A Three Hour Tour

[tinselwolverine]

Reasoning it out though, if the Howells had been super rich they would have had their own yacht and would not have been on a 3 hour tour on the Minnow (which was not even good size party boat). So, I think they may have been exaggerating their wealth.

If this were the politics board I would make a politics joke.

But yeah, I guess a lot of people who have an amount of money never the less exaggerate their wealth.

Or maybe they were just eccentric.

 

[Spartanmack]

Reasoning it out though, if the Howells had been super rich they would have had their own yacht and would not have been on a 3 hour tour on the Minnow (which was not even good size party boat). So, I think they may have been exaggerating their wealth.

maybe Thurston was slumming it because he wanted to get in Ginger's pants. Then again, there's kind of the same problem with Ginger - why would a Hollywood starlet not be going out on some rich producers mega yacht instead of a little fishing charter/pleasure cruiser - dressed for a fancy cocktail party or black tie event, no less?

 

[hungry]

We don’t know that the Howells were millionaires with a net worth of only $1 million.

Their behavior indicated that they were more affluent society folk than that.

They could have been worth up to $999,999,999 and still have only been millionaires.

So according to your cost-of-living adjuster, that would’ve put them at an equivalent of upwards of $8 billion in today’s money.

That would put them between Stephen Ross and George Soros based on this from Forbes.

I thought a millionaire had a net worth of $1,000,000 to $1,999,999. Once the person gets $2 million, they become a multi-millionaire.

 

[hungry]

edited.

 

[tinselwolverine]

maybe Thurston was slumming it because he wanted to get in Ginger's pants. Then again, there's kind of the same problem with Ginger - why would a Hollywood starlet not be going out on some rich producers mega yacht instead of a little fishing charter/pleasure cruiser - dressed for a fancy cocktail party or black tie event, no less?

Oh, I got it!

They departed from a remote hard to get to fishing village that-wait for it-Hemingway used to frequent!

The legend is that Hemingway used to love boating on the ocean waters around the village.

So hoity-toity actors and multi millionaires go there for that reason-everything Hemingway did was cool-that?s why the most interesting man alive Dos Eqiis character was partially based on him.

It?s the kind of shit that Mark Cuban or George Clooney would do.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I thought a millionaire had a net worth of $1,000,000 to 1,999,999. Once the person gets $2 million, they become a multi-millionaire.

I guess I would?ve thought of that all multi millionaires were millionaires, but not all millionaires are multimillionaires.

I would?ve thought it was like that.

 

[hungry]

I guess I would?ve thought of that all multi millionaires were millionaires, but not all millionaires are multimillionaires.

I would?ve thought it was like that.

Why would someone sell themselves short?

 

[tinselwolverine]

Why would someone sell themselves short?

Think of the theme song and change ?millionaire? to ?multimillionaire.?

To me it feels a little awkward.

Sherwood Schwartz, a big TV producer wrote the song with a guy named George Wyle. Schwartz probably figured that the audience would perceive the Howells as being more than just garden-variety millionaires.

 

[hungry]

Yeah, I remember as a youth watching the show, just thinking that the Howells had an endless supply of money.

 

[Michchamp]

I guess if you try to cram a cross-section of the American people into the seven characters who could fit in a small boat for a 3 hour tour, you're going to have some inconsistencies in the story.

even all the absurd plot twists and devices notwithstanding... like being able to make a radio out of bamboo, but not being able to fix a boat.

When you look at it that way, it's like JFC What a dumb show!

And it ran for three seasons and has been in syndication for like 50
fucking years now!

 

[Gulo Blue]

Reasoning it out though, if the Howells had been super rich they would have had their own yacht and would not have been on a 3 hour tour on the Minnow (which was not even good size party boat). So, I think they may have been exaggerating their wealth.

Did they ever establish why they were all on that boat together? Maybe the Howells were funding the Professor's research, which would have had to have had something to do with the difference between a celebrity and a non-celebrity of arguably similar attractiveness in a maritime environment.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Oh, I got it!

They departed from a remote hard to get to fishing village that-wait for it-Hemingway used to frequent!

