Jeanie Bottle 623
Oh boy… Neil’s having a breakdown over Jeanie’s recklessness.
Can make 2 large burger patties or 4 smaller patties.
- 1 Lb Ground Beef
- 1 Egg
- 1 Tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
- 1 Tbsp Garlic Powder
- 1/4 cup of maple syrup
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- 4 Cheese slices
- 1 slice of bread worth of bread crumbs.
- Montreal Steak Spice
Mix all ingredients except cheese slices and Montreal steak spice in a bowl.
Take the mix and divide into how many patties you want. Once you have it divided, divide the patties again, fold up a slice of cheese for each burger you’re going to prepare and place it into a half patty and place the other half on top to make a full patty. Use the Montreal steak spice to season the outside of the patty.
Cook on either BBQ or Frying pan until cooked all the way through.
Serve on a toasted bun with whatever condiments you want.
Well hey Neil finally had a mental breakdown well I always thought thought some how Rodge could be related. But lets see Neil and Jean in high school it will be funny.
So Neil jumped from Galaxy-destroying paradoxes, to a universe ending one. In Just two panels.
You seem to be getting ahead of yourself Neil. Besides, the universe hasn’t ended yet. And Jeanie has messed with time on a few occasions.
If the cosmos hasn’t collapsed on itself by the end of this visit, then we can assume that reality managed to work things out. ^^
I’d think that either any paradox is potentially universe-destroying, or none are. I can’t see time travel causing limited destruction within a time-line
Remember when Jean first became a genie? Neil made a wish that couldn’t be granted because doing so would have broken causality (the wish was for Jean to have never become a genie)
I think the timeline might be paradox-proof, which makes logical sense, as if you allow changes to a timeline you inevitably run into questions of how it actually works (and outside of creating an entirely new branch, there are no logically consistent, satisfactory answers), but time travel stories set in deterministic universes usually don’t make for entertaining stories, so we allow them
Paradoxes don’t happen solely because of changing the past–they happen because of setting up a self-contradiction. Neil wishing for Jean to have never become a Genie was a self-contradiction, because granting it would mean that Jean would have never gained the power to grant the wish, therefore it could not be granted.
Right and Jeanie and Neil going back as Natalie to meet there younger self in high school would not be self-contradicting it self, it would only be changing certain events in the past. like going to the School Prom with two hot girls. Jean would still become Jeanie and they would remember different thing in the past than the one that we remember happened in the past. But, there would be no major contraction that was self-contradicting itself.
@ Larry: Natalie and Jeanie showing up and interacting with the younger Neil and Jean would not necessarily include going to the prom. After all, cars can have flat tires and the boys end up not arriving in time. Memories would still be about the same. Still, the possibilities for humor are numerous.
Don’t think Jeanie has a problem with her old self seeing her, now Neil may have a problem, but that is where Natalie would come in. Now, the funny part would be Jeanie suddenly remembering being turned down by a blonde, and realizing it was her.
Or worse, a nice brunette, while past Neil is oggling a blonde.
Relax Neil, Jeanie can’t paradox herself because past-Jean was male. Clearly the safest way to prevent time travel paradox is to explore the past as Natalie.
Sometimes, I just wonder if Neil regrets not being the one who took the bottle instead. I don’t think he wishes to have being the hot genie girl instead… just that maybe he would had less to worry about if that was the case.
Would Neil have even become a female genie?
Jean only did so because the totem looked like the one from “I Dream of Jeannie” and he was thinking about Barbra Eden when he opened it
Well, we know that Neil and Jean are both fans of IDOJ. So it’s at least reasonable to assume that Neil’s mental image of a genie was the same as Jean’s at that time.
Not to mention that on at least two occasions, CD has drawn “Genie Neil” to look very similar (though to identical) the Jeanie we know.
Also, two other important factors: There is high chance that the moment Neil grabbed the bottle, Jean would had made a mention to the show, just the same, only with Neil holding the bottle this time. The second one, being that just like Jean, Neil was coming from a marathon of the show, so his last mental image of genie, specially a bottle genie, was Barbara Eden. So yeah, I would say there is 97% chance that Neil would had ended like a Jeannie look alike, due to her being his most recent idea as to what a Genie must be, and a 3% chance he would had ended like a Blue Will Smith, because this comics take place in the present day, and out timeline is cursed.
