Jeanie Bottle 848
Apr15
on April 15, 2025
at 12:00 am
and modified on April 15, 2025. at 12:41 am
Chapter: Story 17: I Dream of Home Sweet Home
Hurray! Caley likes Natalie, now (after previously disapproving of her). Surely, that was the sole barrier preventing Natalie and Rodge from expressing their true love for each other! …Right?
Also, what the heck is going on in the background?
Ice Cream Rodge and Natalie can date a perfect ending to a perfect voyage. And some one didn’t secure the rigging for their boat to the docks people will trip on that.
That’s not Liam’s boat in the background is it?
what the woman in the backround tripover and fall face first into
anchor rope
She tripped over the anchor rope. I’m pretty sure that pink stuff she fell face first into is strawberry ice cream.
Are those two characters in the background, Andy and Ray Van-Lifer, the memories of Andy and Ray/Rouyaa that Jeanie put into blank bodies? I’d hate to think that they were going to vanish, too.
Whoever they are, I suspect that they’ll be playing a part in the next story. And I VERY MUCH doubt that Caley was the only reason that Jeanie and Roge didn’t declare their feelings for each other. Assuming that they have such feelings.
Nah, Van-Life Andy and Ray look like this: https://jeaniebottle.com/?comic=jeanie-bottle-757
The guy has the same sort of haircut as Andy, and who says that blank bodies don’t change over time.
Whoever they are, I don’t think that it’s a coincidence that they suffered that ice cream slapstick right after Rodge suggested that they go for ice cream. Maybe it’s Araceli trying to get Natalie or Caley’s attention.
I’m guessing those two are Diana and Jean-Luc, Bay and Berry’s children from Sailor Sun.
He’s got a pretty deep tan to be Jean-Luc.
I absolutely need to know who those background people are.
There was a crime committed in those panels, the wanton destruction of buckets of ice cream.
Left to right, there’s vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and an unidentified flavour, possibly mocha or coffee.
I don’t think the 4th one is ice cream. Rags maybe.
Also, whatever caused her to trip may have tripped him first because the chocolate is already on the ground in panel 4 before she goes down.
Now that I think about it, it looks like he’s pointing out that that’s the third tub of ice cream she’s dropped. Notice how she’s struggling with the strawberry tub in panel 3, and the two tubs he was carrying are sitting upright on the dock.
Since the vanilla and chocolate are on the deck beyond where she tripped, isn’t it possible the bottom fell out of the vanilla and chocolate containers, where he was walking?
Maybe Araceli’s magic is so drained that she is anti-granting wishes.
Is that Caley’s way of saying Natalie would make a great aunt/second mother to herself and Rodge?
Could be.
Natalie is lucky.
As a child Caley could just as easily have said “I wish you would date (or marry) my Uncle Rodge”
(Neither of which would require changes to Natalie’s thoughts or feelings)
Some people just can’t carry their ice cream.
They do look like an attractive couple with a cute daughter out for a day by the ocean. They do not have their overnight bags though or a large purse to carry stuff for the day.
Didn’t notice the bag hanging from Natalie’s left hand.
Rodge said ice cream at the pier, not on the pier.
Did we ever get an explanation of the treasure chest thing that siphoned Araceli’s magic?
No. And it’s not likely to happen now.
Given that it was able to drain a genie to near-death and force her magical power to be used against her will, it’s probably a long lost treasure of the ancient world, kin to the Ring of Solomon that’s been featured recently in Melvin Chronicles, or the Quat Euzma from the Blue Djinn arc.
I like this universe’s version of the Coast Guard. The real US Coast Guard has, or at least had as recently as ten years ago, a policy of rescuing people not property. They’d not take a yacht under tow, just take the folks off, and instead either scuttle it or leave it to be rescued by a commercial salvage operation.
Leave it, yes, but I don’t think that loss of propulsion with no structural damage is sufficient justification for scuttling,
The Coast Guard would only scuttle a vessel if it were a hazard to navigation and beyond salvage. The suggestion that they would not take Liam’s yacht under tow would depend on how long it would take for a commercial tug to respond, and if waiting might endanger the passengers. An approaching storm, perhaps.
Lt. Davey Connor, public affairs officer for the Coast Guard’s Cleveland-based Ninth District responded to a similar situation.
