Just sit right back...

And you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip.

This will be earworm number two this week, but only if you are of a certain age and watched copious amounts of television. 

That started from a tropic port
Aboard a tiny ship.

The pony seems to be doing the very tiniest bit better today, so that combined with having spent far more hours than I would like trying to get the dry lot clean from over ten days of a hard freeze, had left me a little slap happy, I think. (And just fyi, multiple hours and four plus wheelbarrows is not enough to even clean the thawed layer on the top of the ice. We're not even thinking about what's under the bottom layer of ice right now. It's all a little disheartening and very tiring.) 

The mate was a mighty sailor man, 
The skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers that sailed that day
On a three hour tour.
(A three hour tour.)

But anyway, back to frivolous. For some reason that I cannot remember, our dinner conversation centered around the TV show, Gilligan's Island. (Also MASH and Lost, but they didn't have us Googling information.) 

The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew,
The Minnow would be lost.
(The Minnow would be lost.)

So to share our research results...
  • Yes, there are essays written comparing Gilligan's Island to Lost.
  • Gilligan's Island ran for three seasons with 98 episodes
  • The most popular episode was where Gilligan gets hit on the head which turns his mouth into a transistor radio. 
  • There was never an episode where the castaways were rescued because at the time of filming the last episode the show had been renewed. But then after filming, the show was cancelled. 
  • There was a movie made in 1978 which has the castaways rescued and returned to civilization because of a tidal wave. They struggle to adjust and end up shipwrecked once again during a reunion cruise.
  • The final episode of the TV show involves the castaways dressing up Gilligan as a woman to give to a tribal chef who wants to sacrifice a woman to the volcano god. The chief falls in love with 'Gilliana' and decided he wants to throw a dummy into the volcano so he can marry Gillian instead. This episode is probably banned in Florida now. 
The ship set ground on the shore of this
Uncharted desert isle.
With Gilligan, the skipper, too.
The millionaire and his wife.
The movie star, 
The professor and Mary Ann,
Here on Gilligan's Isle.

I have to admit that I could type the lyrics to the theme song without looking them up. (I can sing all of F Troop as well. I was all about quality television during my younger years.) 

So there you go. More about Gilligan's Island than you ever wanted to know. Because dinner time is never dull here. 

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