Jeanie Bottle 273
Sep02
on September 2, 2014
at 12:00 am
and modified on November 22, 2022. at 1:16 am
Chapter: Story 07: I Dream of Green Eyes
This page is a day late, or a day early, depending on how you feel like counting it. 🙂
And welcome to the named character club, Agent Anderson!
Are Neil and Jean literally right outside the window as Anderson is speaking with her new supervisor?
I’d think “right outside.” These guys, well…a lot of them…have this reputation for not being able to see beyond the tips of their noses…
I think Agent Anderson sees it, and is thinking “I’m in the right place, now to get my body back.”
That’s the previous scene…in Jeanie’s appartment. Looks like HLS has a tap on Jeanie’s Webcam.
If you look closely enough in the 2nd panel, you see them poof in. Also given the fact that Neil has to pretend to be Jean, who is suppose to be getting off an airplane at that airport, I think it’s safe to say that Jeanie teleported both of them right outside that window, and it’s not a web cam. It would be the NSA that has the tap, anyways, not HLS.
I actually brought that up to CD while I was editing this page. But now that I’ve taken another look, Anderson isn’t actually looking out the window. The window is to her right, and she’s staring at her boss.
I believe Dimensional has it right
They poofed in to the airport and then Jean poofed Neil and tore off to the arrival gate
ooh, I like the wide eyed Jeanie in the banner! Very cute.
I was just about to comment on that myself. It is very cute indeed.
I like Jeanie with Blue eye better than just the white eyes she has had lately.
And, yes, ijuinkun, I think what we’re seeing is a public building with a government office.
Wait was it ever determined where Jean’s girlfriend works?
I rather think they are at Orlando International. The writing on the door in panel 1 says so. I think this is the dependence of Homeland Security at Orlando International.
When we last saw Agent Anderson, he was looking for the Cocoa Beach file, just before he was TGed. I think she’s on a lead on Natalie now.
Yeah, that’s Jean dragging Neil through the airport in the back window, and poofing him into the likeness of male-Jean.
“I rather think they are at Orlando International. The writing on the door in panel 1 says so.”
Ah, thank you. I could not make out the logo; old eyes.
Belle’s a psychology student–a nod to Dr. Bellows, the psychiatrist in IDOJ who was always trying to prove Tony was crazy but always convincing the general (there were two different ones as the series went on, Stone and Peterson) that Bellows was the one who needed some time at the funny farm.
Anyway, there’s no plot-driven need to have Belle working at the airport, since Jean told Belle to meet “Jean” at the airport.
I like the fact she poofed him then dragged him out of the poof before it faded.
Not quite. Two poofs, one to get to the airport, and one to turn Neil into “Jean.”
Now we’ll all be wondering who and what Agent Anderson is…
Really? I thought it was obvious she’s the TGed agent who grilled Natalie.
Forgot about that. With two hundred seventy three strips to peruse online, it gets difficult to track everybody’s activities…
That’s what the tags are for, friend. 🙂 Just click the “Agent Anderson” tag, and you’ll get a listing of every page he/she has been in.
So that’s what those are for!
ai_vin is right; Agent Anderson was the brown-haired agent who got TG’d when Jean rescued “Natalie.” I wonder if the name is another IDOJ reference like “Belle Lows” and “Ms. Eden” (the old lady who blabs to Belle about the disgraceful goings-on in her bf’s place.)
It’s not. We totally should have thought of that, but Anderson is just a name CD and I came up with after a short conversation.
Just so long as you don’t call her partner “Agent Duchovny.”
I find it interesting in all this time agent anderson hasnt cut her hair shorter.
Good point.
And thanks, Robert, for the tags reminder.
Nice, I like the plot twist here. The only ones AA will recognize will be Jean and Rog (or McGuyver). 🙂
Actually, the actor pulled from a convention in another state is referred to by one of the Homeland security agents in the same strip where Anderson gets TG’d as “Captain Kirk,” so there’s a good case that he’s supposed to be another cult figure from a late-60’s show whose run overlapped IDOJ. You can write off Neil’s McGuyver blooper to Neil filling his head with engineering instead of TV trivia. And besides, have you ever heard of a McGuyver convention?
BTW, did anyone else notice that Wally and Dilbert were at that Las Vegas convention?
Not quite. The agent is making a joke about how McGuyver stole their suspect, so they better watch out to make sure Captain Kirk doesn’t get their next one.
Was Anderson’s partner TGed to? Also how the hell would Homeland Security allow an agent that changed his/her physical identity to continue working? This is going to be good!
Maybe homeland security doesnt want her goong anywhere till they figure out the truth or alternatively being a government beureacracy they only identify andrson as a number and no one actually checks the male/female box at a worksite.
Well, we know that magic actually exists in this world, so why wouldn’t Homeland Security also know that? And Anderson’s partner is an eye witness to her being TG’d.
So I’m guessing that Homeland just accepts that she got magic’d into a babe. That doesn’t make Anderson any less effective of an agent, so why fire her?
If there is a female character that isn’t Aracelli, a witch, Belle, Mrs. Eden, or Rodger’s niece it’s safe to assume that it is a TGed male.
