With the show perpetually in reruns, it's astonishing to think how many boys grew up infatuated with Ginger... And with Gilligan being quite boy-like, it's a safe bet many pre-pubescents may have had their first sexual stirrings while watching The World's Greatest Teaser work over the infantile Gilligan... She is Sexual-Knowingness dominating his sexual naiveté, the Whore Mom initiating the Innocent Child, possessing at times magical, hypnotic-erotic powers, a Sorceress-Seductress...

10-03-1964		"Home Sweet Hut"
11-07-1964		"Sound of Quacking"
01-02-1965		"Water Water Everywhere"
04-10-1965		"They're Off and Running"
04-17-1965		"Three to Get Ready"
09-23-1965		"Beauty Is As Beauty Does"
09-30-1965		"The Little Dictator"
10-14-1965		"The Sweepstakes"
10-28-1965		"Quick Before It Sinks"
11-04-1965		"Castaways Pictures Presents"
11-18-1965		"Nyet, Nyet -- Not Yet"
11-25-1965		"Hi-Fi Gilligan"
12-02-1965		"Chain of Command"
12-09-1965		"Don't Bug the Mosquitoes"
12-23-1965		"Mine Hero"
12-30-1965		"Erika Tiffany Smith to the Rescue"
01-06-1966		"Not Guilty"
02-03-1966		"Love Me, Love My Skipper"
02-17-1966		"Forward March"
01-02-1967		"Take a Dare"
03-27-1967		"It's a Bird"

 

And while "Mary Ann" is usually portrayed as the "nice" girl, she is often Ginger's accomplice in duping Gilligan, and in some fantasy sequences shows a mean streak as well... And those shorts, of course, would drive any man trapped on an island bananas...