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* WoobieOfTheWeek: New guests are brought in every week to learn some sort of lesson.
* YouLookFamiliar: As with ''Series/TheLoveBoat'', the same actor will sometimes play a completely different character in a later season
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: The 1998 revival becomes this. A mysterious magical island; a shape-changing aide named Ariel; a brutish aide called Cal (as in Caliban); a daughter named Miranda. Add it up and it's obvious this Roarke is actually Prospero from Theatre/TheTempest.
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: The 1998 revival becomes this. A mysterious magical island; a shape-changing aide named Ariel; a brutish aide called Cal (as in Caliban); a daughter named Miranda. Add it up and it's obvious this Roarke is actually meant to be Prospero from Theatre/TheTempest.''Theatre/TheTempest''.
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* SweetPollyOliver: Nicely subverted in a revival episode. A woman wants to experience what combat was like in WWII and figures she'll be using the classic "woman disguised as a man" trick. Instead, Roarke puts her into a combat situation where all the soldiers on both sides are female.
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* FakingTheDead: An early episode has a businesswoman curious what would happen to her company if she were to perish. Roarke puts out the story she died in a plane crash while the woman [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral watches her funeral disguised as a mute maid]]. It doesn't take the woman long to realize just what all her "friends" really thought about her...
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* NoodleIncident: Often, during the Julie episodes, she'll pop up to explain Tattoo is busy with a "minor" issue with another fantasy (such as how the "horse" from a Cinderella themed one, turned back to mice and got loose).
** It can be flipped with Tattoo noting Julie having her own issues and, say, a half-invisible figure will walk by.
** It can be flipped with Tattoo noting Julie having her own issues and, say, a half-invisible figure will walk by.
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* LoopholeAbuse: A classic episode has a woman selling her soul to the Devil to save her dying husband. The Devil says he'll let it go if she can find a very rare living flower on the island. She does so and brings it to him...only for it to wilt in his hands as he smirks "nothing lives when I'm around."
** In a showdown, Roarke offers the souls of himself, the woman and her husband, three souls total with the Devil agreeing. But then Roarke asks "what about the soul of her unborn child," the Devil realizes that by the terms of the agreement, taking an extra soul violates rules even he dare not cross and thus forced to let all three go.
** In a showdown, Roarke offers the souls of himself, the woman and her husband, three souls total with the Devil agreeing. But then Roarke asks "what about the soul of her unborn child," the Devil realizes that by the terms of the agreement, taking an extra soul violates rules even he dare not cross and thus forced to let all three go.
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* AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: Countless times, someone finds themselves in what they think is an elaborate game from WWII to Camelot and more...only to realize they really have gone back in time and/or surrounded by real thugs with real deadly weapons. Yet so often, just when it looks like they're meeting their doom, Roarke whisks them back to the present and brushes off their "was it real?" questions with a simple "What do you believe?"
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* ExactWords: More than one guest discovers that Roarke has a unique way of interpreting their wishes...
** A man wanted to live in the "Real West," meaning the romanticized Old West of movies and TV shows. He's thrown to find himself in a modern setting as Roarke points out this is the "real" West.
** A somewhat darker example in the 1998 revival as a guy whose entire life is whining NeverMyFault rants on how he just wants a life without any responsibilities...so Roarke regresses him into an infant with a sardonic "better luck this time."
** A man wanted to live in the "Real West," meaning the romanticized Old West of movies and TV shows. He's thrown to find himself in a modern setting as Roarke points out this is the "real" West.
** A somewhat darker example in the 1998 revival as a guy whose entire life is whining NeverMyFault rants on how he just wants a life without any responsibilities...so Roarke regresses him into an infant with a sardonic "better luck this time."
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-->'''Roarke''': I've been in the fantasy business for quite a few years and some requests make my skin crawl.
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-->'''Roarke''': I've been in the fantasy business for quite a few years and some requests still make my skin crawl.
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* DramaticIrony: Happens a few times as the customer realizes their fantasy has the complete opposite effect they thought it would.
