in the Gilligan's Island theme song, why are only Gilligan and Marianne

[bobbieinok]

named??????

(thought of this b/c of GD post that BushI and Babs are like Thurston Howell and his wife; a comparison I don't agree with)

[Guy Fawkes]

1. "The skipper, too! The Millionare, and his wife..."

Well, the Skipper is mentioned...

[bobbieinok]

3. what I meant, everyone else is a category..

the skipper, the professor, the movie star, the millionaire and his wife

[hfojvt]

11. they do not have ranks

what is Gilligan? The first mate? The fall guy? No wait a minute, that was Lee Majors, wasn't it?
What is Marianne? The farm girl?
It's better to have a name isn't it? Otherwise you are just the guy in the red shirt who has no last name.
Of course, it may be better to have no last name, than to have Fleegman as a last name.

[auntAgonist]

2. Gilligan's Island Lyrics

The Ballad of Gilligan's Island by George Wyle and Sherwood Shwartz - Gilligan's Island Lyrics


Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship.

The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour.

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.

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 Gilligans Isle.


So this is the talel of the castways,
They're here for a long, long time,
They'll have to make the best of things,
It's an uphill climb.

The first mate and the Skipper too,
Will do their very best,
To make the others comfortable,
In the tropic island nest.

No phone, no lights no motor cars,
Not a single luxury,
Like Robinson Crusoe,
As primative as can be.

So join us here each week my freinds,
You're sure to get a smile,
From seven stranded castways,
Here on "Gilligan's Isle."

[Iris]

17. Remember at first Mary Ann wasn't named at all - she was just "the rest

are here on Gilligan's Isle!"

[miss_kitty]

19. the professor was also among

"the rest"

"...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
and the rest,
Here on Gilligans Isle."

[peekaloo]

4. Virgins?

:shrug:

[Iris]

20. hmm. . . possible!

[MrScorpio]

5. The actual names

Skipper: Jonas Grumby
Ginger: Ginger Grant
The Professor: Roy Hinkley Jr.
Mary Ann: Mary Ann Summers
Thurston Howell III: Same
Lovey: Eunice Wentworth Howell
Gilligan: Willie Gilligan

[-..__...]

6. Didn't another version just dismiss some castaways as "and all the rest"?

ETA: You do not want to hear the Gilligans Island theme song set to the tune of "Stairway To Heaven" (for real).

Double ETA: "Stairway to Gilligan".


:headbang:

[Gold Metal Flake]

8. Yup. After "movie star" it was ..."and the rest". (prof. & Maryanne) n/t

[Crazy Guggenheim]

7. It probably "fit" better with the music.

[no name no slogan]

9. You can sing "Amazing Grace" to the tune of "Gilligans Island"

and it actually sounds pretty good. Try it.

[DawgHouse]

12. Too hard.

that's like patting your head while rubbing your stomach. :)

[VelmaD]

16. You can also sing the Gilligan's Island theme...

to the tune of the theme from Highlander.

I know...I've done it. (A friend and I once had a plan to film a home movie called "The Islander" - basically a cross between Highlander and Gilligan's Island. Yes...we were drunk.)

[spooky3]

10. because when they first recorded it, the writers hadn't figured out

who the remaining characters would be.

In later episodes, you'll hear a revised version of the theme song with the names filled in.

[Ladyhawk]

13. In the old version, not everyone was mentioned. n/t

[mitchum]

14. Because of the occult significance of the names Gilligan and Marianne

honest

[tuvor]

15. You MUST listen to this version

You can also sing it to...oh, you probably know the song...

http://subdevo.com/swf/Little%20Roger%20and%20The%20Goosebumps%20-%20Stairway%20to%20Gilligans%20Island.mp3

[enigmatic]

18. Oh yeah....

Am Insane Music Classic; I remember hearing that when I was a teen..