Nobody Loves a Fat Astronaut | |
Season Four, Episode 22 Number (#109) in series (139 episodes) | |
Air date | 17 March 1969 |
Production code | 4.22 |
Written by | Christopher Golato |
Directed by | Claudio Guzmán |
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Nobody Loves a Fat Astronaut is the twenty-second episode of Season 4 of I Dream of Jeannie, and the 109th overall episode of the series. The episode, which was written by Christopher Golato and directed by Claudio Guzmán, first aired on NBC-TV on 17 March 1969.
Summary[]
Just after Jeannie kisses Tony goodbye, her sister appears on the doorstep and changes into Jeannie's identical clothes. Her sister convinces Jeannie that she may not get Tony back from the moon, then after she's gone says, "Once a sucker, always a sucker." Jeannie tries to warn Tony but fails, so her sister takes on the job herself. She hopes to split up Tony and Jeannie by convincing Dr. Bellows that Tony is mentally unfit to go into orbit by making him experience loud noises such as machine gun fire and the illusion of a train coming straight for him. Jeannie's sister thinks she's succeeded but Jeannie returns and finds her in their house. Jeannie's sister increases Tony's weight three hundred pounds by tricking him into swallowing a tablet which is supposed to be slimming, so he's too big to get through the door. Dr. Bellows sees his enormous weight and fetches General Peterson, but by then Tony and Roger have convinced her to restore his normal weight and forced her into a cupboard. General Peterson then orders Dr. Bellows to his office. Roger emerges from the cupboard as big as Tony was before.
Goofs[]
- It's not clear how Tony and Roger worked out that it was Jeannie's sister behind the whole thing, as they didn't know she was around until the scene where she's in her usual clothes. At all other times when they saw her, she was either in clothes like Jeannie or in uniform.
- When Roger emerges from the cupboard, he has increased in weight similar to Tony a moment ago, but Tony had to swallow a tablet to increase weight that much.
- When big Tony stepped on to the scales, they exploded leaving pieces on the floor. However, when Dr. Bellows and General Peterson arrive it's completely disappeared.