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.
I suspect it was less about getting shot down by Rita and more about getting shot down, pissed on, and stomped into the resulting mud by–himself, though he doesn’t know that.
Well, I mean that he was *already* pathetic when he got shot down by Rita. He didn’t get the confidence boost he needed to become the Jean we know and “love” by getting shot down by teen Jeanie, so he *remained* pathetic.
Not only did Jeanie poof both her and Natalie to Cincinnati, but, she also poof them either forward or backward about 12 hours also. When Natalie come though the door talking to her co-worker that she going to be covering for, light outside when she walking threw the door, so it probable 1:00 or 2:00 PM in the afternoon. Jean Nessman identify the time as 2 AM in the morning when they get to Cincinnati at the Radio Station.
Wait a minute here, did Jean stay in Cincinnati when he grew up and become a radio announcer? He didn’t move to Coco Beach where Neil is currently at now? He didn’t become a book and TV review critic for other people works, which is what he was in the other life? I don’t think that he even met Belle either? He is basically just another Rodge now.
Based on how she responded to Rodger when Neil’s brain chemistry was altered while sleeping to make Natalie a heterosexual woman, why would Jean object to bring called another Rodge? That also raises the question of how much finishing maturing into an adult as a woman has altered Natalie’s brain chemistry– we’ve already seen some change in her emotional response to seeing Jeanie again. (That storyline also raises the question of what would happen if rather than being summoned away, Jeanie instead was inadvertently trapped in her bottle and so couldn’t undo what I suspect was Jeanie’s regular nightly conversion of Neil into a heterosexual woman before Natalie woke up?)
Its a good question… who can judge the value of a man? Jean doesn’t value himself though… that’s quite evident. Perhaps that is not as bad as valuing himself too highly… all I know is this boy needs a hug.
Turkeys Away is one of the funniest episodes of all time (all TV shows). And the beautiful thing is due to being a low budget TV show, they did it without showing anything. It’s all just actors describing what’s going on and their fantastic comedic timing.
Just be aware that the funniest punch line is during the closing credits. Some copies of it end just as the credits begin. Go find a copy which continues playing during the credits.
Theory: if she had gone into the room with him, then knocked him out and waited until morning to leave, he’d be able to claim he had great time with no one the wiser. But because those guys saw Jeanie leave at the door, Jean has no way to boost his rep, instead his rep is totally shot. Also, Jeanie needs to also go back so she can turn Neil back and bring them back to ‘hopefully’ their present.
Sorry Jeanie. You’ve heard the ‘timeline is bad’ musical sting, not the ‘timeline is good’ musical sting.
Why even try to fix this?
Jeannie is now a Djinn and exist wholly seperate from the Jean she once were, as that person now never even existed.
She should just chill with her new master the hot and cheeky young med student Natalie.
The reason we don’t have separate tags for Jean and Jeanie is that male Jean is not a recurring character like Natalie is. And how we the character bio work for male Jean? We’ve now seen him in Teen form and radio DJ form, but never “normal adult present day male” form (except on page 1).
EDIT: We discussed it on the Rudd Productions private chat, and decided to add a separate Tag for Jean, but not a separate Character.
They zapped to WKRP, but not necessarily from Cocoa beach. Remember when I told you about my friend who went to medical school in Cincinnati? He did college in three years. Natalie could be in her third or fourth year in medical school. If this comic was a sitcom episode, Natalie would probably have switched on the radio and Jeanie would have heard Jean doing his late-night job before she zapped them over to have a look at Neil.
Is Natalia a medicine student now?
Well why not, she have already tried to be an engenner back when she was Neil so becoming a doctor is properly a logical enogh second choice, but where does it says that she is a medical student?
Natalie is working at a job that involves shiftwork. She could be frying potatoes at Mickie D’s or working as a nurse in the Covid ward at some hospital.
