Well that explains where the expensive car came from the earlier wish. Though it leaves the question of where all the piles of money came from still unanswered….
So jeannie stole both cars from the same place, the girlin red took the prorsche for a drive and got followed home by the cops for driving a stolen car and the cops found another stolen car when they got there!
The cops got inside and saw all the money and called in the FBI! Maybe the money or the car dealer was from Orlando to explain the extra-urban cop car?
Maybe the Porsche is the blue “car top” just barely visible up near the house in #711?
Certainly reasonable for wish fulfillment — unless very carefully thought about by the genie — to just appropriate a nearby item which matches what is wished for. A truly “created” Porsche would probably be non-functional unless the genie knew (or thought about) exactly how cars in general, and the Porsche in particular, are put together and function.
I’m guessing it’s more like “transform, but not create”. Jean’s magic (if not all magic) probably is “lazy” in the sense that it seeks the easiest solution possible. Why? first because it’s Jean’s semi-slacker nature, and second because genie magic is cast from life force, as Jean well knows. Why create an exotic car when it’s easier and less costly to just summon one. And I say semi-slacker because Jean somehow managed to get and keep a decent job.
I think it is more conservation of magic on Jeanie’s part. She didn’t want to waste a bunch of magic on these guys, so just transported easily accessible cars/money. In the “dukes” storyline from way back, she brought a NEW 1970’s era ford charger when she brought back the General Lee, and not the one she “poofed” away.
I suspected that week of updates would be the loose ends of the wishes. Jeanie poofed away those two cars. I doubt that she poofed registration and proof of sales for them. The pile of money is from a bank, but is it a legal bank or from some drug smuggler’s secret stash. Or, to get political for a moment, Mari-Lago.
As for Red Shirt, I doubt that she’s got any sort of proper ID. As to any feelings of attachment to her new boyfriend, that remains to be seen.
I suspect we’ll see a few days of comic confusion followed by Orange Shirt’s last wish: “I wish we could forget about all this crazy stuff.” Poof, the car and money go back to the original owners, and reality will change so that Red Shirt’s always been a girl and Blue Shirt’s girlfriend.
If the cash is from a drug dealers stash, they’re very lucky it was the cops showing up rather than a pissed-off drug kingpin. Otherwise they probably would find themselves re-enacting the hotel rip-off shower scene from 1983’s “Scarface”.
We know the cars came from somewhere around Miami. I’m willing to bet the money came from a business somewhere around Orlando, maybe even the house of mouse itself. That would explain the Orlando police cruiser.
Especially since that lack of identity is likely to be taken less as illegal immigrant that would get her deported and more spy that would get her locked up for a long time as there’s no country to trade her too.
Can’t deport someone if you don’t know their country of origin. She’s just got no identity at all. One has to hope it doesn’t end up mixed with another persons identity
“Can’t deport someone if you don’t know their country of origin”
Given that actual, born in the USA citizens have been deported before, they don’t need a country of origin, they will just assume one and be done with you
They don’t need a (proven) country of origin, but the country they deport to must be willing to accept the person. If citizenship is proven/accepted, all(?)/most countries will accept their citizen back.. even if they then lock them up.
I don’t think there’s any reason to jump to the spy conclusion over illegal immigrant. A spy would have prepared documentation to fake legitimacy while an illegal might very well have nothing at all. Red-Shirt just might be smart enough to figure out that, after her a genie transformed me explanation gets ignored (yeah, right, a big blue Robin Williams turned you into a girl… wink… wink), claiming asylum would buy time by being handed a court date 2-3 years from now (depends on if he kept up on current events… nope, not likely).
Green-Shirt is in much more serious trouble since he can’t explain the cash and drug lord will be the first thing the authorities consider.
I’m thinking that genie magic is lazy and energy conserving. Unless Jeanie actively concentrates on creating something out of interstellar matter her magic is going to take the path of least resistance and teleport the desired object from another location. That ham sandwich disappeared from a deli, her costume montage came from studio costume departments, and the General Lee most likely disappeared from a car museum. Transforming matter (biological or otherwise) could also be considered energy conserving because it’s only rearranging things into a new shape and function. Jeanie herself doesn’t have to know how something works, the magic does it for her.
Seems reasonable, which may be the case here. Jeanie could have created the cars out of random matter had she thought about it, but since she normally doesn’t consider the consequences of her actions her magic just sucked up the cars from a showroom where she might have seen them in the past. The same might be true for the money, working from the memory of a picture ‘Jean’ might have seen in one of those magazines he reviewed.
