What were the Howells and Ginger doing on the SS Minnow anyway?
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The Howells and Ginger were obviously wealthy. Why would they charter out a tiny, badly overloaded boat on their glamorous tropical vacation. These people charter luxury yachts not 25-foot fishing boats. The professor and Mary-Ann are SS Minnow-type clients. Their typical tropical vacation would probably include a 3-hour tour on an older model fishing boat.
The Howells and Ginger were obviously wealthy. Why would they charter out a tiny, badly overloaded boat on their glamorous tropical vacation. These people charter luxury yachts not 25-foot fishing boats. The professor and Mary-Ann are SS Minnow-type clients. Their typical tropical vacation would probably include a 3-hour tour on an older model fishing boat.
The Howells and Ginger would most likely be chartering a 100′ yacht with servants, caviar and champagne.
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Getting in touch with the “common” man. Or slumming.
I’ve always wanted to know this….let me know if you find the answer
Here’s what I think,…
It was done to add more variety & humor to the show. To have several different people from different classes,….
Mary-Anne was the lower, middle-class farm girl who had to work for a living.
Ginger was the snooty, Hollywood type. Depending on how often she worked, either upper-middle to upper class. Also she had assistants doing most of her work for her. She used her “sex-appeal” to get out of doing most of the hard work.
The Howells,… Just plain rich and snooty. People who had everything done for them. Never had to raise a finger other than to pay cash or write a check.(how come they had a trunk-load of cash on that boat anyway?)
The Professor. He was the middle class educator who had to be there to make batteries out of coconuts to power their radio.
The Skipper and Gilligan were the lower class sailors who owned nothing but the boat and were trying to get by doing the tour-boat thing.
If the show had all lower to middle class people on the boat, they would have been off the island sooner than later because they all could work on building another boat. As it was there were only 3.5 people who would actually work. (Gilligan only counts as one half). So just the Skipper, the Perfesser and Mary-Anne would be the only ones capable of a full day’s work.