Jeanie Bottle 648
Aug03
on August 3, 2021
at 12:01 am
and modified on March 7, 2023. at 2:38 am
I feel like “Ooohhhh…” is appropriate here.
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I feel like “Ooohhhh…” is appropriate here.
Jean didn’t listen to Neil then and not now so many things change so many things stay the same. Also that guy is mad about Jeans prank.
I’m not sure who should get whacked on the noggin with the El Kabonger Grande.. Jean in the Past, or Jeannie in the Present.
That’s simple: Both.
And the chaos begins….
Hopefully they will actually make it to prom night without the timeline collapsing around them. Though knowing Jean…odds are heavily in favor of some changes to their future.
all aboard the Pinkie Pie Express, with Deadpool as the Conductor!
I’m pretty sure this is all a stable time loop and they are now living out the things they already did.
It does seem that way though its odd Neil doesn’t remember this.
Cincinnati. It’s on all the maps.
Pretty sure the city is spelled Cincinnati
Yes, Cincinnati is misspelled in the bubble where there talking.
Sorry! I thought I was saying a new comment, not a reply! IGNORE ME!
And all this started for a burger.
Panel 1… First statement should end with a question-mark instead (i.e. it’s an interrogative).
Panel 1… OURSELVES (there’s an “I” in there where it shouldn’t be.
Panel 2… “This is more important THAN…”
Panel 4… that’s not how you spell Cincinnati.
Yelp, that the proper way to spell Cincinnati.
Yes, I’ve now corrected all the errors. Notice how CD’s avatar is the one in today’s post description? That’s because he posted this himself, after I failed to properly copy edit it in time.
So… has Jeanie messed up the timeline (Jean is not spending this part of the day figuring out his tux), or did she forget that as Jean, he went to get a room at the same hotel where she has now arranged for one (subconsciously doing it no matter who s/he is)?
Well, we know where Jeanie got the money for the most expensive really high class hotel in the city of Cincinnati there is. The Presidential Suit that Jeanie and Neil are in, cost several hundred to maybe a thousand or more per night to stay there one night. But, where did young Jean get the money to even think of staying there. He must of been saving up his money for several month or so, because, how much could a teenager come up with in high school. He must have had a summer job or something.
We don’t know enough about Jean’s life prior to becoming Jeanie. Maybe his family is loaded. That might explain his entitled attitude.
Fear is spelled wrong on Neil’s shirt.
Hah, I wonder if that’s intentional…
That’s Jean’s shirt, not Neil’s.
Yes, Jaen’s shirt.
Moving away from spelling errors…
I was expecting the jerk business man to show up eventually and discover that his corporate account had been hijacked, but not this quickly. Maybe he’s only trying to track down the receptionist that blew off his “date” last night, but I think the situation is worse than that.
This is also the day of the prom now too, so they won’t need the room to sleep in now either. Also Jeanie can still use her magic too, because, she is a Genie remember. It not like she can’t exit a situation like this anytime that she want to. Jeanie is only soaking this scumbag for everything he got, because, she can do that to him.
If it’s like my Corporate card was, I wouldn’t have a clue — or even a way to know there was a problem — for about a week. And if I was also using the card, I probably wouldn’t notice until I was filing the expense report at the end of the trip.
There’ll be a big problem if/when the jerk finds out that his card is paying for a second room (for the girls) besides the one he spent the night in. He’ll know that he’s going to have to explain things to his Human Resources Office why his card was billed for two rooms. Not only will he have to pay the money back for that second room (and room service and the mini-bar, and the pay-per-view movies), but he’ll probably be fired. This could be a major change in the timeline.
@Ellie Dauber: He can probably explain it away easy enough, I expect he’s good at that. “Really, my card must have been hijacked, I have no idea where those charges came from. But if you want, sweetie, we can go back and find out.” wink, wink
He wouldn’t even need to lie much.
“Yes I know about the charges I have the hotel name here you can look up the number and call reception they’ll confirm the person who checked me in never actually worked there. So they had to have been planning to scam a room by entering data while the night clerk was away from the desk and I just walked into it.”
Assuming his questions don’t reveal the double billling and he complains directly to the management getting the charges refunded/police called.
