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!
spotted the money.
that big stack of crumpled paper it the right of the girl’s left hand in panel nine. Can’t tell what kind of money.
I was just thinking again, yes I know a dangerous habit, a genie cannot directly alter the thinking of a mortal, but a mortal through their own wish can cause them to alter their own thinking, for example the Greek sailor. So what I am wondering can one mortal through their wish alter the thinking of another mortal, in this case will red shirt, after the initial shock wears off, find herself attracted to green shirt and want to be his girlfriend? Also in becoming a girl did red shirt change her sexual orientation?
If so, will gold shirt wish green shirt to become a super hot girl and for both of girls to fall in love with him?
I think that Genie’s cannot force love in the story. Is one of their rules where they cannot alter someone to fall in love. Jeanie tried that and it failed in a previous strip. Forgot the exact comic though.
Though to your second point, yes, lets find out if the third douhuas leans nothing and just turns his other friend into a woman. Just love the creativity of CD to take these wishes and twist them to her liking without every feeling like she broke any rules.
Didn’t Jeanie make Natalie fell heads over heels for Rodge by altering her brain chemistry?
@Dagor Yes, but that wasn’t love, that was extreme hornyness, making someone horny doesn’t violate free will, which is what the magic isn’t allowed to interfere with
I never liked that part of the story having Natalie wanting Rodge. Sure, messing with her brain making her horny is bad enough but why Rodge? Surely Nat could have someone else in mind? I found the whole thing squicky.
She doesn’t have to be his girlfriend to be a girl friend that was his friend that was a boy. The only thing that changed was his friends gender to made that wish true.
Thanks for another great comic. Really enjoyed the double length to your normal comic. A great way to bring attention to the 700th comic page of this amazing series.
On to the comic itself, just love how Jeanie did grant their wishes. Granting wishes requires very little effort on her part. If your are her friend, she will not screw you over. Piss her off and guaranteed you will be turned into a girl swinging your ass in a club. Just love that punishment 🙂 So, great to see that little mean spirited side of her return when they so rudely tried smoking crack out of her bottle.
Second, great job never breaking Jeanie’s rules. She agreed to give them three wishes to use however they liked to get rid of them. Yet they were high and not thinking clearly. Easy to change their wishes to punish them. Just love how the guy, even after becoming rich, was still upset at Jeanie. You could have just thanked her for giving you a free gift. So makes the next wish all the better. Just love how Jeanie twisted the next man’s wish to screw him, now her, over. They are friends so why not change him into a girl to make him a girl friend?
Though if I had a tiny complaint, her transformation was a tiny bit underwhelming. When reading and hearing, “…Super hot girlfriend,” I thought Jeanie was REALLY going to have fun with this. Just seeing a gender swap felt like Jeanie made her a girlfriend, not a super hot girlfriend. (Thought Natalie was way prettier.)
She looks super hot to me. Curvy isn’t always ‘hot’ personally I think she looks great.
At least she’s not flame princess. 😉
“Super hot” is of course subjective, but I think she’s super hot, now. 🙂
Emphasis on Super
She is now a female human torch.
Thanks Guardiandark, Robert, and Fearless Ferret for responding.
And yeah, that complaint about ‘super hot’ is quite subjective.
I assume she fits green shirt’s idea of “super hot”.
Red Shirt’s “premium weed for is bong” could have been 100 feet of kudzo. Green Shirt’s wishes get him a “hot girlfriend”, her car, and a two-foot stack of $1 bills. Such a stack would have 465 bills, that’s a huge amount of dollar bills.
Green Shirt’s wish for a “hot girlfriend” can’t just mean Red Shirt now looks “hot.” If she’s his girlfriend, then she has to be sexually attracted to Red Shirt, and I wonder how she’ll react when that attraction kicks in.
Finally, congrats on making it to 700. And I also don’t want to be there when Jeanie realizes what her posing like that with the 7 means.
There have been some assumptions regarding the disappearance of Jeanie’s bottle… like, it was taken by the >i>other Jeanie that appeared in the window, or it vanished because she refused an illegal wish, or it was somehow filled by the third stoner (?). But if Jeanie doesn’t have a bottle, is she still a genie?
three friends find a magic lamp and summon a genie who will grant them each three wishes.
