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6	->''"All I do is think and blink."''
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8	One of the classic 1960s {{Fantastic Comed\|y}}ies, ''I Dream of Jeannie'' aired for five seasons (1965–70) on Creator/{{NBC}}.
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10	The series depicted the lives of USAF Captain (later Major) Anthony Nelson (Creator/LarryHagman), an astronaut, and Jeannie (Creator/BarbaraEden), the beautiful genie he acquired while stranded on a deserted island after returning from a one-man space mission. Despite the enormous potential for his own personal gain with no risk, Tony Nelson would rather embrace conformity so as to remain in the astronaut program. This being a SitCom, complete success in his goal of appearing normal is of course [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption denied him]].
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12	The only question is which gender's fantasy is being indulged. In the first episode, as he was about to be rescued from the deserted island where he found her bottle, Tony explicitly freed Jeannie from his service. She followed him back to Florida entirely of her own volition, and after Tony took the most logical approach of saying, "I wish you to vanish!", she laughed that he'd set her free to do whatever she pleased, and what pleased her was to stick around and take over Tony's life... which may explain Tony's persistent failure to ensure her complete and unconditional obedience afterwards.
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14	Tony's efforts to present a stable home life centered on the opinion of NASA psychiatrist Dr. Alfred Bellows (Creator/HaydenRorke), who suspected Tony of insanity or worse after the astronaut carelessly told him all about his first encounter with Jeannie during a post-mission examination in the first episode. Complicating this were not only Jeannie and her magical antics, but Tony's friend and fellow astronaut Roger Healey (Creator/BillDaily), who found out about Jeannie and wanted to exploit her powers for his own benefit (although this was toned down after his initial attempt led to near disaster), and Dr. Bellows's wife Amanda (Emmaline Henry), who complemented her husband's suspicions with her own SecretChaser tendencies. As a consequence, Tony was often left scrambling to cover for Jeannie's magical eccentricities.
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16	Jeannie's sister, her mother, and various other friends and relatives from the good old days of Caliph Haroun al'Raschid just added to the chaotic mix. Somehow, though, Jeannie and Tony's relationship evolved from master-slave to [[MuggleMageRomance love between partners]] over the course of the show's five-year run, and in the final season they were married.
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18	''I Dream of Jeannie'' was created by Creator/SidneySheldon in explicit reaction to the success of ''Series/{{Bewitched}}''. Inspired by the movie ''The Brass Bottle'' (which coincidentally also starred Barbara Eden, though portly Creator/BurlIves played the Genie in that film, while Barbara was his master's human fiancée), he deliberately inverted the genie trope as it then existed, turning the hideous and borderline-malicious male genie of the ''Literature/ArabianNights'' into a beautiful female genie who was eager to please her master. He also gave Tony a clear motivation for maintaining a façade of normality (remaining an astronaut during NASA's glory days, with its chances of making history), as opposed to the unremarkable and conventional life idealized by Darrin Stevens in ''Bewitched''.
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20	Sheldon reportedly wanted a brunette Jeannie originally -- mainly to avoid comparisons to the blonde Samantha of ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' -- but could not find anyone who could play the role as he had envisioned it; Barbara Eden was cast almost in an act of desperation.
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22	''I Dream of Jeannie''[='s=] original NBC run lasted from September 18, 1965 to May 26, 1970, after which the series demonstrated remarkable success in syndication, winning its time slots across the country and becoming the first non-network program ever to earn higher UsefulNotes/{{ratings}} than network fare in the same time slot. By fall of 1971, its {{rerun}}s in syndication were reaching a larger audience than had watched the series in its initial network run. Its cult-like success spawned the mandatory AnimatedAdaptation (''WesternAnimation/{{Jeannie}}'') in 1973, and two TV movie semi-reunions -- ''I Dream of Jeannie...15 Years Later'' (1985), in which Creator/WayneRogers replaced Larry Hagman (who by then was busy with his role on ''Series/{{Dallas}}'') as Tony, and ''I Still Dream of Jeannie'' (1991), in which Tony was mentioned but never appeared onscreen.
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24	A [[TheMovie feature-film version]] has been rumored for years, with every star(let)-of-the-hour from Paris Hilton to Halle Berry proposed for the title role. The [[http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0415863/ latest incarnation]] of this project is back in DevelopmentHell after being scheduled for a 2008 release for a while, a curiously identical fate to the film version of Larry Hagman's [[Series/{{Dallas}} other TV show]].
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27	!!''I Dream of Jeannie'' provides examples of:
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29	* AccidentalDanceCraze: At a party, Jeannie does her 'fold arms, nod head' spell casting gesture. One of the guests sees her and thinks it's a new dance move. Soon, everyone at the party is doing it.
30	* AccidentalPervert: In "My Wild-Eyed Master", Jeannie gives Tony x-ray vision that causes him to see everyone in their underwear. When Jeannie shows up in her harem outfit, he hastily covers his eyes.
31	* AlcoholHic: One episode had the titular character get hiccups after she accidentally poofed herself into a wine bottle when trying to hide.
32	* ALessonLearnedTooWell: In "Never Put a Genie on a Budget", Jeannie, not understanding modern credit, buys $2000.00 worth of goods. Major Nelson insists she go on a strict budget. She overdoes it, taking in hippies as boarders and splitting a T.V. dinner for supper. Things go south as Major Nelson is expected to entertain a visiting Russian Cosmonaut (who, in a twist, is charmed by the spartan conditions).
33	* AllJustADream: In the episode [[spoiler:"Hurricane Jeannie", Dr. Bellows catches Jeannie blinking two astronauts into the Nelsons' living room, then blinking them back to the space capsule, and then blinking herself away. Tony decides to reveal everything, and Jeannie reluctantly goes along with it.]] Then Tony wakes up.
34	* AlphaBitch: Jeannie's wicked sister not only fulfills the personality type --- one episode even gives her a GirlPosse of other female genies.
35	* AmbulanceChaser: In ''Who Are You Calling A Genie?'': When Jeannie gets amnesia after being hit on the head at NASA, she's represented by a lawyer who happens to have been on a tour of the base at the time.
36	* AmnesiaEpisode: Happens to both Tony and Jeannie during the series:
37	** "I'll Never Forget What's Her Name": Tony loses his memory after being hit by a falling vase, leaving him unable to recognise Jeannie.
