NOTE: There are two types of glitches you won't find here: those dealing with order of episodes, and those dealing with flotsam and jetsam. It's obvious from watching the series that the original broadcast order is not the order the episodes were intended to be seen. For example, the community hut problem is solved in the second episode, but crops up again in St. Gilligan and the Dragon. There are other glitches of the same type that disappear when the episodes are viewed in what can only be the proper order.

Two on a Raft

Look very closely at the sleeping passengers in the very first scene. They are actors from the original pilot, not Russell Johnson and Tina Louise.

While the castaways are listening to the radio, the Professor is sitting in the far shots, but standing in the close-ups.

Home Sweet Hut

Voodoo Something to Me

Gilligan finds the chimp's stash, a box labelled "flares." Yet, the flares weren't stolen, the flare gun was, along with some food. In fact, Gilligan later demonstrates that the flares are safely stowed in the supply hut. We can only assume that the castaways were keeping other supplies in the empty flare boxes.

Good Night Sweet Skipper

There is no reason for the castaways to conceal the tranquilizers, since the Skipper wanted to get to sleep. If they'd only given him the bottle in the first place, they could've avoided a potentially lethal overdose.

The Skipper's dream was supposed to recall how to turn a radio into a transmitter. However, the castaways use the information to try to repair their existing transmitter.

Wrongway Feldman

In all the years that Wrongway was on the island, did he ever meet the jungle boy? Did he ever meet Duboff?

President Gilligan

The Sound of Quacking

The storefront for Carr Bros. Land Office appears repeatedly all over the street in Gilligan's dream, though anything is possible in dreams.

Good-Bye Island

Gilligan tells his reflection he discovered the glue the day before, but he later says the glue lasts no more than three days, which he would have no way of knowing.

The Big Gold Strike

The Skipper agrees to rent his tools to Mr. Howell; he and Gilligan even name their business Gilligan's Rent-A-Pick. When it comes time to actually close the deal, however, Skipper asks the millionaire if he'll buy the tools.

Waiting for Watubi

Angel on the Island

Although Mary Ann is shown in a toga, we never learn what part she plays.

Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Talk

Three Million Dollars, More or Less

Skipper says the only game he ever gambles on is pool, yet in Plant You Now, Dig You Later he agrees to bet the treasure chest on a game of poker.

Water, Water, Everywhere

So Sorry, My Island Now

The submarine is small, but not small enough to hide in water that is only chest-high to Gilligan.

Although the hand grenades prevent the castaways from escaping through the bars of their cages, there are no grenades on the cage doors.

The castaways aquire a lot of valuable weapons from the Japanese sailor. We see them again in Forget Me Not.

For some reason, Gilligan wears his shirt buttoned all the way to the top for the entire episode. Normally, he only buttons the top button when he wants to dress more formally.

Plant You Now, Dig You Later

Skipper lifts the treasure chest full of cannonballs with one hand. He must be strong enough to break the chain with his bear hands.

Little Island, Big Gun

In one scene, the Professor calls Jackson Farrell "Mr. Jackson."

Mr. Howell does not offer Farrell any cash to rescue him, probably fearing the robber will take all his money and still leave the castaways stranded.

X Marks the Spot

Gilligan Meets Jungle Boy

Where'd the boy get a leopard-skin loincloth? Was there ever a leopard on the island?

See Wrongway Feldman.

St. Gilligan and the Dragon

Big Man on Little Stick

The Howells should know that a duke is nobility, not royalty, and is not adressed as "Your Highness."

In the far shots, Duke doesn't have the provisions around his neck.

The radio announcer states that Duke had been missing for two weeks, but the search for him lasted only a week. They only started looking for him after he was gone for a whole week?

Diamonds Are an Ape's Best Friend

How to Be a Hero

When we first see the castaways tied to stakes, they are, from left to right, Ginger, Mary Ann, and the Professor. In a later shot, the Professor is on the far left of the trio, while Ginger is on the right.

Return of Wrongway

Wrongway's note says he's headed for the mainland. That would be the continental U.S., not Hawaii, which is where he went.

The Matchmaker

At the Howell's dinner party, Gilligan states that he broke Mr. Howell's camera that very morning. Therefore, it was also that same morning when Gilligan delivered the flowers to Mary Ann. Yet, Skipper and the professor tease Gilligan about Mary Ann passing him various foods at breakfast the day before. Which means that these suggestive little attentions she paid Gilligan have nothing to do with the flowers.

