Episode
Gilligan's Island: Physical Fatness
Overview
Gilligan and the Skipper plan to join the Navy when they are rescued. However, when weighing themselves, they discover that Gilligan must gain weight, while the Skipper must diet.
Details
- Series
- Gilligan's Island
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 32
- Air date
- 1965-05-08
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Physical Fatness is Episode 32 in Season 1 of Gilligan's Island. It aired on 1965-05-08. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 31: Diogenes, Won't You Please Go Home?
The Castaways discover that Gilligan has been keeping a secret diary. When they read it, they all seem to disagree with how certain events unfolded and tell their side of the story.
Episode 33: It's Magic
The Castaways discover a trunk belonging to a magician. They use a magician's props to scare away unfriendly natives from nearby islands.
More episodes from this season
Episode 30: Forget Me Not
The Professor tries to cure the Skipper's amnesia by hypnotizing him and taking him through time.
Episode 34: Goodbye, Old Paint
A famous painter who has renounced civilization, Dubov, visits the island (with a short-wave radio, of course). The castaways are hopeful that Dubov will give them his transmitter, but soon discover he does not wish to go back to civilization. They must come up with a scheme to make him change his mind, and attempt to make him jealous by pretending Gilligan is an artistic genius.
Episode 29: Three to Get Ready
The Skipper insists a stone found by Gilligan will grant the finder three wishes before sundown. The professor, of course, insists it is just superstition. Two gallons of ice cream later, Gilligan has only one wish left.....and the sun is going down!
Episode 35: My Fair Gilligan
After Gilligan saves Mrs. Howell's life, Mr. Howell decides to make him his son. He immediately puts Gilligan through basic training to be a millionaire's socialite son (dream sequence), changing the way he walks, talks and dresses. However, Gilligan and the rest of the castaways miss the "old Gilligan."
Episode 28: They're Off and Running
Mr. Howell wins all of the Skipper's possessions betting on turtle races. Even when he feels bad and switches the turtles so that Skipper will finally win, he still wins!
Episode 36: A Nose By Any Other Name
A fall from a coconut tree gives Gilligan an inflated nose and a deflated ego. When Gilligan decides he wants the Professor to perform plastic surgery on his nose, the Professor pretends to perform the surgery, and instead, relies on the recuperation time behind the bandages to allow the swelling to go down. When the bandages are finally removed, Gilligan decides he is happy with his old nose!
Episode 27: New Neighbor Sam
The Castaways overhear the voices of gangsters discussing buried treasure and threatening their lives. The voices turn out to belong to a parrot, who then leads the castaways to the "treasure" .... a box of crackers!
Episode 26: Music Hath Charm
Mrs. Howell decides to form a symphony orchestra, to make up for the lack of culture on the island. Gilligan's drum beats, as they drift across the water, hold special meaning to angry natives on a nearby island.
Episode 25: The Matchmaker
Mrs. Howell decides to engineer a romance between Gilligan and Mary Ann.
Episode 24: The Return of Wrongway Feldman
The castaways are revisited by 'Wrongway' Feldman.