 Corey, an average California teenager, finds an unusual-looking bottle on the beach while surfing. He opens it, and a beautiful genie named Jeannie emerges. Her bumbling, corpulent sidekick genie Babu also emerges, and the two become Corey s servants. Most of the show s plots found Corey trying to live a normal teenager s life, while keeping the genies  identities secret, and teaming up with Jeannie to repair the damages caused by Babu s bungling.