What's this 'and the rest' crap?
One of the trippy things that always comes from watching Gilligan- or really any show from that time period- is casual references to things that in their time are quite recent, but for us are a thousand years ago (or, almost a century, anyway).
The Skipper fought in WWII and is still in his prime, he’s not an old man. Mr. Howell speaks of the Great Depression and the stock market crash, Mrs. Howell talks about movies and people that were big in the thirties (and in fact talks about the thirties in general). At one point they even have a WWI vet turn up and he’s not an old old man either, a little past his prime but still spry enough on the whole.
It’s so weird to think about. Gilligan and Mary-Ann and Ginger- they’re young enough that they were probably born just after the war ended, the Professor was likely a small boy during the war, and of course the Skipper served and the Howells were already in their prime. And these aren’t old people. They’re young, except the Howells, they’re spry and active and not the way we would think of someone who was alive at that time.
Idk it’s just really trippy to hear casual references to the war as if it was something recent when watching young (and young-ish) people talk.
The Skipper fought in WWII and is still in his prime, he’s not an old man. Mr. Howell speaks of the Great Depression and the stock market crash, Mrs. Howell talks about movies and people that were big in the thirties (and in fact talks about the thirties in general). At one point they even have a WWI vet turn up and he’s not an old old man either, a little past his prime but still spry enough on the whole.
It’s so weird to think about. Gilligan and Mary-Ann and Ginger- they’re young enough that they were probably born just after the war ended, the Professor was likely a small boy during the war, and of course the Skipper served and the Howells were already in their prime. And these aren’t old people. They’re young, except the Howells, they’re spry and active and not the way we would think of someone who was alive at that time.
Idk it’s just really trippy to hear casual references to the war as if it was something recent when watching young (and young-ish) people talk.