"Genie, Genie, Who's Got The Jeannie?" ***Spoiler*** - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Schmoopie · 05-28-2020, 06:06 PM

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This was a really fun quartet of episodes with them trying to find Jeannie after she was trapped in that safe but it was also touching when Tony thought that she'd been sent into space. At one point it looked as though he was crying. It got me a little emotional, which really isn't saying much since I have a tendency to do that these days, but I though they were well made and some of my favorites. It's funny that most shows these days don't do four part episodes (or even three-part).

I must be taking this show too seriously b/c I was on the edge of my seat waiting for them to rescue her! I'm guessing that back then they only showed it once a week but can you imagine! OMG, I would have been freaking out wondering what was going to happen! Worse than the soaps where you had to wait till Monday to find out what happened after the show on Friday!

Actually I was so ticked at Antenna TV b/c they only showed the first three episodes and never showed the fourth, so I had to go to Crackle to find the missing episode! I admit that I was disappointed with the ending b/c it felt kind of rushed and I felt that Tony would have been happier to see Jeannie than he appeared.

It was adorable that she had Tony's picture on the wall of the safe. And I always love it when they make the characters look so small and everything around them is big. So cute!

CosmicCharlie · 05-31-2020, 03:41 PM

quote - And I always love it when they make the characters look so small and everything around them is big. So cute!

you'd like Land of the Giants currently on MeTV reruns !

TheLittleFaerie · 08-27-2020, 01:31 AM

I always wondered why Jeannie couldn't simply blink up the combination to the safe and read it off to Tony..... She seemed to be able to use her powers inside the safe.

kentauros · 08-27-2020, 03:34 AM

She could also get into and out of a sealed space capsule as it was in space (Around the Moon in 80 Blinks). The rules were rarely followed in the show, if there were even any rules at all.

tcr1701 · 10-23-2020, 04:12 PM

Like the time should couldn't get out of a gym locker that was nowhere near being airtight. Or the metal filing cabinet that also wasn't airtight. Maybe it has to do with having someone confining her in something. It's not the item, but how she got there.

MagentaSmoke · 11-21-2020, 01:55 AM

I've always wondered about the contents in the safe. Why did they put those things in there? Please correct me or add your own - those tall canisters look like they are holding vitamins, a powder puff and compact, a lipstick, a book of matches, no idea what the red fabric is with the metal button.

Not seen in the above photo, here Jeannie sticks a match inside the lipstick and blinks to light it.

tcr1701 · 11-22-2020, 08:04 PM

The red fabric is the still normal size purse Jeannie used to carry Tony's shrunken wardrobe for their impending vacation.

It didn't shrink when Jeannie popped into the safe because Tony had it. He put it in the safe before it slammed shut.

TheLittleFaerie · 11-23-2020, 06:20 AM

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Originally Posted by tcr1701

Like the time should couldn't get out of a gym locker that was nowhere near being airtight. Or the metal filing cabinet that also wasn't airtight. Maybe it has to do with having someone confining her in something. It's not the item, but how she got there.

It makes me wonder, could Jeannie escape being locked in an ordinary room? Or in a house?

kentauros · 11-23-2020, 06:27 PM

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It makes me wonder, could Jeannie escape being locked in an ordinary room? Or in a house?

Rules were followed in the show on an arbitrary basis. If Sheldon had just written them up (as is done today with a "show bible") they could have avoided many of the discrepancies we see now. We have the benefit of having the episodes on DVD or streaming. No recordings were available to viewers back then and writers got away with much because of that. Viewers weren't going to remember as much about the rules or lack thereof until the show went into reruns.

The fifth-season episode My Sister, the Home Wrecker had Jeannii (Jeannie's sister) being simply shut into a closet and seemingly unable to blink out. I don't think it was locked; I don't remember Tony doing that. Yet, Jeannie was then able to shrink the whole closet with Jeannii in it and she still couldn't get out.

Any small container has been able to trap a djinni, such as the perfume bottle for Jeannii in Tony's Wife and the champagne bottle in How to Marry An Astronaut. Tony trapped Jeannii in a garbage can in Operation - First Couple on the Moon. Yet Jeannie was able to make a similar garbage can disappear as she replaced it at the end of Guess Who's Going to Be a Bride, Pt.-1. I just don't know if she was in it, or simply heard Tony's angry outburst from some place within the magic.

Just a little aside, I noticed in My Sister, the Home Wrecker that when Jeannie shrank the closet with her sister inside that she was not a normal "shelf-size" like Jeannie always did (about five inches or so). It looked more like she would be twice that height by the size of the shrunken closet. It was a rare occasion when IDoJ showed Jeannie or other djinn at different small-sizes.

tcr1701 · 11-24-2020, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by kentauros

Rules were followed in the show on an arbitrary basis...

And by season 5 Jeannie no longer lost her powers when she married a human (per season 2 episode "The Birds and the Bees Bit"). Which was already contradicted in season 4 episode "How To Marry an Astronaut" where Jeannie's sister claims to have been married 47 times. Or how Jeannie's mother in season 1 was human and by season 5 was a genie.

kentauros · 11-24-2020, 09:20 PM

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And by season 5 Jeannie no longer lost her powers when she married a human (per season 2 episode "The Birds and the Bees Bit"). Which was already contradicted in season 4 episode "How To Marry an Astronaut" where Jeannie's sister claims to have been married 47 times. Or how Jeannie's mother in season 1 was human and by season 5 was a genie.

