The Real Gilligan's Island (2004)
The Real Gilligan's Island is a reality television series that aired two seasons on TBS in 2004 and 2005. Contestants on the show were required to participate in challenges based on plots from the 1960s television show. Both editions of the show were recorded in the Mexican Caribbean on a location South from Cancun. Pop-Punk group Bowling for Soup covered the original Gilligan's Island theme for the show and the show also featured music from the Music Producer and Songwriter Brett Epstein.
Seasons & Episode
The Real Gilligan’s Island is back for a second season. Meet the all-new set of real-life castaways as they compete in wacky elimination challenges to win a cash grand prize.
Love is in the isle air when one of the Mary Anns and one of the Professors begin a romance. Meanwhile, the group competes in a challenge involving sinking boats, and it's discovered that one castaway can't swim.
Cheating and manipulation ensue, and alliances are made and shattered as the teams compete in an eating contest. The winner scores time at an island-themed spa. Also: a coconut-launching challenge.
The final seven castaways are established after the unfolding ot two challenges. One involving shuttling wet laundry and the other a fishing competition.
Alliances are created and shattered when the remaining castaways participate in a challenge involving a message in a bottle. Also, an obstacle-course competition.
The remaining castaways face off in a race to build a totem pole. In another challenge, the group must swing across a moat and knock down a tiki.
The five remaining castaways participate in a competition involving a weight scale and the accumulation of gold nuggets. In another challenge, the group must search the lagoon for objects.
And then there were four castaways in the second season finale, in which the remaining contestants square off in a balancing competition. The winner of the final rescue challenge nets $250,000.