97% Barbara Eden, 2.75% blue Will Smith and .25% blue cartoon Robin Williams.
Nice gift wrap up top.
As for visiting the school, going as Natalie is the safest bet.
That would be Natalie the new librarian and Jeanie the substitute teacher.
Jean doesn’t look too happy with the outfit – but I think its great
I knew they were in Cincinnati, that there home town. But, if they do go to the old high school, Neil would definitely have to go in incognito and not go as himself. Some people here have suggesting him going as Natalie, that one possibility that everybody seem to like for Neil to go as, but, Neil definitely can’t go as Neil because, of the paradoxes that it would cause. Not only would both the younger Neil and Jean recognize them, but, everybody else in the school would recognize him too, because, his younger self is currently going there.
Panel 2, ” pandemic it started…. ” ?
What about it? I don’t see any typos.
No typos… extra word “it”.
“… before the pandemic started” — okay
“… before it started” — okay (but vague… only “virus” is mentioned as a noun prior to “it.”)
“… before the pandemic it started” — bad. English doesn’t like this, though other languages are okay with it.
I am far from the best judge in the subject, but I thing the sentences is all about the Virus as the subject and not the pandemic. When it states “the pandemic it started” is referring to the pandemic as a product of the Virus they just may have bring to the past.
The “it” refers back to “virus.” A bit awkward phrasing, but not incorrect.
Had a similar thought. Its not incorrect just seems an awkward phrase. “The pandemic (that) it started” is even more awkward to be honest so on balance I think the current sentence works. It is dialogue after all.
ranck is right. The “it” is referring back to the virus, and the pandemic that said virus started.
If Neil had studied the source material properly he’d know that paradoxes are unlikely because time truly is just a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff because here in the CD verse all TV shows are secret documentaries.
Neil himself is channeling Major Nelson, who was always too worried about his NASA career to even consider all of the things Jeannie could do for him.
His worries about the pandemic are definitely correct, though. And I’m glad at least someone realized it when Jeanie didn’t.
Jeanie’s a genie. Al she has to do is wiggle her nose, or hips or whatever, and *poof* the germs away. Or don’t–by the time Wuhan comes around for real, herd immunity will already be achieved.
@Pilgrim: “Neil is channeling Major Nelson” Yup, big time. He needs to settle down and just go with the flow.
“Last time I take you out to lunch” Neil, Neil, Neil…
The Offical Kimble Burger recipe is posted under the comic.
Kimble Burger? What does The Fugitive have to do with this?
Hank Kimble, of Hooterville, you mean!
Sorry about that. Turns out the correct name is actually “Kibble Burger”. CD’s spelling woes strike in the unlikeliest of manners!
Maple syrup? Montreal seasoning? How Canadian!
I wonder how this would taste as meat loaf.
You might try a 1:1 beef:pork mix, or even 1:1:1 beef:pork:lamb. Whatever, do not use an overly lean meat. You need the juices.
By the way, folks, some might deride the crumbs as “filler”, but in fact they help the patty retain its juices and to stick together so it won’t fall apart on the grill. A lot of folks swear by panko (see your grocery’s Japanese section).
When doing a mix like this, handle the ground meat as gently as possible, to keep it from getting tough. Or, start with a really coarse grind, as for chili, then run it through a grinder again to incorporate spices and crumbs.
In case anyone is wondering, here’s what’s in Montreal steak seasoning: garlic, coriander, black pepper, cayenne pepper flakes, dill seed, and salt.(Via Chef Wiki)
This is a burger receipe I asked a former-chef friend of mine to create just for this storyline.
Thanks, CD! That’s actually kinda neat. I’m going to try this, and report back.
thanks for explaining the burger recipe.
When you finish making the patty, press your thumb into the top of it to make a small depression. This will help the burger to cook better.
Where did you find this recipe, CD? Also, how did the Kibble Burger get its name?