Guy #1 says “I wish for a billion dollars” the genie snaps his fingers and instantly the guy’s bank account has $1 billion extra dollars
Guy #2 says “I wish to be the richest man ever” the genie snaps his fingers and instantly the guy’s bank account has $1 trillion extra dollars
Guy #3 says “I wish for my right arm to spin clockwise” the genie snaps his fingers and the guys arm starts to spin
Genie says ok time for your second wish
Guy #1 says “I wish for a beautiful wife” the genie snaps his fingers and a gorgeous woman appears next to him with a wedding ring on
Guy #2 says “I wish to get any woman I choose” the genie snaps his fingers and three beautiful women appear on his arms
Guy #3 says “I wish for my left arm to spin counter clockwise” the genie snaps his fingers and the guys other arm starts to spin
Genie says ok time for your third wish
Guy #1 says “I wish to never die” the genie snaps his fingers and the man starts to feel more alive than ever before
Guy #2 says “I wish to get never age or get sick again” the genie snaps his fingers and the man looks younger and healthier than ever
Guy #3 says “I wish for my head to bob back and forth” the genie snaps his fingers and the guys head starts to bob back and forth
Years later the three men meet again to share their experiences
Guy #1 says “Man, I invested my money and tripled it, my wife is great in bed, life is great”
Guy #2 says “I started numerous charities, i get laid by beautiful women every night, life is pretty great”
Guy #3 speaks up and says “Guys I think I fucked up”
That joke is so bizarrely bad, it goes so far off the end of the scale that it comes back and hits the “funny” section again.
Congrats on 700. 😀
Can’t wait to see where we go from here. 😀
how did she not notice the bottle disapear
She’s not looking at it.
I am guessing that the red shirt girl, have also been turned into a straight girl, who is in love with green, otherwise she wont really be his girlfriend, and they really should have a good car each, otherwise their wishes wont have been fulfilled, however I am still disapointed that we havn’t gotten a djinn of the bong yet, so I am gussing that the third guy is going to fill that spot.
Red shirt is holding the bong.
That’s it
Three
Uno
Dos
Tres
No substitutions – exchanges – or refunds
When you WISH upon a star, LOL LMAO
For each car….. The keys are in the ignition, the doors are locked, and the gas tank is empty.
Is that going to be a stack of Ones? Maybe $25,000. Nowhere near Lotto Jackpot money.
He granted his own wish. He was *going* to wish for a million wishes….and he did.
Maybe he *is* due one more wish.
I wonder if the “bottle poof” has to do with her refusing to grant the wish for more wishes. I could see that being fulfilled in a couple of ways. It could be that a new genie is in the area now, ready to grant “Tammy’s” wishes. Or Tammy is now a genie but just doesn’t know it yet. I suppose it could be some punishment for not granting the wish….but then she successfully grants green-shirt’s wishes.
Sigh. I hate having to wait until next week to find out more. I suspect it might be even longer, since next week is likely to be the two stoners dealing with the fact that one of them is now female. I wonder how far the “girlfriend” part goes?
when the jerk was turn into a girl the new outfit make me think of a combination of star trek original series episode Mirror Mirror uniform with the star trek next generation uniform. which might make interesting concept of a alternate universe pixie ranger uniform
He wished for a Super Hot Girlfriend.
Will she have Superpowers?
for my third wish, I am going to wish for……
well he did wish, and thereby fulfilled his own wish
bong, car, and a wish + 3
The 3 wish rule is nice, but in the original tales and in the movie “Miracle Beach” whoever posses the totem gets any wish granted so long as they posses said totem. The only other way to loose your genie was to wish for a Roc egg.
Let’s see…the problems with the current batch of wishes, minus the “Girl Friend” and “More wishes” wishes:
So they have two expensive cars. Are they registered, or just illegal knock-offs with no VIN numbers, or were they just teleported here away from the real owners and are thus now stolen?
A big pile of money: Poofed out of thin air (And thus effectively Counterfeit) or poofed from an armored car (And thus stolen)? do all the bills have the same serial number?
The Cool Bong: I’m guessing that’s the only wish that probably has no hidden problems.
Considering Jeanie created all that gold in the Greek fishing boat story, I suspect those cars are new and are registered in their names. Jeanie’s magic also cold have arranged payment for them. As for the money, on US currency there are only 67 Billion combinations, so serial numbers are reused all the time. Plus there are literally billions of dollars that are ‘lost’ around the world. Just last week I was reading about some Mexican drug lord that is believed to have died in a narco sub that sank in the Pacific ocean several years ago along with about 200 million in cash. Jeanie could pulled in some of that lost money from who knows where.
