :> Doc talk 04:45, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lagoon 

message: I just want to point out that the person who posted the obituary for Leon Klatzkin erroneously credited him with the theme to Gilligan's Island:
:http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-18/news/mn-53_1_popular-television
I knew Leon during the time that Gilligan's Island aired, and he never claimed to have anything to do with the show, so it's a mystery how the obit came to mention it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.215.115.31 (talk) 22:23, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theme Song 

message: this is a stage/theatre concept or direction in which an actor talks or in some way engages the audience. I mention it, cause it was one of my FAVORITE things/action of the Skipper, as he would smack Gilligan w/ his cap and then, as Gilligan runs off, exasperatingly look to the camera! or even expessively raise his hands to chest level etc... i saw this, so many times and my little brain goes bonggg! take away the person, look at the action.. it was a very sweet tip-o-the-hat to another even more famous big guy little guy duo..'well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!' bless their hearts, everyone.76.218.248.127 (talk) 04:16, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: breaks the fourth wall

message: It only seems fair that we mention that Warner Home Video remastered the sets in April of 2012, we should include the original release date for the discs and the re-release dates like we did for I Love Lucy Matthew Cantrell (talk) 17:18, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  New DVD releases 

message: This sounds like unsourced cruft for one simple reason: it is unsourced cruft. If you have an independent reliable source, feel free to provide it. Otherwise, you will need to explain why we should ignore a cor principle of the project and add it without a source. - SummerPhD (talk) 12:06, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Some have speculated..." 

message: Someone should add a section on who owns the rights to the show currently. And i have to ask, is it Warner Bros.? Or CBS? RocketMaster (talk) 06:02, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright 

message: In the bit about the pilot's theme, it says that it only credited four actors, with the other three as 'the rest' (like how the next iteration of the theme credited five, plus 'the rest'). However, that's not quite accurate. It was "the others" in the pilot theme. The "and the rest" line was only in the later broadcast theme, where it referred only to two of them. That's kind of what was special about it, one of them had been promoted, and she ended up getting a big head over it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.206.153 (talk) 03:18, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Catch the pilot theme song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx7A4sxJi7c It's actually "the other tourists". Although it should also be noted that earlier in the song there are brief descriptions of all passengers, including "two secretaries" and "a high school teacher". 2601:545:8202:4EA5:79CF:E221:237B:73FD (talk) 08:24, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  slight incorrect info on the pilot theme song 

message: I suppose this might be trivia, but it's interesting.... The article mentions that the pilot was in filming on the day of JFK's assassination. I've seen stills from scenes shot in a harbor that day where a flag flying at half-staff can be seen in the background. PurpleChez (talk) 18:55, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pilot 

message: Knowing that there was an occasion when Zsa Zsa Gabor's guest character referred to the Professor by name, I wanted to make the following revision to the additional mentioning of the Professor's name: "The name Roy Hinkley is used two other times, when Mr. Howell introduces the Professor as Roy Huntley and the professor corrects him, to which Mr. Howell replies, "Brinkley, Brinkley", and in the episode "Erika Tiffany Smith to the Rescue", when the title guest character, played by Zsa Zsa Gabor, refers to him by name." But I don't know if what was already described about Mr. Howell's erroneous introduction is from the same episode with Zsa Zsa Gabor, as the prior cited instance does not identify the episode. IS it the same episode, or a different one? If a different episode, it'd be nice to know which one; also to identify it if it IS that Zsa Zsa episode, in which case my revision wouldn't be necessary (or even accurate about saying "two times"). 2601:545:8202:4EA5:29E9:6C64:8DF:BCFD (talk) 08:58, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Even if the episode where Mr. Howell erroneously said Huntley/Brinkley IS the Erika Tiifany Smith episode, the fact that she used it as well means that Mr. Howell's imcident was NOT the "only time" it was mentioned; her use was indeed a second such occasion, albeit not a second episode. 2601:545:8201:6290:B40F:27DD:B7E6:EF42 (talk) 05:59, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mentions of Professor's name 

message: 1. The section on a film remake may need removing since the reboot was (apparently) not made??
2. There is a documentary on the filming of the show which includes many of the details listed here, and more, titled "Surviving Gilligan's Island," which includes surviving cast members, with commentary and reenactors discussing the creation and filming of the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVRkpvrhKGk  With the on-screen involvement of the actors, it appears to be a legitimate history.
3. A 2016 documentary, distributed to U.S. theaters in 2018, alleges that the series was, literally, a communist plot. The show's creator, actors, and historians agree it to be a legitimate premise(!!), and the island was intended to metaphorically represent a post-apocalypse cross-section of Americans rebuilding as a Marxist society(!!!). "Interviews with the show's creator and surviving actors, as well from professors from Harvard, reveal that Gilligan's Island was deliberately designed to be dismissed as low brow comedy in order to celebrate Marxism and lampoon Western democratic constructs." (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5132392). "The Gilligan Manifesto" trailer is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo8Cp6FZPpk  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.17.243.105 (talk) 01:30, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updates needed? 

message: Does Felicity Jones have anything to do with Gilligan’s Island? She is mentioned in this article, but it seems to be a mistake. Changintimes (talk) 03:53, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Felicity Jones 

message: Why has FALSE information about Gilligan being said to be "Willy Gilligan" in the pilot, and Mrs. Howell's first name being "Eunice", which were once conscientiously removed, been put back in?? What POSSIBLE justification for this nonsense is there? Is it because some source deemed to be "reliable" has said these false things, and that is considered more important than the verifiable truth? Pretty ridiculous reasoning, to put it mildly. If there is some OTHER vehicle that declared that Gilligan's first name was "Willy", that's no justification for claiming it occurred where it did NOT occur. If the series did not provide either "Willy" or "Eunice", you can't expect there to be a "source" for NOT saying something to that effect; that would be absurd. There obviously isn't going to be a source for denying every cockamamie notion that will ever be devised. Simply leave out demonstrably false information that came from a supposedly "reliable" source. Again, there shouldn't have to be a "source" for NOT saying something. 2601:545:8201:6290:B40F:27DD:B7E6:EF42 (talk) 06:31, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why has false information been put back in? 

message: I can't think of a citation source other than the movie itself, but in Galaxy Quest, aliens with no concept of 'fiction' who have watched terrestrial TV broadcasts and taken the titular sci-fi show (a thinly disguised Star Trek) to be "historical documents" are asked "Surely you don't think Gilligan's Island is a documentary?", at which they all look sad and their leader says "Those poor people."
Worth inclusion? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 51.198.55.125 (talk) 03:34, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Later parody and homage 

message: Just wanted to point out that the opening shots shown under the theme song include footage filmed in Hawaii and Marina Del Rey. They are just a mish-mash of stuff, including what appears to be low quality 8mm home movie footage of the Minnow about to exit the MDR breakwater. 2600:1700:6AE5:2510:0:0:0:24 (talk) 18:01, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  OP scene locations 

message: I've forgotten the sites that say these… perhaps snopes.com; 
:The name "Willy" is never used.
:Schwartz considered it (before filming).
:"Gilligan" is very definitely used as a first name on several occasions.
:see Gilligan#Name
This is from the fan at [gilligansisle.com] that answers for Mrs Howell;
:The name "Eunice" first appeared in the movie Rescue from Gilligan's Island, which aired in 1978.
MBG02 (talk) 19:58, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Willy and Eunice