Who is the "I" in "I Dream of Jeannie"?
Used to watch this show as a kid in the 1980s, when I stayed home from school (it was broadcast each weekday on a second-tier network, like a lot of sitcoms from earlier decades).
Thinking about it recently, and wondering specifically about the title -- to whom does the "I" in "I Dream of Jeannie" refer?
Best Answer
The "I" does not refer to any specific in-show character. The show takes its name from the opening line of the Stephen Foster song Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, from 1854:
The opening line notably got used as the basis for the title of the TV series I Dream of Jeannie.
Here it is on Youtube.
The opening line is "I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair."
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