Oh my how the plot thickens. This is going to be fun.
I like the multiple, overlapping, characters and plot lines. It’s very reminiscent of some classic 1960s fiction, “Plaza Suite” comes to mind.
By the way, it ought to be “I’d like to” not “I’ll like to.” Or, you could just drop the “like to” and then “I’ll” would work.
Prospects are good for even more overlapping. For instance, a flight from the Middle East could well have a stop in Athens, where a couple of formerly male Greek fisherman might debark in Orlando. Or, from California, the proud parents of the Warhammer Girl, now a pre-teen supermodel, then one of Melvin’s geek friends.
And how about McGuyver/Captain Kirk? In town for yet another convention?
(BTW, twenty years ago in Orlando, I visited a game store named NCC-1701–the registry number for the starship Enterprise for all you clueless non-Trekkies.)
(BTW again, did you notice that Walter Mattheau played three parts in Plaza Suite, a different role in each segment? He was only in one part of the spinoff California Sweet, but he managed to get two Mattheaus into it–his son has a bit part.)
Oh wow, I totally missed that typo. Thanks for pointing it out! I’ll have it fixed in a jiffy.
The “window” that appears in the middle two panels seems to be to the side of the supervisor and Agent Anderson, so there’s no guarantee either one noticed what was going on. I put “window” in quotes, though, because it might actually be a vidscreen. The glass door in the first panel is set in a solid wall, something that doesn’t to mind match up with a big side window.
Does the boss rate his own water cooler? Maybe, but I’m thinking it more likely that the water cooler is set near the door to a larger office with the supervisor’s desk guarding both–a good position for keeping an eye on who’s coming and going and for cutting down on water-cooler gossip.
Mr. Anderson…
Oh wait, I’m sorry; Ms.
Hah, I was hoping someone would get that reference!
Yes, Agent Anderson’s name was chosen based on Neo’s original name, Thomas Anderson. I chose to name her after Neo because of a neat bit of trivia about The Matrix that few people know.
The minor character Switch was originally supposed to be male outside the Matrix, but female inside, to represent her being transgendered. The only bit of her intended gender identity that remains in the film, though, is her name: “Switch”.
“Agent Switch” doesn’t really work, though, so I went with Anderson since it’s also a somewhat gendered name (Ander’s son). I wanted to use something with a “dotter” suffix rather than “son”, but couldn’t find any such names that sounded good.
Did not know that.
I always thought “switch” as in “telephone switch”, the old central office component.
I did not know that! That is fascinating, especially when you know about the name change one of the Wachowskis underwent. That would’ve been cool to see on film.
Thanks for sharing that. 🙂
“It’s not vengeance I’m after… Well, okay, yeah, it’s vengeance I’m after, but I have a good excuse.”
Maybe not so much “vengeance” as “getting myself turned back into a guy”. Who knows, though? CD hasn’t told me anything about how Agent Anderson’s storyline will progress.
It seems the HLS dependance at Orlando International is at least the regional command center for central Florida, if not the whole state, if they also cover Port Canaveral.
And even if Las Vegas is a hotspot, Port Canaveral with the Kennedy Space Center is sure another location with highest security in the US. Plenty of work for Agend Anderson, I’d say.
Las Vegas international is (I think) the nearest big civil airport to Area 51, as well as other strangeness. Back in 1978 while driving down from Reno, about an hour north of Las Vegas, I saw about a company of Russian tanks.
I’ve never been to the Orlando airport, but besides being close to the Cape, it’s also the gateway to Disney World. I would bet the TSA has a pretty strong presence there.
Just a teeny little nit to pick here; the Department of Homeland Security is DHS, not HLS.
Oooh, doesn’t she look cute ^^
Bet she will have a lead the first five minutes on the job!
I can see why this is “personal”. With the exception of episode 215 (which was quite the trial for Natalie) Jean and Natalie always had everything “poofed” for them. AA had to start from scratch. She had to learn how to dress without coming across too butch. It probably took all day to find a comfortable bra size. Not to mention the intense research needed for the application of feminine hygiene products :-(. On top of all this she will have female hormones kicking in, perhaps she will be on the sofa watching soaps like Natalie ;-).
On a side note I wonder if AA has (or had) a wife and kids. A lot of food for thought CD. I hope these questions and others will be answered on the next episode ( a homage to the 70’s sitcom Soap).
Don’t forget the captain of the greek ship also has had to learn everything from scratch, may have just become a single mother and definately has suddenly found her hormones in overdrive sending her a little boy crazy around cute guys.
I think this might be a record for comments…wow
I know, right?! I told CD that re-introducing Agent Anderson was going to be popular, but DANG!
Agent Anderson may make a better adversary than Belle. Like Dr. Bellows in the original series, Anderson really does have the authority to ruin the master’s career, whereas Belle Lows *probably* won’t do anything to hurt Neil unless she misunderstands the situation again.
“MIS-TER Anderson! We meet at last!”
She looks like a girl who’d chase white rabbits.
Gillian?
She looks like Natalie lol
Department of Homeland Security is DHS ^not^ HLS