The Jetsons
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The Jetsons is an American sitcom that was produced by Hanna-Barbera and created by the studio's founders William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The show aired in primetime and lasted for two years from 1962 to 1963 before getting a revival that ran from 1985 to 1987, a few years before the release of its feature film Jetsonsː The Movie. The show revolves around a family living in the fictional Orbit City.
Synopsis
The Jetsons are a family residing in Orbit City. The city's architecture is rendered in the Googie style and all homes and businesses are raised high above the ground on adjustable columns. George Jetson lives with his family in the Skypad Apartments: his wife Jane is a homemaker, their teenage daughter Judy attends Orbit High School, and their son Elroy attends Little Dipper School.
Housekeeping is seen to by a robot maid named Rosie which handles chores not otherwise rendered trivial by the home's numerous push-button Age-envisioned conveniences. The family has a dog named Astro that talks with an initial consonant mutation in which every word begins with an "R", as if speaking with a growl; a similar effect would also be used for Scooby-Doo.
Why It's Eep Opp Ork Ah Ah!
- The concept of a family living in the future is really interesting as we previously had the stone age with The Flintstones.
- Great voice acting from George O'Hanlon as George Jetson and the Scooby Doo (another Hanna Barbera show) cast Frank Welker and Don Messick (Fred Jones and the titular character of Scooby Doo).
- Brilliant animation for Hanna-Barbera standards. It got even better in the 80s revival, with John Kricfalusi (The creator behind The Ren & Stimpy Show) supervising the layouts in Taipei, Taiwan.
- The Jetsons' youngest son, Elroy, is cute and sometimes hilarious. So is the dog, Astro.
- Speaking of Astro, he is similar to Scooby-Doo, as he pronounces letters with an "r". Even better, both of them share the same voice of Don Messickǃ
- Lots of funny moments such as the running gag in the intro where Jane always takes George's money.
- The majority of the characters in the show have their own personalities and creativity.
- The music (including the theme song) are very, very catchy to listen to. It even became a pop hit in 1986ǃ
- Fast and nice pacing.
- The 1980s revival is a great way to bring back the series.
- The series spawned four great feature films such as: the crossover film with The Flintstones The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones in 1987 the same year when the show ended, The Jetsons: Father and Son Day in 2001, The Jetsons: The Best Son in 2002 one year after the Father and Son Day movie and The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania! in 2017 which is a great crossover between The Jetsons and WWE.
Bad Qualities
- It received a movie in 1990 titled Jetsons: The Movie, which is not so good and ended up to being the last Jetson media until 2001.
- While the animation in the original 60s series got its efforts, it didn't age well as there are still a lot of animation errors and unfinished movements on characters' bodies. For example: sometimes a character has a wrong colored body part or some proportions could be incoerent or even odd, luckily the 80s revival fixed those errors.
- Orbitty is an annoying character that debuted in the second season and he was so hated that he got removed in the third and final season, as another case of a creator's pest.
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Trivia
- Morey Amsterdam and Pat Carrol filed a lawsuit against Hanna-Barbera for breach of contract, confirming that they had been cast and signed to the roles of George Jetson and Jane Jetson, but never got the roles. The lawsuit ended in 1965.
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Comments
- Hanna-Barbera cartoons
- Cartoon Network shows
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- 1980s programs
- 1960s media
- 1980s media
- Animated sitcoms
- Comedy shows
- Shows with good morals
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- Syndicated programs
- Revived shows
- Cartoon Network/Adult Swim shows
- Traditional animation shows
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