Jeanie Bottle 820
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on November 12, 2024
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Chapter: Story 17: I Dream of Home Sweet Home
Or maybe a three hour tour?
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Or maybe a three hour tour?
And the Minnow would be lost.
It was supposed to be a three hour tour!
Why did they bring so many clothes for a three hour tour? A three hour tour?
They were tourists, and had their suitcases with them.
Anyway, anybody looking for actual logical consistency would note that Gilligan’s Island was near Hawaii, not Florida/the Caribbean.
Also, it’s series canon (a first season episode, when a “miracle glue” proved to be temporary but they’d used it to not just repair the Minnow but replace all other fasteners aboard) that the Minnow fell completely apart.
And has anyone else seen the recent AI generated “Panavision” videos for “Gilligan’s Island” that describes it as if it were a horror movie?
The Howells had a variety of outfits, but the rest didn’t. Ginger at timed wore a dress she made from Gilligan’s dufflebag. I figure either there must have been a lot more clothes inside that trunk where they found the silent movie props and equipment or the frequent visitors to the place left a lot of clothes behind when the abandoned the castaways. As for the boat being mostly in one piece, perhaps it’s a replica built as a decoration for the presumably abandoned resort that the Howells built on the island.
Gilligans island
Didn’t they go a sea from Honolulu?
This must be magic.
From Hawaii, yes, but I don’t recall if it was Honolulu specifically.
The opening shot shows the boat leaving from Hawaii Kai harbor, which is east of Diamond Head on O’ahu, but the island that they arrive at is actually Coconut Island, which is just offshore from Kane’ohe, on the northeast side of O’ahu.
If I recall correctly (I couldn’t be bothered to look it up) the pilot episode was the only thing actually filmed in Hawaii.
There’s a web site. The island that we see from the sea (PUN!) is in the Carribean sea. Also. in one episode “The Skipper” (Named on a radio broadcast as Jonas Grundy) gave the latitude and longitude but, he must have had them backwards because taken literally, the island would have been somewhere around ALASKA!
Clearly this isn’t just a crossover with Gilligan’s Island. It’s also a crossover with Lost. And the Island has moved, again.
Imagine if Jeanie and the rest of her group join this side of the story. Think how many Smoke Monsters the Island will have, then.
Wouldn’t they be Poof Monsters?
Are the passengers of the Minnow still alive? Are they using some sort of magic to stay young, and is that the same magic that’s affecting the folks on the boat?
Given that we had the Dukes of Hazzard thirty years after their show, and they were still apparently in their twenties, I don’t think that they would be aged much if we see them.
Hmm, given that Araceli is delusional, and is magically creating things from her imagination, and that Gilligan’s Island is fictional within their world (Araceli watched the show on television and mistook it for being real), it is possible that she poofed up elements from the show. If so, then any characters that they meet would be puppets created by her, like her Romance-novel version of Neil.
That’s a pretty plausible theory. Good catch.
Oh wow, I forgot that she watched Gilligan’s Island way back then!
That said, Neil and Jean *also* watched I Dream of Jeannie, which is how Jean’s mental image of a genie ended up matching Barbara Eden. So a show existing in this universe doesn’t automatically imply that the characters can’t also be real there. Maybe. Who knows.
Gilligan’s Island is probably a Peabody award winning PBS documentary. Sitcom universe, remember?
I think the ‘Lucky Minnow’ is a much nicer boat than the ‘Minnow’. It’s still afloat for one thing.
For some reason I’m expecting them all to be zombies. I know it isn’t that kind of comic, but somehow…
They’ll have to be unzombied. Dezombied? Diszombied? Dat zombied?
In panel 3, Dominic’s line should be: “The ship’s aground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle.”
Well Caley is a redhead so does she become the new Ginger.
Araceli would be Maryanne
Natalie would be the professor
Rodge would be Gilligan
Liam was the skipper of the boat
We are only missing the Howells
The only one I haven’t accounted for is Dominic
You left out Fake-Neil.
Good point
Between Fake-Neil and Dominic, which one would be Mrs Howell
Obviously fake Natalie.
And so our list of new castaways is complete 🙂
Dominic is clearly Liam’s little buddy, which puts the engaged couple of Rodge and Nat as the Howells.
Perhaps this island is just a vast wasteland.
Just like the Minow said.
I get it.
Whew. I’m glad somebody did!
I’m betting the Islanders are still there (and I don’t mean the hockey team) because the magic dingus offshore is keeping them youthful and trapped. Rodge and Liam certainly seem to be suffering from the “Gilligan effect”.