38	** "Who Are You Calling a Genie?": Jeannie is accidentally hit in the head by Dr Bellows while visiting Tony at NASA.
39	* AmnesiacLover: The fate of Major Nelson after the movie. Jeannie, however, resolves to rekindle their love the non-magical way.
40	* AnachronismStew: Jeannie has supposedly been in her bottle for 2000 years, but knows a number of historical figures from that period personally, including Leonardo Da Vinci and Nostradamus. However, she is capable of TimeTravel - as demonstrated by various episodes - which can explain this.
41	* AnimatedAdaptation: 1973's ''WesternAnimation/{{Jeannie}}'', produced by Creator/HannaBarbera, starring Creator/JulieMcWhirter in her voice acting debut, former ''[[Film/TheThreeStooges Three Stooges]]'' star Joe Besser ("[[CatchPhrase Yapple-Dapple!]]") and a pre-''Franchise/StarWars'' Creator/MarkHamill.
42	* AnimatedCreditsOpening: Animated by [[Creator/DepatieFrelengEnterprises DePatie-Freleng Enterprises]], this actually began in the middle of Season One and was extended to include Tony in Season Two.
43	* AppliedPhlebotinum: In the [[MultiPartEpisode two-part episode]] "Guess Who's Going to Be a Bride?" NASA's propulsion systems depend on Phinkilium, which can be obtained only from Kasha.
44	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite owning a magical genie, Tony is quite skeptical when it comes to the supernatural. He ridicules Roger for believing in horoscopes, and for visiting a fortune teller (in "Bigger Than a Breadbox, Better Than a Genie"). He also does not believe in ghosts (see below at ScoobyDooHoax).
45	* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The episode "My Master, Napoleon's Best Buddy" has several inaccuracies regarding Napoleon. It is set in 1803, and Marie Louise of Austria, Napoleon's second wife, is portrayed as an infant. Tony realizes that he's mistaken the time period, and that Napoleon will only marry her eighteen years later. However, Marie Louise was actually 12 years old in 1803, and she married Napoleon seven years later, in 1810, when she was 19. Also, Tony claims that Napoleon was exiled to Elba after his defeat at Waterloo. Napoleon was actually at Elba ''before'' Waterloo, and was exiled to the Island of St. Helena afterwards.
46	* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Dr. Bellows is the head psychiatrist of the base, yet is rarely seen with any staff & also handles physical examinations. He also handles frequent non-medical administrative duties.
47	* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: NASA is depicted as a military organization where astronauts work in dress uniform and maintain strict discipline. In reality, NASA was always a civilian organization and while astronauts during the early days were almost all active duty military test pilots, they wore civilian clothing and were very casual around one another.
48	* ArtisticTitle: The AnimatedCreditsOpening.
49	* AuditThreat: In "My Master, the Rich Tycoon", it's a case of ''dueling'' audit threats. An IRS man (''Series/{{Bewitched}}'''s Creator/PaulLynde) threatens to audit Dr. Bellows if he doesn't cough up some information on Major Nelson. Dr. Bellows threatens to have the IRS man [[{{Conscription}} drafted]]. Touché, Dr. Bellows, touché.
50	* BabysittingEpisode: "Abdullah", where Jeannie (and eventually Tony and Roger, when she has to leave for the day) has to watch her baby nephew, who is ''also'' a genie.
51	* BatmanGambit: Tony tries this occasionally to outsmart Jeannie.
52	** In "Who Needs a Green Eyed Jeannie?", Tony pretends going on a date, so the jealous Jeannie traps him at home. The next day, a male friend of his calls, asking why he couldn't meet him the previous evening. Jeannie, feeling guilty that she didn't believe Tony when he told her it's not a date, but a meeting with an old friend, allows him to go out the next evening. It turns out the whole operation was engineered by Tony, so he could go out on a date with his ex-girlfriend, without Jeannie stopping him.
53	** In "A Secretary is Not a Toy", Jeannie becomes General Peterson's secretary, because she wants to help Tony get promoted to General. Tony tries desperately to get her out of NASA before she'd cause any mischief. He lies to Jeannie that a General ''must'' be married, and that he already started looking for an ideal wife candidate. The jealous Jeannie of course decides that staying a Major is not such a bad thing after all.
54	** In "How Do You Beat Superman?", Jeannie blinks up a handsome millionaire, to make Tony jealous, and succeeds at first. However, when Tony finds out that the man is merely Jeannie's creation, he acts like if he were happy about their relationship, and would start looking for a partner himself. Which, of course, makes Jeannie incredibly regretful that she conjured up this plan, and she gets rid of the illusory guy.
55	** In "Have You Ever Had a Genie Hate You?", Jeannie wants to kill Tony due to a magic perfume given to her by her sister. Tony pretends that he is very afraid of the reverse-effect perfume, which of course prompts Jeannie to sprinkle it all over him, and nullify the effects of the hate-perfume.
56	%% * BecomingTheGenie: This was Jeannie's origin in season one. It was {{retcon}}ned in later seasons.
57	* BedlahBabe: Jeannie typically wears a pink harem outfit. Jeannie's [[EvilTwin sister]] wears a green outfit with a skirt instead of pants.
58	* BenevolentGenie: Jeannie, the rare moment of anger-induced [[JerkassGenie jerkassery]] aside, generally has Tony's best interest at heart.
59	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Jeannie is the sweetest genie of all time...as long as you don't threaten her relationship with her master.
60	* BigBad: The Blue Djinn could be considered this, since he was the one who turned Jeannie into a genie and trapped her in the bottle in the first place. He certainly causes a lot of trouble to Jeannie and Tony when he appears in the Season 2 premiere.
61	* BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame: "Watch the Birdie", featured a golf game where the ball did lots of bizarre and improbable things, but that was because of Jeannie's magic. Among other unlikely shots, Captain Nelson hit the ball from the branches of a tree. Later in the game, he shoots the ball directly the hole from a water ''fountain''.
62	* BondageIsBad: There's a surprising amount of torture-related humor for an otherwise light-hearted 60s sitcom.
63	* BoundandGagged: Jeannie II does this to [[spoiler: Tony and Roger in "How to Marry an Astronaut" to stop them from protesting as she tries to marry Tony.]]