I think it’s pretty obvious from her statements that Natalie is living in or near Coco Beach. She followed Neil after he finished his stint at Cal Tech. What is not established is what she was doing between prom night and Jeanie’s arrival, we’re talking a period of 4 to 6 years to grab a gig working for a NASA contractor. Was Natalie working or studying (presumably in California to keep tabs on Neil) or did she do something else in Cincinatti, which is how she knew Jean was a wannabe Dr. Johnny Fever?
Let take this one step further, what happens, if they have to convince the current Jean Nessman of the Radio Station WKRP in Cincinnati that he need to become a female blond genie that call Neil Master to be able to try and fix the time line now? We know that Jean doesn’t want to be either a Girl or a Genie at the beginning of the Jeanie Bottle series, because, he said he didn’t want to be either one of them. That the girl that cut and ran after the prom was actually his own female genie self that he was trying to have sex with and that who he has to become now.
Then we have to convince Neil to take his old friend back in as a female genie and his being her Master now. Neil not going to want to do that either.
I say Leave them Larry, let that turd stay a late night radio DJ, let Neil have an uninterrupted career working for Nasa, and let Natalie and Jeannie have some girl times together.
I mean every time some blob messes with time, ye always goes about how to “fix” it, but two wrongs do not make a right, it just ends up making things even worse so let us just accept the current situation and MOVE ON
@Tom Sewell: Click back to the last strip and Natalie tell us that she live in Cocoa Beach now, she followed Neil there when Neil moved there. Also since Jean didn’t move to Cocoa Beach to be with Neil and doesn’t have Belle for his girlfriend either. Which was the reason that both Jean and Neil was in that Antic Shop or Hock Shop in the first place, was to get a present for Belle. It was Natalie that went to that Shop to pick up that Genie Bottle and that why she has possession of it right now. At the present, neither the other Jean nor Neil know what that bottle is or how important that it is to have that bottle or what it going to do even to change there future.
If ye remember I predicted something like this, granted I said he would be a screen junky (that is a computer wizh that works always alone but a late night DJ is not that much different, and as I said, he is now fat
Theory: Jeanie getting so visibly sick about 5 strips back wasn’t at the thought of having sex with her/himself. The refusal to do so created the alternate timeline, and *that* disruption is what caused her to become ill, and get pushed out of the past and back to her bottle.
Venus Flytrap was all-night DJ at WKRP. I he still at the station? If not, where is he working now? More importantly, will we be seeing Jennifer Marlow?
And do turkeys fly thanks to Jeanie’s magic?
Yes, I was a big fan of the show, having worked on my college’s radio station as copywriter and DJ.
Wait she CAN change the past? I thought that the bottle explained that changing the past to erase the present isn’t possible because of time paradox or something. Page 6
I *think* what may be happening here is that Jeanie now (almost unknowingly) has so much power that she can bend those rules. She’s got all the power of the Blue Djinn, plus the genies he killed and absorbed, running through her “veins” (for lack of a better word). That may be allowing her to do things that normally wouldn’t be possible for a bottle genie.
Just to be clear: What path Jean followed to become a lumpen DJ is irrelevant. Could be major self-esteem crash(good, by the way) or it could be simple random chance–missed meeting somebody, saw a movie in the wrong mood and failed to get that first review inspiration, whatever.
The important thing is that Jeanie sees that her reckless timeshifting hurt not only everyone around her, but even Jean–that is, herself. Think Ebeneezer Scrooge and the various ghosts of Christmas.
I don’t know about? She see Jean and she doesn’t like what she see in him, what kind of person he is or even the job that he has even. Jeanie has changed that much since she has become a Genie about a year or so ago.
My ideal resolution for all this is for the currently tubby late-night-DJ to listen to Jeanie’s and Natalie’s stories and then tell them he’d rather they just let things alone because:
(1) Neil’s and Natalie’s lives are both better now than they were in the other timeline.
(2) Jean would rather be the self he is now than the thoughtless immature jerk he continued to be after he had his big night at the prom.
So, with no confidence from Jean’s prom night fiasco past Jean he just gave up.
He did seem pretty pathetic when we saw him getting shot down by Rita.
