Gilligan

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Played by:

Bob Denver
Bob Denver was attending college at Loyola-Marymount University, in Los Angeles, when he got into acting. ...

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Gilligan Quotes

	Season 3 / Episode 10: - Topsy-Turvy Skipper Jonas Grumby: For a little guy, you sure get in a lot of trouble! Gilligan: That's because I try harder. Skipper Jonas Grumby: The things I do for you... Gilligan: Sorry, Skipper, but this is the only way I can talk to you without falling down. Or up. Or sideways. Professor Roy Hinkley: [Walks out of hut with a potion for Gilligan] Skipper, you are standing upside-down, aren't you? Skipper Jonas Grumby: Well of course I'm standing upside-down, Professor! Professor Roy Hinkley: Oh. Good; for a minute I thought I was working too hard.
	Season 3 / Episode 5: - Voodoo Gilligan: I'm hexed. I'm hexed. The Skipper: What are you gonna do? Gilligan: I'm getting the hex out of here!
	Season 3 / Episode 5: - Voodoo The Professor: [to Skipper and Gilligan] I would say it was a geological phenomenon caused by volcanic activity beneath the Earth's surface resulting into concentration of heat at a specific location. Gilligan: That makes sense to me, but there's one thing I don't understand. The Professor: Oh, what's that? Gilligan: How come the ground got so hot underneath our feet?
	Season 3 / Episode 4: - The Producer Gilligan: [as "Hamlet," flubbing his line about "get thee to a nunnery" to Ginger, playing "Ophelia"] There is nothing left to do, Ophelia... but to get thee to a notarary. [Ginger nods]
	Season 3 / Episode 2: - Gilligan vs. Gilligan The Skipper: Gilligan, when they were passing out the brains, you weren't at the end of the line. YOU WERE ON VACATION! Gilligan: That's what you think, fatso.
	Season 2 / Episode 32: - Meet the Meteor Mary Ann Summers: [Gilligan is standing guard outside a hut where the Professor and the Skipper are assembling a geiger counter] Is everyone ready for the Christmas party? Ginger Grant: Christmas party? You mean birthday party! Lovey Howell: Anniversary party! Thurston Howell III: Young man, what do you have to say for yourself? Gilligan: Just one word. [turns and opens door of hut] Gilligan: HELP! [Skipper and Professor fall over in surprise, ruining progress on assembling the Geiger counter]
	Season 2 / Episode 3: - The Little Dictator [dream sequence: Gilligan is the ruler of a small country. The Skipper is Secretary of the Navy] Gilligan: How's my Navy holding up? Jonas Grumby - Skipper: Well since you brought it up sir, why don't you come to the window and see for yourself? Rodriguez: Again? Rodriguez: Propaganda! Vicious Propaganda! Gilligan: Are you doing something about that? Jonas Grumby - Skipper: Yes sir, we are! We're teaching our sailors how to SWIM! Gilligan: Good! Jonas Grumby - Skipper: And the people on shore are learning mouth-to-mouth resuscitation -without becoming emotionally involved! Rodriguez: How can you do that? Jonas Grumby - Skipper: It ain't easy!
	Season 2 / Episode 1: - Gilligan's Mother-in-Law Native Warrior: [closing lines] [says something unintelligible to Gilligan] Gilligan: [calls to Professor] What's he saying, Professor? Native Warrior: [turns, calls to Professor] Professor Roy Hinkley: [calls to Gilligan] Oh, he just said you first have to pass the Best Man Test. Gilligan: [calls to Professor] Best Man Test? Native Warrior: [calls to Professor, makes throwing motion] Professor Roy Hinkley: [calls to Gilligan] Poison darts at six paces! Gilligan: [stands up in boat] Poison darts at six paces? [leaps overboard, swims ashore]
	Season 1 / Episode 32: - Physical Fatness Skipper Jonas Grumby: There's a table in this Navy manual that tells me how much I should weigh. Gilligan: Maybe it's under "tonnage".
	Unknown Episode: Ginger Grant: Wahine wiki huki luki nu, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Gilligan: That's beautiful. What's it mean? Ginger Grant: It means this bar is off-limits to all military personnel.
	Unknown Episode: Ginger Grant: Wahine wiki huki luki nu, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Gilligan: That's beautiful. What's it mean? Ginger Grant: It means this bar is off-limits to all military personnel.
	Unknown Episode: Ginger Grant: Wahine wiki huki luki nu, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Gilligan: That's beautiful. What's it mean? Ginger Grant: It means this bar is off-limits to all military personnel.
