OT: MGobituary: Dawn Wells (Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island) dead at 82
Well, it wouldn't be 2020 without the death of America's favorite girl next door:
RIP, Mary Ann. It was the greatest 3-hour tour.
(Though, admittedly, I was a Ginger fan myself.)
December 30th, 2020 at 2:54 PM ^
I expect this will trigger a long thread of the Mary Ann vs. Ginger debate.
December 30th, 2020 at 2:56 PM ^
Well it shouldn’t trigger a debate. Because there is no debate. Mary Ann is the obvious answer.
December 30th, 2020 at 3:11 PM ^
I'm a milf man myself...... Give me the millionaire's wife
December 30th, 2020 at 3:29 PM ^
I think GILF is the term you're looking for, NTTAWWT
December 30th, 2020 at 3:36 PM ^
I always preferred Mary Ann.
RIP Ms.Wells.
January 1st, 2021 at 6:03 AM ^
More like a GGILF.
December 30th, 2020 at 6:08 PM ^
No doubt Mary Ann. Now ginger is the last surviving cast member
December 31st, 2020 at 12:44 AM ^
Team Mary Ann here.
Dawn Wells knew about the Mary Ann - Ginger meme and loved it. She said it didn't start until reruns.
January 1st, 2021 at 5:38 AM ^
Yeah, I remember that as a teenager about 10 years after the show was off television. Guys would ask you what chick would you want to go out with Mary Ann or Ginger. Always said Mary Ann, I thought she was better looking and seemed nicer.
December 30th, 2020 at 2:56 PM ^
Mary Ann and Ginger. Why not?
December 30th, 2020 at 2:58 PM ^
Ginger would be too classy for that. Team Ginger!
December 30th, 2020 at 3:35 PM ^
I always thought Mary Ann was a bit prettier in a girl-next-door/bring home to mom sort of way.
Yes Ginger appeared classy on the outside.
But we all know she was actually a backdoor super freak and that's why I always vote for her!
You'redamnrightTeamGinger®
December 30th, 2020 at 6:18 PM ^
Yeah, “classy” in a “I’ll gobble yer knob for that part” kind of way...
If Mary Ann were to gob the knob, it would be done with the greatest sincerity.
December 30th, 2020 at 3:01 PM ^
As I recall, about twenty years ago there was a CBS special called "Surviving Gilligan's Island", and at some point in that program, they actually did poll the audience regarding this, and it was Mary Ann by an extremely narrow margin - I think it was just a few votes, in fact.
December 30th, 2020 at 6:38 PM ^
Mary Ann was Ms Arizona. Not exactly an underdog, even compared to Ginger
December 30th, 2020 at 6:51 PM ^
Actually Miss Nevada.
December 30th, 2020 at 7:38 PM ^
I stand corrected!
December 30th, 2020 at 2:58 PM ^
Mary Ann. Obviously
December 30th, 2020 at 2:59 PM ^
This makes me very sad. Fuck 2020!
December 30th, 2020 at 3:04 PM ^
This makes me sad, and it makes me feel old.
December 30th, 2020 at 3:03 PM ^
Is Red Dawn better, Vlad? 
December 30th, 2020 at 3:07 PM ^
Nope. #TeamFireCrotch, always and forever.
December 30th, 2020 at 3:18 PM ^
I was a Tina Louise fan back in the day but for God's sake don't google her now. Yikes.
December 30th, 2020 at 3:41 PM ^
She’s 86 now. I mean, what did you expect?
December 30th, 2020 at 3:53 PM ^
It's not being 86—it's being 86 with obvious facial work that fails miserably to hide the fact that she's 86 and only makes her look creepy on top of being 86.
My mom died at 92 and she looked every bit of 92, but she didn't look creepy because of ill-advised plastic surgery.
December 30th, 2020 at 4:02 PM ^
Yeah, you've got to be very careful with cheekbone work after a certain point. Not everyone ages gracefully like us, Don.
January 1st, 2021 at 5:59 AM ^
This must be after his bout with COVID.
December 30th, 2020 at 5:16 PM ^
agreed. I love her dearly and she was gorgeous, but now you're talking tales from the crypt. . .
December 30th, 2020 at 3:28 PM ^
RIP Dawn (Mary Ann),
It's the age old question;
Ginger or Mary Ann
Penny or Bernadette
....
December 30th, 2020 at 3:39 PM ^
Ummmmm, Penny, hello?
