Maybe we shouldn’t be in search of logical consistency in a present that featured coconut radios, grenade-wielding gorillas and ghosts that develop into Russian spies in disguise.
However one unexplained second in Gilligan’s Island has prompted plenty of followers to suggest some surprisingly upsetting theories in regards to the basic sitcom. Like much more upsetting than the idea that the castaways characterize the seven lethal sins, and Gilligan is basically Devil himself.
Presumably as a result of the present first aired within the ‘60s, again when TV image high quality was worse and inevitably obstructed by a thick haze of completely not poisonous cigarette smoke, solely now have followers identified that within the opening credit for Gilligan’s Island, which famously depict the doomed voyage of the S.S. Minnow, the boat seemingly incorporates an additional particular person.
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Because the theme music notes, the “three-hour tour” boasts simply 5 passengers, together with the Skipper and his annoying mate Gilligan. However in response to some overly-attentive viewers, there seem like eight folks on board. Why would you mislead us, theme music?!
So, what occurred to this mysterious eighth castaway? Effectively, a number of theories contain first-degree homicide.
Some have recommended that the eighth passenger was thrown overboard and devoured by sharks. Others have acknowledged that this poor unnamed character made it to the island, just like the others, however then grew to become a sufferer of cannibalism — that’s, earlier than the remainder of the castaways finally embraced coconut cream pie as an alternative choice to devouring human flesh.
Which, come to think about it, was just about Charlie Kaufman and James Gunn’s pitch for a Gilligan’s Island film, which by no means acquired made attributable to creator Sherwood Schwartz’s objections.
Different theories posit that the castaway quantity eight grew to become some sort of human sacrifice, or maybe they had been a digital camera one that was the one “documenting” the occasions of the present, not not like The Workplace. Or simply possibly they had been some sort of interdimensional phantom illustration of Bunny, the character from the unaired pilot that was finally deleted from the present’s continuity and changed with Mary Ann.
After all, it’s extra seemingly that the alleged eighth castaway was both just a few sort of person-shaped object, or a crew member who by no means imagined that followers can be screenshotting photos from this credit score sequence greater than half a century later and utilizing “cannibalism” to elucidate away any narrative inconsistencies.
These in search of actual issues with the believability of the Gilligan’s Island-verse can be wiser to deal with the castaway’s unending provide of modern garments. Or the truth that the Professor apparently thought it could make extra sense to flee the island by constructing a wood spacecraft able to touring past our photo voltaic system reasonably than cobbling collectively a raft or just repairing the S.S. Minnow.
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