Music Hath Charms

We see scores of angry natives headed for the island on all sides, but only about a dozen in their camp and dancing to the castaways' music. Where did the rest of them go?

New Neighbor Sam

Gilligan bites a cracker in half, then hands the rest to Sam. In the close-up, however, Sam is holding a whole cracker.

They're Off and Running

Mary Ann sells her vegetables to Mr. Howell? That seems out of character. You'd expect her to treat them as community property and refuse any offers from the millionaire.

Three To Get Ready

There is no reason for Gilligan to save the rescue for his third wish. If he'd made it his second wish, he would've had one wish in reserve in case anything went wrong.

Halfway through the episode, Ginger finds the Eye of the Idol at the cave. Then, Skipper finds it in Gilligan's shoe. Do they each get three wishes?

The Skipper finds the stone in Gilligan's right sneaker, but it fell through the hole in his left pocket.

Forget Me Not

Gilligan says that the Skipper can't sleep in the top hammock because he's afraid of heights. In no other episode do we see Skipper with such a phobia; in fact, he lies in the upper hammock on several occasions.

Diogenes, Won't You Please Go Home?

Ginger offers Gilligan some coconut juice. She probably meant coconut milk.

Physical Fatness

It's Magic

Goodbye Old Paint

Duboff has been on the island for ten years. See Wrongway Feldman.

Ginger is outraged at the thought of posing as a belly dancer, a stripper to her mind. Yet in Voodoo, she performs what looks very much like a belly dance, and in Gilligan's Slave Girl, she does a belly dance, complete with removable veils.

Observe Mrs. Howell in the background. She looks rather comical as she tries to open a parasol that just won't stay up.

When the Professor sees that the transmitter is a piece of junk, he complains that Duboff must've had it for years. No duh! We already know the artist's had it for at least the ten years he's been on the island.

My Fair Gilligan

The Skipper warns that pineapple gives Gilligan a rash. In Physical Fatness, Gilligan eats a whole bowl without complaining.

Gilligan has a smear on his pants which looks suspiciously like tar before he arrives at the hut with the tar.

A Nose By Any Other Name

Gilligan's reflection in the water is reversed.

Gilligan's Mother-In-Law

The trial by spear is set for first thing in the morning, and Gilligan is told he has one night to practice. Yet when we see him practicing, it is broad daylight.

Beauty Is as Beauty Does

It's lucky for Mr. Howell that the Skipper didn't step in the puddle of glue, since it's poured right at the top of the stairs.

Mary Ann dances to the accompaniment of the phonograph, but the music stops immediately when she steps in the glue.

Ginger finishes her "wonderful" speech without moving her lips.

The Little Dictator

When Rodriguez tries to convince Gilligan to become president of the island, the latter fails to inform him that he was already elected in President Gilligan.

In the dream sequence, Ginger appears before el Presidente Gilligan in a black mesh bikini only moments after rising from the table fully dressed. Gilligan even dreams in glitches!

Smile, You're on Mars Camera

Howell claims that his wife's engagement ring has never been off her finger since the day they were "merged." This is simply not true, as she rarely wears it on the island.

Even though the camera lens was broken and glued back together, it presents a flawless picture with no distortion caused by cracks or glue.

The Sweepstakes

Mr. Howell says he learned the money pledge at Super Millionaires' University, but everyone knows he attended Harvard. Maybe he went to grad school.

The assay man, portrayed by the Professor in Howell's dream, knows the prospector is rich. At least, he has the bag of gold in his office. Maybe he should've accepted payment from that bag instead of an I.O.U.

The Howells have a long, not always whispered, conversation with Gilligan in his hammock in the middle fo the night, yet they never wake up the Skipper.

Quick Before It Sinks

The highest ground on the island must be the mountain climbed by Lord Beasley, which is probably not the volcano from Operation Steamheat, since the castaways couldn't see it spewing steam for a long while.

Castaways Pictures Presents

Professor says he has a task for each of the women. So, what's Mrs. Howell's job? She doesn't appear to be doing anything.

Whatever sort of wrapping is on those sunken trunks, it's 100% waterproof, because the contents are completely dry after all those years.

