Back on Earth, Gary cancelled the show anyway (budget cuts). But Jeannie didn’t mind. She’d found a new bottle: a mini-fridge in the CTV greenroom, stocked with butter tarts and a note that read, “To the next dreamer—please don’t turn the camera crew into beavers.”
The cast and crew were losing their minds. But the clip went viral on CTV’s social media: “Jeannie Meets the Leafs” (she’d turned the hockey team into dancing palm trees). i dream of jeannie ctv
Jeannie blinked. One moment, she was nodding off inside her cozy, turquoise-scented bottle. The next, she was standing on a soundstage in Toronto, staring at a massive CTV logo and a dozen baffled crew members. Back on Earth, Gary cancelled the show anyway (budget cuts)
Jeannie tried to help. When the lead actor (playing “New Tony”) complained his lines were too boring, she poofed him onto a dogsled racing down Yonge Street. When ratings dipped, she magically inserted Don Cherry into every scene, wearing a sequined genie vest. But the clip went viral on CTV’s social
“Blink again,” Gary said, exasperated, as Jeannie accidentally turned the craft services table into a flock of Canada geese. “No—stop actually summoning geese! We have union rules about wildlife.”