Jean AKA Jeannie AKA Jeanie is a film, book, and magazine reviewer for a national magazine. Most of Jean’s work is done through email, which means he doesn't have to go into the office.
On a trip to find a gift for his girlfriend, Jean found an empty Genie Bottle. Upon picking up this bottle, Jean became the bottle’s new genie-powered occupant. Not only was Jean turned into a genie, but the bottle turned him into what he believed a genie of the bottle should look like. Which, due to his fascination with a classic 60s TV show, turned him into a busty blonde woman.
Hey, math! Jean actually knows how to use the “does not equal” sign. Proof that Jean isn’t an idiot about everything.
It also proves Jean didn’t learn the most important thing from I Dream of Green Eyes, with his obsession with finding out how Neil as Jean was better in bed than Jean as Jean.
Maybe Panel 3 is an indication that she’s on her way to the solution to the math problem: Jeanie ≠ Jean.
So is Jeanie going to pretend to be jealous now? Or maybe get really jealous? And will that camera work now? Tune in next week.
So Debbie carries a card with the web address of a site devoted to how big a scumbag Jean is? I was about to say it might just be an entry on scumbag.com, but I just checked and that’s a real website.
Say, where was Debbie carrying that card? She doesn’t have a purse, and there are no pockets on her gown. You don’t suppose Debbie just made it appear somehow? Please let that be the case, because otherwise I’ve been cheated out of Debbie digging that card out of her cleavage, or maybe from her garter.
I get the feeling that the thing Debbie is holding isn’t a pre-printed card, but rather a slip of paper with a web address scrawled on it. But that’s mostly just a guess.
If it is a printed card then that is some community! Though since they have their own website I would not think printed cards would be too far of a stretch. Heck it would make the gag even funnier if it was a printed card!
2) HOPEFULLY this will finally permeate Jeanie’s thickity-thick thick thickness of a cerebellum and make her realize that her life as Jean was a gigantic waste of space, and convince her to make something with her new life.
Actually, what more likely to happen is for Belle to show up. That would mess things up even more. Because, they can’t tell Belle what going on and they would have to defend the lie that Jeanie is Jean Cousin and expose Rodge lie about that Jeanie is his fiance. Then Jeanie would have to claim Natalie as her girlfriend to get Neil out of this mess. Then Jeanie going to be stuck watching Belle taking Rodge/Jean to bed with her and there nothing she can do about it. And the girl with the camera and one that gave Jeanie that website to check out, well they will go nuts over this thing.
Gotta say, the redhead’s speech bubble in panel 2 is a bit awkward (and creates a bit of a garden path):
———————–
You’re trying
to prove
that based on a
guy we warned you is
known for sleeping
around?
———————–
From doing subtitles for a while, I know it’s generally a good idea to keep grammatical units together, if at all possible. I would at least have kept “prove that” together since you’re starting a new unit with “based”
———————–
You’re trying
to prove that
based on a guy
we warned you
is known for
sleeping around?
———————–
So is Jeanie actually going to check that website? Is it going to be important to the story later, or is it just a detail emphasizing that karma is catching up with Jean. Gee, could that be a theme of this whole danged webcomic?
@Norman: Well, being approached by Jean/Rodge is hardly a condemnation. Nor even unusual, apparently. And since Natalie doesn’t really exist, except temporarily, I don’t think there’s much to worry about. 😉
Genies and cameras (yet again): Seeing that the flash on that camera is working in the last frame, I’m wondering if that picture will turn out. Jeanie is standing quite close, but the camera isn’t pointed at her. Maybe the anti-camera magic only works if a genie is in the frame. Or maybe my theory is wrong and cameras just don’t show genies after all. Or maybe that woman has just figured out how to make that camera work. Or maybe the camera problems are just a red herring?
Unless red herring, I now suspect we will be kept in suspense until the camera problem causes a real disaster or until Graham Chapman comes back from the dead to say “All right! Get on with it!”
Reality Check! Reality Check, Jeanie! Welcome to the real world Jeanie. Not that you spend much time here and see how other people see your male person Jean or anything like that. Now that the website been given to her either on a piece of paper or business card, I am assuming that she going to go to that website to see what on it. From the way those girls are acting, I assume that it a website dedicated solely to the activities of Jean as a womanizer and generally him being a skirt chaser with anything that female.
