- What's even more racially confusing is George Jetson's nose. While the rest of the family members have small noses, George's is the one that sticks out like a sore thumb.
- A possible theme involved is genetics and artificial engineering. The Jetsons all have different hair colors not found in their ancestry and quite possibly Astro could be an Akita Inu that wasn't born naturally and as a result, manufactured by an unknown company.
Think about it for a moment: they have flying cars and sentient robots, but their computers are way outdated, their culture is more primitive, and the Internet is missing.
The truth is that the world the Jetsons live in is a world where the planet was doomed in some way. Now they, and all the other people there, live in these buildings in the sky to protect themselves from the mutants. They don't know how their technology works; they live in a Scavenger World and just try to make the technology of their ancestors run as best they can. The AIs that they use are mixed with their own primitive attempts at computers, creating the odd robots and computers that exist in the series.
Further proof: In one episode, a criminal says he'll be happier going to prison, which is located on the surface.
- They do show a brief glimpse of the surface in the movie, and it is a polluted mess.
- About the computers/Internet thing: you DO realize this series was created in the early 1960's, right?
- It's the future of Fallout.
- Alternatively, it's the future of Fallout: New Vegas if the Courier sides with Mr. House. He mentions that he has plans to colonize space if the Courier inquires about what he is going to do after he conquers the Mojave.
- No, it's the future of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
- No, The Jetsons is right before Fallout
- This is a Watsonian explanation, we don't need the real life context.
- You're all wrong. Global warming has flooded the surface.
- Again, we've seen glimpses of the surface. Even the parts that aren't underwater look gloomy.
- Source for the glimpses of the surface?
- A glimpse of the surface is shown at the start of the episode "The Flying Suit"
- Many shots of the surface appear in S1E21 "Private Property". Like in The Flying Suit, the surface is mostly grass and bushes. It even gives the exact height of a building, comparable to the height of Spacely Sprockets, Inc., as 2,200.5 feet.
- Many episodes in the first season show the surface. In S1E23 "TV or Not TV", we also see Mr. Spacely's cabin in the wooded mountains.
- It's the future of Fallout.
- The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones has them go back to the past, and George says: "That's grass. I read about it in ancient history". They've never seen grass!
- In some episodes, you see the surface and it's fine. Seems like the movie (where it was polluted) and the show (where it's not) are different continuities.
- Consider that the two may not be mutually exclusive. It's entirely plausible that there are places on the surface that are unharmed and kept as nature preserves, while other places are uninhabitable wasteland.
- Jossed in the Made-for-TV Movie The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones. The Flintstones canonically exist in the Jetsons' past.
- Or alternatively, the people in the Flintstones are actually descendants of people from the Jetsons' future who escaped their decaying world by travelling back in time. All the talking dinosaurs were created through bioengineering to serve them.
- This could also explain why the Flintstones' technology is basically a "stone age" version of modern technology (okay, 1960s), rather than actual Stone Age tech. There's been some kind of apocalypse after the events shown in The Jetsons (perhaps a meteor strike or nuclear war), and they're just trying to rebuild up to the level they once knew.
- Or alternatively, Elroy screwed up, and what he thought was a time machine is actually a transporter which got them to the planet's surface.
- Alternatively, they take place back in the past, but not in the Stone Age. See the above: The Flintstones could be set on the Earth before it became nigh-uninhabitable.
- Or alternatively, the people in the Flintstones are actually descendants of people from the Jetsons' future who escaped their decaying world by travelling back in time. All the talking dinosaurs were created through bioengineering to serve them.
- If this is the case (and Elroy's time machine really did just send them to the ground), then maybe their planet is really a Feral World in Warhammer 40,000? The Jetsons' magic sky castles can be the home of the nobility who govern the planet, while the primitive surface communities are Space Marine recruitment areas. Think about it, if Bam Bam isn't going to be prime Astartes material when he grows up, then i don't know who is. This also adds the possibility that Gazoo is a xeno hiding from the Imperium and decided he might as well screw with the primitives.
- The Flitstones are future Amish!
- But...how does that explain the presence of prehistoric/extinct creatures (mammoths, saber-toothed cats, dinosaurs, dodos, etc) on The Flintstones? No one ever seems to take that into consideration with these "Flintstones takes place After The End" theories.
- They're all Jurassic Park-style clones that escaped from their zoos/servitude during whatever apocalypse wiped out the Jetsons' society, and went out on their own.
- This becomes especially obvious if you watch The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones, which features both characters with the similarity between the two never noted.
- Or Cogswell IS Mr. Slate.
- Or Mr. Slate is a descendant of Cogswell (see the post-apocalyptic world WMG above)
- Unlikely, either way. While H-B didn't go for a family aesthetic exactly (not at first, anyway), they weren't exactly adult oriented either, prime-time airing or not. For this reason, the above would clash with who they were as animation producers, and what kind of shows they usually turned out. The whole age difference between Jane and Judy was likely an accidental oversight on H-B's part.
- We get to see the courtship and they were indeed dating young, exactly how much time passed between the events Jane mentions and the wedding is unknown.
- Also, teenage pregnancy hardly prevents someone from getting their driver's license afterwards.
- How in the hell is Rosie "vaguely black?" She doesn't look, act or talk like any black person who's ever been seen, heard or told of by third parties anywhere on this planet.
- She's partly based on the maid from Fibber McGee and Molly, who was ironically played by a white man.
- I think you're referring to Birdie on The Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee and Molly. In any case, The Other Wiki says she's based of Hazel from the series of the same name.
- She's partly based on the maid from Fibber McGee and Molly, who was ironically played by a white man.
- Who says they need mass-extermination? You get the same results just by leaving everyone on the ground alive.
- This troper always thought Rosie was a stereotypical jewbot. Maybe it takes place in a world where the Nazis won WWII and jewish people were turned into robots. and those robots were turned into slaves.
- And the jewbots became THE CYBERMEN
- Perhaps Judy or Jane has experimented with hair dye. (It doesn't seem like something a man or young boy would be into.)
- Jane might dye her hair, or Judy does and Elroy's adopted. Or Jane's got some explaining to do. No matter how you look at it, the point still stands that two naturally redheaded parents cannot have a blond haired child.
- Maybe Judy and Elroy are mutants. It would fit with the post-apocalyptic earth plot. Radioactive material in the atmosphere created genetic mutations among kids of Judy and Elroy's generation.
- Or they're test-tube babies. Technology is a recurrent theme in the show, so it would fit for George and Jane to search for assisted reproductive technology in case of one or both of them were sterile. Alternatively, none of them is sterile, but they resorted to genetic manipulation to choose the hair color of their children.
- Perhaps Judy or Jane has experimented with hair dye. (It doesn't seem like something a man or young boy would be into.)
- George=Fred
- Jane=Wilma
- Elroy=Barney
- Judy=Betty
- Astro=Dino
- Mr. Spacely=Mr. Slate
- Since Hanna-Barbera loved to recycle their shows so much, they're likely just expies.
- Ok, who here remembers the series Space Stars? Well one of the segments is "Astro and the Space Mutts" where Astro teams up with two other dogs named Cosmo and Dipper, led by their human leader Space Ace as Galactic Police Officers. Anyway there are times Space Ace and Astro interacted with the other "Space Stars" especially Space Ghosts' sidekick Jan. Therefore it's concluded that the Jetsons and Space Ghost... and the Herculoids co-exist as well.ah
- It could even be set in the same future as The Space Kidettesnote