History YMMV / TheJetsons

* AccidentalAesop: In the time of the series, all the bungling inventions and strange machines were just a funny idea of the future and all those wacky things people might come up with in the future. In a modern context, with how often George's life is upset, humiliated, and nearly ''destroyed'' because of one errant contraption that can do anything from ease his teeth (albeit as accidentally-given dog dentures, so naturally they go awry) to a remote that ''rewinds and erases time'' and ends up causing him no small amount of grief after he exploited it horribly, it accidentally creates the message that people shouldn't readily trust every other new fad or invention out on the market and that some of these things are just plain reckless to ever give to a consumer or even ''create''.

** The family structure, with a wife staying at home to take care of the house, also dates this movie to the postwar era. This is [[https://web.archive.org/web/20071030023504/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,976754,00.html lampshaded by a 1992 article]] from ''Magazine/TimeMagazine''.
-->"In an age of working mothers, single parents and gay matrimony (same-sex marriage), George Jetson and his clan already seem quaint even to the baby boomers who grew up with them."

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suafkk2vWNI Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You)]]" from "A Date with Jet Screamer". The song is so fondly remembered that the Music/ViolentFemmes did a cover for the ''Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits'' tribute album in the mid 90's.

* SeasonalRot: The 80s revival seasons aren't nearly as popular or well-received as the original 60s season. Creator/{{Boomerang}} has this viewpoint as well as the 80s seasons are [[MissingEpisode rarely aired]] on the channel.

* SpiritualAdaptation: As mentioned on the show's TV Tropes page, ''The Jetsons'' is a futuristic version of the classic comic strip ''ComicStrip/Blondie1930'' [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]] with even the titular character's actress Penny Singleton voicing Jane Jetson.

** Invoked, to a certain extent, by the show's premise; while the writers didn't know precisely how the future would change, and therefore couldn't anticipate the precise points of dissonance, having it be ''exactly'' like a standard 60's family through a futuristic version of a JustForFun/RecycledInSpace filter is mostly played for laughs. Later revivals tend to lean into this more intentionally.

* ImprovedSecondAttempt:
** Some people weren't too sure about the lack of racial diversity, with some calling it racist and some even [[EpilepticTrees speculating that the show is set in a dystopia where only white people exist/can be happy]]. [[FairForItsDay While later episodes still largely lack representation, people of color crop up from time to time.]] Eventually, The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-[=WrestleMania=]! would show a much more racially diverse future. The DC comic book adaptation was also racially diverse.
** One episode features Jane [[DrivesLikeCrazy having trouble learning to drive]]. Some viewers have seen this as playing into the stereotype that [[WomenDrivers women can't drive]], especially due to some of George's comments in the episode. In a later episode, Judy successfully learns to drive and nobody implies that she won't be able to because she's a girl. Furthermore, Jane is occasionally seen driving.

* SeasonalRot: The 80s revival seasons aren't nearly as popular or well-received as the original 60s season. Creator/{{Boomerang}} has this viewpoint [[OldShame as well]] as the 80s seasons are [[MissingEpisode rarely aired]] on the channel.

** Nearly the same time new seasons of ''Jetsons'' were produced in the 1980s with all the original actors, the comic strip ''ComicStrip/Blondie1930'' was adapted into animation for the first time ever[[note]]not counting ''WesternAnimation/TheManWhoHatedLaughter''[[/note]] as two TV specials. Jane's actress, Penny Singleton, who played Blondie in a series of live-action films from 1938 to 1950, could've [[RoleReprise reprised her role]] in animation. As the specials were for national network prime time, the producers likely felt they needed a CelebrityVoiceActor and cast 80s sitcom star Creator/LoniAnderson as Blondie instead.

** Nearly the same time new seasons of ''Jetsons'' were produced in the 1980s with all the original actors, the comic strip ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'' was adapted into animation for the first time ever[[note]]not counting ''WesternAnimation/TheManWhoHatedLaughter''[[/note]] as two TV specials. Jane's actress, Penny Singleton, who played Blondie in a series of live-action films from 1938 to 1950, could've [[RoleReprise reprised her role]] in animation. As the specials were for national network prime time, the producers likely felt they needed a CelebrityVoiceActor and cast 80s sitcom star Creator/LoniAnderson as Blondie instead.

* SpiritualAdaptation: As mentioned on the show's TV Tropes page, ''The Jetsons'' is a futuristic version of the classic comic strip ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'' [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]] with even the titular character's actress Penny Singleton voicing Jane Jetson.

* AccidentalAesop: In the time of the series, all the bungling inventions and strange machines were just a funny idea of the future and all those wacky things people might come up with in the future. In a modern context, with how often George's life is upset, humiliated, and nearly ''destroyed'' because of one errant contraption that can do anything from ease his teeth (albeit as accidentally-given dog dentures, so naturally they go awry) to a button that ''rewinds time'' and ends up causing him no small amount of grief after he exploited it horribly, it accidentally creates the message that people shouldn't readily trust every other new fad or invention out on the market and that some of these things are just plain reckless to ever give to a consumer or even ''create''.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Orbitty. While a portion of the fanbase find him adorable, clever, funny, and a good addition to the cast, others find him almost as annoying as the trope namer for TheScrappy and another reason to ignore the '80s seasons, to the point that even his creators didn't like him.

* BrokenBase: The '80s seasons. Many find it an unnecessary revival and prefer to ignore it, while others don't really see a problem with it.

* SalvagedStory: One episode features Jane [[DrivesLikeCrazy having trouble learning to drive]]. Some viewers have seen this as playing into the stereotype that [[WomenDrivers women can't drive]], especially due to some of George's comments in the episode. In a later episode, Judy successfully learns to drive and nobody implies that she won't be able to because she's a girl. Furthermore, Jane is occasionally seen driving.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Orbitty. While a portion of the fanbase find him adorable, clever, funny, and a good addition to the cast, others find him almost as annoying as the trope namer for TheScrappy and another reason to ignore the '80s seasons, to the point that even his creator didn't like him.

* MemeticMutation: [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/george-jetson-is-almost-here George Jetson Is Almost Here]].[[labelnote:Explanation]]A viral Tumblr post determined that since the series takes place in 2062 and George is 40, that means he would be born in 2022. Sources seem to argue over his exact birthday (July or August), but nonetheless, by the beginning of 2022, a lot of memes and excitement popped up for George's birth.[[/labelnote]]

** Videochat can be seen as the precursor to Skype.