'Mr. Lucky'
"The Magnificent Bribe" (1959) … El Presidente
'Gilligan's Island'
"The Little Dictator" (1965) … Rodriguez
"The Magnificent Bribe" (1959) … El Presidente
'Gilligan's Island'
"The Little Dictator" (1965) … Rodriguez
In the first episode of 'Mr. Lucky', the dictator of a Latin American
country had weekly card games with Mr. Lucky at his casino. By an amazing
coincidence, El Presidente always won those games - this was how Mr. Lucky
passed the bribes to the dictator which kept him in operation in the capital
city.
But one night, a lovely but lethal assassin killed El Presidente in the
palace. Mr. Lucky and his associate Adamo saw this as a pretty good sign it was
time to leave the country and they just barely made it out alive.
The name of the country and of El Presidente were never revealed. But
thanks to a later appearance by Nehemiah Persoff on a sitcom, Toobworld Central
is ready to claim that his last name was Rodriguez and that the country was
Equarico.
Persoff played that role in an episode of 'Gilligan's Island'.
O'Bviously that character can't be the same character from six years
earlier. No zombie could stay so fresh looking. And El Presidente was not only
merely dead, he was really most sincerely dead.
So Rodriguez was most likely the twin brother of El Presidente. And after
his brother's death, Rodriguez assumed power until he was deposed. After that,
he found himself stranded on 'Gilligan's Island'.
BCnU!
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