Transmuting fish into gold is probably a simple spell for genies, and easier than transmuting lead into gold for alchemists. She’s already created a car out of nothing… a shiny new 1969 Dodge Charger named General Lee.
Serial numbers may be reused, but each bill has a printing date that adds to its unique identifier. A 1920 $1 bill with a serial number 12345 is distinctly different from a 2020 $1 bill with the same serial number. Also, very old bills are routinely destroyed, and computer records of such probably only date back 30 or 40 years. Do we think Jeanie is smart enough to only create older bills?
I was thinking she probably just pulled in some of that lost money. It already exists and would not be missed by anyone and is very unlikely anyone even knows the serial numbers on those bills.
Except for transforming red shirt guy, Jeanie probably doesn’t give the slightest thought to how these wishes are being fulfilled. The magic just does it thing and likely does whatever is easiest and I figure moving something that already exists is easier than creating something from nothing.
A unit test: Green shirt guy asks red shirt girl to forgive him.
If she does, then she’s his new super hot girlfriend.
@Elfguy, as for the Bong with gold finishing, that could be an expensive antique from a museum.
Well, the “Super Hot Girlfriend” wish was fulfilled by just adding a space between “Girl” and “Friend” – His “friend” is now a super hot girl, and thus a “Super Hot Girl Friend”
While you’re right, that makes for a less interesting get out of jail option for green shirt guy. For example, one minute she’s irate demanding to be released from the ridiculous servitude and penury of being his ‘girlfriend’ because if nothing else she can do a lot better. Then in the next minute when he agrees she’s mortified and grovelling, begging not to be abandoned.
People are complex, they can hold two competing ideas in their heads at the same time.
I am sure that there are other ways the ‘girlfriend’ could go but that was the most obvious. Perhaps, green shirt guy is like ‘I want my friend back’, while red shirt girl is like at the same time ‘This isn’t right, you’ve got to fix this! I’ve got a job…’ then responding to green shirt guy, she is like ‘What? This isn’t good enough for you, huh?’ And, it ends with her kissing Jeanie, it always ends with her kissing a rather surprised Jeanie.
412 error. Is that new?
If the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is missing a pallet of singles,
isn’t there an FBI agent who received a magical makeover from Jeannie?
Those cars may not have titles and registrations….or VINs…..or gas.
CD, Please, make her a ‘Super’ girlfriend.
Just Strong, Tough, and Flying. (The classic ‘Flying Brick’.)
No eye lasers, but maybe she could Hulk up at will and turn it off afterwards.
What’s “412 error”? Where did you see that?
Inexplicably my comment above triggered a 412 error. (Starting at the word “If”.)
I then posted the comment “412 error. Is that new?”
That comment posted successfully and I was given an opportunity to amend it.
I amended it by adding my original, unpostable comment (Starting at the word “If”.)
Now, magicly, my comment is free of offending characters and/or character combinations.
I wrote my comment three times.
Once on my PC, once on an old tablet, and again on a really old tablet.
Each produced the 412 error.
???
That is very strange. I have no idea what would cause that, and have never heard anyone ever mention anything like it, either. We have a moderation system that attempts to keep out spam, but it should just be hiding comments it detects, rather than throwing errors.
HTTP Error 412 is called “Precondition Failed”, and I have absolutely no experience with that error message, despite being a professional web developer. So… I’m baffled.
Sounds like “if” got parsed as the beginning of a conditional (if-then statement). But what followed the “if” didn’t match a well-formatted conditional, causing the error. I’m not sure what scripting engine you use on this site, but this sounds like a security hole if a comment can be parsed as code.
Actually, Agent Anderson is with Homeland Security. Believe it or not, the Secret Service is tasked with investigating such things as counterfeit money and thefts from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Yeah, you would think the treasury department would be responsible for counterfieting. The U.S. federal law enforcement jurisdictions are kinda mixed up. The F.B.I., A.T.F., D.E.A., Customs and Border Protection, I.C.E., I.R.S.,etc. have a lot of overlap, not to mention the C.I.A. and N.S.A.. By the way, I think that “Secret Service” is a stupid name. They should be called the “Presidential Security Service” or just the Security Service.