I suspect it was less about getting shot down by Rita and more about getting shot down, pissed on, and stomped into the resulting mud by–himself, though he doesn’t know that.
Well, I mean that he was *already* pathetic when he got shot down by Rita. He didn’t get the confidence boost he needed to become the Jean we know and “love” by getting shot down by teen Jeanie, so he *remained* pathetic.
And… the common assumption that Jean is related to the WKRP show’s Les Nessman is more-or-less confirmed.
The betting line is between father & uncle, with the odds favoring uncle, I believe. Let me check the tote and I’ll get back to you. 🙂
oy vey, is there a way to fix this mess of a timeline?
Good question!
Sure. Jeanie goes back and boinks Jean…
The timeline *is* messed up – you-all may want to see what’s up over at The Melvin Chronicles:
http://melvin.jeaniebottle.com/?comic=124-a-shocking-encounter
He doesn’t look all that overweight.
After being Jeanie for awhile, almost anybody else will look like a tub of lard to Jeanie now.
Jeanie’s exaggerating. She’s kindof a vain douchebag, after all.
Wait… so I guess Jeanie poofed them to Cincinnati?
Yup, they did that poofing in the bonus comic on the Patreon. As well as some additional discussion about what Natalie’s been up to in this timeline.
Not only did Jeanie poof both her and Natalie to Cincinnati, but, she also poof them either forward or backward about 12 hours also. When Natalie come though the door talking to her co-worker that she going to be covering for, light outside when she walking threw the door, so it probable 1:00 or 2:00 PM in the afternoon. Jean Nessman identify the time as 2 AM in the morning when they get to Cincinnati at the Radio Station.
https://jeaniebottle.com/archives/comic/jeanie-bottle-671
Take a look, it probably in the after noon some time now.
I’m pretty sure that’s the blue-painted wall of an apartment complex corridor that we’re seeing through Natalie’s door, rather than the outside.
Wait a minute here, did Jean stay in Cincinnati when he grew up and become a radio announcer? He didn’t move to Coco Beach where Neil is currently at now? He didn’t become a book and TV review critic for other people works, which is what he was in the other life? I don’t think that he even met Belle either? He is basically just another Rodge now.
All of those things you said are correct. Though I think Jeanie might take exception to her male self being called “just another Rodge”. hehe
Based on how she responded to Rodger when Neil’s brain chemistry was altered while sleeping to make Natalie a heterosexual woman, why would Jean object to bring called another Rodge? That also raises the question of how much finishing maturing into an adult as a woman has altered Natalie’s brain chemistry– we’ve already seen some change in her emotional response to seeing Jeanie again. (That storyline also raises the question of what would happen if rather than being summoned away, Jeanie instead was inadvertently trapped in her bottle and so couldn’t undo what I suspect was Jeanie’s regular nightly conversion of Neil into a heterosexual woman before Natalie woke up?)
Soooo … did he became better person? Or the same person just with less sex?
Its a good question… who can judge the value of a man? Jean doesn’t value himself though… that’s quite evident. Perhaps that is not as bad as valuing himself too highly… all I know is this boy needs a hug.
only one thing to do Jeanie, go back and rock your teenage self’s world XD
Would that be incest or self-abuse?
Baby – did you ever wonder???
Wonder – what ever became of me???
I’m livin on the air in Cincinnati
Cincinnati WKRP!!!
Got kinda tired of stackin and unpackin
Town to town up and down the dile
Baby – you and me were never meant to be
So maybe thing of me once in a while
Is that the theme song from the show? I’ve heard of WKRP, but I’ve never seen it.
Yes, that’s the theme/intro song to the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_h0nAd3d_c
And the first season is on Amazon Prime. ^_^
Or rather, it was. Now the actual episodes say, “This video is currently unavailable. 🙁
Dang you need to find season one episode seven “Turkeys Away” and watch that. It’s available free if you do a search.
Nobody spoil this!
“Turkeys Away” is an awesome episode with some hilarious lines in it.
