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Gilligan's Island
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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 239132" data-attributes="member: 7"><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'">I don't know if I have any preference to the black-and-white or color seasons of <em>Gilligan's Island</em>. There's episodes that I love from both periods. The first season gives me two of my favorites, namely "The Big Gold Strike" and "So Sorry, My Island Now". These are two defining episodes of the show (in my opinion) because they center around failed attempts to be rescued with the latter featuring a quirky guest star stirring up havoc among the castaways. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial'"><em>Gilligan's Island </em>was really made for color. Once the show switched to color, the silliness was knocked up a notch. It fit the zaniness of the show, even if Sherwood Schwartz always stuck with his "social microcosm" concept of seven different people learning to live together. Sure, the earlier episodes offered us some glimpses of the castaways learning to get along, but eventually all that was filtered out and physical comedy took its place. Schwartz was apparently always going to offer up this kind of show. <em>The Brady Bunch</em>, which he sold as a comedy about a blended family learning to accept and love each other, was basically a mildly amusing children's show where almost no one ever mentioned that this family did not originate together. </span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'arial'">[ATTACH=full]22905[/ATTACH]</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 239132, member: 7"] [FONT=arial]I don't know if I have any preference to the black-and-white or color seasons of [I]Gilligan's Island[/I]. There's episodes that I love from both periods. The first season gives me two of my favorites, namely "The Big Gold Strike" and "So Sorry, My Island Now". These are two defining episodes of the show (in my opinion) because they center around failed attempts to be rescued with the latter featuring a quirky guest star stirring up havoc among the castaways. [I]Gilligan's Island [/I]was really made for color. Once the show switched to color, the silliness was knocked up a notch. It fit the zaniness of the show, even if Sherwood Schwartz always stuck with his "social microcosm" concept of seven different people learning to live together. Sure, the earlier episodes offered us some glimpses of the castaways learning to get along, but eventually all that was filtered out and physical comedy took its place. Schwartz was apparently always going to offer up this kind of show. [I]The Brady Bunch[/I], which he sold as a comedy about a blended family learning to accept and love each other, was basically a mildly amusing children's show where almost no one ever mentioned that this family did not originate together. [/FONT] [CENTER][FONT=arial][ATTACH type="full" width="454px"]22905[/ATTACH][/FONT][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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