Jeanie Bottle 701
Oct18
on October 18, 2022
at 12:00 am
and modified on October 23, 2022. at 1:39 am
Chapter: Story 15: I Dream of Three Wishes
Characters: Jeanie
I love how the second guy is just not even paying attention to his new girl-friend’s complaints. Though to be fair, that IS enough money to sit on it like a throne, so I can empathize.
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A different question.
Did Jeanie POOF up the car or is it someone else’s? Someone who wants it back. And does Green Shirt have the registration? And there’s the IRS again, asking where he got the money to buy it?
IRS would only ask that if he happens to get audited, so he’s *probably* safe, at least for a long time. And Jeanie’s been shown to be capable of creating matter from nothing, so it doesn’t have to be an existing car taken from somewhere else.
Outside of the “million wishes” wish, which she obviously isn’t going to grant, I think she just legitimately granted their wishes. She twisted the “girlfriend” one to screw with the dork who thought he could wish for more wishes, but Green Shirt doesn’t seem to mind. lol
Well, if she really wanted to mess with the girl-friend, he would have given HER new car to greenshirt guy
It still isn’t settled.
In Panel 2, Jeanie says that Green Shirt wanted a girlfriend, so, since Red Shirt was already his friend, she changed him into his “girl-friend.” Is she saying that Red Shirt is simply a friend who is now a girl, or is she saying that Red Shirt is now a girlfriend; that is, someone who has a strong PHYSICAL ATTRACTION for Green Shirt and who Green Shirt is equally attracted to? If the latter, she should start feeling — and probably fighting — that attraction pretty soon.
And how will Green Shirt react when he feels that same attraction?
That’s what we’re supposed to wonder about.
In the 1936 movie “The Man Who Could Work Miracles”, adapted from the H.G. Wells story, the guy with
god-like powers tries to make a girl fall in love with him….. AND CAN’T!!
The Disney Aladdin Genie specifically said that that was an invalid wish.
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It’s outside the scope of this comic but if Red Shirt person wanted to
try out the new equipment (Friends With Benefits) Green Shirt guy is right there..
But she could fiddle with her brain chemistry to make her extremely attracted to green shirt guy.
It is then her free will to choose to do something about it
Plus boyfriend and girlfriend sharing a house.
I bet his old bedroom is empty and finds she is now co-habitating the bedroom with green shirt guy.
No she couldn’t, in the genie training arch (the one that introduced Melvin and his gang), it shows that if a genie try’s to muck about with someone’s thoughts and/or feelings, it’ll end up bad for the genie. I think what happened was Jeanie’s conscious was thrown out of her body, and the “way of thinking” she tried to install on Red took over her body.
Jeanie tried to make the cheerleader go on a date with Melvin, she didn’t want to, and Jeanie tried to make her want to (page 124).
Much later, Jeanie tweaked Natalie’s brain chemistry (beginning with page 141) to give her the hots for Rodge (culminating on page 481).
Why is Fearless Ferret’s comment unrepliable?
I was going to say that that brain being in a woman’s body is all the
brain fiddling that’s required, but that’s not an issue with blood transfusions.
Oh wait, ignore my comment below. I just found the setting for how deep comments chains can go!
We can now go to 6 deep, instead of just 3.
@jayessell
It’s a limitation of the comment system in our site’s comic plugin. You can’t make comment threads that are deeper than 3 levels. It’s annoying.
What I do to get around this is what I just did here: reply the the connected level-2 comment, and use an @.
She is just his female friend.
It was for @Ellie Dauber
A few strong hits on the bong and everything should sort itself out for Red and Green. They are stoners after all.
Now I want another spinoff comic about this gang 🙁
I love the banner. I was hoping Neil’s house would be a two bedroom. I am sure the other two stoners are gentlemen and would never peek in the shower.
Glad you like the banner. Neil’s place has 4 bedrooms. One for each roommate (not including Jean, if you recall she had to sneak around, Ref https://jeaniebottle.com/archives/comic/jeanie-bottle-615).
sure she can leave you like that and she did
Any bets that the second “buddy” will wind up wishing for a Girlfriend, resulting in a “Three’s Company” scenario?
That’d be fun!
Already up to 70 comments just two days into this panel. This little plotline is apparently a real big hit.
Heck yeah it is! The previous page *shattered* the old record for most number of comments on a single page, going well past 170.
Everyone seems to be assuming the money is fake or somehow unspendable.
Greenshirt is no Einstein but, after seeing what happened to greedy Red, his wishes were more reasonable.
He didn’t wish for an impossible car or amount of money or try to subvert “da rules”.