What will happen to Jeanie and her metal condition after the reality of what really going on hit her and not what she thinks is going on? Beside it being a blow to her manhood and her self image of herself or himself, I think she will mentally lock up, shutdown and mentally restart after she has mentally crashed and then go back to being the same old Jeanie that we all love to criticize for the way she chooses to behaves.
As far as Jealousy, Jeanie not going to be doing that unless Belle show up and make a bee line to Rodge Alias Jean. Then Jeanie will get Jealous, but, not unless that happen, because, she still consider Belle her girlfriend in a Guy and girlfriend relationship. This is one of the few thing that Jeanie has left to remind herself of her once being a guy. Rodge/Jean get together with Belle, Jeanie will blow up. The only other possibility of Jeanie get Jealous is, Rodge/Jean chasing Neil/Natalie.
There any number of ways that this could break out or turn before it over. But, no matter which way this turns out, if Jeanie decide some time in the future that she didn’t like the way things turned out, she can come back and try to change things, Genie can do time travel too. If Jeanie is foolish enough to do this, it could cause all kinds of trouble, but, then that never stop Jeanie from doing stupid things before.
It will be interesting to see how it turns out and which way CD RUDD chooses to take this thing.
Yep, I called it. She finally got hipped to the fact that showing Rodge/Jean hitting on girls will not prove a thing, since they all know that is his character, and not guys in general. She would have to show other guys being leches in order to prove her point.
But, you have to feel somewhat bad for him. He just found out how all these women see him. And with a website, business cards and a community to back it up!
Though… these girls really need to get a life if they are so focused on a guy whom they only briefly dated or hooked up with. That is quite a lot of effort they are putting in by keeping such close tabs on him, and photographing every time he talks to a girl. Do they really want his attention that badly?
Though… these girls really need to get a life. That is an awful lot of effort they are putting in to stalk and document the activities of a guy they only briefly dated or hooked up with.
Do they really want his attention, or want him back that badly?
That is an interesting question. It’s pretty much the premise of two movies I’ve seen, Switch and John Tucker Must Die. It’s easy enough to pull together a group of like-minded people on the web now, and how many FedEx Office stores are there in Manhattan that can print up some cards in a jiffy?
Makes me wonder if Belle ever did searches for “Jean Nessman” on Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc., or whether Belle identifies Jean on her Facebook page. These are ways Belle could find out about the group, or for the group to find and contact Belle.
Knowing Jean’s been accused of sleeping around before she shows up would make things even more interesting. Not to mention more karmic.
Good point! And think about it if this situation were reversed. What if that pair were two guys who were talking a woman who was known for sleeping around. That’d be hella creepy… which is really unfair, since I haven’t seen anyone complain about these two woman stalking “Jean”.
And they have a hate-website too. And they already established that the one who claimed he only used her to get to her dad and get a job was ACTUALLY dumped because she was an abusive loudmouthed alcoholic. It’s not so much that Jean was such a bad person (though THIS establishes Jean as stupider than Philip J. Fry – I don’t buy the premise that anyone would make that mistake – it’s like being told that the moon is the only celestial object that’s a sphere, saying “what are you talking about, almost every celestial object is a sphere” and being told to name some other than the moon to prove it and saying “the moon, that’s all I have, and that proves it”), it’s that all the women he ever dated were. No wonder he was a “cheater” i.e. switched romantic partners so readily, they’re all a bunch of spitting vipers. He should have cut his losses and gone MGTOW years earlier. And now he’s stuck as one of the enemy. What she should do now is settle for Neil, Neil is a good guy. Turn him into Natalie for the sex if that’s her thing. Then Jean doesn’t feel emasculated by being with a man, and gets an actual good person for a girlfriend, and they both get hot girlfriends in the deal. Win-win.
The only satisfying way for this arc to have ended was for Jean to say “Oh, her? That’s just Natalie. She’s my best friend. I love her. The three of us do sexual things all the time. I like 69ing her, she’s a gusher and a screamer and a whole barrel of fun. Jean is free to do anything he wants with her and it’s not cheating.” That would have blown those nasty womens’ minds.
Actually it is a brand new web site that the girls have set up specifically to show Jeanie what Jean is really like (according to them). Just to make sure Jeanie doesn’t forget the url it is called jeaniebottle.com 🙂
So, let me get this straight: Rodge / Jean has been actively avoiding talking to girls so far. The only girls that we have seen talking to him are all Jeanie. Rodge has not shown any interest in those girls, except for when we heard him talking to Neil and telling him that he would like to talk to a girl but Jeanie gets jealous, plus Jeanie is in the room asleep, so where would he take them (seeming to ignore that the girls might have a room / house to go to, but that’s beside the point here.)
