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Since referential captions on work pages are now forbidden, I went ahead and changed this one to a Tagline used on the game's poster. I also reworked the page quote so that it'd look less messy.


[[caption-width-right:350:[[Music/WeirdAlYankovic She loves that Gilligan's Isle thing...]] ]]
->'''Gilligan:''' "''I'm'' not afraid of Kona. ''[volcano rumbles; Kona's deep, throaty voice makes a threatening growl]'' ''I'm afraid!'' '''HELP, SKIPPER!'''"

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->'''Gilligan:''' "''I'm'' ''I'm'' not afraid of Kona. Kona.\\
''[volcano rumbles; Kona's deep, throaty voice makes a threatening growl]'' growl]''\\
'''Gilligan:'''
''I'm afraid!'' '''HELP, SKIPPER!'''"
SKIPPER!'''


** The impersonators for Mr. Howell and the Professor. Notably, Mr. Howell's voice is done by Tim Kitzrow, who would later impersonate Rod Serling for Bally's ''Pinball/TheTwilightZone'' two years later.

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** The impersonators for Mr. Howell and the Professor. Notably, Mr. Howell's voice is done by Tim Kitzrow, who would later impersonate Rod Serling for Bally's ''Pinball/TheTwilightZone'' ''Pinball/TwilightZone'' two years later.
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The Gods Must Be Idiots is getting merged with God Is Inept


* TheGodsMustBeIdiots: One of the random rewards a player can get is "Gift of Gods", which gives the '''other''' players 1 million points each.

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* TheGodsMustBeIdiots: GodIsInept: One of the random rewards a player can get is "Gift of Gods", which gives the '''other''' players 1 million points each.
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'''Gilligan's Island''' is a LicensedPinballTable designed by Ward Pemberton and Dan Langlois, with artwork by Creator/JohnYoussi. It was released in 1991 by Creator/WilliamsElectronics under the Bally label.

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'''Gilligan's Island''' ''Gilligan's Island'' is a LicensedPinballTable designed by Ward Pemberton and Dan Langlois, with artwork by Creator/JohnYoussi. It was released in 1991 by Creator/WilliamsElectronics under the Bally label.

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* HollywoodNatives: Played with using a shirtless native on the playfield. Though he is brandishing a spear and holding up a ShrunkenHead, he's also unmistakably pale and wearing face paint that looks like a pair of oversized NerdGlasses.

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* HollywoodNatives: HollywoodNatives:
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Played with using a shirtless native on the playfield. Though he is brandishing a spear and holding up a ShrunkenHead, he's also unmistakably pale and wearing face paint that looks like a pair of oversized NerdGlasses.



* NotQuiteStarring: The impersonators for the Skipper (mixed with Alan Hale's dialogue from the actual series -- see below), Mr. Howell, and the Professor. Averted with Gilligan himself, however -- none but Bob Denver could have done his voice.

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The impersonators for the Skipper (mixed with Alan Hale's dialogue from the actual series -- see below), Mr. Howell, Howell and the Professor. Notably, Mr. Howell's voice is done by Tim Kitzrow, who would later impersonate Rod Serling for Bally's ''Pinball/TheTwilightZone'' two years later.
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Averted with Gilligan himself, however -- none but Bob Denver could have done his voice.



** Dialogue of Alan Hale, Jr. as the Skipper from the season one episode "Waiting for Watubi" is heard in one instance, repurposed as a conversation with Gilligan, with new custom dialogue. Hale had died over a year prior.

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** Dialogue Unlike Gilligan (who was voiced by his actor, Bob Denver) and Mr. Howell and the Professor (whose voices were impersonated), the game uses dialogue of Alan Hale, Jr. as taken straight from the Skipper series for the Skipper. In one instance, the dialogue was taken from the season one episode "Waiting for Watubi" is heard in one instance, Watubi", repurposed as a conversation with Gilligan, with new custom dialogue. Hale had died over a year prior.



-->'''Mr. Howell:''' "I hope there's more where that came from."

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-->'''Mr. Howell:''' "I hope there's more where that came from."
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* CreepySouvenir: One of the Seltzer ingredients is a shrunken head.

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* CreepySouvenir: One of the Seltzer ingredients is a shrunken head.ShrunkenHead.



* HollywoodNatives: Played with using a shirtless native on the playfield. Though he is brandishing a spear and holding up a shrunken head, he's also unmistakably pale and wearing face paint that looks like a pair of oversized NerdGlasses.

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* HollywoodNatives: Played with using a shirtless native on the playfield. Though he is brandishing a spear and holding up a shrunken head, ShrunkenHead, he's also unmistakably pale and wearing face paint that looks like a pair of oversized NerdGlasses.



* NoodleImplements[=/=]PlotCoupons: The ingredients for the Professor's Secret Formula Lava Seltzer, made from turtle eggs, seashells, pineapples, a rope, a shrunken head, bananas, and (of course) coconuts.

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* NoodleImplements[=/=]PlotCoupons: The ingredients for the Professor's Secret Formula Lava Seltzer, made from turtle eggs, seashells, pineapples, a rope, a shrunken head, ShrunkenHead, bananas, and (of course) coconuts.

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* PosthumousCollaboration: Ward Pemberton finished the game after co-designer Dan Langlois' death during the design phase.

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* PosthumousCollaboration: PosthumousCollaboration
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Ward Pemberton finished the game after co-designer Dan Langlois' death during the design phase.

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