64	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Jeannie does this a number of times, usually at the end of an episode where she's kissing Major Nelson and wants some privacy. She'll turn to the camera, blink, and the scene will cut to black. One variant is in the tag of "My Master, the Great Creator/{{Rembrandt\|VanRijn}}", where Jeannie blinks up the artist himself, who proceeds to paint the camera lens black.
65	* BunnyEarsLawyer:
66	** Despite Tony's frequent weird behavior and 'crazy' antics, often witnessed by Dr. Bellows, he is considered one of the finest astronauts in the space program. Probably the reason for General Peterson always taking Tony's side and dismissing Bellows' claims as humbug.
67	** Roger is definitely an oddball guy, but he's an able, accomplished pilot and astronaut as well.
68	* ButtMonkey: Dr. Bellows is constantly being made out as crazy because of Jeannie's antics. Roger whenever he tries to exploit Jeannie for his own benefit.
69	* ByNoIMeanYes: In "The Birds and The Bees Bit", Jeannie and Roger ask Haji, "the Master of All Genies", if any children Tony and Jeannie have would be genies:
70	-->'''Roger:''' If Jeannie marries a mortal, are their children mortals or genies?
71	-->'''Haji:''' Their children will be mortals.
72	-->''Jeannie and Roger sigh in relief.''
73	-->'''Haji:''' Ah, but sometimes they may be genies! There's no way of knowing.
74	* TheCameo: [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Groucho Marx]] appears for the final gag of one episode.
75	* CanineCompanion: Djinn-Djinn, Jeannie's genie dog.
76	* CantHoldHerLiquor: Jeannie, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR2IWadPPsM apparently]]. Although to her credit, she did guzzle down really powerful Moonshine. Jeannie is, if not Muslim herself, from the Middle East; she probably hadn't had alcohol before and hadn't developed a tolerance.
77	* CasanovaWannabe: Roger. In spades... and diamonds, and clubs, and hearts...
78	* CassandraTruth:
79	** Frequently affects Dr. Bellows. No matter how many times he sees the results of Jeannie's magic, he can never get the general to believe it, and by the time he convinces the general to come take a look, it disappears. He eventually grows aware of this, to the point that (in "Who Needs a Green Eyed Genie?") he just leaves Tony trapped in a jail inside his own home, rather than risk reporting yet another odd situation that vanishes before the general can confirm it.
80	** Affects an unscrupulous reporter who digs for information on Tony's private life and discovers Jeannie (in "Blackmail Order Bride"). The reporter eventually reports his findings to Dr. Bellows (without any evidence, since Jeannie destroyed it all), and Dr. Bellows doesn't believe any of it.
81	* CatchPhrase:
82	** "Oh, Master: how do you get yourself into these things?" (Jeannie, when Tony is trying to figure a way out of whatever mess her magic has landed him in this time.)
83	** "I've been waiting a looooooong time for this, Major Nelson..." (Dr Bellows, every time he thinks he's finally going to prove the current weirdness is Tony's fault.)
84	* CelebrityStar: Jeannie conjures up Sammy Davis, Jr... and later clones him.
85	* ChickMagnet: Tony, much to Jeannie's dismay. When he went to Hawaii, he was swarmed by bathing beauties within minutes. The list of women who hopelessly fell for Tony includes a Middle Eastern princess, a Russian cosmonaut, and a Hollywood actress.
86	* ClingyJealousGirl: Jeannie would do anything she could to keep Tony to herself, using any loophole she could find to get around what he told her to do. (For instance, when he told her to watch three movies so she wouldn't bother him, she used magic to speed the films up and watch them in less than an hour. She one time refused to undo a spell that made him an old man, simply so no other woman would want him. This went on and on for the entire series.)
87	* ClipShow:
88	** In "There Goes the Best Genie I Ever Had", given the option of being rid of Jeannie once and for all, Tony reminds Roger and Jeannie – and the audience – of all the things she did to him over the last two years.
89	** In a more subtle sense, "Hurricane Jeannie", in which Dr. Bellows is shown some of the oddities he experienced in the past that were the results of Jeannie.
90	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Her bubbly personality and unfamiliarity with modern ways cause Jeannie to come across like this at times.
91	* ComesGreatResponsibility: In one episode, Jeannie gives her powers to Tony without his knowledge. After HilarityEnsues and he realizes what's happened, he briefly considers using the powers to change the world, like stopping war or famine. Jeannie, though, cautions him that solving such big problems may inadvertently cause even bigger ones, then urges him to stick to something small and manageable. By that time, though, Tony's inadvertently given the power to Bellows and more hilarity ensues...
92	* ComputerEqualsTapeDrive: The giant, billion-dollar, brand new NASA computer in "The Girl Who Never Had a Birthday".
93	* ContinuityNod:
94	** In some of the early black and white episodes, Dr Bellows would refer to the odd things that happened in previous episodes when talking to Tony about finally getting the goods on him.
95	** In the very first episode, Jeannie tells Tony that a djinn trapped her inside her bottle because she refused to marry him. In the first episode of the show's second season, said djinn makes an appearance.
96	* CreditCardPlot: As mentioned below, Jeannie runs up a massive debt through use of one. Unusually for this trope, however, the next episode had her going overboard in the ''other'' direction, imposing a draconian budget [[CharacterDevelopment in reaction to having overspent before]].
97	* CrossOver: With ''Series/LaughIn'' with [[AsHimself George Slatter, Gary Owen, Artie Johnson, and Judy Carne]] as themselves.
98	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite everything Major Healey does and all the failed scams he's tried to pull, if you ever think he doesn't belong at NASA - look at his uniform. His astronaut insignia is the ''Senior Army Astronaut Badge''... ''the '''rarest''' badge awarded by the U.S. Army.''
99	* CovertPervert: There was one episode where Tony has to restrain a burly woman who is going crazy. The woman says that she had a secret fantasy of being ''dominated''.
100	* TheCutie: Jeannie!
101	* DefeatByModesty: In one episode, Jeannie's trying to get information out of Roger. Each time he refuses to tell her, she removes another article of his clothing.
102	* DirtyCommunists: Referred to occasionally as Tony is in a branch of the Air Force. There are spies lead by a Chinese [[CommieNazis communist princess]] in "Jeannie and the Kidnap Caper". Subverted in "Russian Roulette", in which Jeannie's bottle is stolen by a female cosmonaut and it's fretted how the Soviet Union will now be able to conquer the world. Instead, the Russian cosmonaut defects and wishes herself into being a rich American capitalist. In "See You in C-U-B-A", Jeannie accidentally sends Tony to Castro-controlled Cuba instead of U.S.-controlled Puerto Rico.