So, why do they believe “Jean” has been “chatting up girls all day”?
The hussies haven’t been close enough to Rodge to hear what he said to any of the girls he’s been talking with. And they see what they want to see, although Rodge putting his arm around Natalie without Natalie pushing away is hard to dismiss as casual conversation.
I actually missed those on my first read. Not it makes since. Even though Jeanie made Rodge into “Jean” for the trip, her brain was still thinking of him as Rodge. After all she is “Jean”. So she was trying to prove that Rodge would sleep around. Which, in her defense, under normal circumstances he would. However, Rodge is trying to be Jean, and is afraid of Jeanie retribution if he gets it wrong. So the fact that he made up the story that he’s engaged to Jeanie (which set this whole thing off), means he think he has to appear faithful.
Okay, makes sense now. Everyone involved is still dumb as a box of rocks, but it makes sense.
We’re going to need to open Jeannie up and put some work in on her self-image. You got that job order? Lick of paint, new hamster, she’ll be just like new.
well the 10 th Doctor chimmed in and confirmed that Jean/Jeanie is a idiot.
Case closed.
Yeah, it’s like common sense is malware to Jean’s way of dicking *Ahem* I mean thinking.
I believe the term 10 would use is “Thick”.
Thick Thicky McThickerson from Thicktown!
OH, BURN! Jean’s face is priceless! Debbie just fried “her” brain here!
Jean has a website?
Apparently, other than this comic site. Or maybe you mean something like this at 4:33
YouTube, Undergrads – Episode 10 Identity Crisis (Part 1 of 2)
Perhaps that’s the “community” they mentioned on the last page?
That is what I am thinking. A community of Jean’s ex’s. Yikes!
Hey, math! Jean actually knows how to use the “does not equal” sign. Proof that Jean isn’t an idiot about everything.
It also proves Jean didn’t learn the most important thing from I Dream of Green Eyes, with his obsession with finding out how Neil as Jean was better in bed than Jean as Jean.
Maybe Panel 3 is an indication that she’s on her way to the solution to the math problem: Jeanie ≠ Jean.
So is Jeanie going to pretend to be jealous now? Or maybe get really jealous? And will that camera work now? Tune in next week.
So Debbie carries a card with the web address of a site devoted to how big a scumbag Jean is? I was about to say it might just be an entry on scumbag.com, but I just checked and that’s a real website.
Say, where was Debbie carrying that card? She doesn’t have a purse, and there are no pockets on her gown. You don’t suppose Debbie just made it appear somehow? Please let that be the case, because otherwise I’ve been cheated out of Debbie digging that card out of her cleavage, or maybe from her garter.
Tom, it’s probably JeanNessmanIsACheatingScumbag.org – and there’s likely an associated Facebook page and Twitter feed to go along with it.
I get the feeling that the thing Debbie is holding isn’t a pre-printed card, but rather a slip of paper with a web address scrawled on it. But that’s mostly just a guess.
If it is a printed card then that is some community! Though since they have their own website I would not think printed cards would be too far of a stretch. Heck it would make the gag even funnier if it was a printed card!
1) Called it. For weeks.
2) HOPEFULLY this will finally permeate Jeanie’s thickity-thick thick thickness of a cerebellum and make her realize that her life as Jean was a gigantic waste of space, and convince her to make something with her new life.
Oh, Ran, you are SUCH an optimist! 😉
Actually, what more likely to happen is for Belle to show up. That would mess things up even more. Because, they can’t tell Belle what going on and they would have to defend the lie that Jeanie is Jean Cousin and expose Rodge lie about that Jeanie is his fiance. Then Jeanie would have to claim Natalie as her girlfriend to get Neil out of this mess. Then Jeanie going to be stuck watching Belle taking Rodge/Jean to bed with her and there nothing she can do about it. And the girl with the camera and one that gave Jeanie that website to check out, well they will go nuts over this thing.
Gotta say, the redhead’s speech bubble in panel 2 is a bit awkward (and creates a bit of a garden path):
———————–
You’re trying
to prove
that based on a
guy we warned you is
known for sleeping
around?
———————–
From doing subtitles for a while, I know it’s generally a good idea to keep grammatical units together, if at all possible. I would at least have kept “prove that” together since you’re starting a new unit with “based”
———————–
You’re trying
to prove that
based on a guy
we warned you
is known for
sleeping around?
