Jencyclopedia

A man is in love with his boss and Roarke kidnaps her and forces her to spend the weekend with the man.
A couple that gave up their daughter for adoption wants to meet her.
A woman lost her memory on her honeymoon, so she and her husband relive that night in order to try to bring her memory back.

It’s so weird to see a different opening sequence.

The entrance to the house is the same one they use in season seven, but not the one they use in season six. I think this is the real house, and the mid-seasons used a set maybe? I have never liked this entrance, because the concrete part on the ground is too clean, and I always felt like it looked like wet cement.

Roarke: I only cut the price when I find the fantasies particularly intriguing… or when I feel a personal sympathy for them. Then I think it’s fair that they pay only what they can afford.
Tattoo: Because you just enjoy making their fantasies come true?
Roarke: Precisely.
Tattoo: And I’m the Easter Bunny! You enjoy it more when fantasies don’t turn out to be what the people expect.

Then Roarke goes on to quote “we are such stuff as dreams are made of” (lolol that doesn’t sound like something a Q would do at all), and then Tattoo is like “Hemingway?”, which first of all, come on, Tattoo, and second of all, don’t they do a gag like this again way later in the series? Okay, I just went a looked at my previous posts, and this is actually a callback to the pilot, but since I watched the pilot in season 6, I thought it was callforward. Yeah, this makes way more sense if you watched the series in order, because in the pilot, Tattoo had asked “who is Hemingway?” so this is a callback to that.

Agh, the name credits are not vertically centered, this is so weird.

Oh, they’ve got those creepy loudspeakers again.

Oh no, a woman boss with a male underling. I’ve got a bad feeling about this.

Oh crap, I always forget to listen to what they fantasies are about, and then I always end up confused.

It’s so weird to see all the guests from the different fantasies in the same shot.

“Shall we say an hour?” See, I knew Precise Roarke was a season seven thing.

Lowell Benson: That beautiful, and all she can do is eat, sleep, and think business deals twenty-four hours a day.

Yeeep.

Okay, I had to go back and re-watch the introductions, because I couldn’t remember what the couple in yellow’s fantasy was, but it turns Roarke didn’t actually say, he just said that they had no children.

So I wonder if Roarke is still supposed to be evil in this one, ’cause I feel like he has good sense here. He says “that’s life” to the guy concerned about the business woman not being womanly enough, and then he suggested the childless couple adopt.

Lucy Faber: You leave me no choice.
Roarke: That’s the prerogative of having your own island.

Damn, okay, my fantasy is to have my own island too. It doesn’t really work though, because I don’t just want it for a weekend; I want it to live on forever and never interact with other humans again.

Hahaha, so Roarke’s not going to tell them which girl is their daughter, that’s great.

Hm, I don’t recognize this beach. That’s weird. Eh, off in the distance though, it looks like that could be Westward, so maybe this is somewhere north of Zuma.

Crap. I was looking at Google Maps, why is he carrying Adrienne Barbeau?

Oh fuuuuuuuck no no no.

Margo Dean: Where do we find Mr. Maxwell?
Roarke: The truth is, I’m afraid you’ve been brought here under false pretenses, Miss Dean; Mr. Maxwell isn’t here.
Margo Dean: What?
Roarke: No no no, please, please, don’t interrupt me. As you know, you are on Fantasy Island. What you probably don’t know is that this is the place to which people come to realize their secret wishes, for a few days, for a price.

And your assistant wants to be alone with you on an island for the weekend, so I pimped you out, and I get to keep all the money, see you in two days byeeee.

I would sue Roarke so bad.

God damn, this is like the worst fantasy ever, jfc.

Charles Fleming: I told you, I fell in love with Janet.
Roarke: Suddenly? After knowing her since you were both children?

Pfft, what, you don’t think people can just ~suddenly~ fall in love? Doesn’t your business depend on that?

Ooh, this feels familiar, the girls talking about all being adopted. I bet Jo is the real daughter. Actually, the Margo fantasy is feeling familiar now too, so I probably did see this episode back in the day too.

Haha omg, is that denim jumpsuit the standard kidnapped woman uniform? Oh, so this is just gonna be the same fantasy as the one in the first episode basically? It’s only the second episode, and they’re already running out of ideas, lol.

