The only saving grace for this episode is that I love I Dream of Jeannie and the cast members, Larry Hagman, Barbara Eden, Bill Daily and Hayden Rorke. Otherwise this episode was kind of a cop out. I think the writers and crew just got lazy. It takes place in a Rodeo and most of the footage is stock material. And its far from seamlessly blended in. There's one part where you see stock footage of a rider on horse who's suppose to be Major Nelson, then you see the actual Nelson jumping up and down on a trampoline, it was not spliced well. But I can forgive all of that and suspend disbelief except for the ending. They literally took the ending from a prior episode and tacked it on at the end of this one. It made no sense in continuity because Major Nelson is supposed to go out with Jeannie but in this ending borrowed from a previous episode, he's getting dressed to go out with another woman.
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Worst episode ever.
dlindstrom10 January 2018
Looks like they ran of time or someone was sick. The story doesn't make any sense, the footage from a real rodeo is cut in and superimposed and you'll see much more rodeo that I Dream of Jeannie. The plot really doesn't make sense -- nothing they say the beginning of the episode has any bearing on what happens afterwards.
Rodeo queen
kevinolzak29 October 2016
"Ride 'Em Astronaut" opens with Jeannie trying to shop inconspicuously, only to become queen of the Cocoa Beach Rodeo by becoming the one millionth customer. Any attempt to refuse is defused by the greedy Roger, who even gives out Major Nelson's address as hers, hoping to claim some of the prizes for himself. This actually coincides with Dr. Bellows's coercion of Tony to participate in the rodeo himself as 'The Pinto Kid,' which he does alongside Roger's clown. Things go exactly as one would sadly expect. Poorly scripted and badly shot in the cheapest, most economical way. At least John Myhers gets some mileage in his announcer role.
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