Saturday, April 05, 2008

I Dream of Jeannie: What House Across the Street? (1965) (TV)

Synopsis [spoilers]: Tony is still being harassed by Jeannie's insistence on getting married. This time she pretends to accept Roger's marriage proposal, in the hopes of making Tony jealous. Roger begins to worry about never having seen Jeannie's parents and never having been to her house. Jeannie summons her mother, who helps her to stage a sham for Roger. Jeannie magically brings into existence a house on the vacant lot across the street from Tony's house. She also fabricates phony parents, fashioned after characters from TV commercials (her real mother is made to pass off as the maid). Dr. Bellows, by an unfortunate coincidence, has just bought the vacant lot where her magical house is; every time he is in the neighborhood, Jeannie has to make the house disappear, with funny consequences for those inside it. Jeannie's phony parents also talk like TV commercials, much to Roger's discomfort.

(Saw it dubbed in Portuguese.)

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