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Happy Birthday George Jetson today

drizzellla — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 23:01:50 GMT

George Joesph Jetson (born July 31, 2022) is a fictional character and the 40-year-old father of the Jetson family in 2062. He is the husband of Jane Jetson and the father of teenage daughter Judy and elementary school aged son Elroy.

George resides with his family in the Skypad Apartments in Orbit City, in a future with the trappings of science fantasy depictions of American life in the future, such as robot servants, flying saucer-like cars, and moving sidewalks. All the apartment buildings are set on giant poles, resembling Seattle's Space Needle; the ground is almost never seen,though in Jetsons: The Movie, it is suggested that the earth is extremely polluted, thus everyone lives in the sky.

Re: Happy Birthday George Jetson today

bmorechick — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 23:47:45 GMT

This was my absolute favorite program as a kid. Don't forget their dog, Astro and Rosie the robot housekeeper! We always asked my mom if we would ever be able to talk to people on a tv!!! She would say ohhh maybe one day.

Re: Happy Birthday George Jetson today

on the bay — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 01:34:38 GMT

I loved that show!

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beach-mom — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 01:46:52 GMT

I loved this show! I heard this driving home from the airport today. I still remember sitting on the floor in front of the TV to watch it.

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meallen616 — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 08:41:06 GMT

Re: Happy Birthday George Jetson today

AngelPuppy1 — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 10:35:13 GMT

That's amazing! This was one of two of my favorite shows as a young one. The other one was Rocky and Bullwinkle. I loved the Fractured Fairytales! They don't make 'em like these any more, kids!!!!

Re: Happy Birthday George Jetson today

haddon9 — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 11:13:49 GMT

Too funny!

Re: Happy Birthday George Jetson today

Jordan2 — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 12:40:01 GMT

As a child I loved watching both The Jetsons and The Flintstones. I have happy memories of watching the shows with my dad ( I think he liked them more than I did), propped up on my parents bed, shoes off. We had this big old clunky TV you could put on, make a sandwich, come back and it would still be warming up!

Re: Happy Birthday George Jetson today

catter70 — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 11:45:58 GMT

@Jordan2 Both the Jetsons and Flintstones are on METV starting at 11:30 (ET) on Sunday. My favorites, too.

Re: Happy Birthday George Jetson today

drizzellla — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 12:11:01 GMT

@Jordan2 wrote:
As a child I loved watching both The Jetsons and The Flintstones. I have happy memories of watching the shows with my dad ( I think he liked them more than I did), propped up on my parents bed, shoes off. We had this big old clunky TV you could put on, make a sandwich, come back and it would still be warming up!

@Jordan2

That is also a favorite memory of mine too. Dad and I would go grocery shopping Friday night. He always made sure to buy ice cream and root beer, even though it was never on Mom's grocery list. So we would come home. He made root beer floats and pop popcorn. And we would watch The Flintstones and The Jetsons.

Re: Happy Birthday George Jetson today

gardenman — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 12:43:19 GMT

Sci-fi writers thought we'd make way more strides than we have. George Jetson was born in 2022. "2001: A Space Odyssey" should have happened 21 years ago. "Blade Runner" was set in 2019. "The Terminator" came back from 2029. (I'm pretty sure we won't see that much change in the next seven years. A global war that nearly wipes out humanity, yeah, that could happen, but the rise of autonomous robots like the Terminator are still a long way off.)

If you're writing sci-fi, set it far enough in the future that your readers/viewers won't outlive the date you've set it in. Go for say a hundred to a hundred and fifty years in the future instead of twenty, thirty, forty years in the future. As a rule, sci-fi writers are way more optimistic about how quickly things will advance than what happens in the real world.

Re: Happy Birthday George Jetson today

faeriemoon — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 13:30:52 GMT

I never cared for the Jetsons. I was a Flintstones girl. Yabba, dabba, doo!!!!