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Neil is Jean’s best friend. When Jean was turned into a genie, Neil became Jeanie’s master.
Truthfully, Neil hasn’t seem to know how to stand up for himself much at this time. He doesn’t really say what he really wants over his louder friend (Jean) and just timidly sits back, enabling himself to be pushed around down where he doesn’t want to go. Jean, while he feels that he’s doing Neil a huge favour for a memorial event, is more than less is thinking more with his dick than reading the room here.
Is Neil hanging out with Jean or is it the other way around. A lot of people like Jean have no friends so the attach themselves to someone they think they can control. Neil has other friends in the chess club but I haven’t seen anyone near Jean.
Interesting observation. That might be the real reason Jean moved to Coco Beach. He didn’t move to be near his closest friend, he move to be near his only friend.
Yell, it either Natalie to the rescue or it all over for Neil when it come to making the right choice here. When you have a friend like Jean that thinks with his dick, nothing good can happen for you.
There is such a thing as tolerance, but, this is ridicules, Neil should completely and totally disown him. But, Jean does make a better Female Genie than he does a mortal man.
Natalie will go prom with Neil but will then hook up with Danny which will leave neil and Zoey in wonderful bliss. Jeanie will have too much spiked punch and….
Danny Bishop can ask Zoe, but as a chess club nerd, she may just be a pawn in Bishop’s hands. She may think she’ll be his queen, but she might just get rooked.
To answer Robert’s question, social anxiety for “quiet” folks or “nerds”, can be crippling. Neil knows Jean can be overbearing, but the effort required to make new friends, to Neil, is huge. He probably “knows” a lot of people in high school, but isn’t necessarily close with more than two or three.
The “nerds” of the world know that taking a risk and putting one’s self out often results in a lot of teasing and/or bullying. The easiest solution is then not to put one’s self out in mixed (quiet & loud) company, like school.
Plus, I think somewhere back in the series, Neil and Jean have known each other for a long time. It can be difficult to give up what is annoying but familiar. The process of shifting (in-person) social networks is viewed as long and arduous, with a lot of unknowns.
If Zoey and Neil are both “quiet”, then neither of them are likely to exit their comfort zone, despite their obvious affection for each other. Asking a person out is viewed as a huge risk, potentially involving social humiliation, so it easily violates their respective comfort zones.
Neil and Jean actually meet in either the seventh or eighth grade in junior high or middle school. There in twelfth grade now, so that would be four or five years ago that they meet each other. We are six in the past, so they have known each other for 10 to 11 years or so.
Is it possible that this is how it all worked out before, Danny asking Zoey to prom because Neil was too shy? This would then explain why Neil just let it happen, even though it hurts him – he is stubbornly trying not to change what happened before, even though he is watching Jean take a wrecking ball to the past?
@ijuinkin: Are you sure? I don’t recall any mention of who Neil did or didn’t go to prom with, only that Neil thought Jean went with Rita. Which raises an interesting point… if Neil thought Jean went with Rita, wouldn’t that mean that Neil didn’t go to prom at all? If he did go, he would have known about the exchange student (page 630, panel 3).
We don’t know yet, because, there could be two or more time lines or partial time line out here that cross over each other and maybe even er raising other and throwing out there a slightly future that both Jean, Jeanie or young Neil or Natalie remembers. I can’t see Natalie not changing things a little bit too. Every time they throw in new veritable, it has a tendency to change the out come too. We just don’t know how yet.
@gary: Not necessarily. It’s possible that if history is changed then Zoe might know all about Jeanie. After all, Neil’s toxic best friend would have vanished mysteriously and without much explanation.
As toxic Jean is as a friend, before he was turned into Jeanie, he was talking about getting Neil a girlfriend and even a little bit after she became, Jeanie, she was talking about getting Neil a girlfriend. Not too after that, all that kind of discussion came to an end as the situation changed.
We could easily have a foursome of Jean with Bella and Neil with Zoe. We could have a short run of a double dates and such things as that and then have Jean pick up the Genie Bottle and poof, he now Jeanie. The question would be, would we want Zoe to know that Jean was turned into Jeanie. Probably not at the beginning, CD Rudd would probably want to play around with it for a little bit, before maybe letting Zoe find out what the truth is, kind of the way the Rodge found out the Jean was turned into Jeanie.
The cummerbund is supposed to be worn with pleats facing upwards, so from that we can deduce it is for keeping little crackers or peanuts in as a portable snacks belt.
Some times Neil just tell Jean off cause he is not being a real friend to you right now. But Natalie could still save yor prom night with Zoey.
Truthfully, Neil hasn’t seem to know how to stand up for himself much at this time. He doesn’t really say what he really wants over his louder friend (Jean) and just timidly sits back, enabling himself to be pushed around down where he doesn’t want to go. Jean, while he feels that he’s doing Neil a huge favour for a memorial event, is more than less is thinking more with his dick than reading the room here.
Hey Robert, I was just thinking the same thing about their friendship, then I saw your comment.
Hehe
Is Neil hanging out with Jean or is it the other way around. A lot of people like Jean have no friends so the attach themselves to someone they think they can control. Neil has other friends in the chess club but I haven’t seen anyone near Jean.
Interesting observation. That might be the real reason Jean moved to Coco Beach. He didn’t move to be near his closest friend, he move to be near his only friend.