Granting wishes doesn’t seem to take more effort than a snap of the fingers.
Jean might have given him what he wanted just to save herself the trouble of thinking of something fiendish.
Nellthu by Anthony Boucher (F&SF, August 1955) is a page and a half long squib that sees a man meet a woman from his schooldays. Although she was originally homely and untalented, she now has it all: wealth, beauty, talent, etc. When a servant brings the man coffee he realizes it is a demon, and quizzes the creature on how she managed to get so much from three wishes. It turns out (spoiler) she did it with one—she made the demon fall “permanently and unselfishly” in love with her.
Why in the world would he pay attention to his friend who is now a girl? With that much money he can pick and choose among many eager money grubbing candidates.
yes but these would all be gold diggers, but she was his friend before he got rich. So they share a bond that none of these bitches can break.
And I am sure she will become very jealous very early if any other girl showed him any interest, as I’ll bet her sexuality got changed to that of a heterosexual girl too.
Honestly considering how djinns usually are, these nerd are coming off pretty easy.
There is Rayah https://www.deviantart.com/flintofmother3/gallery/539968/rayah-the-genie
who always twist peoples wishes for instance and she is still on the better side compared to some of the male djinns out there like the one from Wishmaster.
Of all the ways this could have been twisted, she could have been turned into a literal bitch or even a waifu bodypillow who somehow retained sentience.
Still being human, still being young and healthy.
So she got off really easy. And considering that she have to be a girl, she should be glad to be hot. The world is very friendly for hot girls.
“and I believe the wish was for “a hot girlfriend”
Man it would have been so easy to twist that wish, I am thinking flame princess just without the fire resistance
>>“and I believe the wish was for “a hot girlfriend”
Man it would have been so easy to twist that wish, I am thinking flame princess just without the fire resistance.
Oh. A reverse ‘Ice Princess’. Normal body temperature 166 degrees F.
166 degrees Kelvin? Yea that will be pretty cold, that is about minus 100 degrees Celsius. That would make her a very cold ice sprite. But if she needed to be that cold in order not to melt, she would have a hard time on Earth, or should I say “soft time”
Rayah is pretty fun. Also, I’ve seen clips of Wishmaster, and yeah, that Djinn goes out *looking* to grant wishes, just to mess people up. But it’s probably more realistic since Djinn are probably more a type of demon than anything else.
And yeah, the “hot girlfriend” thing… I think it would have just been funny if it was a girl who complained about the temperature all the time. lol
The plot in the films is actually the djinn’s got sealed away long ago and he has to grant 3 wishes to whoever free’s him in order to free them. So his focus in the films (at least the earlier ones which I saw) has always been to get the 3 wishes done by any means possible. If you make them great you get to live till you make the 3rd one and free all djinn, if you don’t he’ll kill everyone you know and torture you to force you to make them. Anyone else he just wants to suffer as humans supplanted his race in gods eyes. Fun fact he HAS to grant the wishes there’s been a couple where its screwed him over doing so e.g. a receptionist who’s wish causes the records he’s after to go up in flames with her.
Can and did, bitch
Can and did
xD
There is only three things I want
I want to bring back someone dearly departed
I want to gain true love and
I want for more wishes.
And as these are the things that djinns can’t give, that just proves that they are worthless
Any ideas about the banner picture?
It’s Jeanie dressed as Scarlet Witch, for Halloween. 🙂
We need more ideas? How many costumes should she have for a Halloween season?
Elvira, mistress of the dark
Go old school – Ranma girl type. 🙂
Already did an Elvira themed pic for this month (It’s a Patreon Wallpaper)
Well we have the whole MCU to pick from
How about Black Widow
If we can’t get an Elvira Banner we could always go with Svengoolie??
Have her as tinkerbell I know green but it is getting close to the big holiday
Morticia Addams.
Red shirt girl said “I am going to wish for a million more wishes.” She didn’t say Jeanie had to give them to her. She should have said, “I wish you would GRANT me a million more wishes.”
He said he was “Going to” wish for a million wishes. Did he even make the wish yet?
Now I’m wondering about “her” wish score. Let me check….
She refused to supply him with weed. Maybe that’s a wish she can’t grant?
Yeah you’re staying like that just be grateful your not head over heels falling for your friend.
While Jeanie is gone, Red Shirt Girl finally notices that her “boyfriend” is sitting on a pile of cash the size of a sofa and suddenly thinks to herself… “Well, maybe this isn’t all bad.” Jeanie and the third victim return to find the two of them dancing around the stack and tossing bills into the air singing “We’re in the money…”
The issues surrounding the money and car can be explained by Jeanie’s understanding of economics and where a girl-friend can come from.
