I Dream of Jeannie: Did the Bellowses realize that Jeannie & Tony were living together pre-wedding?

[JohnT]

@BrainGlutton

Of course, in Middle Eastern mythology, genies never look like beautiful women, except when they take that on as a false form to mislead and destroy human victims.

IDoJ ended in 1970. I’m sure you know what’s happened to NASA since then.

Mission accomplished!

[RikWriter]

Tony’s house did have a second bedroom. Jeannie rented it out once to a hippie couple.

[JohnT]

Damn. Did every mid-late 60s show have a hippie episode? I can’t remember if Beverly Hillbillies had one, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

[BrainGlutton]

@JohnT

Damn. Did every mid-late 60s show have a hippie episode? I can’t remember if Beverly Hillbillies had one, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

I remember one where Jethro, in his “Robin Hood” phase, hooked up with a group of hippies and told them how great “crawdads” (crayfish) were. “You smoke 'em!” The hippies, who apparently had never heard of “crawdads,” were so looking forward to this new trip, and were utterly shocked when Jethro actually caught some. “That’s too weird for me, man!”

[JohnT]

Beautiful.

[Anne_Neville]

@njtt

Er…no.

He did not land on the Moon. He did fly around it.

[Anne_Neville]

Swigert was the command module pilot, so he would not have walked on the Moon even if Apollo 13 had landed there. I’d still call what the Apollo command module pilots did “flying to the Moon”.

[Lumpy]

From an earlier thread, here was my take on both why Jeannie was blond and why Nelson never slept with her: [

Here’s my fantasy NC-17 version of I Dream of Jeannie: When Cpt. Nelson first finds Jeannie, she deliberately chooses the form that corresponds to his subconcious ideal woman (which we see full frontal). Jeannie isn’t exactly evil but she’s very willful and hates being enslaved to the holder of her bottle. So she tries to take advantage of an escape clause: if she can seduce her master, she’ll no longer be bound. So the whole series has as it’s running gag that Jeannie is fervently trying to seduce Nelson; and fearing the possible consequences of setting a djinn loose in the world, Nelson resists, not without a lot of frustration. It would explain why he never took advantage of Jeannie, other than having him be gay.

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[BrotherCadfael]

@kunilou

Hell, I lived in a house with NO bedroom. It was a single-family, detached dwelling. It had a kitchen, a room that wasn’t the kitchen, and a bathroom.

Fox? Is that you?