isn't Major Healey Gay? he is? fackin' AWESOME!

all i ever wanted from jeannie was a million bucks but she wouldn't give it to me.

Yes, Doctor Bellowes was archtypal gay Doctor invading your personal life... but then, if Major Nelson was not hitting on that \m/ then he was most certainly gay too. If DB was trying to get inside MN's head, then it couldn't be to out him if he were already gay too. Therefore, DB must have been Quaker. MN could have been celibate, which means, as everyone knows, Mormon. What's that make Jeannie? Islamic, of course, you idiot. And what of MH? Presbyterian, moron.

Now, as I see it, you gots yer Gay Healey covering for his friend because he all too well knows what it means to have his sexual orientation declared illegal (by the military) and deviant (by society) and inverted/imbalanced (by the DSM III), so he has a compulsion to protect MN at the risk of his own career. Think what a little blackmail could do.

By today's standards, an Air Force test pilot and astronaut couldn't have found himself living with anyone worse: some traditional Islamic chick with Djinn friends (read terrorists). DB was married, which explains why everything seemed so "odd" about MN: uber-sexy yet unmarried, highly paid and respected yet nervous and fidgety, suspiciously lacking a bevy of girlfriends, any friends for that matter. All the time, Jeannie running around in Fredericks's of Hollywood outfits.

And what about Jeannie? Was her father too strict? Was the sight of all those Wahabi beheadings too much for the lass? Does magic increase libido. And what was in that smoke always rising from the bottle? Was it a hippie jar? A hash stash? Or could she have been the Persia's answer to Mata Hari? She was just a little too willing to please "master."

I have tried not to covet my neighbor's slave and maidservant, but I did. Jeannie, the ultimate girl on the side, loaded with magic and wish-fulfillment, bustin out all over da place... what's up wit dat? And all MN wanted to do was keep her secret.

Secrets. That's the real issue. People, people, people. Let's not keep secrets. It only hurts Jeannie.

This would all make sense if not for the fact that the series ended with MN & J's interfaith marriage and pregnancy. The In-Laws made more sense.