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Series · CBS · 1964

Gilligan's Island

Gilligan's Island

30Leave it.

A hit, and a loop. Nobody changes, and the island is not a life.

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The review

A boat tour goes wrong and seven people are stuck. Each week someone invents a way off the island and the first mate ruins it. The country watched in large numbers for three seasons. The watchability is the theme song and the certainty that nothing will stick. Nobody learns the ruinous habit. Nobody is in real danger. The millionaire keeps his money as a personality, and the women keep their costumes as personalities.

I will not call a harmless loop a good evening. Harmless is not the same as worth the hour. A small child will not be wounded. A small child will also not be given anyone to become. If it is on in the background, let it be background. Do not defend it as a classic of the decade because the song is still in your head. The song is an advertisement for staying the same.

Journal

Keep Gilligan's Island in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 30. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 2Industry
  2. 4Household
  3. 2Piety
  4. 3Courage
  5. 3Republic
  6. 4Temperance
  7. 3Truth
  8. 3Stewardship

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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Happy Days

41 instead of 30

Happy Days is still a comedy show, and it scores 41 instead of 30. What you gain is household: The Cunninghams are a kind house, with Richie decent and the parents still home.

The eight

  1. 2
    Industry

    The professor builds things. The things never do the one job, which is leaving.

  2. 4
    Household

    Seven strangers become a kind of house, and the show is too thin to mean it.

  3. 2
    Piety

    No reverence. A skipper's temper is the highest authority on the sand.

  4. 3
    Courage

    The risks are slapstick. Nobody is brave because nothing is quite real.

  5. 3
    Republic

    They owe each other rescue. The show owes them a joke instead, every week.

  6. 4
    Temperance

    The appetite is comfort and a coconut. It neither grows nor is judged.

  7. 3
    Truth

    The lie is that they are trying to escape. The show needs them not to.

  8. 3
    Stewardship

    A child inherits a loop: try, fail, laugh, never leave, never learn.

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If the theme song is the defense, the defense is not good enough. Turn it off after one.

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Series · NBC · 1965

I Dream of Jeannie

I Dream of Jeannie

30Leave it.

The wish is the problem. A woman in a bottle is not a comedy a house needs to keep.

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The review

An astronaut on a beach finds a bottle, and the woman inside calls him master and rearranges his week to please him. The country made it a hit in the same years as Bewitched, and the two are not the same marriage. Bewitched is a vow to refrain. This is a servant he is hiding. The laughs are the wreck the wishes make of his job. The wreck is funny only if you have agreed that a woman in a bottle is a reasonable premise for a home.

I would not put it on as the harmless cousin of the better fantasy. Say what the bottle is: a person owned, played as a gift. Adults who grew up on it can laugh at the memory and still decline to pass it down unremarked. If a child sees one, the sentence afterward is not optional. Nobody in the house is a wish with a smile.

Journal

Keep I Dream of Jeannie in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 30. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 3Industry
  2. 4Household
  3. 2Piety
  4. 3Courage
  5. 2Republic
  6. 3Temperance
  7. 4Truth
  8. 3Stewardship

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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Jujutsu Kaisen

43 instead of 30

Jujutsu Kaisen is still a fantasy show, and it scores 43 instead of 30. What you gain is courage: He accepts a death sentence for a person he just met.

The eight

  1. 3
    Industry

    He has a job at the space agency. The job is the scenery the wishes keep wrecking.

  2. 4
    Household

    He will not marry her for a long time, and the show enjoys the delay as a premise.

  3. 2
    Piety

    A genie is a theology played as a parlor trick. Nobody treats that as a question.

  4. 3
    Courage

    The risks are social. He is afraid of his superiors, not brave for anyone.

  5. 2
    Republic

    A space program is a public, used here as a boss who must not find out.

  6. 3
    Temperance

    The whole engine is appetite: blink, and the inconvenient fact disappears.

  7. 4
    Truth

    The premise is a lie he tells at work. The show thinks the lie is the charm.

  8. 3
    Stewardship

    A boy inherits a woman who exists to grant, and a man who is embarrassed by her.

Live historically

Say out loud that a person in a bottle who calls a man master is the premise, not the side joke.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

Live Historic · I Dream of Jeannie · 30IMDb

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