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Sarene Leeds\u00a0<\/b>and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>present 11 Magical Facts About I Dream of Jeannie<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 1. BARBARA EDEN DIDN\u2019T LIKE THAT JEANNIE AND TONY NELSON GOT MARRIED.<\/span><\/strong> In an interview with the Today<\/em> show\u2019s Willie Geist earlier this year (video above), Eden made no bones about her feelings regarding the Nelson marriage: \u201cIt ruined the show,\u201d she said. \u201cBecause [Jeannie] wasn\u2019t human \u2026 She thought she was, and [Tony] knew she wasn\u2019t \u2026 I think it broke credibility.\u201d<\/p>\n 2. THE FAMILIAR-SOUNDING JEANNIE THEME SONG DIDN\u2019T EXIST UNTIL THE SECOND SEASON. 8. I DREAM OF JEANNIE<\/em> HAD A FUN LITTLE CONNECTION WITH FELLOW NBC SITCOM THE MONKEES<\/em>. The following year, in the Jeannie<\/em> episode \u201cJeannie, the Hip Hippie\u201d (see above), Jeannie puts together a rock band featuring Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, who penned some of The Monkees\u2019 most famous songs. At one point, an instrumental version of one of the duo\u2019s biggest hits for the band, \u201cLast Train to Clarksville,\u201d can be heard. Plus, Hart is holding a copy of The Monkees\u2019 first album in one scene.<\/p>\n \n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sarene Leeds\u00a0and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 11 Magical Facts About I Dream of Jeannie.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 1. BARBARA EDEN DIDN\u2019T<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-trivia","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13848,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846\/revisions\/13848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nThe palpable sexual tension between Hagman\u2019s astronaut character and the mischievous genie who lived under the same roof<\/i> for the first four seasons of the series was what kept the series exciting\u2014the objectification of Eden\u2019s character notwithstanding. Here was a midriff-baring beauty, willing and able to fulfill her master\u2019s every wish and command, and he still managed to keep her out of his bedroom for most of Jeannie<\/i>\u2019s run. By 1969, the sexual revolution was well under way, and it was time for Tony and Jeannie to get together. Except, as we all know, that kind of creative decision usually sounds the death knell for a TV show, and\u00a0I Dream of Jeannie<\/em> was no different. The characters tied the knot during the 1969-1970 season, which ended up being the series\u2019 last.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/strong>You know the tune: Matthew Broderick did an unforgettable 12-second dance to it in Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off<\/em>. <\/i>But the bouncy riff that will always be synonymous with\u00a0I Dream of Jeannie\u00a0<\/em>didn\u2019t first appear until the series\u2019 second season, when a new, in-color animated opening sequence was introduced. The first season, which was filmed in black and white, tried a couple of different openers: First there was the expository one that brought the audience up to speed on how Jeannie and Tony met; eventually, the exposition was dropped for this jazzy, albeit abbreviated, animated sequence.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/strong>While The Monkees<\/em> only lasted two seasons, it had a sweet brother-sister-type relationship with\u00a0I Dream of Jeannie<\/em> while it was on the air, as they were both on NBC and shared the same music supervisor, Don Kirshner. About midway through the fall 1966, in\u00a0The Monkees<\/em> episode \u201cThe Spy Who Came in From the Cool,\u201d Davy Jones rubs a small table lamp (see above video, 14:10). In true Jeannie <\/i>fashion, a beautiful harem-costumed genie (not Barbara Eden) emerges from a puff of smoke and assures her \u201cmaster\u201d that she will help him. A bemused Jones remarks, \u201cImagine that\u2014wrong show!\u201d<\/p>\n