Allergy Time

Allergy Time is the 28th episode of the Second Season of the CBS-TV series "Gilligan's Island." It aired March 31, 1966.

Synopsis
The Skipper comes down with a sneezing fit that the Professor tries to diagnose as a tropical disease, but he soon notices it only seems to occur near Gilligan. He tells the Skipper that he is suffering from "communitus allergitatus," a common allergy, and tries to find out if something on Gilligan is causing the allergy. Not finding anything, he then tries to test if it could by psychosomatic or unconscious by testing the Skipper and his proximity to the other Castaways but this fails. Gilligan has no choice but to move out of the Boy's Hut and stay in the Supply Hut with the Professor, who soon has sneezing fits himself. Eventually, everyone turns out to be allergic to Gilligan who leaves camp for a cave on the other side of the island. Unable to live without his little buddy, the Skipper finally decides to take the anti-allergy shot the Professor created. The rest of the Castaways ultimately decide to get the shots as well to get Gilligan back for the Skipper's sake, but by the next shot, Gilligan has finally discovered that the papaya oil he was using on his hair was causing the sneezing fits. The others are too annoyed by the shots to be in a happy mood and welcome him back just yet. They end up chasing him into the jungle.

In the closing shot, the Professor feels that Gilligan needs an anti-allergy shot in case the papaya oil has entered his body, but it's really a pretense to scare Gilligan with a really large bamboo needle. Gilligan is willing since the others endured so much discomfort, but he balks at the size of the needle, backing up into the real needle by accident.

Message

 * "A friend in need is a friend indeed."

Highlights

 * Coming up

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
 * None

Trivia

 * Twice in this episode, the exterior of the Howell's Hut is used for the Boy's Hut.
 * The Skipper proves to have a powerful sneeze. It knocks over a table, blows open the door to the hut, knocks over a tree, and in one funny moment, Gilligan uses a plank to keep the Skipper from sneezing out the candle, but it still goes out on the other side of the board. As the Skipper sneezes through the plank, a face enters the shot for just a moment to the right of the screen actually blowing out the candle
 * It's never revealed how the Professor makes an anti-allergy shot without knowing what the real cause of the allergy was.
 * When the Skipper faints from getting a shot, he uses his arms to break his fall.
 * When Gilligan moves in with the Howells, he sleeps on the floor between them instead of getting his room back from when they adopted him in My Fair Gilligan.
 * The Girl's Hut is seen to the left of the Boy's Hut.
 * The Castaways seem to have the wrong reaction when Gilligan returns to camp with the solution against their allergy shots.
 * Gilligan must have a high tolerance to papaya seed oil to wear it on his hair for several days before becoming allergic to it.
 * The Professor has a medical bag on the table at the end of the episode.
 * The tag scene with the giant needle is missing from most syndicated versions of the episode.

Quotes

 * Professor - "By the way, the girls are making a net for your ping-pong table out of sugarcane." Skipper - "Out of sugarcane?" Professor - "Absolutely." Skipper - "Now, that's a great idea. In case we get tired of playing Ping-Pong, we can always eat the net."


 * Skipper - "Do you really think this is all in my mind, Professor?" Professor - "Let's put it this way, Skipper. It's possible for an allergy to be psychological instead of physical." Skipper - "But that's ridiculous. I like him. Gilligan is a friend of mine." Professor - "But you do admit that he annoys you from time to time." Skipper - "But I don't dislike him. It's just that I'd like to kill him every now and then."


 * Mrs. Howell - "Oh, Thurston, isn't this exciting?" Mr. Howell - "Yes, it is. However, I doubt that sniffing the Captain will ever replace polo as the national pastime."


 * Professor - "Hello, Gilligan. Are we all ready for our vaccine?" Gilligan - "You're not gonna stab me with that thing?" Skipper - "Oh come on, Gilligan, that needle just looks big." Gilligan - "That's because it is big. That's not a needle, it's a harpoon." Mr. Howell - "Come now, Gilligan. What are you, a man or a mouse?" Gilligan - "Squeak-Squeak-Squeak..."

Gilligan - "Au revoir? What's that?" Mrs. Howell - "Au revoir is French. It means go sleep in a hotel!"
 * Mr. Howell - "No offense, Gilligan, but Au revoir."


 * Mary Ann - "Oh Ginger, you have so much perfume on, all I can smell is you." Ginger - "Well, naturally, if I can't find Gilligan, I wanna make sure that Gilligan finds me."


 * Professor - "Gilligan, it doesn't matter where you get the shot..."