** The revival has a man trying to read his wife's mind to see if she's a gold-digger and mistakes her thoughts on a murder mystery book she's thinking up as a plot to kill him. She's outraged to learn what he did and leaves him.
-->'''Roarke''': Ironic, isn't it? In trying to prove your wife's love for you, you simply lost it.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Invoked in the 1998 revival by Roarke told a man's fantasy is to be able to read his wife's mind.
-->'''Roarke''': I've been in the fantasy business for quite a few years and some requests make my skin crawl.
** The revival has a man trying to read his wife's mind to see if she's a gold-digger and mistakes her thoughts on a murder mystery book she's thinking up as a plot to kill him. She's outraged to learn what he did and leaves him.
-->'''Roarke''': Ironic, isn't it? In trying to prove your wife's love for you, you simply lost it.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Invoked in the 1998 revival by Roarke told a man's fantasy is to be able to read his wife's mind.
-->'''Roarke''': I've been in the fantasy business for quite a few years and some requests make my skin crawl.
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: The 1998 revival becomes this. A mysterious magical island; a shape-changing aide named Ariel; a brutish aide called Cal (as in Caliban); a daughter named Miranda. Add it up and it's obvious this Roarke is actually Prospero from Theatre/TheTempest.
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* PityTheKidnapper: In "Cornelius and Alphonse," the titular criminals kidnap Tattoo, planning to ransom him for ownership of Fantasy Island. Taking inspiration from "[[Creator/OHenry The Ransom of Red Chief]]," Tattoo torments his kidnappers so much that they end up paying Mr. Roarke $10,000 to rescue him.
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* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: In "Photographs," a woman remembers watching her eleven-year-old son riding around a field on horseback before being thrown off and killed.
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* NeverSuicide: "The Seance" has a woman who wants to contact her twin brother, who threw himself off a bridge. [[spoiler:He was actually the victim of an InheritanceMurder by their cousin.]]
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* ThisIsWhatTheBuildingWillLookLike: One character plans to build a network of hospitals staffed entirely by computers, with only a handful of human doctors who would travel between the hospitals as needed. He shows off his models and blueprints.
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** not really a race lift, as Montalban was white.
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* IChooseToStay: Occasionally guests would wind up so enlightened by their fantasies that their past lives appeared empty or vapid by comparison, and in these cases Mr. Roarke would allow them to become "permanent residents of Fantasy Island." One episode in Season 3 actually focused entirely on the after-effects of one such case; a lawyer whose client and best friend had chosen to stay on Fantasy Island after falling in love with the damsel in his Errol-Flynn-type Swashbuckling fantasy. The lawyer spent some time in 17th Century London trying to convince him to change his mind, but eventually returned after seeing his best friend was content.
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* TheWildWest:
** Happened a few times on the show; in Season 1, Mr. Roarke even said it was among their most popular fantasies.
** Subverted in an episode late in the show's run where a guest is expecting to be sent to this period (being convinced he was BornInTheWrongCentury), only to find himself in modern-day Texas working as a hired hand on a struggling ranch. Mr. Roarke explains that his fantasy was to be sent to the "real" west, not the "old" west, and that the values of hard work and determination are hardly restricted to one period of history. Beyond that, a lot of Wild West tropes were played straight with a modern sheen, such as a runaway horse being replaced with a truck with faulty breaks, and the banditos on horseback being replaced with a motorcycle gang.
** Happened a few times on the show; in Season 1, Mr. Roarke even said it was among their most popular fantasies.
** Subverted in an episode late in the show's run where a guest is expecting to be sent to this period (being convinced he was BornInTheWrongCentury), only to find himself in modern-day Texas working as a hired hand on a struggling ranch. Mr. Roarke explains that his fantasy was to be sent to the "real" west, not the "old" west, and that the values of hard work and determination are hardly restricted to one period of history. Beyond that, a lot of Wild West tropes were played straight with a modern sheen, such as a runaway horse being replaced with a truck with faulty breaks, and the banditos on horseback being replaced with a motorcycle gang.
