Agonized Labor

Agonized Labor is the eight episode of the Second Season. It aired November 11, 1965.

Synopsis
Listening to the radio, Gilligan and The Skipper learn that Howell Industries is bankrupt, and that the Howells are broke. The Howells are traumatized by the news, and their fellow castaways try to teach them skills they can use as jobs after they get rescue. Ginger and Mary Ann try teaching Mrs. Howell how to sew and cook, but despite her best attempts, she fails at both. Mr. Howell, however, is not used to any physical labor and watches the Skipper dig a new well. When it is suggested that they become domestic servants, the Howells try to throw themselves off the cliff, but Gilligan comes to the rescue with a revised new report, it was Powell Industries that went broke, not Howell Industries, and the Howells are not broke.

Credits
Main Cast
 * Bob Denver as Gilligan
 * Alan Hale Jr. as The Skipper
 * Jim Backus as Mr. Howell
 * Natalie Schafer as Mrs. Howell
 * Tina Louise as Ginger
 * Dawn Wells as Mary Ann
 * Russell Johnson as The Professor

Guest Cast
 * Charles Maxwell as the Radio Announcer (unconfirmed)

Trivia

 * It's revealed that the Howells have just petty cash on the Island, around 100,000.00!
 * In this episode, Mrs. Howell proves to be a terrible cook, and Mr. Howell is even worse as a butler; however, in the episode The Producer, they end up being a butler and maid for Harold Hecuba, and in Gilligan Goes Gung-Ho, Mrs Howell bakes a cake.
 * Mrs. Howell actually proved she could already sew in cook in The Matchmaker and Three Million Dollars More or Less.
 * Traveling through the jungle, Mr. Howell comes across the wasubi berry, which he claims causes whoever eats it to have long hair, fang teeth and claw hands, adding without another thought that Mrs. Howell's mother (his mother-in-law) must have had a basket full of them.
 * The Castaways must have the worst radio announcer in the world; in Mr. and Mrs. ???, he also mispronounces the Howell's minister, Buckley Norris, as Boris Nuckley.