Great TV Moment - Gilligan's Island

So, here are the castaways, marooned on a desert isle after what was supposed to be a three-hour tour around Hawaii. Man, talk about getting lost. The storm was bad, sure, but a TOUR usually consists of hugging the coast and showing sights like Pearl Harbor, maybe a volcano.

So, anyway, here they are marooned for a while now – they already have the bamboo cars and the oven that cooks those delicious Coconut Cream pies – and Mr. Howell hears on the radio, which he luckily turned on just in time, that his finances back home are in serious trouble, so he offers ONE MILLION DOLLARS to whoever comes up with an idea to get them off the island.

Well, the Gilligan, Skipper, Ginger…and the rest…actually I think the Professor and Marianne’s agents leveraged their full names by now. Point is they all set diligently about finding a way off, really throwing themselves into Project: Get Of Island.

Personally, I think JUST GETTING OFF THE ISLAND would be all the incentive you'd need, but apparently they needed monetary compensation.