Jean and Natalie are way ahead of Jean and Neil. But, then, they would be.
Your probably right about that. When they were in the school, it was on Friday about launch time yesterday. Jeanie threw the water on Neil or Natalie at around 12:00 o’clock on Saturday today, a few minutes ago to maybe about a half hour to maybe even an hour ago. So it like 12:00 to maybe 1:00 o’clock right about now. So yes, Jeanie and Natalie had over 24 hour lead on the younger Jean and Neil when it come to getting to the hotel.
I had in mind that they were their future selves. So they’d have to be ahead.
Does Jeanie still have Rita’s credit card? Just wondering.
As far as we know, she does, but, right now, she skinning another sucker right now and she is obviously too busy to mess with it right now. Beside, most of those credit cards have a load limit to them also and Rita probably didn’t have much more than $2,000 to $5,000 dollar amount before it locks up and you can’t charge anymore money to it. So it probably already been max out or at least close to it by now.
Lucky for Jean he looks so much better as a girl. nice bit with last panel with guy looking of Jean at costumer service.
Reading Mike comment I think of Jean parents were loaded they’d be looking for their missing son by now
“impress the panties off your date” and teen Neil goes crosseyed.
And something comes into focus for me as well. Jeanie’s being careless and terribly high handed in her treatment of Neil, it’s true.
However, Jean, and now Jeanie, honestly liked/likes Neil, and has always tried to be his friend. By her understanding, she’s trying to teach Neil how to loosen up and enjoy himself. She’s not trying to humiliate him, or dominate him–although she is terribly pushy, and I don’t think she has ever understood why Neil does the things he does.
As The Mean One pointed out upthread, all this started with a burger. Indeed yes, but even that was by way of Jeanie trying to get Neil something he wanted, to grant him a wish. (Plus, it’s an odd echo of the old ham sandwich incident.) And she was honestly excited to do it for him.
I’ve been pretty hard on Jeanie for being so pushy, and on Neil for taking up his role as Master.
But I now find myself on Jeanie’s side. I don’t think she can trust a master who doesn’t know how to lighten up.
As noted last strip, Jeanie may be a jerk, but she is a loveable on.
Aargh. Sense-reversing typos, my favorite. I’ve been hard on Neil for NOT taking up his role as master.
@Senko
Exactly, that the same point that I was trying to make here too. Neil not a girl and that why he doesn’t enjoy what going on here. Jeanie is basic trying to get water to flow uphill, it just not natural for Neil to do that.
Yes, Jeanie’s trying to get Neil to lighten up, but to lighten up as a teenage girl. It’s pretty much accepted that Jeanie has become mentally female. Is she trying to get Neil/Natalie to accept and enjoy also being female? Maybe even to the extent of not wanting to witch back to her male self.
Jeanie problem is, she want to have some fun time with her old friend, but, she not a guy anymore and she going to pick thing that female like to do and not things that males like to do. This is how much Jeanie has changed over the last year or so that she been a female genie. Jeanie still hasn’t had her “DING DONG I’AM A GIRL”!!! moment yet. She know that she a girl, but, it hasn’t sunk in yet and that Neil is a guy and still thinks like a guy and should think like a guy too. So when Jeanie what to do things with Neil, it will be picking things that girls like to do and that why she doesn’t understand why she getting some much push back from Neil all the time.
So, no, Jeanie isn’t consciously trying to turn Neil into a girl, but, that is the only way that Jeanie know how to relate to her old buddy and knows how to make contact with him.
@Larry
I think there’s a second factor at work here too. Jeanie as you said has become a girl mentally and emotionally as well as physically so she’s actually having a great time doing things like this. However there’s also an element of “I can find out why these things happen.” As she said she didn’t go to the mall because she needed clothing she went to find out why teenage girls enjoy mall time with their friends and she just doesn’t get at a fundamental level why Neil can’t just relax and enjoy being a teenage girl for a few day’s. Even when she first get changed before she started changing she was generally willing to just enjoy her new options.
