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1	[[WMG:The reason Jeannie's entire family are magical when she frequently mentions growing up as a human is that the curse put on her when she refused to marry the blue djinn extended to her entire family.]]
2	Jeannie was once a normal human girl who just wanted to dance and have a good time. Jeannie refused to marry and in return, gets a 2,000-year nap and a handsome, loving (if not uptight) master who instantly frees her and doesn't demand anything from her. Jeannie's sister got two thousand years of involuntary servitude under a series of cruel, stupid and neglectful masters. She takes full advantage of having magical powers but that doesn't mean she asked for them.
3	* Considering that Evil Jeannie had hundreds of past lovers in one episode, it is also possible that she was, well, naughty and was turned into a genie as punishment.
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5	[[WMG: CelebrityParadox applies to both ''I Dream of Jeannie'' and ''Bewitched''.]]
6	Each is a television show in the other show's universe.
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8	[[WMG: The AnimatedAdaptation Jeannie is another sister of live-action Jeannie.]]
9	Both are favorites of Great Hadji; both were given difficult apprentices to chaperone; both have a similar attitude about their 'masters'. Animated Jeannie was imprisoned while searching for her sister, and washed up in the California surf, found by Corry.
10	* She did mention having a little sister in one season 2 episode. Headcanon accepted!
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12	[[WMG: Jeannie was turned human as a baby.]]
13	As a variant on the above WMG about why Jeannie mentioned growing up human but was then established to be from a family of genies, perhaps Jeannie's family were genies originally but she was made human as a baby either as a reward for her family's service (so she could live a free life) or the Djinn did it so she could grow up to be a proper wife to him rather than just a servant (given that Djinn are immortal, it's reasonable to think he may have planned a marriage a couple of decades in advance). Then when she refused to marry him, she was turned back into a genie as punishment.
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15	[[WMG:''Star Trek'' is in the future of the ''I Dream of Jeannie'' universe.]]
16	In ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', Starfleet is a military offshoot of Earth's space exploration programs, in real life NASA is non-military, but in [=IDoJ=], NASA is explicitly a military organization. Genies and other reality warpers also fit right in with the Trek-verse. Even the show's odd technology fits, NASA has a working flying saucer and conducts a lot more launches in [=IDoJ=] than it does in real life, which fits with Gary Seven's mission to stop an orbital weapons platform in the BackdoorPilot ''Trek'' episode "Assignment: Earth".
17	** Considering how powerful genies are at bending and reshaping reality, albeit with certain limitations, it might be reasonable to assume they're potentially a weaker offshoot of the Q Continuum, or possibly a [[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Douwd Douwd]] which has similar abilities.
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19	[[WMG:''Lost in Space'' is the future of the ''I Dream of Jeannie'' universe.]]
20	In ''Series/LostInSpace'' it's made clear that magic and technology exist side by side on many planets. Many beings live for hundreds of years. Genies and other beings such as ghosts, dragons and viking deities meet the Space Family Robinson. NASA is explicitly a military organization. Air Force Colonel and psychiatrist Dr. Bellows had a major role in base operations and high security clearance. It's evident this was standard in the space program, as (less justifiably) Space Force Colonel and Psychiatrist Dr. Smith has the same major role and high security clearance.
21	* Doesn't ''Series/LostInSpace'' take place in like 1997, though? That seems like society would have to progress awfully fast...
22	** Star Trek had similar ideas of society rapidly advancing(the Eugenics Wars ended in 1996), sci-fi writers at the time were more hopeful in how fast things were progressing than how things actually ended up.

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