In the Annette Funicello/Frankie Avalon beach party movie parody “Back to the Beach”, Bob Denver plays an unnamed bartender who can’t get anyone to listen to his stories about getting stuck on a deserted island with a bunch of losers including “a professor who built a geiger counter out of a coconut but couldn’t fix a boat”. When he finally meets a young (and very attractive) bikini-clad woman who actually wants to listen to him Alan Hale shows up to take his “little buddy” on another trip and he shouts “It’s never three hours” as Hale drags him away. It’s a fun movie even if you haven’t seen any of the originals.
Thanks for mentioning that. I vaguely remember the movie because, of course, Annette Funicello was in it. 🙂
There’s a sorta parody novel called “Gilligan’s Wake” that goes into (aka creates) the backstories of all the castaways and links them Forrest Gump style to lots of real and fictional characters form the 20th century. I’ve never read it, but I remember hearing it talked about. It establishes Gilligan is actually Maynard Gilligan Krebs—Maynard G. Krebs being Denver’s character in “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.” The Skipper was on JFK’s PT Boat in WW II. Lovey was a friend of Daisy’s from “The Great Gatsby.”
No idea if this would be good, but I do often remember hearing about it. From what I read about the ending, it seems like this could be a hard one to execute well, but not impossible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan's_Wake
DA-UM! It’s been a head cannon of mine for a few years that Maynard and Gilligan (We never learned if that was his first or last name) were the same person. I saw a few episodes of Dobie Gillis and being a fan of Gilligan’s Island, I thought beatnik Maynard would be the type to become a sailor “and see the world”.
In one episode of GI, Mr. Howell says that he’s an expert in guerrilla warfare. Considering the age of the actor, Thurston could have been in the Philippines in 1941 (On business for Standard oil, maybe) and got stranded by the war.
The Howells no doubt made some of their money in the 1890s with the “Howell flywheel torpedo”. Look it up.
Here’s the bartender scenes,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VspgSzR1G4
More odd trivia: My aunt once told me she once dated Russell Johnson before he got famous. And when she said once I’m pretty sure it probably was only once. I have no way to prove it but also no reason to doubt it.
My mom once said she went on a date with Burt Reynalds in high school. No proof, no reason to doubt.
Famous people have lives, too. A girlfriend and I once ran into a drunken guy in a bar in San Jose who sloppily introduced himself as Randy Bachman. I didn’t think much of it; it’s a common enough name. Then the leader of the band playing the place interrupted their set to announce that a celebrity would be joining in with them for a few songs, and sure enough, it was him. THE Randy Bachman, of the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. They did American Woman and he gestured in our direction. Who’d have thought?
Father of an old friend of mine dated Anita Bryant in college.
But my friend’s mom was a rocking fierce feminist, so he made the right choice! It was kind of a family joke.
If it ever was a choice, he made the right one.
Now Natalie and Calie will be able to borrow some of Ginger’s evening gowns. Hmm, Natalie on a moonlight beach in one of those slinky evening gowns. And Rodge too young to enjoy it. Its all right C. D. The rest of us will enjoy it.
Good idea, but still, maybe they should rather look for some tools or spare parts?
I don’t think that either Dominic or Caley will have the presence of mind to do that. Natalie would, but she’s still on the boat.
Fun fact. In the sequel movie to the series, the Castaways make it back to civilization… only to be absolutely miserable! When they end up on another deserted island… they’re almost RELIEVED!
Follow up fun fact: In the sequel TV movies (and sequel series continuing from there), they ended up back on the SAME ISLAND. Then, because of another escape attempt, were found and the island officially charted. They claimed the island (or the Howells bought it or something) and turned it into a resort, with all of them as part of the staff.
It did at least one crossover with “The Love Boat”, and the Harlem Globetrotters were included in another TV movie set there.
And then, for some reason, they all boarded an experimental rocket ended up on another planet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan's_Planet
Correction: After reviewing the history of the franchise, there was no series revival after the TV movies, that was all from TV movies. “Rescue from Gilligan’s Island” (escape, problems reintigrating, stranded again), “The Castaways on Gilligan’s Island” (rescue, conversion to a resort with visitor stories), and “The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island” (basketball and idiot villains).
And per Wikipedia, series creator Sherwood Schwartz stated in 2008 that he’d like a modern-day movie version with Michael Cera as Gilligan and Beyonce Knowles as Ginger. YMMV
Oops. This does not bode well. Except for us. I’m betting this’ll be fun. 🙂
Called it from the first panel. 😀
The original theme song (From the Pilot)
In Tropical sea is a tropic port.
Vacation Fun is the favorite sport.
This is the place where the tourists flock,
Renting the boats at the busy dock!
Two secretaries from USA sail on the minnow this lovely day.
A High school teacher is next aboard, all taking trip that they cannot afford!
The next two people are millionaires, they got no worries, they got no cares,
They climb aboard and they step inside, with just enough bags for a six hour ride!
