Jeanie Bottle 657
Oct04
on October 4, 2021
at 11:59 pm
and modified on December 27, 2022. at 12:32 am
The girls have arrived, and the picture has been taken!
And I think I see a new banner, too… 🙂
Welcome to
Normally Updates Weekly
Usually Tuesday or Thursday
The girls have arrived, and the picture has been taken!
And I think I see a new banner, too… 🙂
So that’s Jeans sister so far see why Jean never talked about her till now. Nessman is there last name cool reveal. Finally prom dress Jean banner awesome.
We’ve known Jean’s last name was Nessman for a while. It just rarely comes up.
And Jean is from Cincinnati. That has to be significant. I picture Les Nessman as their crazy uncle, WKRP made it clear romance was not for him. Maybe he’s the example of loserdom Jean wants to avoid, only to become a different sort.
Neil is also from Cincinnati because they met in Junior high or middle school in about the 7th grade or so.
See!
I knew that Jeannie would be hot in that dress.
Robert
I agree, Robert! 🙂
After this little excursion to the past and self fulfilling paradox…..I’m starting to wonder just how Jean met his former gf, Belle?
It will be interesting to see how the prom goes.
*Something* has to happen that turns Jean from this teen loser into the horndog we know and “love”. I just have no idea what that is.
I have an idea: Prom Night. Do your duty, Jeanie; the space-time continuum is counting on you!
Jeanie may have done something, but, it was something other than going to a hotel room with him to spend the night with him. She may have been the one that started him on his career that does review of other peoples work. Jean can still be a basic loser, but, be perceived as a winner by other people and he might even be perceived as a winner by himself too and may even brag about it also. But, in my book, those people are still loser.
@Tom
Could be worse I remember one fanfic where due to curses and time travel the main character wound up being his own parents.
I remember one of those too, but, it was a guy on a motorcycle who cross into somebody experiment in the desert and thrown back about 100 years or so, so he was his great grandfather and not his father. The people that did the experiment had to go back and get him and they used a helicopter to get him. It was called Time Traver.
Senko: I didn’t though you could call ’—All You Zombies—’ , a short story by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1959, fanfiction.
Madaline will look at the picture, and notice that Neil’s date looks a lot like him. Almost a female version of him.
No, Madaline will look at the picture and wonder why her brother’s date looks badly washed out, because Genies don’t show up in photographs (and apparently CD has decided that this extends to digital photography and not just film photography).
In fact, if you look closely at the screen on her phone, you can see that Jeanie is whited-out on it.
Neal’s data (“Natalie”), not Jean’s date Jeannie. They have nearly identical hair.
And conclude… what?
“Neil’s date Natalie looks like a female version of him. That *must* mean they’re time-traveling gender-switched versions of the same person, with age-reversing magic thrown in for good measure. It’s the *only* logical explanation!!!”
She’ll never let him live down bringing himself to prom.
Can Jeanie allow herself to be photographed if she wants to be or will the image show only three people standing there?
The last time we saw someone try to take a pictures of Jeanie, she was blanked out by a flare. But the same photographer–one of Jean’s many ex’s–did get at least one clear shot of Natalie and “Jean” (Roger playing Jean, of course), posted it on the web–and Belle saw “Jean” with another woman. Later on she came over to confront Jean, but found Natalie with Roger, and the two of them convinced Belle of two lies:
1. Natalie is Neil’s sister (which will eventually get back to Madeline, Jean’s real sister)
2. Natalie is Rodge’s girlfriend. How much you want to bet Natalie will have to play that part again, without the hormone treatment.
I took another look. CD put a little detail in the last panel. You can actually see in the screen on Madeline’s phone that Jeanie is flared out while the others aren’t. Is Madeline smart enough to figure out something is seriously wrong with that?
Madaline may write it off as the flash shining off Jeanie’s sparkly rhinestone dress.
