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.
How do you figure? She said she was refusing to do 3 wishes for each of them. Either 1 of them got 3, or they each got 1, and they chose each gets 1. So, they have each used their 1 wish.
what are you people even talking about? She said earlier in the arc, she was refusing to give each of them 3 wishes. Either the one who opened the bottle got 3 or they each got 1, and they chose each gets 1. Which they have now used.
She gave each of them three wishes. First guy wished for a new, gold bong, then a fancy car, and a million more wishes. See Comic 699. His third wish was wasted as that one never works. Second guy wished for a fancier car, a huge pile of money, and a super hot girlfriend. See Comic 700. He (sort of) got all three.
The third guy had to get to work before the first two made any wishes so by my count, this was his first wish.
The three of them will remember the fancy bottle they were drilling a hole into….
{Missing Time}
….then suddenly one of them a woman, a pile of cash against the wall, and two new cars outside.
Orange shirt guy wouldn’t remember going to work despite being there.
The coffee soaked guy DOES remember the blonde barista.
Does that shop have cameras???
So now the question is this: Do the friends remember anything? Or has the magic sufficiently changed them to always have been a hot chick dating a incredibly rich guy? Are their minds and personalities changed, or are thy now in a world that doesn’t see them as anything else but they remember being themselves and ending up like this for some unknown reason?
Or maybe they and the world remembers everything properly but they have no idea how he became a she and where all the money and cars came from. That would make for some difficult conversations.
Well, I would call him rich, but not “incredibly” rich—that pile of cash is probably worth a seven-figure amount. He’s rich enough to live in a nice house and never work again for the rest of his life, but not rich enough to permanently hire servants and have solid gold everything.
The second sentence is ambiguous since it doesn’t have a subject.
“Forget we’d ever met you” in his mind obviously implies “[I want you to] forget we’d ever met you” but a vindictive genie who doesn’t like the situation she’s in could easily reinterpret it as “[I want us to] forget we’d ever met you”
He still has two wishes left that he can make… but he’ll have to remember that he and his buddies met Jeanie before he realizes what he has. In the meantime, he’s vulnerable to having any “I wish…” statement being accepted as one of his subsequent wishes until he’s made all three.
I think that Neil is going to find out about the wishes when he asks Jean why one of his roommates is now a woman, and he will insist that Jean grant Orange Shirt Guy’s remaining wish(es).
Don’t give up on the redhead yet. Read the wish carefully. He didn’t wish they’d never met, or that he and his friends would forget that they met, he wished that Jean would forget that they’d ever met. So the hijinks will continue to ensue as Jean wonders who are these people and why is she mad at me?
This certainly explains the puzzled look of the Jean peeking in the window in comic 699.
Sadly, in the first place, wanting Jeanie to forget was never part of the wish, but just something he wanted. He didn’t say “I wish” before it, so Jeanie is making forgetfulness happen because she wants to interpret “I wish you would leave me alone” that way. She’s not required to make somebody forget, she’s choosing to do so.
And, in the second place, while he intended on wanting her to forget (“[I want you to] forget….”), it is an entirely ambiguous sentence (“[I want us to] forget…”). Unlike other languages, English’s conjugations basically requires subjects and sentences without subjects can be incredibly ambiguous.
Actually it does not, as the wish was only that they would forget that they had met her, not that the previous wishes have been negated. We still have a very rich guy, and a very hot chick, who now have no memories of being anything else.
On the plus side, the header is nice. That has got to be the best-looking ugly sweater I’ve seen this season. Maybe because of the contents of the sweater more than the sweater itself, though.
Okay he just not only used a wish but let it apply to “we” meaning him and his two friends, and thus logically because they forgot to have ever met her, they must also have forgotten to have made their wishes, which wont make the wishes not apply, but will make the “girlfriend” forget that she was ever anything else, and the same applies to her friends and everyone else.
I’m curious how “I wish you’d just leave me alone” will interact with her granting his remaining two wishes (that he no longer knows he has). She may be bound by genie law to grant his last two wishes. But she’s bound by his first wish to not grant his last two wishes. Catch-22.