“We will always respond to distress, but if a boater just ran out of gas or experienced a non-emergency equipment casualty, we are required to assist them in arranging commercial salvage assistance,” Connor said, adding that the Coast Guard will respond at no charge if a salvage company isn’t available.
When deciding if the Coast Guard or a company will step in, personnel consider factors such as the boat’s location, proximity to shipping lanes and time it would take for a salvage tow to arrive. While waiting, the Coast Guard stays in contact with the boater to ensure they’re safe.
“And if the situation changes for the worse, we’re always ready to respond,” Connor said.
Can’t help but think this whole arc in Gilligan’s island was too quick and pointless. Barely any interaction with the “star guests” and the bad guy just defeated himself without the “good guys” even finding out about the magical chest which caused the whole debacle.
Speaking of which, do Gilligan and the others really exist in-universe, or were they created by Araceli’s magic and her memories of TV shows?
It wasn’t stated outright, but careful examination of the scenes on the island makes it pretty clear that the Gilligan cast were constructs. They started vanishing, presumably when Araceli’s magic began running out, and even their wrecked boat had disappeared in the last scene we see of the island.
Also, Gilligan’s Island was supposed to be in the Pacific, within a few hundred miles of Hawaii, as opposed to being near Florida.
Natalie did not want to get ice cream and both venders tripped and spilled the ice cream. When the treasure chest drained Aricela did it have to send her magic somewhere and did it give her magic to Natalie. We need to get Natalie a bottle.
NOT THE ICE CREEEEEM!
Shove him in the drink again!
That’s a dangerous reef. I can see why people get stuck.
That was a fantastic piece of physical comedy.
That looks like 15 gallons of ice cream. Somebody’s going to get sick over that.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned bunny Jeanie at the top yet.
I just signed in… she makes a cute buck-toothed bunny.
It was just an ordinary Jeanie yesterday.
I guess the artist had to — hop to it. Maybe they needed a lucky rabbit’s foot? A little hare tonic? Lapining for the fjords? Or might this be a hint that there’s a bun in the oven? (No, can’t be that. I don’t recall any evidence that Jeanie can cook.)
Have you run your mouse cursor over her yet? The picture changes.
Finally, somebody noticed the special Easter bonus! 🙂
I see nothing different.
See it now
It changes? How? I can’t see anything different about it.
Unfortunately, it seems like many browsers are being *especially* intransigent about their caching. Try a forced-refresh (usually Shift-F5, though you may have to use your browser’s debugging tools to force it to entirely ignore its cache while you reload). Once you’ve got it working, hovering your mouse over the header will make it change.
This, unfortunately, does not work on mobile devices, as “hovering” is not something you can do with touch input.
Hm. Tried 3 different browsers (Safari, Firefox and Chrome) and no difference among any of them. Shift-F5 only works on Windows machines, so that’s no good, and force-reloading doesn’t change anything.
Can you tell me what happens?
It switches from the Easter Jeanie (in rabbit form) to Jeanie in a bunny girl costume.
> Shift-F5 only works on Windows machines
No it doesn’t. I use Shift-F5 to force-reload Firefox on my Mac all the time. You can also try Cmd-Shift-R on Mac, or Ctrl-Shift-R on Linux.
HUH! It works. Now, suddenly, hovering over the pic changes it.
Robert, did you change something?
it looks like the ice cream guy is missing in panels 4 and 5. Just the girl falling.
Got it. Ice cream guy is off screen to the left and the chocalate ice cream is in a puddle before the ice cream girl with the freckles tripped on the rope. that’s not Velma Dinkley is it. Ice cream girl is kind of cute, But then all of C. D.’s girls are cute.
Thought bubble for Natalie on panel 4, (You have had you hand on my ass since getting off the boat, now you want ice cream? We are going to have a long talk when we get back to my place!!) Ref. panel 2
Based on almost nothing, I’m going to guess the dark-skinned guy carrying ice cream is a reference to the guy with the ice cream maker in Empire Strikes Back.
Since our leads are heading to the ice cream shop and those two appear to work at it, I’m sure we’ll get their story soon.
Love the Jean Bunny to Bunny Girl banner.
who’s that girl?
My computer works now. Jeanie make such a fetching Easter Bunny.