———————–
I was wondering why it was a double bubble in the first place.
Maybe she’s chewing gum. 😉
So is Jeanie actually going to check that website? Is it going to be important to the story later, or is it just a detail emphasizing that karma is catching up with Jean. Gee, could that be a theme of this whole danged webcomic?
I’m glad someone is finally seeing the Karma in this comic, ref, my comment in a previous comic.
Karma can be a bitch. A karma ran over my dogma.
I think you actually look up the definition of Karma. It generally has to do with REINCARNATION
@Ben: Yep, reinkarmanation, you got it.
what does this mean for poor Natalie
My guess is that Jeanie’s going to panic and leave her behind to get pawed at by Rodge all night. But maybe that’s just wishful thinking.
i meant her photo is probably going on that website. her reputaion is most likely ruined
@Norman: Well, being approached by Jean/Rodge is hardly a condemnation. Nor even unusual, apparently. And since Natalie doesn’t really exist, except temporarily, I don’t think there’s much to worry about. 😉
The penny finally drops. Such a satisfying payoff, thank you CD and Robert.
Jennies going to find out how well known she didn’t know she had been when Jean. How women had his number and not for what she thought it was for.
Genies and cameras (yet again): Seeing that the flash on that camera is working in the last frame, I’m wondering if that picture will turn out. Jeanie is standing quite close, but the camera isn’t pointed at her. Maybe the anti-camera magic only works if a genie is in the frame. Or maybe my theory is wrong and cameras just don’t show genies after all. Or maybe that woman has just figured out how to make that camera work. Or maybe the camera problems are just a red herring?
Unless red herring, I now suspect we will be kept in suspense until the camera problem causes a real disaster or until Graham Chapman comes back from the dead to say “All right! Get on with it!”
Reality Check! Reality Check, Jeanie! Welcome to the real world Jeanie. Not that you spend much time here and see how other people see your male person Jean or anything like that. Now that the website been given to her either on a piece of paper or business card, I am assuming that she going to go to that website to see what on it. From the way those girls are acting, I assume that it a website dedicated solely to the activities of Jean as a womanizer and generally him being a skirt chaser with anything that female.
What will happen to Jeanie and her metal condition after the reality of what really going on hit her and not what she thinks is going on? Beside it being a blow to her manhood and her self image of herself or himself, I think she will mentally lock up, shutdown and mentally restart after she has mentally crashed and then go back to being the same old Jeanie that we all love to criticize for the way she chooses to behaves.
As far as Jealousy, Jeanie not going to be doing that unless Belle show up and make a bee line to Rodge Alias Jean. Then Jeanie will get Jealous, but, not unless that happen, because, she still consider Belle her girlfriend in a Guy and girlfriend relationship. This is one of the few thing that Jeanie has left to remind herself of her once being a guy. Rodge/Jean get together with Belle, Jeanie will blow up. The only other possibility of Jeanie get Jealous is, Rodge/Jean chasing Neil/Natalie.
There any number of ways that this could break out or turn before it over. But, no matter which way this turns out, if Jeanie decide some time in the future that she didn’t like the way things turned out, she can come back and try to change things, Genie can do time travel too. If Jeanie is foolish enough to do this, it could cause all kinds of trouble, but, then that never stop Jeanie from doing stupid things before.
It will be interesting to see how it turns out and which way CD RUDD chooses to take this thing.
CD, that’s a good camera flash effect in panel 4. Much better than the usual outlined-multi-pointed-star that so many use. Very realistic, I like it.
This side of Jeanies competetitive nature reminds me of these to pictures:
http://tran4of3.deviantart.com/art/CMSN-RanmaMirror-Color2-sml-526768727
http://tran4of3.deviantart.com/art/RanmaDoes-sml-530589674
Yep! That Jeanie alright, in a nutshell!
I commissioned that first pic! Ian followed up with the second all on his own, though.
Yep, I called it. She finally got hipped to the fact that showing Rodge/Jean hitting on girls will not prove a thing, since they all know that is his character, and not guys in general. She would have to show other guys being leches in order to prove her point.
But, you have to feel somewhat bad for him. He just found out how all these women see him. And with a website, business cards and a community to back it up!
Though… these girls really need to get a life if they are so focused on a guy whom they only briefly dated or hooked up with. That is quite a lot of effort they are putting in by keeping such close tabs on him, and photographing every time he talks to a girl. Do they really want his attention that badly?
