Actually, the entire package is the package found inside an American military MRE. Standard "rations" as you like to call them.

Also, the Meat Stew "ration" is actually a main meal from an American miltary MRE or Meal Ready-to Eat.

The hula doll looks a lot like the one at the start of the texas chainsaw massacre i realised when I watched it today.

I figured it out! The hula doll reminds us that that the filming location is Hawaii. They aren't really lost, they're just on vacation. Boy oh boy, sure feels good to know the answer to at least one question.

I can't believe it wasn't in "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead." My second guess was in "Further Instructions."

Jane, you rule.

I know I've seen the doll oodles of times... in other movies; surfer woodies on their way to the beach; wish I was on vacation cards, etc. When I saw it on Lost my initial reaction was "We've seen that before", but now I'm wondering if "yes, I've seen it before, but not on Lost".... just a thought to ponder.

No hula on Par Avion, per the lost-media screencaps. No references to a hula doll and that episode title, either. That was recent enough that would have been noted.

I'm beginning to think we haven't seen it in Lost. I think we're all remembering a commercial or something...

What about on the dash when Claire has her car crash?

See Jane. See Jane review old shows. See Jane get frustrated.

Thanks for doing all this work.

We do not see it when Eko enters the Beechcraft in Psalm 23.

I'm not seeing it in Born To Run. Rats.

It's not on the scooter Hurley buys to race throught the airport to make his flight.

It doesn't appear during the bank robbery in Whatever The Case May Be.

It's not in Ray Mullen's truck.

I'm still with you Detroit, on the Kate flashback. Unfortunately I don't have the ability to see old episodes :(

PLEASE! Someone look into a Kate flashback. I am positive that Kate had it. If memory recalls correctly , camera shoots from outside windsheild and Kate is see looking at the hula doll wiggling. Errrr..... "SNARF"
Yeah I said SNARF... Yo THUNDERCATS!

Okay, this is a stretch.

I've been trying desperately to find out where we've seen that hula doll before. I've reviewed Numbers (not in Hurley's hummer), Tricia Tanaka (not there either), Live Together Die Alone (it's not on Ice Station Zebra, Portugese version), Further Instructions (not in Locke's pickup), Exodus 2 (not in Hurley's rental vehicle), Everyone Hates Hugo (not in Johnny's van)... and I am coming up with nothing, absolutely nothing. I know we've seen it before!

What keeps coming up in the internet searches, though, is Season 3, Episode 22... of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. It's called "The Hula Doll Affair," and it's about a hula doll packed with a very powerful explosive. The next episode, Episode 23... is called "The Pieces of Fate Affair"... and it's known as the "lost" episode, because it was withheld from initial syndication. Spooky...

The hula doll is not seen in the Portugese listening station at the end of Season 2. Nor is it in Hurley's rental vehicle at the end of season 1.

I'm not seeing it in Tricia Tanaka either. This is bugging me!

I'm not seeing it in Further Instructions.

No Hula Doll in Deus Ex Machina.

I looked at Numbers. I didn't see the Hula Doll in Hurley's hummer.

Shoot. I wanted to say that it was in the VW bus. I'll have to check those out.

I was thinking that the hula girl was in the drug smugglers' plane too, davidrmg. I thought that when Boone entered the plane and went to the cockpit, he wiggled the doll. But I think that Locke had one in his truck when he picked up Eddie, too.

Great, this means that next time I go back and rewatch Seasons 1, 2, and now 3, I will be looking for a stupid little hula doll all the time! LOL

ROFL at Locke will come in the middle of the night and blow up the satellite phone. ;D

or only means that they are near by Hawaii

The Hula-girl dancer was in the dashboard of the crashed drugs smugglers plane... I think!..

Don't worry. Locke will come in the middle of the night and blow up the satellite phone. God, I hope we learn where he and the rest of the Others are soon!

Well one thing's for sure; Sayid is going to want to have a look at this sattelite phone when our amigos and newfound friend come back. It says INTERNAL ERROR on the interface of the phone, but whatever is wrong with it is probably something Sayid can fix...unless of course there's some sort of plot that the radio gets desrtoyed or lost thus increasing the amount of time the Losties have to spend on the island unable to call for help.

1st time poster and I have to say that I have enjoyed this site and all the frequent posters.

My family is from Portugal and I can tell you that the hula girl isn't a portuguese doll. They have a typical cultural doll and this isn't it. Trying to tie the doll to the book however, I have been told that there is a very large portuguese base in Hawaii. Just a thought.

If someone wants to check 1x18, NUMBERS... Hurley may have had a figurine on the dash of his hummer or rental car. Not sure. Will look into later if nobody else finds it.

Lostapedia says it was similar to the one that Hurley had on the dashboard of his Hummer. They also say that the phone is a Iridium 9500 satellite phone with a fake screen placed on it for close-up shots.

