NOW FEATURING...TOPSY TURVY

[lm]

This is a fun episode. I love the part in the little prison with things like the Professor's "It would appear they don't make friends" and everyone ganging up on Maryann when she thinks Gilligan can save them. It's also funny to watch how they try to scare the natives away at the end. And, of course, the natives are hysterical throughout the episode and especially when they drink the potion. Plus Giligan destroying the Professor's whole laboratory!

Imagine how awful that would be--seeing everything upside down! Poor Gilligan! Bob Denver does an absolutely amazing job in this with conveying the dizziness and confusion that one would experience.Does anyone know if something like this is medically possible?


I always feel sorry for Maryann when her pies get wasted like that!

What is it with Maryann and the tan in season three; I know she does outside chores but didn't she do them in the previous seasons as well?

Lovey's a riot: Gilligan tells her he sees everything upside down and her response is "How nice!"

Every time Gilligan supposedly "imagines" something, it turns out to be real. Haven't they all learned that by now?

[callensensei]

Originally Posted by lm

Imagine how awful that would be--seeing everything upside down! Poor Gilligan! Bob Denver does an absolutely amazing job in this with conveying the dizziness and confusion that one would experience.Does anyone know if something like this is medically possible?

I absolutely agree that Bob Denver's performance is brilliant here. He really does act like a man with badly distorted vision. As to whether this condition is medically possible, images do appear on the retina upside down and are corrected by the brain. If someone were hit on the occipital region of the head where the center of vision in the brain is located (Gilligan hits his forehead on the branch, but then falls down, so he might have struck the back of his head on a rock or something), the resulting inflamation might stop the brain from correcting the image. I suppose.

The athletes and actor Eddie Little Sky are having a ball here, and I'm having a ball watching these buff guys run around in their little tapa cloth skirts!

And Gilligan gets to save the day through a non-violent plan of his own devising. Hurrah, and hurrah for that lovely moment of MAGness when Mary Ann champions him!

[Teebs]

Originally Posted by callensensei

I absolutely agree that Bob Denver's performance is brilliant here. He really does act like a man with badly distorted vision. As to whether this condition is medically possible, images do appear on the retina upside down and are corrected by the brain. If someone were hit on the occipital region of the head where the center of vision in the brain is located (Gilligan hits his forehead on the branch, but then falls down, so he might have struck the back of his head on a rock or something), the resulting inflamation might stop the brain from correcting the image. I suppose.

The athletes and actor Eddie Little Sky are having a ball here, and I'm having a ball watching these buff guys run around in their little tapa cloth skirts!

And Gilligan gets to save the day through a non-violent plan of his own devising. Hurrah, and hurrah for that lovely moment of MAGness when Mary Ann champions him!

I'm absolutely certain I saw a documentary once where a scientist devised a pair of glasses that turned everything upside down. It was a real experiment, not science fiction. He couldn't walk in a straight line to save his life. God knows what he was thinking but he tried to ride a bicycle, with predictably disastrous results.
Bob Denver did a great job, I agree. His balance and orientation would have been completely shot. I love the scene where he's trying to get himself a banana and has to give up.
The bit where Skipper's standing on his head and the Professor asks him if he's standing on his head and he says yes, and the Professor replies, "thank Goodness, I thought I was working too hard."
Buff guys in skirts gets my vote too.

[biffbronson]

This is going off on a tangent, but there was a TV episode of Adventures of Superman in the 1950s where a professor invents a machine that turns everything upside down. No glasses -- just everything becoming topsy turvey. So there was a precedent for a TV show using upside-down film.