Gilligan's Island: Quick Before It SinksCBS
October 28, 1965
Sitcom
DVD
C+
This episode, the only one written by Stan Burns or Mike Marmer although director George Cahan would return, is filled with baffling decisions and conclusions, including by the supposedly logical and scientific Professor. First he concludes that the island is sinking, purely on the basis of a measuring stick in the lagoon. Then he and the other men decide not to tell the women, like the women wouldn't notice! They even start building a hut on the highest point on the island. When the women finally find out, they're not upset about being over-protected but instead suggest turning an abandoned raft project into an ark. And no one thinks that maybe they could use the ark to leave the island.
The fact that Ginger flirts with all three bachelors keeps this from being a C. First she plays with the Professor's hair, and later she kisses both Gilligan and the Skipper on the cheek. (The Skipper, unsurprisingly, is the one who most welcomes her attentions.)
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