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raccoon

(31,111 posts) Tue Dec 31, 2013, 04:38 PM Dec 2013

Question about "Gilligan's Island" living arrangements.

Skipper and Gilligan slept in two hammocks, Gilligan's above the Skipper's.

Why do it that way? Surely there was room in the hut that they didn't have to do it like
bunk-hammocks. Not only that, two hammocks with two people would put a lot more strain on the posts that
held them up, especially with Skipper's weight.

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Question about "Gilligan's Island" living arrangements. (Original Post) raccoon Dec 2013 OP

Most convenient and effective arrangement for camera shots. NYC_SKP Dec 2013 #1

Good thinking. nt raccoon Dec 2013 #2

It's like when a guy drives up in a car Kingofalldems Dec 2013 #3

I think that was an English show... Wounded Bear Dec 2013 #4

Isn't that how hammocks were arranged on ships? cyberswede Dec 2013 #5

That's not the important question here jmowreader Jan 2014 #6

in-character, i.e. that's just how sea men roll eShirl Jan 2014 #7

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

1. Most convenient and effective arrangement for camera shots.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 04:45 PM

Dec 2013

They could be having a conversation, for example, without switching from one camera to another, as they would if they were on opposite sides of the hut.

raccoon

(31,111 posts)

2. Good thinking. nt

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 04:46 PM

Dec 2013

Kingofalldems

(38,458 posts)

3. It's like when a guy drives up in a car

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 04:48 PM

Dec 2013

and gets out on the passenger side.

Wounded Bear

(58,660 posts)

4. I think that was an English show...

Reply to Kingofalldems (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 04:50 PM

Dec 2013

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)

5. Isn't that how hammocks were arranged on ships?

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2013, 04:59 PM

Dec 2013

Maybe that's what they were used to.

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)

6. That's not the important question here

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Wed Jan 1, 2014, 07:09 AM

Jan 2014

There are two much more pressing questions.

Question 1: How come the only thing the Professor couldn't figure out how to make was a boat?

Question 2: The castaways took so many personal belongings with them, you KNOW they had to have gone to sea in a frigate, not an itty-bitty tour boat. Couldn't they have just gotten on one of the thirty long-range radios every frigate is equipped with and called Pearl Harbor?

eShirl

(18,493 posts)

7. in-character, i.e. that's just how sea men roll

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Wed Jan 1, 2014, 07:29 AM

Jan 2014

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