103	* DisposableFiancee: Tony's fiancée, Melissa Stone, existed solely to lose to Jeannie. She was a general's daughter, and never even knew about Jeannie to the point she was PutOnABus, she ran off with an ex-boyfriend. WordOfGod is that she was written off because the writers had no idea what to do with the character.
104	* DoesntKnowTheirOwnBirthday: In the two-part story "The Girl Who Never Had a Birthday", Jeannie tells Tony that she does not know her birthday. However, she does know that UsefulNotes/{{Neptune}} was in Scorpio on the day that she was born. Tony and Roger try to find out the date of Jeannie's birthday by feeding this information into the UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} computer ERIC. After several failed attempts to access the computer, Roger finds out the date but Dr. Bellows ships him off to UsefulNotes/{{Alaska}} before he has a chance to tell either Tony or Jeannie. He eventually returns two episodes later in "My Master, the Great Caruso" and tells Jeannie that she was born on April 1, 64 B.C.
105	* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale:
106	** Jeannie's treatment of Tony verges on harassment, but it's largely PlayedForLaughs.
107	** Averted wth Jeannie's sister, whose controlling antics are played much more seriously.
108	* DreamingOfThingsToCome: In "My Incredible Shrinking Master", after waking up screaming from a nightmare involving Tony being attacked by a giant cat, Jeannie states that her dreams always come true.
109	* DrunkOnMilk:
110	** Literally. In part two of the "locked safe" arc, Tony and Roger believe the safe that Jeannie was locked in had gone through the crusher at the scrap yard. We later see them drowning their sorrows with wine glasses in hand, but Tony is pouring milk into them.
111	** In another episode Tony gets frustrated with Roger who's staying with him as part of a NASA test. Cut to him leaning on a bar and ordering "a double". The camera pans out to reveal he's at a diner ordering milkshakes.
112	* DumbBlonde:
113	** Played with when it comes to Jeannie. Part of it is due to her being a FishOutOfWater and not being particularly familiar with the ways of the modern (1960s) world, but then other times, others (particularly her evil sister) use her naïveté to their advantage. "GI Jeannie" suggests Jeannie is in fact highly intelligent (she is said to have scored extremely well on an IQ test) but in a DitzyGenius way.
114	** The titular character (played by Carol Wayne) in "Here Comes Bootsie Nightingale".
115	* DumpsterDive: In the first episode, "The Lady in the Bottle", Captain Nelson rifles through the back of a garbage truck in an attempt to recover Jeannie and her bottle. With Captain Healey, Doctor Bellows and General Stone looking on...
116	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
117	** The first season was made in black & white. Due to the UsefulNotes/SwitchToColor, the rest of the show was produced in color.
118	** Roger didn't know about Jeannie for about half of the first season.
119	** Tony and Roger were Captains, rather than Majors.
120	** The show's original opening sequence had an OpeningNarration explaining the premise of the show, and used a combination of clips from the pilot and some original footage, along with more jazz-styled theme music. The opening was replaced with the more-familiar AnimatedCreditsOpening partway through the first season, but it didn't include Tony until Season 2. The jazz theme also stayed until it was replaced with the more familiar music in Season 2.
121	** During the first two seasons, the green harem outfit was simply an alternate costume Jeannie occasionally wore instead of her pink one. From season three onwards, the green costume became the sister's designated outfit.
122	* EasyAmnesia:
123	** In the first season finale Tony gets hit on the head with a vase and loses all memory of who Jeannie really is. He remembers everything else about his life, just not her. Another blow to the head at the end of the episode resets him back to before the first vase hit him.
124	** Happens to Jeannie in "Who Are You Calling A Genie?". She gets hit on the head by a door at NASA. Later an accidental heat-butt restores her.
125	* EverybodyOwnsAFord: Pontiacs, in this case.
126	* EvilBrunetteTwin: Jeannie's sister; she's a brunette, has been called Jeannie's twin, and constantly tried to steal Tony from her sister.
127	%% * EvilMatriarch
128	* EvilTwin: Jeannie's sister Jeannie. While they were sisters, they were not literal twins. The series proper implied Good Jeannie was the younger one, while the TV-movies implied the Wicked Jeannie was the younger one.
129	* EurekaMoment: In Jeannie's sister's first appearance, Jeannie realizes how to get rid of her (at least temporarily..) when an exasperated Tony finally asks if she doesn't have a master of her own.
130	* ExactWords: Tony should have been a little clearer when he told Jeannie that the groom isn't supposed to see the ''bride'' in her wedding dress before the ceremony...
131	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Poor Jeannie's quest to win Tony's love was this...until the network finally forced them to get married in the final season. [[StatusQuoIsGod Many episodes beforehand would end with the implication Tony began to develop feelings for her, only for him to once again go off on dates with other women and treat Jeannie like a servant next episode.]]
132	* FaintInShock:
133	** Roger in "The Richest Astronaut in the World", upon seeing Jeannie emerge from her bottle for the first time. He then faints ''again'' after being revived by Jeannie.
134	** Tony in "My Wild-Eyed Master", upon being granted XRayVision and seeing Jeannie and Roger as skeletons. Like Roger in "The Richest Astronaut in the World", he ''also'' faints a second time upon being revived.
135	%% * FantasticComedy
136	* FantasticVoyagePlot: Tony gets sent to be an official NASA advisor on a movie which is making one of these in the first season episode "The Moving Finger". This was a deliberate in-joke, as ''Film/FantasticVoyage'' was in production when the episode was made, and was the most hyped coming soon Hollywood movie at the time. The producer even asks the costume designer to make the female lead's spacesuit "look like a bikini", an obvious pun on Creator/RaquelWelch's skintight LatexSpaceSuit.
137	* FictionalCountry: The rival countries of Kasha and Basenji in the [[MultiPartEpisode two-part episode]] "Guess Who's Going to Be a Bride?"
138	* ForcedTransformation: Happened very often. Most notable examples:
139	** In "What's New, Poodle Dog?", Jeannie turns Roger into a poodle to prevent him from arranging a double date for himself and Tony with two beauty queens.