If Jeanie has a strong understanding economics and the impact of quantitative easing, then the money would need to be real money from a real source either stolen or lost. As for the car, that could be any of many fantasy cars that don’t even really exist or it might be stolen.
Which finally brings us to the wish was for a ‘super hot girlfriend’. Linguistically, while I am not an expert but girlfriend is a compound word that doesn’t occur in the regular speech of a native speaker as two separate words. Therefore as we can assume Jeanie is a native English speaker, Jeanie could not satisfy the wish without anything other than a literal interpretation, even if that was her intention.
What this comes down to are two concepts. The first that the wish is granted to the genie’s understanding of the wish. The second that the master has a legitimate claim to the product of the wish.
For example, “I wish in place of my car on the drive, there was a supercar.” That places a supercar where your car was but wouldn’t make the supercar your car, instead “I wish, I had a new supercar.” would create some kind of supercar per the genie’s understanding of what a new supercar is and that would belong to you.
Help me out here, Drake….
Other than an exceptionally convoluted interpretation of the “Super Hot Girlfriend” wish,
is there a chance that Red Shirt Person will possess Super Powers?
Jeanie has already spaced/hyphenated ‘Girlfriend’ into ‘Girl’ ‘Friend’.
That implies ‘Super-Hot’ could become ‘Super’ and ‘Hot’.
(Not thermally hot as that would violate the ‘can’t kill’ stipulation.)
This is reductum absurdum!!! Nice 🙂
No to the super powers because this ordinary language. To make it extra ordinary the phrase would have to have been something like “a hot super girlfriend”. Semantics got to love them.
Thanks but Dang!
You’re right.
The modifiers are in the wrong order.
Strictly speaking, “girlfriend” actually has two entirely different literal meanings, even without the hyphen Jeanie used. A “girlfriend” can be either a female romantic partner of either a man or a lesbian, or a platonic female friend. That second definition is usually reserved for the platonic females friends of other females, though.
So to fix this linguistic issue, Jeanie will, of course, have to turn Green Shirt Guy into Green Top Girl. 🙂
Then she didn’t grant the wish because Green Shirt Guy didn’t hyphenate.
In ordinary usages, women/girls do refer to their female peers as girlfriends (even lesbian friends). However, again in ordinary usage to the best of my knowledge that is not the case between men and platonic female friends, they are just friends. Indeed, men do not even refer to their male peers as boyfriends (that would sound weird). When a man is romantically involved (with a woman) he refers to his girlfriend and she refers to her boyfriend.
“A “girlfriend” can be either a female romantic partner of either a man or a lesbian, or a platonic female friend.” I don’t think “a man” fits at all in this statement.
Hypothetically, if a man were to say to me, “this is my girlfriend…” I would take the meaning that they were romantically involved and would not feel the need to say, “gosh, she’s hot! Do you mind if I take a crack at her?”
Please ignore the statement third statement:
“A “girlfriend” can be either a female romantic partner of either a man or a lesbian, or a platonic female friend.” I don’t think “a man” fits at all in this statement.
I think I got the some of the ‘or’s in the wrong place when reading but otherwise I stand by my statement.
Injecting currency into the economy is only inflationary when the quantity is macroscopic in comparison to the prior total currency supply. A few million dollars is far too small for anybody but the IRS to notice on the national scale—you need several billion to move the needle measurably. Jeanie probably wouldn’t bother thinking that deeply about it anyway—her main concern would be that the cash would be accepted as genuine rather than perceived as counterfeit.
My point was exactly that, Jeanie wouldn’t have that concern.
Probably the last comment of this installment.
Red shirt also got a wardrobe change.
What happened to the things that were in his pockets? His phone maybe?
Vanished forever?
There’s an earlier page that mentions this, actually! Neil wonders aloud where Jeanie’s apartment key went when Jean first transformed and lost his access to pockets. Neil ended up wishing for the key, though I’m not sure if that necessarily confirms that Jean’s key was gone forever.
Wow. Thanks for the reply.
A link or a # please?
How wacky it would be if items in the now absent pocket were still accessible!
Reach for where the phone *should* be and it’s in their hand.
{Duh! It’s from the Pocket Dimension! Same principle as ‘The Bag Of Holding”.}
https://jeaniebottle.com/archives/comic/jeanie-bottle-4
Better yet… since Natalie had to ask to have Jeanie poof up some girl things, maybe this time Jeanie thought to poof Red-Shirt’s entire wardrobe. Certainly, there’s no place on those leggings to put a cell phone, maybe it was in her room.
