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Ginger is Lust (obviously). Mary Ann is Envy: she is jealous of Ginger's beauty. The Professor is Pride: he's proud of being an annoying know-it-all. Mr. Howell is Greed (obviously). Mrs. Howell represents Sloth: she has never lifted a finger to help on any of the escape plans, except the Honeybees one. The Skipper represents two sins: Gluttony, and Wrath (for how he treats Gilligan). This leaves Gilligan. Gilligan is the person who put them there. He prevents them from leaving by foiling all of their escape plots. Also, it is ''his'' island. Therefore, Gilligan is Main/{{Satan}}. Crazy? He does wear red in every episode. (Adapted from [[http://www.gilligansisle.com/sins.html this site]].)
* The Professor's summary of their experiences in ''Rescue From Gilligan's Island'' all but [[Main/LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on this theory.

Nobody could be ''that'' polycompetent at so many sciences and Main/BambooTechnology and still be unable to fix a 3-foot hole in a boat. Whether the Professor arranged for the wreck or not is unknown, but since arriving on the island, he has taken advantage of the controlled environment to perform fiendishly subtle experiments on the others. When he doesn't directly sabotage escape attempts himself, he uses Gilligan -- who is known to be dangerously susceptible to hypnotic suggestion -- as his fall guy.

[[WMG:The Castaways are the subjects of an experiment run by a Main/GovernmentConspiracy.]]
The Professor can't fix the hole in the boat because the Main/MindControl won't let him. As in the above scenario, Gilligan is under ''further'' mind control to sabotage any escape attempts. Further details are available [[http://www.pjfarmer.com/woldnewton/Castaway.pdf here]](pdf).

[[WMG:The castaways ''did'' Main/JustEatGilligan.]]

** This was actually {{Joshed}} in one of the early (Black & White) episodes. Gilligan created a super sticky 'Pancake syrup' which they used to try to repair the boat. The 'glue' however lost its stickiness in salt water and the ''Minnow'' sank in the lagoon, forcing everyone to swim back to shore. They just never bothered again.

*** Actually, the glue lost it's stickiness, and the entire ship fell completely apart on the beach, before it even reached the water. Even the keel fell into pieces, making it impossible for even someone with the Professor's capabilities to fix, as they'd have had to rebuild the ship from the ground up. (Season one episode eight "Goodbye Island.")

** The Professor can't fix the hole in the boat because after season one, episode eight ("Goodbye Island") there was no boat to fix. The Minnow is re-caulked with a superglue substance that doesn't keep it's hold. The planks and shell of the Minnow fall apart piece-by-piece, and then the keel finally collapses.

** Jossed on multiple occasions they use the islands longitude and latitude to figure out when a storm will come. Even if they didn't know the exact location they would know which way to go to at-least reach the shipping lanes.

He is unaware of the many ways in which his powers regularly manifest because in this particular lifetime he happens to be retarded. However, this is not only why he is so hard to kill or injure, but also why he seems to be mystically drawn towards bizaar accidents that trap people in cannibal/headhunter territory. Incidentally, the reason that there continue to be cannibals and headhunters so close to Hawaii is that to each generation, there is a a chosen, blah blah blah blah blah. perhaps the last one was a cartographer.

Sub-hypothesis A: There is also a group of "Watchers," (think "Highlander" rather than "Buffy") who study these demigods. This explains not only how the Professor is fluent in actual speech of languages that supposedly no Westerner has heard in centuries, and that very few have even seen crude approximsations of in print, but also... pretty damned much everything else about him.

Sub-hypothesis B: There is a duo of souls, not an individual. Which is yin and which is yang, I have no idea, but there is a tie between the two. And wherever they are born, they will be drawn toward what they must learn, and when the region needs them, they will be drawn back to it. And between them, they only get less than 300 IQ points. This particular incarnation of the Professor got lucky, since this particular incarnation of Gilligan only uses about 80 points. Hell, come to think of it, there may have been some kind of supernatural malfunction that only this particular generation split the line into two diections. Perhaps the Kupa Kai elder gods decided to try for a backup plan after they saw their reborn god shove the 123rd crayon up his nose.

of 1960s-1970s disaster scifi.

They are adrift w/o adequate food nor water (it was only a three hour tour after all) and is suffering from exposure,dehydration and as a result of hallucinates about the island and all of the "adventures" that happened there.
Which explains why the escape plans never work,potential rescuers are all sociopaths and relatively simple ideas like patching the hull and/or building a raft are ignored.