Honestly its my issue with the idea of being turned into a girl as an adult. Even if you get turned into a little girl or in Neil’s case a teenage one you don’t necessarily have the same experiences as a born one. Lets take a middle aged man, turn him into a 5 year old girl and modify reality so everyone thinks she’s always been one and treats her like the child she now is. Unless you effectively kill the original person by changing their memories they wont experience or react the same way a child would growing up. There’ll always be that adult memory set influencing their behaviour and giving them a different perspective on those experiences. That said you are having those experiences and everyone is different e.g. Neil being dragged clothes shopping and told “No you stay a teenage girl till you lighten up and try enjoying it.” So who can say without experiencing it personally.
@Senko
Exactly, Neil a guy and not a girl, that why he doesn’t like what Jeanie is doing is doing to him. Unless, Jeanie intend to eraser his mind and remake him, he isn’t going to like it in the future also.
Jeanie was magically zap mentally and has been gradually assimilating the new genie girls nature that was installed in her mind when she first became a female genie over a year or so ago. As you have said, Jeanie has her old memories present with her in her mind, because, his old memories were not erased either from her mind. Because of that she act differently than other girl. But, then Jeanie old nature and desires aren’t with her her either and are being gradually replaced with her new female genie natures, that have been coming to the surface recently. Jeanie is going through a discover process of who she is right now, while her teen Jean is discovering himself too.
Most of those male desire that go with being a guy are no longer a part of Jeanie. Jeanie a female with female desires. That why Jeanie is interested going to the mail to shop for dresses and other cloth, beauty salon for the hair, finger nails, makeup, perfume, massages and steam bath along with other things that girl like to do.
This is why I expect to see a head on collision between Jean teenager boy and Jeanie girl as they have a head on collision with each other. It will be like two trains coming down oppose end of the the same track at each going at over 100 miles an hour. When they meet in the center somewhere, there going to be a terrible crackup between those two, because, they interested in different things and they want to go in different direction to each other.
It seems a shame to visit past-Cincinnati without even one WKRP reference… If there’s going to be chaos, Les on his NewScooter needs to cover it!
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
The immortal line. Marketing in a nutshell. Although modern marketing would enthusiastically announce that turkeys do fly, period, and this will Save You Money.
Wild turkeys can fly well enough. Domestic turkeys, not so much. Had a wild one fly in front of my car in Wisconsin once. They are _huge_.
Domestic turkeys tend to have too much body weight and too little wing muscle for flight.
Clip for those of you too young to get the reference. Probably one of the funniest TV moments in the last half century.
https://youtu.be/HiSkjcl9yW4
That was inspired by an actual promo a station here in Atlanta did {WKRP’s creator based a lot of the show on his experiences in radio here}.
But i think they were tossing frozen turkeys out of a moving van…
The phone cops are on the case.
(Sniff sniff) smell that? I smell a paradox
Jeanie is going to wear a tux? Not a prom gown? Where is she going to find one that fits her girl figure? Or if she is going to *POOF* one, why would that take all day to figure out? (I had to reserve my formal wear rental for the JS Prom weeks in advance.). I find it easier to believe in genies than prom planning the day of.
Jeanie wore a tux back in I Dream of Las Vegas before Neil told her that pretending to be James Bond wouldn’t work on the trip to Vegas she was planning on with Neil. So she changed costumes and bodies twice, first as blond Honey Ryder from Dr. No, and then as black-haired Vesper Lynd from Casino Royale.
And about WKRP: Remember that the newsman announcing the turkey drop was Les Nessman? And Jean’s name is Nessman?.
Hmm, perhaps Jean has an Uncle Les, then?
And there’s the WKRP reference. I wonder how many other references to old television programs we’ve missed.
I think Jeanie was remembering trying to figure out the tux as a boy. Pretty sure she will be in a gown.
Yes, Jeanie is going to the school prom as a girl and she will be wearing a prom dress on her like girl does. I would expect her to be the biggest bombshell out too. Remember she going to a beauty salon to get her hair done and get other beauty treatment girl get while there there like manicures, makeup and other such thing as that they do there. I would be expect her to wear a white frilly lacy around all the hems, neck and hands with on a white shill fone dress that enhances both the her large D Double D or or E or F breast she has and her tiny waist too with a full pleated dress on. You know the type that I am talking about, the one where all the guys penises stand to attention when she passes by and then she look back at them, oh so innocently, like she doesn’t know why all the guys are acting so strangely around her. When Jeanie show up at the school prom, she going to be a real Barn Burner.
