Message in A Bottle - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Edgar Allan Poe wrote a short story entitled "MS. Found in a Bottle", possibly intended as a satire of sea tales.
• The Police recorded a song titled "Message in a Bottle" in 1979. It was their first number one hit.
• Eyedea wrote a song called "Bottle Dreams", which refers to a girl who sends a daily message in a bottle into a river; after her death about 500 messages in bottles are found.
• Nicholas Sparks's novel Message in a Bottle was made into a film of the same name in 1999.
• In the 1977 Disney animated film, The Rescuers, captured protagonist Penny sent out a distress message in a bottle at the beginning of the movie in the hopes that someone will find it and rescue her.
• In the 2009 BBC Radio 4 comedy sketch series Bigipedia one sketch covered the history of "The Desert Island Bore", a woman who has written more messages in bottles than anyone in history, but has never been rescued from the desert island due to her letters' mundane content.
• In a second season episode of Gilligan's Island called "The Postman Cometh", it is revealed that Mary Ann writes a daily letter to her boyfriend Horace (who she later admits is a "real creep" and wasn't really her boyfriend at all, just a boy she hardly knew that she invented a romance with because Ginger had so many beaux and Mrs. Howell had her husband, so she wanted somebody to think that there was someone waiting for her back home).