Working on a critique of how The Chair gets contemporary academia wrong but first want to finish my piece showing the huge gap between most desert island experiences and Gilligan's Island.
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For sure, though the direction and intent of those departures are always worth noting. I'm just a couple episodes in, and so far it's surprisingly accurate (given genre constraints) w/r/t to faculty/admin, but it does seem to think that college students are idiots.
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The mark of a "sit-com" is that the situation never changes, including a restricted character arc. Verisimilitude may be exact, non-existent, or in between.
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There was a major LA avenue just on the other side of the lagoon and Gilligan's name was Willy Gilligan and the skipper was Jonas Grumby.
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You mean it was plausible that the professor was smart enough to build anything except a raft?
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This is why, vis a vis verisimilitude, Fantasy Island > Gillian's Island, surely?
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I always took Gilligan's Island as almost a documentary.
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Sitcom is not a word I would use to describe The Chair
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But the average person doesn't know which parts are stylizing and this can do real harm: cf. cop shows.
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So, it can be worth debunking stereotypes. With academia under siege from the far right, it's probably worth pointing out that few academics have such a cushy life.
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So you’re saying Get Smart is not an accurate representation of Cold War espionage?
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