| 11-06-1965 | "The Americanization of Jeannie" |
Whereas Jeannie tended to be on the wholesome, naive and too good-to-be-true side, this episode features her being avaricious and manipulative (Which her Bad Sister would later incarnate as... )
She wants to be an American Girl and an American Girl wants fancy clothes and expensive perfume...
Tony doesn't think it's right since she didn't pay for them, so she uses not Genie but Natural Feminine Magic to turn Tony's head around...
Utterly beguiling him by enticing him to smell her perfume...
"Yes Jeannie, you can keep whatever you want... "
"That's
a good master...
"
Obviously the producers realized the dynamic of the series would irrevocably spin towards Female Dominance if they allowed Jeannie to exhibit such Feminine Wiles, wrapping Tony around her finger, making her the Master and he the slave, so few scenes such as this ever surfaced through the series run... In the Bad Sister, this tendency for a Magical Beautiful WOman to completely overwhelm a human male would be portrayed in an excessive, cartoonish manner...
Tania Lemani in one of her many Belly Dancer appearances of 60s TV...
Tony getting teased in public and then goes home to get teased in private... This is how an astronaut can go into orbit without being in a space capsule....
