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And you know that episode of Gilligan’s Island? Where the Skipper hits Gilligan with his hat? It’s a metaphor, you see, representing the Skipper’s giant wang and hinting how at night it was slapping up against Gilligan’s face.
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Somewhere, a fan fiction writer just got an idea.
Oh, the wonder of the Internet! 
If I can be serious a moment (and please, continue with the fun!) …
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
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With both this show and Bewitched, I always found it irritating that the husbands were these sexist pigs who had these awesomely powerful women but only wanted them to stay home and be domestic servants and were always trying to forbid them to use their powers. There has to be some kind of cultural subtext in there somewhere.
If I had a wife with Samantha Stevens’ abilities, I’d never stop begging her to use it. If I had Jeannie in a bottle, I’d never stop begging her…
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This theory is a major component, if not the basis of, the book Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, a fun yet scholarly look at the portrayal of women in the media. There’s a lot of eye-opening analysis of the mainstream news media’s coverage of the women’s movement, which treated the feminists as crazies, or belittled their cause. You can see echoes of it still, today. As someone who works in television, I recommend it.
Watched the clip. I really don’t think it’s supposed to be innuendo. I think she just wants to go out for steak. If it’s innuendo, it’s far above the audience’s heads, too, as there’s not even a chuckle after that line.
Count me as one of the people who don’t believe Nelson was doing Jeannie, at least not until their engagement and possibly not until their marriage. Tony was a mensch; the fact that she HAD to do what he told her to would have, I think, made him very uncomfortable in a sexual context. It would have felt like rape.
[QUOTE=Evil Captor]
Boy, are you guys off the mark. I saw the show as a stark drama of Ibsenian tragedy. Jeannie is a hot young sub who is obsessed with being topped by Major Nelson, a clueless vanilla dork who can’t see her infatuation enough to take advantage of it, much less respond to it in kind. When Jeannie marries Major Nelson in the final season, and utters the searingly ironic words, “I do,” it was perhaps the most searingly tragic moment on television, as Jeannie’s obsessive infatuation with Major Nelson leads her to a life of suburban whitebread dullness. If there had been another season, it could only have ended with Jeannie’s suicide, and Major Nelson becoming a reclusive farmer who broods a lot.
C’mon, that’s so obvious!
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You surely remember the sequel that is set after they get married: Desperate Genies?
[QUOTE=eleanorigby]
And let’s talk about Green Acres! Or Mr. Ed–now there’s some pornography for ya!
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I believe that they only had one bed in Green Acres, making it the most sexually advanced show of the time. Plus Eva Gabor wore nightgowns, not pjs.
Anyhow the credits on the eggs means it’s all about sex.
If he was doing her in the bottle I think their relationship would have changed. She would be sperminated and get pregnant with a genie-human half breed child, and none of her outfits would fit. Then she’d get all emotional and moody and accidentally wipe out half the population of Cocoa Beach if he refused to put his bike helmet on.
Don’t put your penis in a magic woman’s vagina. Only tragedy can result.
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
With both this show and Bewitched, I always found it irritating that the husbands were these sexist pigs who had these awesomely powerful women but only wanted them to stay home and be domestic servants and were always trying to forbid them to use their powers.
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Keep in mind that Major Nelson “freed” Jeannie in the very first episode. She responded by thrusting herself into his life, imposing the master-servant relationship upon him. He responded by treating her with more respect than she demanded.
Samantha married Darrin under false pretenses. I think learning your spouse isn’t human would have been grounds for divorce in most states, if not annulment, but he adapted as best he could.
Y’all realize that Winnie The Pooh, Paddington Bear, Beatrix Potter stories and Alice in Wonderland are absolutely FULL of sexual innuendos, don’t you?
You just have to know how to look!
[QUOTE=TWDuke]
Samantha married Darrin under false pretenses. I think learning your spouse isn’t human would have been grounds for divorce in most states, if not annulment, but he adapted as best he could.
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Hell, being married to something that’s not human is grounds for incarceration in some states!
[QUOTE=TWDuke]
Keep in mind that Major Nelson “freed” Jeannie in the very first episode. She responded by thrusting herself into his life, imposing the master-servant relationship upon him. He responded by treating her with more respect than she demanded.
Samantha married Darrin under false pretenses. I think learning your spouse isn’t human would have been grounds for divorce in most states, if not annulment, but he adapted as best he could.
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Except that she **was ** human. Witches in the Bewitchedverse are clearly a subspecies of humanity. Nor are they immortal: they simply age (or seem to) more slowly than humans. But Aunt Clara was getting on in years, losing both magical power and intellectual acumen; and Samantha is frequently annoyed when Darrin assumes she is vastly older than she looks. When Endora, et al, use the word “mortal,” they mean “human who, unless us, has no magic powers,” not “person who, unlike us, is going to die of natural causes someday.”
After rewatching I Dream Of Jeannie I was amazed by the fact that such a hot looking woman wearing little more than a bikini could look so nearly non-sexual. Maybe Barbara Eden is a better actress than people give her credit for.
[QUOTE=furryman]
Maybe Barbara Eden is a better actress than people give her credit for.