Pretty sure Jeanie would not do anything she didn’t have to do as to Red Shirt’s wardrobe. And then mess it up altho Green Shirt might like the clothes of Red Shirt. Any time there is a delay in the comic the wait has always been worth the wait. See you Thursday.
So, would Jeanie bother to tell orange shirt what the other two wished for, and the results of said wishes? Would orange even care to help red shirt if he had already planned out his wishes? Also, would Neil and Jeannie be kicked out of the house because of Jeannie’s actions and be outed to the authorities for revenge?
All good questions.
I don’t think Jeanie would bother to tell Orange-Shirt what the others wished for unless he asks, and then she’s under no obligation to tell him. Would Orange-Shirt try and change what happened to Red-Shirt? I doubt it… why waste a perfectly good wish on a stoner?
Now, who gets kicked out of the house depends on who’s name is on the lease. Neil is an aerospace engineer, but we don’t know what the three stooges do (or did, in Red-Shirt’s case) for a living and what their financials are like.
As for the authorities… in the 21st century who’s going to believe that a genie turned Red-Shirt guy into Red-Shirt girl. Revenge can only work if you’re believed and going to the police will result in them asking who you are, and you can’t prove it.
If you’ll recall the movie, Switch, Once Ellen Barkin’s character (Amanda) was accused of murdering her “brother” (Steve) she had no way to prove her identity and avoid jail. Red-Shirt girl would be in the same boat… and Green-Shirt can’t be of any help because they’re going to want to know what bank he robbed to get all that money.
I know I’m late at commenting especially since the next page should be tomorrow but why do I have a feeling that all that money is just dummy currency that is no good anywhere or worst still she just poofed stolen money and they get in trouble with the law.
Given how Jeanie twisted the 1st wish I would not put it past her.
“Am I a girl?”
*facepalm*
No, you’re a fricking cheese grater.
Good luck explaining to your bank what you’re doing with enough currency to count by weight. You show up to deposit that, they call the police to sit on you while the investigation begins. IIRC, anything over $10,000 transferring into an account is looked at very closely to determine the money’s origin, and frankly millions of dollars in cash is even more suspicious than a digital transfer.
There’s two possibilities: Either this cash was fabricated out of nothing, in which case none of the serial numbers will be valid ones, or it’s all been taken from somewhere else… somewhere that naturally reported the disappearance of millions of dollars in cash the moment they noticed it (reported to whom— the police, government, or their mob boss– depends on who owned it). Regardless, you’re in a LOT of trouble.
Keep the cash and just spend it as you need it? A possibility, but that really limits what you can spend it on. Groceries, Burger King drive-thru. If you were sitting on a life-changing amount of money, could YOU restrain yourself to doing nothing more with it than you used to do swiping your bank card? And as soon as you start paying for more expensive things with cash that no one normally pays cash for (say, a car) that business is likely to initiate an investigation immediately, to check if the cash is either stolen or counterfeit. Now you’re back to having the serial numbers tracked back to the source they disappeared from again.
I’ve thought a long time on the best sort of magical wishes to make. Money is obvious. Money determines your entire standard of living. Anyone who told you “Money doesn’t buy happiness” is probably poor, or, if they wrote songs like “It’s not about the money, money, money” and similar… keep in mind this is from the mouth of someone who already made a fortune. Yes, money is NO LONGER important to them, because they have so much it’s become something they never need to worry about again, and now they have the freedom to focus on more spiritually meaningful aspects of life… but that was freedom they didn’t HAVE when they were desperately working like a dog to make sure the next rent check wouldn’t bounce.
But back onto magical wishes (for money). The best source I could think of is lottery jackpots. The money is legitimate, from a known and traceable source, has already been accumulated for the express purpose of being handed over to someone like you, and isn’t being taken from or hurting anyone to give it to you. The source of the lottery company’s jackpot money is people buying tickets, hoping for a chance to be the winner. Presumably they don’t every put in more money than they can afford to lose, and if in the very rare case they chose to, that’s a poor decision that really is 100% on themselves. So, free money both legal and moral for you to receive, with a clear conscience and no direct negative consequences (I consider poor decisions about what you do with the money after you’ve received it “indirect”, or “secondary”, and should be very avoidable if you’re smart about it. First thing *I’d* do is acquire the services of a reputable financial advisor, because you don’t have to BE a money expert if you’re at least smart enough to listen to one.
…That turned into quite a wall of text, didn’t it?