Jeanie Bottle 700
You didn’t think CD would miss the chance to celebrate a big milestone with a major event, did you?
He even asked Jeanie to pose for us…
Though I think she might be a bit ticked off once she learns the answer to her question. I’ll be far away when that happens.
EDIT: WOW, folks! This page just broke the record for the most comments EVER left on a single page of Jeanie Bottle! Y’all really liked this one!
Congratulations on 700 CD and Robert. Also Red shirt Girl got what she wanted then Green shirt guy got his fantastic wish.
Thanks Brandon
We knew that one of them would be changed, and since its a wish it can’t be taken back.
Enjoy your new life as arm candy!
And… Red Shirt Dude-tte gets to participate in a wish. Along with getting her as a girlfriend, does Green Shirt Guy get her Porsche, or does he get his own “nicer car”?
Will Orange Shirt Guy be able to cancel out the predictable “whoops” wishes, or can a wish not undo another person’s wish? (Can’t recall.)
I think *wishes* can undo other wishes, but nothing else can.
remember what Jeannie said when she was going to grant the wishes 2 pages ago? “there are NO take backs, rewrites OR re-wishes.”
Strictly speaking, that was her making special rules for the occasion, on her own. I think it’s *possible* that “third wisher makes a wish that the other two morons didn’t make any wishes” is at least potentially doable, even given those rules. It’s not one of them taking back their own wish, which I would assume was Jeanie’s intent with that line.
In regards to Wishes A, B, C. You can’t use B to prevent A from happening because then you would have never used B to stop A. You could potentially use C to return things to normal if A and B ended up with less than desirable results. If A, B, C all end up to not be to your liking, you may have to convince someone else to use their wishes to fix the mess you wished upon yourself.
I think whether he gets his own “nicer car” depends on whether he had a seperate car of his own before. However, the Porsche (and possible second car for Green Shirt Guy) could be:
A. Out of gas (or battery charge, as applicable)
B. Missing important engine components (or even completely sans engine)
C. Stolen
D. All of the above.
I’m wondering if this will change the memories of others that know them. If not, then someone is going to have some problems. And, if it did, she may be getting calls from mom about when she will be getting married.
Well, it was certainly an adjustment period for everyone else who got changed, so I’d imagine it’s no different here.
CD knows what his public wants. More TGed morons!!! Congratulations on those 700.
I don’t think we’ve had any reality altering before in this comic. It seems to be very straightforward
Anyone else notice her totem went poof when she refused the wish?
Huh, I hadn’t considered that angle… I had assumed the poof was due to that “other Jeanie” we saw in the window last week. But it could have been related to her refusing a wish.
it probly related to her being in the window in the last chapter
Jeanie is right in that the wish for more wishes was invalid, but she may be obligated by Da Rules to grant him a proper third wish in its place—i.e. she should have given him the “premium weed” and called that his third wish.
It’s also possible that Da Rules state that if a wisher attempts to break an obvious rule with their wish, that wish is null and void.
Well, invalid still count. Remember Neil’s second wish. It was invalid but still counted
I suspect Da Rules don’t apply here. By all rights, if she were required to grant wishes (still doubtful if any of them are her new master), it would only be 3 wishes in total. She has magnanimously granted them 9. So Da Rules would apply to only 3 – presumably each guy’s first wish. Each guy’s two followup wishes are totally up to her how/if she wants to grant them.
Lazarus:
Neil’s wishes were as follows:
1: wish for Jean’s apartment key (before knowing that wishes would be granted)
2: wish for Jean to never have become a genie—invalidated because it would cause Grandfather Paradox due to fulfilling it causing Jean to not have the power to fulfill it in the first place.
2B: wish for genie manual (on CD-ROM)
3: wish for sandwich (when Guano insists that he use his third wish immediately)
In my opinion, the wish for more wishes was not invalid – it wasn’t a wish for “a million more wishes you will grant”
Personally, I’m thinking that she’s doing this simply because even though it’s a hassle to humour these jokers, at least she can have some fun with the idea of “careful what you wish for”, which may be a bit more therapeutic for a genie than simply poofing them off somewhere. I honestly don’t think she actually HAS to grant any of these wishes.
