At a press conference held in the Castaway Island Governing Committee hut, the Professor denied the allegations recently launched against him by the Skipper. “The Skipper and Gilligan served me with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testimony before the Governing Committee last June,” he said.
At a last-minute media gaggle held at the Castaway Island Lagoon, the Skipper stated his intentions to annex the Professor’s hut. “Anything less than that hut in my hands is unacceptable,” he said. He also announced that he was appointing Gilligan as a special envoy to “lead the charge” in making the hut part of his territory. “We’re going to see what happens. We need [the hut] for Island security,” the Skipper said. “We have a very good relationship with [the Professor], as you know. We’ll see.
Although The Skipper justified the overnight raid by citing “narcoterrorism,” he had previously noted about the Howells’ access to some of the Island’s largest coconut-tree groves: “Maybe we will sell the coconut cream pies. Maybe we will keep them. Maybe we’ll use them in the Strategic Coconut Reserves.”
Gilligan: Hey Skipper, why are you building a tollgate on the path between our tent and the other castaways’ tents? Skipper: This will allow us to impose a big, Beautiful 25% tariff on all their Trade with us. The Skipper is going to take back what was stolen from us by other castaways and, frankly, by incompetent Island Leadership.