Any chance the hawaiian doll girl was on the dash of the mystery death car?

:)

lynch, I'm pretty sure you were joking, but it wouldn't make sense for Apple to ever make a sat phone. Think about it. The iPhone is a cell phone that works with cellular networks, and according to Wikipedia, "Around 80% of world's population have mobile phone coverage as of 2006." How many people do you know who use a sat phone?

Nice idea about future travel, though. It definitely doesn't look like any interface I've ever seen on a phone or PDA of any kind, especially as far back as 2004. Are we supposed to assume that this phone is a little too advanced for its time, or was that a prop error? On the show and in official podcasts, there have been definite hints of time travel (Lindelof essentially said that Desmond traveled back in time in his last flashback), and there have also been hints of time perhaps being different on the island than in the outside world.

What kind of satellite phone is that? I'm by no means an expert, but it looks to me like that interface was made up for the show. As chizet mentioned, it's got the Mac OS X "Home" icon (twice, actually, albeit colored differently down below), but it also has similar little icons at the top to those of Windows Mobile. The 3D blue buttons are also reminiscent of Mac OS X, and for a moment I even thought the sat phone looked like an Apple iPhone (until I looked at a picture of the latter). It is *NOT* the same interface as the iPhone, nor is it even very close.

THIS CONFIRMS TIME TRAVEL!!
If you look at the interface of the Sat-phone, it is obviously the 2nd generation iPhone from Apple! It even uses the remarkably similar icons for home (as previously noted), phone, weather, mail and calendar.Our parachutist dropped in from the future!

Hi guys -- new here! A hula-girl figurine was used in the movie "Space Cowboys" -- she was stuck onto the control panel of the space shuttle the elderly astronauts were flying. Could it be that that some of you are remembering but can't quite place? Just a thought...

Maybe the new mystery girl was onboard with James Garner and Donald Sutherland and Tommy Lee Jones and Clint Eastwood, but they cut her out of the movie because of time constraints... yeah, that's the ticket.

I'm with Lost-n-Detroit, the Hula Girl was in a Kate Flashback I think.

im pretty sure that the hula girl was on a desk , from the lost experience , when that girl goes to the apartment and reads the note from her friend. ..

If you notice, the warning message says internal error... Maybe the batteries weren't out, and the Island was actually preventing the phone from working ("after the sky turned purple, all our communications have been down")

Seems to me they just need to have gilligan get the professor to make a battery out of coconuts.

Wasn't the Hula doll on a car dash board sceen from a Kate flashback?

I think we have seen the hula girl before on the dash of someone's car. I'm thinking it may have been on the dash of the helicopter, like a good luck charm, and she grabbed it on the way out.

The bars at the top of the phone clearly show that they are signal strength not battery strength, plus there is a message stating internal error. Also, I find it strange that one person would bring a book on a trip if they are flying alone.

I could be wrong, but in the last scene of the last episode of season 2, didn't we see this hoola girl in the opening shot of the scene. It start on the girl, and then pans over to the 2 people in the pod. If I was in some sort of space pod hovering over an ocean I would want a hoola girl on the dash.

I am with you Chelly we have seen the hula doll before.

Wasn't that hula girl in a different scene somewhere? I know there are millions of them...but maybe an Eko scene or Yemi scene? God, I can't place where it was at...help? Could just be a cute connection/easter egg thing...at least that's what I'm thinking.

Great pick up on the "internal error".. makes sense that something may be interfering with its signal... i first noticed when the screen showed up that it had bars showing the possibility it could be used to contact for help, and that hurley or charlie had in fact SHUT IT OFF intentionally!!

Notice also that, although the phone appeared to be getting reception, it also has says "Internal Error" down below that. Even if the phone was getting reception, there's a chance that it may not function correctly. Possibly something on the island is messing it up.

I'm sure it's nothing but the "Home" icon is that same exact icon used in Apple's OSX. Check it out here:

Clickie

Looks like Penny maybe sent one of her people to find Des. Not sure on the doll, but might as well google Portuguese or Brazil doll and see what you find.

Is the doll a clue as to where she came from? "Sorry it took 3 years Des got stuck on vacation in Hawaii."

are you 110% sure it SHUT itself off?? because as touch screen phones go a simple movement of the thumb over the power on/off and a quick explanation that it shut off could be a episode next year when we in fact see that hurley was trying to thwart there using the phone???

Oops, cut the top off. Fixed, showing three bars at top. And... it's on speaker phone I guess. Not sure what the two arrows mean ... transmitting data maybe? Not sure how much to make of that stuff, as they probably used a functioning phone to get the pic of the OS.

It shut off on hurley. He did not shut it off.

unsure if you can get the other picture of the phone which is in the request page but it clearly shows 5 bars of reception at the top and yet hurley instantly switches it off and says it dies??? it seemed all too quick that he grabbed it and did what he could to quell any further investigation of it??