 As the first tiki wave started to crest towards the end of the 1960s, the original air of mystery and exoticism associated with the tiki motif by Americans began to be replaced by more humorous "curse of the tiki" plot devices as sitcoms gained prominence on television.The visual iconography of TV series "Gilligan's Island" (1964-1967) borrowed significantly from an assumed tiki culture with huts and furniture resembling a fantasy-Polynesian castaway village.An episode had the cast disturbing the resting place of a vengeful Tiki god, and attempting to break the curse by invoking "The Great Watubi".