Proof?
They were gonna leave the railroad to Gilligan, but Lovey remembered that it loses a million dollars a year. So, they gave Gilligan an oil well and the professor the railroad. Nice.
I guess RH didn't get his nuclear reactor and likely died broke.
LOL - I always thought that too. Not that they hated him, but that the railroad was a lousy gift to give anyone - and then the Professor gets it. Wasn't he originally down for the diamond mine, (until Mrs. Howell states that Ginger "has such a lovely neck," so she got it)?
shareYou're right, they didn't hate him -- just admired his mechanical mind And yeah, Ginger got the diamond mine, Mary Ann got the plantation, and Skipper got "only" 40 acres in Denver...
Goodbye, railroad!
DOWNTOWN DENVER! Based on rentals, parking, etc these days,THAT Would be one sweet inheritance!
How sad, that you were not born in my time, nor I, in yours.
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It's an odd episode when you think about it. A lot of time is spent with the Castaways fantasizing about how happy they'll be... when Mr. Howell is dead.
shareYou're right, they didn't hate him -- just admired his mechanical mind And yeah, Ginger got the diamond mine, Mary Ann got the plantation, and Skipper got "only" 40 acres in Denver...
The railroad could still be incredibly valuable to the Professor. It's a corporation, so it no doubt has cash reserves and might be able to lose a million dollars a year without much consequence.
In 2015, Apple Inc. had so much money in cash reserves that it could lose $1,000,000 a year... for 178,000 years!
To quote Charles Foster Kane in "Citizen Kane":
"You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars NEXT year! You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 60 years."
https://youtu.be/tzhb3U2cONs?t=1m46s