The film of Ginger staring at the Professor's extended hand is different from the actual incident as we saw it. Which means he tried to shake Ginger's hand in not one, but two separate takes.

If the Professor used to be a scuba diver, why doesn't he do any of the diving in this episode?

Surprisingly, nobody at the Cannes Film Festival recognized either Ginger or the Howells.

If the castaways had only put a note on the raft instead of their film, they would've been rescued.

Agonized Labor

Nyet, Nyet-Not Yet

Good thing the Russians talk in English when they make their plan to leave the castaways behind, otherwise Gilligan would never've understood them.

Hi-Fi Gilligan

There are plenty of caves in other episodes that are big enough for all seven castaways.

The Professor says the radio is hopeless and can't be fixed. Do the castaways really lose the use of the radio forever or does he eventually fix it?

It's a very bad idea to take shelter under a tree in a lightning storm, but Skipper tells Gilligan to do so.

The only way an electrical storm could've fixed Gilligan's tooth would be if the storm knocked a coconut out of a tree to hit him on the head.

The Chain of Command

If this whole thing was just a test for Gilligan, then why does the Skipper spend so much time talking with the Professor about his ideas for a fort?

Gilligan messes up the commands to the castaways, it's true, but they don't even pick up the weapons he tells them to.

Gilligan falls off the cliff wearing Skipper's hat, but grabs onto a tree branch wearing his own.

Don't Bug the Mosquitoes

Irving doesn't speak, but he sings.

Mrs. Howell calls those nail scissors? They're more like shears.

Gilligan bends the Mosquitoes' album almost in half, and there's definitely no record inside.

Gilligan Gets Bugged

What's that on the Skipper's hat brim for the entire episode? A stain?

The Professor comes out of the Howell hut with news of the antidote. Was he reading his book in there? Or perhaps sharing the good news with Mrs. Howell?

Professor fears they may not have all the substitute ingredients for the antidote on the island. Doesn't he know whether they have clams, papaya and mustard plants?

Although Gilligan knows the powdered clamshell is needed to save the life of one of the castaways, he gets tired of sifting and leaves it for the Professor to do himself.

When the Howells burst into the Professor's lab, they knock his door right off its hinges.

Mine Hero

Mary Ann tells Gilligan she's going to fetch her slave bracelet for the Professor; yet when she finds it, she talks as though she'd forgotten she had it.

When the men hear that the mine is ticking, they run for their lives: Gilligan through the girls' hut wall, and presumably, Mr. Howell to his wife. Moments later, the Howells appear, and Thurston has executed a complete wardrobe change. As usual, the Howells' first thought is the proper dress for every occasion.

Erika Tiffany Smith to the Rescue

Three days after we see Gilligan packing to leave, the Skipper is still packing his seachest. Besides which, he's packing it full of clothes we've never seen him wear.

Although Erika can't find the island again, Johnny the sailor should have some idea of its location.

Not Guilty

The newspapers in the submerged wooden crate are bone dry. That's a pretty well-sealed crate.

For this episode, the Howells are sleeping in the wrong beds.

Wouldn't it be easier to search the Howell hut by day? There must be plenty of times when the place is empty.

Is that a real gun that Skipper finds in the Howell hut? If so, the castaways could've used it many times. Surely Mr. Howell would've brought it out to use against Rodriguez or Jackson Farrell. Even if it's a phony, it might be used to bluff a foe into dropping his weapon.

Mr. Howell fumes that his swagger stick is not tilted towards Oxford. Why? Everybody knows he's a Harvard man.

You've Been Disconnected

Professor says the incident with the flare on Skipper's birthday cake was in April, yet we learn in They're Off and Running that his birthday is May 5th.

When Skipper says, "No luck so far," what is he talking about? He was only told to monitor the phone lines, listening for a language he could understand, which he did when he heard the Hawaiian call.

Can't the castaways try the phone numbers of people they know? Wouldn't at least one of them be likely to go through?

The Postman Cometh

Gilligan says Mary Ann writes a letter to her phony boyfriend every week, but later he says it's each day.

Mrs. Howell teaches Gilligan to woo Mary Ann by calling her eyes limpid pools of indigo blue. Her eyes are brown.

Was the film about Ginger's life story ever made?

Seer Gilligan

For some reason, Gilligan and Skipper switch hammocks for one night.

