"Love Me, Love My Skipper" opens with Mr. Howell delivering invitations to the annual Howell cotillion, but misplacing the one intended for the Skipper, who is crushed at the unintended snub. When the other castaways learn that the Skipper was excluded they send their regrets to the Howells to attend their own masquerade party in the Skipper's honor. This time the Howells are the ones not invited, driving the two apart in a fit of pique. Gilligan finds the missing invitation, but it won't be easy to get their hosts together again. Since patching things up requires a certain cunning, Ginger suggests a woman's touch. Jim Backus once again offers up a plug for Ted Lewis ("is everybody happy?"), and another for Jackie Gleason: "how sweet it is!"
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THE COSTUME PARTY AND GILLIGAN AS TARZAN??
tcchelsey23 July 2023
Herbert Finn wrote this episode, long a writer for Jackie Gleason, and the catch phrase is HOW SWEET IT IS! It's hilarious.
This was a holiday episode, along with the background song, "We Wish a Merry Christmas..." It's no holiday as the skipper thinks he's been snubbed by not being invited to Mr. And Mrs. Howell's party. A mixup of course. The rest of the crew decides to snub the Howells when the word gets out, and in the meanwhile Mr. And Mrs. Howell are fighting!
Changing scenes and gears, everybody decides to throw a costume party! Why not. Again the recurring question: Where did all the costumes come from? Best of the best is Gilligan as Tarzan, the skipper as a pirate and Mr. Howell dressed as a little rich kid with suit, tie and short shorts? See to believe.
This is creative writing 101 and classic stuff, and the secret here is the cast really is having fun. You can tell. The old Hollywood story is so true. If you like what you're doing, the net result is that much better. This was a real family here enjoying each other's company.
Sit back and enjoy the crew at their best, and a kewpie doll to the creator of the costumes!
SEASON 2 EPISODE 20 restored CBS dbd box set.
This was a holiday episode, along with the background song, "We Wish a Merry Christmas..." It's no holiday as the skipper thinks he's been snubbed by not being invited to Mr. And Mrs. Howell's party. A mixup of course. The rest of the crew decides to snub the Howells when the word gets out, and in the meanwhile Mr. And Mrs. Howell are fighting!
Changing scenes and gears, everybody decides to throw a costume party! Why not. Again the recurring question: Where did all the costumes come from? Best of the best is Gilligan as Tarzan, the skipper as a pirate and Mr. Howell dressed as a little rich kid with suit, tie and short shorts? See to believe.
This is creative writing 101 and classic stuff, and the secret here is the cast really is having fun. You can tell. The old Hollywood story is so true. If you like what you're doing, the net result is that much better. This was a real family here enjoying each other's company.
Sit back and enjoy the crew at their best, and a kewpie doll to the creator of the costumes!
SEASON 2 EPISODE 20 restored CBS dbd box set.
Gilligan mails it in.
Ralphkram28 March 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Ginger uses a word in this episode that fits it perfectly: blasé. It's a blasé mix of recycled plot points, mild humor that's enlivened by the occasionally clever bit, and a predictable, ho hum resolution. It's mostly content to go through the motions and not much else. Not even Mr. Howell's rumba shake can lift it out of the doldrums.
The Howells are busily preparing for their annual cotillion. Even though they only have five people to invite, the preparation is positively exhausting. Mr. Howell forgets his distaste for work long enough to deliver the invitations. In the course of his rounds and in the name of slapstick, he carelessly plows into a tree and loses one of the envelopes. So everyone on the isle gets an invite except for the Skipper, and we have our blasé plot.
As the others make a crazy big deal over this gala, the Skip gets more confused and frustrated over his exclusion. Even his little buddy, a one-man Howell wrecking crew, is going instead of him. He sniffs around the couple to find the cause, but they are oblivious, and he gets mopey and down in the dumps, a state as attractive and interesting here as it was in Waiting for Watubi.
His dejection gets to Gilligan, who steps up to disinvite himself from the cotillion as a form of protest. Their short bonding moment is one of the few scenes that actually work. The others soon join in on the protest. They get a mite vindictive, though, and decide to throw their own bash, make it in honor of the snubbed Skip, and not invite the Howells.
That's an adult response, no?
The Howells are shocked that the others are skipping out on their formal in favor of a lesser party. Inevitably, they play the blame game and turn on each other. By the end of their over-the-top squabble, Mr. Howell has been kicked out of their hut.
Gilligan bumbles upon the missing invitation. Even though they're now clued in as to what happened, the Howells stubbornly cling to their pointless separation to pad the run time.
It's familiar ground from here on out as the others feel guilty as having caused the split and scheme to get them back together. This time, the scheme is actually pretty clever; Ginger invites the couple separately to the costume ball, tells Mr. Howell that she's coming as Marie Antoinette, and then switches costumes with his unsuspecting spouse. A mildly amusing bit of slapstick by our lead opens the stage for the ruse to work, and the happy couple reunite with a sappy and blasé dance.
COCONOTES:
Rare miss for usually solid writing team Finn and Basehart.
All the Skip had to do was ask the Howells why he wasn't invited to their cotillion, rather than throw out vague hints. Could've saved himself and the audience a lot of aggravation.
The castaways make their counter party a costume ball so they can magically improv more costumes out of extra material they couldn't possibly have.
"Oh, poor Gilligan." Can you say that with any less conviction, Ginger?
The Howells are busily preparing for their annual cotillion. Even though they only have five people to invite, the preparation is positively exhausting. Mr. Howell forgets his distaste for work long enough to deliver the invitations. In the course of his rounds and in the name of slapstick, he carelessly plows into a tree and loses one of the envelopes. So everyone on the isle gets an invite except for the Skipper, and we have our blasé plot.
As the others make a crazy big deal over this gala, the Skip gets more confused and frustrated over his exclusion. Even his little buddy, a one-man Howell wrecking crew, is going instead of him. He sniffs around the couple to find the cause, but they are oblivious, and he gets mopey and down in the dumps, a state as attractive and interesting here as it was in Waiting for Watubi.
His dejection gets to Gilligan, who steps up to disinvite himself from the cotillion as a form of protest. Their short bonding moment is one of the few scenes that actually work. The others soon join in on the protest. They get a mite vindictive, though, and decide to throw their own bash, make it in honor of the snubbed Skip, and not invite the Howells.
That's an adult response, no?
The Howells are shocked that the others are skipping out on their formal in favor of a lesser party. Inevitably, they play the blame game and turn on each other. By the end of their over-the-top squabble, Mr. Howell has been kicked out of their hut.
Gilligan bumbles upon the missing invitation. Even though they're now clued in as to what happened, the Howells stubbornly cling to their pointless separation to pad the run time.
It's familiar ground from here on out as the others feel guilty as having caused the split and scheme to get them back together. This time, the scheme is actually pretty clever; Ginger invites the couple separately to the costume ball, tells Mr. Howell that she's coming as Marie Antoinette, and then switches costumes with his unsuspecting spouse. A mildly amusing bit of slapstick by our lead opens the stage for the ruse to work, and the happy couple reunite with a sappy and blasé dance.
COCONOTES:
Rare miss for usually solid writing team Finn and Basehart.
All the Skip had to do was ask the Howells why he wasn't invited to their cotillion, rather than throw out vague hints. Could've saved himself and the audience a lot of aggravation.
The castaways make their counter party a costume ball so they can magically improv more costumes out of extra material they couldn't possibly have.
"Oh, poor Gilligan." Can you say that with any less conviction, Ginger?
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