History YMMV / GilligansIsland

** The pilot's theme and incidental music was scored by [[Music/JohnWilliams Johnny Williams]], who also provided background music for much of the first season. Williams would, of course, go on to compose [[Film/{{Jaws}} quite]] [[Franchise/StarWars a few]] [[Film/{{Superman}} memorable]] [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk film]] [[Film/JurassicPark scores]].

* ValuesResonance: The Professor is very popular with asexual viewers of the 21st century, who easily identify with his feelings about romance and physical affection.

* StockParodyJokes:
** The Professor can't be all that smart if he fix the radio but not the boat.
** The Castaways would have gotten off the island a lot sooner if they'd killed/eaten Gilligan. This is such a common joke that [[JustEatGilligan it has a trope named after it;]] in which a very simple and obvious action isn't performed because the writer knows it'd ruin their story if they did.

** The Castaways would have gotten off the island a lot sooner if they'd killed/eaten Gilligan. This is such a common joke that [[JustEatGilligan it has a trope named after it;]] in which TheLoad is done away with.

** The setting itself is very "period". Fascination with Polynesian culture was a mid-century fad in American pop culture which was in decline by 1963 (by which point UsefulNotes/LasVegas had come into the zeitgeist). Just one or two years later it's harder to imagine the wealthy Howells or the glamorous Ginger Grant not simply flying to glitzy Vegas instead of going on a three-hour boat tour out of Hawaii.

* HarsherInHindsight: In the ChristmasEpisode, the castaways learn the authorities have rescued a different group that was stranded on a different island for 11 years. Though Gilligan attempts to look on the bright side, some get worried they'll be stuck on the island for that long. ''Rescue from Gilligan's Island'' would later establish they're stranded there for ''15'' years.

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Jerry Van Dyke was offered the lead role. He claimed it was the dumbest thing he ever read. He probably regretted doing so, because the following year he accepted the lead role on another sitcom called ''Series/MyMotherTheCar'', widely regarded as one of the worst television series ever aired.

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Jerry Van Dyke was offered the lead role. He claimed it was the dumbest thing he ever read. He passed up this show for another sitcom called ''Series/MyMotherTheCar''. Remember that show?

** The Professor, with respect to his asexuality, would be handled differently as after The Sixties were over, it was no longer necessary to use the terms "love" and "romance"[[note]] which is what the Professor said onscreen that he was not interested in[[/note]] as [[SexualEuphemism code words for what they are really talking about]]. The asexual community does not conflate lack of interest in love and romance with lack of interest in sexual activity. Therefore, there would be no reason why the Professor couldn't still have an emotionally (or intellectually) intimate relationship if he chose to. It is also worth noting that according to actor Russell Johnson, the only reason that the Professor was made asexual at all was to appease the censors, not to make any statements.[[note]]The question would have had to come up since the Professor was the only eligible bachelor of the castaways, Skipper being a little too old for the young ladies, Thurston being happily married to Lovey, and Gilligan being too much of a manchild for sexual appeal.[[/note]] The Professor was depicted as personable, well-liked and respected, his only perceived personality flaw was his total inexperience with women. This is a relic of a time when for adult males, "straight" was the only accepted sexual orientation on TV and a man's lack of interest in available women would, by default, be interpreted as homosexuality if nothing else. Today, none of this would be true, let alone played for comedy and the Professor's lack of interest in sex (preferring to relate to a woman intellectually) would be praised in many circles, even outside of the asexual community.