I would expect her costume montage was transforming her own clothes. If it would be from studio costume department, it wouldn’t fit and would need to be transformed to fit anyway, so …
Good point, Anderson was posted to Orlando. But if FBI711 on the plate is any indication it won’t be Anderson, it’ll be Mulder and Scully from X-Files.
I assume you’re referring to Agent Anderson. She doesn’t know anything about genie magic, as far as the story goes, they have no idea how Andy became Anne.
Most new cars today have satellite trackers so “Seri” can tell you when to turn. The cops could have tracked them through the satellite system. I still think the money came from the mint and the corners have been clipped to go into the grinder.
Red Dude wished for a “really nice car, like, SUPER nice” in 699, and commented that there was a Porsche in the driveway in 700.
Green Dude wished for “a nicer car” in 700, which is presumably the Lamborghini that was seen in the driveway in 711, and seen disappearing (“earlier today”) from the showroom in/around Miami.
Stole the cars from the lot and the million dollars probably from the bank that guy future is not so good.
Well that explains where the expensive car came from the earlier wish. Though it leaves the question of where all the piles of money came from still unanswered….
Hopefully tuesday’s comic will answer that.
So jeannie stole both cars from the same place, the girlin red took the prorsche for a drive and got followed home by the cops for driving a stolen car and the cops found another stolen car when they got there!
The cops got inside and saw all the money and called in the FBI! Maybe the money or the car dealer was from Orlando to explain the extra-urban cop car?
Cool. Someone I know and like (and is an awesome author to boot) is posting here.
What you’ve described here is pretty much the plot from one of the Herby the Love Bug movies, right down to the car moving by magic.
Maybe the Porsche is the blue “car top” just barely visible up near the house in #711?
Certainly reasonable for wish fulfillment — unless very carefully thought about by the genie — to just appropriate a nearby item which matches what is wished for. A truly “created” Porsche would probably be non-functional unless the genie knew (or thought about) exactly how cars in general, and the Porsche in particular, are put together and function.
“200 miles south” looks to be Miami, FL… fwiw.
Under that logic, Jeanie wouldn’t be able to properly gender-bend anyone because her lack of scientific knowledge of human anatomy and biology.
I’m guessing it’s more like “transform, but not create”. Jean’s magic (if not all magic) probably is “lazy” in the sense that it seeks the easiest solution possible. Why? first because it’s Jean’s semi-slacker nature, and second because genie magic is cast from life force, as Jean well knows. Why create an exotic car when it’s easier and less costly to just summon one. And I say semi-slacker because Jean somehow managed to get and keep a decent job.
I think it is more conservation of magic on Jeanie’s part. She didn’t want to waste a bunch of magic on these guys, so just transported easily accessible cars/money. In the “dukes” storyline from way back, she brought a NEW 1970’s era ford charger when she brought back the General Lee, and not the one she “poofed” away.
Now, who will the Boss blame when he was on the sales floor and the other car vanished?
don’t think cars went up in smoke, huh? then take a look behind you.
I suspected that week of updates would be the loose ends of the wishes. Jeanie poofed away those two cars. I doubt that she poofed registration and proof of sales for them. The pile of money is from a bank, but is it a legal bank or from some drug smuggler’s secret stash. Or, to get political for a moment, Mari-Lago.
As for Red Shirt, I doubt that she’s got any sort of proper ID. As to any feelings of attachment to her new boyfriend, that remains to be seen.
I suspect we’ll see a few days of comic confusion followed by Orange Shirt’s last wish: “I wish we could forget about all this crazy stuff.” Poof, the car and money go back to the original owners, and reality will change so that Red Shirt’s always been a girl and Blue Shirt’s girlfriend.
All wishes used.
The wish was that they would forget that they ever met Jean, that wouldn’t undo the wishes.
If the cash is from a drug dealers stash, they’re very lucky it was the cops showing up rather than a pissed-off drug kingpin. Otherwise they probably would find themselves re-enacting the hotel rip-off shower scene from 1983’s “Scarface”.
We know the cars came from somewhere around Miami. I’m willing to bet the money came from a business somewhere around Orlando, maybe even the house of mouse itself. That would explain the Orlando police cruiser.
I’m guessing the new girl has no formal identity either. Eep.
Especially since that lack of identity is likely to be taken less as illegal immigrant that would get her deported and more spy that would get her locked up for a long time as there’s no country to trade her too.