Yell, it either Natalie to the rescue or it all over for Neil when it come to making the right choice here. When you have a friend like Jean that thinks with his dick, nothing good can happen for you.
There is such a thing as tolerance, but, this is ridicules, Neil should completely and totally disown him. But, Jean does make a better Female Genie than he does a mortal man.
Natalie will go prom with Neil but will then hook up with Danny which will leave neil and Zoey in wonderful bliss. Jeanie will have too much spiked punch and….
enjoy the tux while you can in a few years you’ll be swapping it out for evening gowns
Heheh, so true~! And Jeanie really looks *stellar* in evening gowns! 🙂
Danny Bishop can ask Zoe, but as a chess club nerd, she may just be a pawn in Bishop’s hands. She may think she’ll be his queen, but she might just get rooked.
Perhaps she’s waiting for Neil to be her knight?
I’m afraid Neil’s been rooked…
Neil will just have to beat the Bishop, then.
To answer Robert’s question, social anxiety for “quiet” folks or “nerds”, can be crippling. Neil knows Jean can be overbearing, but the effort required to make new friends, to Neil, is huge. He probably “knows” a lot of people in high school, but isn’t necessarily close with more than two or three.
The “nerds” of the world know that taking a risk and putting one’s self out often results in a lot of teasing and/or bullying. The easiest solution is then not to put one’s self out in mixed (quiet & loud) company, like school.
Plus, I think somewhere back in the series, Neil and Jean have known each other for a long time. It can be difficult to give up what is annoying but familiar. The process of shifting (in-person) social networks is viewed as long and arduous, with a lot of unknowns.
If Zoey and Neil are both “quiet”, then neither of them are likely to exit their comfort zone, despite their obvious affection for each other. Asking a person out is viewed as a huge risk, potentially involving social humiliation, so it easily violates their respective comfort zones.
Neil and Jean actually meet in either the seventh or eighth grade in junior high or middle school. There in twelfth grade now, so that would be four or five years ago that they meet each other. We are six in the past, so they have known each other for 10 to 11 years or so.
Is it possible that this is how it all worked out before, Danny asking Zoey to prom because Neil was too shy? This would then explain why Neil just let it happen, even though it hurts him – he is stubbornly trying not to change what happened before, even though he is watching Jean take a wrecking ball to the past?
I just realized this makes no sense – Young Neil has no knowledge of how things went. Never mind.
It does make sense in that Natalie is not trying to meddle with how things went. Natalie apparently remembers having not gone to the prom with Zoey.
@ijuinkin: Are you sure? I don’t recall any mention of who Neil did or didn’t go to prom with, only that Neil thought Jean went with Rita. Which raises an interesting point… if Neil thought Jean went with Rita, wouldn’t that mean that Neil didn’t go to prom at all? If he did go, he would have known about the exchange student (page 630, panel 3).
We don’t know yet, because, there could be two or more time lines or partial time line out here that cross over each other and maybe even er raising other and throwing out there a slightly future that both Jean, Jeanie or young Neil or Natalie remembers. I can’t see Natalie not changing things a little bit too. Every time they throw in new veritable, it has a tendency to change the out come too. We just don’t know how yet.
hopefully when they get poofed back to the present Neil will look Zoey up and will start a romantic relationship-With Jeanie’s help of course.
I don’t know if Jeanie’s aide in that endeavor will actually be of any help, lol.
Neil would have to explain to the girl of his dreams why he is living with a super hot blonde or try to hide Jeanie when Zoey comes to visit.
@gary: Not necessarily. It’s possible that if history is changed then Zoe might know all about Jeanie. After all, Neil’s toxic best friend would have vanished mysteriously and without much explanation.
I keep thinking back when Belle came to visit.
As toxic Jean is as a friend, before he was turned into Jeanie, he was talking about getting Neil a girlfriend and even a little bit after she became, Jeanie, she was talking about getting Neil a girlfriend. Not too after that, all that kind of discussion came to an end as the situation changed.
We could easily have a foursome of Jean with Bella and Neil with Zoe. We could have a short run of a double dates and such things as that and then have Jean pick up the Genie Bottle and poof, he now Jeanie. The question would be, would we want Zoe to know that Jean was turned into Jeanie. Probably not at the beginning, CD Rudd would probably want to play around with it for a little bit, before maybe letting Zoe find out what the truth is, kind of the way the Rodge found out the Jean was turned into Jeanie.
That what I am thinking.
nice demure banner
School girl Jean on top. How man Jean or Natlie pinup corner pictures have there been?
I don’t know but there really needs to be an archive of banners.
Oh, There is…. It’s just not publicly viewable.
If I made them all viewable, they would be less special when you see them change.
ARRRRRRGGGGG!
Hehe, CD knows what he’s doing. 🙂
The cummerbund is supposed to be worn with pleats facing upwards, so from that we can deduce it is for keeping little crackers or peanuts in as a portable snacks belt.
Why exactly is Neil friends with Jean? Jean is an unrepentant asshole and a toxic ‘friend’.
Neil is nice enough to say hello to someone, not assertive enough to say goodbye first.
Maybe Jean is trying to cheer Neil up in his own way? I mean… a lack of sympathy is not necessarily a lack of caring.
Jean may hang out with Neil rather than the other way around.