History Fridge / TheJetsons

** In the second season: the family is watching TV one night and learn that the priest who married George and Jane was actually a con-man, and that this one thing somehow meant they were never actually married. This not only means Judy and Elroy are ''bastard children'', but that their government is a theocracy, likely Christianity or one of its derivations. Were other religions driven to extinction in this universe? And what about people who aren't religious?

** George is forty and Jane is thirty-three. Judy is sixteen. This means that George was twenty-four and Jane was ''[[TeenPregnancy seventeen]]'' when the latter became pregnant with her.

*** Fortunately, this is a relatively common trope . . . a long-married couple suddenly finding out they're not really married because the marriage license is flawed or the person officiating the wedding turns out to be a fraud. It happened on, or appeared to happen to the main characters on''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'', ''Series/ILoveLucy'', ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'' (Mr. and Mrs. Conklin), ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', and ''Series/GilligansIsland'' (to Mr. and Mrs. Howell), to name a few. ''The Jetsons'', using this plot in the 80's, does differ from earlier examples, where inevitably it turns out to be a mistake (i.e. the radio station made a mistake on ''Gilligan's Island'') or one or more of the main characters turns out to be a victim of a practical joke (i.e ''Our Miss Brooks'').

** George and Jane would probably end up being heavily audited or investigated by the government, since they would have been routinely filling out federal or tax forms as a married couple, when they technically weren't.

** George and Jane would be probably end up being heavily audited or investigated by the government, since they would have been routinely filling out federal or tax forms as a married couple, when they technically weren't.

** In the second season: the family is watching TV one night and learn that the priest who married George and Jane was actually a con-man, and that this one thing somehow meant they were never actually married. This not only means Judy and Elroy are ''bastard children'', but that their government is a theocracy, likely Christianity or one of its derivations. Were other religions driven to extinction in this universe?

** George is forty and Jane is thirty-three. Judy is sixteen. This means that George was twenty-four and Jane was ''[[{{Squick}} seventeen]]'' when the latter became pregnant with her.

** George is forty and Jane is thirty-three. Judy is seventeen. This means that George was twenty-three and Jane was ''[[{{Squick}} sixteen]]'' when the latter became pregnant with her.

* FridgeHorror: All cars fly, and all buildings are miles above the ground, standing on stilts. The ground is rarely, if ever, actually shown. It's been theorized that maybe the world flooded, or went through some environmental disaster. (A ''[[WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw Harvey Birdman]]'' episode joked that they lived so high up because the ice caps had melted and flooded the earth.)[[note]] Actually, in the original 1960's series, ground level was shown on a few occasions and it was perfectly fine, with trees and grassy hills. The whole idea of an uninhabitable Earth's surface in ''The Jetsons'' came in the 1980's revival, when the GreenAesop trope was popular, so [[TheMovie the 1990 movie]] shows people all living above a thick layer of pollution.[[/note]]
** It would appear that the only human ethnic group to survive into the future were Occidental. Worst case scenario: the result of racial cleansing via historic war or genetic modification. Only applies for the original TV show. Later additions would throw in a TokenMinority, most likely because someone took note of this rather unsettling environment.
* George is forty and Jane is thirty-three. Judy is seventeen. This means that George was twenty-three and Jane was ''[[{{Squick}} sixteen]]'' when the latter became pregnant with her.

!!From ''Robo-WrestleMania'':

* FridgeHorror / TearJerker: In this universe, Wrestling/TheBigShow was frozen for a century. When news of his disappearance came out, wouldn't the WWE investigate? What about his RealLife family? Assuming they exist in the Jetsons universe, how would they have felt? Had Elroy's time travel equation not played a part in the plot, would it have ended up like a WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}-esque situation?

!!From the 1990 Movie:

* FridgeLogic: Apparently the apartment complex is lowered at nighttime and ends up in [[GreenAesop the blanket of smog surrounding the ground-level of Earth]], and Rosie can raise it up; but then you realize, Rosie has the authority to ''raise up the entire apartment complex''? The Jetsons don't own the whole building!
** They ''are'', however, close friends of the building's superintendent, Henry Orbit. Maybe he gave permission to Rosie (his robot assistant's girlfriend) to raise and lower the building?
** In any case, this previously happened in a 1960s episode, where the building rose above a storm.

* FridgeHorror: All cars fly, and all buildings are miles above the ground, standing on stilts. The ground is rarely, if ever, actually shown. It's been theorized that maybe the world flooded, or went through some environmental disaster. (A ''[[HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw Harvey Birdman]]'' episode joked that they lived so high up because the ice caps had melted and flooded the earth.)[[note]] Actually, in the original 1960's series, ground level was shown on a few occasions and it was perfectly fine, with trees and grassy hills. The whole idea of an uninhabitable Earth's surface in ''The Jetsons'' came in the 1980's revival, when the GreenAesop trope was popular, so [[TheMovie the 1990 movie]] shows people all living above a thick layer of pollution.[[/note]]