# Interesting live action "Jetsons" intro **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2016, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790 "2016-12-03T23:59:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/21 "2016-12-05T02:08:17Z")
> [@Arkcon](#): > > I’m loving having this live action under the music and sound effects I remember. But they could have at least paid lip service to Mr. Spacely, R.U.D.I, and Uniblab. Stick 'em in the background, somewhere. Jupiter Gin, Jupiter Gin; Planet Poker, Planet Poker; Spacely’s a stoop, Spacely’s a stoop, Spacely’s a stoop, Spacely’s a stoop… . ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/22 "2016-12-05T02:19:28Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > [The Hanna Barbera Wiki](http://hanna-barbera.wikia.com/wiki/The_Jetsons) says he only worked 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. I’ve actually watched the whole first series looking for stuff like this. There were at least three different work days/weeks mentioned in various episodes, so no canonical number can be given. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/23 "2016-12-05T02:48:21Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > And putting it in San Francisco instead of at least trying to replicate the Cloud City concept is extra lazy. They lived in Cartoon Bespin, goddamn it! And you know the Flinstones live on the ground. The two shows are concurrent in time. It’s just that the Flintsones and their ilk are pseudo-Luddites. They pretent to not have tech, but really, did you think that stone-age tech actually worked? It was all embedded mictroprocessors and wifi masquerading as stone phones. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/24 "2016-12-05T03:10:48Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > And you know the Flinstones live on the ground. The two shows are concurrent in time. It’s just that the Flintsones and their ilk are pseudo-Luddites. They pretent to not have tech, but really, did you think that stone-age tech actually worked? It was all embedded mictroprocessors and wifi masquerading as stone phones. Or the Jetsons were the GMO-free future, the people who focused on “traditional” robotic technology to the exclusion of genetic engineering, and the Flintstones were the genetic engineers who disdained robots and computers as cold and mechanical and used a hyper-stylized representation of an Edenic pre-technological utopia filled with engineered animals which did the work machinery did in the world above the clouds. Both societies were frozen in a Mid-Twentieth Century stage of social development because anyone more progressive decamped to an offworld colony. Earth was a reservation for humans who chose to remain in an older stage of social development. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/25 "2016-12-05T04:16:07Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > And you know the Flinstones live on the ground. The two shows are concurrent in time. It’s just that the Flintsones and their ilk are pseudo-Luddites. They pretent to not have tech, but really, did you think that stone-age tech actually worked? It was all embedded mictroprocessors and wifi masquerading as stone phones. You think you’re joking, but the canonical comic book **The Flintstones at the World’s Fair** (released in 1964, re-released the next year) clearly shows the Flintstones and the Jetsons co-existing in the 1960s. Scroll down a bit and you can see them both in the same comic panel: > **[The Flintstones at the New York World's Fair - Imagineering Disney -](http://www.imagineeringdisney.com/blog/2014/4/12/the-flintstones-at-the-new-york-worlds-fair.html)** > > Yep. The Flintstones visited the World's Fair. Wait... Wouldn't the Jetsons have been a more ... ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/26 "2016-12-05T12:13:15Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > You think you’re joking, but the canonical comic book **The Flintstones at the World’s Fair** (released in 1964, re-released the next year) clearly shows the Flintstones and the Jetsons co-existing in the 1960s. Scroll down a bit and you can see them both in the same comic panel: > > [The Flintstones at the New York World's Fair - Imagineering Disney -](http://www.imagineeringdisney.com/blog/2014/4/12/the-flintstones-at-the-new-york-worlds-fair.html) Boy, does \*\*that \*\*bring back memories! :o ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/27 "2016-12-05T14:16:44Z")
> [@astro](#): > > All that and you didn’t even mention that Elroy is Chinese with 2 Caucasian parents. How can you tell he’s Chinese? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/28 "2016-12-05T19:58:05Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > How can you tell he’s Chinese? He has what appears to be a fairly distinctive epicanthic fold to his eyes. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/29 "2016-12-05T20:13:22Z")
Is [The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jetsons_Meet_the_Flintstones) from 1987 considered canonical? It involved time travel, with the Flintstones being in the stone age and the Jetsons from the future. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/30 "2016-12-05T20:42:58Z")
> [@astro](#): > > All that and you didn’t even mention that Elroy is Chinese with 2 Caucasian parents. We don’t really get a good look at Jane, do we? Maybe she’s of the Asian persuasion. :dubious: 😕 ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/31 "2016-12-05T20:47:51Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > We don’t really get a good look at Jane, do we? Maybe she’s of the Asian persuasion. :dubious: 😕 She looks pretty whitebread eyewise. Maybe he’s not Asian after all it just looked like it in the brief snippet of his facetime. Maybe he’s an [android child made to order.](https://cdn01.vulcanpost.com/wp-uploads/2015/03/Artificial-Intelligence-film.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/32 "2016-12-05T21:00:02Z")
> [@astro](#): > > She looks pretty whitebread eyewise. Maybe he’s not Asian after all it just looked like it in the brief snippet of his facetime. Maybe he’s an [android child made to order.](https://cdn01.vulcanpost.com/wp-uploads/2015/03/Artificial-Intelligence-film.jpg) … Or a Hybrid! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/33 "2016-12-05T21:07:38Z")
Dad looks a bit swarthy as well. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/34 "2016-12-05T21:07:53Z")
> [@astro](#): > > He has what appears to be a fairly distinctive epicanthic fold to his eyes. [![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ec/97/3a/ec973a9976eb20b3a2611e120da7bc94.png) ](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ec/97/3a/ec973a9976eb20b3a2611e120da7bc94.png) [http://www.cybercomm.nl/~ivo/photo\_ELROY8.JPEG](http://www.cybercomm.nl/~ivo/photo_ELROY8.JPEG) [http://static7.comicvine.com/uploads/scale\_small/1/15776/1051291-elroy.jpeg](http://static7.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/1/15776/1051291-elroy.jpeg) Seriously? ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/35 "2016-12-05T22:23:58Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > What the hell? A black haired Jetson family, and George with a beard? Fuck that! Is there a place to sign up for this option? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/36 "2016-12-05T23:21:43Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > [https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ec/97/3a/ec973a9976eb20b3a2611e120da7bc94.png](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ec/97/3a/ec973a9976eb20b3a2611e120da7bc94.png) > > [http://www.cybercomm.nl/~ivo/photo\_ELROY8.JPEG](http://www.cybercomm.nl/~ivo/photo_ELROY8.JPEG) > > [http://static7.comicvine.com/uploads/scale\_small/1/15776/1051291-elroy.jpeg](http://static7.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/1/15776/1051291-elroy.jpeg) > Seriously? He meant in the commercial linked in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/37 "2016-12-06T02:33:25Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > He meant in the commercial linked in the OP. That’s how much impression the commercial made on me. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/38 "2016-12-06T02:58:53Z")
> [@astro](#): > > All that and you didn’t even mention that Elroy is Chinese with 2 Caucasian parents. I think Jane is Asian also. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/39 "2016-12-06T03:46:40Z")
> [@astro](#): > > All that and you didn’t even mention that Elroy is Chinese with 2 Caucasian parents. I missed that. I did notice that George spins the earth the wrong way. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790/40 "2016-12-06T16:34:06Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I’ve actually watched the whole first series looking for stuff like this. There were at least three different work days/weeks mentioned in various episodes, so no canonical number can be given. I agree, but no episode has him working more than a three hour day, which is definitely not “all day.” The quality of George Jetson’s job is another matter all together. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-live-action-jetsons-intro/773790.md?page=3)