Tourist come, tourist go, tourists touring to and fro.
These five nice tourists they take this trip, relaxing on deck on this little ship.
The weather is clear and the sun is hot…(Lightning)
The weather is clear? (Lightning) I think it is not!
Tourist come, tourist go, tourists tossing to and fro!
The captain is brave, he (Lighting) Carumba, what a storm!
The captain is brave, he’s a fearless man, and Gilligan helps him all that he can!
The Wheel she break and lose all control! SS Minnow do the rock-and-roll!
The sea is now calm and the weather grand, Where is the minnow? Upon the sand!
What happens now will bring you a smile!
The adventures of Gilligan…
and the skipper…
And the millionaire…and missus Millionaire…
and the other tourists, on Gilligan’s Isle!
We leave all our friends on this tropic shore. Perhaps they will be here forevermore.
Maybe a rescue will set them free! Tune in next week and then you will see!
Since Neil, prince charming with the kiss of life came from her Bodiceripper book, I’m guessing that the S.S. Minnow came from her seeing Gilligan’s Island on the little box where she thought that Neil had them prisnors. Araceli is dreaming her fanticies. Lets hope she hasn’t seen any Stephen King movies.
Araceli might be dreaming her romantic fantasies (or maybe, it’s hallucinating), but it’s that artifact in the treasure chest that’s giving them substance. She doesn’t seem to be the type that would watch Stephen King movies, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a series of television commercials make their appearances (Gilligan’s Island was on page 88, John and Sals with their floor buffing jelly and Murry from House of Trucks were on page 120).
Seeing as the side adventures involve classic television shows (Bewitched and now Gilligan’s Island) I wouldn’t be too surprised that if she did watch a horror show, it would be something along the lines of Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits. Or, even worse, Dark Shadows.
The Dark Shadows TV show was part of my experience with the “Gothic” craze in the 1960s and it was GOOD! The movies, including the ones with the original cast were AWFUL!
If the side adventures all involve 1960s TV shows, then please, oh, please let the next one be STAR TREK!
Please, C.D. !!
It’s said the greatest mystery of “Gilligan’s Island” is why the other castaways never killed Gilligan.
He was simp;y to thin to Bar-be-que.
By the way, I have been reading and deaply enjoying the fan fic. But I feel the need to say, Welsh Gaelic is not a thing. Welsh and Gaelic are different, though related languages. To the point, a person can like on and not the other.
And by the way, Gaelic is not just thing either. I’ve gotten used to thinking of it as Gaelic in Scotland and Irish in Ireland. and even then, it’s not just one thing.
This has been your moment of nerdity. My apologies.
Well, nerdity is acceptable. In the stories that visited ancient Great Britain there was always an issue with linguistics. There’s no Gaelic translator so I used Welsh and Irish as substitutes. That being said… my turn.
I suppose I should have simply called it Brittonic, or Brythonic, which was the dominant language on the isles at the time the stories took place, but I still would have needed actual words to plug into the text. 🙂
Maybe, maybe not. It doesn’t ruin the story or anything, I’m just a linguistics nerd. That said, take a look at the linguistic history of Great Britain first or just for its own sake. It’s very interesting.
How far along have you gotten with them?
Not as far as I could, but enough to know you need to be specific about your century. Welsh is the surviving decendant of Common Brythonic, so it can stand for that for fan fic purposes. By the way, this is fun (but it doesn’t have Scots): https://vividmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/languages-of-british-isles.png
Oh, the stories. Sorry, I was having a stupid moment.
#42.
#43. Exciting!
Araceli not only threw a car through a movie screen but threw a motor boat through the roof of a restraunt to smach Lily the man eating plant. In her state of mind she could be really dangerous wothout knowing it.
If Jeanie and the other genies make it to the island what will that thingie under the Lucky Minnow bring to life. What kind of fantacies could they have in their little brains. An Egyptian pyramid for Ifta?
The only way that would happen is if Princess Jeanie returns home and Neil was still missing. She would have two options; poof Neil and Rodge back from wherever they are or go looking for them. Considering what Araceli’s power has done under the control of that artifact, imagine the consequences of it acquiring Jeanie’s ramped up power. No, Natalie is going to have to figure this out on her own.
If they go to Coco Beach Jeanie will find Araceli’s totum. If she rubs it Araceli will have to come back. Jeanie to the rescue. What could go wrong.
If Jeanie came under the influnce of the artifact what would she fantasise about. Possibly RITA. Haven’t seen her in a long time.
I like the headliner Jeanie pic, except for the cloth… She should dress with understatement!
thanksgiving is coming up. You wil probably get to see her with a turkey.
A miniskirted Puritan Pilgrim? Scandalous! (And I thought Roger was the “turkey”?)