Jeanie Bottle 721
Jan31
on January 31, 2023
at 12:00 am
and modified on January 30, 2023. at 8:10 pm
Chapter: Story 15: I Dream of Three Wishes
lol, of course Jeanie would take the big room.
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lol, of course Jeanie would take the big room.
Well Jean did pay for it all with lottery winnings.
Frankly, I think he’s earned the small room after the last few pages.
After all of the crap Neil’s had to put up with, I’d say he’s earned the big room.
I don’t understand why this is an issue. Jeanie is a genie. She can just *poof* the small room into a duplicate of the big room. As we saw at the beginning, the limitations of the space-time continuum need not apply.
And without seeing both of them, the distinction between ‘the big room’ and ‘the small room’ could be something like ‘only taking five minutes to walk across the room, instead of taking eight minutes’. Of course, with Jeanie’s attitude, he might be looking at a phone booth.
A minor aside: at my high school (not quite ancient history, but close) the administrators gauged how much time to allow between classes by timing how long it took to casually walk from one corner of the campus to the diagonally opposite corner (including the football field) and came up with 6 minutes (approximately 9 x 200 ft = 1,800 ft, or about 1/3 mile). They then added two more minutes for a cushion. (Many students were still late to class even though they didn’t have to walk nearly that far.)
I know Sean is talking about absurdly large rooms (kinda like Dr. Who’s Tardis (“It’s bigger on the inside”) where the interior is actually a different dimension), but eight minutes to walk across a room is akin to walking across a large city block.
For comparison, on flat, level ground, at my fastest I can walk a mile in 15 minutes (4 MPH = 352 ft/min); most people can walk a mile in about 20 minutes (3 MPH = 264 ft/min). Assuming Neil is like most people, a five minute walk is about 1320 ft. A bedroom of 13 ft x 13 ft is not unusual, so 1320 is about 100 times the size of a normal bedroom. Even if the 1320 is the diagonal distance, that makes each wall about 933 ft long, over three football fields long for a square room.
Unless of course Sean meant Seconds rather than Minutes 🙂
No, I meant minutes — absurdism for the purposes of comedy. Like having a doorbell on your bedroom door because the room is so big that you couldn’t hear them knock if you were lying on your bed.
Actually, a 1320’ square room is (roughly) 100×100, or 10,000, times bigger than a 13×13 room.
Even if 1320’ is the diagonal, each side of the square room would be about 933’ long (72x the length of the example/average 13’ square room), or 5184x the area.
Of course, maybe the rom is 1320’ long, but only 6’ wide (just wide enough to put a king size bed at the far end). Not really functional, but only about 50x the area of the aforementioned average-ish room. 😉
100×100 is 10,000 square feet. 1320 square feet is roughly 36×36.
The 1320 value was the length of one wall, not the square footage in my calculation. JT is correct on the 10,000 times bigger when speaking of area. My 100 times bigger referred just to the length of the wall. Nice catch.
To be fair to the students, they didn’t have to just walk from one class to another, they had to walk to their lockers, and THEN to their next class. And they still needed at least 45 seconds of their cushion to exit and enter their class rooms in an unhurried fashion, without trampling people in doorways.
But yes, lots of students were probably late because they were wasting time talking to friends, instead of getting to their next
Jeanie may be hinting, subconsciously even to herself, that if Neil wants to be in the big bedroom, it’ll be because they share it as a couple.
A final proof that Jeanie has a female mind.
Yep she’s just so happy with their new house and looking forward to making it a home. Seems she’s also getting over her bottle phobia given she just brushes over bring her bottle here.
But won’t she poof back to her bottle?
she still needs a place for her bottle
So, she needs the big room just for her bottle.
Heck, if it’s just about a place to keep her bottle, her portion of the house should be a wine rack. 😉
Have you ever lived with a woman? Their clothes multiply until they fill all available space. It’s actually a fascinating phenomenon. Or it would be, if I had any room left in any closet for my own clothes. (And let’s not get into bathroom cabinet space.)
Jeanie does not need closets, she just poofs what she needs.
HEY! I resemble that remark!
You should be glad I’m not a Jeannie, or you’d be dancing at a strip club! 😉
Perhaps Jeanie will let the bottle grow the the size of the environment. It would be huge in the room, but no more “itty bitty living space”.
So Jeanie went back in time to steal her bottle from the house in order to avoid dealing with the cops? lol That explains that I guess. Still waiting for Neil to question her about why she got them a new house.
I’m waiting for Neil to ask about the roommates. He’s the kind of guy that will worry that the three of them won’t be able to aford the rent now that he’s moved out.
Hope she can find a good interior decorator.
I’m sure the Yellow Pages will list someone who does bottles.
I had in mind somebody like the famous Helasco. Or maybe not like the famous Helasco.
Panel 2 and 3, Jeanie looks happy again. Good job Neil, keep it up.
You get the broom closet and you’ll like it.
You have to know she is hiding something. Wait until Neil wants to go see his old house. Jeanie, the cops can do a records search to find the fourth roommate. Still it is a nice hideout.
“Also, I’ve removed all records of you living at the old place. Don’t look into it. Don’t go back for anything for at least a week. Don’t worry about it!”
Isnt there some time travel threads unaccounted for?
Neil needs to tell Jeannie to get stuffed, and stuff her back in her bottle.
That’s just asking for night as Natalie at the stripper club.
This never worked in the show, why would it work on the significantly more selfish Jean?
nice Jean been a genie so long she doesn’t give a second thought at saying MY BOTTLE
Isn’t it more logical that the master of the house gets to get the master bedroom.
Also when are these two getting married?
We all remember what happened that one time these two went to the beech: https://jeaniebottle.com/extra-art/fan-art-2
Never! The original IDOJ was destroyed by the marriage, and Jeannie was not a vindictive little minx… often!
Destroyed? it ran for five seasons which is as much as most shows can expect.
And I think one of the biggest problems with the show was just how much of an annoying bitch Jeannie was.
She reminded me of an early Fran Fine, except she was not as trashy of course.
yet the show was building up to that event, their eventual marrige, that should have just been where it ended.
Trust me, the only thing that can truly destroy a show is if it is not allowed to end naturally. That is if its goal is not to tell a story but just to have infinite more seasons
One of the best American shows story wise were Buffy the Vampire slayer because each season was a book in its own right. it did not use the cliffhanger cliche that annoys all viewers and don’t work on executives that gets to decide on if it gets a new season anyway.
Of course the best tv show ever was Matador, which managed to get all the way around and close down naturally after 24 epic episodes that took place over 18 years (1929-1947)
how much money did she win
Half a million. https://jeaniebottle.com/archives/comic/jeanie-bottle-617
$500K in some markets only pays for about 2/3 to 3/4 of the total price.
Remember this is a fixer-upper.
Rodge said it was over a million. He didn’t say how much over it was. It was probably more than a $500,000.
she has her bottle she doesn’t really need big room
And by the way, we should talk about the rent.