I was watching an old “I Dream of Jeannie” rerun the other day and Barbara Eden is just so scrumptious, cute and eager to please as Jeannie you can’t help but wonder if she would do anything her master wanted, on the other hand IIRC, Jeannie often seemed to have a fairly strict sense of propriety about lots of things.
What do you think? Is doing the master part of her job description? What would Jeannie do if he asked her to make love to him?
Weren’t they married in the final season?
I dunno… but the question inspired one of the few hilarious sketches I ever saw on “The Man Show.” They did an “I Dream of Jeannie” parody, featuring Adam Carolla as Major Nelson.
In the sketch, Major Nelson was utterly gay, of course! He HAD to have been! I mean, what other explanation could there be for a male never attempting to have sex with a gorgeous blonde who lived to please him?
I thought that was the whole point-she was trying to get him in bed, but he was just too much of a prude.
I thought the whole show was based on that innuendo. You know, guy sees Jeannie (SMOKIN hot) obeying her master with undying loyalty, you KNOW he’s thinking “heh heh, I know what MY command would be…” I know if I had Jeannie, I’d be a highly sexed billionaire living in a peaceful world…
Wasn’t there an episode where Jeannie and her evil twin Jeannie did Tony?
I’m sure she would have. Hmm, blond, beautiful, can do anything you want . . .
Yep, he was gay.
And the same concept totally ruined Bewitched for me. Hmm, a beautiful woman can do anything you want . . . I know, I won’t allow her to use her powers!
I can’t believe Bewitched existed in the same century as psychology. I can believe it existed in the same century as feminism.
Apparently Bewitched was quite a popular show with gay people as the “trying to pass as normal, but I’m different” theme resonated with them. Also, interestingly, a substantial portion of it’s cast was gay as well.
Bewitched was a highly rated show. Despite being one of the more expensive shows of it’s era, it drew enough ad dollars to run for almost a decade. Truly, one of the great mysteries of our time.
Major Nelson and Jeannie were doin’ it. After the first season. Plain as day, if you can read subtext.
Hm.
So THAT’s why Major Nelson always seemed so NERVOUS.
I thought it was because he was afraid Major Bellows would find out about Jeannie.
The TRUTH was, he was afraid Major Bellows would figure out he was GAY!
Daaaamn. You learn somethin’ new every day…
The producers made a point of often showing Jeannie sleeping in her bottle, for propriety’s sake.
In a made for TV movie many years later, they had a son.
So they must have did it at least once.
The son? Major Healey’s.
I saw the TV movie, too, but how could they have a son? I mean, was Jeannie even human? I think the djinn have fewer chromosomes than we do; crossbreeding ought to be impossible!
Yeah, I always thought Major Nelson was a moron for not sleeping with Jeannie. I mean, a hot blonde that runs around in skimpy clothing that will do anything to please her master?
Sometime during the last season or so, Tony and Jeannie got married, so I would assume that if they hadn’t before, they did after.
Actually, Major Nelson made perfect sense to me. He loved being an astronaut and didn’t want to jeapordize that, but if Jeanie wanted to use her magic to clean the house, or even whisk him around the world to have dinner, that was perfectly fine with him.
Don’t get me started about Darrin, OTOH.
Didn’t the censors make Jeannie cover up her navel? As a boy watching the program it never even occured to me that Tony would want to even kiss Jeannie (girls yuck). I guess watching it now would be a totally different experience.
fantasy Genetics: Anything can produce offspring with anything.
You people aren’t using your Internet search capabilities enough. There’s a lot of Jeannie/Major Nelson fiction and imagery out there by talented people with overactive libidos.
As for the premise of I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched, it’s just 1960s TV with its limited repertoire and escape-from-reality tendencies. It’s easy to create mini-“dramas” when you have the conflict of the husband trying to keep in check the magical abilities of his companion/spouse. But it’s all mindless fluff, with a sexual edge. Me, I think it would be possible to take that premise and do some interesting things with it. Examine the implications and ramifications of your acts of magic, how they affect others, and the universe. In that sense, The Fairly Oddparents is more daring and intellectual than those ostensibly “adult” TV shows ever were.
I always figured that Jeannie was a magical creature and magically REQUIRED to love her master, however large the stick up his ass might be. But Samantha from Bewitched was a different matter. What the HELL did she ever see in that troll Darren? What a loser! So fucking insecure he wouldn’t allow Samantha to use her powers. Weenie to the nth degree!
Don’t think the theme of male domination through refusing to use powers is completely dead. It still lingers in the minds of a few coke-addled screenwriters. Frex, a couple of years ago I saw an ep of a soft-core porno series called “Thrills.” In it, a hunky male reporter for a sexy magazine is given a sexy robot babe to field test for a week and report on the results.
The sexy robobabe looks and acts just like a hot blond except for the occasional battery recharge which involves sitting in a chair, plugging herself into a wall and staring blankly into space. Does he give her a few suggestive commands when he gets her home? He does not. He refuses to have anything to do with her. Lets some of his friends try her out, but won’t do her himself. His problem, it turns out, is that her programming intimidates him – she knows too much about sex to be an attractive parnter to him. Only by dumping all her sexual technique programming can she make herself attractive to him.
This is so pathetic. There must be one really impotent screenwriter out there, to come up with this one. Actually, several, thinking of Bewitched and IDOJ. But the theme of all three shows is essentially males who feel emasculated by women who have any kind of power. Sad stuff, as has been pointed out.