Gilligan's Island is suppose to be a microcosm of the real world.
The Howells are the wealthy of society, ginger represents the celebrities in society, Mary Anne is the youth of the nation, the professor represents the educated of society, the skipper is the working class and Gilligan represents the... um... the crazies/criminals/high school drop outs/disabled/hobos/incompetents of our world.
Which is why the show is named after him, he represents the majority of society. We all live on Gilligan's Island, we just call it earth.
How many Gilligan's do you know?
