History Series / GilligansIsland

'''''[[{{TemptingFate}} A three hour tour]]..."'''''

* GilliganCut: TropeNamer.

In case the beginning of the theme song didn't clue you in, the show is about a bumbling first mate and his long suffering, hot-tempered captain, who run a small charter boat called the "S.S. Minnow" and give three-hour tours to paying passengers. A new batch of passengers, consisting of an extremely wealthy older couple, a well-known film actress, a high school professor and a farm girl, got on the boat and went on the usual tour. At least, it was supposed to usual, but then.... ''(thunder crack!)''

* AccidentallyAccurate: The Professor was deliberately, canonically written to not be interested in sex, and it shows in his interactions with Ginger, with a visiting socialite who falls for him, and his description to Ginger of how his first attempt at romance failed when he was younger. The writers had no way of knowing they had created an UsefulNotes/{{asexual}} character, as the term wasn't common yet.

In case the beginning of the theme song didn't clue you in, the show is about a bumbling first mate and his long suffering, hot-tempered captain, who run a small charter boat called the "S.S. Minnow" and give three-hour tours to paying passengers. A new batch of passengers, consisting of an extremely wealthy older couple, a well-known film actress, a high school professor and a farm girl, got on the boat and went on the usual tour. At least, it was supposed to usual, but then....

Some of the cast reportedly disliked the show. The actress that portrayed Ginger (the movie star), Tina Louise, refused to do either the cartoons or the [[ReunionShow reunion]] movies because she considered the show "silly" and the concept ridiculous while also resenting that she'd ended up being typecast. (She had, according to Creator/DawnWells, also been lied to by the producers who had told her that the show was about a movie star stranded on a desert island and that Ginger was the central character.) Ironically, with the death of Dawn "Mary Ann" Wells on December 30, 2020, Tina Louise is the last surviving member of the cast.

* AccidentallyAccurate: The Professor was deliberately, canonically written to not be interested in sex, and it shows in his interactions with Ginger, with a visiting socialite who falls for him, and his description to Ginger of how his first attempt at romance failed when he was younger. The writers had no way of knowing they had created an {{asexual}} character, as the term wasn't yet used and the sexuality not yet recognized at the time of writing.

* AnimatedAdaptation: The Creator/{{Filmation}}-produced ''The New Adventures of Gilligan'' (1974-77) and ''Gilligan's Planet'' (1982-83).

In case the beginning of the theme song didn't clue you in, the show is about a bumbling first mate and his long suffering, hot-tempered captain, who run a small charter boat called the "S.S. Minnow" and give three-hour tours to five passengers. A new batch of passengers, consisting of an extremely wealthy older couple, a well-known film actress, a high school professor and a farm girl, got on the boat and went on the usual tour. At least, it was supposed to usual, but then....

In case the beginning of the theme song didn't clue you in, the show is about a bumbling first mate and his long suffering, hot-tempered captain, who run a small charter boat called the "S.S. Minnow" and give three-hour tours to five passengers. A new batch of passengers, consisting of an older, extremely wealthy couple, a well-known film actress, a high school professor and a farm girl, got on the boat and went on the usual tour. At least, it was supposed to usual, but then....

In case the beginning of the theme song didn't clue you in, the show is about a bumbling first mate and his long suffering, hot-tempered captain, who run a small charter boat called the "S.S. Minnow" and give three-hour tours to five passengers. A new batch of passengers, consisting of an older, extremely wealthy couple, a film actress, a high school professor and a farm girl, got on the boat and went on the usual tour. At least, it was supposed to usual, but then....

In case the beginning of the theme song didn't clue you in, the show is about a bumbling first mate and his long suffering, hot-tempered captain, who run a small charter boat called the "S.S. Minnow" and give three-hour tours to five passengers. A new batch of passengers, consisting of an older, extremely wealthy couple, a Hollywood actress, a high school professor and a farm girl, got on the boat and went on the usual tour. At least, it was supposed to usual, but then....

In case the beginning of the theme song didn't clue you in, the show is about a bumbling first mate and his long suffering, hot-tempered captain, who run a small charter boat called the "S.S. Minnow" and give three-hour tours to five passengers. Sure enough, those passengers got on the boat, expecting the usual trip. However....

* WhoWearsShortShorts: Mary Ann, often.

'''''[[{{Irony}} A three hour tour]]..."'''''

** The rock band, the Mosquitos (played by the band that sang the Gilligan's Island theme during the first season), left them stranded, because the girls formed their own girl group, to be a possible warmup act for the Mosquitos. [[GoneHorribleRight but the band saw them as competition, rather than a warmup act.]]

** "D'OH!" ([[ParodyDisplacement predating]] [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] [[OlderThanTheyThink by over two decades]].)

* CatchPhrase: "D'OH!" ([[ParodyDisplacement predating]] [[TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] [[OlderThanTheyThink by over two decades]].)

* BeautyContest: The castaways hold one in "Beauty Is As Beauty Does." What do you think -- Ginger or Mary Ann or [[TakeAThirdOption Mrs. Howell]]?[[note]]The winner turned out to be [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys an ape:]] Gilligan disqualified all the women for [[GeniusDitz not being native]] to the island. (Plus, he was smart enough to realize that choosing one of the three women would get him in trouble.)[[/note]] [[ShaggyDogStory When the Skipper, Mr. Howell and the Professor confiscate Gilligan's notes to find out who was leading on points, they find that all he did throughout the contest was play Tic-Tac-Toe... and lose every single time.]]

* CatchPhrase: "D'OH!" ([[WeirdAlEffect predating]] [[TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] [[OlderThanTheyThink by over two decades]].)

* JustEatGilligan: TropeNamer, by way of ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]''. One comes to wonder why, with Gilligan's bumbling nature so often ending up sabotaging the rest of the cast's attempts to get back to civilization, that they didn't find some way to limit his potential to do damage, if not by straight up killing him then at least incarcerating him. Averted in many episodes, where others bring about their continued misfortune without Gilligan's help.

** This led to an offscreen Heartwarming Moment, as Backus completed his scene and walked over to Dawn Wells (Mary Ann) and asked, "Was I funny?". She hugged him and assured him he was. To this day the incident makes her tear up as she recounts it for interviews.