Maybe we shouldn’t be searching for logical consistency in a present that featured coconut radios, grenade-wielding gorillas and ghosts that grow to be 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 speculation that the castaways represent the seven deadly sins, and Gilligan is really Satan 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 accommodates an additional individual.
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Because the theme track 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 misinform us, theme track?!
So, what occurred to this mysterious eighth castaway? Nicely, plenty of theories contain first-degree homicide.
Some have suggested that the eighth passenger was thrown overboard and devoured by sharks. Others have said that this poor unnamed character made it to the island, just like the others, however then turned a victim of cannibalism — that’s, earlier than the remainder of the castaways ultimately 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 bought made as a result of creator Sherwood Schwartz’s objections.
Other theories posit that the castaway quantity eight turned some form of human sacrifice, or maybe they have been a digicam one who was the one “documenting” the events of the show, not in contrast to The Workplace. Or simply perhaps they have been some form of interdimensional phantom illustration of Bunny, the character from the unaired pilot that was ultimately 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 form of person-shaped object, or a crew member who by no means imagined that followers can be screenshotting photographs from this credit score sequence greater than half a century later and utilizing “cannibalism” to elucidate away any narrative inconsistencies.
These searching for actual issues with the believability of the Gilligan’s Island-verse can be wiser to give attention to the castaway’s endless 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 slightly than cobbling collectively a raft or just repairing the S.S. Minnow.
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