NEW GAME..."WHO IS IT?"

[lm]

Thanks to all of you who played the Pairings to the Max game!

I have a new game entitled, "WHO IS IT?" A scenario will be presented involving a certain number of GI characters (but no names). Given just the information, dialogue, whatever...you must answer with who you think the person/people are. These scenarios cannot be actual ones that really happened on the show, as in a trivia game--they are imagined ones. Also, it is not a "guessing" game in which the poster of the question has a "correct" answer for you. It is up to your interpretation. One person poses a question, someone else gives an answer and then he/she poses a new question, and so forth. You are also welcome to go back to the threads for previous questions and "argue" for a different answer if you like. Tip: the game will be most fun if the questions are not those with obvious kinds of answers such as "Someone is counting his money--who is it?"

OK--I'll start--then, someone answer and start a new question.


THREE people on the island are involved in a romantic triangle. Who is it?

[Teebs]

Originally Posted by lm

Thanks to all of you who played the Pairings to the Max game!

I have a new game entitled, "WHO IS IT?" A scenario will be presented involving a certain number of GI characters (but no names). Given just the information, dialogue, whatever...you must answer with who you think the person/people are. These scenarios cannot be actual ones that really happened on the show, as in a trivia game--they are imagined ones. Also, it is not a "guessing" game in which the poster of the question has a "correct" answer for you. It is up to your interpretation. One person poses a question, someone else gives an answer and then he/she poses a new question, and so forth. You are also welcome to go back to the threads for previous questions and "argue" for a different answer if you like. Tip: the game will be most fun if the questions are not those with obvious kinds of answers such as "Someone is counting his money--who is it?"

OK--I'll start--then, someone answer and start a new question.


THREE people on the island are involved in a romantic triangle. Who is it?

I think Skipper, Professor and Ginger are involved in a romantic triangle, because Skipper likes Ginger and Ginger likes Proffy.

My question is- two people on the island really cannot stand each other. Who are they?

[callensensei]

Originally Posted by Teebs

My question is- two people on the island really cannot stand each other. Who are they?

I'm going to say the Skipper and Mr. Howell, at first, because they are both Alpha males and struggle for power. There's also a strong class prejudice between them. However, they eventually become very fond of each other.

My question is: What two people on the island have lingering doubts about their career choices?

[Teebs]

Originally Posted by callensensei

I'm going to say the Skipper and Mr. Howell, at first, because they are both Alpha males and struggle for power. There's also a strong class prejudice between them. However, they eventually become very fond of each other.

My question is: What two people on the island have lingering doubts about their career choices?

In answer to my question- Skipper and Mr. Howell certainly do butt heads a lot in season 1, where the Howells are intensely materialistic. I was thinking Ginger and Mrs. Howell. Angel On The Island, anyone? "If I were you, I'd wipe her gratitude off my face." Lovey can spot someone like Ginger a mile away. Ginger's vamping, whilst occasionally used as a (failed) attempt to get them rescued, would not sit well with a lady of Mrs. Howell's breeding. Especially when used on Thurston!

In answer to your question- Skipper, at least since the shipwreck. He always feels responsible for it. He thinks he's a rotten sailor.
And in that case I'd say Gilligan as well, because he was in it with Skipper and he's the one who threw the anchor overboard without a line attached, and what sailor doesn't have a line attached to their anchor?

The Howells don't have careers- unless millionaire is a career, and Mary Ann doesn't have a career either. Ginger's a born actress and the Professor is happy being a man of science.

[Teebs]

Yikes- I forgot I'm supposed to come up with a question.

Which two castaways would admit that life on the island is really pretty good and it wouldn't matter if they weren't rescued for a few more years?

[callensensei]

Originally Posted by Teebs

Yikes- I forgot I'm supposed to come up with a question.

Which two castaways would admit that life on the island is really pretty good and it wouldn't matter if they weren't rescued for a few more years?

That's a great question! I would say the Professor and Gilligan. Both of them love the island for its wilderness, albeit for different reasons. The Professor tells Erika Tiffany Smith that while most men would have despaired at being marooned on a desert island, he's found it rewarding because it gives a botanist like him the opportunity to study so many species. Gilligan, meanwhile, loves making friends with the animals and sees the island as a huge playground. "I'm not eager to leave. I had fun here," he tells the Skipper in "Ghost A Go-Go."

Well, I certainly wouldn't want to leave! It's so beautiful and peaceful there. Evil comes from the outside, never from the island itself.

