Five passengers set sail that day, for a three-hour tour

[rolanni]

My father and I used to watch Gilligan's Island together, back in the day. Just for the record, we also used to watch properly family-centric shows like, um...Combat! The Outer Limits! Ed Sullivan, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, Patti Duke, The Wild, Wild West, and The Donna Reed Show. Big Donna Reed fan, my dad. Though I will say, just in passing, that even I noticed her husband was a bit dim, and I was only eight.

Anyhow, who knew that, as we indulged in father-daughter bonding in front of the tube, we were ingesting The Homosexual Agenda that has become so dangerous in our present fraught times?

My thanks to Robin Wayne Bailey for pointing this article out.

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[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

From the article:
[Gilligan's Island] helped create the mythic image of the promiscuous seaman and spurred the issues of same-sex relations that still plague our naval forces to this day

Better tell Winston Churchill, who, according to http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2010/08/rum-sodomy-and-lash-winston-churchills.html didn't really say it but wished he had.

[brock-tn.livejournal.com]

Likewise, don't mention the Sacred Band of Thebes, who predated television by a couple of years.