Why Are Genies Kept In Lamps?

[The name master]

Why were big blue guys that sing songs about friendship imprisoned in lamps? And why lamps of all random things?

I guess it's because there's big red guys that sing songs about how much you suck!

[The Hooded Trainer]

Well, a solid ten minutes of googling has told me the idea comes from arabian nights, which is perhaps unsurprising. The story of aladdin was in fact the first tale to include a lamp, but there were others that included genies (or jinnis, apparently what theyre called there) in brass objects and stuff.

[The name master]

Is there a reason why lamps were specifically chosen?

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Story plot. Lamps were important item back then and lit for light. In the original Aladdin, he accidentally rubbed the lamp while trapped in the cave and a genie came out of it. His mother then tried to clean the lamp because it was dirty and when she rubbed it, a different genie popped out. Objects can have multiple genies in them but they only answer to one master. Aladdin also had a ring that contained another genie who took him to the palace and the princess and lamp after they were taken away and transported to another place.

[SirBlaziken]

The real question is why aren't we all kept in lamps

[Petzbreeder]

why aren't we all kept in lamps

Itty bitty living space!

Seriously though, would you want to be stuck inside a lamp for years?

TEN THOUSAND YEARS can give you such a crick in the neck!

[SirBlaziken]

10 points to gryffendor for that reference. rip robin williams

[The name master]

Who wouldn't want phenomenal cosmic powers?

Seriously though, would you want to be stuck inside a lamp for years?

TEN THOUSAND YEARS can give you such a crick in the neck!

Never fails! You get in the bath, and there's a rub at the lamp!

The genie's been in the lamp for OVER 9000!!!

[Pam-the-Lamb]

 It's because genies are lit

Heyoooooo

*flips bottle and it lands at an angle*

*loudly hollers at nobody in particular*

*dabs repeatedly*

[SaRo|Rapidash]

Maybe because a brass lamp is one of the least impressive treasures in a cave full of gold, so it's like a diamond in the rough in the same way Aladdin is? Still seems a  bit random tho lmao

gryffendor

And I think Gryffindor just lost their 10 points again /s

[The name master]

I just remembered how Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land had a genie and a lamp in it. Just saying.