Teebs, I was really intrigued by your answer to my previous question, because I was actually thinking of two different people; my question was inspired by a scene in "X Marks the Spot." But it is certainly possible that the Skipper and Gilligan have had doubts about their seamanship after the shipwreck; certainly the Skipper gets very testy if anyone ever hints that it was his fault!


Here's a new question: What two castaways feel that no one ever listens to them?

[Teebs]

Those are the two I was thinking of.


Here's a new question: What two castaways feel that no one ever listens to them?

I'd say Gilligan, obviously (because no-one does, do they?) and possibly Mrs. Howell, because first of all Mr. Howell does all the talking and she is also older and probably seen as less attractive by the males who would instinctively pay more attention to the younger females.


Okay, my next question is, Gilligan gets the blame for every botched rescue attempt, but which castaway (or castaways) is usually equally responsible?

[callensensei]

Originally Posted by Teebs

I'd say Gilligan, obviously (because no-one does, do they?) and possibly Mrs. Howell, because first of all Mr. Howell does all the talking and she is also older and probably seen as less attractive by the males who would instinctively pay more attention to the younger females.


Okay, my next question is, Gilligan gets the blame for every botched rescue attempt, but which castaway (or castaways) is usually equally responsible?

Mrs. Howell actually says in "Diogenes, Won't You Please Go Home," "I talk to everyone, Gilligan. But I sometimes have the impression that nobody listens."

I love your new question! Well, the Professor's to blame in a number of episodes:

"Goodbye Island" - it's the Professor's idea to slap that silly glue on the Minnow, not Gilligan's

"Physical Fatness" - It's the Professor's fault Gilligan eats the phosphorescent dye

"Will the Real Mister Howell Please Stand Up?" - The Professor chooses his own highly impractical and ultimately disastrous pontoon boat over Mary Ann's far more practical (and less dangerous) idea of writing messages on fish.

"You've Been Disconnected" Gilligan shows foresight in wrapping up the cable in a protective covering during the storm - the Professor only thinks of the underwater cable rescuing them as an afterthought. If the Professor had shown as much foresight as Gilligan before the storm, they'd have been rescued.

"Forget Me Not" The Professor fails to consider that hypnotizing the Skipper could result in triggering his world war two memories, and it's these that cost them all the rescue.

"Man With a Net" The Professor's fermented-berry tea gets everyone so drunk that Lord Beasley leaves on them.

"Gilligan Goes Gung Ho" The Professor comes up with the idea of having a Sheriff and a jail, though the castaways didn't need either.

"Quick Before It Sinks" This doesn't involve a rescue, but it's the Professor whose very sloppy scientific methods cause everyone to panic and think the island is sinking.


Now just to be clear, I love the Professor! I really do! But you can't deny that when he goofs up, he goofs up royally. He just never gets blamed.

Oh - and, new question! Who mistakes Gilligan for a supernatural being?

[Teebs]

I love the Professor too, and he does make the most effort to get them rescued. But, no-one capslaps him for putting that identical bowl of phosphorescence on the table next to Gilligan's food, no-one yells at him for getting them all so drunk that Lord Beasley went home without them, no-one shuns him for his failed hypnosis attempts.
Howabout when they all made Gilligan go and kill the 'monster' in St. Gilligan And The Dragon? Then, unless I'm mistaken, they waited till he'd finished to tell him it was a weather balloon?
And Gilligan did cover the telephone cable with rubber to keep it dry from the rain. That was good thinking. If anyone else had done it with the same results, they would have been let off. Oooooooh!

Anyway- calm down Teebs. Answer the question.

You've posed a difficult one, callensensei. I'll make a wild guess and say Mr. Howell because the amount of times Gilligan's good luck has got him out of Thurston's dodgy financial dealings means the boy must be some kind of leprechaun.

Doh! Need new question. Ummmm....

Which castaway is fooling everyone? (That's a very loose question and any answer will probably be correct.)

[lm]

Gilligan.


Question: (it will be more fun if we give little scenarios without the identities).

Overheard: (by you): Two people: "I don't CARE--I'm tired of talking about it!
Leave me alone!!!"

Who is it?

[Teebs]

Originally Posted by lm

Gilligan.


Question: (it will be more fun if we give little scenarios without the identities).

Overheard: (by you): Two people: "I don't CARE--I'm tired of talking about it!
Leave me alone!!!"

Who is it?

The Skipper to Gilligan about his weight.

Overheard (by you): "I don't know why you keep doing it. You know it doesn't work."

[lm]

The Professor to Ginger (about her vamping visitors--motivated by a little jealousy too).



Three castaways are seen (by you) up at the communal table late at night when everyone else is asleep for the night. Who is it?