Mary Ann or Ginger?

[The Impaler]

Dude. Genie.

[iiipopes]

Mary Ann. She looked good without all the makeup, and she tried harder.

[The Big Ben]

Mary Ann. She always was a low-maintenance, corn-fed hottie.
Dawn Wells, the actress who played Mary Ann, is also a U of Washington Husky like me so that makes her ideal.

[Dan Schultz]

Without reservation whatsoever.... Mary Ann. Much less trouble that all that make-up and hair spray that Ginger must have used!

[windshieldbug]

Ginger. If she could look like that on Gilligan's Island in the middle of nowhere with nothing, she must have been smarter than the Professor!

[Dan Schultz]

... Dash Riprock got a new Jag to drive.

Sounds like he might be a member of the trumpet 'louder and higher' club!

[Biggs]

I know how everyone scoffs at people who cite their own work, but I couldn't resist adding in my two cents. This is from an opinion (delivered verbally) I wrote for a class my college freshman year.

[quote]If you were stranded on a desert island, what would you want to have with you? Rope? Matches? A knife? Or maybe just someone who looks good in a bikini? For maritime men, millionaires, and professors everywhere, this question recalls one of mankind’s oldest and most hotly contested debates: Who is the hot one, Ginger or Mary Ann?

While this controversy may seem simple or even low-brow, nothing could be further from the truth. Ginger and Maryann embody the dualism of America – rich vs. poor, Hollywood vs. Kansas, consumerism vs. simplicity. Although the two come from completely different worlds, no one can deny that Mary Ann is more deserving of our attention.

I cannot and would not refute Ginger’s physical attractiveness, though I feel her appeal ends there. Her status as a Hollywood sex symbol is quite intimidating for a peasant such as I – how could I ever afford to pay for the glamorous life style she has become accustomed to? In addition, her fame puts her in high demand. I don’t to want to live being constantly paranoid about Errol Flynn stealing my girl. This is one case of power not being sexy. Mary Ann, on the other hand, is a genuine girl-next-door. Who needs all of Ginger’s Hollywood makeup when a pair of pigtails has the same effect? Mary Ann and I share a similarly simple lifestyle, most likely the basis for my preference to her over Ginger.

Being a movie star may be exciting, but the career is largely impractical in the long haul. Mary Ann can cook, clean, sew, and even till a field. Ginger has led a pampered life and thus developed none of the useful skills associated with housewife duty. Sure, her acting talent may be a neat party trick, but guys like you and I probably wouldn’t even be invited to those ritzy Hollywood parties. As far as life on the island goes, Maryann and her Emerson-esque self-reliance developed from her years working on the farm would prove far more useful than Ginger.

Furthermore, Mary Ann’s constant attention to the Professor indicates she is interested in learning and thereby bettering herself. As a self-proclaimed man of academia, I admire Mary Ann’s decision to value education. On the other hand, we have the vapid, blank Ginger who never even had time for proper schooling with her fast-track acting career. She was too busy posing for her infamous appearance in Playboy to learn how to have an intelligent conversation.

In addition, my obsession with all things agrarian further confirms my infatuation with a Kansas farmer’s daughter. Think about it, why else would a loyal son of Massachusetts leave his home and come to the land of cornfields? Tell me that Mary Ann’s father would consider passing his farm on to a son-in-law and I’ll be down on one knee faster than you can say “S.S. Minnow.â€

[Brassdad]

Mary Ann....but I do have a warm spot for this manner of thinking.

http://www.ifilm.com/video/2672184

[LoyalTubist]

Dawn Wells is still quite attractive today.


Click for her website.

[Steve Inman]

MA -- 'cause there's a MA on this board who plays tuba. Could it be the SAME MA? Via a Star Trek time warp?

Hmmmm .....

Cheers,

[chipster55]

Mary Ann - no doubt about it !!

[MaryAnn]

MA -- 'cause there's a MA on this board who plays tuba. Could it be the SAME MA? Via a Star Trek time warp?

Hmmmm .....

Cheers,

Hmmm. Maybe I should go dig up a new picture to use for my avatar....and *really* confuse people!

I bet you can't even FIND a Ginger who plays tuba!


MA

[Rick F]

Mary Ann for sure. Ginger is too 'blonde' -- even if she might be a red head.

[Brassdad]

Dude. Genie.

As a non-wife I couldn't incude her on my thread.
But it wasn't due to her lack of trying.
It's a shame Captain Healey didn't find her bottle first.
Would have been a different show.

[Chuck(G)]

In her modeling days, Tina Louise was quite stunning:

<img src="http://f9g.yahoofs.com/groups/g_1973743 ... GB_Nk64JIt">

...and she's got a much longer list of screen credits (and in better movies) as well as having recorded four LP's. Note that she did not participate in any of the TV "Return to Gilligan's Isle" retrospectives. I submit that playing "Ginger" was a much more difficult job than playing "Mary Ann".

[Chuck(G)]

As a non-wife I couldn't incude her on my thread.

But she was--episode 124, fifth season, aired Dec 21, 1969.

[iiipopes]

Note that she did not participate in any of the TV "Return to Gilligan's Isle" retrospectives. I submit that playing "Ginger" was a much more difficult job than playing "Mary Ann".

Or more demeaning due to the ditzy character.

[Mojo workin']

Mary Ann. And there weren't enough mud wrestling matches between the two for my taste.

Howard Stern once referred to an episode where Mary Ann was more scantily-clad than usual as a '"twelve kleenex episode". Interpret this how you will.

[Brassdad]

Notice that with all of the deviations from the initial question, there are some people missing:

B. Spears, L. Lohan, P.Hilton...

Either they don't make the grade OR many of us here are a bit older than we are willing to admit.

In the case of the first and last of your mentions...I don't think skanks should qualify.
Still with holding judgment on the other (I blame the parents)

[Rick Denney]

Notice that with all of the deviations from the initial question, there are some people missing:

B. Spears, L. Lohan, P.Hilton...

Either they don't make the grade OR many of us here are a bit older than we are willing to admit.

The other thread was limited to 50's and 60's, before the above-mentioned children were born.

And this thread was limited to Ginger or Mary Ann.

Rick "Mary Ann, of course" Denney