FADE IN: LATER IN DAY, NEAR LAGOON
GILLIGAN NOTICES A RAFT JUST OFF SHORE.
GILLIGAN
HEY! HEY! YOU ON THE RAFT! HEY!
GILLIGAN RUNS BACK TO THE OTHERS TO TELL THEM ABOUT THEIR VISITOR.
GILLIGAN
Hey everybody! There's a raft out in the lagoon! We've got a visitor!
MR. HOWELL
Now Gilligan, are you sure? Did he look like a Havahd man?
SKIPPER
Can it, Mr. Howell.
Now Gilligan, what else can you tell me about this person?
GILLIGAN
Well, it looks like a man, and he was waving a book, I think, up in the
air over his head.
PROFESSOR
A book ... a book ... Hmmm. Maybe he's a researcher who was looking
into the wave action at the equator. What do you think?
GILLIGAN
Professor, are you kidding? I hope you're kidding. How is it each
week you can't get through 30 minutes without spouting some kind
of technobabble about this or that?
PROFESSOR
Gilligan. I'm the Professor, for gosh sakes. What do you want me to
do, iron a shirt?
GILLIGAN
Alright, alright. Forget it. Let's go see this guy on the raft.
THE CASTAWAYS ARRIVE AT THE LAGOON'S EDGE JUST IN TIME TO SEE THE RAFT MAKE LAND. A MAN DRESSED IN A BLACK ROBE STEPS ONTO THE SAND. IN HIS HAND IS BOOK OF SOME TYPE.
GILLIGAN APPROACHES THE MAN.
GILLIGAN
Ug. We, castaways. Who you?
GINGER
Gilligan, you've been watching too many Indian movies. Nobody actually
talks like that! Besides, this guy's obviously not a native.
GILLIGAN
Well, he sure ain't from Havahd!
MR. HOWELL SNEERS AT GILLIGAN.
THE MAN SEES HIS OPPORTUNITY TO INTERJECT HIMSELF IN THE CONVERSATION.
MAN
Will you put your hands out? Put your hands out on the
good book.
The eeevil devil spirits are all about us here!
Praise the Lord! Can I get a witness? Thank you, Jesus! Anybody
need any micacle spring water?
GILLIGAN
Professor, what's he talking about?
PROFESSOR
Gilligan, I think what we have here is a confused and lost
televangelist.
MAN
Now, the address on your screen is the Lord's house. Please send
anything you can spare, as soon as possible. Can you feel Him?
Praise be! Can I get a witness? Can I get a fifty? Anything!
Let's sow a seed together! What say, can you send us a thousand-dollar seed today?
GILLIGAN
Professor, what's all that 'get a witness' talk? Does he think we're
in court?
PROFESSOR
(to man)
Hey Mr. Holier-than-Thou, shove off! We ain't got time for this nonsense! ...
JUST THEN, A MAN BEARING A STRONG RESEMBLANCE TO WALLY COX ENTERS THE SCENE FROM THE LEFT.
PROFESSOR
I'm sorry, who might you be?
FADE OUT:
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