Boys will not stay boys forever.

This post dates back to the good old childhood days when school used to be fun and telivision used to be heaven. Back in those days one of my favourite shows on the idiot box used to be “I dream of Jeanie”, a television show that ran during the period 65-70. It could be said that I used to be crazy about that show. Skipping cricket to watch it, that outta explain the craziness to some extent. Its basically the story of the ‘troubles’ of a astronaut due to a female “Djinn” named as Jeanie. The irony of the show lies in the fact that the astronaut resuces her frm her long stay of 2000 years in her bottle. Jeanie’s primary goal is to please her master but due to the lack of experience and due to ignorance about the modern age ends up bringing trouble for him. It also incudes her master’s best friend and the psychologist of the base where her master is stationed at.

The show mainly focuses on Jeanie’s love(obsession) for her master and his reluctance in marrying a Djinn. The main areas where comedy has been included are Jeanie’s ignorance, the situations her master has to go through due to her and the plight of the psychologist who is constantly subjected to the shock of witnessing most of the aftermaths of Jeanie’s doings. It also involves Jeanie and her master taking trips to the past and getting involved in some major events of the past including Napolean’s decision of trying to conquer Russia ;). It also involves the psychologist witnessing weird things such as, a elephant, a tiger, a jail and other such things in the astronauts house and oddly enough had to go through a snow storm in Florida, in the middle of July and over only 1 house. It also sports a love angle where Jeanie is in love with her master and as a result is jealous about him going out with other girls. The main problem fun begins when she tries to PROTECT him frm other girls in her own way.

The good old days(Age 12) used to be filled with my wishing for a Jeanie of my own for the primary goal of finishing my homework and stuff. Though most of the dialogues used to be greek and latin for me, it still used to be funny based purely on my visual understandingof the show. Frankly it wouldnt had much of a difference even if the show were to air in German or some other language for that matter. The boring part used to be all the conversations.

Then  arrives the age of action(Age 15-18), in other terms the Arnie fever. Though the show had stopped airing I couldnt wonder about the things that I would be wishing for if I were to get hold of my very own Jeanie. It typically used to be guns, rockets(no missiles. I was still ignorant to the concept of missiles.), wars, snipers and replacing my life with the life of John Rambo ;).

Now when I get reacquainted with the series, the period when I can understand what the characters keep babling about, I finally discover how funny the show really was. The frequent references to historical figures like Omar khayam as Jeanies friends, the real reasons why her master doesnt like it when he receives original peices of art frm Jeanie and many other things. But unfortunately now when the laughs end I cant keep my mind of the inconsistences in the script of the show. Apart frm them a lot of scientifical aspects about the life of a astronaut and other things in general.

I guess thers a time for everything. Though U dont understand everything and for the most part are ignorant there a lot of things that are enjoyable when Ur kids that might  turnup to be boring of CHILDISH when U growup. And again we reach to the conclusion that education spoils us ;).

Ps :- For people interested in the series, it is out on DVD and my peers Saini@CSL roxs ;).