The legend is that Hemingway used to love boating on the ocean waters around the village.

So hoity-toity actors and multi millionaires go there for that reason-everything Hemingway did was cool-that?s why the most interesting man alive Dos Eqiis character was partially based on him.

It?s the kind of shit that Mark Cuban or George Clooney would do.

Maybe I should have read the rest of the thread before responding.

 

[TheVictors]

I remember Gilligan's Island mostly from when it might have been on after school as reruns or maybe if I was staying home from school and sick. There was also a Superman show I loved, shot in B&W, along with Gunsmoke, Lone Ranger and other shows I think of when I sip on 7-UP or eat saltines from the box.

 

[Michchamp]

I remember Gilligan's Island mostly from when it might have been on after school as reruns or maybe if I was staying home from school and sick. There was also a Superman show I loved, shot in B&W, along with Gunsmoke, Lone Ranger and other shows I think of when I sip on 7-UP or eat saltines from the box.

When I flip through those low-rent syndication channels (like MeTV), I get this warm, calming feeling of an American Golden Age. it also reminds me of older relatives who were retired already by the time I was born, and their lives mostly consisted of sitting home, drinking Bud or Lite, and watching hours of soap operas, baseball, sitcoms, and shows like Lawrence Welk.

Life was easy... sit at home, constantly buzzed from the late afternoon on, and watch TV until you die, hopefully not outliving pensions/savings/etc.

It's pretty amazing the amount of mindless junk TV America produced going back to the 50's. Hell of a cultural legacy. Some of it like The Twilight Zone or Star Trek was better, but most of it, like Gilligan's Island was "check your brain at the door" kinda fare, as my dad used to call it.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Maybe I should have read the rest of the thread before responding.

I love my Hemingway theory, but I actually believe that the alternative theory that you posited in post #31 is better, and I’ll tell you why:

In your theory, the Minnow could be described as the ship that launched the two faces (and bodies) as a result of the study, which led to 1000 discussions that dominated the intellectual discourse of the last half century-

Marianne? Or Ginger?

In my opinion, you have reclaimed your status as the smartest poster on this here board.

You have bested me at my best game-making shit up-otherwise known as storytelling.

That doesn’t happen every day.

 

[rumseyhouse77]

Did they ever establish why they were all on that boat together? Maybe the Howells were funding the Professor's research, which would have had to have had something to do with the difference between a celebrity and a non-celebrity of arguably similar attractiveness in a maritime environment.

I don't know. Mary Ann and the Professor being on a three hour tour on the Minnow with a crew of 2, I can believe. But it all falls apart for me now when it comes to Ginger and the Howells. This thread has caused me to question the whole premise of the show now damn it! I had a happy childhood and now it turns out that it was all a big lie. What's next? Hogan's Heros, Star Trek, I Dream of Genie?

 

[Michchamp]

Hemingway used to frequent Cuba though; for some reason, I always got the sense Gilligan's Island was set somewhere in the Pacific, like around Hawaii.

MaryAnn for me.

 

[Michchamp]

OOOF! looks like dawn wells also aged a hell of a lot better than Tina Louise

 

[Gulo Blue]

I love my Hemingway theory, but I actually believe that the alternative theory that you posited in post #31 is better, and I?ll tell you why:

In your theory, the Minnow could be described as the ship that launched the two faces (and bodies) as a result of the study, which led to 1000 discussions that dominated the intellectual discourse of the last half century-

Marianne? Or Ginger?

In my opinion, you have reclaimed your status as the smartest poster on this here board.

You have bested me at my best game-making shit up-otherwise known as storytelling.

That doesn?t happen every day.

Thinking of what possible experiment the professor would have pitched to get them on a boat kind of reminds me of this scene.

 

[Gulo Blue]

the Minnow could be described as the ship that launched the two faces (and bodies) as a result of the study, which led to 1000 discussions that dominated the intellectual discourse of the last half century-

OH! Before you go crowning me 'board smart guy', while I am really proud of my "arguably similar attractiveness" quip, it took me way too long to catch that you were going Greek there.