35 Replies to “RIP Mary Ann”

    1. absolutely a cutie. I would have “dated” Ginger, but it was Mary Anne that I would have introduced to my mom.
      RIP Dawn Wells.

  1. Yup, an all time TV hottie. Thurston Howell though was the best character on that show. That voice was gold. Reminds of that pompous *** John Kerry every single time.

    1. Agreed. Hard to watch for me … until the plot featured some Mary Ann eye candy! Then … I wished I were a ship-wrecked Beatnik like Gilligan, stranded on a desert island with Mary Ann.

  2. I think Ginger was intended to be the real hottie, but it was Mary Ann who took won that battle.

    Those painted-on shorts didn’t hurt either.

    1. She kept those shorts and despite substantial offers refused to sell them. Now I guess they might be up for grabass.

  3. I cannot remember the specific episode, but there was one where (IIRC) Mary Ann ended up out-vamping Ginger for some silly contest or something.

    I got a major tingle in my no-no place as a young child when she did that.  I’m not ashamed.  Well, okay, not too much ashamed.   😉

    1. Thank God … a man who receives tingles in his naughty bits from a cute, and sexually alluring woman. OTOH … men who experience tingles when looking at Barrack Hussein Obama … have … issues.

  4. Two quotes from the Hollywood reporter;

    “Airing amid the real-life tumult of the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement and unrest on college campuses, viewers welcomed the corny sitcom as wholesome escapism.”

    My kids now days can’t understand that, something without politics,,, now days it’s in every TV show or film, it’s in sports and even the weather, it’s forced upon them everywhere.

    “Wells added during a 2008 interview with the Television Academy Foundation. “There hasn’t been a Mary Ann on the air for I don’t know how long. There hasn’t been a good girl over 14, and Mary Ann was very much that,” Wells said.”

    I guess that roll model not allowed anymore now days. Too straight, too much values, too conservative??? Have to be pimping out your moneymaker or given it up for free.

  5. I watched the re runs after school… Mary Ann was so hot… the fascists over at Twatter are posting that she died from the China Flu… we know thats bullshit. RIP.

  6. Only Ginger remains. It’s so sad to count their passing.

    And yes, it was a dumb show, but it was fun anyway, because it didn’t pretend to be something that it wasn’t. It was far better that some of the mindless, politically-correct and Woke dreck we must put up with today.

  7. I never liked Gilligan’s Island, and I’m not a great Bonanza fan. But the lovely Dawn Wells played a great bit part as an American Indian lass (when such was allowed), Moon Holt, in an episode of the latter…

    I liked her character in this story quite a lot!!!

    Jack.

  8. There was a time when silly, pointless comedy was funny. In fact the sillier and the dumber the better. Far better than the character assassination that passes as humor these days.

  9. If I’d been the Professor, marooned on an island with Mary Ann, I wouldn’t have been in a hurry to leave that remote cozy place either…!

  10. And the only cast member smart enough to insist on a better residual clause in her contract which was granted, only because no one thought for a second people would be watching the show 50 years later.
    I caught about 5 minutes of the show over the holidays for the nostalgia. It was short lived.

    A little trivia – Raquel Welch auditioned for the role of Mary Ann.

  11. I can’t believe everyone dunking on Gilligan’s Island? Mary-Ann was the girl I wanted in my teenage dreams.

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