January 1st, 2021 at 6:01 AM ^
Penny vs Judy. I liked Judy, a nice thin blonde. Penny started looking better in the last year of the show.
December 30th, 2020 at 6:10 PM ^
For those who came of age in the 1970's as the first "cable kids" watching on Channel 50 in Detroit the great debate was always:
Ginger v Maryann. Maryann
Marsha v Jan. Marsha
December 30th, 2020 at 7:07 PM ^
Made staying home sick from school that much better. TV in your room watching channel 50 all day while recovering.
I will go on the record voting for Maryann and Jan.
RIP Ms. Wells.
January 1st, 2021 at 5:47 AM ^
Ch. 50 had a great lineup in the late 60s and 70s. I still remember watching the banana splits, speed racer and kimba the white lion. I thought ultra man was bit goofy, even as a kid. Then there was Bill Kennedy at the movies, followed by all those 60s sitcom reruns. In fact the Beverly Hillbillies and Brady Bunch were still on television when ch.50 was showing their reruns from the 60s into the early 70s.
December 30th, 2020 at 3:39 PM ^
I always wondered what her coconut cream pie tasted like.
December 30th, 2020 at 6:12 PM ^
Hopefully better than Jim's Apple Pie in American Pie!!
December 30th, 2020 at 3:44 PM ^
Mary Ann, all day, every day. Ginger was a plastic slut made by Hollywood.
RIP, Dawn - thanks for a fun three hours...
December 30th, 2020 at 3:59 PM ^
Plus, reportadly Tina Louise was a total bitch on set who thought of herself as a Shakespearean level Actress and always thought the role was beneath her.
Everyone was ready to go for season 4 and she plainly just didn't show up and that's why the show ended, I wish they would have just replaced her with some other red-headed hottie so that I would have had more reruns to watch after school.
December 30th, 2020 at 10:24 PM ^
No contest.
December 30th, 2020 at 3:56 PM ^
RIP Dawn Wells.
Goddamnit. Fuck this year beyond any years. I can't even break down and look at a list of everyone who has passed away this year because I know I'm just going to get so fucking depressed at the all-time classic and classy people on it. Just cracked a beer at work so might as well drink my way to forget.
December 30th, 2020 at 4:00 PM ^
There was a poll done a decade to two ago, and Mary Ann won in quite a landslide. I for one think it should be a landslide - i don't think their even is a debate. Mary Ann is 10 times more attractive.
She was also by far the wealthiest of the cast because of the contract she had drawn up for getting part of all reruns after the show was over.
December 30th, 2020 at 10:56 PM ^
Naw man, she died almost totally broke. Worth about $50,000 and that was after a Go Fund Me campaign to help her pay for medical expenses raised about $200k
December 30th, 2020 at 4:11 PM ^
Mary Ann & it wasn't particularly close
December 30th, 2020 at 4:21 PM ^
May she rest in peace.
And, on another note, to answer the age-old question, I always thought she was hotter than Ginger.
December 30th, 2020 at 4:57 PM ^
December 30th, 2020 at 5:04 PM ^
I was a wee bit too young to have watched Gilligan's Island and had better things to watch in syndication, but it's nearly impossible to not have grown up in the American burbs and not commited the theme song to memory. I hope her closing days as were free of suffering as COVID sufferers can manage, and that she had a happy and full life. It's just heartbreaking to think about not being able to have loved ones nearby when at death's door.
(FWIW, while I have zero horse in Ginger vs. Mary Ann, a quick Wiki dive reveals that Ginger's actress went to college in Ohio (at NTM), so that should settle that debate here at least)
January 1st, 2021 at 5:54 AM ^
Once you got older and you channel surfed across these old sitcoms you liked as a kid you say to yourself, those were some really corny shows back in the day. But as a child I loved them and I memorized all those theme songs.
December 30th, 2020 at 6:24 PM ^
I was always a Mary Ann guy but as I got older I could see the Ginger side. Long legs, curvy, all woman, not girl next door. I now think they were ingeniously created to appeal to different parts of the American male psyche. And for a 12 year old in the 70s without access to free internet porn, equally frustratingly unattainable.
January 1st, 2021 at 5:56 AM ^
As young teenager I could not tell who had the bigger boobs. I think they were about the same c-cup. But I though Mary Ann had the cuter face. Ginger had a nice pair of long legs.