Bob Denver

[GirlyGhoul]

Oh no!, Little Buddy!!!

Here's hoping he has a speedy recovery! Oy vey! After losing The Riddler (Frank Gorshin) this week I don't think my TVLand junkie inner child could handle losing Gilligan!

Anyway, other than Dolby Gillis, (or whatever character he played on that show) this poor guy really did get typecast as Gilligan. Not that that's such a bad thing, I mean, at least it was a lovable character. And he never seemed as bitter about it like Tina Louise did.

Hope he turns out ok!

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I believe his character's name on Doby Gillis was Maynard G. Krebs.

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Apparently, Little Buddy is quite fond of a little bud now and again. And again and again. Like enough to float the Minnow. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) Maybe all the THC stored in his tissue will pull him through.

[monsterzero]

Man, I hope he's okay. But to be honest, when I first heard the news, I pictured Gilligan laying prone on the beach with the Skipper hitting his chest with the hat saying 'GILL-A-GAN!!!'

Okay, I'm going to hell, I know.

[GirlyGhoul]

Then I'm going with you, Monster Zero, 'cause that's a funny image.

Anyway, I forgot all about Bob Denver's marijuana arrest. If I'm remembering correctly, it seems he was caught either shipping or receiving said package of bud to Dawn Wells aka MARY ANN!!! BWAH HA HA HA!

(Well, you know, as long as they were on that island, I'm sure they would have had the time to grow and harvest a rightous field of weed! ;D)

Anyway, at their age, I'm sure it was medicinal marijuana

[MrsOldManBalls]

I didn't realize he was that old.

[monsterzero]

Then I'm going with you, Monster Zero, 'cause that's a funny image.

Anyway, I forgot all about Bob Denver's marijuana arrest. If I'm remembering correctly, it seems he was caught either shipping or receiving said package of bud to Dawn Wells aka MARY ANN!!! BWAH HA HA HA!

(Well, you know, as long as they were on that island, I'm sure they would have had the time to grow and harvest a rightous field of weed! ;D )

You know I think everybody involved in that show was hitting the wacky tobacky quite hard. Think about their careers afterward: Skipper did Giant Spider Invasion and the rest of the survivors guest starred on ALF. Come on, you gotta be high if you do stuff like that for a career.

(okay, it's not much of a theory yet, but let me do my research....)

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MonsterZero -- My sister has/had an unexplainable fascination with Gilligan's Island and she bought a book by Russell Johnson (the Professor) called (I think) Life on Gilligan's Isle. Anyhow, he mentioned that the Lovie character kept a bottle tucked away in handy locations so that she could have a sip now and then while filming. I'm wracking my brain to remember what he might have said about Bob Denver. I seem to recall him saying that BD was much quieter than you'd expect from his Gilligan character.

(The thing with this book... The "Professor" must be a very nice guy in real life, because he really avoided saying anything outright negative about any of his cast mates. In fact, I think the Lovie/Bottle thing was the closest to scandalous he ever got. He mentioned Tina Louise's chagrin at finding out she wasn't to be the star of the show and complained about ending up on this silly sitcom when she was a trained actress. But even with that, he came off sounding sympathetic to her. And he clearly was in love with Dawn Wells! He never mentioned her without commenting on how pretty she was, or how nice. Sorry to go kinda OT.)

[monsterzero]

Yes, we're all part of Tofu's Ladder now. Any minute now we'll all vanish to realize Tofu is in the throes of death halfway through Britney Spears' homemade movies TV Show.

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It was John Denver who died in a plane crash a few years back. His last words were, "Rocky Mountain hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh what the hell's wrong with this altimeterrrrrrrrrrrrr?"

(I hope you saved me a seat at that table in Hell.)