The Minnow didn't have to travel 41.5 miles... It grounded in the cove at Gilligan's Island, which was set in the parking lot of NBC Studios in Burbank...
Actually, no. The lagoon was at Desilu Studios, which is now CBS Radford Studios. It's less than a mile from the I-101, and background traffic noise was a huge PITA during filming. The old lagoon area is now a parking structure and the combined KCBS/KCAL news studios.
The Minnow wasn't traveling at 12 mph, but at whatever speed the storm gave it. And 3 hours was just the schedule, which was blown once they were trapped in the storm. That trip was however long needed to reach wherever the island was. OTOH, that island must have been in a busy sea lane for everything in the show to happen, but it is beyond belief that they could have gone unnoticed for long in the middle of so much ocean traffic. It can only be explained by a wild conspiracy theory involving at least two three-letter federal agencies.
The Skipper should have read the weather report and canceled the trip, but the conspiracy's agent gave the Skipper a fake weather report, predicting perfect weather and a smooth sea, and then saw to it that every report about the castaways was misfiled.
The Minnow's passenger list was arranged to be loaded with people the agencies wanted to get out of the way. With a proper lab the Professor might have invented something worse than the H-bomb, but he was busy making a radio from a coconut. Thurston Howell wasn't crashing the market with his financial manipulations. Having Ginger out of the way may have prevented at least one Hollywood sex scandal a year. Maryann wasn't going to have an affair with a married man, but even a presidential candidate might divorce his wife and throw out his political career just to be free to pursue her.
I guess Mrs. Howell and the Skipper were just unfortunate innocent bystanders. Gilligan was the conspiracy's inside man, a dedicated saboteur making sure the castaways would never escape, and such a great actor that he could do the sabotage right in front of the whole group and pass it off as an accident - an "accident" every week, but no one suspected.
So here is the real Gilligan's Island sequel: some 30 years later Gilligan's job is finally done. Thurston dies of old age, the Skipper is long dead of a heart attack, the professor is senile, and Maryann and Ginger are old and not pretty enough to be a problem. So Gilligan finally signals for rescue. Lovey Howell and the professor have to go to a nursing home. Maryann and Ginger get jobs at the nursing home. And Gilligan uses his huge accumulated pay and retirement to buy a hotel in downtown NY and retires there, in the most crowded neighborhood in the USA.
Uh, re giving a pill to a cat, I’ve never experienced that sort of drama at all, maybe because I give lead pills to shithead cats. You’re welcome to try it too, you can substitute other metal alloys if you feel the need to, they can be surprisingly hard to kill cleanly without a strike in the brainbox.
A jelly doughnut on an unlocked footlocker. I laughed. An iconic scene from an iconic movie, (although the doughnut was inside the footlocker). They're payin' for it, you eat it!
The Founder Fathers knew it would get infiltrated but they didn't realize how fast. I'm sure they would be amazed that we are this far along at almost 250 years. FMJ and David Bowie on the first two and them good ol' Duke Boys are always doing whatever it takes to escape. V for Vendetta is one of those I'm surprised they allowed it to be made like the first Matrix. Dodge Charger 01 General Lee...this is the way.
I think it was maybe BCE or a related blogger that had an analysis one time, where he determined that Sgt Hartman had planted the jelly doughnut in the footlocker. Perhaps because Hartman would have had the combinations to all the locks?
Unlocked footlocker, jelly donut, what kind of cryptic message could it be? /s
ReplyDelete- WDS
I sent that to 3 of my friends, all of whom love that movie greatly. None of them got it !
DeleteDid you remind them that the one thing in this entire world that you hate is an unlocked foot locker?
Delete- WDS, Merry Christmas!
The Minnow didn't have to travel 41.5 miles... It grounded in the cove at Gilligan's Island, which was set in the parking lot of NBC Studios in Burbank...
ReplyDeleteActually, no. The lagoon was at Desilu Studios, which is now CBS Radford Studios.