Here’s a link to the opening theme:
https://youtu.be/YQvCNLIVydM
Turkeys Away is one of the funniest episodes of all time (all TV shows). And the beautiful thing is due to being a low budget TV show, they did it without showing anything. It’s all just actors describing what’s going on and their fantastic comedic timing.
Just be aware that the funniest punch line is during the closing credits. Some copies of it end just as the credits begin. Go find a copy which continues playing during the credits.
“Turkeys Away” was inspired by an actual promo an Atlanta radio station did.
They didn’t drop turkeys; i understand they drove a van through the streets tossing out frozen turkeys.
{The guy who created the show got his start in radio here in Atlanta}
Theory: if she had gone into the room with him, then knocked him out and waited until morning to leave, he’d be able to claim he had great time with no one the wiser. But because those guys saw Jeanie leave at the door, Jean has no way to boost his rep, instead his rep is totally shot. Also, Jeanie needs to also go back so she can turn Neil back and bring them back to ‘hopefully’ their present.
Sorry Jeanie. You’ve heard the ‘timeline is bad’ musical sting, not the ‘timeline is good’ musical sting.
^ this, although it’s confusing how modern Jeannie forgot Jean’s memory of that night.
It was established earlier than Teen Jean got drunk off the punch. Which explains modern Jeanie’s lack of memory.
Why even try to fix this?
Jeannie is now a Djinn and exist wholly seperate from the Jean she once were, as that person now never even existed.
She should just chill with her new master the hot and cheeky young med student Natalie.
Paradox Alert
It would be nice, if it’s not too much work, to have separate character tags for Jean & Jeanie like Neil and Natalie.
The reason we don’t have separate tags for Jean and Jeanie is that male Jean is not a recurring character like Natalie is. And how we the character bio work for male Jean? We’ve now seen him in Teen form and radio DJ form, but never “normal adult present day male” form (except on page 1).
EDIT: We discussed it on the Rudd Productions private chat, and decided to add a separate Tag for Jean, but not a separate Character.
This hit me hard. Poor Jean. He looks so unhappy 🙁
I knowwwwww! And then Jeanie just insults him like that. She’s such a meanie.
after seeing his big fat DJ body Jean current girl body not looking so bad to have now is it
They zapped to WKRP, but not necessarily from Cocoa beach. Remember when I told you about my friend who went to medical school in Cincinnati? He did college in three years. Natalie could be in her third or fourth year in medical school. If this comic was a sitcom episode, Natalie would probably have switched on the radio and Jeanie would have heard Jean doing his late-night job before she zapped them over to have a look at Neil.
Is Natalia a medicine student now?
Well why not, she have already tried to be an engenner back when she was Neil so becoming a doctor is properly a logical enogh second choice, but where does it says that she is a medical student?
Natalie is working at a job that involves shiftwork. She could be frying potatoes at Mickie D’s or working as a nurse in the Covid ward at some hospital.
I think it’s pretty obvious from her statements that Natalie is living in or near Coco Beach. She followed Neil after he finished his stint at Cal Tech. What is not established is what she was doing between prom night and Jeanie’s arrival, we’re talking a period of 4 to 6 years to grab a gig working for a NASA contractor. Was Natalie working or studying (presumably in California to keep tabs on Neil) or did she do something else in Cincinatti, which is how she knew Jean was a wannabe Dr. Johnny Fever?
Let take this one step further, what happens, if they have to convince the current Jean Nessman of the Radio Station WKRP in Cincinnati that he need to become a female blond genie that call Neil Master to be able to try and fix the time line now? We know that Jean doesn’t want to be either a Girl or a Genie at the beginning of the Jeanie Bottle series, because, he said he didn’t want to be either one of them. That the girl that cut and ran after the prom was actually his own female genie self that he was trying to have sex with and that who he has to become now.
Then we have to convince Neil to take his old friend back in as a female genie and his being her Master now. Neil not going to want to do that either.
Then what do we do with Natalie?
