Stupidity: After going through being stuck on a deserted island for 15 years and finally being rescued and brought back to civilization again, you would think if Skipper was going to sail out with the castaways on his new Minnow boat, he would pick an enclosed lake this time as opposed to the open ocean – now they got stuck on their island again because of that decision.
Rescue from Gilligan's Island (1978)
1 stupidity
Directed by: Leslie H. Martinson
Starring: Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Bob Denver, Natalie Schafer
Genres: Comedy
Other mistake: When Gilligan wakes up and tells everybody his dream, he hums the theme song from the movie Jaws. Nobody left the island yet so there's no way he'd know about the movie or even the music to it.
Dean: We're expanding. This will be the biggest university on the west coast.
Professor: But we're on the east coast.
Dean: That's how big I want it to be.
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Suggested correction: The castaways had a radio which always gave them information on the outside world (since being shipwrecked). Although usually the Professor used it the most, Gilligan has been seen in the original series listening to it himself, so he could have heard about the movie (out 3 years before the rescue) while still on the island.
Except that the Professor said that the radio hasn't worked in over ten years so Gilligan humming the theme song to Jaws would be impossible and all other current events wouldn't be known to the others either as they are asking about Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Ginger asking about Watergate thinking it's the last name of a person.