Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 31, 2023

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    Da'Dad  over 1 year ago

    On one hand we do not like getting lectured, and yet, we do enjoy the odd tidbit of something new.

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    alasko  over 1 year ago

    Figures. Newton would be a bad boat name. DYSWIDT?

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    Tyge  over 1 year ago

    Some things do get through their filter of interest!

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    SpacedInvader Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The professor could make all sorts of things except a boat repair or a working radio.

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    smurf764  over 1 year ago

    I saw an article prior to Minnow’s death that the producers of Gilligan’s Island didn’t like Minnow saw they named the SS Minnow after him. I had the same response as A & J. What I didn’t know, he was a big supporter of PBS and educational TV on commercial TV as part of their FCC license. I think Big Bird mourned his passing.

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    Homerville Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Arlo is a wealth of knowledge.

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    dlkrueger33  over 1 year ago

    I love trivia like that! I never would have suspected the boat was named after a person. I figured, "small boat equals ‘minnow’ "

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    AnneFackler  over 1 year ago

    I’m with you, Janis. I started yawning at panel 1. Woke up for panel 4.

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    1504jarvis  over 1 year ago

    Always bothered me that it was the SS Minnow. Should have been the MV Minnow.

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    cleaman301 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    What was in that bowl in the second frame?

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    Just-me  over 1 year ago

    I learn something new pretty much every day here on GC.

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    The Orange Mailman  over 1 year ago

    We love trivia more than the meta narrative.

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    Skeptical Meg  over 1 year ago

    Interesting? It’s fascinating.

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    Prescott_Philosopher   over 1 year ago

    The narrative is not from Arlo. It’s a TV show they’re watching and find it boring until the information RE Gilligan’s Island is presented. JJ is being sarcastic.

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    Ignatz Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Here’s the creator of Gilligan’s Island saying that the boat was named after Newton Minow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlk86NVeWPI&t=358s

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    shorzy  over 1 year ago

    Gerry Mander’s book ‘Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television’ is still a classic written by an ad exec…

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    Uncle Bob  over 1 year ago

    C’mon! … really?

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    jarvisloop  over 1 year ago

    Evidently, Minow was unaware of a basic truth of humankind: “One person’s wasteland is another’s paradise.”

    Not everyone wants – or is able, as is my case – to become an intellectual.

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    FassEddie  over 1 year ago

    Sherwood Schwartz (GI’s producer)wouldn’t disagree with the vast wasteland statement. He was farming it.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Please stop with this stuff…………………..

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    Rich_Pa  over 1 year ago

    That radio they had lasted for years on the same battery.

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    paranormal  over 1 year ago

    I was going to say what is in the last panel…

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    I'm Sad  over 1 year ago

    I love a good factual history lesson!!!! Need more of this stuff!!!

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    Ken Norris Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Hundred’s of channels and streaming services and still only a few things worth watching…

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    someotherotherguy  over 1 year ago

    Wonder what he’d make of TV now that it’s vaster and more wasted.

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    mjpalmer  over 1 year ago

    Yes that is where we are today……heads under the sand….

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 1 year ago

    I could well be wrong but I’m a disbeliever.

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    chief tommy  over 1 year ago

    Naming it the Minnow was more than an inside joke. He (Minnow) wasn’t popular with his Wasteland comment among other things in the television community so it was a bit of a put down

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    amaryllis2 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Interesting. Then Minow would have known my late in-law who was on the board of the FCC around then. Thanks!

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    Daeder  over 1 year ago

    I bet C-Dog knew that.

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    oakie817  over 1 year ago

    cool

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    Sambora1  over 1 year ago

    I was never really able to get into the show, it just seemed after Giliigan messing up them getting rescue all the time just made it get boring to me. I think I may have seen half a season and after that I quit.

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    Spooky D Cat  over 1 year ago

    Steve Allen had a newt in an aquarium behind his desk on his show back then. He named it Minnow. Minnow the newt.

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    tomfromthe50s  over 1 year ago

    Gilligan’s Island was part of the vast wasteland!

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    dlauber Premium Member over 1 year ago

    What a sweet tribune to a real dynamo, the late Newton Minow, a good friend of the late, great Congressman and Justice Abner Mikva, a mentor of mine from childhood. They were both giants in their respective fiedls.

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