And as we learned in The Case of My Vanishing Master, Pt-1 Jeannie's parents had been married by the same reverend over five thousand years before.

While the writers of the Jeannie Sisters stories did a good job figuring out how to use those rules in their version of the series from the "6th Season" on, I'd would rather just toss out those rules which just don't make much sense, and ignore certain "facts" which also cause major contradictions.

We'd probably need to develop a thread just on facts and rules and then let people decide on their own what should be kept or not if they are writing fanfic or want to do some world-building. It would be a big task with little meaning to most people. But, it could end up in a wiki or something

tcr1701 · 11-24-2020, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by kentauros

While the writers of the Jeannie Sisters stories did a good job figuring out how to use those rules in their version of the series from the "6th Season" on, I'd would rather just toss out those rules which just don't make much sense, and ignore certain "facts" which also cause major contradictions.

Perhaps the Blue Djinn being free again was a threat to Jeannie's parents so Jeannie and her sister made their mother into a genie in order to protect her. The Blue Djinn seemed to have escaped the vacuum cleaner, but was not heard from again. Maybe he made her mother a genie (as he did Jeannie) out of revenge.

kentauros · 11-24-2020, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by tcr1701

Perhaps the Blue Djinn being free again was a threat to Jeannie's parents so Jeannie and her sister made their mother into a genie in order to protect her. The Blue Djinn seemed to have escaped the vacuum cleaner, but was not heard from again. Maybe he made her mother a genie (as he did Jeannie) out of revenge.

I'm guessing he escaped the vacuum cleaner only because the handkerchief would have gotten wet and loosened. But, if we use the idea that he turned Jeannie into a djinni, then revenge on her and her family would be for him to take her parents back in time more than five thousand years and turn them into djinn back then (in order for them to have been married for over 5,000 years).

That would then change Jeannie into having been born a djinni (including her sister and hinted at 'baby' sister), but that doesn't change much other than a few episodes in the first and second seasons. It also makes it easier to ignore some rules and justify others.

Oh, in case anyone else is reading this, I use the word "djinn" as plural for the singular "djinni." It depends on which country you get the grammar from, so that might explain why they used 'djinn' for The Blue Djinn when he is just one djinni.

05-28-2020, 06:06 PM	#1
Schmoopie Keep Calm and Love Snoopy Forum Star Join Date: Jul 13, 2008 Location: Lynnwood, Washington Posts: 15,697	"Genie, Genie, Who's Got The Jeannie?" *Spoiler* *SPOILER*** This was a really fun quartet of episodes with them trying to find Jeannie after she was trapped in that safe but it was also touching when Tony thought that she'd been sent into space. At one point it looked as though he was crying. It got me a little emotional, which really isn't saying much since I have a tendency to do that these days, but I though they were well made and some of my favorites. It's funny that most shows these days don't do four part episodes (or even three-part). I must be taking this show too seriously b/c I was on the edge of my seat waiting for them to rescue her! I'm guessing that back then they only showed it once a week but can you imagine! OMG, I would have been freaking out wondering what was going to happen! Worse than the soaps where you had to wait till Monday to find out what happened after the show on Friday! Actually I was so ticked at Antenna TV b/c they only showed the first three episodes and never showed the fourth, so I had to go to Crackle to find the missing episode! I admit that I was disappointed with the ending b/c it felt kind of rushed and I felt that Tony would have been happier to see Jeannie than he appeared. It was adorable that she had Tony's picture on the wall of the safe. And I always love it when they make the characters look so small and everything around them is big. So cute!
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08-27-2020, 03:34 AM	#4
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05-31-2020, 03:41 PM	#2
CosmicCharlie Member Senior Member Join Date: Jan 14, 2019 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 2,451	quote - And I always love it when they make the characters look so small and everything around them is big. So cute! you'd like Land of the Giants currently on MeTV reruns !

08-27-2020, 01:31 AM	#3
TheLittleFaerie Member Senior Member Join Date: Oct 15, 2017 Posts: 1,948	I always wondered why Jeannie couldn't simply blink up the combination to the safe and read it off to Tony..... She seemed to be able to use her powers inside the safe.

10-23-2020, 04:12 PM	#5
tcr1701 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Oct 22, 2012 Posts: 461	Like the time should couldn't get out of a gym locker that was nowhere near being airtight. Or the metal filing cabinet that also wasn't airtight. Maybe it has to do with having someone confining her in something. It's not the item, but how she got there.

11-21-2020, 01:55 AM	#6
MagentaSmoke Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jun 04, 2018 Posts: 7	I've always wondered about the contents in the safe. Why did they put those things in there? Please correct me or add your own - those tall canisters look like they are holding vitamins, a powder puff and compact, a lipstick, a book of matches, no idea what the red fabric is with the metal button. Not seen in the above photo, here Jeannie sticks a match inside the lipstick and blinks to light it.

11-22-2020, 08:04 PM	#7
tcr1701 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Oct 22, 2012 Posts: 461	The red fabric is the still normal size purse Jeannie used to carry Tony's shrunken wardrobe for their impending vacation. It didn't shrink when Jeannie popped into the safe because Tony had it. He put it in the safe before it slammed shut.