The answer to both questions is the same thing: the recipe is from a friend of his who is a former chef, and the recipe is named after this friend.
I thought maybe a comma, I might be wrong. Was early in the morning.
The universe lost about 1000 calories of energy on this day. What would the consequences be? Little Timmy didn’t get to the bus on time, his mass causing a slight shift in gravitational force affecting a drop of rain that causes a power cut resulting in destruction. The madness Jeanne!
The major advantage of age-old magical methods over ground-breaking technological means: if it was easy to destroy the world this way, some other idiot would have already done it.
Good point–Jean was doing time travel stuff (e.g. sending the two beach guys back to WWII Normandy) before she had reached her current level of power, so that implies that there have been more than a few genies over the millennia who are capable of time travel. It’s likely that “fixed points in time” (to use a Doctor Who term) are protected in some manner, similar to how there is magical backlash when a Genie tries to mind-control a Mortal.
All the best time-travel stories are loops. A particularly good (and funny) one is Harry Harrison’s “The Technicolor Time Machine”. A shorter (and harder to find) one I remember is one by A.E. Van Vogt, “Ship of Darkness”. It has a gotcha at the end worthy of the Twilight Zone.
‘—All You Zombies—’ by Robert Anson Heinlein is good also, but it’s less of a loop than a tangle at one end of a string, with the story focusing on the tangle.
At least with Genie magic, you’re unlikely to get into “Primer” levels of time stream complications.
Basically, in time travel fiction, paradoxes manifestly can happen, even if they can’t be explained, because they did happen. Just like the universe itself.
My favorite is Philip J. Fry becoming his own grandfather in Roswell That Ends Well, so he has a singular brain mutation that makes him the most useful idiot in all of time and space.
Usually what is forbidden is not the changing of the past, nor the odd self-referential situations such as being one’s own grandfather, but rather the “Shroedinger’s Cat” type indeterminate states, such as your Grandfather being both alive AND dead–it has to resolve some way or another, either he died or he didn’t, or else there’s some multiple timeline thing where a different outcome happened in each path.
Neil’s worries about the pandemic being started in the past are unfounded, since Neil is the only person there would could transmit the disease in this case.
Jeanie is no longer human, but a magical being. So her being a carrier or transmitter for the virus isn’t too likely anymore.
So unless Neil is infected right now, no harm will come to the timeline in that case.
There’s no fun in logic.
> unless Neil is infected right now
That’s the risk that Neil is worried about. He doesn’t know if he’s infected, because this damn thing has such a long incubation period, and can even result in asymptomatic infectiousness.
“A disease so terrible you have to be tested to be sure you have it.” –some wag somewhere.
Uhhhh, yeah. Because not everyone reacts to diseases in the same way. Kinda like how the flu makes 99.99% of people who catch is pretty miserable for a few days, but kills the rest.
don”t know about him but sure genies are immune to plagues like covid 19
Plan is simple either disguise as teachers or poof into high school students and don’t interfere with your past selfs Jean.
I would love to see a high-school Natalie.
Jeanie does make a sweet valentine up in the banner.
Yeah she does!
Sweet and cute! If only she had a Master who deserved her.
I hope Jeanie warns her younger male self about the bottle and save him from opening it and being transformed into its new genie powered occupant.
No, she already got a note about that. No changing time so she never becomes the genie who can change that time. Not to mention the fact that her younger male self would be totally focused on getting into her harem pants.
Your probably right, Jeanie trying to tell Jean that your going to turn into me if you open some old Genie Bottle. I don’t know if he would take that seriously or not. But, we have already talked about the Grandfather Complex. If Jeanie goes back to tell Jean not to open the bottle, then there no Jeanie to go back and tell Jean not to open the bottle. So Jean opens the bottle and the cycle repeats itself, over and over and over again.
> her younger male self would be totally focused on getting into her harem pants.
Well, that’s one way to phrase it… lol
In away, Jean’s younger self has already gotten into her harem pants–they come with the genie thang.
