Gilligan

Willy Gilligan is one of the main characters. He is a close friend of the Skipper, and first mate aboard the S.S. Minnow. Despite his accident prone nature, the Skipper often addresses Gilligan as "little buddy", demonstrating their friendship. He served with the Skipper in World War II and apparently saved his life by pushing him out of the way of a depth charge, but according to the Skipper he "didn't exactly save it [his life], You just prolonged it so you'd give me more bad luck."

Personality
Gilligan's personality can be labeled as funny, sensitive, klutzy, dumb in a funny way and scared due to the fact that throughout the series he is always doing clumsy and funny things, but is sometimes thoughtful and kind. Usually, when faced with headhunters and kidnappers, Gilligan is visibly scared, though when things get serious he has been known to display a brave streak. Gilligan sometimes doesn't understand words like "navigatable" or "gourment" and is very forgetful. Gilligan is always accident-prone, and usually disaster follows him where he goes. In one episode when the Skipper is trying to reconstruct the accident that maroon the castaways, it is mentioned that Gilligan lost the anchor; rescue lattern and life raft overboard

Gilligan often gets nervous around girls, especially if they try and kiss him (including Ginger and Marry Ann who they both seem to have a crush on Gilligan).

Outfits
Gilligan always wears a long sleeved red shirt with a white collar, jeans, white shoes and his trademark sailor hat. In Smile, You're on Mars Camera, it is said that his red shirt originally belonged to his brother.

Trivia

 * Gilligan's birthdate is never given, but he was born in "a tiny town in Pennsylvania" on a stormy night and he is in his 30's during the show.


 * Before on the Island Gilligan was once president, of the eighth grade camera club.


 * Gilligan enjoys many children's activities, such as comic books and skateboarding. He is a fan of Buck Rodgers.


 * He has a brother whose clothes he wears during the series [He was reluctant to appear on "Smile, Your on Mars Camera" because he is afraid that his brother will punch him for wearing his shirt!} and a mother.
 * Gilligan once mentions that his father was short, had a mustache, and wore glasses.
 * He graduated from a girl's High School. ( In "Physical Fatness" it's said that he was expelled from his old school when he nearly started a chemical fire.)
 * He has a Mickey Moose wrist watch
 * Two running gags are that when the castaways are about to be rescued Gilligan always fouls things up at the last second and when Gilligan gets scared he runs in a straight line into the forest at lighting speed {"The Invasion" and "Slave Girl"}
 * Even in the Dream Sequences, Gilligan never does anything right-in "The Sound of Quacking" Gilligan as a town Marshal saves a duck from the rest of the castaways-only to shoot it by mistake. In "The Sweepstakes" Gilligan is a Town Marshal who shoots a Mary Ann's grandmother. In "Court-Martial" while he's throwing swords to the pirates so it'll be a fair fight he accidentally throws his own sword. In "Lovey's Secret Admirer" as a fairy god father he turns Cinderella AKA Mrs. Howell into a donkey.