Before he met the rest of the cast Gilligan was an outcast who never made any friends so he joined the rest of the crew as a way to get away from society. Being stuck on the island was pretty much a blessing in disguise for him because he'd at least be surrounded with the few people he considers friends and should they get off the island or be rescued then it would be back to the life he used to have. So Gilligan purposely sabotaged any attempt in getting off the island and his constant rescuing the others from danger is just to throw out any possible temptation of killing him.

Even the wealthiest man isn't going to bring chests of clothes on a "Three Hour tour" unless the tour was one way. It's a three hour trip from one island to the next. If they had been coming back to that marina the ''Minnow'' left from, it would have been '''Six'''-hour tour. Since you are not returning, naturally you bring your luggage with you. Some of the Castaways (Mary-Ann, the Professor) were only staying on the destination island for a day or two, while others (Ginger, the Howells) were going to stay for several weeks.
* That is pretty freakin reasonable, and explains so much.

* The kind of pre-cognisance that would have convinced them to bring all that clothing, though not necessarily know why.

It's no secret to anyone that the Skipper is madly smitten with Ginger. In this case, he was cast as her leading man because Mr. Howell preferred to direct, but during the play, he may have gotten the idea to keep it going once they got to the mainland. Perhaps he thought that if he could prove he could act alongside her, [[CommonalityConnection it would enhance his chances with her]], expecially given the phenomenon of "showmances."

* Gilligan is [[Literature/TheScrewTapeLetters Wormwood]] and the island is sin. They could have escaped if not for every attempt thwarted by Gilligan

* Gilligan is [[TheScrewTapeLetters Wormwood]] and the island is sin.

* Gilligan is [[ScrewTapeLetters Wormwood]] and the island is sin.

[[WMG: If the Gilligan's Island movie ever gets made, it will be dedicated to Dawn Wells.]]

The rest of the crew slayed him before he could realize that they're all homicidal madmen. The other islanders then used him as an increasingly grotesque rotting meat puppet to come up with an idea each week. This is why he had some reasonable ideas in the first couple of episodes but tries increasingly impossible things as time goes on. (This also adds the disturbing implication that Ginger and, in one episode, Maryanne tried to go necrophile in the second season.)

** This was actually {{Joshed}} in one of the early (Black & White) episodes. Gilligan created a super sticky 'Pancake syrup' which they used to try to repair the boat. The 'glue' however lost its stickiness in salt water and teh ''Minnow'' sank in the lagoon, forcing everone to swim back to shore. They just never bothered again.

* Or, the castaways ''were'' real, on the boat. Gilligan only met them briefly, so only knew them as charicatures. They died in the shipwreck and Gilligan hallucinates them because they were the last people he ever interacted with.

The island is really a location inside the TARDIS, and five of the other 'castaways' are companions of the Doctor who were locked in when Gilligan (secretly The Master) decided to contain the Doctor in his own pocket universe to [[FoeYay fulfill some secret desires...]]

Six villages wanted to get rid of their idiots. (The Howls are married, remember, so they'd count for one.)

In all the time that the castaways spent on the island, they managed to build themselves elaborate bamboo huts, furniture and even a hot tub, but couldn't patch up three holes in their boat. All seven castaways are not only uncommonly stupid, but they all suck at their jobs. Ginger seems more interested in seducing than acting; the Professor obviously has no idea what he's talking about; the Howls try to invest their money in the silliest ideas; Skipper got them lost in the first place; Gillian is Gilligan; and Mary Anne...well, she's so innocent, she might not be "stupid" per say, but maybe she just had the bad luck of being assistant to the Professor at the time.

This explains any AesopAmnesia and why they never run out of supplies.

[[WMG: The castaways are trapper in a TimeLoop.]]

The multiple failures to escape are not, in fact, Gilligan's fault. The sins set him up so that he does something that would normally be perfectly reasonable and even effective but because of what the sins have done leads to disaster.

The subject of this entry is just the longest continuous "Series/{{Twilight Zone}}" episode ever produced.

It's a peninsula, and they all [[YouFailGeographyForever fail Geography forever]].

The castaways are robots, and the guest-stars are actually guests. That's why the guests usually win, and are never seriously injured even when they lose. The castaways are programmed to go about escape-efforts incompetently, and to never get more than moderately angry at Gilligan's screw-ups. The entire area is probably named something like Castaway-World, or Tropical-Island-World.

[[WMG: The Island is the ''same'' island we see in ''FantasyIsland'' and ''Series/{{LOST}}'']]