A blow to the head gives the Skipper amnesia. The Professor tries to cure him through hypnosis, but he winds up believing that the other castaways are Japanese soldiers.A blow to the head gives the Skipper amnesia. The Professor tries to cure him through hypnosis, but he winds up believing that the other castaways are Japanese soldiers.A blow to the head gives the Skipper amnesia. The Professor tries to cure him through hypnosis, but he winds up believing that the other castaways are Japanese soldiers.
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- TriviaThis is the first time the hint is given that all the castaways are living in individual huts, when the audience watches Mr. Howell go from a single dwelling hut, down to another hut where Gilligan & Skipper are sleeping. Several feet are between each dwelling. Although they are never heard to discuss this or seen them build them, they would have been built some time after #1.20; :St. Gilligan and the Dragon" & could have been built during #1.24; "The Return of Wrong Way Feldman."
- GoofsAll of a sudden, the castaways have a rifle, complete with bayonet & ammo. Apparently they had more than one firearm, because the Professor tells Gilligan their GUNS & ammo are missing (after the Skipper took them.) The rifle was one of several taken from the Japanese submarine pilot earlier in the season in #1.15; "So Sorry, My Island Now." However, these weapons have never shown up in any other time when there were armed individuals on the island or when these weapons would have given them the upper hand, such as earlier in #1.17; "Little Island, Big Gun", #1.27;"New Neighbor Sam" ,#2.3; "Little Dictator", #2.9; Nyet, Nyet! Not Yet!", #3.12; "The Kidnapper", & #3.18; "The Hunt". In fact, in later situations, when asked about guns, they deny possession of any or lament not having any, among themselves. After this episode, the firearms are not seen again.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Family Guy: Forget-Me-Not (2012)
- SoundtracksThe Ballad of Gilligan's Isle
Words and Music by George Wyle and Sherwood Schwartz
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Will the Skipper ever remember to stop forgetting?
"Forget Me Not" opens with the Skipper building a signal tower from which he hopes to ensure rescue by notifying the passing Navy of their presence via semaphore. Unfortunately, well meaning Gilligan accidentally knocks him cold, so cold that he awakens a victim of amnesia ("will he ever remember to stop forgetting?"). Ginger confirms by the suddenly skirt chasing seaman's 'sailor's blood' that there are certain things he hasn't forgotten! Alan Hale has a field day with his characterization, similar but still different, and just as warm as the old Skipper, making hilarious comments about himself examining his own cherished mementos. The Professor tries hypnosis to bring him out of it, back to the past, which regresses him all the way to childhood, referring to Gilligan as 'Stinky!' A second try puts the Skipper back fighting WW2 at Guadalcanal, seeing his fellow castaways as Japanese soldiers, capturing all of them in only 15 minutes. A third attempt at hypnosis and the Professor winds up with three Skippers, none of whom is the real one! Mr. Howell, at the point of a bayonet, gives in to the Skipper's demands, going full tilt as the high and mighty Emperor. This was the second mention of Guadalcanal, first heard in "Good Night Sweet Skipper."
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- kevinolzak
- Jun 7, 2016
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