DeleteIt's less than a mile from the I-101, and background traffic noise was a huge PITA during filming.
The old lagoon area is now a parking structure and the combined KCBS/KCAL news studios.
Seriously
DeleteThe Minnow wasn't traveling at 12 mph, but at whatever speed the storm gave it. And 3 hours was just the schedule, which was blown once they were trapped in the storm. That trip was however long needed to reach wherever the island was. OTOH, that island must have been in a busy sea lane for everything in the show to happen, but it is beyond belief that they could have gone unnoticed for long in the middle of so much ocean traffic. It can only be explained by a wild conspiracy theory involving at least two three-letter federal agencies.
DeleteThe Skipper should have read the weather report and canceled the trip, but the conspiracy's agent gave the Skipper a fake weather report, predicting perfect weather and a smooth sea, and then saw to it that every report about the castaways was misfiled.
The Minnow's passenger list was arranged to be loaded with people the agencies wanted to get out of the way. With a proper lab the Professor might have invented something worse than the H-bomb, but he was busy making a radio from a coconut. Thurston Howell wasn't crashing the market with his financial manipulations. Having Ginger out of the way may have prevented at least one Hollywood sex scandal a year. Maryann wasn't going to have an affair with a married man, but even a presidential candidate might divorce his wife and throw out his political career just to be free to pursue her.
I guess Mrs. Howell and the Skipper were just unfortunate innocent bystanders. Gilligan was the conspiracy's inside man, a dedicated saboteur making sure the castaways would never escape, and such a great actor that he could do the sabotage right in front of the whole group and pass it off as an accident - an "accident" every week, but no one suspected.
So here is the real Gilligan's Island sequel: some 30 years later Gilligan's job is finally done. Thurston dies of old age, the Skipper is long dead of a heart attack, the professor is senile, and Maryann and Ginger are old and not pretty enough to be a problem. So Gilligan finally signals for rescue. Lovey Howell and the professor have to go to a nursing home. Maryann and Ginger get jobs at the nursing home. And Gilligan uses his huge accumulated pay and retirement to buy a hotel in downtown NY and retires there, in the most crowded neighborhood in the USA.
Finnigan!
ReplyDeleteUh, re giving a pill to a cat, I’ve never experienced that sort of drama at all, maybe because I give lead pills to shithead cats. You’re welcome to try it too, you can substitute other metal alloys if you feel the need to, they can be surprisingly hard to kill cleanly without a strike in the brainbox.
ReplyDeleteI thought that species required a bullet made of Ag ? Or am I confusing cats with another species with similar disposition ?
DeleteWTF #17?
ReplyDeleteI had to look at that first one a minute then it clicked.
ReplyDeleteWould someone please, PLEASE, explain Meme #1 to me?!? Jelly donut? Lock? I'm stumped, and I think I'm way too embarrassed to ask in my Bible Study.
ReplyDeletePrivate Pyle. Full Metal Jacket.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4eMhddTPg4
A jelly doughnut on an unlocked footlocker. I laughed. An iconic scene from an iconic movie, (although the doughnut was inside the footlocker). They're payin' for it, you eat it!
ReplyDeleteThe Founder Fathers knew it would get infiltrated but they didn't realize how fast.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure they would be amazed that we are this far along at almost 250 years.
FMJ and David Bowie on the first two and them good ol' Duke Boys are always doing whatever it takes to escape.
V for Vendetta is one of those I'm surprised they allowed it to be made like the first Matrix.
Dodge Charger 01 General Lee...this is the way.
I think it was maybe BCE or a related blogger that had an analysis one time, where he determined that Sgt Hartman had planted the jelly doughnut in the footlocker. Perhaps because Hartman would have had the combinations to all the locks?
ReplyDeleteTons of tardnet theories regarding this flick.
Delete#9 And here we are. Should have gone 100 days.
DeleteNo. Private Pyle took it from the mess hall because he is "a disgusting fat body".
DeleteYep, democracy is just mob rule
ReplyDeleteBecause you were hungry.
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