“Just leave me alone” can be interpreted as stop hounding me to make a wish. Sooner or later, he’s going to say something trivial like “I wish it would stop raining” or “I wish these pants fit better.” Everybody does it. Nothing says Jeanie has to be standing there egging him on.
I really think Jeanie has screwed up somehow. In comic 699, she’s visible outside the window so has/will poof back in time to that point. In comic 702 when she first arrives at the coffee shop, she’s wearing a jacket and shirt which looks identical to the one in 699. So it’s likely not much time passes between her poofing away from the coffee shop, to when she goes back in time outside the window. Presumably to try to fix something she screwed up. That’s why I don’t buy the “everything is fine” line of thinking.
Folks are not reading the wish very well. He wished “to be left alone”. Technically, Jeanie could have stopped there but she added the “forget we ever met you” as well. This doesn’t negate the whole sequence. Friend 1 is still rich, Friend 2 is still Friend 1’s girlfriend. Friend 3 is still owed 2 more wishes but doesn’t know it.
Frankly, if she’s really mean, she could make it that Friend 3 is forever alone.
There are six possible characters of interest regarding Orange Shirt’s wishes: Orange Shirt — Clearly, he no longer remembers Jeanie being in the shop with him. Does he remember that he and his friends met — and got wishes from Jeanie? Probably not. In which case, what happens when he rejoins his friends. Red Shirt — Nothing negated her transformation. Does she remember how she was changed? Is she suddenly surprised to be a girl? Or does she now think that she was always a girl? In any event, what are her feelings towards Blue Shirt? Blue Shirt — Does he remember where the money came from? Does he think he was always rich? Does he remember what happened to Red Shirt, or is he surprised to suddenly find that his friend is now a girl? Does he think she was always a girl? What are his feelings for Red Shirt? Belle and Her Friend — They weren’t affected by Orange Shirt’s wish. They remember that a teen worker at the coffee place spilled coffee all over his sheet. But Orange Shirt doesn’t remember that happening. What happens if/when they go back to get the money for cleaning the shirt or for buying another. Jeanie — Does she remember meeting the trio and granting them wishes. If not, she went from getting drenched by somebody pouring water into her bottle to standing someplace, probably near the bottle. If it’s the room with Red Shirt and Blue Shirt, then they saw her “Poof” in. If they don’t remember her, they’ll know she’s a genie. If they think that he’s always been rich and she’s always been female, they may demand new wishes.
If they remember what happened, Red Shirt MAY demand to be changed back. In any case, there will be confusion. And that’s why Jeanie went back in time — may with Red Shirt and Blue Shirt and even Orange Shirt — to watch what happened.
You know this isnt necessarily a bad wish… given Jeannie’s ‘interpretation’ of wishes this is probably the smartest wish you can possibly make with her, short of wishing ‘I’d like my arch nemesis to meet you instead’
If if he wishes his friends never met her, will that mean all of them go back to normal and remember nothing?
Wait… is Neil their friend? So if he wished his friends never met her, will that mean Neil won’t have any memory of Jean/Jeanie, and thus will be confused as to why she is in his apartment?
So, he has 2 wishes left one friend now a girl and the other is insanely rich, so this is going to be fun.
How do you figure? She said she was refusing to do 3 wishes for each of them. Either 1 of them got 3, or they each got 1, and they chose each gets 1. So, they have each used their 1 wish.
(the first 2 literally used 3 wishes each)
at least Jeanie will have dinnertime with Neil faster than she thought.
But…. Now his unused wishes will be unclaimed…. until he says “I wish” twice more!!
Actually he only has 1 wish left. Leaving him alone and forgetting he ever met her are two different wishes.
I don’t recall him using another wish. What was it?
That’s because you’ve forgotten too
you were included in the wish to forget
Leaving him alone was the wish all in a single statement. I read the next sentence as a plea. I score it as 2 wishes left.
I agree, but I doubt Jeanie is going to hang out waiting for him to say something.
what are you people even talking about? She said earlier in the arc, she was refusing to give each of them 3 wishes. Either the one who opened the bottle got 3 or they each got 1, and they chose each gets 1. Which they have now used.
