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| If you guess that Mr. Howell convinces Ginger to vamp the visitor, you are now a Gilligan's Island regular viewer. |
CBS
September 30, 1965
Sitcom
DVD
C
This (one of two episodes written by Bob Rodgers, and one of three by Sidney A. Mandel) was Sherwood Schwartz's favorite episode, but it's never done anything for me. I will say that it's relatively un-racist, and I like the "Gilligan" song and costumes in the dream sequence. But it's just not funny or interesting. Schwartz claimed that it made the brilliant point that democracy is good and dictatorship is bad, but that's not exactly earth-shattering. Plus, we already saw Gilligan elected president of the island last season and he hated it, so why would he go along even in his dreams with a plan to make him a figurehead leader? The title character is played by Nehemiah Persoff, six years after he was Little Bonaparte in Some Like It Hot, so Schwartz's belief that the actor had never done comedy before is also nonsense.
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