Whenever my son would watch this episode, he would always ask for a big bowl of food while watching!

It's really a cute premise--one has to lose weight and one to gain it.

It's funny how the Professor, except for his little "overweight" remark to the Skipper, is totally unconcerned with and a little annoyed at the two sailors' preoccupation with their weight issues--everyone else is involved in helping them. Yes, the Professor is working on the glowing signal but....

My husband always called Maryann the "b" word when she tried to get Gilligan to eat the pie she baked (I know this will shock some people!).

I really liked Ginger's outfit in the exercize scene but I didn't like her in the sandals.

It's hard to believe that Gilligan would weigh only 125 pounds. Yes, he's thin but not THAT emaciated--is he? Also, he's kind of tall, right?

Ginger sounds a bit too bimbo for her character in the assisting the Professor scene, especially since the Professor is interested in her in this scene.

Poor Maryann! She works at sewing the Skipper's pants and her work is wasted yet again!

Aren't those kind of ridiculous diets--no eating at all and eating like a pig till bursting? I guess it's just to make the point comically.

Do you think that this rescue foul up was really Gilligan's fault? The Professor plops the bowl down on the table with all Gilligan's other food and Gilligan is rightfully out of it due to his physical suffering from gorging himself. He should have warned him. How could Gillligan know what it was?

Heh - this is one of the funniest episodes ever. Love the sly digs Gilligan keeps taking at the Skipper. "This isn't enough food for a grown man!" "It's enough food for an overgrown man!" LOL!

Gilligan's "diet" seems to make more sense than the Skipper's, though I could see both men easily getting sick from them. As you say, it's probably for comic effect. And as you say, it seems pretty unlikely that Gilligan, who is five foot eight (well, Bob Denver is) and twenty years old would only weigh 125 pounds. That sounds more like Mary Ann. Really, their island low-carb, high protein diet should be making everybody fitter.

Love the cute little tug-of-war when Mary Ann and Ginger decide who's going to feed Gilligan next. Ginger seems like she's teasing Mary Ann. "Oh, no you don't. It's my turn."

This must be the one time Gilligan hits the Skipper in the face with a pie and the Skipper is pleased! They have all kinds of great interaction in this episode, but I think my favourite is when the sleeping Gilligan's hand flops down on the Skipper's face. Just like a child! And the Skipper picks it up ever so gently and hooks it back onto the upper hammock...

The ending fiasco is indeed the Professor's fault (as is the "island is sinking" scare later on), but no one ever even thinks to blame the Professor, much less accuse him. He's just got too much authority. Yes, he puts an unidentified bowl of potentially poisonous liquid on a table filled with bowls of food, says to Gilligan, "keep eating," and walks away. As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said, "Oh, there are times when one cries with acidity, what are the limits of human stupidity?"