She gave each of them three wishes. First guy wished for a new, gold bong, then a fancy car, and a million more wishes. See Comic 699. His third wish was wasted as that one never works. Second guy wished for a fancier car, a huge pile of money, and a super hot girlfriend. See Comic 700. He (sort of) got all three.
The third guy had to get to work before the first two made any wishes so by my count, this was his first wish.
That was a really dumb thing he just did.
That he now does not remember doing.
I dunno, I think wishing for the asshole genie to leave him alone might be the smartest use of a wish in the entire comic so far.
Is he including the other two house mates in that wish?
He said “we”, so it sounds like the roommates are included.
The three of them will remember the fancy bottle they were drilling a hole into….
{Missing Time}
….then suddenly one of them a woman, a pile of cash against the wall, and two new cars outside.
Orange shirt guy wouldn’t remember going to work despite being there.
The coffee soaked guy DOES remember the blonde barista.
Does that shop have cameras???
and eventually the 3rd guy will careless say “I wish…” while jeanie’s in earshot.
Genies don’t show on cameras. Just a large glare.
So now the question is this: Do the friends remember anything? Or has the magic sufficiently changed them to always have been a hot chick dating a incredibly rich guy? Are their minds and personalities changed, or are thy now in a world that doesn’t see them as anything else but they remember being themselves and ending up like this for some unknown reason?
Or maybe they and the world remembers everything properly but they have no idea how he became a she and where all the money and cars came from. That would make for some difficult conversations.
Well, I would call him rich, but not “incredibly” rich—that pile of cash is probably worth a seven-figure amount. He’s rich enough to live in a nice house and never work again for the rest of his life, but not rich enough to permanently hire servants and have solid gold everything.
Aww. It’s actually a bit sad, I liked him. And why does the wish effect him? Shouldn’t it be Jeanie who forgets?
The second sentence is ambiguous since it doesn’t have a subject.
“Forget we’d ever met you” in his mind obviously implies “[I want you to] forget we’d ever met you” but a vindictive genie who doesn’t like the situation she’s in could easily reinterpret it as “[I want us to] forget we’d ever met you”
Except she didn’t grant his other two wishes… isn’t that cheat?
Didn’t she said one wish per person in this case?
No, refer to comics 699 and 700 for the first six wishes.
Oh. Right. Three wishes, but at the same time.
He still has two wishes left that he can make… but he’ll have to remember that he and his buddies met Jeanie before he realizes what he has. In the meantime, he’s vulnerable to having any “I wish…” statement being accepted as one of his subsequent wishes until he’s made all three.
That was convenient for Jean.
That was a sadly disappointing outcome. Wishing that “we” never met negates the entire arc.
Yup, even the redhead love interest turned out to be nothing but a red herring.
It’s possible CD still has something in store for the 3 stooges. We can only hope.
I think that Neil is going to find out about the wishes when he asks Jean why one of his roommates is now a woman, and he will insist that Jean grant Orange Shirt Guy’s remaining wish(es).
Don’t give up on the redhead yet. Read the wish carefully. He didn’t wish they’d never met, or that he and his friends would forget that they met, he wished that Jean would forget that they’d ever met. So the hijinks will continue to ensue as Jean wonders who are these people and why is she mad at me?
This certainly explains the puzzled look of the Jean peeking in the window in comic 699.
Sadly, in the first place, wanting Jeanie to forget was never part of the wish, but just something he wanted. He didn’t say “I wish” before it, so Jeanie is making forgetfulness happen because she wants to interpret “I wish you would leave me alone” that way. She’s not required to make somebody forget, she’s choosing to do so.
And, in the second place, while he intended on wanting her to forget (“[I want you to] forget….”), it is an entirely ambiguous sentence (“[I want us to] forget…”). Unlike other languages, English’s conjugations basically requires subjects and sentences without subjects can be incredibly ambiguous.
He forgot about Jean in the last panel.
No, he said forget we ever met you, not wishing we never met you. So all that happened did so and just not remember how it happened.
Actually it does not, as the wish was only that they would forget that they had met her, not that the previous wishes have been negated. We still have a very rich guy, and a very hot chick, who now have no memories of being anything else.
Genies are like cops: never say anything to them without your lawyer being present.
I think I see the “Grandfather Parodox” coming.
Well, that takes care of that. But what about the money chair?