@Marika Oniki: I believe you are correct. None of the three stooges actually took possession of her bottle, nor has Neil given her up, therefore none of them are her master and she’s not obligated to grant any wishes at all, let alone 3 each. If you look at her expression in panel 3, she was obviously enjoying herself by smacking them with the be “careful what you wish for” angle, until Red Shirt started yelling and things turned ugly. Orange Shirt is going to be walking into a firestorm when he returns.
That might be related to the second version of Jeanie we saw lurking outside the window in the previous comic. Maybe more time travel shenanigans, maybe Jeanie from the future coming back in time to undo something she did in this sequence, maybe even Jeanie and Guano’s future child coming back to save her mom from the consequences of something she did in this sequence.
I’d go for Jeanie Jr. Make sure she’s smarter than Jean and that she constantly gives her mother advice which her mother ignores.
I thought she poofed it to safety.
to Jeannie holding the #7: it’s because this is the 700th page in the comic, and that 7 + your breasts = 700. please don’t clobber me for telling you that.
Don’t ruin it!! lol
too late, I just did.
What you talkin’ ’bout, willis?
I hate that Gary Coleman Line.
Yes, but it’s a fitting and surprisingly appropriate punishment for that spoiler.
Who else was expecting the girlfriend wish? And the manner it would be granted?
I was .
I’m always expecting it.
Is it T for Thomasina now? 🙂
I think she should be called Tammy now! She was the one that poked the dragon and Jeannie doesn’t deal with that crap. Red pissed off Jeannie and she was supposed to obey Melvin. She set the rules and no changes, no take-backs. This is her fate. Perhaps the T is for Tesla.
The bottle went the other guy most likely. The probably it will go back to Jean or Neil or whoever pick’s the bottle up next.
Another interesting potential reason for Jeanie’s bottle disappearing!
I can imagine their friend showing up saying “thanks for being my canaries” knowing that the genie was likely to twist their wishes somehow, and wanted to know what the ground rules were before making his own wishes.
He did seem mildly smarter than the other two.
“thanks for being my canaries”
Poof – they are both now canaries – wish one down
I wish they were back they were before
Poof – They are back to boyfriend/super hot girlfriend – wish two down
I meant I wish they were back to the way they were before I left.
Poof – They are back to the way they were (sans bong, cars, cash, etc) – wish three down
Canaries wasn’t phrased as a wish. Even Jean can’t twist the rules that much.
How far before you left? Teenagers? Grade schoolers?
I’m curious to see Jeanie is smart enough to Poof blue shirt guy a stack of completely worthless money. Like monopoly money or currency from a country whose legal tender has been so devalued you would need a large stack of it just to buy one loaf of bread.
Or a stack of pennies.
He wished for a huge stack of money… Monopoly money comes to mind since he didn’t specify whether it should actually be real money.
Or it could be real money but no longer legal tender
Here is a $100 Trillion note from Zimbabwe
https://www.banknoteworld.com/zimbabwe-100-trillion-dollars-banknote-2008-p-91-unc-tap-authenticated.html?category_id=245
On the other hand, if that stack were valid US$100 bills, then that would be several million dollars. Even $20 bills would make it over a million. But knowing Jeanie, it’s probably all singles.
Yes, singles in $100 bundles. About 250 of those bundles would make a decent stack.
$25,000 is hardly Lotto money.
Monopoly money is one option. Alternatively it could be a stack of counterfeit money that will get these morons arrested.
Money from a defunct country is a possibility. In IDOJ, Jeannie poofed up a safe full of cash in order to convince the IRS assessor that Tony had enough money to cover any tax bills, but after Tony explained income tax to her (i.e. the more money you have, the more they take, as opposed to the property tax she was used to, where your tax bill is fixed regardless of your revenue), she altered the cash to be Confederate States of America banknotes.
Well, we see the stack of money in the last panel. Impossible to really tell what sort of money it is, though.
He got a nicer car than the Yugo he had before, a huge stack of dollar bills, and a super hot girlfriend that used to be his boy friend.
I wonder if the Genie Council will choose to interpret this event as Jeanie looking for new bottle genie “candidates” to replace Blue’s victims.