It’s mostly just a historical curiosity. The Secret Service *started* as the anti-counterfeit service. It wasn’t tasked with the protection of the President until almost 40 years later.
The Secret Service is a part of the Treasury Dept. My sister used to work for the SS doing IT.
I did not know that. I’ve learned something new. Thank you. The “Secret Service” is still a dumb name though. No one will change my mind about that.
While the Secret Service was deliberately put into the Treasury Department, the Treasury Department became sort of the catch-all department for agencies which didn’t really fit anywhere. The U.S. Coast Guard used to be part of the Treasury Department (transferred to the War Department during wars), before the formation of the Department of Homeland Security. The reasoning was probably that the USCG was created to enforce trade tariffs, and trade tariffs made money for the government, so let’s put it in the Treasury Department.
CD: Please, make her a ‘Super’ girlfriend.
She has the distinctive figure of a comicbook superhuman woman.
Alternate take
New rules for the million wishes.
– You have to make all of them before any will be granted.
– If you make a duplicate wish you have to start again.
– One wish may not undo another.
Assuming they take 10 seconds to make a wish, and wish for 16 hours a day, it will 28 odd years before one gets granted.
I was told there would be no math.
“Tammy” gets angry, yells that she wishes green shirt was a girl, too (Ka-girl!). Green shirt girl says this isn’t fair, Jeannie replies that “Tammy” still had a wish…
And that doesn’t eliminate “Tammy” as Green-Shirt’s girlfriend. I like it.
By the way what kind of money is that?
Oh that is 1923 German marks, trillions of it, its worth nothing
Jeanie is not obligated to screw up a wish.
Had either of them wished for a glass of water they would have received a glass of water,
probably from the nearest Denny’s.
That stack of cash is actually a quantity of non-counterfeit US currency. See my post(s) above.
She’s not obligated to screw it up, but she’s also not obligated to grant them in good faith
Meaning that any wishes she twists are because she wanted to twist them
Jeanie seemed willing to grant their wishes straight when they were wishing for mundane material things like the cars and the money. It’s when they tried screwing with her, like the million wishes, that she decided to screw with them.
I’m reminded of a — perhaps apocryphal — story from the middle of the German depression, when an individual had received their pay, carting it off in a basket. They went to a bakery, and bought some bread, then left, forgetting their money. When they returned, they found that someone had stolen their basket… but left the money.
If I had magical powers and needed to apparate hard cash that was legal tender and not be missed or considered stolen, I would take the bills from cash that has been lost, misplaced and forgotten about, or even destroyed (with unknown serial numbers). And if thats not enough, I would poof from the bills that are sent to the treasury to be destroyed because they’re badly damaged or worn out and magically make them as good as new.
Honestly, I think the simplest way to do it would be to create bills with a random assortment of serial numbers that match the stated minting date. No one will ever notice that there are TWO copies of a few thousand bills with the same serial number, meaning they’ll be just as good as 100% legal tender unless someone has reason to go to *extreme* lengths to confirm that they’re fishy.
Which requires more magic? Moving a stack of bills from halfway around the world or creating new ones here. Since a genie dies when they run out of magic, I would think they would grant a wish of this nature which ever way uses less magic.
A particularly nasty genie might just bring the money from the nearest bank that has that much on hand causing major problems for wisher when the authorities start investigating what happened to it.
For one: does Jeanie even pay attention to that? A different genie would try to be economical, but not her, lol.
And secondly, who’s to even say what’s “more costly” in terms of magic usage? It’s entirely possible that moving bills *is* more costly than creating them.
There’s lots of gold from sunken Spanish treasure ships at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.
Also collectable coins from The Titanic.
Then of course also, there are 38 pounds of gold in a cubic mile of sea water. $22,392 per pound.
Wow, that’s a great idea! Though gold *artifacts* can be a bit hard to pawn, as proper buyers will want to vet the origins. Melting it down may very well be worth it, though.
I hope our Jeanie messed up and gave the kid a stack of real Confederate 20 dollar bills. Those things are retailing fo $100 depending on condition. Of course she would never mess up, “What could go wrong.”
Yeah, Confederate money was considered useless sixty years ago when it was more common, but now that a lot of the bills are gone/worn out (ironically due to being treated as worthless), they are more rare and have collector’s value when they are in good condition.
I know some Civil War Re-inactores (heavy on the Actor part) who would love to get their hands on some real Confederate money.