Bob Denver, best known for his title role on "Gilligan's Island" passed away on Friday. So long, little buddy. Have fun on that little desert island up in the sky.

GI will certainly never go down in history as high art, but rather as low camp. But the show did have its moments. Base10's absolute favorite episode contained the GI version of Hamlet. This episode had the most entertaining musical version of Polonius' advice to Laertes:

Neither a borrower
Nor a lender be,
Never forget,
Stay out of debt,
Think twice,
And take this good advice from me,
Guard thine own solvency.
And just one other thing,
You ought to do,
To thine ownself be true.

Now I don't know if GI was or was not an important piece of American pop culture, but any TV show that can mash up Bill Shakespeare like that deserves to be remembered.

- posted by Base10 @ 11:00 AM