Topic: I Dream of Lum Too

[Lumbeat]

So I was watching this TV station that was showing some of these old 60's TV shows, and the one I happened to catch on this particular evening was I Dream of Jeannie - a 1965 TV situation comedy. 

Looking at the show I was delighted and surprised at how similar the personality of Jeannie is to Lum!  Jeannie is played with sparkling charm and delight by actress Barbara Eden.  You could almost expect to hear Jeannie call her master (Col. Nelson) 'daahlinng' and see her as Lum.  :Y

Of course, it has been mentioned in an Animerica issue that the 1965 TV show may have been a favorite of a very young Rumiko Takahashi when the show was on Japanese television.  Whether that's actually true or not, I don't know.  But Jeannie and her personality certainly could fill in for Lum almost completely and hardly anyone in the Moroboshi family would probably notice (except for maybe a lusting Ataru).



http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/i-dream-jeannie.htm

[Kroptik]

There's a bit of green missing...
But I guess pics don't show personalities.

Can she fly too?

[Shutaro]

I loved that show, I used to watch it everyday. She was the hotest thing on daytime telly at the time. Oh how i hated Nelson for not appreciating her and generally being a idiot

Considering the number of tributes in UY, I imagine it was based on her just like the starwars and (I flicked frame by frame through the sequence to make sure I was correct) Robotech snipets  B)
I cannot remember any other obvious ones, but im sure there are plenty more.

To answer Kroptik, I dont remember her flying but she did 'blink' and teleport, she can even time travel. She didnt really have much need to actually go anywhere the old fasion way  :D

[Cosmic King]

Ah,the 60s nostalgia,such good programs that spawned one of the best,Urusei Yatsura

[Lumbeat]

When she goes into her Genie bottle she does travel in and out of it as smoke.  She also does levitate occasionally too.  I guess the only reason we haven't seen her flying was because the show was low-budget after all.  But it was popular enough to stay on the air for 5 years. 

[Cosmic King]

If she teleports,then it is no need 2 fly

[cata]

I guess teleport envolves flying... like if a person teleports its like she is flying at a supersonic speed without no one noticing...

[Lumbeat]

Of course if she teleports she doesn't need to fly, but I was just amused at the idea that it was easily due to the style, times, editing and budget.  In TV today (or at least maybe in the movies today) she'd probably be flying among skyscrapers dealing a deadly blow against super-villains in a 100 million CGI matrix-type movie.

And that would probably be just the sequel.

[Cosmic King]

Which reminds me,what was the end of this 60s sitcom,lumbeat?

[Lumbeat]

I've never seen the ending.  But then I've also never seen the last Lum TV episode.

[Cosmic King]

Hmm,well if u want some screenshots of such episode,tell Forgotten Lum or me to provide you some of them,what i can say 2 ya is that the final tv episode gathers many old and new UY faces

[Lumbeat]

Could use a good Lum Avatar.  Or maybe Sakura?

[Cosmic King]

Allow me to give ya one,here i give ya some lum options,dont worry about size a lot,the pic will be altered to fit eventually 

[Lumbeat]

I love that one with the bazooka.:Y

But I could use the top one. Too bad it's cropped (she's too far over to the right).  I would love to use something like that one.  I'm going to download it and see what I can make of it.

*Edit* My mistake. It looked cropped because of my display setting.  The image looks fine. ^O^

Later and thanks!

[janus]

the last one is very kawaii :D love it!