Sneeze the Day

Sneeze the Day
Season 2, Episode 10
Air date	September 24, 1994
Written by	Bill Motz and Bob Roth
Directed by	Rob LaDuca
Episode guide
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Summary

Genie accidentally gets infected with a magical cold that causes his magic to go out of control every time he sneezes, so Aladdin and Iago go after the Orb of Machana in hopes of curing him before Genie can do too much damage.

Plot

After stopping Amin Damoola from stealing a diamond, Genie gets covered with guava juice, which causes him to catch a cold. Aladdin tells him that the cold isn't as bad as he thinks it is, but Genie is still concerned, since he warns Aladdin that Genie magic goes rampant when they catch colds. Sure enough, at the palace garden, Genie's magical cold goes out of control and puts everyone at risk.

Iago tells Aladdin that they have to go after the Orb of Machana to cure Genie. So the two get on Carpet and go to the Cavern of Machana. Aladdin, Iago, and Carpet first run into a giant crocodilian monster named Machana, who makes Aladdin stick out his tongue and touch his forehead. Then, they run into a giant spider version of Machana with a human head, who puts a sword in one of three baskets and shuffles them to make Aladdin pick the right one. Then, they get to a griffin version of Machana, who gives them a riddle about saving them the trouble they are going to in order to get the orb.

After Aladdin gets the answer right by saying they should have stayed home, a tiny door in the griffin opens and the true form of Machana crawls out - a tiny blue bug. he gives them the Orb and they leave, after which Machana goes into a secret room filled with orbs, and complains that he'll never be able to get rid of them all at this rate.

Back at the palace, Genie's sneezing causes more trouble. Once sneeze turns Jasmine's necklace into a Snake, another turns the snake into a fire breathing dragon and a third gives it another head. As Jasmine, Genie and Abu are chased out into the palace courtyard, Abu tricks the heads into breathing fire on each other, resulting in their destruction. As Jasmine embraces Abu, Genie disappears. Aladdin, Iago, and Carpet return with the Orb of Machana, but it turns out Genie left a letter that says that he went away so he won't have to cause anymore chaos with his sneezing.

The group goes out to the desert to find Genie. After they find Genie and tell him they have the orb to cure him, Genie's sneezing makes Fashoom, the Al Muddy Sultan and Mechanicles' large mechanical horn beetle appear and attack them. After a fierce battle, Aladdin throws Genie the orb and he swallows it and regains control of his magic to defeat all three of the monsters. After that, Aladdin catches a cold and Genie, with control of his magic regained, doctors him.

Character Debut

• Machana

Trivia

• The title is a play on "seize the day".
• The beginning of this episode is a word-for-word reference to the scene where Aladdin steals a loaf of bread in the 1992 film.
• The challenge with the sword in the basket is also called the shell game, which is, in reality, an unwinnable trick game, since the sword or other object is invariably hidden elsewhere.
• It's unclear how Aladdin caught a cold at the end, though it's possible that he may have simply just gotten the cold from Genie, since Iago said that Genie's cold might well be very contagious.

Goofs

• When Jasmine swats the snake that was her Necklace off of her neck, her headband is brown instead of Blue.
• When Jasmine goes to comfort Genie after swatting the snake off of her neck, her Necklace reappears, then while Genie apologizes, her necklace disappears again and then it reappears when she says "It just startled me." (The "it" being the snake).
• A merchant is seen selling guavas, a fruit native to the Caribbean, and which would have been unknown in the Abbasid Caliphate (750 - 1517 CE).
  • Given other references in the series such as Iago mentioning Kentucky in "Moonlight Madness" and Jasmine mentioning sending a message via telegram in "More Than a Peacock Princess", it's most likely that the Aladdin series takes place at a later time period after the Abbasid Caliphate (750 - 1517 CE).

Trivia

• When Genie leaves to go someplace where he cannot hurt anyone anymore, he leaves a letter that says that Iago can have his golf clubs.
  • Iago remarks: "Pebble Beach here I come!", before trying to act more sympathetic to deter Abu's glare.
  • This is obviously a reference to the golf courses of Pebble Beach, California, namely Pebble Beach Golf Links, Monterey Peninsula Country Club, and Cypress Point Club.
  • However, these three golf courses only opened in the 20th century, the dates being: Pebble Beach Golf Links (February 22, 1919), Monterey Peninsula Country Club (July 2, 1926), and Cypress Point Club (August 11, 1928).
  • Though, Pebble Beach in California was established in the early 19th century, with the name Pebble Beach originally given to a rocky cove and beach strand, a prominent coastal segment of the Rancho Pescadero Mexican land grant that had been awarded to Fabián Barreto in 1836, the area has obviously existed for a long time.