Plan Your Own Gilligan Party!
Want to plan your own Gilligan's Island Party? Let's see if we can help! To
start it off, you need some plant life, costumes of course, plenty of
coconuts, pineapple, mango's, sugar canes, pineapple drinks and lots of
coconut cream pie!!! You can also have a look-a-like contest. There can be a
Honeybees Concert, or you can get a group together to become the Mosquitos!
You can serve duck, fish or pork. Another suggestion would be to watch a
couple of episodes of Gilligan's Island on cable (NICK, TBS, TNT). Why not
tape a bunch of episodes so they can watch it, or just play it in the
background. Also look on the webpage for ideas, there are plenty. Oh, get
some Hawaiin music and some leahs.
Make the Gilligan's Island Radio. Just print out this picture and tape it on
a cereal box or something. Be sure to print it out for 12" wide by 3" high.
Radio
One of our loyal fan club members has put a party together, and it seemed so
impressive, that I had to pass it along!!!
For openers, when the guests arrive, (Castaway Costumes Only) they will be
greeted at the door with a rum cocktail, while the theme song from
Gilligan's Island is playing in the backround in a cassette player hidden on
our front porch! Then, also for a Gilligan "EFFECT", on my front lawn,I'll
have my daughters small pool boat capsized with a white tube and on it will
say,of course, the S.S. Minnow! Decorations throughout the house will be,
pineapples, coconuts, paper palm trees, and the Gilligan's Island movie
playing and outside we will set up a hammock, transitor radio, and the
tropical drinks served in coconut shells. (Pina Colada's and Banana
Daiquiri's) I will be setting the tables with grass skirts and flower
garlands, and lots of fresh flowers too! I even found tropical patio lights
and torches, I'm also using boat cord (HEMP) and fish netting all around!
The menu will be the folowing: Appetizers- pineapples broiled and wrapped
with pastrami, coconut shrimp, and various cold dips. Main Entree's- The
Professor's polynesian hamburgers, The Howell's Hawaiian chicken, The
Skippers sweet and sour pork, and Gilligan's Jerk chicken pasta. For the
side dishes we will have Ginger's Grilled fruit and veggie kabobs
(zucchini, papaya, onions, pineapples in a mango marinade) plain white rice,
tossed salad, and a aloha fruit salad with hula dressing! And for the
dessert, we will be serving of course, Mary Ann's coconut cream pie, a white
chocolate macadamian cheesecake, little seashell chocolates and fresh sliced
mango and pineapples served in a pineapple boat!
For the entertainment, we have great ISLAND MUSIC, like Bob Marley and limbo
tunes like HOT HOT HOT!! And Hawaiian music to sip their chocolate macadamian
hawaian coffee too!
But our highlight will probably be the game show we are hosting: WHO WANTS
TO BE A "GILLIONAIRE" All my questions and answers were drived from visiting
the WONDERFUL web site: www.gilligansisle.com and Bob Denver's! Sooooo much
helpful and interesting info and all the great links, I had a ball forming
the questions!
For example, the $100 question is of course the easiest How long was the
tour supposed to be? Then they get progressively more difficult, like which
fruit always gave Gilligan a rash? And the one million dollar question is At
what university did Mr. and Mrs. Howell first meet? For prizes, I'm giving
out anything that has to do with "tropical" ie: pineapple candle, mango,
salsa, palm tree car air fresheners, coconut potpourri, etc. And the grand
prize is dinner for two at a nearby tropical restaurant! Our party is for
August 12th and the time of the shipwreck is 1900hrs. I had fun doing the
invite, I used part of the theme song and personalized it using our address
as the ship set ground on this encharted desert isle, and used our name
for the closing line for here on Gilligan's Isle! I used a beach backround
computer paper and found various clip art of palm trees and tropical drinks
to add on the invite! I have always been a fan of the show and thought it
would make a great home theme party idea!
I have received alot of e-mail about this party theme. People across the
country are very interested in it! Well, if you can think of anything I left
out, please e-mail me back- thanks again! Mary Ann (A.K.A) Linda
Good Luck
Willy Gilligan
