"Sir Francis Burdett" <sir_francis_burdett@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> for lack of time for posting something interesting and of substance,
> I'll post something superficial and banal:
Good enough, I'm willing to play (or post) on this.
> the mid 60's American sitcom
> "Gilligan's Island" http://preview.tinyurl.com/6s8x4k
> "The pilot episode was not broadcast, because of casting changes and
> restructuring of characters. -- . Instead of the movie star and the
Kansas
> farm girl, the pilot had two secretaries: Ginger, a practical redhead
> played by Kit Smythe, and Bunny, ****trayed by Nancy McCarthy as a
> cheerful, stereotypical dumb blonde.
> If the series was aired as originally cast we very well would have no
> memory of the show today as it might have been prematurely cancelled.
I'll agree with that.
Although I do not believe I watched it much,
I think it may be convienient for me to blame
'my addiction' to a redhead, on imprinting caused
by the OTL Ginger.
> If the show did in fact have the same run as OTL, the Ginger/ Bunny
> dynamic is entirely different from the Ginger/Mary Ann dynamic.
> Pub and dorm room bull sessions would thus lose one of their treasured
> tropes. ("Ginger or Bunny?" lacks punch)
Although in many ways, one might think I'd be more drawn
to the (as I recall) logical, practical, pleasant, cheerful Mary Ann,
(maybe I just never found the "right one"), I ended up with a
plenty smart redhead. Life is good (bit 'spicey' at times, but good).
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