#20
"You Need Us" from Gilligan's Island
(1965)
SONG.
Watching the ladies of Gilligan's Island perform as The Honey Bees, a kind of all-girl Beatles, never gets old. And speaking of old, "Lovey" (Natalie Schafer) was 65 when this episode was filmed, even though she had fibbed to her cast mates and was assumed to be a good deal younger (she was 13 years older than "Thurston"/Jim Backus). Their take on The Beatles (or The Mosquitoes, as they were represented in the episode) is earnest and literal, but those lyrics are funnier and more creative than most of the (nonetheless eternally enchanting) series.
CHOICE LYRIC:
"You need us
You need us
Like a clam needs a shell
Like a prisoner needs a cell
Like a ding-dong needs a bell."
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