According to Mrs. Howell, Gilligan promised to show the castaways the bush, but in the morning, he sneaks away and brings them the seeds. Maybe all those night visits made him decide to keep the location a secret.

Howell cries that he burned his pinky, but he kisses his first two fingers.

Love Me, Love My Skipper

The Howells once held their annual cotillion inside the Taj Mahal? It's a tomb, not a hotel.

Mr. Howell puts one invitation under the girls' door, then walks off. It would've been less work to deliver both at the same time.

Why doesn't Howell notice he missed an invitation? He only has five to deliver.

Gilligan's Living Doll

The robot only repeats some of the things said in his vicinity, and repeats the Skipper's phrase about losing his marbles incorrectly.

Although the Skipper calls a rabbit's foot a silly superstition, he is shown to be very superstitious himself in Voodoo Something to Me and Waiting for Watubi.

Why does the barrel used to make the washing machine have a porthole in the side? It originally held marine lubricant.

Forward March

Ship Ahoax

Gilligan doesn't believe in ghosts or goblins? He seems to in Ghost a Go-Go.

"Can you do a seance?" asks the Professor, even though Ginger already told him she could.

Mary Ann and Ginger make up when the imminent rescue is announced, but Gilligan and Skipper are still fighting.

Feed the Kitty

That spear the men are carrying can't be very sharp since Mr. Howell grabs the spearhead with no sign of pain.

The reflection of the lion in Mrs. Howell's mirror is reversed.

When the castaways think they've caught the lion, the first thing they do is let the snare down. Good thing it was only Gilligan.

Leo sees Mrs. Howell as a llama. There must've been one at the Paris Exposition, because they are found only in South America.

Mr. Howell mistakenly says "Thurston Howell's Howell of Shows" instead of "Howell's Show of Shows."

If Leo can ride a raft safely to the shipping lanes, why can't the castaways?

Operation: Steam Heat

When the earth shakes, Gilligan remarks that it's never happened before, yet Ginger says they have tremors all the time in Ship Ahoax.

Professor mentions that there is copper in the caves--does Mr. Howell know about this valuable resource on the island?

Will the Real Mr. Howell Please Stand Up?

In this episode, we learn that the castaways have been on the island for two years, so far.

Why doesn't Mr. Howell change out of those wet clothes? Probably so they can re-use the same film of him trying to swim to Hawaii.

It wouldn't hurt to try all the castaways' rescue ideas. They've got plenty of time to paint messages on fish or build hot air balloons. But Ginger should note that there are many episodes in which she wears a skimpy costume, and no pilot has spotted her yet.

It is interesting that, while the Professor has a masters degree in psychology, both Ginger and Mrs. Howell try to psychoanalyze various patients in How To Be a Hero, Seer Gilligan, and The Kidnapper.

A simple way to identify the imposter would be to quiz him on the names of the other castaways or events that have happened on the island.

The imposter does not appear to have the empty champagne bottle in his hand when he swims away, although the radio reports that he has it when he's rescued. In fact, he tossed it aside earlier; why would he take the time to go after it while running for his life?

Ghost a Go-Go

The Skipper claims he doesn't believe in ghosts, although he's normally pretty superstitious, as seen in Voodoo Something to Me and Waiting for Watubi.

Gilligan runs for a bucket of water to revive the fainting Skipper, passing by two separate water containers. Maybe he knows they are empty.

The ghost suddenly has a hole in the sheet for his head to go through, which wasn't there before.

Allergy Time

Twice in this episode, the Howell hut exterior is shown right before showing us the inside of the Skipper and Gilligan's hut.

Do the castaways ever finish the ping-pong table? We never see them play.

Professor gives Skipper a physical examination outside the hut in broad daylight.

The Skipper remarks that "everybody's here and nobody's sneezing." In fact, only he and Mr. Howell are there.

The Friendly Physician

Extraordinarily bright blue eyes look at Gilligan from the portrait. Who is spying on them? Not Dr. Balinkoff or Igor.

How does Ginger get her brain switched? Igor can't turn on the machine from inside the booth, and Balinkoff knows nothing about it.

How do Balinkoff, Igor, the dog and the cat escape from the booths?

"V" for Vitamins

If Gilligan is correct about the castaways having only three weeks to live, then planting the orange seeds will be a complete waste of their few remaining days, as the trees can't possibly grow in that short time.