140	** In "Who Needs a Green-Eyes Jeannie?", the jealous Jeannie turns Tony's ex-girlfriend into a chimpanzee.
141	** In "Happy Anniversary", the Blue Djinn turns Tony into a lobster and Roger into a chicken.
142	** In "This is Murder", Jeannie turns Tony into a dog, a skunk and a parrot in an outburst of anger. She later turns Roger into a parrot too.
143	** In "The Girl Who Never Had a Birthday, Part 2", having a similar rage streak, Jeannie turns Tony into a donkey, a fish and a sheep.
144	** In "Who Are You Calling a Jeannie?", the amnesiac Jeannie accidentally turns Dr. Bellows into a mouse.
145	** Reversed in "Fly Me to the Moon", when Jeannie [[HumanityEnsues turns a space chimp into a human]] (played by Larry Storch).
146	* ForgottenThemeTuneLyrics: Written by Buddy Kaye but never used on the show.
147	-->''Jeannie, fresh as a daisy\
148	Just love how she obeys me\
149	Does things that just amaze me so...''
150	* FreakyFridayFlip: In "Haven't I Seen Me Someplace Before?", as a birthday surprise, Jeannie grants Roger one wish. When he casually mentions he wishes he could switch places with Tony, HilarityEnsues.
151	* FreudianCouch: Dr. Bellows has a Freudian couch in his office, as befitting a Freudian psychiatrist. Occasionally, Dr. Bellows uses it to psychoanalyze Major Nelson or Major Healey. Sometimes Dr. Bellows uses the couch himself, when he's not sure of his own sanity.
152	* FunWithPalindromes: "Able was I ere I saw Elba" makes an appearance.
153	* GayParee: "My Master the Spy."
154	* GettingTheBabyToSleep: In "Abdullah", with Jeannie's nephew. Tony seems to be the only one who can get him to stop crying.
155	* GiveAwayTheBride: Doctor Bellows gives Jeannie away at her wedding to Tony, presumably because her father was still living in Old Baghdad.
156	* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Tony in "Jeannie-Go-Round", when Jeanie II blinks off his pants in a nightclub, and Tony must go home in a tablecloth.
157	* GorgeousPeriodDress: "My Master, Napoleon's Best Buddy". Jeannie is simply mad about the beautiful dresses of the Napoleonic era.
158	* GratuitousForeignLanguage: In this case, Jeannie speaks Persian in the pilot when Tony releases her.
159	* UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode: Somehow the potentially lascivious implications of the show's premise -- a beautiful, pushy woman living with an unmarried man -- appear to have completely slipped past the network censors, who were more concerned about whether or not Barbara Eden's navel was visible. That being said, they did bring that up in the show a couple times, and it appears that they allowed it because an early episode showed that Jeannie slept in her bottle.
160	* HeavySleeper: In "Meet My Master's Mother." Furious with Major Nelson's visiting mother, Jeannie seeks to disrupt her sleep by playing drums, trumpets, and even firing a cannon. Mrs. Nelson doesn't so much as bat an eye . . . until Major Nelson leaves his room, calling for her asking if she heard anything. Jeannie is then punished with LaserGuidedKarma for her mean-spirited pranks when Mrs. Nelson innocently uses Jeannie's bottle (with Jeannie in it) to mix up a batch of shampoo! [[spoiler:In the end, Jeannie tries a much more successful "if you can't beat them, join them" approach]]
161	* HeroesLoveDogs: Djinn-Djinn.
162	* IdenticalGrandson:
163	** Barbara Eden also played Jeannie's mother.
164	** In "My Master, the Pirate", Tony looks up the photograph of a 19th century ancestor of his, who is also portrayed by Larry Hagman.
165	* IdentityAmnesia: Happens to Jeannie in one episode.
166	* IdiotBall: In "How to Be a Genie in Ten Easy Lessons", Tony gives Jeannie ''The Arabian Nights'' as a guidebook on how genies should behave, without actually reading it. It turns out the book is full of genies torturing their masters in cruel ways.
167	* IconicOutfit:
168	** Jeannie, of course, had her pink and red harem costume with exposed midriff (although her belly button was ordered concealed by network censors!)
169	** To a much lesser extent, Major Nelson wore a blue Air Force uniform. Major Healey was the odd man out on the base with his green Army uniform (in contrast to everyone else's blue Air Force uniforms like Major Nelson).
170	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Tony is notably blasé about having a genie who is eager to fulfill his every wish. He just wants a relatively normal life.
171	* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Roger wants to become popular with the ladies, and in some early episodes, he seems jealous that Tony has a genie.
172	%% * InconvenientSummons
173	* IncredibleShrinkingMan: Happened quite often.
174	** In the aptly titled "My Incredible Shrinking Master", Jeannie accidentally turns Tony 6 inches tall. Poor Tony has to escape a vicious cat bent on eating him.
175	** In "My Hero?", Jeannie shrinks the giant-sized torturer Ali (Richard Kiel) to rescue Tony from his evil clutches.
176	** In "Genie Genie Who's Got the Genie, Part 3", Jeannie's evil sister shrinks Tony to doll size and traps him inside a birdcage in a harem.
177	** In "One of Our Bottles Is Missing", Tony suggests that Jeannie should sleep inside a desk drawer when her bottle gets borrowed by Mrs. Bellows. However, she turns the tables on Tony by forcing ''him'' to sleep in the drawer instead.
178	** In "Have You Ever Had a Genie Hate You?", Jeannie, under the magic of her evil sister, shrinks Tony and blinks him into the kitchen oven to die a fiery death.
179	** Jeannie often shrinks to a tiny size and hides from sight so she could observe what's going on and use her magic without being noticed.
180	* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Jeannie, as far as 1960s standards would allow.
181	* InvisiblePresident: In "My Son, the Genie", the U.S. President appears, seen from the back. The fact that he's wearing a white Texan hat implicitly identifies him as then-incumbent UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson.
182	* InvoluntarySmileOfIncapacitation: Jeannie has one in "Who Are You Calling a Jeannie" when she gets hit in the head by a door and [[EasyAmnesia loses her memory.]]
183	* IslandHelpMessage: In the pilot, Tony uses Jeannie's bottle as part of the second 'S'.
184	* ItsAllMyFault: In "My Incredible Shrinking Master", Jeannie accidentally shrinks Tony and Roger thinks a cat ate him. He views it as having killed his best friend by failing to protect him.
