If it wasn't for Jeannie leaving after Tony said he would never marry her, would he have ever actually done it? He only realized he really loved her and had to have her once she left. He had a chance to miss her. If she never would had left, would he still have marred her?
Lifes a gift and I don't intend on wasting it!
Why buy the cow if you can get the milk for free.
Seriously though, I would like to think that Tony and Jeannie would've married at some point even if the show runners didn't want them married. (Executive meddling imposed the marriage decree on the relationship.)
I understand that marriage doesn't validate love or make it better. Many people are married with no love in their relationship. And there are many people in profound loving relationships that aren't married.
Nonetheless, I feel the series would've felt incomplete without Tony and Jeannie making their relationship official.
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You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra
Exactly lol, I would hope they still would have let them get married at some point too.
Lifes a gift and I don't intend on wasting it!
Nah Tony was just as much in love with Jeannie as she was with him. Do you know how many times Jeannie did leave him? He always started calling for her, apologzing and begging her to come back. But she always came back.
He got use to the fact that she would come back. Anyway, I think he would have eventually married her. He was ready to do it before when he thought she didn’t have her powers anymore. It was just her powers that go in the way of his decision. He was just too worried about his reputation. I definitely don’t think he would have kept her a secret forever.
Damn the man, Save the Empire!
Nah Tony was just as much in love with Jeannie as she was with him. Do you know how many times Jeannie did leave him? He always started calling for her, apologzing and begging her to come back. But she always came back.
He got use to the fact that she would come back. Anyway, I think he would have eventually married her. He was ready to do it before when he thought she didn’t have her powers anymore. It was just her powers that go in the way of his decision
I see you haven't watched Season 5, episode #124 yet.
Donna
Me?
I know they get married. I was just answering her question that yes he would have eventually married Jeannie even if she hadn't left him like that.
When Jeannie blinks them back home she tells Tony that they do not have to get married and she will be a good Jeannie. Tony could have taken that and ran with it. He could have been like great I have her BACK and don't have to get married.
All she wanted to know was that he loved her. She would have still waited on him, but Tony was ready.
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I though this was a good question to ask...
I don't know how many times someone said something eluding to marriage or something... and then boom!! she blinks in a priest and a wedding gown!!!
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I was wondering that, too! Because that's a lot of different wedding dresses that the costume department had to come up with. Did she wear any twice? You'd really almost have to view every episode in its entirety and count them, because those scenes were usually very short in duration, so relying on memory of an episode may not be the most reliable way to count (for me anyway; plus I would want to be sure).
shareThey do get married on season 5.
shareYeah of course, watching the show i always felt that he loved her early on but couldn't get past 3 things -
not being ready for marriage.
Her being a genie and their children.
His daily nervous breakdowns.
Let's face it, Tony was always on edge, Jeannie was a disaster zone. He said early on he wasn't ready for marriage, he also told her numerous times that he was crazy about her but he's an astronaut and she's a genie and it just couldn't work. Lastly he spelled it out to her that she was giving him daily nervous breakdowns.
After time, he just didn't care anymore. he was older, she'd been with him 5 years and he was used to the meddling. I don't even think the marriage had to do with him being in love. Every season there was an episode where Jeannie's in danger, they have a fight and she leaves and he pines and begs her to come back and confesses his feelings.
When she was in Roger's safe in season 1 he told her he loved her. He told the moon safe the same thing in season 3. He also tells Jeannie in her bottle that she knows how he feels about her. He tells the general he's crazy about her, Roger knows how he feels, he gets jealous and possessive etc. I just think Tony could be so caught up in the next Jeannie disaster that he didn't have time for reflection until the disaster's stopped happening (Jeannie leaves).
In S2 he wants to marry her as soon as he realized she'd stop being a genie and be a normal housewife. I think Tony just wanted a quiet life with stability for someone in his field and of his personality. Jeannie was the complete opposite of the straight laced Tony. After a while you see Tony confess to Jeannie that he does enjoy and like some of the disasters she creates. By the end, and him being away from her he realized that the disasters she created were worth it as long as she was his.
There was strict censorship in the 60's but Jeannie got away with a lot. They were unmarried and constantly touchy feely and lip locking. To me they were practically married.
The show runners used the premise of the female being a genie [therefore not a "real" woman] as a loophole to have a series about a romantically involved couple living together.
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You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra
The show runners used the premise of the female being a genie [therefore not a "real" woman] as a loophole to have a series about a romantically involved couple living together.
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You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra
Of course, his nervous breakdowns usually stemmed from some circumstance surrounding the fact that he was trying to hide her from everyone. Getting married made things actually less complicated, to some extant.; no hiding from the bellows, the neighbors, etc.
"I told you a million times not to talk to me when I'm doing my lashes"!