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Okay, so there's apparently this ad for "The Real Gilligan's Island" on TBS that features Ginger and Mary Ann having a coconut cream pie fight, and everybody's bitching that it objectifies women.

And all I can think as someone whose father raised her on '60s reruns is, "Did any of these people actually watch the original show?"

I can't help it if all the talk about the reality show only makes me think about the real show. My dad is the Original Fanboy, in that the guy used to watch "Gilligan's Island", "Lost in Space", "Thunderbirds", and "Jonny Quest" episodes religiously. And those aren't even his only childhood fandoms. That man's genetics are the reason I am the way I am, which I could either fear or be grateful for. I've decided to go with gratitude. ;) (We used to have long, involved discussions about all of his fandoms, from the day I tried to explain the homosexual overtones in "Jonny Quest" -- and yes, there was explaining involved, because the man's gaydar is seriously broken -- to the day we watched the government-crate-of-nuked-seeds episode of "Gilligan's Island" and decided that if Mrs. Howell ate sugar beets and they make you spazzy, and Mary Ann ate carrots and they make you see far, then Ginger must have eaten green beans and they make you grow hair on your chest, and neither of us wanted to see that plotline play out.)

In any event, due to my dad being the Original Fanboy, I think I've seen every episode of "Gilligan's Island" about a billion times. That number, by the way, is not an exaggeration, and might actually be estimating it downward a tad. And seriously? That entire show objectified women. Look at the women they had on there. Mary Ann was the cute girl next door, Ginger was the sex kitten, and Mrs. Howell ... well, Mrs. Howell was Ginger about thirty years down the line. (Well, really.) The closest they had to a smart one was Mary Ann, and she mostly managed to be smarter than the others by not occasionally forgetting about gravity and tipping over.

As for the commercial itself, considering it's a commercial for the reality show, which uses real "actresses" for the Gingers, gorgeous small-town girls for the Mary Anns, and Barbie-esque trophy wives for the Loveys (so this time around, all three of them are hot women), we should probably be grateful they didn't toss in a Mrs. Howell into the fight while they were at it.

Also, anyone suggesting that "the guys get a turn" should have to watch the Skippers mudwrestle. Or better yet, Alan Hale Jr. and Jim Backus should have to have a coconut cream pie fight. Yes, I know they're dead. But tell me you wouldn't watch that.