Besides in the I Dream of Las Vegas, Jeanie had only been a girl genie for maybe a month or two at the most then and she was still more or less still thinking like a guy and not as a girl like she think now. Jeanie been a girl genie for about a year now and it clearly has had it effect on her thinking now.
@Larry: In her teenaged form, Jeanie lacks the “large D Double D or or E or F breast” of her adult form you describe. Just compare her appearance in panel 1 above to panel 5 on page 644. Still, I’d wager she and Natalie will be knockouts in their prom dresses.
I have looked at both of them, but, remember even in her teenage years here, she is still suppose to be about 18 years old. Most girl are pretty much developed most of what there going to have by this time in the bob department. The bobs start growing when there about 12 year old and generally finish growing about 16 or 17 years old. There might be a little more growth in the bob section, but, it pretty much already there or at least enough so, that she going to have a good spread out there, if she chooses to show them off. We know what kind of a guy Jean was and now we are going to see the flit of who he was in Jeanie as she does the female version of that from the other side as a female.
Instead of us two guys arguing over this, I ask you girls this one question:
At what age was your female form pretty much developed and you were pretty much stop growing?
At least the lion share of that growing from a girl into a women. I am sure that most of you will be in agreement that it was pretty much by the age of 18 which is about the age of these kids, 17 and half or 18 and a half. There in there senior year of high school before they graduate from school in a month or so in springtime. Mike there not going to be growing much more after this point in time.
@Larry: I’m only pointing out what has been presented visually in the comic.
But…Jeanie was poofed into her adult form. And then she poofed Natalie.
I hear Earth Angel being sung I the background …
And the dance’s theme will be “Enchantment Under the Sea.”
I’m confused by the first panel. They ALREADY ran into their past selves at the school.
Yes, they ran into themself on Friday at around 12:00 during school lunch time, when Jeanie set up a date with Jean her male younger counterpart in senor high school in Cincinnati and also set Natalie up with Neil too. So yes, they are going to be running into there younger self later on in the day at the school pram. What Neil is trying to do, it to keep the cross contamination of the past time line to a minimum, which obviously isn’t going to happen. Because, look who showing up at the same hotel that both Neil or Natalie and Jeanie are staying at, in the last panel, it younger Neil and Jean coming to book a room in the same hotel. This now Saturday the day of the school prom at just after 12:00 to maybe 1:00. The school prom will start at around 6:00 or 7:00 and go to about 9:00 or 10:00 and wind down after that. It will run for about 2 to 4 hours.
I’m guessing that there was an implied “again” in Natalie’s line. She probably thinks they’ve already screwed up the timeline a lot from their first meeting with their past selves.
I honestly cannot tell if Jean a. doesn’t remember anything about what happened prom night, b. is trying to hype themselves up by lying about what happened, or c. is remembering a completely different timeline and is just that oblivious to the changes
As you say, there are several possible here or combination of possible together here as to why they don’t remember what happened and they are:
1. For the old Jeanie and Natalie, it hasn’t happened yet.
2. The got drunk and remember what really happened.
3. Jeanie zapped the younger version of herself and Neil so they would not remember what happened.
4. We are dealing with a different time here and everything different here or there are some minor differences that they would not remember, because, they didn’t happen in the other time line.
5. There are other reason they misremembered what happened or even forgot some of the details happen, after all, it happened 6 or 7 years ago, who remembers everything that happened that long ago anyway.
6. Or some combination of the above.
Poor Mr. Garcia will be directed to a convention of little old ladies all wearing red hats. Yes, there really is a “Red Hat Society.”
I can’t see any other place to put this: i was looking for a particular drawing from “Cheer” – one of the ones Tselsebar has done since the comic died.
But apparently the HTML is messed up somewhere – when i try to access it from the link on this page, or by googling and clicking a link that goes to a page, i get
BTW: the way this page formats quotations sucks dead echidna through a bendy straw.
Blasphemy. If there’s anything more important than a D&D group, I want it caught and shot immediately!