Jeanie Bottle 172
As many of you know, a bit over a week ago, Larry Hagman passed on. I wanted to make some kind of mention of it in the comic.
For those who are unaware, Larry Hagman played, among other roles, astronaut Major Anthony “Tony” Nelson on “I Dream of Jeannie” and oil baron J.R Ewing on Dallas.
I thought it might be fitting for Maj Nelson’s comic parody character, NASA Engineer Neil Anton to be watching a memorial Marathon.
Oh, yeah, Ari just blew her cover big time.
Neil: “Jean what are you doing?”
Araceli: “I’m nothing master.”
Neil (thinking): “wow that training really screwed her up.”
This is going to lead to a very fun misunderstanding with real Jean eventually :3
Mhhh… Since we already had a “I dream of Jeannie”-Marathon in this comic https://jeaniebottle.com/?p=13 , does that mean Neil will turn into a texan oil baron now?
Larry Hagman might’ve played J. R. Ewing, but I’ll always remember him as Tony Nelson…
Dallas is a great series.
And I can’t wait to see what Araceli pulls. XD
No No, Ari! You’re laying it on too heavy too early! 😀
Is that Ravel’s Bolero?
I can’t quite make that last “ma” fit, but the rest is dead on. Good catch.
Have Larry stop by and comfort Jean while she’s trapped down there.
LMAO!!!
Hurry up with 173 XD!!!
I liked Larry Hagman in I Dream of Jeannie”. That sort of shows of light, clean, humor, is sorely miss.
“Clean”? Did you say “CLEAN”?
Remember the central premise of IDOJ: An attractive man and an attractive woman, each unmarried, live in the same house. And Jeanie will do ANYTHING for Tony.
Whole forests were cut down to make the paper that worried NBC executives were using to write memos to each other.
Wanna know why? Netflix the pilot episode.
In the pilot, Tony Nelson has a fiancee, a general’s daughter, and at one point in the half-hour, Jeanie walks out of Tony’s bedroom wearing a man’s white dress shirt and nothing else. The fiancee fumes.
Later in the half-hour, this occurs–
Tony tells Jeanie he’s going to bed, and shuts his bedroom door.
She turns to smoke, and the smoke goes under his door.
Tony’s voice (shocked): JEANIE!
Smoke comes out from under the door, and turns into disappointed Jeanie.
— My point is that IDOJ, at least in its pilot episode, was pushing against the 1960s censors as much as the show could.
Let’s not forget the harem costume! VERY edgey for the time! For the first couple of seasons, they were forced to airbrush out Barbara Eden’s belly button! 😀
Her costume really wasn’t all that edgy. The censors just wanted to ensure that her navel was not shown. And no…NBC didn’t ‘airbrush’ anything…airbrushing isn’t even a technique used to edit film or video. I don’t know where you’re getting this from.
Have YOU watched the show recently? I am reviewing my 5 season collection, and I’m up to Season 5–and there are NO navels WHERE THEY SHOULD BE! So, I was wrong! They didn’t remove them (whatever the technique was at the time–and I got the original info from an interview out of Barbara Eden’s mouth) for the first couple of seasons, but apparently for the entire run of the show!
To answer your question, Commotion, they made her wear flesh colored tights over that part of her anatomy. It resembles bare skin, but it’s not.
Yeah…they were pushing against 1960’s censors…FOR ONE WHOLE EPISODE. Pretty much every episode after that was so light-hearted, so full of over the top premises and slapstick, that everyone pretty much forgot that, although Tony told Jeannie she could be free, she CHOSE to stay with him and, essentially, be his slave.
The writers so downplayed their living situation that it was never an issue. There was zero sexual tension between Tony and Jeannie…she was head over in heels in love, not lust…and eventually so was Tony.
So, yeah…the show was pretty much squeaky clean, even by 1960’s standards.
Well, this ought to really freak Neil out. He was already a little worried about being attracted to Jeanie because he knows it’s really Gene.
Strip 172 is what we would have seen if “I Dream Of Jeanie” had come out in the 1990s, not the 1960s.
I really wish Neil would wish himself to be in better shape.
I wonder how long Araceli will be able to keep up the deception.
Probably for about five more minutes
Less
Idk Neil doesn’t seem like most perceptive person….
I think that Neil will catch on to her deception and she’ll get so peeved that she’ll use her genie powers to make him unable to have children.
i just noticed she still had heels on.
I hope this will be the lupo that make Neil guess out the truth
I’m hoping Neil’s next utterance is “Dude, what’s wrong with you?”
I aggree with you
I probably would have done that on the Christmas costume Jeanie is wearing on top of the page.
I think the song he used was the one called “Streets of Cairo”—The stereotypical “arabic”/”Indian” song we all know from cartoons(dancers/ snake charmers).—-It originated at the St Louis world’s fair in the early 1900s for the Pseudo “Egyptian” Belley dancer act.—Also called “Poor little maid”
MOAR! I DEMAND MOAR!