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Barbara Eden on Why Jeannie and Tony Were Never Intimate: "She was an entity"

If she were an entity.

An energy blob that mortal scenes only perceive to be girl shaped...

What about her identical twin sister?

We perceived them to be the same, because from our perspective they were the same blob, and "girl" was just a place holder that kept our mortal brains from exploding.

Or it's Mitosis?

This would imply that only the Genies who looked like Genie were real and and everyone else from fantasy lands in play were an NPC.
 
The Universal Studios theme [park] was or is actually that close to the real studio? I thought that was just the name, and it was nowhere near the real studio.

Nope, like I said, the screams from the ride could be heard through the walls of the set, and were picked up by the mics. :p
 
It made perfect sense to me, it's been a while since I watched it, but from I can remember people's hell was something they created for themselves through their own guilt over what they did.
In other words, the Sandman take.
 
If she were an entity.

An energy blob that mortal scenes only perceive to be girl shaped...

What about her identical twin sister?

We perceived them to be the same, because from our perspective they were the same blob, and "girl" was just a place holder that kept our mortal brains from exploding.

Or it's Mitosis?

This would imply that only the Genies who looked like Genie were real and and everyone else from fantasy lands in play were an NPC.
Is there any real evidence of real evidence of this in the show?
 
"Derwood" ... "DumDum" ... Those were a couple of Endora's choice insults for Darrin.
She also referred to him as a "nothing" or "Mortal nothing", among a boatload of other insults about his appearance, career, manhood, intellect, etc. She was quite ruthless in her verbal lashings of Darrin.
 
I mean, from our perspective, it's like being the mother of an intelligent, independent girl who moved in the best circles of society and had a great future ahead of her, who ended up as a tradwife in a Luddite redneck village, and whose husband openly despises the community and way of life she comes from.

Of course, Samantha can endlessly repeat that it was her choice and that she truly loves Darrin (something any braiwashed cult member would say), but it's understandable why Endora is at least a little annoyed.

Agreed, though, that her approach is the worst. Treating her husband this way only risks alienating her daughter. But from her perspective, she's perfectly justified in her behavior.

PS. And they burned withes when Samantha and Endora where already adults, so for them is a fresh memory!
 
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PS. And they burned withes when Samantha and Endora where already adults, so for them is a fresh memory!

In the American colonies, witches were hanged rather than burned, but that's real life. I guess the sitcom universe would conform more to the popular myth.

But yeah, you make a good case about Endora's point of view.
 
In the American colonies, witches were hanged rather than burned, but that's real life. I guess the sitcom universe would conform more to the popular myth.
Yes, I know, I recently worked on an amateur staging of "The Crucible." :)

But it's true that virtually every piece of fiction has depicted the Salem witch hunts ending with burnings. I also imagine that the witch screaming her curses while being burned alive is more visually striking than the (relative) speed of a hanging.
 
But it's true that virtually every piece of fiction has depicted the Salem witch hunts ending with burnings. I also imagine that the witch screaming her curses while being burned alive is more visually striking than the (relative) speed of a hanging.

Yes, and fire is more visually dramatic. Also, a burning scene gives a hero more time to rescue the victim from the flames.
 
Yes, I know, I recently worked on an amateur staging of "The Crucible." :)

But it's true that virtually every piece of fiction has depicted the Salem witch hunts ending with burnings. I also imagine that the witch screaming her curses while being burned alive is more visually striking than the (relative) speed of a hanging.
"I curse you all to *GAK*!!!"
 
I mean, from our perspective, it's like being the mother of an intelligent, independent girl who moved in the best circles of society and had a great future ahead of her, who ended up as a tradwife in a Luddite redneck village, and whose husband openly despises the community and way of life she comes from.

Of course, Samantha can endlessly repeat that it was her choice and that she truly loves Darrin (something any braiwashed cult member would say), but it's understandable why Endora is at least a little annoyed.

Then again, Endora might not be the best judge of what constitutes a good marriage, since she and Maurice have been separated for some time (with Maurice rarely saying anything good about his time with her), and there's no cultural / species difference between them. Further, Endora never considered the opinion of other witches / warlocks who liked Darrin (Uncle Arthur, Aunt Clara or Esmerelda to a point) or tolerated / mocked him (Sirena, Dr. Bombay, et al.), making her almost as narrow-minded as Darrin.
 
Then again, Endora might not be the best judge of what constitutes a good marriage, since she and Maurice have been separated for some time (with Maurice rarely saying anything good about his time with her), and there's no cultural / species difference between them. Further, Endora never considered the opinion of other witches / warlocks who liked Darrin (Uncle Arthur, Aunt Clara or Esmerelda to a point) or tolerated / mocked him (Sirena, Dr. Bombay, et al.), making her almost as narrow-minded as Darrin.
It always surprised me that other witches liked Darrin because he really did look down o them and their culture, they were the embarrassing in-laws to him and he couldn't wait for them to go away.
He married Samantha and expected her to fit into his mortal world but he never made even the slightest attempt to fit into her world. I'm not saying he should have moved to a witch town but did he ever celebrate a witch holiday with Sam or attend any of her family functions?
 
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