185	* ItWasHereISwear: Dr. Bellows's natural state.
186	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
187	** Roger may be Tony's friend, but he is not above taking advantage of Jeannie's powers for his own gain. Nevertheless, his heart is still usually in the right place.
188	** Dr. Bellows sometimes resorts to questionable means to 'get' Tony, but he's only trying to do his job as a psychiatrist and is a decent man otherwise.
189	* JumpingOutOfACake:
190	** In "Jeannie and the Bachelor Party", Major Nelson has a girl coming out the cake at his [[SurpriseParty surprise]] Bachelor Party.
191	** Jeannie herself does this at Tony's ''first'' Bachelor Party (back when he was still engaged to Melissa) in "Jeannie and the Marriage Caper".
192	* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The final season had Jeannie and Tony get married, meaning Jeannie's goal was changed from getting Tony's affection to keeping Tony's affection.
193	%% * LaughTrack
194	* LondonEnglandSyndrome: In one episode, Jeannie goes to Reno to file for separation from Tony. He thinks she's been to Reno, Nevada, but she actually went to "Reno, Persia" -- which seems [[AnachronismStew anachronistic]] given that Persia became Iran in 1935. She might not be aware of that and simply refer to it the way she has always known it -- Persia.
195	* LostVoicePlot: Invoked in "My Master, the Great Caruso": Tony does his best to strain his voice so he loses it in order to get out of participating in the NASA talent contest, which Dr Brewer signed him up for after hearing him sing with Caruso's singing voice (which Jeannie had promised to never give him again). His efforts are for nought, however, as Jeannie simply blinks to restore his voice.
196	* MagicalGesture: Jeannie always crosses her arms and nods her head, then blinks. In the early episodes, the head nod and/or arm crossing are sometimes omitted.
197	* MagicalGirlfriend: Though she wasn't his girlfriend for much of the series, Jeannie is effectively this, as she moves into Tony's house (rather, she moves her bottle into his house).
198	* MajorlyAwesome: Major Nelson is seen to be a brilliant tactician on more than a few occasions (i.e., "Genie, Genie, Who's Got the Genie?"). Major Healey, on the other hand, tends to be a bumbler.
199	* MakeAWish: Jeannie is a genie. She grants Tony's wishes.
200	* MatchCut: Used whenever Jeannie blinks up something.
201	* MayflyDecemberRomance: Jeannie's wicked sister has had hundreds of husbands and lovers. Though she could have simply outlived them all, knowing her, she likely collects husbands.
202	* MeaningfulName: Jeannie, since she's a genie.
203	* MismatchedAtomicExpressionism: Used for the intro, which distills the designs of Tony and Jeannie into simplified and angular colorful shapes. The text for the intro credits also gets this treatment, as it's staggered with a few extra attributes.
204	* MissingFloor: The episode "One of Our Hotels is Growing" has the main characters attempt to book a room in a filled-up hotel, so Jeannie just magically creates a 13th story and books the room there, when the Bellows ''know'' that the hotel in question only has twelve floors. Cue much confusion from the hotel staff and the Bellows, while Tony and Jeannie simply denied that there was anything unusual about the floor at all.
205	* MistakenForRacist: In "Fly Me to the Moon", a black receptionist gives Jeanne a weird look when she tells her she was sent by her Master.
206	* MistakenForPregnant: Shortly after Jeannie and Tony get married, Roger finds a bassinet and a bottle of pre-natal vitamins in their bedroom. He assumes this means Jeannie's pregnant and immediately runs off to tell everyone at [=NASA=]. The basket and vitamins were actually for Djinn-Djinn's mate, who is expecting a litter of puppies.
207	* MsFanservice: Jeannie. Notice how her skirts keep getting shorter and shorter with each ensuing season?
208	* MuggleMageRomance: What the relationship between Nelson and Jeannie eventually becomes.
209	* MundaneWish: A common occurrence in the show. Lampshaded in one episode when Jeannie gets downright exasperated that ''most'' of Tony's wishes are mundane -- but considering Jeannie's [[LiteralGenie cluelessness]] and occasional mischievousness, it's hard to argue against him. Tony justifies this, both by pointing out how much trouble he could get into if unexplained wealth starts pouring into his pocket and by noting that he wants to earn what he gets.
210	* NegativeContinuity: The show was infamous for its poor continuity.
211	** One of the most infamous examples was that early episodes flat-out stated that Jeannie was originally a human girl, born of human parents, turned into a genie so that she could be imprisoned in a bottle by a djinn for spurning his marriage proposal. Later episodes retconned this with Jeannie saying she was born a genie as well as various genie relatives, most notably her evil sister. To make it worse, the show still went back and forth on this. Jeannie having genie relatives was brought up as early as the Season 1 "Is There an Extra Jeannie in the House?," but the second season's "How to Be a Genie in 10 Easy Steps" brought back Jeannie having once been human. Jeannie having been born a genie was pretty much settled on with the third season.
212	** One season 1 episode showed that Jeannie had a pet lion when she was younger, stating that it was her only pet. Later episodes introduce Djinn-Djinn who was her long-lost pet dog (who was also a genie-dog.)
213	** Whether or not Jeannie could be photographed depended on whether it could cause plot conflict.
214	** The second TV movie flat-out stated that Jeannie's sister had never had a master before despite showing one in her first appearance, as well as another episode saying she had hundreds of masters (and husbands) before. Bizarrely, it was also implied she had never gone to the real world before the events of the second movie, as if the character never appeared on the show.
215	*** Added to that, Evil Jeannie originally had brown hair; it became black in later episodes.
216	** One episode explained that if Jeannie had married Tony, she would become human and lose her powers, but their children could potentially be genies. When Jeannie and Tony actually did marry in the final season, Jeannie retained her powers without issue.
217	*** Added to that, the same episode showed that Jeannie and Tony, if they married, would have a mortal son and a genie daughter. In the TV movies, Jeannie and Tony only have a son, who is treated as a human/genie hybrid.
218	** Another point of inconsistency was whether or not Jeannie had masters before Tony. Despite being imprisoned for 2,000 years until Tony found her, right after becoming a genie, Jeannie would often discuss having other masters, and at other time refer to Tony as her first master.
