October 07, 2004
I Dream of Jeannie
Late sixties sitcom about the wacky hijinks that ensue when Astronaut Major Nelson stumbles across Jeannie (Barbara Eden, whose last acting role was shilling cookies on 30 second spots on daytime TV), a genie imprisoned in a lamp. Nelson and the (surprisingly white) Arabian spirit hit it off and eventually marry. In an effort to keep Jeannie's magical powers out of the hands of the air force Nelson engages, on a weekly basis, in a series of ever more farcical deceptions resulting, as with any lie to a large government agency, in all sorts of benign shenanigans.
The epiphany here is that I Dream of Jeannie seems to be the template for every "Romance" or "Comedy" anime in the last 40 years. While American entertainment has moved onward and upwards, (or downward, depending on your perspective. It’s changed at least) Japanese entertainment has been stuck cycling through ever more bizarre permutations of Barbara Eden.
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