Mr. and Mrs.???

Skipper asks Mr. Howell if he will love, honor and obey his wife. True, the word "obey" has been removed from many marriage ceremonies, but it was never part of the vows recited by the groom.

The Skipper says, "That is our hut," while we are shown a shot of the Howells' hut.

Meet the Meteor

Although not a glitch, it is interesting to note that the picture of the beached Minnow on the theme song is different in this episode.

A meteor is a body that burns up in the Earth's atmosphere; if it hits the Earth, it's a meteorite. Even the Professor makes that mistake, except for a brief section in the middle of the episode.

Didn't the girls and the Howells hear the meteorite hit the island?

The Skipper suggests copper for the construction of the lightning rod, but the Professor says all they have to work with is lead. In Operation: Steam Heat, we learn that there is copper in the caves. They must discover it later.

When the Professor puts the lightning rod down to cool, he says, "we'll finish the work in the hut." What work is there to do in the hut?

Up at Bat

A full moon has nothing to do with the legend of the vampire.

The Professor stands a good chance of being bitten himself the way he catches that bat.

The Skipper fears that Gilligan wouldn't stand a chance in the jungle all night. Why not? There don't seem to be many really dangerous animals on the island.

Gilligan dreams the portrait from Boris Balinkoff's home in The Friendly Physician into the vampire's castle.

Gilligan vs. Gilligan

When the Professor exits the Skipper's and Gilligan's hut, there is a life preserver on the outside of the door, which wasn't in the exterior shot.

Pass the Vegetables, Please

Everyone misses vegetables terribly, but in They're Off and Running, Mary Ann has carrots (her favorite), lettuce, and turnips in her garden.

Gilligan names spinache as his favorite vegetable, yet in Lovey's Secret Admirer, the lie detector confirms that he doesn't like spinache. Did his adventure with the radioactive vegetable make him sick of spinache forever?

How could Gilligan build that bench without ever seeing the warning on the crate lid?

Although the Professor tells the castaways they must continually move around to stay alive, both Skipper and Mr. Howell are seen sitting around leisurely.

The Producer

Could Harold Hecuba's rubber raft make it to the shipping lanes? The castaways should try it instead of putting up with H.H.

Gilligan suggests practicing their play in the clearing where Hecuba can't hear them. How wrong he was! The producer is instantly awakened by the first strains of music.

Hecuba knocks the stage door off its hinge, but it's okay a moment later.

Voodoo

The Professor proclaims the native artifacts an example of early Mayan workmanship. How did the Mayans of Central America get to a Pacific island?

The voodoo spell worked on the girls before the witch doctor stole their personal possessions.

When the Howells enter the cave with money to propitiate the witch doctor, there is a burning torch stuck iin the wall. It's not Gilligan's, for he took his out of the cave with him. Who put it there?

Why were the dolls in the cave in plain sight, where any of the castaways could find them? They weren't there earlier. Sloppy work on the part of the witch doctor.

What personal possession of the witch doctor's did Gilligan obtain to make the voodoo doll? Do the other dolls count?

Where There's a Will

During the will-writing scene, a shadow flies across the screen, which looks rather like a moth in front of a spotlight.

That wild boar they catch must be the last one, because in The Hunter, the castaways tell Jonathan Kincaid there is no game on the island.

Howell leaves for the other side of the island without packing his teddy bear, which is a good thing, considering his luggage sinks in the quicksand.

Man With a Net

The Pussycat Swallowtail is neither the rarest butterfly in the world, nor the only one to escape Lord Beasley, since we learn there is a rarer butterfly in the antarctic.

The usually immaculately dressed Mr. Howell has a stain on his jacket before the castaways begin their enforced march.

"Long may his butterflies fly," proposes the Professor in a toast to Lord Beasley. If he's like other butterfly collectors, Beasley kills his specimens as soon as he catches them, so they won't fly for long.

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Gilligan must've shrunk that one starched sock he gives to Skipper; it looks child-sized.

Mary Ann takes a cue from Ginger when she tries to manipulate Gilligan by vamping him.

Mary Ann doesn't seem surprised or pleased to see Gilligan doing laundry when the day before he was convinced he was a dying old man.

Ginger's signature gown is burned off by the bleach. Is this dress gone forever?