Jeanie was already haunted by some of Blue’s victims, so there might be some way to restore them.
Their totems were destroyed (at least one of them that we saw) and restoring them would mean Jeanie losing part of her own magic.
Wonder if Jean transformed him because he started yelling.
These three were not going to escape without at least one of them being ka-girl’ed. I’m actually surprised it’s only been one so far.
I love your Wotch reference there.
Wait… If she granted him the ability to make a million wishes, does that mean he/she can’t die until those million wishes are made, even if they’re never granted? Is she going to live for centuries?
Well, the wish was granted. So presumably she now has a million things running through her subconscious that she wishes for. Guy in the green shirt has just gotten a very needy GF.
I am slightly disappointed that he didn’t get transformed into a genie, but at least he got turned into a super hot chick.
When dealing with a pissed off genie, the only proper wish is “I wish to not have any more wishes in as safe and appeasing a way possible, sorry, sorry, sorry, goodbye”.
Well he did ask for a girlfriend, plus she or he might like both girls and boys.
I just went back and looked at the last few strips and I noticed that CD has been drawing red shirt’s eyes in a slightly up swept way. Combine that with his, now her, black hair and I’m thinking she is either supposed to be Asian or Polynesian. I know it probably doesn’t matter story-wise but I am curious.
Robert, do you know?
I was going for an Asian look for him/her. Doesn’t really matter to the plot line, just trying to inject a little multi-cultural look to the comic.
Thanks for the info.
Jut trying to show that white people don’t have a monopoly on being jerks. 🙂
Re: white people having a monopoly on being jerks. Ha ha. Clearly you haven’t lived in Asia. There are scams run there which would make a Caucasian’s head spin. It’s pretty common for Asian celebrities to mention during interviews that they were scammed out of money. Did you watch Squid Game? Did you notice that the “good guys” were fighting against both other players, AND the staff running the game? That’s the social commentary the show was making – how ordinary people are victimized by both other people, and the government which is supposed to be keeping things fair.
#2 asked for a huge stack of money. But he didn’t specify US dollars, now, did he?
We knew the “Ka-Girl” spell was gonna happen.
“Hey, your friend is now a super hot girl, Thus a super hot girl friend. Maybe you should have read the “Literal Genie” entry on TVTropes.”
As she is now super hot, she can make a lot money in either the modeling or adult film industries.
Congrats on page number 700 and I hope you had a happy Canadian Thanksgiving. Do they eat Turkey up North. Looks like stoner number three had the best wishes. Load up her new bong and after a few puffs she will be a happy girlfriend.
If Jeanie really wants to make them suffer she should make them sit down and make them watch reruns of “REEFER MADNESS” In honer of my home state’s upcoming vote on the new pot law.
Uh-oh. Green shirt gets himself a hot girlfriend–who STARTS OUT as a whiny, demanding, loser pothead. Now she has a hot body–massive jump in social status, and able to get pretty much whatever she wants.
Greenie is in big trouble.
Are you saying red top will be high maintenance? If so you’re probably right.
“High maintenance” stretched to tatters might begin to cover it.
Heh, but how about this: Jeanie granted Greenie his wish of a hot girlfriend. No, Jeanie can’t make Redtop love Greenie–but what if her hotness doesn’t work on anyone else? Every other guy she tries it on rolls his eyes, and treats her like male Redshirt. But Greenie treats her fairly decently–as long as her demands aren’t too unreasonable. Otherwise, he’s as cold as everyone else. And when he does something right, she rewards him–a dazzling smile, a hug, a kiss. Pancake breakfast, wearing not much under her apron. He starts being someone worth loving, and she stops being a harpie. (I know, I know–basically what I wish for Jeanie and Neil.)
Hey everyone, I propose a new name for red shirt girl;
Ember, because she wears a red shirt and she’s smoking hot.
Her top still has a T on it. I’ve suggested Thomasina and Robert suggested Tammy. 😀
You missed a chance in panel 2. “I wish for some premium weed” Sure, Poof, a bag of (milkweed, or poison ivy}. “I ment grass.”
no problem, POOF, There is a 1200 pound big round bale of Kentucky Bluegrass setting on top of that porche.