The Howells discover that they are not legally married. But as The Skipper prepares to marry them in the lagoon, a fight causes them to call off the wedding altogether.The Howells discover that they are not legally married. But as The Skipper prepares to marry them in the lagoon, a fight causes them to call off the wedding altogether.The Howells discover that they are not legally married. But as The Skipper prepares to marry them in the lagoon, a fight causes them to call off the wedding altogether.
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- TriviaIn reality, the Skipper would have no authority to marry the Howells. Ship captains officiating at weddings is a long held Hollywood myth.
- GoofsMarriage certificates determine the legality of a marriage, not religious personages who oversee the ceremony.
- Quotes
Jonas 'The Skipper' Grumby: [the Skipper is greeting the wedding party, and Gilligan is best man] Ah... The best man.
Gilligan: At least I'm best man at something.
Jonas 'The Skipper' Grumby: Gilligan, you couldn't be best man in an all girls school.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Power Rangers Samurai: There Go the Brides (2011)
- SoundtracksThe Ballad of Gilligan's Isle
Words and Music by George Wyle and Sherwood Schwartz
Sung by The Eligibles
The couple is stunned to learn that the good reverend who married them is an imposter and they're not legally wed. Going to the extreme, Mrs. Howell boots her husband out of their hut and goes back to using her maiden name of Wentworth. He moves into the sailor's hut and-just like in Goodbye, Old Paint-Gilligan and the Skip wind up on the jungle floor. Even though she now has the hut to herself, she moves in with the girls, purely to irritate them enough so they will devise a plan to get them to remarry.
Ginger proposes that the Skip preside over their ceremony. The Professor argues that he has no authority on dry land, so Gilligan suggests they build a little raft and move the wedding out into the lagoon. First, there is a bit of padding with a dry run involving our confirmed bachelor and Mary Ann, his one-time love interest, which ends in a pratfall that foreshadows the main event. The actual ceremony is more tired bickering; the writers even dust off that ancient bit where the ring gets stuck on the best man's finger. It ends with Mr. Howell taking the plunge in a way he didn't expect.
We cover more familiar ground as the castaways scheme yet again to bring the Howells back together. Ginger's plan this time is to make them jealous by having them 'date' other people. She pairs with Mr. Howell at a table right next to the Professor and Mrs. Howell, and the couples pitch romance. The Ginger-Howell pairing is surprisingly a big yawn, but the Professor-Howell team up is promising and has some clever lines.
Ginger's scheme fails, though, so the Skip turns to the equally unoriginal and dumb plan of dressing up like a headhunter to scare them. The scheme is successful because Mr. Howell is uncharacteristically brave in protecting his wife from a tubby, middle-aged savage who looks like a ship's captain with bad make-up.
The resolution is just a slight variation on the ending of Agonized Labor, where a dumb error by the radio announcer is allowed to go on uncorrected for days, so the Howells went through hoops for nothing.
COCONOTES:
Gilligan reveals that he isn't married because he is afraid of girls. He's certainly nervous around them, but afraid? In the Matchmaker he was perfectly willing to be in a relationship with Mary Ann.
He also doesn't think couples should show PDA's. Poor Mary Ann.
Gilligan wears yet another steward outfit. He must've got it from the same place where Mary Ann got her suspenders.
Love Mr. Howell's line to his beloved teddy bear when his wife mentions dividing their possessions.
"Salicylic acid. That's aspirin."
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- May 29, 2018