New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for March 27, 2014

What’s on side B?

Next on the playlist:- “Message in a Bottle”- “Islands in the Stream”- “Lime in the Coconut”

As a Briton, this story arc has completely lost me. I am vaguely aware of something called “Gilligan’s Island”, but have no idea what it was about.

I will come back when this arc is over.

I ask to beOr not to be….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JQ8yF04y9o

Side B = “Stylin’” by Curly and the 3 Stooges

Now I remember why I stopped watching that show. And I was only 10…

Harold Hecuba was a producer who came to the island, unaware of the castaways, to think of his next hit play. The gang put Hamlet to the tunes from Carmen, which they just happened to have because doesn’t everyone bring instrumental versions of operas with them on a 3 hour tour. Hecuba stole their ideas and left them stranded. I can still sing most of the tunes in my pleasant, but limited range bass baritone. No, it wasn’t a great show, but it had some clever bits to it.

I remember my Intro to Shakespeare class instructor being absolutely horrified that none of us had ever read or seen Hamlet, but we had all seen the Gilligan’s Island “Hamlet” episode.

Oh, my…. someone other than me remembers The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island.

And I believe, although there was a bit of overlap(1967), Gilligan’s Island used “Watch out for that… tree!” before George of the Jungle.

Low rock, Skipper!

Thanks a lot, Gilligan.

And this can be Record No. 8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljQi4_ZUrKU