Episode 4: Goodnight sweet Skipper

So the Skipper was at Guadalcanal! WOW! Impressive, fer sure! That alone gives the Skipper muchos respect of all the castaways. One of the bloodiest campaigns in WW2, and not only was he there, he survived it.

Anyhoo, in this episode he knows how to fix a radio and make it into a transmitter. But only when he's dreaming, or sleepwalking. (as an aside, do sleepwalkers really sleepwalk with their arms outstretched in front of them?)

And while this one-time event happens, some lady is flying around the world, and directly over the island at some time. So naturally they want to be able to radio her. Which means making the Skipper fall asleep again to dream, perchance, to dream and build the transmitter.
The castaways decide to secretly slip him a mickey, er, tranquilizer. But they each do, so he winds up downing 10 which should be enough to kill him. But nope, he falls asleep and dream-builds the transmitter. Professor writes it down and they fix the electronics.
Doesn't work. And again they leave Gilligan in charge. He hits the radio, it works, he demonstrates how he fixed it by pounding it again, thereby destroying it.

Some notes:

• The transmitter-thing seems to materialize out of nowhere. 
• When Gilligan asks the Howell's for the pills, it's light out. When he takes them to Mary-Ann, it's dark, and she's cooking dinner. And then Professor shows up, followed by Ginger and then the Skipper. Where the hell were they? It's an ISLAND!! The huts are right there! And then after Skipper passes out, the Howell's show up! Seriously, there's only 7 of them and they seem to find time alone.
• Looks like they have separate huts now.