Thoughts From the Gilligan's Island Episode Man With a Net (1966)
Synopsis : The castaways hope to be rescued when famed butterfly collector Lord Beasley Waterford ( John McGiver ) arrives on the island in search of the rare pussycat swallowtail. However, when Waterford makes no progress in finding the butterfly and nearly dies on a couple occasions, they decide they need to take matters into their own hands and signal his ship themselves. My Thoughts: I feel like the castaways would have been rescued sooner if it weren't for their impatience. Worst case scenario is they would have had to wait until Waterford either found the butterfly or gave up and they would be rescued. It wasn't a big island so, maybe a couple weeks. Yet they decided that was too long for some reason and ultimately messed things up. The Skipper's ( Alan Hale, Jr. ) patience ultimately cost them as well . If you are going to go through the time and effort to paint a butterfly and try to fool an expert, why not wait until the paint dries? Frankly, I'm kind of surpr...