I Wasn’t Sneezing Achoo

 is episode 1A of Bob in a Bottle.

Synopsis
Joey Carter sits at a bridge tearing up his homework and tossing it into a river due to low scores, accusing his teacher Miss Green of changing the answers. As he walks home, he kicks a rock in anger which knocks the mean bulldog Tilly on the head and bruising him. Joey tries to sneak away but is chased by Tilly; but escapes in time due to a faulty fence board.

At home, Joey thinks to himself, interrupted by the voice of his mom coming up to check his math work. He sneaks away into the closet in his room, and climbs up a ladder he discovers before she can find him. He continues to find a trapdoor leading to the attic he was unaware of. A mouse knocks a down a clock that is stored high up, which startles Joey and causes him to back up, leading to a dusty carpet getting knocked down, and kicking up a huge amount of dust, which causes Joey to sneeze. As Joey is about to sneeze, a strange looking bottle magically spins towards his direction and follows him. Joey hides under a bed and lets out the sneeze, causing the bottle to react by pulsating, releasing a puff of smoke, and flashing lightning around, which causes more items in the attic to fall.

After it settles, Joey notices the presence of a strange and large man who wasn't there before. Bob introduces himself, but Joey stays hidden, leading to Bob wondering where he is. Bob smells cookies Joey had and goes to eat one, which is when Joey comes out and tells Bob to leave his cookies alone. Bob has a bizarre reaction to the cookies and takes out a water pump which he pumps into his mouth. Joey wonders if he's a magician, and Bob explains that he's a genie who will fulfill Joey's wishes, and that he comes out of the bottle if someone sneezes and can be ordered around by them. Joey asks Bob to turn the attic into a secret hideout, and Bob insists that it be a secret palace. Joey says that a little dusting would be fine, but Bob is persistent with his idea. He dumps building blocks out of his bag and Joey doubts his ability to turn them into a palace. Bob builds it, and waves his hands around and casts a spell on the palace, causing it to grow exponentially in size and burst out of the ceiling. Joey criticizes Bob's trick, saying that he wanted a hideout and not "an office building". A lone block rolls towards Bob, and it turns out due to leaving it out, that's where it went wrong. A rat gets it's tail unstuck from a row of blocks, and everything begins to fall apart. Afterwards, the attic is back to normal.

Joey calls Bob a show-off, and Bob requests a 2nd chance to prove he is a great genie. Joey gets the idea to get his revenge on Tilly, and explains the situation to Bob. He invites Joey onto his magic carpet to travel to the dog. As the carpet rises into the air, Joey falls backwards and clings onto the carpet (but as they travel across rooftops Joey is properly seated on the carpet). Soon after, Half of the carpet gets stuck on a sharp object, and it takes Bob a moment to process. He comes back to sew the ripped half together, but accidentally sews Joey into the carpet as well. They make it to where Tilly lives, and Bob fishes him up with a bone. Bob says they should just put a "collar" on Tilly and leave him on a pole, while Joey warns Bob about how nasty Tilly is. Bob, without heeding Joey's warning, flicks Tilly on the nose and he bites Bob's arm, leading to a scuffle on the magic carpet that leaves most of it in scraps. Afterwards, they all fall into the house of Tilly's owner.

Tilly warns his owner about "thieves" and he awakens and grabs a sniper rifle. Joey then holds the bulldog under an animal hide. Because the owner is coming down the hall, Bob comes up with the idea to make a painting of a bathroom to trick Tilly's owner and make him go away. But it backfires, leading to Tilly's owner trying to go into the "bathroom" and bursting his head through the painting. Bob quickly paints a jungle scene on the owners glasses, and he thinks he is in the jungle. He sees Tilly trapped under a Tiger hide, and believes that there is a tiger in his house and proceeds to chase him around. After the hide gets knocked off of him, Tilly gestures to Bob for help, who instead paints tiger stripes on him. Tilly's owner unknowingly corners his own dog with the sniper, and Bob has remorse for the dog, and replaces his sniper with a gun that instead blows up in his face instead of shooting.

Joey mocks Tilly for having been "scared straight" asking if his bad manners have been fixed, and slaps him on the back. The soot coming off of Tilly causes Joey to sneeze again, sending Bob all the way back to the bottle in the attic. Joey is unaware of where Bob went, and Tilly's owner doesn't believe him about coming there with a genie from a bottle, even claiming that his dog doesn't believe it either. Tilly bites Joey which causes him to yelp in pain, and he chases Joey throughout the neighborhood in the night while Joey calls out for Bob's help.

Known Edits

 * The cookies that Bob was lured over to was originally hamburg steak; His odd reaction to the snack was originally because it was really spicy.
 * The "collar" Bob suggested putting on Tilly is actually a noose. In the original version, Bob suggested hanging the dog, but Joey thought that was too brutal.
 * The shot of Tilly's owner closing in on him was shortened to have less of the gun, and the following shot with Bob and Joey behind a knight statue was cut to the camera already focused on them, as it panned up in the original version.