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You may be joking, but I had the same thought in earnest after watching that little clip in which she played two distinct Jeannies and then one Jeannie impersonating the other. I’m not saying she’s Meryl Streep, but I think she may have actually had something more going for her than hotness.
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer]
Except that she was human. Witches in the Bewitchedverse are clearly a subspecies of humanity.
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I don’t know. Do witches and mortals share common ancestors? Sure they physically resemble us, but how much does that count for when they’re obviously shapeshifters? They may have started as a race of squidheaded giants that took on their current default forms to make it easier to pass unnoticed. Besides, different species of animals can be very hard for non-expert observers to distinguish. We don’t really know what the internal structure of a Bewitchedverse witch is like. And while it’s obvious true they can interbreed with humans, do we know if the offspring are fertile? Even if they are, it doesn’t necessarily mean they would be classified as the same species, since hybridization does occur in nature (e.g., wolves and coyotes). The fact remains that they do not generally interbreed. I think there’s enough of a gray area here that Durwood’s legal team could make a plausible case, at least until Samantha twitched them into the stone age.
Heh…you said “innuendo.”
[QUOTE=TWDuke]
I don’t know. Do witches and mortals share common ancestors? Sure they physically resemble us, but how much does that count for when they’re obviously shapeshifters? They may have started as a race of squidheaded giants that took on their current default forms to make it easier to pass unnoticed. Besides, different species of animals can be very hard for non-expert observers to distinguish. We don’t really know what the internal structure of a Bewitchedverse witch is like. And while it’s obvious true they can interbreed with humans, do we know if the offspring are fertile? Even if they are, it doesn’t necessarily mean they would be classified as the same species, since hybridization does occur in nature (e.g., wolves and coyotes). The fact remains that they do not generally interbreed. I think there’s enough of a gray area here that Durwood’s legal team could make a plausible case, at least until Samantha twitched them into the stone age.
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First, I’m not convinced they try to go unnoticed all that often. Oh, Sam does, but Endora rarely seems to give a damn. And why should she? If she, Maurice, Arthur, and Samantha had ever decided, “Hey, ho, hey, ho, the USA has to got to go,” I seriously doubt the US Army would have been able to restrain them. Witch segregation from mortals seems more a matter of witchly disdain (or, if you like, witches being higher on Maslow’s hierarchy) than anything else.
Second, if I recall aright, Samantha’s second child, Adam, was born in a mortal hospital, and no one remarks on anything unusual. Sure, Sam or someone could have screwed with the doctors and nurses memories, but if they thought that would be necessary, why bother?
Third, if they were as dissimilar from mortals as you suggest, I seriously doubt they’d be attracted sexually to mortals, as Sam and several other witches & warlocks clearly are. Endora and Serena don’t treat Sam’s love for Darrin as anything weird, the way you would if I mentioned that Mrs. Rhymer is a genetically engineered chimp, or a hyperintelligent shade of the color blue; they just think he’s a dork. (And, of course, she’s right, but Sam has love goggles and doesn’t see it.) And neither Arthur, Clara, nor Esmerelda think it’s noteworthy either.
When hear hoofbeats, expect horses, not zebras. Witches are a subspecies of humanity.
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach]
And you know that episode of Gilligan’s Island? Where the Skipper hits Gilligan with his hat? It’s a metaphor, you see, representing the Skipper’s giant wang and hinting how at night it was slapping up against Gilligan’s face.
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It’s a pretty lame innuendo but then it was a pretty lame show, you were never allowed to see Jeanie’s belly button.
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer]
First, I’m not convinced they try to go unnoticed all that often. Oh, Sam does, but Endora rarely seems to give a damn. And why should she? If she, Maurice, Arthur, and Samantha had ever decided, “Hey, ho, hey, ho, the USA has to got to go,” I seriously doubt the US Army would have been able to restrain them. Witch segregation from mortals seems more a matter of witchly disdain (or, if you like, witches being higher on Maslow’s hierarchy) than anything else.
Second, if I recall aright, Samantha’s second child, Adam, was born in a mortal hospital, and no one remarks on anything unusual. Sure, Sam or someone could have screwed with the doctors and nurses memories, but if they thought that would be necessary, why bother?
Third, if they were as dissimilar from mortals as you suggest, I seriously doubt they’d be attracted sexually to mortals, as Sam and several other witches & warlocks clearly are. Endora and Serena don’t treat Sam’s love for Darrin as anything weird, the way you would if I mentioned that Mrs. Rhymer is a genetically engineered chimp, or a hyperintelligent shade of the color blue; they just think he’s a dork. (And, of course, she’s right, but Sam has love goggles and doesn’t see it.) And neither Arthur, Clara, nor Esmerelda think it’s noteworthy either.
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You, uh…you need to not think about this that much…
I always thought Derwood was more into Uncle Arthur than Samantha…
[QUOTE=Musicat]
Y’all realize that Winnie The Pooh, Paddington Bear, Beatrix Potter stories and Alice in Wonderland are absolutely FULL of sexual innuendos, don’t you?
You just have to know how to look!
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When correctly viewed,
Everything is lewd,
I can tell you things about Peter Pan,
And the Wizard of Oz, there’s a dirty old man.
Tom always says it best.