Can’t deport someone if you don’t know their country of origin. She’s just got no identity at all. One has to hope it doesn’t end up mixed with another persons identity
“Can’t deport someone if you don’t know their country of origin”
Given that actual, born in the USA citizens have been deported before, they don’t need a country of origin, they will just assume one and be done with you
That’s curious. Could Mexico deport someone to the United States then?
They don’t need a (proven) country of origin, but the country they deport to must be willing to accept the person. If citizenship is proven/accepted, all(?)/most countries will accept their citizen back.. even if they then lock them up.
I don’t think there’s any reason to jump to the spy conclusion over illegal immigrant. A spy would have prepared documentation to fake legitimacy while an illegal might very well have nothing at all. Red-Shirt just might be smart enough to figure out that, after her a genie transformed me explanation gets ignored (yeah, right, a big blue Robin Williams turned you into a girl… wink… wink), claiming asylum would buy time by being handed a court date 2-3 years from now (depends on if he kept up on current events… nope, not likely).
Green-Shirt is in much more serious trouble since he can’t explain the cash and drug lord will be the first thing the authorities consider.
why are you guys going to “spy”, rather than “runaway” or “hooker”? I would think that would be a much more real world explanation for no ID..
Didn’t Jeanie, in fact, several versions of Jeanie, have the same problem?
I find myself wondering how girl in red will take being sent to the womens prison . . . will she object to becoming someones prison pet?
Well, they can. Cars catch fire for a lotta reasons.
I’m thinking that genie magic is lazy and energy conserving. Unless Jeanie actively concentrates on creating something out of interstellar matter her magic is going to take the path of least resistance and teleport the desired object from another location. That ham sandwich disappeared from a deli, her costume montage came from studio costume departments, and the General Lee most likely disappeared from a car museum. Transforming matter (biological or otherwise) could also be considered energy conserving because it’s only rearranging things into a new shape and function. Jeanie herself doesn’t have to know how something works, the magic does it for her.
So, even when the Genie is not trying to screw his master over, the magic could do anyway unless the specific parameters of the wish are covered.
Seems reasonable, which may be the case here. Jeanie could have created the cars out of random matter had she thought about it, but since she normally doesn’t consider the consequences of her actions her magic just sucked up the cars from a showroom where she might have seen them in the past. The same might be true for the money, working from the memory of a picture ‘Jean’ might have seen in one of those magazines he reviewed.
I would expect her costume montage was transforming her own clothes. If it would be from studio costume department, it wouldn’t fit and would need to be transformed to fit anyway, so …
As far as the General Lee is concerned, she probably just youthed the original.
Wasn’t there an episode of Bewitched where Endora gives Darrin a new car?
She stole it.
Also…Could that be Russian Mafia money?
remind me of Bewitched episode where Endora gave Darrin a new car off the show room floor
also remind me episode of I dream of Jeanie where Roger was temporary Jeanie master
Wasn’t agent Anderson posted to Orlando. Black car from orlando. Yaaah, Agent Anderson is on the case.
Good point, Anderson was posted to Orlando. But if FBI711 on the plate is any indication it won’t be Anderson, it’ll be Mulder and Scully from X-Files.
If she shows up she’ll know that it’s genie magic.
I assume you’re referring to Agent Anderson. She doesn’t know anything about genie magic, as far as the story goes, they have no idea how Andy became Anne.
See, this is why you choose your words carefully. XD
The universe (and genies) just loves it when people phrase things just right (for the universe and genies, not everyone else).
Most new cars today have satellite trackers so “Seri” can tell you when to turn. The cops could have tracked them through the satellite system. I still think the money came from the mint and the corners have been clipped to go into the grinder.
While a lot of modern cars (especially high end ones) do have trackers built in, GPS is not a tracker
GPS on it’s own only receives signals from satellites, but does not send them out
Why did she poof out another car?
Red Dude wished for a “really nice car, like, SUPER nice” in 699, and commented that there was a Porsche in the driveway in 700.
Green Dude wished for “a nicer car” in 700, which is presumably the Lamborghini that was seen in the driveway in 711, and seen disappearing (“earlier today”) from the showroom in/around Miami.
i guess when he wished for the car the jenie i guess jsut got it form some dealership & somehow they manged to find out where it went
There’s a chance that the showroom has continuous video survielance.
That video would be evidence of inexplicable phenomena,
better than any fuzzy and grainy Super 8 UFO movie.