@@TheRadioAteMyTV We parents and grandparents have to introduce those things to our kids, just like anything that came before us. We can't and shouldn't expect the world to stand still at a certain point. We have to keep the past alive, all the while accepting and learning about the future ourselves.
I actually think "Gilligan's Island" might have been slightly ahead of it's time and that might have been why the show was cancelled by CBS after only three seasons: Think about it first their is seven Castaways stranded on the island years ahead of ABC-TV's "Lost", then there is the episode where The Mosquitoes practice as though they are on MTV or VH1 more than a decade before those two channels, not to mention in the same episode Ginger, Mary Ann and Mrs. Howell being the one-hit girl group The Honey Bees and finally there is this episode in which we have a definite future Broadway hit! Definitely "Gilligan's Island" was waaaay of it's time!
I recently received a set of classical masterpieces. In playing them, Les Toréadors started playing. I said, "I know that song" and started singing "Neither a borrower nor a lender be..." I can't believe I remembered 90% of the lyrics after all these years. What an amazing show!
The same thing happened to me last night. Les Toreadors was playing in the background of one of my granddaughter's tablet games and I said, "What is that song?" and started singing the lyrics from Gilligan's Island. I knew every. single. one. and that's certainly been a day or two.
Why does this clip give me such a healthy dose of dopamine? Nostalgia maybe. Alan Hale Jr. is priceless as Polonius, Tina looks like an absolute goddess, I can't get enough of this...
This middle-aged mom grew up with syndicated reruns of Gilligan's Island. I watched this episode many times. I have no idea how much adults in the late 60's liked this show. But with only 3 channels from the main media channels, the UHC channel showed old shows that we loved. Never enjoyed the 3 Stooges reruns of pure violence. That was pretty disturbing to be stuck watching. No VHS tapes or anything else to watch. The 3 MSM broadcast channels only had soap operas. But I loved this episode of Gilligan's Island! These songs have stuck in my head after all these years. I forgot about it until I was talking with my son today. My son is reading Hamlet in high school and wanted to discuss it. Thank you Gilligan's Island! I can recognize a few musical classics and recall some lines from Hamlet. My son is getting a far better education in classic literature. So that's a good thing! And my kids are laughing at me for watching this on RU-vid. But I appreciate it :)
Neither a borrower nor a lander be . Do not forget , stay out of debt . Think twice and take this good advise from me , guard that old solvency . There is just one other thing , you ought to do , to thine own self be true .
I also loved Phil Silvers. He was hysterically funny, and I always enjoyed his movies. I thought he was great in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", and I think he was also in a movie called "The Perils of Pauline". He was just terrific.
This was the first time I heard "To Thine Own Self Be True"; advice that made no sense to a 7 year old at the time, but what I live by today. Invaluable!
Phil Silvers was also a guest in one of the funniest Beverly Hillbillies episodes as a New York con man who sold the Clampetts the Brooklyn Bridge, the Staten Island Ferry and Central Park.
Ah, RU-vid, all I had to type was “Polonius’s advice with Les Toreador’s.” After 50 years I’d forgotten it was from Gilligan’s Island but you didn’t let me down.
I watched this video just to figure out that line! As a kid, I used to be able to name the episode before they stopped showing the beginning credits. I absolutely loved this show!
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true," LORD POLONIUS
Rather amusing how in the late 90's, when we were on track to actually get out of debt, economists were concerned about the negative effects of the U.S. being out of debt.
My God, what is it with all the goddamn FNaF refrences??? Is anyone even here because of Gilligan's Island and NOT because of the Toreador March and its associations with FNaF?!
I'm curious because I've had "neither a borrower nor a lender be" sung to this tune stuck in my head for decades but I could've sworn I heard it somewhere else, not from Gilligan's Island.
Thurston steps on Lovey's dress and she pulls it free. I wonder if this was intended or a mistake that was left in for a sense authenticity. It is a cute touch with Lovey showing a flash of annoyance but then going on with the show. That's Lovey.
Who's here because of last night's Jeopardy! daily double that Victoria missed? I think everyone of a certain age thinks of this episode whenever they hear the music from Carmen, or see any sort of production of Hamlet!
It's too bad the cast wasn't having as great a time as they could have for this take. You would think they would be loving every minute of the scene but maybe they reshot it so many times by this take they were just over it. It's a brilliant gag that sticks with so many people, and turns out to be quite useful.
Jim Backus was Mr. Howell. Phil Silvers was on the "Hamlet" episode of Gilligan's Island playing the role of Harold Hecuba doing the entire play himself. That's who I was talking about, and I thought he was terrific in it and in the movies that I mentioned in my previous post. Jim Backus was terrific in his movies including "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", "Hello Down There" and others and in the tv show "I Married Joan" and others and of course playing the legendary Mr. Magoo.
Who ever made the rule that the Professor does not get to be in any of the plays he just stands there in his dinner jacket turning the crank on the old record player?
I congratulate you on saving your pennies. I'm saving mine also! I'm not wealthy. I wish I was, but I'm not. The wealthy are doing their part. Our government takes in tons of money each year. Imagine what, let's say, Oprah pays in taxes in a year. With all she pays and all the other wealthy pay, there should be tons of money. The reason there's not is because this country spends like crazy. Once we get the spending under control and live within our means, our country "could" get our of debt.
I know the music is from the Toreador song from the French Opera Carmen; the words are from Shakespeare - how were these 2 concepts every merged together for the first time? On Gilligan's Island??? Kudos to the writers of that episode (The Producer) if that's an original.