	Unknown Episode: Ginger Grant: Wahine wiki huki luki nu, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Gilligan: That's beautiful. What's it mean? Ginger Grant: It means this bar is off-limits to all military personnel.
	Unknown Episode: Skipper Jonas Grumby: You don't know anything about space. Gilligan: I do know one thing. You take up more of it than I do.
	Unknown Episode: Skipper Jonas Grumby: You don't know anything about space. Gilligan: I do know one thing. You take up more of it than I do.
	Unknown Episode: Skipper Jonas Grumby: You don't know anything about space. Gilligan: I do know one thing. You take up more of it than I do.
	Unknown Episode: Skipper Jonas Grumby: You don't know anything about space. Gilligan: I do know one thing. You take up more of it than I do.
	Unknown Episode: Gilligan: Hiya, Professor. What are you doing? Professor Roy Hinkley: I'm making notes for a book. It's to be a chronicle of our adventures on the island... I think it's a book people will want to buy, don't you? Gilligan: Sure, I'll buy one. I'm dying to find out what happens to us.
	Unknown Episode: Gilligan: Hiya, Professor. What are you doing? Professor Roy Hinkley: I'm making notes for a book. It's to be a chronicle of our adventures on the island... I think it's a book people will want to buy, don't you? Gilligan: Sure, I'll buy one. I'm dying to find out what happens to us.
	Unknown Episode: Gilligan: Hiya, Professor. What are you doing? Professor Roy Hinkley: I'm making notes for a book. It's to be a chronicle of our adventures on the island... I think it's a book people will want to buy, don't you? Gilligan: Sure, I'll buy one. I'm dying to find out what happens to us.
	Unknown Episode: Gilligan: Hiya, Professor. What are you doing? Professor Roy Hinkley: I'm making notes for a book. It's to be a chronicle of our adventures on the island... I think it's a book people will want to buy, don't you? Gilligan: Sure, I'll buy one. I'm dying to find out what happens to us.
	Unknown Episode: Skipper Jonas Grumby: Gilligan little buddy come with me. Gilligan: I'm not finished yet. Skipper Jonas Grumby: Gilligan come with me! Gilligan: I'm finished.
	Unknown Episode: Skipper Jonas Grumby: Gilligan little buddy come with me. Gilligan: I'm not finished yet. Skipper Jonas Grumby: Gilligan come with me! Gilligan: I'm finished.
	Unknown Episode: Skipper Jonas Grumby: Gilligan little buddy come with me. Gilligan: I'm not finished yet. Skipper Jonas Grumby: Gilligan come with me! Gilligan: I'm finished.
	Unknown Episode: Skipper Jonas Grumby: Gilligan little buddy come with me. Gilligan: I'm not finished yet. Skipper Jonas Grumby: Gilligan come with me! Gilligan: I'm finished.
	Unknown Episode: Thurston Howell III: Your Honor, will you get another gavel? Professor Roy Hinkley: Why? Thurston Howell III: That one's squirting milk all over me. Skipper Jonas Grumby: Ginger's very damaging to us. Gilligan: Yeah, her testimony. Skipper Jonas Grumby: No, her legs. Thurston Howell III: I'd like to charge Mary Ann with murder. Professor Roy Hinkley: Murder? Thurston Howell III: Her testimony's killing me.
	Unknown Episode: Thurston Howell III: Your Honor, will you get another gavel? Professor Roy Hinkley: Why? Thurston Howell III: That one's squirting milk all over me. Skipper Jonas Grumby: Ginger's very damaging to us. Gilligan: Yeah, her testimony. Skipper Jonas Grumby: No, her legs. Thurston Howell III: I'd like to charge Mary Ann with murder. Professor Roy Hinkley: Murder? Thurston Howell III: Her testimony's killing me.
	Unknown Episode: Thurston Howell III: Your Honor, will you get another gavel? Professor Roy Hinkley: Why? Thurston Howell III: That one's squirting milk all over me. Skipper Jonas Grumby: Ginger's very damaging to us. Gilligan: Yeah, her testimony. Skipper Jonas Grumby: No, her legs. Thurston Howell III: I'd like to charge Mary Ann with murder. Professor Roy Hinkley: Murder? Thurston Howell III: Her testimony's killing me.
	Unknown Episode: Thurston Howell III: Your Honor, will you get another gavel? Professor Roy Hinkley: Why? Thurston Howell III: That one's squirting milk all over me. Skipper Jonas Grumby: Ginger's very damaging to us. Gilligan: Yeah, her testimony. Skipper Jonas Grumby: No, her legs. Thurston Howell III: I'd like to charge Mary Ann with murder. Professor Roy Hinkley: Murder? Thurston Howell III: Her testimony's killing me.
	Unknown Episode: Gilligan: You're a big man with a big head and - -... Skipper Jonas Grumby: Gilligan! Gilligan: And a big heart. Skipper Jonas Grumby: Oh, thank you.

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