🙄 at Margo suddenly turning into a damsel in distress when she sees a spider. Just because he saves her from a spider doesn’t mean she owes him sex.

Margo Dean: Your fantasy is over, Benson.

Stupid woman, she shoulda stayed with the Nice Guy who’s in love with her, but now she’s gotta go and get kidnapped.

In a rare show of equality, both Adrienne Barbeau and George Marharis’ shirts have become miraculously undone. I appreciate that.

Wtffffff wtf. That wasn’t Roarke all along, was it? Whoa what whoa Khan alert. I was wondering why that Dorf guy wasn’t in the credits. Geez. I’m blaming it on the shit quality that I didn’t recognize him. Damn, I wonder if that was actually a decent disguise, or if I’m just being an idiot like when I watch Full House. I didn’t write this earlier, but Dorf reminded me of Torgo.

Okay, so I’ve gone back and I’m rewatching Dorf, and most of his face is covered with his hair, so it is kinda hard to tell, but yeah, that’s Roarke. And he’s riding a white horse, wow.

Margo Dean: How did I get here? A man brought me here.

lol oh man, this line is great in retrospect. Hey, so is this the first time Roarke gets all up in someone’s personal space? Ah, if I had looked closer at Dorf’s arms, maybe I would have realized it was him, hahaha. Oh, I’m really disappointed now that Raoul isn’t a Trek villain too, since the girl living with them was Elaan.

Hey, Roarke’s office! lol okay so Roarke plays chess with Lawrence and Monopoly with Tattoo.

They did a nice job re-creating the layout of this office for the series. I’m assuming this is an actual room, or at least a different set from his normal office, since I don’t think at this point they knew it was gonna be a series. The gold box is not there though, which makes me sad, but I think that’s the same desk and possibly the same chair.

Charles Fleming: Tell me, just what is your Mr. Roarke?
Tattoo: Some people call him [motions upward], and some people call him [motions downward].
Charles Fleming: And what do you call him?
Tattoo: Mr. Roarke.

Aww, I wish he said “boss”.

Pierre: I was just that French-Canadian kid who looked after the boat.

Woo, Canada.

That darn ~tape recorder~ again! In my modern remake of Fantasy Island that I just came up with in my head, Roarke will tweet at you instead.

Lowell Benson: You just keep reminding me [that I brought you to this island under false pretenses], and I’ll just keep apologizing.

Damn straight you should keep apologizing. You’re messed up, dude, if you think it’s a good idea to kidnap your crush instead of just ~talking~ to her.

I feel like they were almost but not quite going for an Ophelia thing with the shot of Janet drowned. It’s been a long time since I read Hamlet; why did Ophelia kill herself again? She thought Hamlet didn’t love her or something? Oh yeah, ’cause he was all “get thee to a nunnery”, right? Yeah, no, that doesn’t really make sense here, so I don’t think they were going for that.

Oh, what the heck, the woman who plays the mother in the adoption fantasy also appeared in “Saturday’s Child”, which was the episode with the actress who gave up her child. Although she didn’t play the mother in that episode.

Is it just me, or does the ghost fantasy make no sense? What is going on? It feels overly complicated. What’s the deal with the guy’s ex-girlfriend, and what’s with Pierre? Oh, okay, they’ve just explained it. Yeah, that’s kind of too complicated for a half-hour story. But I still don’t understand what the deal was with Pierre? And how did these old people make the dagger appear everywhere, and make her hallucinate her husband drowned? And wait, why did the old woman who was in on it see the girl drowned? Was that just Roarke playing a trick on them? Yeah, I’m still not sure this makes sense.

Haha, I love how Roarke just walks in outta nowhere.

Margo Dean: Thank you, Mr. Roarke. I’m not certain what for, but thank you.

Yeah, no. You’ve got Stockholm syndrome, girl.

Poor Tattoo is hardly in this.

Roarke: Ah-ah-ah-ah, no questions on Fantasy Island, Tattoo.

I was looking at the filming locations, ’cause I wasn’t sure if the cave was the batcave or not, but they don’t have it listed. Anyway, damn, I wanna go to the Fantasy Island house.