- The bachelors on the island try to cheer Mary Ann up after they hear on the radio that her boyfriend is marrying someone else. However, Mary Ann misreads their intentions and concludes that she is dying from eating poisonous mushrooms.
- When they learn that Mary Ann's boyfriend back home has moved on to another girl, Gilligan, Skipper, and the Professor try to boost her confidence by competing for her attention, each taking a different romantic approach. Overwhelmed by their antics, Mary Ann dreams that she is a terminally ill patient on her favorite radio soap opera.—Anonymous
- Since she's been on the Island, Mary Ann (Dawn Wells) has been sending messages in bottles to her boyfriend, Horace Higgenbottham, back in Kansas, as they recharge the radio, it works. But then the Skipper (Alan Hale Jr) and Gilligan (Bob Denver) hear over the Radio that Horace has since married, and they struggle to tell her the news. In passing, the Professor (Russell Johnson) notices Mary Ann feeling emotional over a radio soap opera called Old Doctor Young. Which she listens to on the radio. He tells her to be careful with the poisonous mushrooms on the island. The guys turn to the others for advice in how to tell Mary Ann. In turn, the men try to romance her by acting as various actors. The Skipper is Matt Dillon, the Professor is Cary Grant and Gilligan is Charles Boyer. She is shocked when they start fighting over her. Instead, she runs off terrified to Ginger (Tina Louise) and the Howells (Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer) , who respond unfazed and shocked. On her return to her own hut, she overhears the three man agonizing on how they're going to tell her the bad news they heard on the radio, and she rationalizes she might have eaten poisonous mushrooms and thinks she is dying. After finishing her radio program, she decides she's gonna be brave about the situation and runs off to tell the men. That night, she sleeps and the men's conversation echoes through her head, she dreams she's on the radio program in the role of Eileen Forbisher, with Ginger and Mrs. Howell as nurses and the men as the doctor versions of the actors they were impersonating Skipper is a doctor version on Marshall Matt Dillon, Gilligan is a doctor version of Charles Boyer, and The Professor is a doctor version of Cary Grant who diagnoses her with Roomis Degloomis. Mr. Howell is also present as Dr. Zorba, but they're too distracted to listen or help her when she tries to explain to them that she's dying from a terminal illness she begs to see old doctor young or young doctor young and Ginger says she's gonna be fine. When Mary Ann wakes up after the dream, Ginger, The Professor, Gilligan, and Skipper are at her side and she says her nightmare was because she ate some Poison mushrooms The Professor explains to her the mushrooms weren't poisonous and she wonders why the men were being nice to her and Gilligan explains. She learns Horace is married and is not fazed by the news. She admits that in reality she wasn't all that close to him and calls him a creep. She had only used his name to make the others think she had someone in her life because Ginger has so many boyfriends and Mrs. Howell has Mr. Howell and she asks if she was being silly and Gilligan asks who would call that silly and everyone including Mary Ann raises their hands. The next day, she asks what they're making for dinner, Skipper jokingly tells her they're having mushrooms. Mary Ann is shocked, and tells them it will be a long time until she eats another mushroom. Gilligan has a book titled "How to tell a mushroom from a toadstool." By the late Doctor Morton Keptstone. And Mary Ann and The Skipper look shocked and say: "The late?" And Gilligan is also shocked and even says: "The late?"
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