I say Leave them Larry, let that turd stay a late night radio DJ, let Neil have an uninterrupted career working for Nasa, and let Natalie and Jeannie have some girl times together.
I mean every time some blob messes with time, ye always goes about how to “fix” it, but two wrongs do not make a right, it just ends up making things even worse so let us just accept the current situation and MOVE ON
@Mike:
> What is not established is what she was doing between prom night and Jeanie’s arrival
That’s hinted at in the bonus page on CD’s Patreon.
@Robert: You mean the librarian comment and what followed? Yes, that was classic. I meant before that… there is a story there.
@Alastir: I agree, let things ride.
Perhaps she’s done med school and she’s working as a resident/intern – that’s shift work.
@Tom Sewell: Click back to the last strip and Natalie tell us that she live in Cocoa Beach now, she followed Neil there when Neil moved there. Also since Jean didn’t move to Cocoa Beach to be with Neil and doesn’t have Belle for his girlfriend either. Which was the reason that both Jean and Neil was in that Antic Shop or Hock Shop in the first place, was to get a present for Belle. It was Natalie that went to that Shop to pick up that Genie Bottle and that why she has possession of it right now. At the present, neither the other Jean nor Neil know what that bottle is or how important that it is to have that bottle or what it going to do even to change there future.
If ye remember I predicted something like this, granted I said he would be a screen junky (that is a computer wizh that works always alone but a late night DJ is not that much different, and as I said, he is now fat
Yeah, when I read your old comment I was like “Wow, close guess!”
Lucky to have a job. Most late night DJs are automated machines.
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly
Oh the humanity
“If you want to get an eyeful”–Don’t tell me that Natalie is a dancer at “The harem Club.” CD, I don’t suppose you have that on vedio???
Unfortunately, Neko Level rewards are just still images.
Theory: Jeanie getting so visibly sick about 5 strips back wasn’t at the thought of having sex with her/himself. The refusal to do so created the alternate timeline, and *that* disruption is what caused her to become ill, and get pushed out of the past and back to her bottle.
Venus Flytrap was all-night DJ at WKRP. I he still at the station? If not, where is he working now? More importantly, will we be seeing Jennifer Marlow?
And do turkeys fly thanks to Jeanie’s magic?
Yes, I was a big fan of the show, having worked on my college’s radio station as copywriter and DJ.
Venus moved on some time before the sequel series, The New WKRP in Cincinnati, premiered in 1991.
Wait she CAN change the past? I thought that the bottle explained that changing the past to erase the present isn’t possible because of time paradox or something. Page 6
She can’t seem to change her own history of becoming a genie…
Creating a time duplicate though seems to be okay.
@Geniefan: Problem is, none of this happened as a result of a wish.
I *think* what may be happening here is that Jeanie now (almost unknowingly) has so much power that she can bend those rules. She’s got all the power of the Blue Djinn, plus the genies he killed and absorbed, running through her “veins” (for lack of a better word). That may be allowing her to do things that normally wouldn’t be possible for a bottle genie.
Just to be clear: What path Jean followed to become a lumpen DJ is irrelevant. Could be major self-esteem crash(good, by the way) or it could be simple random chance–missed meeting somebody, saw a movie in the wrong mood and failed to get that first review inspiration, whatever.
The important thing is that Jeanie sees that her reckless timeshifting hurt not only everyone around her, but even Jean–that is, herself. Think Ebeneezer Scrooge and the various ghosts of Christmas.
I don’t know about? She see Jean and she doesn’t like what she see in him, what kind of person he is or even the job that he has even. Jeanie has changed that much since she has become a Genie about a year or so ago.
My ideal resolution for all this is for the currently tubby late-night-DJ to listen to Jeanie’s and Natalie’s stories and then tell them he’d rather they just let things alone because:
(1) Neil’s and Natalie’s lives are both better now than they were in the other timeline.
(2) Jean would rather be the self he is now than the thoughtless immature jerk he continued to be after he had his big night at the prom.
Is #1 actually true?