Essay on a Three Hour Tour.

I’m taking a moment away from thinking about current pressing issues to ponder some bigger thoughts in life. If on Gilligan’s Island they were out for a 3-hour tour, why were Ginger, Maryann, and the Professor alone if they were tourists? If Ginger was a star, how did she travel without an entourage? As a simple farm girl, what was Maryann doing in Hawaii by herself? If the show was from the 60s & the Skipper maintained his weight on a diet of coconut, why did it take 30 more years to declare war on trans-fats? Why would the Howells be on a crappy charter, if they were so wealthy? Why in the original theme song did they say “and the rest”, when only the Professor and Maryann constituted the rest? Most of all, why has no one staged a musical Hamlet on Broadway?

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