# Why Don't We Dream Of Jeannie? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 31, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-dream-of-jeannie/74302 "2001-07-31T03:44:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-dream-of-jeannie/74302/1 "2001-07-31T03:44:18Z")
The last 5 or so years have brought with them a barage of craptastic movies based on old TV shows, but not I Dream of Jeannie. Why not? My personal opinion is that they (being those oh-so-bright movie producers) haven’t considered making a movie because they fear backlash from feminists who would be pissed by a movie honoring a show that protrayed a woman as a willing slave to some NASA guy. Any other theories? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-dream-of-jeannie/74302/2 "2001-07-31T03:52:48Z")
It might also be because they did a made for TV movie version of the show which starred what’s-his-name, (you know the guy who played Trapper John on _M_A_S_H\*\* and it pretty much sucked. Plus, NASA ain’t exactly on the forefront of people’s minds these days. ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-dream-of-jeannie/74302/3 "2001-07-31T04:10:48Z")
Oh! Finally a thread all about me! I _am_ popular after all! Yay! I have been waiting for this day for so long. Wow, it’s so good to know that I have some fans out there! Oh, wait…nevermind 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-dream-of-jeannie/74302/4 "2001-07-31T04:52:50Z")
- - - At work we got to talking on this show/cartoon, and as far as any of us had seen, Arabs generally have brown hair, but the real-life Jeanie had blonde and the cartoon had red, and as well as changed to that wierd phallic ponytail-shaking deal, nose-wiggling being too subtle for cartoonists I guess. Like, in the cartoon episode where somebody cut off her ponytail, and all her power was gone? Very strange. - MC ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-dream-of-jeannie/74302/5 "2001-07-31T05:46:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MC \* > **and as well as changed to that wierd phallic ponytail-shaking deal, nose-wiggling being too subtle for cartoonists I guess.** Jeannie ALWAYS nodded her head (With her arms folded in front of her chest). The nose wiggling thing was Samantha’s schtick on Bewitched. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-dream-of-jeannie/74302/6 "2001-07-31T07:00:32Z")
There have been two crapistic made-for-TV movies. Isn’t that enough? More than enough? [I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0089318) and [I Still Dream of Jeannie](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0102089) ---
**Author:** ![Major\_Feelgud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@Major\_Feelgud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Feelgud)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-dream-of-jeannie/74302/7 "2001-07-31T09:20:01Z")
Because they will never find a Jeannie sexier than Barbara Eden. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-dream-of-jeannie/74302/8 "2001-07-31T15:35:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeannie \* > \*\*Oh! Finally a thread all about me! I _am_ popular after all! Yay! I have been waiting for this day for so long. Wow, it’s so good to know that I have some fans out there! > Oh, wait…nevermind 😉 \*\* To be honest, you ARE who I thought of when I saw this thread 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-dream-of-jeannie/74302/9 "2001-07-31T15:40:03Z")
I am quite sure I heard a few years ago they were going to make an IDOJ movie. The only reason I remember is that they were talking with Lisa Kudrow to play Jeannie, and I thought she was a pretty good choice. Not good enough to make me want to see the movie, but a good choice none the less. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-dream-of-jeannie/74302/10 "2001-07-31T17:49:35Z")
I wanna know when they’re gonna do the Partridge Family… ---
**Author:** ![Medicinal\_Herb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Medicinal\_Herb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medicinal_Herb)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-we-dream-of-jeannie/74302/11 "2001-08-01T06:44:50Z")
OK, let’s face it… maybe they wouldn’t do it because even they know… IT WOULD SUCK.