However, I have a slightly more weighty or at least less jokey thought: I picture male Jean as one of the guys who has females chase after him, not the other way around. Kind of the anti-Rodge. I could see Jean getting sort of serious about Belle because maybe she was the first one he actually had to pursue. So far Hot Babe Jean hasn’t had any guy we know of actually trying to get in her pants except that Greek Fisherman she turned into a hot babe. It could be a fairly funny and timey-wimey thing for High School Horny Jean to go after Hot Babe Jean.
Or maybe there could be a loop here already. Many, many comics ago Jean said he set up Neil with his prom date. What if that prom date turns out to be the present Jean? It’s arguably sensible for Jean to present herself as an age-appropriate student; she’s already done it for Melvin. So High-School Neil wouldn’t know that his prom date was really…
Whadya think?
Remember why Jean in Cocoa Beach to begin with, because he wanted to be with his only friend and it this case it is a guy friend and I am assuming that, that would also include most of the girls too in his younger days also. I am thinking that Jean is more a late Bloomer when it come to girls chasing him. I don’t see women chase him really taking hold until he leave High School and until he become a move and book review guy with reputation of being one of the best there is in the business. Jean being the jerk that he is, Can now play it to the hilt of being a Playboy and get away with it. But, comparing that to Neil, that probably has never had a date and Jean would really look like a spit fire when it comes to women even in high school. I see Jean trying to build up his image of himself in his own mind by chasing other women to prove his manhood or at least what he thinks prove his manhood.
What I think would be funny is, Jeanie finally prevailing on Neil to go to the old high school and Neil complain that he can’t go as he is and Jeanie does her Genie Blink and turns him into Natalie and then Jean says now we can go to the high school together. Younger Jean is still trying to get Neil a date and he see both Jeanie and Natalie and so he goes to hit both Jeanie and Natalie to ask them to go to the school prom tonight or maybe this weekend. Both Jean and Neil missed the school prom the last time around, because, they didn’t have a date to go with to the prom.
Jean wanted to go to the prom and Jeanie remembered that she really wanted to go to the prom too and the two of them rope Natalie going to the prom with Neil too.
@ Larry: If Natalie and Jeanie go to the prom with Neil and Jean, that would change the past.
I know!
CD could give us a back story of how the young Neil and Jean meet each other, then dance around that for awhile and then have them go out with Natalie and Jeanie to the School Prom, which never happened in the old time line. Jean had plans to go to the School Prom and he really wanted to go, but, he a jerk and he had one or two girls lined up to make sure he could get there and word got out that he was doing that and now all the girls are boycotting him and will refuse to with him to the School Prom. We also know that Neil didn’t go to the School Prom either, no date to go with. In steps Natalie and Jeanie along with an alternate time to boot too. It would only by Jeanie and Neil along with us, that would ever know that the past was changed. Not even the other Genie would even know that the past was changed.
This would do for Jeanie Bottle what the Kevin Time line did for Star Trick, everything would spew off into a different time line.
I think Neil should have became the genie of the bottle, he would make for a much better genie, and perhaps actually would call her friend her MASTER! Like Jeanie should be doing! And granting her Master his wishes instead of driving him to near insanity!!!
That would lead to a less interesting comic I think.
Yeh, this way is a lot more fun.
But Red would be happy if Jean took heed of his/her future self’s warning.
I wonder if we could get Bay wrapped up like the banner?
I support this idea!
I wouldn’t worry to much about the time travel. After all, Honey and Berry are both time travelers and that worked out, well sore of.
Well, in their canon, their respective timelines got erased by the mere fact that they traveled back in time…
That doesn’t seem to be the rule set in JB, but still.
Ooo, please do report back on how yummy it turns out! 🙂
We learned that we probably didn’t use enough breadcrumbs. As some of the patties fell apart rather easily. That being said, they were really tasty! The maple syrup caramelizes on the outside of the burger, as well as gives a sweet taste to blend well with the tangy Worcestershire sauce. The onion powder and Montreal steak seasoning give great flavor as well. All in all, a successful first attempt, may make these again down the line!
Awesome!
Jeanie walking around in front of teenagers?
Oh those poor kids…
Yup. Gonna be a loooot of frustrated teens after this, I bet.
Like the last scene in “Weird Science”, but worse!