Minnow, onto its shores and their misadventures.

Boy, I’m not going to do that again any time soon…but I digress.

Did they have a premonition of sorts?

A suitcase full of island travel necessities

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And if they did, why didn’t they do aFinal Destinationlast-minute back-out instead of packing more?

There Are Theories About the Clothing Situation on Gilligans Island, but Are They Valid?

So why all the clothes?

Utkarsh Ambudkar as Jay Arondekar in Ghosts Season 4 Episode 5

That’s right, nil.

But if that’s the case, wouldn’t a “three-hour shuttle” be more apropos?

Harder to rhyme, I suppose.

Gilligan’s Island (1964)

But maybe it would make more sense if the clothes didn’t come with the castaways.

In “Pass the Vegetables, c’mon,” Gilligan reels in a crate of vegetable seeds.

Get ready for a very Arondekar Ghost-mas.

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He says the Howells were originally the only characters intended to have extensive changes of costume.

Then he gets all philosophical, saying,“The endless wardrobe was [a] symbolic comment.

That’s an image I want to be stranded on a desert island.

Gilligan’s Island

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