Talk:I Dream of Jeannie
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[edit] Time travel television series
"Category:Time travel television series" is a newly-created category. There is a discussion over how much "time travel" should occur in a series before it should be included in this category. Please join the discussion in that category's discussion. Val42 19:43, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Geography
I've heard Baghdad mentioned in the show as "back home" (my memory on this is a bit fuzzy so don't hold me to), but Farsi is not spoken there. So just where do we say she is from? Sweetfreek 00:23, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
- During the first season, she seems to alternate between Persia and Baghdad (which, obviously, isn't in Persia). I don't think the writers were too keen on accuracy or cultural sensitivity. 68.161.34.130 15:57, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Bottle & Jim Beam
Isn't Jim Beam (and by extension, "Beam's Choice") a bourbon rather than scotch? Google searches show Beam as bourbon. There's an Ebay listing for the bottle that calls it Scotch, though that info could have been taken from this page. Rizzleboffin 20:43, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Further Clarification
The Jim Beam bottles were used for more than just Beam's Choice Bourbon. It was also used to bottle Gilbey's Scotch Whiskey as well as Ph.Boilieux California Brandy. The bottle pops up from time to time on eBay with varying labels, but it is the same bottle.
A correction needs to be made to the article about the Evil Sister TV reunion bottle. The colors are not a two tone black and green bottle, but actually a two tone green and dark green bottle. The dark forest green color appears to look black, but as an artist I've been researching the bottle and have received photos of the actual bottle while it was on display at Sony Pictures from another bottle artist.
Many have asked how so many bottles have survived all these years? In my research, I learned that Wheaton Glass made somewhere between 500-600,000 bottles. So you can imagine that even if only half of the bottles survived, you're still talking about 250-300,000 bottles floating around in basements, barns, estate auctions, garage sales, and flea markets.
Jack Becker designed the bottle for Wheaton, but it was Roy Cramer who designed the actual production blueprints and altered the bottle's concept designs to accomodate the correct volume of liquor.
Bob Purcell created the 2nd thru 5th season design for I Dream of Jeannie, but it was an unknown Screen Gems prop artist named "Mitch" (last name unknown) who actually painted the bottles.
[edit] Navel
From what I remember reading/learning (though I'll have to try to find some sources) the issue with her navel being covered was that the network would only allow either Jeannie's cleavage or navel to be exposed, but not both. The show more often than not opted for the cleavage Pnkrockr 16:01, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Contemporary English
In the pilot, when rescued Jeannie speaks Persian (not Arabic as is often stated), and can only speak English when Tony wishes her to. (And even then, she inexplicably speaks archaic English until she learns the modern form.) Yet, whenever anyone from Jeannie's family show up, or she visits them, etc., they speak perfect contemporary English.
- Well, duh, how many of her other family members were locked up in a bottle during the thousand year period that the English language developed? In order to grant Tony's wish that she speak English, on the first attempt she must have been channelling one of her breathren who was rather behind on his studies. MaxEnt 09:33, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