Oh yes. I love it when a genie wish goes wrong. In a story, mind you. It would probably be awful in real life.
On the plus side, the header is nice. That has got to be the best-looking ugly sweater I’ve seen this season. Maybe because of the contents of the sweater more than the sweater itself, though.
Okay he just not only used a wish but let it apply to “we” meaning him and his two friends, and thus logically because they forgot to have ever met her, they must also have forgotten to have made their wishes, which wont make the wishes not apply, but will make the “girlfriend” forget that she was ever anything else, and the same applies to her friends and everyone else.
maybe his friends will remind him of his wasted wish since they all used their wish non can undo any wishes
I’m curious how “I wish you’d just leave me alone” will interact with her granting his remaining two wishes (that he no longer knows he has). She may be bound by genie law to grant his last two wishes. But she’s bound by his first wish to not grant his last two wishes. Catch-22.
“Just leave me alone” can be interpreted as stop hounding me to make a wish. Sooner or later, he’s going to say something trivial like “I wish it would stop raining” or “I wish these pants fit better.” Everybody does it. Nothing says Jeanie has to be standing there egging him on.
I really think Jeanie has screwed up somehow. In comic 699, she’s visible outside the window so has/will poof back in time to that point. In comic 702 when she first arrives at the coffee shop, she’s wearing a jacket and shirt which looks identical to the one in 699. So it’s likely not much time passes between her poofing away from the coffee shop, to when she goes back in time outside the window. Presumably to try to fix something she screwed up. That’s why I don’t buy the “everything is fine” line of thinking.
If jeanie forgets about them does that mean that the cute new girl stays that way and does she remember she is supposed to be a boy?
Folks are not reading the wish very well. He wished “to be left alone”. Technically, Jeanie could have stopped there but she added the “forget we ever met you” as well. This doesn’t negate the whole sequence. Friend 1 is still rich, Friend 2 is still Friend 1’s girlfriend. Friend 3 is still owed 2 more wishes but doesn’t know it.
Frankly, if she’s really mean, she could make it that Friend 3 is forever alone.
Jeanie is not a good person.
Was that her plan all along, she should be locked up in her bottle for life!
There are six possible characters of interest regarding Orange Shirt’s wishes:
Orange Shirt — Clearly, he no longer remembers Jeanie being in the shop with him. Does he remember that he and his friends met — and got wishes from Jeanie? Probably not. In which case, what happens when he rejoins his friends.
Red Shirt — Nothing negated her transformation. Does she remember how she was changed? Is she suddenly surprised to be a girl? Or does she now think that she was always a girl? In any event, what are her feelings towards Blue Shirt?
Blue Shirt — Does he remember where the money came from? Does he think he was always rich? Does he remember what happened to Red Shirt, or is he surprised to suddenly find that his friend is now a girl? Does he think she was always a girl? What are his feelings for Red Shirt?
Belle and Her Friend — They weren’t affected by Orange Shirt’s wish. They remember that a teen worker at the coffee place spilled coffee all over his sheet. But Orange Shirt doesn’t remember that happening. What happens if/when they go back to get the money for cleaning the shirt or for buying another.
Jeanie — Does she remember meeting the trio and granting them wishes. If not, she went from getting drenched by somebody pouring water into her bottle to standing someplace, probably near the bottle. If it’s the room with Red Shirt and Blue Shirt, then they saw her “Poof” in. If they don’t remember her, they’ll know she’s a genie. If they think that he’s always been rich and she’s always been female, they may demand new wishes.
If they remember what happened, Red Shirt MAY demand to be changed back. In any case, there will be confusion. And that’s why Jeanie went back in time — may with Red Shirt and Blue Shirt and even Orange Shirt — to watch what happened.
You know this isnt necessarily a bad wish… given Jeannie’s ‘interpretation’ of wishes this is probably the smartest wish you can possibly make with her, short of wishing ‘I’d like my arch nemesis to meet you instead’
If if he wishes his friends never met her, will that mean all of them go back to normal and remember nothing?
Wait… is Neil their friend? So if he wished his friends never met her, will that mean Neil won’t have any memory of Jean/Jeanie, and thus will be confused as to why she is in his apartment?