History YMMV / TheJetsons

** 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 RecycledInSpace filter is mostly played for laughs.

* ShockingMoments: When Jane is mad at Elroy for breaking the pitcher, she tells George that she wants to "warm [Elroy's] bottom".

* Orbitty. Even the people working on the series hated him, and Creator/JohnKricfalusi has gone on record as having frequently tried to work in scenes where [[TakeThatScrappy he'd get abused]] in the episodes for which he was an animation supervisor.

* TheScrappy: Orbitty. Even the people working on the series hated him, and Creator/JohnKricfalusi has gone on record as having frequently tried to work in scenes where [[TakeThatScrappy he'd get abused]] in the episodes for which he was an animation supervisor.

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

** 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.

** 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.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "[[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.

** Could count as HarsherInHindsight if you're a cable executive; in "Miss Solar System", George complains about having to pay the television set once in a while to watch TV, with George remarking "This pay TV's gotta go."[[note]]Cable television was at its infancy by this point, before exploding in the 1980's.[[/note]] Come UsefulNotes/TheNewTens, and "cord-cutting" has become an industry-wide phenomenon as more and more people cancel their cable television subscription in favor of cheaper or internet-based alternatives.

** 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.]]

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "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.

** 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 means Judy and Elroy are ''bastard children.'' How did this episode get green lit?

** 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]]. In later episodes, people of colour crop up from time to time.

* SeasonalRot: The 80s revival seasons aren't nearly as popular or well-received as the original 60s season.

* JerkassWoobie: Spacely. Despite being a MeanBoss, he often has to deal with his snobbish wife and a bratty half pint son who has little to no respect for him, and has to deal with his company rival W.C. Cogswell stealing his ideas before Spacely puts patents on them.

* StockParodyJokes: ''The Jetsons'' focuses on a portion of humanity that managed to avoid the Apocalypse, and the two shows are from the exact same time-period.

* ValuesDissonance: 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 means Judy and Elroy are ''bastard children.'' How did this episode get green lit?

* JerkassWoobie: Spacely. Despite being a MeanBoss, he often has to deal with his snobbish wife and a bratty half pint son who has little to no respect for him.

* EarWorm:
** Epp opp ork ah-ah!
** "Meet George Jetson! His boy Elroy!"

** In the Haunted Halloween episode, Dr. Scareum was a bit creepy and wanted to "add" Orbitty to his collection but it turned out he just wanted to make a costume in Orbitty's honor.

* HeReallyCanAct: Trevor Devall is not usually known for voicing young boys, yet he gave a really good performance as Elroy, capturing the snarky adorkable side to his character. Some people even went further and said that out of all of Daws Butler's replacements, he's the best.