Well, in the TV series of I dream of Jeanie, Jeanie could not be photographed, that why they tried to use a manican
to stand in for Jeanie. It ultimately didn’t work, Jeanie had to stand in for herself and then they had to intercept the tape recording of there wedding because we could not see Jeanie. At the end of the show they are waiting the wedding ceremony and there laughing because, they can’t see Jeanie.
if she’s like the Barbra Eden version of Jeannie, then she should know that Genies cannot be photographed. (yes, I remember that episode of I Dream of Jeannie.)
But my question is can she actively allow herself to be photographed or not? I think this is a question CD himself would have to answer, either directly or through Robert.
The audience knows genies cannot be photographed — but does Jeanie know that? Her genie education is sorely lacking, but as a diehard I dream of Jeannie fan she’s surely seen that episode. I’m sure she’s counting on that to protect her identity.
If I remember that episode it isn’t a matter of choice, genies simply don’t appear in pictures. The comic seems to have extended that from simply doesn’t appear to always obscured by convenient lens flare. Jeanie is visible, just not recognizable.
The Melvin chronicles has a potential explanation: Genies are energy beings, their physical bodies are just a means of interacting with the physical world.
If it were only “does not show up on film”, then it could be attributed to the silver content of nearly all forms of film—silver having mystical properties and all. However, CD has extended it to mean that Genies can not be imaged by electronics either, which implies that it directly involves how they interact with light. In Arabic folklore, Djinn are creatures of elemental Air and Fire—elements that possess no solidity unlike the Earth and Water from which humans are made. It may be that a Genie only seems to have a physical presence, interacting with matter via magic/telekinesis, and planting their image directly into the minds of viewers, bypassing their actual eyeballs. That would also account for how Barbara Eden’s character showed up (IIRC) as empty clothing worn by an apparently invisible person—the clothes are “there”, but she isn’t.
(Click)
Jeanie may be the only blonde in Florida without a tan. 🙂
Well, she lives in a bottle. 🙂
Not that that makes her a bottle blonde, she’s more an un-natural blonde. 😀
Super-natural blonde would be more accurate, I think.
Wow, look at that telephone that either is an iPhone or one of the many telephone models (Android or otherwise) that were inspired by its basic design and then added their own design ideas.
Incidentally, the first I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle strip came out less than two years after the iPhone was first released.
We saw a couple of pages ago that Madaline’s phone had an emblem of an orange (the fruit) on it, so it is pretty clearly a parody of an iPhone.
Orange was the name of an Apple II clone manufacturer back in the days before Apple sued them out of existence.
Funny thing about trademark infringement suits: Apple was sued by the Beatles. I’m old enough to remember that their production company was called Apple Corp.
Orange oPhones have featured several times in CD’s comics.
Three things of note about Madaline:
– First, Madaline is not the conventional spelling, not that it matters much these days. Also it is “Madaline”, and not Maddie for short.
– If Jean is a junior (hence prom) and Madaline is a second year law student she’s at least 6, maybe 7 or 8 years older than Jean. (Also there is no Wisconsin U in our world, but there’s no genies either, so parallel universe.)
– Jeanie has NOT snarked at Madaline, at least not yet, even though Madaline has presented several bantering opportunities. Judging from her deer in the headlights look she’s more than a bit nonplussed about something. Is it Madaline? The sight of Jean in his tux? Nostalgia at experiencing this memorable event again?
Here’s my guess: Jean responded to Neil’s “you look like your sister with a buzz cut” with “that’s disgusting”. Could Jean have a serious case of big sister worship? Could Madaline be the one person whose approval he craves?
University of Wisconsin-Madison – https://www.wisc.edu/ :p
I think Pilgrim was being a purist. Wisconsin University and University of Wisconsin would not be the same school.
They are correct. The University of Wisconsin at Madison is abbreviated to “UW-Madison” by both the locals, the students, and the Alumni. I should know. I worked there for years.