219	** In "My Master, the Ghost Breaker," Tony's great uncle's lawyer introduces himself as James Ashley, though is later referred to as Edward Ashley, then listed as James Ashley again during the end titles.[[note]]Similarly, in the episode, the butler's name is Smedley, though in the end titles, he's listed as Chauncey.[[/note]]
220	* NosyNeighbor: The Bellowses, collectively.
221	* NotHimself:
222	** In "My Master, the Weakling", a sadistic physical exercise instructor (played by Don Rickles) takes joy in torturing Tony and Roger, until Jeannie gives him the personality of his benevolent aunt.
223	** In "Have You Ever Had a Genie Hate You?", Jeannie's sister gives Jeannie a magical perfume which makes her despise Tony and fall in love with Roger.
224	* ObliviouslySuperpowered: In "My Turned-On Master" Jeannie agrees to transfer [[RealityWarper her powers]] for 24 hours so as their have no problems of her being tempted to use them at the embassy dinner that night. However, she doesn't tell Tony that she transferred them to him. Thus, Tony spends the episode unknowingly granting wishes by expressing casual desires and observations i.e. accidentally supercharging a gardener's motorised lawnmower by remarking "it sounds more powerful than my car," causing it to shoot off out of control taking him along for the ride. When Tony finally starts to notice, he assumes its Jeannie messing with him until she flat out tells him, by which point he's already accidentally given them to Dr. Bellows (who does quickly notice, but Tony is able to convince him it's all a hallucination from working too hard and manipulates him into giving them back whilst he's none the wiser).
225	* OffscreenTeleportation: Jeannie is fond of transporting Roger to far-off places like Antarctica and the African jungle. Somehow, he makes it back to Cocoa Beach in one or two scenes without the use of magic. (Happens three times in the first season episode "I'll Never Forget What's Her Name.")
226	* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Jeannie, her sister (Jeannie), and her mother (ALSO named Jeannie).
227	** The German dub hand waved this by explaining that Jeannie II was our Jeannie's stepsister.
228	* OurGeniesAreDifferent: Female, in Jeannie's case.
229	** Justified with Jeannie originally being human; though this was later retconned.
230	** What's more, genies have a corporeal nature, such as having blood. They need to sleep, and Jeannie can often be seen eating and drinking, although it's never revealed if they survive without nutrition or not. They can apparently survive without air, as Jeannie was once trapped in a safe for four weeks, and emerged unharmed. They also cannot be filmed or photographed (but only if it causes more conflict in the plot), though they do have reflections.
231	* ParentalSubstitute: General Peterson sometimes comes through as a father figure to Tony. In "How Do You Beat Superman?" he gives him relationship advice, and it's often implied that he cares for him.
232	* PendulumOfDeath: In "Have You Ever Had a Genie Hate You?", a magic potion causes Jeannie to start hating Tony. After putting him through various tortures, in the end, both Tony and Roger find themselves under a swinging pendulum about to slice their throats.
233	* PrimaDonnaDirector: Allen Kerr (Paul Lynde) in "Everybody's a Movie Star".
234	* PropertyOfLove: Major Nelson is Jeannie's master, and thus Jeannie is happily "his" property. It's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as she's a genie and at the start Nelson tries to free her. Although she stays as Major Nelson's genie, she very much has the freedom to do as she pleases. Many of Jeannie's actions are in pursuit of her SeriesGoal; as she is in love with Major Nelson, her goal is to be Nelson's wife.
235	* {{Qurac}}: Kajsa.
236	* RakeTake: Happens to Jeannie in "U.F.Ohh Jeannie", knocking her out.
237	* ARareSentence: Quite a few are occasioned by Jeannie's powers:
238	-->''"Sorry, sir; I couldn't hear you on account of the giant chicken."''
239	* ReassignedToAntarctica: Well, the Aleutians, actually. Tony and Roger get sent there at one point when Jeannie messes up a diplomatic situation.
240	* RedOniBlueOni: Roger is the red (passionate, extraverted, [[CasanovaWannabe wants a woman]]), Tony is the blue (more controlled, trying to live a normal life).
241	* RelationshipUpgrade: Tony and Jeannie get married in the last season.
242	* ReplacedTheThemeTune: The black-and-white season 1 used a jazz-waltz style melody, whereas the color seasons 2-5 featured Hugo Montenegro's more familiar uptempo theme.
243	* ReunionShow: Two TV movies were made.
244	* RomanticFalseLead: Tony's fiancée Melissa in early episodes. She was dropped when the writers realized the LoveTriangle just didn't work.
245	* {{Ruritania}}: Basenji.
246	* ScoobyDooHoax: In "My Master, The Ghost Breaker", Major Nelson inherits an English manor. Unfortunately, Nelson's crooked English solicitor tries to scare Nelson off so he could sell the manor and keep the proceeds. Features a shocking bit of ArbitrarySkepticism on Major Nelson's part, when this master of a genie repeatedly denies that ghosts can possibly exist! There's also the fact that Jeannie herself contradicts Nelson and says they do! The trope is subverted at the very end, when a real ghost shows up and frightens everybody away.
247	* SexyShirtSwitch:
248	** Jeannie does this in the first episode after taking a shower.
249	** After Jeannie arrives at Tony's house in the pilot episode, and Tony's girlfriend comes over afterwards, Jeannie receives her wearing one of Tony's shirts -- and (apparently) nothing more. It's obvious that the implication Jeannie wanted to send was that she'd just slept with Tony.
250	* SecretKeeper: Tony and Roger.
251	* SensualSlavs: The female Soviet cosmonaut in "Russian Roulette".
252	* SeriesGoal: Jeannie wants to marry Major Nelson. She finally gets ''her'' wish midway through the fifth and final season.
253	* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Tony early on. He does, eventually, fall in love with Jeannie.
254	* ShoutOut:
255	** Several to ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', which the show was frequently accused of copying.
256	** In "The Greatest Entertainer in the World", Sammy Davis, Jr. tells his pianist the song they're rehearsing "ain't Music/TheMonkees, but it'll have to do". ''Series/TheMonkees'' aired on NBC right before ''I Dream of Jeannie'' on Monday nights in that current (1966-67) season.
257	** In "Please Don't Feed the Astronauts", the nurse who loves taking blood samples is named [[Creator/BelaLugosi Nurse Lugosi]].
