Jencyclopedia

An escape artist wants to a challenge, so Roarke throws him in an unescapable prison.
Georgia Engel and her friend want to be jet setters.

Early Tattoo always seems to be concerned about how much everyone is paying for their fantasies, while Roarke is more lenient, but by the end of the series, this is reversed.

Roarke: …it’s a request he may live to regret.

😁

Gregory Udall: Devil’s Island doesn’t exist anymore.
Roarke: Doesn’t it? This is Fantasy Island, Mr. Udall, and here, anything exists, if I so wish.

Early Roarke is very self-centered — this is my island, these are my rules — and it’s weird to hear him talk like this. Later Roarke doesn’t do this at all.

It’s also weird to hear him excited about people being eaten by sharks. Now that Fantasy Island has become a series, I was thinking maybe Roarke was going to be softer, but I guess not. I wonder when exactly that transition happens.

Nice, they’re making fun of the girls’ appearances and how hard it’s going to be to make them convincing jet setters. But I guess that’s nothing new; there was that guy who wanted to date a perfect ten, and he ended up going with a nine, and his friends were all over him for her being “ugly” too.

Aw, the Columbia Ranch pool, weeee! And Tattoo gets to show up in the middle of the episode! Of course, he’s trying to pick up a chick.

One of the scavenger hunt items is a bird’s nest? That seems like a bad idea. But then again, there are a ton of birds of Fantasy Island. Maybe that’s not intentional — maybe they’re an invasive species, and the scavenger hunt is supposed to help alleviate that problem? lol.

Ann Dowd: You sound like you spend a lot of time watching kids play.

Eee, this line wouldn’t go over well today.

This beach looks a bit like Paradise Cove, but I don’t think that’s it; Paradise Cove has more of a slope. Maybe Little Dume Beach? There aren’t enough pictures looking south.

I don’t know if I trust this other prisoner or not. He said he’s also an escape artist, and he asked Roarke for the same fantasy ten years ago, but he’s been stuck in this prison ever since. All of the guests I’ve seen in the past have finished their fantasy in one weekend (or, in a few cases, they’ve chosen to stay on the island and live in the past or whatever). Roarke has never just left someone in a fantasy and not been like “your fantasy is over”. But then again, this Roarke is a little more unpredictable, so maybe?

Whoa, what? Roarke’s vest thing under his jacket is pink, not white. What is this?

The girls are talking about their fantasy ending at midnight, but no one said anything in that scene about midnight — I had to go back and re-watch it to make sure — so that remark didn’t make sense to me. I can’t think of any other times fantasies have ended exactly at midnight, but they’re going for a Cinderella thing here, so I guess that’s why. Anyway, what could possibly happen at midnight that would expose them? Are their expensive clothes gonna just fall off? (Er, well, this is Fantasy Island, so I wouldn’t put it past them.)

There’s a hawk or something outside Roarke’s house? That’s not a very tropical looking bird. Maybe these are the birds they’re trying to get rid of.

Tattoo: What is he so excited about?
Roarke: Mr. Harmon is having lunch with Charlie’s Angels.
Tattoo: Charlie’s Angels? All three of them?!
Roarke: Well, of course, Tattoo. Something wrong?
Tattoo: No, but, uh, I thought that, uh, if you don’t need me, I…

Is this the first angel reference?

Roger Sullivan: Well, I’m gonna be Peter Pan tonight. How ’bout you?
Ann Dowd: What?
Roger Sullivan: For the masquerade. They sent me a pair of green tights and funny hat, so I figure it’s either that or Robin Hood.

No, that doesn’t sound like something a Q would do at all…

Aw, see, this feels like Fantasy Island; one story I care about and one story I don’t. And funnily enough, I do remember the jet setter fantasy a bit, but not the escape artist one. And neither of these are love fantasies — sure, both jet setters end up going home with a man, but that was just a side effect; their actual fantasy didn’t have to do with love at all.

Season 7 Roarke would never get away with going to a masquerade party in his white suit.

Maxine Bender: He just keeps saying I’m a hearty girl and he loves me, and I think I love him too.
Ann Dowd: But you just met him!

Get outta here with that talk.

I always like when a non-main character turns out to also be someone with a fantasy.

These guys with the guns at the prison are the worst shooters I’ve ever seen. I mean, I know Mr. Roarke’s not gonna let anyone die, but still.

Ooh, this is weird, the car at the end drove in from left to right rather than right to left.