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* AbsentMindedProfessor: In "The Inventor", an AMP and his lab assistant (Artie Johnson and Marsha Wallace) arrive on the island to perfect a formula .... which has already [[ExplosiveResults blown up eight separate labs]].
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* AsHimself: Tattoo arranges for Don Ho to sing at Mr Roarke's wedding, and a sixth season episode finds Mickey Gilley playing himself pre fame looking for stardom and getting his real life club Gilley's.
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* BenevolentMageRuler: Played with. Mr. Roarke is the Chief Magistrate of the island (aka Chief Justice) but several episodes show an ordinary police force under him. Some episodes mention an elected island council. Once there's an election for the position of Honorary Lord Mayor, which Mr. Rorke wins in a unanimous vote against Tattoo. In spite of Mr. Roarke's powers (or maybe because of them), the various permanent residents seem to live in a free and democratic country.
* BlandNameProduct: An actress lists among her credits a movie called [[Film/TheToweringInferno ''The Towering Disaster'']].
* TheBoxingEpisode: In an episode entitled "The Boxer" a boxer (Ben Murphy) arrives on Fantasy Island to clobber an opponent who beat him in the past.
* BlandNameProduct: An actress lists among her credits a movie called [[Film/TheToweringInferno ''The Towering Disaster'']].
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* BenevolentMageRuler: Played with. Mr. Roarke is the Chief Magistrate of the island (aka Chief Justice) but several episodes show an ordinary police force under him. Some episodes mention an elected island council. Once there's an election for the position of Honorary Lord Mayor, which Mr. Rorke Roarke wins in a unanimous vote against Tattoo. In spite of Mr. Roarke's powers (or maybe because of them), the various permanent residents seem to live in a free and democratic country.
* BlandNameProduct: An actress lists among her credits a movie called[[Film/TheToweringInferno ''The ''[[Film/TheToweringInferno The Towering Disaster'']].
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* TheBoxingEpisode: In an episodeentitled titled "The Boxer" Boxer", a boxer (Ben Murphy) arrives on Fantasy Island to clobber an opponent who beat him in the past.
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* CrossOver: Apparently among Mr Roark's magical, mystical abilities is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_g_4C7-2Dg power to Cross Over with other Aaron Spelling series]].
* EvilTwin: In "Look Alikes", a guest (Ken Berry) wishes to meet his non-related twin (Ken Berry).
* {{Fanservice}}: Lots and lots of hot guys and pretty girls, all in swimwear/skimpy clothing. Also, Mr. Roarke had a couple of [[ShirtlessScene Shirtless Scenes]]. Believe it or not, Creator/RicardoMontalban was [[HeroicBuild seriously built]] in RealLife. Remember ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''? Yeah. That was ''allll'' him, baby!
* EvilTwin: In "Look Alikes", a guest (Ken Berry) wishes to meet his non-related twin (Ken Berry).
* {{Fanservice}}: Lots and lots of hot guys and pretty girls, all in swimwear/skimpy clothing. Also, Mr. Roarke had a couple of [[ShirtlessScene Shirtless Scenes]]. Believe it or not, Creator/RicardoMontalban was [[HeroicBuild seriously built]] in RealLife. Remember ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''? Yeah. That was ''allll'' him, baby!
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* CrossOver: Apparently among Mr Roark's Mr. Roarke's magical, mystical abilities is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_g_4C7-2Dg power to Cross Over with other Aaron Spelling series]].
* EvilTwin: In "Look Alikes", a guest (Ken Berry) wishes to meet his non-related twin(Ken (also Ken Berry).
* {{Fanservice}}: Lots and lots of hot guys and pretty girls, all in swimwear/skimpy clothing. Also, Mr. Roarke had a couple of[[ShirtlessScene Shirtless Scenes]].{{shirtless scene}}s. Believe it or not, Creator/RicardoMontalban was [[HeroicBuild seriously built]] in RealLife. Remember ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''? Yeah. That was ''allll'' him, baby!