I also noticed Jeanie’s stunned expression. Odd thing is, Nat’s looking a bit taken aback as well, if not quite as disturbed as Jeanie appears to be in frame 3. Can’t wait to find out what they’re picking up on.
Entirely tongue in cheek…
On the loser scale which is worse:
Going to prom stag?
Going to prom with sister/cousin?
Going to prom with gender bent self via time travel?
Do genies photograph?
No!
Seems we have the alternates all together in one picture, heh heh….. if they only knew the future…the guys i mean.
Panel 4… Jeanie actually looks happy, and more than just saying “cheese” should account for. Unfortunately, we can’t see Natalie’s smile.
Madeline is a Badger? I like her already! (I live in Madison, WI, where the University of Wisconsin is located)
Jeanie is absolutely stunned–by teenage Jean? Her eyes are wide, and her mouth is hanging open. Her cheesy smile in frame 4 looks a bit sick. She’s not looking at Madaline, either, but at her teenage male self. Something’s really gotten to her. Can’t figure what, though.
Has she realized what a dork Jean was? Or is she smitten by herself? Whatever it is, it’s really shaken her.
In the first frame, Natalie seems a bit shaken, too, though perhaps not as badly.
Maybe she’s just realized that not only was the prom she’s always bragged about a pity date, she’s actually managed to be her own pity date.
You’re right. In frames 1-3 she seems to have a deer in the headlights look in her eyes and she does appear to be looking at Jean, but I wouldn’t call her smile in frame 4 cheesy. Perhaps something snapped as she realizes exactly what she’s gotten herself into. And is Jean holding her hand in frame 4?
quibble: I joked that her smile is “cheesy” because she’s saying “CHEESE” for the camera.
But thanks for confirming I’m not imagining her stunned expression over…something?
Stunned expression could be her seeing Madaline whom Jean idolizes, perhaps? Or, not.
Now the real question, if the boys and their dates head back to the hotel for some fun time, would that count as masturbation? Just a much better form of it 😉
No. The adults inhabiting the girl bodies are not the boys they were.
wonder if they;ll look back at the photo when return to future
If they do, they will only see three people because Genie aren’t photogenic and don’t show up in picture or photographs.
This brings narcissism to a whole other level
I foresee Natalie being the wall flower of the group as she studiously attempts to avoid a world ending, time-stream calamity. Neil, on the other hand, will be staring in Zoey’s direction most of the evening as she accompanies her date, Danny Bishop (there is a strong possibility that she’s doing the same at Neil). Meanwhile, Jeanie and Jean will mesh handsomely, with Jeanie realizing that she can dance pretty well as a girl and Jean taking her innate ability to be the center of attention as flirting.
Natalie might just encourage Neil to go talk to Zoey, most likely to avoid any perceived risk of a time-steam disaster if she spends too much time with “herself”, and Neil just might interrupt a Back to the Future style confrontation between Danny and Zoey. He becomes Zoey’s hero, subsequently altering the time stream Natalie was trying to avoid (but in a good way… we hope). Meanwhile, Jean puts the moves on Jeanie and she responds accordingly, within the limitations of Natalie’s orders (Rule #1). The shock and realization of Jean’s behavior, knowing that that was HER behavior back when she was a he, will have significant ramifications on her future behavior once they return to their (probably altered) present.
Side note: according to IMDB there was a character named Danny in an IDOJ episode titled “Never Try to Outsmart a Jeannie”
Better yet, let Danny Bishop be a womanizer kind of like Jean is trying to be. When Natalie at the refreshment bar where the have the punch and cake is, Danny Bishop put the same moves on Natalie that he put on Zoey and Natalie play along with it and break thing up between Danny Bishop and Zoey and get Zoey and Neil back together and plays chaperon for the rest of the night between Zoey and Neil, because, Natalie doesn’t really want to be the girl at the school prom either. Being the chaperon, she play safety and run the time out before going back to the future where they belong.
Just watched Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea with the lovely and talented Barbara Eden. Looking forward to the next episode…
Limburger.