{"id":485651,"date":"2019-05-09T10:42:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T16:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=833421"},"modified":"2019-05-09T10:42:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T16:42:36","slug":"flashback-the-women-of-gilligans-island-form-a-pop-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-the-women-of-gilligans-island-form-a-pop-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: The Women of \u2018Gilligan\u2019s Island\u2019 Form a Pop Group"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are so many great Gilligan\u2019s Island<\/em> episodes that picking the best one is almost impossible. There\u2019s the one where a mad scientist on a nearby island switches all the characters\u2019 brains around (\u201cThe Friendly Physician\u201d), the one where Gilligan\u2019s exact double comes onto the island (\u201cGilligan vs. Gilligan\u201d), the one where Ginger\u2019s exact double comes onto the island (\u201cThe Second Ginger Grant\u201d), the one where Gilligan\u2019s mouth becomes a radio (\u201cHi-Fi Gilligan\u201d) and the one where radioactive vegetables give everyone superpowers (\u201cPass the Vegetables, Please\u201d).<\/p>\n

A very strong candidate for the single greatest episode, however, is \u201cDon\u2019t Bug the Mosquitoes,\u201d which aired on December 9th, 1965. It begins with a Beatles-like pop group called the Mosquitoes coming onto the island to escape their fans and the pressures of fame. They quickly meet up with Gilligan and the gang, who are horrified to learn the band plans on staying for a whole month. They plot a scheme to drive the musicians so crazy that they\u2019ll leave early, which ultimately leads to Ginger, Mary Anne and Mrs. Howell forming their own pop group, the Honeybees.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s video of the Honeybees\u2019 lone performance, where they sing \u201cYou Need Us.\u201d Don\u2019t bother wondering where they got their outfits, honeybee pins, a record player, a record or the ability to power it. The writers never bothered to explain anything like that on Gilligan\u2019s Island,<\/em> and that\u2019s one of the charms of the show. What is worth noting is that Natalie \u201cMrs. Howell\u201d Schafer was 64 when they shot this and she\u2019s keeping up quite fine with women roughly four decades younger than her.<\/p>\n

As with everything on Gilligan\u2019s Island<\/em>, the plan backfires terribly. The Mosquitoes catch the Honeybees performance and grow so afraid of the competition that they flee the island. Once again, the castaways are left on their own. At least for once, it wasn\u2019t Gilligan\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that three of the four Mosquitoes members were portrayed by the folk-pop group the Wellingtons, who sang the Gilligan\u2019s Island<\/em> theme in the first season. Seven months after they appeared on the show, the Monkees debuted on NBC. They were another Beatles-inspired TV band that has had far more success. They\u2019d also never leave seven people stranded on an island simply because they were afraid that the elderly wife of a prominent millionaire would upstage them, even if she was paired up with a movie star and a farm girl. That was a cold move, Mosquitoes.<\/p>\n

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There are so many great Gilligan\u2019s Island episodes that picking the best one is almost impossible. There\u2019s the one where a mad scientist on a nearby island switches all the characters\u2019 brains around (\u201cThe Friendly Physician\u201d), the one where Gilligan\u2019s exact double comes onto the island (\u201cGilligan vs. Gilligan\u201d), the one where Ginger\u2019s exact double […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 23:23:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}