"Three Million Dollars More or Less" is a prime example of how Mr. Howell feels about losing a bet, as a single hole in one escalates until Gilligan finds himself in the millionaire's bracket. Determined to outsmart his adversary's masterful putting, Howell pays off his $3 million debt by giving Gilligan one of his many oil companies, this one located in Dust Bowl, Oklahoma, to the dismay of the Skipper: "in other words, Gilligan here is the proud owner of a worthless oil company?" Howell: "what do you mean, worthless? I just got $3 million for it!" He later reveals that the oil well was a wedding gift from his father-in-law, who assumed that Dust Bowl was a football stadium! After a radio report indicates that Gilligan's oil well is just gushing with 'black gold,' guess who ends up on the losing side yet again? This time Mr. Howell tries to get even on the pool table, something Jim Backus later did on both I DREAM OF JEANNIE and THE BRADY BUNCH (rather a shame we never see the billiard table again). The 'Wizard of Wall Street' boasts like a lion gorging itself after the kill, but winds up right back where he started at the beginning of the episode.