Hairy-palmed nerds the world over, rejoice! Your shameful fantasy girl Paris Hilton (we like her early, funny work) will be portraying your dad's rather chaste fantasy girl, Barbara Eden from I Dream of Jeannie, in an up-coming episode of NBC's American Dreams.

Stunt-casting has never been so... well, stunted.

We were under the impression that the Dick Clark-produced show was a family friendly rebuke to the coarsening of network TV, but what the fuck do we know, right?

We assume Paris did it as a larf, and besides, she's probably a big fan of Dick.

PARIS IN A BOTTLE [NYP]
American Dreams [NBC]
I Dream of Jeannie [Sony]

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