Though… these girls really need to get a life. That is an awful lot of effort they are putting in to stalk and document the activities of a guy they only briefly dated or hooked up with.
Do they really want his attention, or want him back that badly?
That is an interesting question. It’s pretty much the premise of two movies I’ve seen, Switch and John Tucker Must Die. It’s easy enough to pull together a group of like-minded people on the web now, and how many FedEx Office stores are there in Manhattan that can print up some cards in a jiffy?
Makes me wonder if Belle ever did searches for “Jean Nessman” on Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc., or whether Belle identifies Jean on her Facebook page. These are ways Belle could find out about the group, or for the group to find and contact Belle.
Knowing Jean’s been accused of sleeping around before she shows up would make things even more interesting. Not to mention more karmic.
Good point! And think about it if this situation were reversed. What if that pair were two guys who were talking a woman who was known for sleeping around. That’d be hella creepy… which is really unfair, since I haven’t seen anyone complain about these two woman stalking “Jean”.
And they have a hate-website too. And they already established that the one who claimed he only used her to get to her dad and get a job was ACTUALLY dumped because she was an abusive loudmouthed alcoholic. It’s not so much that Jean was such a bad person (though THIS establishes Jean as stupider than Philip J. Fry – I don’t buy the premise that anyone would make that mistake – it’s like being told that the moon is the only celestial object that’s a sphere, saying “what are you talking about, almost every celestial object is a sphere” and being told to name some other than the moon to prove it and saying “the moon, that’s all I have, and that proves it”), it’s that all the women he ever dated were. No wonder he was a “cheater” i.e. switched romantic partners so readily, they’re all a bunch of spitting vipers. He should have cut his losses and gone MGTOW years earlier. And now he’s stuck as one of the enemy. What she should do now is settle for Neil, Neil is a good guy. Turn him into Natalie for the sex if that’s her thing. Then Jean doesn’t feel emasculated by being with a man, and gets an actual good person for a girlfriend, and they both get hot girlfriends in the deal. Win-win.
The only satisfying way for this arc to have ended was for Jean to say “Oh, her? That’s just Natalie. She’s my best friend. I love her. The three of us do sexual things all the time. I like 69ing her, she’s a gusher and a screamer and a whole barrel of fun. Jean is free to do anything he wants with her and it’s not cheating.” That would have blown those nasty womens’ minds.
Caught up in her contradictions. Perhaps some Midol?
… … … website?
Actually it is a brand new web site that the girls have set up specifically to show Jeanie what Jean is really like (according to them). Just to make sure Jeanie doesn’t forget the url it is called jeaniebottle.com 🙂
Jeannie.exe has crashed. Do you wish to reboot?
So, let me get this straight: Rodge / Jean has been actively avoiding talking to girls so far. The only girls that we have seen talking to him are all Jeanie. Rodge has not shown any interest in those girls, except for when we heard him talking to Neil and telling him that he would like to talk to a girl but Jeanie gets jealous, plus Jeanie is in the room asleep, so where would he take them (seeming to ignore that the girls might have a room / house to go to, but that’s beside the point here.)
So, why do they believe “Jean” has been “chatting up girls all day”?
The hussies haven’t been close enough to Rodge to hear what he said to any of the girls he’s been talking with. And they see what they want to see, although Rodge putting his arm around Natalie without Natalie pushing away is hard to dismiss as casual conversation.
The hamster wheel and whiteboard notes are a nice touch!
I actually missed those on my first read. Not it makes since. Even though Jeanie made Rodge into “Jean” for the trip, her brain was still thinking of him as Rodge. After all she is “Jean”. So she was trying to prove that Rodge would sleep around. Which, in her defense, under normal circumstances he would. However, Rodge is trying to be Jean, and is afraid of Jeanie retribution if he gets it wrong. So the fact that he made up the story that he’s engaged to Jeanie (which set this whole thing off), means he think he has to appear faithful.
Okay, makes sense now. Everyone involved is still dumb as a box of rocks, but it makes sense.
Glad someone noticed the Hamster Wheel.
We’re going to need to open Jeannie up and put some work in on her self-image. You got that job order? Lick of paint, new hamster, she’ll be just like new.
Jeanie’s Hamster has been slacking lately.
What thought processes? ó_o What goes on inside Jean’s head only resembles thought, and that only if it’s looked at from a distance.
It took her this long to realize there was no point to this?
This contest wouldn’t even rescue her ego anyways.