Ring Around Gilligan

When Balinkoff drops the ring for Gilligan to find, a frond suddenly whacks him in the face.

Is Igor the monkey somehow the same Igor from the castaways' earlier encounter with Balinkoff? Did the doctor transform him for some reason?

When Howell tries to bribe him in The Friendly Physician, Balinkoff says, "Bah on money." Now, he wants to rob Fort Knox.

If only one of the castaways had taken the ring off his finger when they first discover them, instead of standing around admiring them...

Balinkoff leaves his machinery on the island. If the Professor finds it, maybe he can use the parts to build a transmitter.

The castaways don't recognize Balinkoff as he sails away from the lagoon, or they wouldn't be so keen on calling him back.

Topsy-Turvy

"I saw all eight of 'em ago about an hour," says Gilligan, proving that his grammar is as mixed up as his eyesight.

Gilligan, seeing five images, can't touch the correct pie, but he has no trouble touching the whipped cream on Skipper's face.

The Invasion

If they can't break off the handcuff to free Gilligan, maybe the castaways should try to break the handle off the briefcase.

Gilligan starts to grab hold of the tree before Skipper tells him to.

The barley in the ladel simply vanishes. Of course, it is only a dream.

Before Evil Agent 5 delivers the kiss of death, she very clearly licks her lips, which should poison her on the spot.

The Kidnapper

The Professor gets mad at Gilligan for pulling on the drawstring bag before the former removes his hand from the loop, yet he told Gilligan to take the bag. Their mishap is totally the Professor's fault.

And Then There Were None

Gilligan may've been alone with Mrs. Howell when she picked out the dress, but Mr. Howell saw her after that alive and well in the tree camouflage.

All About Eva

If Eva can see the huts from the path as the Skipper says, why doesn't she immediately leave the inhabited island.

Mrs. Howell doesn't speak French? She says she does in You've Been Disconnected.

Eva seems to run a long way through the jungle to get to the girls' hut. Isn't it in the same clearing as the other huts?

Does Eva ever succeed in taking Ginger's place?

Gilligan Goes Gung-Ho

The Howells ask why Gilligan wants a policeman, but he never said "police," only "murder."

Even though the plane has passed, can't the castaways still use the phosphorescent rocks? Some other plane is bound to fly over sometime.

Gilligan's hat falls off when he breaks through the cell door, but he has it on when he runs through the jungle.

Take-A-Dare

It looks like Barklay takes a part from the outside of the short-wave, not inside as Professor indicates.

Skipper had the transmitter in his hands; if he'd only hung onto it instead of giving it back to Barklay, he would've realized the mike was unplugged and could've sent another message.

Court Martial

Lord Admiral Gilligan has his telescope attached to his belt until he reaches for it; then it's somewhere off to the side.

Even after they see that it is not the pirates but Lord Admiral Gilligan who has broken down their door, the Queen's daughters are still looking pretty scared.

The Hunter

Gilligan appears to lose his way while running to the helicopter, even though it wasn't very far off and he can still hear it.

Jonathan Kincaid asks if there are other people on the island, to which Gilligan answers, "Yeah, there's six of us." Somehow Kincaid correctly interprets this as meaning there are seven castaways, six plus Gilligan.

Gilligan could easily grab the rifle while Kincaid and Ginger are kissing.

When Kincaid fires just over Gilligan's head, he starts running to the spot instead of taking another shot, missing a valuable opportunity to kill his prey.

Gilligan falls headlong into the fresh water supply, but is facing the opposite direction when he climbs out.

See Where There's a Will.

Lovey's Secret Admirer

Mr. Howell reads one of the love notes perfecly well without his glasses.

It sure looks like Skipper can see the girls' faces through the window as they stage their fake argument, which would spoil the trick, since they are both smirking.

For some reason, Howell walks into his own hut in the middle of the night to deliver a note. Did he stash the pink paper outside somewhere?

See Pass the Vegetables, Please.

Take a close look at Cinderella's home in Mrs. Howell's dream. It's just Boris Balinkoff's dungeon with a new decorater.

Our Vines Have Tender Apes

The castaways are pretty trusting to release an ape-man who threatened them with a knife, kidnapped Ginger, and pummeled them with coconuts.

"What is it?" asks the Skipper when Tongo drops his tape recorder. Duh! Any fool could see what it is.