258	* SickeningSweethearts: The relationship between Major Healey and his girlfriends often takes this form.
259	* SignatureSoundEffect: The blinking sound.
260	* SmellySkunk: In one episode Jeannie, trapped in her bottle, blinks up a skunk (along with a pink gas mask for herself) in order to keep Dr. Bellows away from investigating it.
261	* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: Said in "How to Marry an Astronaut", during Jeannie's Sister's attempted wedding to Roger. They use this as an opportunity to trick her into getting back in her bottle.
262	* StockFootage:
263	** Both for rocket launches, and (at least in the first season) every time Nelson drives up to his house (particularly noticeable because the rear view mirror flashes directly into the camera just as he rolls to a stop in the clip.)
264	** In the color episodes, the shot of Tony speeding past the statue to drive up to NASA.
265	* StopTrick: Used whenever Jeannie blinks up something.
266	* StoryArc: Most unusual for a 1960s sitcom, ''I Dream of Jeannie'' engaged in several four-episode plot arcs.
267	* SuperSmoke: Jeannie turns into smoke when going in or out of her bottle.
268	* TallDarkAndHandsome: "Tony Millionaire", the imaginary lover Jeannie conjures up in "How Do You Beat Superman?".
269	* ThatCameOutWrong: When Roger is facing treason charges (because of all the expensive stuff he got from Jeannie that he can't explain) he begs Tony for help:
270	-->'''Roger:''' "Come on, you're my friend! Share and share alike?"
271	-->'''Tony:''' "...You're offering me half a firing squad?"
272	* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Subverted in "Nobody Loves a Fat Astronaut". Major Nelson tries to call home, and argues with a "recording". In reality, it was Jeannie's sister pretending to be a recording.
273	* TimeTravelEpisode: Jeannie occasionally blinks Tony to different historical eras for some adventure and mishap.
274	** In "My Hero?", they travel back to AncientPersia.
275	** In "The Fastest Gun in the East", they visit the Old West.
276	** In "My Master, the Pirate", they go on a pirate adventure.
277	** In "My Master, Napoleon's Best Buddy", they visit Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803.
278	* TitledAfterTheSong: A play on Stephen Foster's classic 1854 ballad "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair".
279	* TitleSequenceReplacement: The opening sequence originally worked in a sponsor tag, which was removed in syndication.
280	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Jeannie and her sister, respectively. This is highlighted by the good Jeannie wearing pantaloons and the wicked Jeannie wearing a skirt. Though this is offset with Jeannie being a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak.
281	* TrainingFromHell: Two third-season episodes see Majors Nelson and Healey fall under the control of tough (and insane) officers who run them through unbelievably tough exercises.
282	* TraumaButtonEnding: In "My Incredible Shrinking Master", the shrunken Tony spends a lot of time running from a housecat that wants to attack him. The end shows him being scared by a kitten.
283	* UnbuiltTrope: Despite being a FantasticComedy, the show actually depicted the problems of having a genie: Nelson doesn't profit from Jeannie, not only because of his moral convictions but also because he would be scrutinized by the government about property and money he can't report. He is hounded by his superiors for his suspicious behavior, menaced by supernatural forces connected to Jeannie, and often faced with unscrupulous types who wouldn't hesitate to take advantage of a powerful being, including his own best friend Roger.
284	* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Jeannie's sister Jeannie. Her mother too, when played by Barbara Eden in two fourth-season episodes.
285	* UnlimitedWardrobe: Jeannie's ability to whip up a new outfit at will gave the series creators the chance to put Barbara Eden in an endless series of gorgeous costumes.
286	* VitriolicBestBuds: Roger with both Tony and Jeannie.
287	* VoicesAreMental:
288	** When Tony and Roger swap bodies in "Haven't I Seen Me Someplace Before", they keep their respective voices, which confuses the hell out of Dr. Bellows.
289	** Whenever Jeannie shapeshifts into another person, her voice always remains the same.
290	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Genies are able to change their appearance at will. Jeannie occasionally uses this power when she tries to conceal her true identity. For example, she turns into a Mexican cook when Dr. Bellows inspects Tony's kitchen or a bearded sailor when the good doctor takes a curious look at the sailboat she blinked into Tony's living room. She turns into a chimpanzee in "Where'd You Go-Go" and into a white poodle in "What's New, Poodle Dog?". One of Jeannie's aunts turns herself into a goldfish while visiting the Nelson home.
291	* WackyMarriageProposal: When Major Nelson finally proposes to Jeannie (that is to say, makes a proposal of his own free will that eventually results in him marrying Jeannie later in the season) [[WhamLine he simply introduces her as his fiancé to Shaefer and Bellows.]]
292	* WeaksauceWeakness: It's established that if Jeannie is ever trapped in a container (such as her bottle or a safe), she can't use her powers to affect the outside world or to let herself out.
293	* WeddingEpisode: "The Wedding", where Major Nelson and Jeannie get married. The fact that Jeannie can't be photographed by the press [[HilarityEnsues results in no small number of complications.]]
294	* WhamLine: Tony introduces Jeannie to Schaefer and Bellows: "General, Colonel, I'd like to introduce my fiancée."
295	* WhoEvenNeedsABrain: In "Who Are You Calling a Genie?" Jeannie loses her memory after hitting her head. She's taken to the hospital, but when her head is x-rayed it turns out to be empty. It is not clear whether this a trait common to ''all'' genies or [[DumbBlonde Jeannie in particular]], or if it's part of the inconsistent "Genies can't be photographed" rule.
296	* XRayVision: Jeannie accidentally gives this to Tony when trying to improve his eyesight in "My Wild-Eyed Master".
297	* YourCostumeNeedsWork: In one episode, Jeannie throws a party for some old friends, [[InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous all of whom are great figures of history]]. Bellows shows up at the house unexpectedly and, assuming it's a costume party, tells Henry VIII that he has overdone it with the fat padding.
298	* HisNameIs: More like "Your Birthday Is...", but otherwise used to the same effect during the 'Jeannie's birthday' story arc, where Roger keeps ''almost'' revealing her birthday only to get cut-off because he wastes so much time being overdramatic and trying to make the others guess instead of just telling it. Jeannie finally loses patience and sticks him in an iron maiden until he does so.
299	* YourFavorite: For Jeannie's Sister - Cherries Jubilee (Our Jeannie is allergic to cherries).

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