The first season's most notable guest star, famed flyer Wrongway Feldman, makes his return appearance in this entertaining follow-up. This sequel-the only one in the entire series-is solid with a clever premise, tight pacing, and a lot of good one-liners spread around the cast. Maybe Wrongway lacks the surprise value of his first go round, but he is still charming and energetic enough to once again stick the landing.
The World War I aviator manages to find his way back to his favorite uncharted island. It's a tropical paradise where he'll spend the rest of his days, and he doesn't understand why the castaways would want to return to the smog and congestion of civilization.
Maybe Wrongway's sense of direction hasn't improved from the fifth episode, but his sense of timing is as good as ever. His tales of life back home reduce the castaways to tears, whether he's talking about food, the theatre, or Mr. Howell's tenement buildings, and his obliviousness to their growing desperation makes the scenes all the funnier. Gilligan beseeches him to fly them home, but Wrongway is right on message when he points out they are already home.
So, the premise of the episode is the castaways have to dupe him into leaving his paradise for civilization. They first appeal to his friendship for Gilligan by convincing him our lead has come down with the dreaded Bola Bola disease and requires a doctor to save his life. The ruse gives an excuse for some pretty good physical humor as Gilligan acts out the symptoms, and for Wrongway to add a little drama into the mix as he decides what to do. In a nice character moment, he decides Gilligan's life is more important than his disgust for civilization, and it's off to the mainland.
Unfortunately for the castaways, he returns from Hawaii with only an antidote and no attending physician.
The episode reaches its peak as the group decides to bring civilization to Wrongway as a way to drive him off the isle. All of the castaways join in the scheme to ruin his precious peace and quiet. They disturb his sleep; deprive him of food; and work him like a member of a chain gang. Soon, the flyer is convinced that there is no difference between city life and island life, and he flees in exasperation.
The Skipper guarantees rescue in the closing tag. But a storm (there is always a storm) knocks Wrongway off course, and he discovers an even greater paradise than the one he left.
COCONOTES:
Guest star Hans Conreid does another solid job in his last outing as the flying ace. Even when he's not in his trademark scarf and goggles, he still steals every scene he's in and dominates the action. His befuddled reaction to the construction effort is priceless.
Those are really Jim Backus' tears in the rent scene.
"I, too, miss the hustle and bustle at the reference desk."
Where did the Skip and Gilligan get those apple and celery stalks, anyway?
"What's the first thing you're going to do, Mr. Howell?" "Double the rents!"
The World War I aviator manages to find his way back to his favorite uncharted island. It's a tropical paradise where he'll spend the rest of his days, and he doesn't understand why the castaways would want to return to the smog and congestion of civilization.
Maybe Wrongway's sense of direction hasn't improved from the fifth episode, but his sense of timing is as good as ever. His tales of life back home reduce the castaways to tears, whether he's talking about food, the theatre, or Mr. Howell's tenement buildings, and his obliviousness to their growing desperation makes the scenes all the funnier. Gilligan beseeches him to fly them home, but Wrongway is right on message when he points out they are already home.
So, the premise of the episode is the castaways have to dupe him into leaving his paradise for civilization. They first appeal to his friendship for Gilligan by convincing him our lead has come down with the dreaded Bola Bola disease and requires a doctor to save his life. The ruse gives an excuse for some pretty good physical humor as Gilligan acts out the symptoms, and for Wrongway to add a little drama into the mix as he decides what to do. In a nice character moment, he decides Gilligan's life is more important than his disgust for civilization, and it's off to the mainland.
Unfortunately for the castaways, he returns from Hawaii with only an antidote and no attending physician.
The episode reaches its peak as the group decides to bring civilization to Wrongway as a way to drive him off the isle. All of the castaways join in the scheme to ruin his precious peace and quiet. They disturb his sleep; deprive him of food; and work him like a member of a chain gang. Soon, the flyer is convinced that there is no difference between city life and island life, and he flees in exasperation.
The Skipper guarantees rescue in the closing tag. But a storm (there is always a storm) knocks Wrongway off course, and he discovers an even greater paradise than the one he left.
COCONOTES:
Guest star Hans Conreid does another solid job in his last outing as the flying ace. Even when he's not in his trademark scarf and goggles, he still steals every scene he's in and dominates the action. His befuddled reaction to the construction effort is priceless.
Those are really Jim Backus' tears in the rent scene.
"I, too, miss the hustle and bustle at the reference desk."
Where did the Skip and Gilligan get those apple and celery stalks, anyway?
"What's the first thing you're going to do, Mr. Howell?" "Double the rents!"