Gilligan's Personal Magnetism

After Gilligan is struck by lightning, the storm that just began ends immediately. This happens twice in this episode.

The hut door crashes onto the Skipper's head with the life preserver facing away from him, but in the next shot we suddenly see it facing toward him.

Splashdown

Skipper is excited to learn that the space capsule will pass directly over the island, then puzzled to hear it will pass over on three separate orbits, then excited again when the Professor tells him how high it will be flying. It seems like Skipper just doesn't understand a thing the Professor is saying.

It looks like the radio gets louder before Gilligan turns up the volume.

The island looks long and skinny from orbit, unlike the drawing the Professor makes in Our Vines Have Tender Apes.

Mrs. Howell never uses any perfume but Gold Dust #5? Not in Good-Bye Island.

Although they couldn't recover Mr. Howell's money from the lagoon, let's hope the castaways picked up the items they threw out of the space capsule. Those electronic parts could prove valuable. After all, the government blew up the capsule to keep its equipment from falling into the wrong hands.

High Man on the Totem Pole

Skipper says if they keep heading east, he thinks they'll eventually hit the beach. Hello? It's an island! Every direction will bring you to the beach.

They have quite a time clearing the brush away from the totem pole, but later on in the episode, it seems to be standing in a wide clearing.

When the Kupaki first see the downed head, it appears to be falling. Yet none of the castaways has put it back yet. Skipper and Professor are on the way to do just that when they first see the headhunters, and Gilligan looks for it on the ground. Perhaps the natives accidentally kicked it.

The Second Ginger Grant

Ginger can't cook? Maybe she's not in Mary Ann's league, but she does at least some cooking in many episodes, for example Pass the Vegetables Please. Maybe Mary Ann gave her lessons.

Mary Ann can't perform? Maybe she's not in Ginger's league, but she does at least a decent job in many episodes, for example, Don't Bug the Mosquitoes. Maybe Ginger gave her lessons.

Although Gilligan dunks his head completely in the bath water, his hair is bone dry a moment later, then wet again when he leaves the hut.

Apparently Mary Ann never cuts the sleeves on Ginger's red dress, although we've already seen that they are far too long on her.

The Secret of Gilligan's Island

Gilligan trips over a rock at the cave entrance that wasn't there when they went inside the cave.

The recipe says to cook the acid in a stone pot, but the girls use a cast iron one.

The cracks on Caveman Gilligan's tablet are visible before Chief Howell breaks it; the same can be said for the spoons that Gilligan dips in the acid.

Although Chief Howell goes to great lengths to prevent anyone leaving for Other Side of Hill, he and his wife eventually accompany the cavemen on their trek.

Slave Girl

Mr. Howell says he was captain of the boxing team at Vassar. Besides the fact that we all know he went to Harvard, Vassar didn't go co-ed until 1969. There's not much to brag about in being captain of the womans' boxing team, Mr. Howell.

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Gilligan

The military film of the jet pack is shot from a variety of angles, including some from a camera evidently mounted on the pilot's helmet, although we can clearly see there is no camera there.

The jet pack sometimes has metal bands that fit over the pilot's shoulders, but not all the time.

There is no latch on the door of the Professor's hut at the beginning of the episode.

The Pigeon

Three weeks after the pigeon feeding frenzy, Mrs. Howell, Mary Ann and Ginger are all wearing the exact same outfits again on the same day. What are the odds?

The Professor says that the castaways should take a picture of themselves with the Minnow. He then sends Gilligan to get the pigeon. By the time Gilligan sees the spider and runs back to the hut, Professor has already taken the picture and developed it, without waiting for Gilligan. He must've used a camera with an automatic timer, because the photo, we learn later, shows six people.

And how did they make that hut light-proof enough to serve as a darkroom?

The Skipper says spiders love turtle eggs. They do? Have you ever heard this scientific tidbit?

If only Gilligan had thought to carry Walter out of the cave when he runs into the snares.

I sure hope Walter kills that giant spider as it runs off into the jungle. I sure hope there aren't any more of them on the island.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Professor says that if he pulls Gilligan's explosive teeth, they'll detonate. Later, he decides to do it anyway.

Just because the anasthesia puts the Professor and Ginger to sleep, they abandon the plan of pulling Gilligan's teeth.

Gilligan the Goddess

Are there many blue-eyed Polynesian natives in the world?