NOW FEATURING...DIAMONDS ARE AN APE'S BEST FRIEND

[lm]

To start, I get annoyed at the Skipper's two-year-old type response to Gilligan at breakfast when he whines because Gilligan has a bigger pancake stack than he does and Gilligan has to hand them over automatically.

Are the girls on a diet, by the way? They sit and eat berries while the Skipper eats a stack of pancakes!

I always thought the Skipper's look was classic when they ask what's wrong with Gilligan!

Ginger seducing the gorilla is a great comic piece!

I'm not surprised the gorilla doesn't go for all the flowers; usually, assembled masses of different flowers have that "funeral" smell.

I've always seen Gilligan as a good survivor. When the gorilla gets Maryann, isn't that Gilligan's chance to get away? He doesn't, though. Isn't that weird?

[callensensei]

I love the bit where the Skipper comes upon Gilligan pinned to the tree by a palm frond (which Gilligan thinks is the gorilla) and Gilligan warns, "You better watch out! I'm the Skipper's little buddy, and he'll tear you apart!" I like to think the Skipper would!

Originally Posted by lm

Ginger seducing the gorilla is a great comic piece!

The gorilla jumps around excitedly as it watches Ginger. "I think that gorilla's got sailor's blood," notes Gilligan. An unusually risque comment for our naive first mate!

Originally Posted by lm

I've always seen Gilligan as a good survivor. When the gorilla gets Maryann, isn't that Gilligan's chance to get away? He doesn't, though. Isn't that weird?

Run off while Mary Ann's in danger? As Mr. Howell would say, "I mean, really!" Gilligan's a survivor, but never at the expense of his friends. If anything, it's the other way around: he's very willing to sacrifice himself for them. In this instance, Gilligan stays there, shouting at the ape, "Let her go! Let her go!"

It seems, since we see the gorilla wander off with a female gorilla in the end, and we meet gorillas in "Forward March" and "The Chain of Command," that there is a small troupe on the island. Perhaps a breeding pair was lost overboard on a ship bound for a zoo, like Leo was. It's the only logical explanation I can think of for African fauna on this South Pacific Island!