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A man wants to hunt Bigfoot.
A man wants to hang out on the mythical island of lost women.

It seems like this guy is spending an awful long time walking down the dock.

I love that there’s a shot of Tattoo applauding and then nudging Roarke to applaud too, because there was a similar shot in 1×14 “King for a Day” with their roles reversed.

Also, omg, those curtains in the background have the red flowers on them. That is wonderful.

Eddie Malone: Oh, you didn’t catch the show, huh?
Roarke: No, I’m afraid not. I came, in fact, just in time to see that film of a man running around in a monkey suit.

Ooh.

Eddie Malone: What have I got to lose?
Roarke: Nothing.

Ouch. I thought this guy was supposed to be Roarke’s friend? I mean, yes, he’s a fraud, so Roarke’s gotta teach him a lesson, but Roarke is being overtly rude here, which is unusual for him.

Barney Shore: That’s the plane that Mr. Roarke showed me.
Woman: You know about such machines?!

Brain and brain, what is brain?

Both of these fantasies have something to do with birds that are actually planes.

Eddie Malone: It’s so simple; I wonder why somebody hasn’t thought of it before.

So let me get this straight: you’re gonna fly an airplane (painted to look like a giant yellow bird) over the jungle, hope you find Bigfoot, land the plane, wait for Bigfoot to come poking around, and hope he doesn’t use ESP to figure out that you’re inside?

They’re playing the entire opening theme music in the middle of the episode. I think they’re doing it because there’s a plane, but… this is weird.

I don’t know if you’re gonna find Bigfoot at Vasquez Rocks…

Now he’s talking about how he just wants “a piece of the action”, heh heh.

Eh, I wasn’t a big fan of this episode. I did actually pay attention to both stories for once, and the Lost Women one is such a completely hokey story that I should have loved it, but there weren’t that many GIFs in this episode, and nothing new was revealed about the geography of the main house.

The guy in Lost Women was Bert Cooper from Mad Men?! I could have sworn he died in real life right after his last episode aired, but nope, he’s still around.

Oh wow, Michelle Pfeiffer was in this? And it’s her first credit on IMDb.

I don’t have friends to watch and discuss Fantasy Island with, so I feel like reading other people’s IMDb reviews is the closest I can get to that, and I always look forward to seeing an episode has reviews.

• That’s weird; we never had that before:
  • Fantasy Island has its own newspaper, the Fantasy Island Daily Chronicle.
  • Roarke: Mr. Malone didn’t come here for a fantasy; he thinks he’s here to give a series of his Bigfoot lectures.
  • Roarke and Tattoo drive away after the guests leave at the end of the episode.
• Tattoo’s scheme of the week: investing in the stock market
• Recurring characters: Tattoo’s unseen cousin Hugo is a stock market mogul
• Friend of Roarke: Eddie Malone was “a long time ago, a close and good friend”
• Recurring phrases:
  • Tattoo: Fifty dollars?! How can he afford a fantasy?
    Roarke: Take heart, my mercenary friend.
  • Barney Shore: Listen, you can come right out and say it, Mr. Roarke; I know you believe that I’m crazed to think that an island of lost women really exists.
    Roarke: Indeed.
  • Roarke: Mr. Shore, I must warn you, however, that island is uncharted. I have no powers there, and I’ll be unable to guarantee your safety.
• Roarke’s drink: yellow with a lemon slice
• Neighbouring islands:
  • Roarke: There is a little known legend about such a civilization on a nearby island.
• The other side of the island: It’s where Bigfoot lives.
• Leaving with an extra guest:
  • Eddie Malone with Professor Smith-Myles
  • Barney Shore with his new wife