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* MetaCasting: Susan Lucci as a SoapOpera actress in "Queen of the Soap Operas", [[Series/MatchGame Gene Rayburn]] as GameShow host Bob Barkley who wants a chance to be a contestant in "The Quiz-Masters", and Barbi Benton as a Centerfold for Rooster Magazine who wants to treat men like sex objects in "Playgirl".
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* TheGamblingAddict: One episode of the original show had one of these visiting the island, appropriately enough after winning his plane ticket in a lucky streak. His fantasy, of course, is to never lose any beat and he spends his trip as the world's luckiest man. Normally you'd expect his lesson to be VictoryIsBoring, but he openly relishes his unstoppable winning streak. Eventually his son comes to visit the island, and lesson turns out to be that his gambling addiction has destroyed his relationship with his family, and he needs to walk away if he wants to repair it.
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* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The hour-long episodes followed the exploits of two separate Guests. Most of the time, the A Story and the BStory had nothing to do with one another; in fact, the two plot threads were usually written by ''two different scriptwriters'' (as was also the case with ''Series/TheLoveBoat'', except there it was three).
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* BenevolentMageRuler: Played with. Mr. Roarke is the Chief Magistrate of the island (aka Chief Justice) but several episodes show an ordinary police force under him. Some episodes mention an elected island council. Once there's an election for the position of Honorary Lord Mayor, which Mr. Rorke wins in a unanimous vote against Tattoo. In spite of Mr. Roarke's powers (or maybe because of them), the various permanent residents seem to live in a free and democratic country.
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* TheMagocracy: Played with. Mr. Roarke is the Chief Magistrate of the island (aka Chief Justice) but several episodes show an ordinary police force under him. Some episodes mention an elected island council. Once there's an election for the position of Honorary Lord Mayor, which Mr. Rorke wins in a unanimous vote against Tattoo. In spite of Mr. Roarke's powers (or maybe because of them), the various permanent residents seem to live in a free and democratic country.
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* TheMagocracy: Played with. Mr. Roarke is the Chief Magistrate of the island (aka Chief Justice) but several episodes show an ordinary police force under him. Some episodes mention an elected island council. Once there's an election for the position of Honorary Lord Mayor, which Mr. Rorke wins in a unanimous vote against Tattoo. In spite of Mr. Roarke's powers (or maybe because of them), the various permanent residents seem to live in a free and democratic country.
* TheMatchmaker: Often enough, one of Mr. Roarke's goal in setting up a fantasy seems to have been to allow a man and a woman to find true love. Leads to a HappilyEverAfter as a man and woman go off on "da plane" together.
* TheMatchmaker: Often enough, one of Mr. Roarke's goal in setting up a fantasy seems to have been to allow a man and a woman to find true love. Leads to a HappilyEverAfter as a man and woman go off on "da plane" together.
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* ManInWhite: Mr Roarke's wardrobe in the original, subverted in the Remake (See LimitedWardrobe above).
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[[Film/FantasyIsland2020 A horror movie]] based on the series will be released February 14, 2020, with Creator/MichaelPena playing Mr. Roarke and Tattoo once again absent.
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* RedplicaBaron: Richthofen was featured the episode "The Red Baron", in which a patron of the island wished to save the Baron from his doom.
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* AbsentMindedProfessor: In "The Inventor", an AMP and his lab assistant (Artie Johnson and Marsha Wallace) arrive on the island to perfect a formula .... which has already blown up eight separate labs.
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* RaceLift: Mr. Roarke (played famously by Ricardo Montalban) was Mexican in the original series, while the 1998 reboot cast the English Creator/MalcolmMcDowell in the role.
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* TropicalIslandAdventure: The main setting of the series.
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* GenreAnthology: A hybrid of the anthology and ongoing series formats: most stories were solely about the guest stars, with Roarke mostly just appearing to grant their wish and [[MrExposition provide exposition]], though he and Tattoo would occasionally have their own stories.
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** During the second season, a post-Raiders Freddy Weller – by now a big country star – performed his then-current single – what else – "Fantasy Island." His was just a performance appearance rather than a story built around him.
