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Asperger's Poster Child
Anyone familiar with http://www.jumptheshark.com? I noticed that Gilligan's Island is listed. Was it possible for a show this dumb to ever jump the shark? Sherwood Schwartz clearly wrote for 7-year-olds who never wondered how the Skipper stayed fat on a desert island, or why Greg and Marcia never gave in to their raging teenage hormones with each other. Schwartz must have been a genius, because those of us who grew up in that era still remember his shows, even though we know how badly written they were.
Here's my plot for a GI episode--the third time Gilligan sabotages an effort to get off the island, the others kill him for meat. Then they mount his skeleton outside the Professor's hut like in biology class, and dress it in Gilligan's red shirt and sailor hat. Later, the Skipper walks by and trips over the skeleton's foot. He picks himself up and growls at the skeleton, "Thanks a lot, Gilligan." He hits it with his captain's hat and knocks Gilligan's skull onto the sand.
(To complete the Jump the Shark cycle, Bob Denver would return as Gilligan's evil twin or cousin Milligan. Or else a 10-year-old Ted McGinley would wash ashore, serving a dual purpose as the New Kid in Town. In a Very Special Episode, the Professor would lure McGinley into his hut to study human anatomy.)
Here's my plot for a GI episode--the third time Gilligan sabotages an effort to get off the island, the others kill him for meat. Then they mount his skeleton outside the Professor's hut like in biology class, and dress it in Gilligan's red shirt and sailor hat. Later, the Skipper walks by and trips over the skeleton's foot. He picks himself up and growls at the skeleton, "Thanks a lot, Gilligan." He hits it with his captain's hat and knocks Gilligan's skull onto the sand.
(To complete the Jump the Shark cycle, Bob Denver would return as Gilligan's evil twin or cousin Milligan. Or else a 10-year-old Ted McGinley would wash ashore, serving a dual purpose as the New Kid in Town. In a Very Special Episode, the Professor would lure McGinley into his hut to study human anatomy.)